Vic George 2K3

Same thing why any new technology for video games is such a big deal. It was never tried before.

Definitely some real doozers. Atari 8-bit Pac-Man? NES Mega Man? Gamespy had an article about the worst ten game box arts.

Papa Smurf's Treasure Hunt, also known as Smurfette's Birthday. Another interesting piece of vaporware. Thanks for the ad scan.

For the past few months I've been doing fan translations of European Smurf comic books that haven't seen an English translation in years. Most of my work is done using Google Translate, plus a lot of creativity and some familiarity with the characters. So far the ones I've translated are: The Wild Smurf, The Finance Smurf, You Don't Smurf Progress, The Reporter Smurf, Salad Smurfs, Bathing Smurfs, The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything, The Gambler Smurfs, and The Jewel Smurfer. I did that because I wanted to read the comics in English and Papercutz, as good a job as they might be doing with translating the comic books, aren't doing them fast enough for my tastes.

In hindsight, if Atari was going to go the route of having the 5200 be the consolized 8-bit computer line, it should have been compatible with the 8-bit computer line from the start, cartridges and controllers.

Well, isn't that smurfy? RELEASE THE BLUE ONE HERE!!!

Still playing Dragon Age II, this time the new DLC quest Mark Of The Assassin.

The quality of the audio for streaming Netflix on my Wii has gotten crappy lately. Anyone else notice this?

People like juvenile stuff passing itself off as "mature entertainment", what do you expect?

I felt like the odd man out when it came to personal computers. I was expecting to get something like the Atari 8-bit computer line, but given what my family could afford, I ended up with the Timex/Sinclair 1000. I don't regret it, as it was helpful in me learning how to program in BASIC. But still I wanted a computer that I could program AND play games on, We only got a little better when my family got a TI 99/4A, but that was when they were going on clearance and I didn't get many games for it, just Hunt The Wumpus. And then I got myself an ADAM.

The more I think about it from the responses in here, the more I would agree that the current Atari should surrender its name to somebody who really cares about preserving its legacy and go back to calling itself Infogrames, even if that name carries very little weight nowadays.

If one wanted an Atari computer that had a keyboard and played games, they would have bought the 400, 600XL, 800, or 800XL. There would be no reason to give the 5200 a keyboard if that system was just going to be sold primarily as a game system. The games for both the 5200 and the 8-bit computers were identical or similar enough, though some games for the 5200 took advantage of keypad functions on the controller that would make a similar version on the 8-bit computers pretty hard to control unless a person was sitting right at the computer, and even then the control would be like modern game system emulation on a personal computer.

I thought the wing design Atari used for the 5200, the 7800, and the 2600 successor mockups was perfect for the early 1980s, so I wouldn't necessarily change that. It would have been great, though, if a gamepad with design aspects like a Jaguar controller with a thumbstick instead of a D-pad was introduced back then, but have the keypad more like the Video Touch Pad or the Atari 5200 controller keypad. That would be more for like a successor system than for the 2600 itself, as I can't really imagine the 2600 being saddled with anything other than the standard model joystick controller that came with the original system.

The Mass Effect-type dialog wheel invaded one of my dreams based on the 2011 Smurfs movie:

I'd say no. It's an adapter.

I think you have to remove Expansion Module #1 from the ColecoVision if you want to play ColecoVision games, if that's what you're talking about.

If you're waiting for the big-name companies to produce it, you might as well be waiting forever. Or turn to religion to pray for it to happen.

I've been on the computer more than I have playing the Xbox 360 or any game console recently. I'm still miffed that I don't have a PS3.

Not sure which game in my early years of living really sticks out in my mind. Just being able to play a game on the TV instead of merely watching TV was fascinating enough.

I didn't think Zelda 2 was a disappointment. It was just simply different from the first game, and it didn't hurt that Nintendo tried something different, since it only had the first game before that. That didn't necessarily make it easy to play, though. And I think Starfox 64 was an improvement over the "sacrificial lamb" that the original Starfox was. Being the first for that series didn't necessarily make it being the best for me.

I have a Wii, so there! Just kidding! I still want to get my hands on a Playstation 3.

The only thing close enough to an SNES gamepad for me is a Playstation 2 gamepad, which you can use on the Gamecube through an adapter. The Hori SNES gamepad clone for Gamecube still has the ABXY buttons laid out the wrong way.

I don't mind the thread being resurrected. I just think it's kind of interesting to hear.

To HuckleCat: YOUR PROBLEM, NOT MINE!!! It's one thing if you don't have the skills to create your own sequel, but if you have the skills and you stick up the middle finger at the idea of creating your own sequel while expecting everyone else to create it, that's just an excuse for laziness.