TunnelRunner

Very exciting news, Ken. I haven't touched box/manual/label art in months. Maybe I can just submit what I have to Al? Geo

Okay kids, we all know that's just a sleek 2600 TB. 7800 never actually got any peripherals released.

Nice idea...but not new. Check out my web page (long overdue for update). I used to host the "Stella Registry" where you could submit your 2600 serial numbers. Heavies are noted as such. I suggested this to Keita Iida many years ago, they never did anything with it so I hosted it. You could also submit 7800 and 5200 s/ns. Folks still submit them occasionally, I save them. Check out www.netmodem.com/claddagh/stellasboneyard.htm

No problem there, you just have the two inner port holes leftover.

My understanding is that the bike was supposed to work with Pole Position and maybe one other. But as Al Alcorn said when he was asked to come up with an exercise peripheral for video games "You're missing the point. PONG was designed so you could participate in athletics while maintaining a firm grip on a can of beer! Go out and play ping pong, go out and play tennis."

Wish I'd know someone built a box. I made a manual for the same port.

MIB Turbo Grafx at Salivation Army = $10.00 MIB SNES at Salivation Army = $8.00 MIB Atari 2600 with all parts/papers (flea market) = $5.00 MIB Sega Master System complete (flea market) = $12.00 Crazy Climber cart at Salivation Army = 25 cents Jaw hitting floor = priceless

Thanks for the 'None' suggestion, I could vote. Actually I'm collecting backwards in time!

What's the best method of opening a new game, a letter opener? Thin pocket knife? What about poking the tab out? Those are the things I'm most worried about. Best way to open a new game that's glued shut is warm up your clothes iron about midway and run it across the top of the box. Not too slow, but not too fast. Then open it and let the old glue cool down. Take it from a guy who has glued a few hundred 5200/2600/Colecovision boxes in his day! g

True, I asked Bill the same thing about 4 years ago. He said no, he had plans for the Miner/BBSB combo. That has since been shelved, so enjoy your BBSB carts. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em. g

The customs are different in my country, so I am deeply offended because you did not try to push your views on me. I must now put you on my ignore list. I hope that was a sarcastic joke, if not sorry. I can't decide what was funnier, what Random posted or your response. Ah well, what does it matter? Nothing beats a little pee in your pants before work. Thanks fellas. We need to move all of these into the Politics and Religion forum...or maybe create a new forum called Babble-on.

Second that vote for Dreadnaught! When I first had my 5200 back in 84 one of the first games I bought was Dreadnaught. My Mom used to love that and River Raid. Mom is gone, and those games have a very special meaning for me. Plus who can forget the first time your ship encounters the Dreadnaught? It was like the beginning of Star Wars..."Holy Crap, that's big!" Oh, anyone wants a NIB River Raid let me know, I still have a dozen or so.

These are the case I used with a small modification. With the inserts I include full instructions to modify the case to hold the 5200 carts. http://www.mediashelving.com/Merchant2/mer...tegory_Code=MED I see your avatar Heres a case for the ATARIMAX conversion. These are nice cases (and the warehouse is in Simi Valley where I live, so I saved on shipping AND tax!) But the 5200 cart doesn't fit in my cases, do you have to cut them?

I think you need to take the hinky controllers apart and put them back together. The internal slide plate is probably not engaged correctly. Or you might have a bad left-right pot, or more likely just a bad cable. If the other controllers work okay then I'll bet it's the cable. Talk to The Brad at Best.

Careful what you say about the 5200 controller here. I once posted a complaint about the controller, and some peabrained fanboy insulted me, questioned my masculinity, and performed all sorts of character assassination. But yes, you're right. I think the 5200 controller is a great design on paper, but it was implemented by people who didn't play video games. Makes me wonder if the penny-pinching Tramiel had something to do with this. Even Best Electronics says that a rebuilt controller (with all new switch contacts) will only last 1-3 years. Pathetic. CX52 was before Tramiel. Craig Asher designed the CX52, Jim Huether told me he fought to get the centering pot incorporated into it (like used on RC airplane controllers) but Atari cheaped out. Then he got kicked off the project! Rumor is Asher had never even played a video game. Hey, they work great...they just aren't very rugged. Get a Wico or just keep rebuilding them.

Is that finish difference a distinction between the four and two ports, or are there frosted four porters and glossy two porters??? No glossy two ports but there are both glossy and frosted four ports. The later universal boards came in both gloss and frosted like the two ports, at least mine is. They were packed like yours, in the tiny box. Nice pics, I wondered where all that got packed. The two I bought new are both two ports (which you can fix to work with Pitfall, Mountain King, etc by substituting the four port system chip).

No one will miss a few more Super Breakouts. You're supposed to use Super Breakouts? I heard Albert was working his way through a pallet of sealed BBSBs that he found in a warehouse one day. John, No, that pallet is holding up some table legs in my garage....

Amen, The Brad is The Bomb He always gets back to me with answers pronto.

Allan...patience! Tempest is coming And Crystal Castles was ported from the 800 but I never tried the Trak Ball (doesn't work?). And yeah, I thought about Raiders too. Let's get Howard stoked up!

I bought a box of Berzerk/ Pac Man/ Super Breakout carts off eBay a few years ago. Is 80 a lot?

There were a score of games that were rumored/scheduled to be ported to the 5200, and a hundred more that could have been. My list of "Wish They Were On the 5200": 1. Tunnel Runner (just a plain old nightmarish game with a scary theme) 2. Marble Madness (not a 2600, but Atari arcade game and hell..it's a Trak Ball game!) 3. Survival Island (eliminate the Supercharger loads) 4. Escape from the MindMaster/Dragonstomper (ditto) 5. Robot Tank (should have happened) Okay, you?

Just five? Nuts to that! BALLBLAZER (the manual is half the fun) RESCUE ON FRACTALUS (ditto on the manual, LucasFilms group did a great job) XEVIOUS (yeah, a proto but everyone has one now, right? PS my score on Twin Galaxies stands!) RIVER RAID (my favorite for personal reasons) CENTIPEDE (they got this one right) MILLIPEDE (even better) MS PAC MAN (awesome port) BBSB (need I say more?) PITFALL II (een though it's a carbon of the 2600 it's still good) GALAXIAN (another score at Twin Galaxies) and that's only ten! Okay, back to my mushroom.

Hey senior, I can help you there. geo

Yes, tried that. But it's stiff and cracks, falls off. Find a product by Chemtronics called Keypad Repair Kit. It's a two part contact treatment that is thin enough to flex but not so thin it doesn't conduct. As good as new keypads and way cheaper (about $14). Lasts a looooong time, too. And replace the flex circuit while in there (I hear they went up to 8 bucks...they were a buck and a half when I last bought them - Brad must be running out!).

Hey, aren't I a 'big time bidder'? Don't worry, it found a good home at Stella's Boneyard next to GLIB and WaterWorld. And it is in mint shape.