Vic George 2K3
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Not bad, even without the arcade machine bling.
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Not bad. It's like a consolized Gameboy Advance version of the game.
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Defender II on the Atari 2600 is only playable to me on an emulator with a GlovePIE script mapping out all its controls onto a modern gamepad.
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"DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON!"
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There are still typing tutor programs, mostly for PCs, if you like Mavis Beacon.
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Humorous use for the controller storage area. I wonder if that's also to supercool the 5200 processors.
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Yeah, that's the kind of reimagined Donkey Kong game I'd like to see.
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So patriotic.
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Interesting hack done with an Atari 2600 Jr. casing and a Jaguar controller.
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I still want to get a Playstation 3.
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A good idea, but man, make the 5200 joysticks self-centering analog!
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YAY!!!
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Flashback 5200.
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In 1989 we would have been playing the latest "Pac-Man", "Centipede" and "Dig Dug" on our Atari 10400's.
Just like Nintendo is doing for 20+ years with Mario and Zelda. So nothing changed.
Except that the Mario and Zelda series has evolved over the years. What kind of evolution could Pac-Man, Centipede, and Dig Dug have offered? Very little.
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I would prefer a touch-sensitive version of the Intellivision control disc, like with the Suncom Joy-Sensor.
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Just remove the apostrophe in "hawks".
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Do a miniature Pac-Man machine.
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The only hate I seem to have with "phone" controllers is the type of joystick or joypad it gets saddled with. Of those type of controllers I have used, the ColecoVision one seems to be the one I had less problems using. Had Atari bothered using a self-centering analog stick with their Atari 5200 controller instead of the non-centering analog stick it ended up with, I might have been an owner of that system. It had some good ideas, like adding a Start, Reset, and Pause button, but the joystick part just killed it. Maybe the 1980s Atari of another reality had better luck with this.
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I already have a "super system" for playing Pac-Man on...it's the Atari 7800!
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Well, excuse me for actually having an opinion about the 5200, jetset, even if it's one you have to be a douchebag when it comes to responding to. While I do regret missing out on the games that are for it, I have no regrets not getting the system at all because of Atari's failure to actually have a useable and durable controller made for the system, let alone having it be backwards-compatible with the Atari 2600 which they only later did with the 7800. Even to this day I still wouldn't want to get a 5200 for that reason. You happy now?
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If the control sticks didn't work like crap, I would have gotten it instead of the ColecoVision...or even possibly with the ColecoVision once I started having a job.
Wait...because the controls on the 5200 worked like crap you got a Coleco?
What happened when you realized the CV controllers were worse trade it in for an Intellivision? 
I eventually bought Y-adapters so I could use Atari 2600 joysticks for playing ColecoVision games. A far better cry than what could have been done with the Atari 5200.
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If the control sticks didn't work like crap, I would have gotten it instead of the ColecoVision...or even possibly with the ColecoVision once I started having a job.
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Fry Guys, like the creatures from McDonald's commercials.
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That could have been Atari's Nintendo system in another reality.
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Paint a Guy Fawkes moustache and soulpatch onto the unpainted Smurf face and you'll have the Smurf version of V For Vendetta.