littleman jack

Joust or Pac-Man? They're both great. And both sitting next to me on my desk.

I love the 2600 for the classics and the homebrews, but I love the funky, big 5200 the best for it's graphics, sounds, size, and general weirdness. 5200!

I'm looking forward to a portable Flashback. Hope it's easy to find around TN. I'll look for it at Toys R' Us, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond as suggested.

Seven reasons: 1. Adventure II 2. It's big and bold. 3. Miner 2049er 4. Qix (best version out there) 5. Star Raiders 6. Pac-Man 7. Best Centipede for any Atari. (Yes the 7800 version is very good, but 5200 version is great.)

I love the arcade version of Pac-Man the most, but I like all the console versions as well, as well as the collections for GameBoyAdvance. My favorite console version is the 5200. It has the intermissions and plays a lot like the arcade. Of course, the 7800 Pac-Man Collection also rocks. And Nukey Shay's 2600 Pac-Man 8k rocks.

I try to play the 2600 on the weekend, and sometimes on Thursdays. My son loves the Nintendo Game Cube, so we play that a lot. But I like the 2600, the 800, 5200, and 7800 much more than anything modern.

I like Blueprint. I like the graphics and the maze. It's like Concentration in a maze. But it does get old faster than most other games, so I play it in small doses.

Hello everyone, thanks for the reminder realbountybob! There are so many great games, but my collection has dwindled to a handful of cartridges . So I'll suggest those and add a few I'd like to add if my collection were to grow again. 1. Donkey Kong 2. Joust 3. Pac-Man 4. Shamus 5. Pacific Coast Highway 6. Preppie II 7. Donkey Kong Jr. 8. Monezuma's Revenge 9. Basketball 10. Venture 11. Super Pac-Man 12. Jr. Pac-Man 13. Beef Drop 14. ET Phone Home

Pharaoh's Curse, Miner 2049er, Star League Baseball, Shamus, Pathfinder, Star Raiders, Donkey Kong, Joust, Montezuma's Revenge, and Ixion are my favorites.

Adventure II is exclusive at this point, and is a lot of fun. 5200 Realsports Basebal is great, and unique to the Atari consoles. Take a look at the homebrews for sale at the Atari Age store. They're all good.

I'd DK a slight edge over Jr. First, it looks more like the original. Second, it's more fun, and less frustrating.

I didn't notice a video game crash in 1983. I missed it completely. My friends and I were still gaming on the Atari 800, and every now and then we would go back and play the 2600 or Intellivision as well. The arcades in my town seemed to hang on for a few more years. But by then, high school ushered in a new bunch of interests and we didn't mind the loss of the arcades (until after college). And then the Sega Genesis caught our attention and there didn't seem to be a crash at all. We missed it. There seemed to be a seemless transition from Atari to Nintendo to Sega to Sony. But I was never very fond of Nintendo (save for the Donkey Kong games) or Sony. And then I found Atari Age and got back into the Atari systems.

Hello all, my favorite joystick, the seemingly unbreakable Wico Boss has finally failed after 30 years. The button will not work if you are moving right. It will work if you are still or moving left. Has anyone else experienced this issue and/or know a solution to get it working like normal again? Or rather, is it even fixable? Thanks! littleman jack

My favorite and most played is Pac-Man 8k, a hack by Nukey Shay. It's on the threads here and is great. It has the original VCS board design, but the proper colors and effects and even intermissions.

I like your hack idea.

Amazing! I hope this one gets to cartridge one day. Especially a day when I receive a paycheck.

I liked Suspended, Zork, and Starcross(it came in a flying saucer, I think this was the title). They were all Infocom and very addictive and difficult.

Steeplechase, loose copy. Now I need to find some more paddle controllers and it'll be a party.

A few Wico Boss joysticks were all that was left. But they're still working and in good shape.