Vic George 2K3

My mother already sold the 2600 to my next-door neighbor in 1984 in order to get the ColecoVision with the Expansion Module #1. Along with the 2600 went my copy of Donkey Kong for that system. Fortunately, most of my existing games for the system remained, and I was able to get another copy of 2600 Donkey Kong (yes, I still like that game!). The system I ended up having to let go of was the Atari 7800 in 1991, which was both a bummer and a blessing -- a blessing in more ways than one, since it became a donation to the mental health program I was in, the Forum House of Westfield, MA, for their tag sale. It also cleared out my 2600 collection, which made way for the NES I ended up buying that summer along with a $20 copy of the Legend Of Zelda.

I liked SOTE better than all the 2D run-and-jump platform interpretations of the Star Wars movies, which to me never really seemed adequate or appropriate for conveying the action thereof.

Megamania was the closest thing the Atari 2600 had to a home version of Sega's Astro Blaster arcade game. Anyway, I haven't discovered arcade games until near the end of the 1970s.

Can't say much about the CinemaScoped image, but at least it's a pretty good box design for Combat II Advanced. Helicopter battles? Hmmm...

Mr Do! for ColecoVision was great but not entirely perfect. The Super NES version just blows that right out of the water.

And with nifty keen-o Coleco-reminsent manuals! How about also in them not-quite-as-nifty-yet-somehow-keeno Coleco-reminiscent cartridge cases? Or are they just going for two out of three in terms of replication?

Believe it or not, there are some companies that are actually trying to make fun and interesting Christian-based videogames that don't play like lame retreads of existing secular videogames. Considering the Wisdom Tree hacks of previous Color Dreams games for the NES, plus the 3D Noah's Ark hack of the not-quite-there Wolfenstein 3D for the Super NES, I was half expecting someone out there doing a Christian hack of the really also-not-quite-there Nintendo 64 RPG game Quest 64.

Only having problems with my PS2 not reading the PS2 code disk for my Game Shark 2. Stinks, stinks, stinks.

Hey, Mr. Penguin, I can't access any of the links on your page!

That, or Oink! (Sorry I took the picture off, though!)

Lost Monkey's picture entry would be for Gopher

It's a-gettin' so much better!

P.T. Barnum's Acrobats was the name of the Odyssey2 "Clowns/Circus Atari" clone. And on that subject, the first time I heard voice in a console game was for Space Spartans for the Intellivision. It's too bad the Intellivoice was used only for that and three other games designed for it.

Ms. Pac-Man, because of Atari's attempt to mimic the introduction of the ghosts and Ms. Pac-Man, and also the marquee-type display with the ghosts substituted for the marquee lights, from the arcade original's auto-play mode.

Wow, pretty much every Activision, Imagic, and Absolute release included, minus the arcade translations and Ghostbusters.

Makes me wonder what's next in the realm of music/creativity carts for classic game systems?

Never bought any system on launch day.

I think both versions are great. The 2600 version gets the nods for keeping the great gameplay intact without looking like an atrocity, and the ColecoVision version for the graphics and gameplay. I don't think you can go wrong either way.

Actually, credit for that should go to an obscure issue of Mad magazine where they showed (if not in such schematical detail) how to install a speaker mute switch to your television that at the time could be useful for switching off the sound of annoying commercials.

Cool looking building! My guess is that for the Atari Force comics they simply designed a building based around the Atari logo, and that there are bound to be *some* buildings in the real world that somewhat resemble it. Maybe it just needs a coat of red paint. I wonder if The Company Formerly Known As Infogrames would design a new building in the shape of the Atari logo? LOL

Mario von Peebles in Donkey Kong! Can't wait to try it.

I thought it was an interesting take on Pac-Man for the CoCo for the brief time I saw it being played at a Radio Shack.

Sometimes the first game is the only game you play on that cartridge.

Laser Blast gets really boring to play in Game 1. Game 3 is where it really challenges me.

Is that CD with the original album cover (photo shot of a Pac-Man game) or with the Remaster cover (illustrated Pac-Man game)?