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  1. Posted

    6 hours ago, leech said:

    Yeah, I meant specifically at the time.  I think they attempted at least some marketing of the XEGS as a NES competitor, like I don't think the light gun combo came with the keyboard did it?

    Sure games came out afterward by people who owned the gun and wanted a reason for its existence!

    Yes, both the XG-1 and keyboard were pictured as essential components of the XEGS console on its box. Then again, I'm sure contents varied locally -- my last boxed XEGS (bought fifteen years ago now!) came packaged with a 1050, and the styrofoam insert looked like it was cut specifically to fit the drive. I should've kept the packaging, but it was in terrible shape.

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  2. Posted

    8 hours ago, LordKraken said:

    Maybe he meant the lynx "adapter"?

    Yes, exactly. I wasn't trying to suggest that the base unit itself wasn't going to be produced.

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  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, gilsaluki said:

    We will enjoy them.  I am still undecided between what is here and now (Evercade) Vs. the Analogue Pocket....

    Keep in mind that the Analogue Pocket is nearly as expensive as a McWill'd Lynx and, as of today, unproven (with some fear by the community that it'll be vapourware). The Evercade, despite its design flaws, is comparatively cheap and available. It'll never be my favourite handheld, but it's appealing on several levels. It'd be a much better deal, though, if they lowered the purchase price of the base unit by a third to a half.

  5. Posted

    13 hours ago, leech said:

    I'm going to say the XEGS Light gun.  I think there were like 4 games that used it?

    I'd agree, but the qualifying factors here are "heavily advertised and much anticipated". And I remember that it wasn't readily available, at least here in Canada, unless you bought it with the XEGS. I had to buy a third-party modified Sega light phaser from a seller in Florida. And I think that there are certainly many more than four games for the A8 that use the light gun, even though some of them were released years (or decades) later.

  6. Posted

    3 hours ago, Punisher5.0 said:

    You are welcome. Yep I did the same with Nicole and now its $85 on Ebay :(

    Yeah, I had to bite the bullet and get a copy off of an eBay scalper seller. While I'm angered that a small number of people are snapping up large numbers of the allotments for a quick resale on auction sites, I'm heartened that a few brick-and-mortars still have limited releases and are offering pre-orders for decent prices. I've been buying from Video Games Plus, which is a great source for Canadians looking for these titles.

  10. Posted

    Well eBay's the only game in town for most buyers, and those are the going rates. I actually saw a copy of Rampart going for over eighty bucks! Insane.

     

    Clearly, you want to source out games at the few stores with reasonable prices first. I see Xybots is going for $6.94 at the GOAT Store, and you can get Qix for $20, as well. Those prices are as good as you're ever going to get now.

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  11. Posted

    Maybe it's the rising-tide problem: now that retro-gaming has been legitimized as a "thing", instead of just a fun pasttime, prices of all systems have gone completely crazy. The Lynx was one of the last systems to go, but prices really have doubled or tripled in the past five years. It wasn't too long ago that you could get a five-pack of commons NIB for ten bucks, but I just about gagged when I saw that Rampart is now going for about thirty or forty dollars. It probably also doesn't help that lots of us who grew up with these things, and who want them now, are in their peak-earning years, and have lots of dollars (comparatively) to compete with each other and drive prices up.

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  12. Posted

    Rampart is one of the best games Atari released for any of its systems. It also has the benefit (along with Xybots) of having been overproduced during its commercial run, so it's still fairly cheap if you want to get a physical copy. I myself ignored it for years, and then stuck it in my Lynx because I was bored one day...and found out exactly how massively addictive it is. It's a hybrid puzzle/action/strategy game, and that's a win for me any day.

  13. Posted

    On 11/7/2020 at 3:09 PM, tripled79 said:

    Hockey and Baseball Heroes were the included games.

    Wow, that's awful! No, really -- those games are pretty crappy. Unfortunately, you don't have the option of using alternates here: Hockey is the only Lynx hockey title, and while Relief Pitcher is a much better baseball game (and has digitized speech!), it's been out of print for ages and no one will sell you a copy for less than about three hundred bucks. 

     

    Whatever you do, get a SD cart first. Most of them come with the entire Atari commercial library, and you can buy physical copies of these games later if you really want to take this route. The Lynx hasn't priced itself out of the range of the average player -- yet -- but it's getting there. That being said, you MUST not acquire ROM images of games currently being sold by their owners -- so take a look at the Songbird and LuchsSoft titles. Loopz is outstanding, but I love puzzle games. Wyvern Tales is also a must if you like RPGs.

  15. Posted

    36 minutes ago, playermissile said:

    That would have been in my episode 23. I think because it was for TRS-80 BASIC, I just totally skipped it.

