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On 9/30/2012 at 8:25 PM, Nelio said:Heh, I'm using that site as my main source for systems to explore. I then have to resort to other sites for the gaming part (such as MobyGames), but they got the hardware part pretty well covered. For arcades, I go to http://www.arcade-history.com/, because of their search/listing features (better than http://www.arcade-museum.com/).
I remember those. I'm afraid to click on them now. I fear the 404. xD
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On 9/30/2012 at 8:17 PM, Nelio said:
I don't know if you can remove comments. Please feel free to remove any links that I posted to next and previous posts. You'll soon find that I did that a lot starting at some point.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do that. Obviously linkrot had set in before suddenly it all worked again and now we have automatically made previous and next buttons on each entry. So happy to see them.
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I just went to eBay to check out Pong prices and for anything "tested and working" and they range from $75 to $225. I'm just not feeling it. xD Where has my passion gone!?
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On 10/12/2019 at 10:14 PM, Mocz said:
This is my rightfully angry comment. I still wants my Pongs.
Oh my gosh, it's awesome to find this comment here in 2021.
You are rightfully angry and I've granted you a full refund.
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On 9/30/2012 at 6:37 PM, Nelio said:
I think I only found the manuals for the 1972 games, and not even all of them.
I got them here, along with a ton of other goodies:
http://www.magnavox-odyssey.com/
Maybe you should send your stuff there. He doesn't watermark his scans, so I think this isn't the website you referred to before. Not the most appealing or well written website, but seems like a labor of love.
It would have to be a labor of love!
I have my scanned stuff somewhere, but they were all from a time when I thought 640x480 was going to just always be SO HIGH REZ!.
I noticed I talk about "frustrating my son to tears" in this one. I swear that was just a joke, though I do remember Invasion being very frustrating for both of us.
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On 9/30/2012 at 6:31 PM, Nelio said:
I think that for some time there must have been a shortage of Odyssey items on the market.
When I bought all of these (at one point, I did have a complete Odyssey collection) I felt like I'd sell things back to eBay as soon as I was done. But I was never "done". Now I still have almost ALL of my stuff. (I did sell a big chunk of the Odyssey stuff though) and I have a theory that it's past the nostalgia value that these things go through. I haven't been checking prices, but I imagine I'll never get back what I paid for anything in the 70s, except for maybe my RCA Studio II which is in pristine condition. Too bad the games are nightmares.
I need to do an overhaul of the Odysseys I do have and get them into working order if they're not. I did a bunch of card swapping out inside my Odysseys when I didn't know what I was doing. I worry I may have made alterations that I will regret.
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On 9/30/2012 at 6:26 PM, Nelio said:
I'm surprised you still remember these games and the whole experience enough to reply to every single of my comments! Thank you for this!
I will admit that now in 2021, it's all a bit foggy.
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On 1/3/2018 at 3:24 PM, sut said:
We enjoyed this too !
Once again using OdySim this is one of the few games I’ve played with my daughter (upto yet) wherein she has actually stuck to the game rules. Probably won’t play the game again but it was an entertaining diversion.
I am so pleased to know that someone else inflicted... wait, there's a better word... um... enriched the lives of their children by making them play these games. I'm glad you're both having a good time, too!
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On 9/29/2012 at 8:03 PM, Nelio said:
Maybe they will remember it. If they are still interested in gaming, they have a richer background than most kids nowadays have. They have a better understanding on how we got here and, with that, have a greater appreciation for the games they now play. On top of that, they'll get retro/classic references in modern games.
Oh, and they won't vomit if someone shows them a crap game from hell.
Something interesting about this, all these years later, my son is in his 20s now and has been living away from home for almost five years now. (Yes, I miss him terribly and I'm about to be missing his sister, too.) He was having a conversation with a roommate at one point and suddenly realized that most people, in fact, no one he was meeting at university, had ever played, say, the Fairchild Channel F, or an Odyssey^2, or even an Atari VCS! He had to stop and blink a moment when he realized that his experience with older video games was rare and pretty unique amongst all the other humans he's ever likely to meet in person.
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On 9/29/2012 at 7:45 PM, Nelio said:
hahahaha!
I think you should back up this blog and release it on your own domain. You never know when something may change here at AtariAge. And from what I can tell, there were changes in the past that screwed up the formatting and caused some other glitches (like your username not being posted as the author of many of these entries). On the downside, these comments wouldn't be present on that version...
I am amazed at how intact most of what I stored here at AtariAge is and still appearing on my blog. Anything else, my attempt to make a YouTube channel, a website (though I still own the domain chronogamer(dot)com... i think, yes, I've been paying whatever for it bi-annually for 16 years...) has fallen to dust but AtariAge has continued to be awesome. (From my perspective, I mean, I'm just a time traveler, so I really don't know.)
