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I suppose I should chip in my 2 cents here. After HOURS of practice out of boredom, I did make it to level 36 one time. Seriously.

Ze_r0, why do you think the NES design is poor? Not an attack, I'm just curious to hear your reasons.

I just saw the ad too a couple of nights ago. Wow, that IS wild that a new commercial would use sounds from a 20-year-old game! Cool.

With the current "old is new" trend in the usually "now" video game market, who knows?

I had this very same problem when I had my paddles. It has to do with the potentiometer. Sometimes you can fix them by replacing the "pot" if you know what you're doing, but our Radio Shack never has the type we need. In digust, I finally threw them out. I have since been on the lookout for Atari paddles. It's a sad world.

I never play my Journey Escape game, that's for sure. I will say that I tend to play Chopper Command a little more than H.E.R.O. right now, which I play a little more than Pitfall. Most of my games are pretty fun, though.

Speaking of Atari emulation on the Playstation, did anyone else think that "Activision Classics" sucked? The emulation is horrid! As you can guess by my user name, the first game I went to was H.E.R.O. HERO's head is green instead of red, and the laser sounds more like a stupid machine gun! VERY VERY bad. Pisses me off.

Believe it or not, I usually get fairly good deals on Atari games through eBay. What really gets to me is when I see Atari paddles go for about $15 on eBay. Geez! How am I supposed to compete with people that'll spend a lot more money on stuff than I care to pay for? I can't. Sigh...... It's all about how much you *really* want it. I'd like a copy of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but not enough to justify plunking down $75 for it.

Maybe I'm just dumb, but is there any game like the one where Chevy Chase puts the station wagon in the game and Russ keeps shooting the car? They must have programmed SOMETHING. How did they do that, anyways?

My P.E. teacher in Elementary always blamed my Nintendo playing for my lack of activity during his classes. Then again, he blamed horror movies on my brother...

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was always a fun game for me back when I had it.

Which brings us to my problem--that Pitfall 2 rom doesn't work on my Stella. I bring it up and it's just a black screen. Other roms from Atariage work perfectly.

Today, for the first time, I played Galaga on an arcade machine. I had had plenty of practice beforehand having owned this on the Game Boy Advance, so I was pumped. It still said 25 cents on the front. Unfortunately, I had to put in another token since it wouldn't accept the first one, so I got screwed out of 25 cents. But once I got it working, I was on a roll!! Of course, there was no line to play the game. I tell you, the arcade version is much better than the Game Boy Advance version. People behind me playing Killer Instinct II gave me a couple of wierd looks. When I reached the ninth level, one eventually said, "Uh, wow, you're pretty good at this. Where'd you practice this game?" I smiled and said the GBA gave me a good jumpstart. The arcade I played at was NOT an old one, by the way. It opened about 2 months ago. The fact that the owner actually bothered to buy the Galaga machine (and the Mrs. Pac-Man on the right) really shows faith in the people of old classics. Imagine, after all these years, it stills says 25 cents. Isn't that great? I left that arcade feeling I got an incredibly great value for 25 (well, okay, 50 with the rip-off) cents. Neato. After I left, I noticed a couple of other people started to take interest in it too.

www.vgmusic.com is awesome for video game music. They have some MIDIs for the Atari 2600. Pretty cool.

WOW! How big were the posters? That's awesome!

With care, this can be accomplished with a Game Boy game. It was pretty funny when my cousin popped in MKIII and had Monopoly on the screen.

