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Not too terribly often.. I used to play my NEO GEO a lot. It's time I added more games. I was all set to play the hell out of my Dig Dug cab, until I found out it had color washout. I replaced the caps but that didn't do anything. Maybe it just needs resoldering everywhere..? I play my Phoenix every once in a great while.

It'd have been interesting to see "ADVENTURE MR. DO!". It was to be a laserdisc entry in the Mr. Do lineup!

Some of the dialogue: Any units in the vicinity of Hollywood and Vine, 504 in progress. See the man at Dohini and Sunset. All units, use caution. Officer in trouble, man down, code 3. Suspect may be armed and dangerous. All units proceed to Elm and Main. Dispatch, this is car 2 in hot pursuit of sedan, request assistance! What is your location, car 2? Now proceeding south at Capitol and Spring! This is car 2, the thief has doubled back and he's coming right at us! Other dialogue directed at the player: Can't you play any better than that?? Pretty good playing!! This is an 8-plus minute tape loop. I've heard this was actual policeband dialogue! If you want to hear the whole thing it's available for download, just search for Mame sample Thief and you should be able to track it down.

I own one of those. It's in pretty good condition, but needs a potentiometer(nonstandard, of course)....and the coin door repaired. Otherwise, fully functional. A few I remember: Zookeeper Thief(or Stop Theif, can't remember) Thief was the name of the Pac-Man clone where you drive a getaway car, running over dollar bills whilst pursued by the coppers. Stop Thief! was a cool board game by Parker Brothers in the late '70s, where you used a handheld electronic device that made noises that clued you into where the thief was on the gameboard. Audio clues included breaking glass, footsteps, opening doors, etc. When you think you've caught him you make an arrest for that location. After pressing the "arrest" button you'll hear sirens wail, then tones to indicate A) he wasn't there, B) you caught him, or C) you found him, but he got away.

I believe they had a 2600 in the film "E.T.". I think they were playing an Atari 2600 in the film "Nightmare at Shadow Woods". I'm sure I've seen it in a billion other movies.

Saw a very craptastic fighter called "Tao Taido" once. One of those distributed by "Mc 'O River". The creators later had the good sense to poke fun at it in a later game (Aero Fighters 2, I think).

I'm not so sure I beat it so much as I warped out of it into another crappy area. I just gave up and never picked it up again. If I need a Pitfall fix I'll play Atari 2600's Pitfall II. Hands down, the best 2600 game IMHO.

Got some: Dash Galaxy In The Alien Asylum Super Pitfall Urban Champion Mystery Quest Athena These games sucked like a straw and blew like the wind.

I remember Electric Palace in Beaverton Mall,and Innerspace on Cornell rd with the milf Candy.Also Electra 1 across from Sunset High School in the Sunset mall. My sister ran the sticker booth in Beaverton Mall. I'd visit her and then go gamin' at Electric Palace. I can't believe they took out the coin fountains at the mall. I think there was another mini-arcade in the Mall way back when. It was right outside of Pay Less, I believe. I miss the old mall but I sure do love to visit GameTrader. I get my Playstation and Sega CD games from there. And real close to the Mall, and in the same parking lot, I think, was a great roller-skating rink with a great arcade. I spent much of my preteens at that rink.

The arcade game Journey was supposed to work something like that.. the player was to have their picture taken and their likeness would appear on the small body of the character they would move throughout the game. Unfortunately, juvenile minds took perverse delight in having pictures taken of their unmentionables and using them as their characters. Bally/Midway dropped this and used the members of Journey. Game Boy Camera took a picture of you and you could play little mini-games with your face on a stick-figure.

Crossbow may be kind of rare.. I had seen it in a number of places as a youth. I thought it had some cool voice samples in it. But since I was never good at aiming in gun/rifle games, I enjoy it much more on an emulator, with the mouse as a controller.

POW for the NES had an awful ending. "Congraturation" following "Escape From Prison Mission Complete". Fudge you, SNK!

