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  1. Posted

    A lot of things can be played on paper depending on how elaborate you want to get.

     

    When I was a kid, I couldn't get enough of the arcades, so I used to design board games based on arcade titles.  Among other things, I designed a Donkey Kong Jr. board game out of heavy grade card paper and pencil crayons, complete with the first DKJr level, pieces for the monsters and all the fruit.  You'd take turns rolling dice both for yourself and for each of the monsters.  Of course, there weren't any rules in place to decide which vines the monsters would decend, but the concept was there, anyway... :-)

     

    Yeah... I had a lot of free time and pent-up artistic yearnings back then.  :-)

     

    I remember in fifth grade, there was this kid who came up with the idea of creating his own paper 'board' games, where he made a die out of paper, cut out little pictures of cars as the game pieces, and the goal was to be the first to complete a race, with various spaces telling you to lose a turn, go back one, etc.

     

    Man, what I would give for the abililty to design my own board games.

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    I recently just visited the Atari 7800 history webpage (www.atari7800.com) and read about the "Fabulous Eleven" for the system. I had no idea there was such a thing, and then I reviewd my collection and saw that I owned the entire collection without even realizing it! :)

     

    For those who are curious as to what the Fabulous Eleven are:

    Centipede

    Asteroids

    Dig Dug

    Food Fight

    Galaga

    Joust

    Ms. Pac-Man

    Pole Position II

    Robotron: 2084

    Xevious

    Desert Falcon

     

    Is there anyone else out there who has the entire Fabulous Eleven in their collection?

  18. Posted

    Well, another score from yours truly.

     

    And I wanted to say that I wasn't trying to specifically pick just more of the well-known games from like Activision, Atari, Imagic, and other companies like that. When I had picked it, I was pressed for time and I needed to pick something quickly, and that just came to my mind.

     

    To tell the truth, I would've loved to pick something else, but I didn't know what I could pick. Next time, though, I'll remember this.

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  22. Posted

    A new high score, and some of my strategies:

     

    -Be patient. You're not under any time limit of any kind, so don't put your ship in jeopardy just to nail the last saucer. Wait untill it's safe.

     

    -The chirper ships won't attack you, but they can provide a few extra points if shot.

     

    -If you see the Green Bouncer Ship, you can move safely to a row which it just bounced in, since it works its way across the screen.

     

    -The Blue Charger Ships can be deflected with a shot, but don't confuse them for a Rejuvenator!

     

    -Be careful in the later levels, as the saucers will sometimes try to ram your ship instead of just shooting it!

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  23. Posted

    Another one that I had wondered about. Well, I've been playing this one since I was a kid (about 5 or 6 actually) and after all these years I still can't get to Sector 99. At any rate, here's my first score. Think I'll go boot my Atari 7800 up and try playing on actual hardware for once! ;)

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  25. Posted

    Not to mention, doesn't the cover art look like something out of the Jungle Book? I mean, the character on the front looks like Mowgli! (Yet on the back it calls Tom Boy a girl?)

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