Okay, here's my 2 cents: I'm 17 years old, and when I bumped into a classmate of mine this summer, it went a little something like this: "Hey man, how's your summer going?" "Pretty good, I've been fixing my old Atari I have and playing with it." "Oh, you still have that system? I remember playing that Boxing game over at daycare a couple of times." "Oh really? Neat." "Yeah, it's just that when I really got into games, the NES was the craze, so I didn't pay much attention to Atari, although it's still neat. The world goes on, I guess." This shows that a lot of people still remember Atari. Pole Position arcade machines are still creating some sort of a line at today's arcades. People haven't totally forgotten it. I think the crowd that says "Atari sucks" are either 10-12 year old kids who missed the Atari craze or people that happened to pick out a lot of bad games for the Atari. Either way, I don't consider the general public naive for moving on to newer consoles. There are things games do today that the Atari just couldn't do. Could Haunted House scare you as much as Resident Evil? Of course not. Haunted House was cutting edge thunder sound effects in 1981, but it's not 1981 anymore. It's still fun to play, but people have moved on. Every trip down memory lane has its downsides. Although I had fond memories of playing Pac-Man as a kid with an uncritical eye and ear, when I purchased it about a month ago I was reminded of why I didn't play the game much. Even my oldest brother, who was born in 1976, didn't particulary care for it, especially after forking over 50 bucks for it with allowance money back then. Then again, who's to say what's classic? What's classic to one may not be to another. I don't need Webster's dictionary on what's classic, either. It's what we have memories of. Should we call Pong more classic and Atari less classic? Or maybe the NES is more classic than SNES? One last note: after browsing through many forums about "What's the worst game for the Genesis?" and reading people bickering about it, I've noticed this message board is the most agreeable and respectful video game message board I've come across. Whether it's because this board attracts older people or something else, let's not ruin the politeness over people over-analyzing select quotes and attacking their beliefs. If it gets this way, I can always go to some NES board and talk about how fun Gunsmoke was to play with the NES Advantage joypad and let people verbally beat me about how I never played one Zelda game in my entire life.

This is a long shot here, but is there any chance that Star Fox for the 2600 is what the SNES and N64 Starfox games were based on?

That's quite a story! Want to hear my video game life? No? Well, here goes anyway... I was the youngest of three brothers so my oldest had an Atari 2600 since the beginning but soon turned to the NES. My two older brothers bought a NES right away and kept hogging until I got a chance to play. My favorite game was Gunsmoke, especially when used with the NES advantage. In 1991, I was dreaming about getting a SNES for my birthday until I finally got one for my birthday. VERY cool games. In the meantime, I bought the old (not old then) Gameboy and a Sega Genesis as a bride for an A+ on a multiplication quiz at school. I never played the Genesis much, though. The last console my parents bought was the Playstation. They drew the line there. I have never owned a Nintendo 64, PS2, Dreamcast, Game Gear (which I wanted badly), or any others since. Right now I'm rotating between consoles as I'm soaking up the last of sweet summer freedom.

On my way to Wyoming last week, I stopped at an antique store in Ogallala, Nebraska and found a Sears heavy sixer with Combat, Space Invaders, Frogger, and Metriods all in the box with 12 controllers and 6 paddles, one in the box!!! Bad news, though: the whole set was $100, and if I wanted a set of paddles I so desparately needed, I'd have to buy the WHOLE set! I asked the lady up front if I could buy one of the paddles but she said, "No, have to buy the whole set." She would'nt cut me a deal! She lost a sale there.

Yeah, but are the driving controllers the ones that are plugged in separately and the tennis ones the paddles that are both plugged in by one port?

I just realized I have a star.........cool.

Hello everybody, I've heard there's paddles that only connect one paddle per port, and then there's the paddles that both get connected to just one port (the 2-in-1 deal). Is this the difference between tennis paddles and driving paddles? Just wondering.

Thank you for clearing that up for me, Zero. (A message from H.E.R.O to Zero) I had to say that! LOL (Response from a previous message from Zero to H.E.R.O) Ok, that's enough wordplay........

Good points, everybody... I'll e-mail people when I get back from Wyoming next week. Yeah, there's good and bad points about eBay. The good thing is eBay has some stuff you'd be searching for years trying to find (where else are you going to find a Mint Atari 2600 in the box with everything and games without searching like you're looking for the Holy Grail?) However, as soon as I bid $4.00 on some driving paddles for my Night Driver game (oh, by the way, would driving paddles work for Jedi Arena as well or will I have to buy Tennis paddles for that?) some nut outbids me by placing an $11 bid on some Atari paddles! Geez!!!!! Thanks everyone. I guess it's just "connections."