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Cool! I'll try to submit one this year. I had a great time making a few for the b*nQ contest last year.

I use Sega Genesis controllers, they're the best I have used yet. My joysticks went shitty, and I didn't want to buy any more controllers.

I know, it really does, it's an incredibly fast game. I never really realized how fast it was until I watched this video of myself playing it. The game doesn't seem nearly as fast when you are playing it.

Very fine playing. Yes, those single bucket recoveries were amazing. I don't believe I've ever done that. Game is over when I'm down to one. What a fantastic game in general though. Thanks, it took about 5 tries to get over 10,000 that day, so I don't play that well all the time. And yes, Kaboom is as close to perfect as a game can get. Nothing comes close to Kaboom and H.E.R.O. on the Atari.

The first few misses you see were intentional, yes. After that, they are likely mistakes, Kaboom is not the easiest game. I try to just relax my eyes and go with the flow of the bombs instead of trying to catch each one. My highest score to date is 22,653, but it looks like quite a few people around hear have gotten much higher.

Nothing all that exciting, but I had never seen any pictures or video of the post 10,000 points Kaboom Bomber's face before I shot this video today. For anyone that has never seen it or might not know, here it is: Sound is a tad out of sync and video quality is bad, but whatever.

Ha, like I said I try to collect good, playable games. I have owned E.T. and several other games at one point but traded them in for others.

Very cool. I see you also have Pitfall II, a Picture label Code Breaker, and a Picture Label Space Combat. Very nice. Thanks, that Codebreaker even has the black electrical tape over the misprint. It's basically a mint cartridge, found it locally for a quarter.

Anyone know the current estimate of unique, individual games for the 2600 out there?

Well, technically 98 unique titles, I have a label variation of Kaboom!, and a non-working Boxing. Nothing really rare or exciting but here it all is... I think Tapper, H.E.R.O, and a few Braizilian carts are the rarest I have, but I try to collect playable, fun games, not rare ones.

Sky Jinks is pretty good, it's just not traditionally "enjoyable" gameplay. Freeway is good enough, it just doesn't last long. Laser Blast is quite terrible.

Go the Brazilian games route, easy way to get those weird games to work on an NTSC console.

Yeah, Tac-Scan is awesome, I would have never guessed the game would be that.

That video about the making of Atlantis and Imagic was great. Imagic was surely one of the best companies at the time.

Looks like I have a Sears Heavy Sixer. (Has round molding at the front and says it was manufactured in Sunnyvale) 77777U