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    So, as we have all seen by now, a according to the box you should hold the controller sideways...

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    Now I do not have the real game here so I am only playing in stella, but it seems like the optimal position is the standard method of holding it....

     

    Is this just another case of stella "correcting" something that is not broken, (like switching the controller ports in "Wizard of Wor")

     

    Can an owner of real cart confirm, is it better to hold the joystick sideways like that???

     

    Whoever wrote the instructions was on crack. You hold the control just like any other games. Maybe the "loan command center" is wired differently...

     

    Probably printed in some Taiwanese sweatshop that never saw an Atari in person.

    Since it was made in Taiwan by a company claiming to be in California does this prove that the game is not PAL?

    Wp

     

     

    There's also Qbert, you have to hold the joystick with fire button in the middle, but I always played it holding the stick the 'normal' way.

  6. Posted · Edited by high voltage

    If they would at least put some effort into it like maybe a C64 color scheme and bundled with Cloanto C64 Forever package then at least that would be something.

    Exactly. If you fired it up from the factory and it had a query to boot into Windows vs C64 emulation mode, and would start up as an emulated C64 with a library of utilites, applications and games, now that might be cool.

     

    Web-It computer?

    http://www.thosewerethedays.de/items/hardware_misc/web_it1.jpg

  12. Posted · Edited by high voltage

    The multi-carts I think use 32KB slots, and BBSB is more than that. The AtariMax creator I think split another game up though to fit in multiple slots (Mule). It's probably possible, but if you're simply looking to play it, there are many other ways to do so without spending $300 on a 5200 game. A repro would probably sell very well, but not being technical I don't know the feasibility. Bill Hogue might try to stop it though.

     

    Well I have no intention of going against a programmers wishes for a repro.

     

    And as for the 8Bit, I have heaps of that stuff from back in the day. The A8 cart isn't cheap either!

     

    It looks like that Bounty Bob Strikes Back is expensive mainly on 8-bit Atari platforms. Perhaps, it sucks on other platforms.

     

    No it does not. Its just Atari biased people tend to think everything sucks but Atari. All other ports are just as good.

     

    At least load time and colors should be better on A8. So far I only see Tape versions on Ebay for other platforms. What does this box contain for (BBC Model B)-- cart or tape or disk:

     

    eBay Auction -- Item Number: 3602408170321?ff3=2&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&item=360240817032&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]

     

    It's tape,being a UK based computer.

    But true, early Atari computer ports were always far better than the conversions to other platforms, there's nothing to be biased about, it is just plain old fact.

     

    Best Electronics were selling 5200 BBSB repro carts during the 90s, anyone can shed any light on this? And was it official?

  13. Posted · Edited by high voltage

    Because of the almost 5 year gap between consoles (crash - NES) companies like Imagic, Parker etc tried to turn to making computer software, eg follow the route Activision did. Most of them failed. By the time the NES finally made it into the mainstream, companies like CBS, 20th Century Fox lost interest making console games.

  14. Posted · Edited by high voltage

    I am waving the white flag. When I started I never tought I would see the day I would say these words in my lifetime, but I am. When I started to really pay attention to Atari 2600 games, and prices around 7 year ago the Atari 2600 was the king of the collecting heap. About 4 years ago things started to change dramatically and the NES became bigger than Atari 2600 in terms of collecting. At the time I thought there was a chance that one day the Atari 2600 would once rise as the most collectible video game, but all that has been dashed. The straw the broke the camels back for me was the complete in box Stadium Events going for $13 grand just recently. This being touted as super rare because there are only 10 boxed games known to exist. That is when I knew the game was over. Sure I still believe that the Atari 2600 will be worth more some day, but it will never be on the scale as the N.E.S. For instance the finest examples of Music Machine boxed went for $5,600, and $5,200 respectively. These being the most expensive games publicly auctioned to date. Personally I don't think there is a single Atari 2600 game out there worth more than $7,500. Maybe Marco's Gauntlet could get that much money, and maybe the Birthday Mania maybe able to get that sort of money, but that is about it.

     

    So for me I am waving the white flag. NES is number one, and it is the king of the mountain, and it will always be the king of the mountain. GAME OVER

     

    Try finding a boxed Exus Video Jogger/Reflex with jogging mat for under $15.000.

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