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    Pinhead - 2935

     

    I thought I really liked this game but I think I got it confused with another - there is a game similar to this but there is a building on each side and a Pacman comes down from time to time - anyone remember the name of that game?

     

    I think Pac-Man does come down in Pinhead at some point. There's also the point patterns from Pac-Man: 200, 400, 800, 1600 as in eating all four ghosts, when you pop four balloons on your head in a row. I'm not certain, but wasn't there a version of Pinhead in the arcades called Kickman? Same game, different name?

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    I had an Atari 800 that we got the year it came out I believe, so 1979 or 1980? I remember getting a memory upgrade for it and pushing the little memory packs in.

     

    We eventually had a printer, dot matrix, and not a brand I remember. We looked at the Epson printers, but they were too expensive. Eventually we also had an 810 disk drive and a modem. This was in the USA, and my brother and I were in elementary school. Second or third grade. It took a few years to get all the frills. At first we just had the computer and some cartridges.

     

    Several of my friends had Atari 800s as well. One had an Apple II, one had a TI 994/A, and one had an Atari 400. I never did see a Commodore computer until much later.

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    85,000 for Donkey Kong.

    I'll post a screenshot tomorrow since that's a big score for now. I have a feeling it won't be in a few days. ;-)

     

    My best first level, one Mario score is 10,700.

     

    I had a strange thing happen on the second red ramps/barrels board. I made it all the way to the top without jumping a single barrel. I never had that happen before. I didn't use a hammer or go up any half-ladders either. Just a lot of dodging and running up ladders at the last second.

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    I like Radar Lock as well. I played it first on the PC, on the Atari 80 Great Games CD back in 2005. Later, I found it in the wild here in Chattanooga on cart and played it on my real VCS. It's fun, but the docking sequence is incredibly tough. I've only seen two people successfully dock, besides myself. And I've only done it a few times. Maybe a little more practice is in order.

     

    I do like Solaris better however. I agree that Radar Lock is often overlooked. I've got to get it back out and give it another try.

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    As David Crane said, the crash was (mainly) caused by amateurs sticking their nose into the industry producing crap which then got sold for cheap thus destroying sales of otherwise profitable quality games.... Also I think people were naturally moving from Atari to the more capable gaming home computers like Commodore 64.

     

    A lot of people did move away from game consoles and bought home computers like the Commodore 64, the Atari XLs and XEs, The Texas Instrument computers, and the Tandy computers. Most definitely had some effect. But as several people stated above, there were a bunch of reasons, including a flood of stinky games and the tanking economy. Remember, the games were really expensive. If adjusted for inflation, many were at least as much, if not more, than XBox 360 games now.

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    I was very dissapointed when I first played it, but then eventually I accepted it for what it was, and played the heck out of it. It was Pac-Man for the 2600. At least we had something playable that had a little guy going around a maze eating lines, and we had a good laugh at the sound effects (bam-bam-bam-bam-bam). Once I played Pac-Man on the Atari 800 however, 2600 Pac-Man got very little time. I missed out on 2600 Ms. Pac-Man and Jr. Pac-Man until 2003. Those two games are excellent and I still play them often.

     

    Every now and then I break out 2600 Pac-Man and play it on game 1 and on game 6. And every now and then I break out Nukey Shay's excellent 8k hack called Pac-Man 8k. That one takes the original 2600 Pac-Man to the next level, with proper colors, intermissions, better sound, and fruit instead of a square vitamin.

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