Vic George 2K3

Flashback 5200.

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.

I would prefer a touch-sensitive version of the Intellivision control disc, like with the Suncom Joy-Sensor.

Just remove the apostrophe in "hawks".

Do a miniature Pac-Man machine.

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.

I already have a "super system" for playing Pac-Man on...it's the Atari 7800!

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?

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.

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.

Fry Guys, like the creatures from McDonald's commercials.

That could have been Atari's Nintendo system in another reality.

Nothing about games making sociopolitical statements through events in their particular fictional universes?

And to think that such a piece of furniture history has the honor of holding some pieces of videogame history.

Hopefully this means BioWare will put some loving care into the product before it's released.

And the games are bringing to light social issues as well. Like Bioshock's Rapture with its focus on the effects of godless capitalism with no governmental control, and the Dragon Age universe dealing with religious persecution of other groups of people (like elves, mages, Qunari). It's certainly coming a long way from just being mindless entertainment, which there still is a place for when you don't want to play a game that reminds you of the world you live in.

Yes, I did buy it new years ago. Fortunately it wasn't around $40 when I bought it new.

Sometimes goodness can come from mislabeled products. I remember buying a labeled Q-Bert game for the NES that turned out to be Life Force. I didn't return it, though.

My mother sold off the original 4-switch model that my family owned so we could get the ColecoVision with the Expansion Module #1, so no, I don't have it.

Maiki, what part of "it's NOT your Atari 2600" are you NOT clear on? If someone wants to mod the system so that it can run on a modern TV set without any problems, more power to them for doing that. If you enjoy the purism of playing it on an ancient TV set, then more power to you.

If parents don't do their own job of parenting their own kids, they shouldn't act surprised if somebody ends up doing the job for them in a way that they may not like -- even if it results in a loss of life.

Makes me glad I got a Slim. The only fan noise that's in my room is one I use for a sound muffler when I don't even have the system turned on.

I never said it was beautiful, but it's not like somebody turned it into a sludge factory of carnage and vomit.

Still playing Dragon Age 2. Managed to finish a playthrough as a female mage Hawke named Phoenix. Currently busy with a second playthrough as a female rogue named Raven Hawke. One of my guilty pleasures is watching a mage Hawke battling Meredith while listening to Journey's "Be Good To Yourself".

It may end up being as "classic" as the Atari 2600...in that a lot of crapware gets produced for it.