    If you're doing type-in text adventures, I'd like to put in a vote for Advent X-5, which was a short -- but fun -- Casten text adventure. I remember that one of the items to collect was "Ostrich McNuggets". :)

  16. Posted

    I wish there was a way we could send him some love (in a non-creepy manner, of course). One of the biggest trills of my young life was finally getting Risky Rescue to run after days of typing in (and re-typing) all of those horrible special characters.

     

    In any case, as much as I'd love to claim that my favourite type-in game was a Casten game, I spent more time playing Omniventure (and, specifically, Dinoventure), from the November 1984 Antic, than any other game that year and into summer of 1985. I used to come home from lunch, turn on the 800, and play the game for a half-hour or so. And then played more after school. :)

     

    I'd like to thank Jerry A. LeMaitre for that game, too.

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  17. Posted

    On 10/22/2020 at 3:17 PM, pacman000 said:

    I like the (pseudo) 3D hallway.

    Yes! but I'd also love to see this redesigned as the interior of the Overlook with an option to take out the Grady twins and the hotel's other horrors (and zombies).

  18. Posted

    There's an eBay vendor in France who sells many titles for the Lynx, including this one, for about twenty bucks. You do have to be careful, though, as he sells a number of current games, including those from Songbird, and I doubt he acquired the legal right to do this. He also has a number of homebrews up for sale, and that seems to be pretty fishy. He is, however, the only current seller of such delights as Lynx Invades Japan, and is a nice guy to deal with (I bought another slide show from him). You're not in a great place with this: you can either buy a cheap pirate cart or download the ROM -- and I am not recommending either of those options for ethical reasons -- or put out a call in the Wanted sub-forum and be prepared to pay a pretty penny for this game. It's unfortunate, as Lemmings is one of the best games on the Lynx.

  19. Posted

    I might try typing it in, but it's going to be painful...and what if the magazine listing itself contains an error or typo? This was the last issue, so I won't be able to check for corrections. I can just see spending a day or two typing this in only to find out that the program needs to be debugged...

     

    Also, I need another pair of eyes to look at line 2020. The third and fifth lines begin with a character that could be many things, but looks either like a capital L or the number 1. I'm leaning to number 1. Line 2000 also has some concerning glitches. What characters start the second and third lines?

     

    Thoughts?

  20. Posted

    What about Ghost Encounters? Yeah, it's kind of a crappy Venture clone, but I've always enjoyed it and its sequel.

     

    I'd think that The Lurking Horror, Moonmist and especially Suspect would be great fun for fans of text adventures.

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  22. Posted

    Someone FINALLY uploaded back issues of Micro V.O., and I don't see many of these programs uploaded into the Atarimania database. And the program of my quest was "Multicolor" -- looks like this was in the magazine's final issue. 

     

    Graphics 15, with 128 colours, hm? I wonder if this will work with NTSC machines...

  23. Posted

    1 minute ago, unoclay said:

    oh hey, thanks for that link!

     

    Im not planning on selling it at all.  Was just curious whether there is any market or rarity or differences in the packaging---never saw that page before, and impressive, the number of variants this device had--esp for a device that didnt have a particularly long life or widespread adoption!

    The Lynx was moderately successful for Atari; they sold several million units over its lifetime, which was 1989-1995 (or 1996, if you're being generous). Yes, that was just a drop in the Game Boy bucket, but it probably kept enough cash coming in at Atari to at least launch the Jaguar. And it was sold in many countries, so it only makes sense that there are many box variants to appeal to local tastes. You'd think that the Japanese release would have had a sticker (in Japanese) to indicate that it was for the local market, but I guess not.

  24. Posted

    10 hours ago, sirlynxalot said:

    Collection 2 in particular looks like a great selection! That's most of the stuff that I would recommend a new lynx gamer check out to get a sense of the system and its capabilities.  I guess its all or mostly epyx games.

    It really is a tossup between the two, but collection #1 has Scrapyard Dog, Loopz, and some awesome homebrews. I can't imagine the Lynx without those games.

  25. Posted

    It's in decent shape, but it's really hard to say given the fact that the Lynx market is still small and the market for Lynx console boxes is even smaller. I'd hold on to it for now in case someone REALLY wants your Warbirds box in the future. If you throw in a Lynx II and a few games, you could probably get $200-$300, even though a McWill'd console by itself (a much better gaming option) isn't that much more expensive than this. A box alone, though, is hard to estimate. The only Lynx box I'd never part with is the clear plastic suitcase that came with my copy of P.I.T.S., as it's just impossible to find now. You can see all of the Lynx retail boxes here. 

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