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On 11/14/2018 at 8:34 PM, Odd said:
OdySim is an interesting effort, but the way it fails to accurately reproduce the way the controllers works makes most (all?) games not really play the way they were meant to, and some of them unfortunately end up broken to the point of being unplayable. Analogic is one of them - OdySim has the English control reset to horizontally straight forward whenever you aren't actively pushing buttons to change it, meaning there's no way to actually set the English, and you thus have to play this game by manually steering the ball between the two paddles constantly, while trying to do calculations and move the paddles and whatnot. That's not just annoying, that's unplayable, and not the way the game was intended to work at all.
There's a series by a YouTuber named FrameRater who does a great job of taking old system and exploring all the games while demonstrating them visually, I'm not sure, but I think he's using OdySim for when he tries the Odyssey. I may need to check it out. When I was originally doing this, there was kind of an "emulator" (OdyEmu) but I've lost track of it.
That's great that you roped your kids into playing it, too! xD
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On 9/29/2012 at 6:40 PM, Nelio said:
Ah, now I get it. Must be really hard to light the right objects. ^^
Yeah! If I remember correctly, this was more of a video game where the actual video elements are intentionally obscured. Weird stuff, but I really liked the overlay.
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On 1/3/2018 at 3:35 PM, sut said:
The Odyssey limitations (or poor design choices) come to the fore with this one.
Because the Odyssey has no idea if your obeying the games rules regarding the blue maze walls the game is to easy and to tempting to break and just resorts to a game of tag with a grid over the top.
YES! Exactly. Maybe these games were relying on old school board game etiquette mixed with the novelty of a game on a TV screen to get people through these games. I think there was some playtesting done (the interview with Don Emry comes to mind, if I'm remembering right.) but I don't think it was very rigorous.
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There are so many other ways I wish I'd done this, but at a certain point, thinking about it like that can make me freeze and stop moving forward. Of course, that's not why there are such huge gaps. The gaps are because life just kept happening. I hope you're doing okay, Nelio.
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On 11/14/2018 at 8:24 PM, Odd said:
It kinda makes sense this way (and doesan okay-ish job translating the sport of hockey to a Pong-typegame), and I think this was the intent, they just forgot to include a note explaining that "players make a SHOT ON GOAL by pressing the RESET button".
Greetings! That's a good point! If I remembered the game better, I'd probably like "hey, that makes sense now!" but it's all very murky. A lot of these games seemed like rounds of flipping a coin but with more steps. It's really wonderful though to find a comment from 2018. I hope you're doing well, traveler!
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31 minutes ago, MegaManFan said:
I could get Aerith back
WHAT?!!!?11! See this is why having kids was a bad idea (kidding, I love my kids) I did get time to play games. I was able to buy interesting devices like the DexDrive. However I lacked the imagination to go online and learn about interesting hacks to save games like bringing back Aerith. I'm glad to know it exists though and since I have the PSX and FF7 discs, maybe I'll look into it. Totally unrelated, but I should probably look for a copy of THPS3. I get the feeling they're going to cost a lot more in the coming weeks. xD
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Did you get your Crazy Climber cart since then?
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Hey, enjoyed your new publication. I think it could even be called a 'zine. Which I think was what they were calling them after my time, but before this time. (I'm thinking they called them 'zines in Rocket Power?) Anyway, enjoyed it and I'd never seen a Supervision before, so thanks for that. ^ ^
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It's freaking amazing that this is happening in 2021. Glad I saved my DexDrive... I actually think I have a computer that it will work with!
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Wow, that's a good point about how this would have been "Who's Jackie Chan?" moment when this was released. I was only vaguely aware of Supercop before I saw Rumble in the Bronx. Looking at Jackie Chan's movies on IMDB... wow. Long list.
LOL 6:03 "True to the stunt master that he is" Nice! Excellent call out! He's pretty immune to fall damage in his movies, too.
Really enjoying your vids!
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On 4/5/2021 at 2:27 AM, sut said:Hey, glad you’re back !
Hi! Good to see you, too! and for a moment I forgot how to quote a comment to respond to it. xD
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Interesting! I never knew that about the Ballblazer chip. (I've got a a Ballblazer cart though, so I guess I'm not worried.)
I actually thought I'd lost my CC2. I hadn't seen it in quite sometime (years, at least) and only recently found it again in a box of Intellivision carts. I think I put it in there during a brain fart thinking it was CC3. (which looks totally different, of course, but brain fart)
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Oooh no, I think playing it on the Analogue Mega Sg is great. I'm just saying there's a certain feel to holding a single cart and saying "oh, hey, I have this game." - I have a Cuttle Cart 2 and an Uno and I still enjoy finding actual 2600 carts to play instead of just finding the game on the multi-cart. I don't do that for every game (hell, i can't) but I always play my original Adventure cart for Atari VCS just because it's a cool feeling. xD
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holy crap LOL great setup for addressing the battery issue!
xD and this IS a nightmare.
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oooh, I see what you mean now. Yeah, if I remember right, the 300 had the deflection angles depending on where you hit the ball with the paddle and I don't remember the 400 having it. I could be wrong. I have started again and these out (and hooking them up to a CRT (through an FM demodulator)) is possible again. (for a long time it was possible only using VCRs that were only good for this purpose. those are very dead now.)