Chuck D. Head

Hey, a question; can anyone verify for me if there is any difference between the comic book that came with Star Raiders regular and Sears versions?? Also, if anyone has a loose and lonely Sears Star Raiders box they want to get rid of please pm me. Thanks, Morgan

Teenagers walking through my livingroom while I am playing my 2600 who say something like "oohh, those are awesome graphics" with a sarcastic tone. Happened again last night; they were lucky I didn't have one of those newfangled pause buttons, or I would have given out a beatdown. Naw, not my style....I just calmly said "yeah, this game is on a CBS ramplus cartridge, so there is an extra 4K of memory on the cartridge". Morgan

I picked up a pair of Channel F controllers at the GW today. I havent had too much experience with Channel F, but I dont remember them having the "Video Command" label with red, orange and yellow stripe. Is this a later version or maybe sold as Atari controller?? any ideas? Morgan

I think I would do a lot better finding the damn flame spirit if it weren't for all the damn rf snow on the screen; gotta do a a/v mod soon. Anyway, I'm done for now.....finished level five again - 184,265 Morgan

This idea works on almost anything, although I usually also put a little box of baking soda in there also.....Morgan

If this is some sort of reference to Atari being a phoenix and rising from the ashes again; well....it is truly an ugly, scrawny phoenix with most of it's feathers missing. If this is a teaser for a new homebrew version of Phoenix, the game, then I'm in.... Morgan

Five trips to the top and not much better score than with three - 161,365 Morgan

Decided I would let my little stick man have a break and take a vacation in the secret kingdom. One of the things I love about this game is easter egg / programming glitch detailed (and I mean DETAILED) in this page: Mt King Hidden Level How about a +1 for anyone who gets there? (says he after hes already done it ) Morgan

I finally finished the third level...theres a lot of failure that goes along with a score of 140,550 and only three levels. I did determine that my route to the top will work with the lowest 1:00 time limit, with zero mistakes. I made what I figure was a two second error and ran out of time middle of my final jump. Morgan

Post some pics; or it never happened Morgan

Oh my! I have some catching up to do....I think past level three you are really going to be pushed to make it in one try anyway, with the diminishing time limits, I think the time to get to the top never gets lower than 1:00 but the time to find the flame keep going down???? Morgan

Ahhh crap!!! I did this on one of my first games Wednesday; greedilly looking around for one more treasure chest to bump my score by 250 and never even knew what my final score was. Good job anyway, sounds like you are maximizing each level with that score. I never played for score before, just cared about completing levels. If you are efficient and finish each level quickly you are punished on score; a time bonus on this game would be awesome. Morgan

A very small improvement - 87,905. Almost completed level three; I ran out of time one jump from the top. I think I need to rethink my path to the top. Morgan

Don't forget to use your flashlight to look for those 250 point treasure boxes, they are almost always found at the ends of the sections and not near the top or bottom of the hill. Anytime you are in a an extended jump or a freefall go ahead and shine your flashlight to the left and to the right as you fall, to find those chests, they save you precious time.

I hate bats, but I love this game; for so many reasons. 2nd try tonight was pretty good; two coronations at the top of the hill and just missed a third two times and 87,335 points. Woo Hoo!

You will learn to juke them bat-stards right out of their shoes!! Keep it up! Morgan

Bwwaaahaaahahaa! That face is precious and badass all at the same time......Morgan

Not to change the subject, but, does anyone want to talk about how retarded I am for continually coming back to read this thread?? Morgan

The spiders really arent a big deal; once you get "webbed" just move the stick up and down rapidly until you are free. Morgan

Well that sucks! This game isn't going to play well on Stella, unless you have a proper Atari stick hooked up, what with all the properly timed jumps you need to make while still moving forward. My original cartridge died on me also; this was only a few years after I bought it and was lucky enough to get a replacement from the same store (Hi-School Pharmacy) for a couple bucks after the crash. Morgan

Sweeeeet! This is one of my favorite 2600 titles and I should at least be competitive for once. Got my mood-setter music ready: Savatage - Prelude to Madness / Mountain King Skip about 1:10 in to hear the music from the game in "Prelude to Madness" and then the metal masterpiece "Hall of the Mountain King" follows........... Morgan

OK, It seems like I never get anything done until real close to the deadline. For my Zylon masterpiece, I decided to draw the unsung hero of the Zylon forces, the hungry, hunrgy foot soldiers known as the Ecamirg. They dont let these guys anywhere near the high-tech starfighters, they drop them from cargo ships to destroy enemy ground forces. A full grown Ecamirg can ingest, digest and excrete (note the large pile in the pic) an average six-foot tall humanoid in under two minutes, they literally eat their way through the enemy lines. Scary! Morgan

It's only a matter of time before one of them decides they want to take down Homerwanabee on DK3 and then the real WWF action will begin.....Morgan

Orangest or anyone; Do you know by chance, if it is stated anywhere how many of the special Atlantis contest cartridges were produced or distributed?? Just wondering what the odds really are on this.............Morgan

Pics or it didn't happen. AX That is just some paper stuck to it top left. It looks like it needs a good cleaning. The vectrex is being hand delivered to me at a later date. That is seriously a sweet pile of gaming goodness, Wolfman. Whenever I see a stack of those overlays, I get all happy looking at the pretty colors. But sheesh, for a whole ten bucks, I would have hoped the Clean Sweep would be a Mr. Boston version, JK. Morgan