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Great googamoogah! Will I have to pay for it and wait 16 months! :-) You haven't heard from Jah Fish since November, and I'm -NOT- supposed to worry??? hmmm....

Hmmm... Im most looking forward to the copy of thrust dc+ I paid for almost a year ago. I'm also sill holding my breath for the pitfall inspired game Ed Federmeyer was going to follow up Edtris with, also wondering Bob Colbert will finish coding anything. And how about that homebrew with circular graphics that some guy took a bunch of payments for and (EVENTUALLY,) returned them.... I'm hoping someone hacks Stargate into Defender, alsol. Amongst the new stuff, I can't WAIT to see Avcstech Challenge, I loved aztec challenge on my c64. Cyclostar is based on cosmic ark, one of my all time faves, so its a good place to start :-) and MAN I'd love to see 2600 Kickman. I loved the Star Fire arcade game, so I hope the VCS version does it justice And tree hugger deserves notice for its wide gameplay variety and tounge in cheek humor. But I most look forward to any of the stuff that none of knew existed that pops up out of nowhere (like lords of the rings last year,)

I too am a big fan of 3d in the video game realm, and have a sms 3d set, and all the us and brazil sms 3d games, the vectrex 3d imager, the famicom 3d glasses, the fm towns marty 3d glasses, the amiga 3d glasses (with space spuds, awesome 3d game,) of course the virtual boy :-) There are some other interesting things of note: saturn/psx contra:legacy of war came w/ red/blue glasses, and a 3d mode. There were color magazines (even an issue of egm,) that used certain color combinations that somehow became 3d with its special glasses even though there were no dual images. Also, Elsa's Relevator (old tnt 2 card,) had it's own proprietary 3d glasses for the pc, very nice quality. The amiga also drives the 'virtuality' arcade systems which have a 3d display. By far the coolest to me, is the glasses that came with super nintendo 'jim power.' The game itself is normal, but it never stops scrolling. And these glasses somehow translate movement and color depth into actual 3d (brighter/faster moving is close to the screen, darker, slower moving goes deep into the screen,) snes jim power has lots of layers of parrallax and the 3d effect is quite amazing, even though it is only drawing one screen. Any well lit/well drawn 3d fps also looks amazing as long as you are moving. once you stop moving your character the effect lessens greatly. It looks amazing with Halo and Jaguar AVP for example. I saw every 3d movie I've seen mentioned here in the theatres (excapt comin at ya,) and one I didnt see mentioned, my favorite 3D movie of all time, 'Star Chaser: The Legend of Orin' Still have a poster from the video release on my ceiling at home :-)

Nice hack, I can't wait to see the finished product. Maybe double the rom size and double the maze size? or use supercharger for a REALLY big maze of multi-loads ? :-) Anyway, great work

That's funny, I was just about to say that :-) they had to remove it from the arcade version, but the small 2600 underground homebrew scene should be un-noticeable enough to get under the radar, and make a 2600 game that is MORE arcade accurate than the arcade game :-)

imho the best star raiders on the 2600 was Phaser Patrol. I loved that game, I even liked it more than 8 bit star raiders. Of course Solaris took in a whole new direction, and it's not really a Star Raiders type game, more like Star Sweeper or Moon Raider. On a side note, I can remember just how blown away I was as a kid by Moon Sweepers 3d gfx. I thought they were amazing at the time :-) Like the way screen shots of Doom 3 impress me now, so did Moon Sweeper

me: since 1980 total number: between 450-500 showcase: quadrun, waterworld (CIB,) & orig. #'ed Okie Dokie

i'm another freak with inky. I loved 2600 dkjr back when I got it. I loved that it had more screens from the arcade in it than the original DK, and I liked it a LOT better than the oriignal 2600 dk (which I really liked at the time it came out, as it was the only version of DK I had,) Kind of funny that colecos hand held versions looked better than the 2600 versions at the time :-) Still I remember beating it many times in row always hoping that there would be a fourth board eventually :-(

I got this game back when it came out, and I've loved it ever since. Was the favorite game of an old high school crush of mine, too. How cool is it when a girl actually likes an Atari 2600 game? :-)

LONG LIVE THE BIG SEXY 2600!

