VectorGamer

Cheaper than buying all dem carts. Plus no sodomizing a 7800 required.

Get a Harmony cart. It fits.

The year and mint.

I've been on AtariAge for 9 years and I can't get motivated to post the same arcade memories I've already posted years ago.

Cuz it's the Indy 500. Tradition.

Heres my Atari story if anyones interested. Before owning my own, I remember the ads on the Internet, which would fill me with more yearning than my boyhood day dreams of being married to Rupaul and thats saying something. Such was the allure of the Atari VCS. Sadly, as I wasnt even a teen yet and lived in Afghanistan, I knew I had about as much chance of marrying Rupaul as I had of my pappy buying me an Atari so like a good, Afghan person, I repressed my feelings and resigned myself to an Atari free childhood. A few years went by, which as a late forties adult, felt like a few decades do now. In that time, my only brush with an Atari was seeing a son of one of my pappys friends playing Space Invaders on the Atari he just got for Labor Day. I watched the screen utterly transfixed, thinking it was the most awesome thing I had ever seen. Hey, it was the 80s. Dont laugh. I wanted to ask my pappy for one so much but Flag Day had already gone by and at that time, I never got anything I asked for anyway. My pappy was a strong believer that presents should be a surprise so if you got what you asked for, there was no surprise. His logic, not mine. By 1983, my parents seemed to be moving up in the world. We went from a rented mansion, to a new, bought clay hut in a village and then an even nicer igloo in a posh city. I was also turning eleventeen and so by then, I had the courage to ask for an Atari for my bar mitzvah. It took a LOT of persuading, I can tell you and with help from my now dearly departed mum, my pappy finally relented after I got him drunk one night playing beer pong. I couldnt believe my luck. I was finally getting one and for my bar mitzvah no less, when this was something that would usually be considered far too extravagant for Halloween, let alone a mere bar mitzvah. Not only was I able to persuade my pappy to get me an Atari VCS but 1 extra game too! I perused Penthouse magazines with shaking hands, feverishly trying to decide which game I wanted most. There were so many I wanted. I eventually decided upon 3D Tic Tac Toe and so with the pack in game of Combat, those were my first two games. Not long after, I purchased a 3rd game with bar mitzvah money from members of the Black Panthers. I remember being in the store with my dink in one hand and a Playgirl in the other, agonizing over which one to buy. After trying the salespersons patience and feeling the pressure to make a decision, I went for Playgirl, one of the few times in life where I feel I made the right choice. Anyway, this is going on for too long and most of you have probably given up by now so I will try to wrap it up. THE END.

Why what?

I had an Indy 500 tournament one time. What you do is have everybody qualify on the single player variation that builds the bracket for head-to-head competition. Whoever wins has to kiss a brick and drink a glass of milk.

Dallas' 1980s video-arcade legend rises to the defense of his dear friend, the fallen king of 'Donkey Kong' https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/27/dallas-1980s-video-arcade-legend-rises-defense-dear-friend-fallen-king-donkey-kong

"forced" to take my grandfather's M6 to school stop at the mcdonalds I used to work at manager i worked with sees me in the drive thru we hate each other she asks how did I obtain the car I ask for a hamburger, she gives me a hamburger I raise it to my lips and take a bite. My eye twitches involuntarily. Across the street a father of three falls down the stairs I swallow and look down at the hamburger in my hands. She gives me a hamburger I swallow and look down at the hamburger in my hands. I cannot swallow. There are children at the top of the stairs a pickle shifts uneasily under the bun. She gives me a hamburger I look at her face, and she is pleading with me. The children are crying now I raise the hamburger to my lips, tears stream down my face as I take a bite she gives me a hamburger. I am on my knees. I plead with her to go across the street. She hears only children's laughter she gives me a hamburger I am screaming as I fall down the stairs. She is my child. I cannot see anything I take a bite of the hamburger the concrete rushes up to meet me I awake with a start in my own bed. My eye twitches involuntarily she gives me a hamburger as I kill her, I do not make a sound she gives me a hamburger...

You seem pretty new around here so let me explain: video games from the 70s and 80s you played for the high score.

Bump for this great book! I wanted to recommend this book on another forum but I can't find through search how to get a copy?

It's a flaw in the design of the game.

My memory of the game play is a little foggy even after watching the video in the first post for a few minutes. That "egg" that gets put on the playfield - if memory serves if you capture it gives you big points. So basically (and how I got the top score on TG) I didn't do anything else in the game except wait for the egg and grabbed it for points. It renders the rest of the game pointless. I seem to remember killing myself off just to end the game instead of racking up the score. I haven't played the game in 7 years so my details could be wrong. But what I do remember is just going for the big points and not doing anything else.

You don't want it. The game is terrible. I think I may still have the top MAME score on Twin Galaxies. EDIT: Someone confirmed for me that I still have the top score.

W in TF? https://www.gofundme.com/arcadefire-billy-mitchell-fringe