I liked Time Gal quite a bit. It was basically Road Avenger with a cute skimpily-clad girl, so yes, it was an animated FMV. Plus, in some tricky spots, you had to stop time and choose one of 3 paths. This game had some seriously comical deaths, resulting in a super-deformed looking Time Gal. I thought the American voice for Time Gal was perfect. Space Ace was terrible on Sega CD. Especially during the skating maze scene, I know I pressed in the correct direction numerous times and I died anyway.

The artwork your referring to was a backdrop, not an overlay I meant to say "background". I think I've been to the Mame site and didn't see where you can find backgrounds. I've looked it up elsewhere and can't find it there either. Pooey!

Ah.. now I see the entry about Indy 800. Looked it up on KLOV and sure 'nuff it's in color. God, how many games at the time used that same type of racing scheme, with similar tracks? Way too many, I would wager.

Yes, the Sega CD was capable of so much more and cranked out a lot of games that could've played the same on the Genesis.. but there were still a lot of great games. One thing I liked best about the system was the soundtrack/music difference in a lot of the games. Some of those tunes were so catchy I plan to turn into karaoke tracks sometime. Good examples of great songs: Lunar: The Silver Star opening Sonic CD "Sonic Boom" song Road Avenger opening song

I think the old vector game Warrior was brought up in the past.. does anyone know where I can get a hold of a picture of the overlay, with the stairways/pits? I need it because I'm going to make a video of the game to put on YouTube and the game is tough to play without it. And it doesn't look right at all without the artwork.

Tricks that give you extra money are the best tricks ever invented!

A friend of mine was an intern or something at Atari during the 80s. One day he was wandering down a hall whistling randomly. Someone ran out of an office, grabbed my friend's shoulders saying "THAT'S IT! THAT'S IT! THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR!". That random whistle became the Peter Pack-Rat music. Neat! IMO, that's the only reason to play that game, to hear the whistle music. There's an ancient game (probably pre-70s) I'm trying to recall the name of.. it's a simple projector screen with maybe a field setting, and simple clay pigeons of light shoot across the screen that you shoot at with a non-mounted rifle. Took up a lot of space.

Put up '80s movie posters on the walls, or posters of Duran Duran, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Culture Club or some other music performer on the wall. Break out the Capri Sun, Fruit Roll Ups and New York Seltzers. Get out your '80s comp CDs and crank them up. Put on some '80s clothes, maybe even dress up in a costume (Cobra Kai uniform, dress up like Jem and the Holograms, dress like Max Headroom (yuck), Freddy Kreuger, etc.), and break out Garbage Pail Kids cards. Of course, that's just the '80s. You could do the same with more updated entertainment from the '90s if you like (Nirvana posters, posters of Titanic, Unforgiven, etc., Simpsons paraphernalia, Boyz II Men/Green Day/Mariah Carey/etc., dress up as Woody and Buzz Lightyear/Sailor Moon/Ghostface from Scream, etc.

Cool; thanks!

Sure! Back to Atari 2600 frying.. A good one from Cosmic Ark; frying can cause all the meteors to come from the left. How easy is that? On Dragonfire, fry until the castle is black and white. The dragons shoot much fewer fireballs and if you touch a treasure and don't move you keep collecting points nonstop. In H.E.R.O. fry till there's only a spider and miner showing, then let the power run out. You will have hundreds of extra lives.

I think that ending is from Vegas Dream ----------------------------------------------- Yeah, that was probably it. I think I put in a cheat code to get that amount of money, so I wouldn't have to play through it. Nice Faxanadu avatar. Got any extra Joker keys?

Jeez.. nice guy to just give you this stuff. Wish people could have just given me the games I have for free. Instead I had to shell out thousands. Oh well, I've paid more than that to have my teeth fixed (even after coverage!).

Duh, here's the ending.. http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/arcade/b/gb2tha.htm