Just imagine how different things would be if Atari had released the 7800 back during the supposed 'crash' times. The superior quality of the 7800 and it's games, and it's (finally smart,) backwards compatilibility, may have saved the market before it even finished crashing. And nintendo might have begged Atari a little harder to release the NES here instead of doing it themselves... the world may never know ...

what I love about quadrun IS the gameplay. very fun game. and nicely challenging.

anyone who thinks a big angly hunk of black plastic is sexy needs to think about what their definition of sexy is (unless you liked all those curvless boxy ugly ass cars in the 80s, i know some people like that. To each there own. Give me curves though!) http://www.atarihq.com/rgvc/profile/pics/k...darius_kohl.jpg ^Me and my curvy car :-)

DAMN BASTARDS!!! Now I have NO tens in my colletion! I will get them!!! /me goes atariage staffer hunting

I like big butts and I cannot lie. But honest;y, I like all varieties of women (except Rossanne Barr Fattt (& up,) Thats tooo much. Gotta be able to see the pussy (cat) meow! Long live The Big Sexy 2600 (much sexier than the hard angled 5200, the 5200 IS cool looking, but it's not sexy at all.)

LONG LIVE BIG SEXY!

Venture 2 is great fun, and the new levels definately add challenge. I'm a master of the original venture, and it actually took work for me to get to level two. Also, I can't kill all the enemies with ease like I can in the original. It's a shame it couldnt have all the levels, tho, or could have exchanged level 1 for level 2, and turned level 2 into level 3 (or maybe 3 all new levels even??) It definately strikes me as a Venture 1.5, tho, but I'm a big fan of 2600 venture, so I dont mind.

Keir: LOL! I was just about to post that :-) Entombed & Quick Step are two of my favorite multiplayer 2600 games. I've always enjoyed Jedi Arena also. G.I. Joe is a lot of fun too. Atari realsports tennis is also another all time favorite of mine Party Mix (supercharger,) is great with a bunch of people, too. Mash is also fun with two players. One of my very first two player 2600 faves is Star Ship. Lots of actual game play variety. I like all the varieties, but my favorite is the one where you try to land a lunar module on a space rock while the other player tries to manuever the space rock out of the way. fun stuff

i myself prefer the fast reflex gameplay of most 2600 games which is why i prefer the 2600 over all consoles. ive noticed that video game play itself has gotten progresively slower ever since the 2600 came out, (especially the slow NES,) and just recently, since the dreamcast, started to get a bit faster again. I love games like kaboom or space master x-7 or turmoil that force you to rely on your reflexes (sp?.) the zone rules :-)

it's not really applicable. two wrongs dont make a right. it's the whole standing on a broken table thing. And building a cart is a little less automated than making a vcd of someone else's stuff. i do think it doesnt speak well for randy that he just bailed.

LONG LIVE THE BIG SEXY!!! http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16954

it was immoral for you to illegally modify someone else's work in the first place, hence you are standing on a broken table, if you see my point.

yes, just to clarify, I am talking about the hacks. And applying ones morals to another is pointless. Everyone has their own personal feelings, and morals. That is why we have the law, it tells us what in our society crosses the line. Anything else is just childish slapping. Morally, I agree that if TJ asks person X to remove his illegal hacks, they should. But i've also been alive long enough to know that the world doesn't work that way. (It's not like randy is rollin in dough from this,) And I am sorry if i mis-associating my half year + delay with TJ when it is in fact Jah-Fish. Of course we all have to change our minds, TJ, that's why I said 'funny how things change' Although in this case, I think it's more actually sad how things change, but I was being sarcastic, as I am wont to do.

ive had dreams about classic games that never existed. its usually a vectrex game. very weird. its never games that actually existed

funny how things change: (old message, < Thomas Jentzsch THRUST and JAMMED maker Posted: 04 Dec 2001 20:58 Post subject: Game Creators Please Read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy is selling my games for over a year now, and I had no problems with him at all. I'll stay with him He is definitely doing the community a very BIG favour! > i dont really see as how tj has a leg to stand on, really, its fan modification. its not like hes paying for the original games he's modifying. in the case of games hes created i understand that. I mean this is all technically illegal, and we are just getting away on a grey area of something unenforced, because its such a small market that the company bean counters don't see a need to do anything about it yet. but infighting over who sells your illegal hacks is just absurd. I assume you make these with the hopes that others will be able to play games they otherwise wouldn't, for the community. The more people selling it, the more your goals are achieved. and just in an unrealted note, I've ordered hudreds upon hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise from hozer, and recieved it all within a timely fashion, and my thrust dc+ which i paid for about half a year ago (from TJ) I still have yet to see. Action speaks louder than words imho.