Anyone ever "finish" The Challenge Of Nexar?

[Anyone ever "finish" The Challenge Of Nexar?]

The manual says

 

To become a SPECTRA-WARRIOR you must survive all ninety nine

levels. Those who can go beyond all will receive their due

recognition.

 

Does something happen?

 

I think I made it through about 60 before I thought I was gonna have a seizure.

 

Of course this was 20+ years ago.

[Known bugs in 26/52/7800 games?]

You know I had that list at some point and knew about a lot of these. Oh well back to being bored.....

[Known bugs in 26/52/7800 games?]

Wasn't looking for a complete list, just trying to start some conversation

 

Why can't I think of any off the top of my head.....

[Known bugs in 26/52/7800 games?]

I tried a search but couldn't find anything, and as a QA guy, this sorta interests me so forgive me if it's been discussed before

 

But how many games were shipped with known bugs that aren't a result of frying

 

I can only think of a few

 

Impossible Mission for the 7800 which hid objects you needed to solve the game behind objects you couldn't search, literally making it "impossible"

 

7800 Xevious would lock up once in a while if too much stuff was happening on screen

 

And the 2600 Pac-Man trick where you could pass through everything if you just repeatedly went in and out of the tunnel a bunch of times

 

I would consider the Space Invaders double shots thing as frying

 

And the ability to jump through Coily in Q-bert as more of a "feature" or system limitation

 

Anything else?

[Could berzerk be done better?]

Is there a technical reason for the robots not being able to fire diagonally?

[Non arcade port that appeared on the most consoles?]

What original title, not an arcade port appeared on the most platfoms?

 

I would guess Demon Attack but is that right?

[AtariAge Spring Homebrew Sale!]

If I were to buy two 2600 homebrews right now, what would you recommend?

 

I was thinking Thrust and Man Goes Down

 

Are there any 5200 or 7800 home brews that I MUST own?

 

Simultaneous 2 player action is a big selling point but only if the gameplay is actually FUN

[Ms. Pac Man WORSE than Pac Man?!]

Eh. I used to run it on my (modern-ish?) Dreamcast and it crashed quite a bit.

 

And I'm not buying an XBox or whatever just for MAME

[Ms. Pac Man WORSE than Pac Man?!]

Yeah maybe MAME has spoiled me as I don't think the 7800 version is quite right either. Maybe it's the sound.

 

Of course that's the 7800 game I probably play the most since the day I bought the system at original release.

 

MAME is nice but it's not practical for parties and hanging out playing some old games and knocking back a few beers. You don't wanna crowd around the PC

[Ms. Pac Man WORSE than Pac Man?!]

Now that I have a sorta working system again, I played both of these again for the first time in a while.

 

The original Pac-Man is far superior in my opinion

 

Better animation, no ghost flicker and smoother overall gameplay

 

You'd think that Ms. Pac-Man which came LATER would be superior.

 

Was this another rush job or just bad/lazy programming?

 

Some of these games are far less than I remember them

 

Dig Dug was another one I expected to look and play better

 

But it doesn't quite look and feel "right"

[I can only play Dig Dug.....]

Well I'll try cleaning the stick and when it ends up in a pile of parts with my other sticks, I'll buy I gold stick

 

So a 5200 with Pac Man, Ms Pac-Man, Kangaroo, Dig Dug (2 copies) Realsports Football, Pole Position, Space Invaders, Centipede, Super Breakout, Joust and a half working stick isn't so bad right?

[I can only play Dig Dug.....]

Crap, so I just paid $40 for a 5200 a handful of games and another busted stick. Nice. What's the URL for that gold stick place again? I have it somewhere, I think it's time to invest in one.

[I can only play Dig Dug.....]

I suppose I could look this up but I just got a 5200 from a guy and tried it out. The only game that seems to work is Dig Dug. The top left button is used for the pump. I tried Joust and Centipede and I can't fly and shoot. Do those games use a different button? It's been a while since I had a working controller so I don't know.

["MUST HAVE" carts for any 2600 collection?]

Demons To Diamonds? Really?

 

I have it but don't think I ever played it.

["MUST HAVE" carts for any 2600 collection?]

Karate? Firefly?

 

I don't know if you guys are being serious or not but I meant from a gameplay standpoint and not a rarity standpoint

 

I'm not gonna pay for a crappy game just to say I have it. I stopped doing that a while ago when emulators became popular

 

I'm looking for good to great games, especially two player simultaneous

["MUST HAVE" carts for any 2600 collection?]

Smurfs: Rescue In Gargamel's Castle (The best game ever made for any system past presant or future)

 

thank you! I'm here all week! Drive safely!

 

Anyone other than slappy white, stand up comic genius, wanna add their two cents?

 

I'm looking to increase my collection and wanna know what's worth hunting out and perhaps bidding on

 

BTW 'presant' is not a word

["MUST HAVE" carts for any 2600 collection?]

Go.

[value of atari 5200]

Guy said the stick works perfectly, I'll see when I go there and test it out. If it's in reasonable shape I'll pick it up. The last time I saw a 5200 with working sticks was at some flea market and the guy wanted $75 with no games included

[5200 controllers]

Thanks, I have the link to the 5200 controller and 2600 paddle maintenance bookmarked for a rainy day. I read about the gold sticks but I thought you had to provide a stick for them to replace and it wasn't just a case of sending them $40 and getting a new stick in return. I'll take one more look at that.

[5200 controllers]

This may be a stupid question but would it be possible to build some sorta adapter that let you use a modern PC controller with a 5200? I'm uselsss with electronics so I don't know the first thing about it. My 5200 has been sitting for years because I took the controllers apart and now they're just a pile of parts.

[value of atari 5200]

I have the opportunity to buy a 5200 with a few games (pac man dig dug and just a couple more) and one controller for $40

 

is it worth it?

 

I have a working 5200 with no controllers and a pile of games.

[Realsports Boxing is great]

The one gripe about Boxing is that the guys move WAY too fast.

 

BTW, I just played it and what does the flashing bar mean?

 

Are you supposed to do something different to KO your opponent?

 

I just mash the button and push the stick towards my opponent the whole time until he falls. It's a bit too easy.

[Yars' Revenge shocking surprise]

Don't you have to play with both difficulty switches on 'A' for the crazy hard options?

[Yars' Revenge shocking surprise]

Yar's Revenge is one of the most nerve racking games out there. The constant droning in the background and the changing swirl which can seemingly strike at any time makes for some edge of the seat playing at the higher levels.

 

You're supposed to be able to tell when the swirl will fire based on the Qotile color right?

 

I could never figure that pattern out, meaning I didn't care enough to pay attention

[Yars' Revenge Easter Egg?]

Yup, we found it pretty early on in game play but never figured out how to get it 100% of the time until we read it in Atari Age magazine

 

Was quite annoying when you had a nice 2 player game going.

 

Being about 11 or 12 at the time, we didn't pay too much attention to the "warning" in the manual either