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What, you mean my one-of-a-kind limited-edition KRANTZ Donkey Kong isn't worth more than a few bucks? Yeah, I get a kick out of the writing found on old carts. I know there's a Bubble Bobble (NES) out there somewhere with my last name on it. Personally, I think it's part of the charm of collecting thirty-year old games. I do try to remove it if it seems like it can be done without harming the plastic or label, but if not, no big deal.

@#$%^& Mr. Do!, for months now. I'm not paying $20 for this thing.

You got some pink light bulbs in your house?

Pretty sure nothing pre-PS2 had actual surround sound. Definitely not SNES-era.

Got a multitester/voltmeter?

I don't know if they're all like this, but my Lynx's screen is so washed-out that it's hardly playable. I doubt they're all like this, but you could very well wind up with one as lousy as mine.

Just be patient and get it on Ebay, you can find it for 10-15 pretty easily. The manual, maybe

Funny, I thought that was me

I remember back in the mid eighties, my cousins had one. I had no idea you could play video games at home until that point, and I remember pestering my parents for one until they got us an NES a few years later. I don't believe my cousins had owned any previous Atari systems.

Same weekend as the Greek Festival? There must be some Houston-orchestrated attempt to bankrupt me...

I-War for me. Don't own the ones in your poll.

A visible display would've gone a long way, too.

The controls make it pretty unplayable for me, and the graphics (ARE those graphics?) don't do it any favors either.

Yep, whatever you do, don't get the atari-made 7800 proline controllers. They're bigger pieces of shit than Karateka. Karateka's horridness only spoils one game, but those controllers are good for nothing.

Hmm, I wonder if Fry's carries those...

If only I had a 7800 when my roommate had that projector. Those things are AWESOME for playing 16-bit and older systems' games.

Man, I wish I could answer, but I still don't have a working two-button 7800 controller. Sure, I've got tons of the stock 7800 controllers, but apparently if they've ever been used in the past then they won't work in the present. They're horrible. I've been considering modding some master system or megadrive pads to work, but haven't decided on which type to gut yet.

There was this Apple II (e?) game they'd let us play on the library computers way back in elementary school, and I'd like to check it out again, but can't remember the name or find anything online from my search attempts. It was in the style of Adventure on the VCS and possibly had Castle in the title. You'd wander around, picking up objects (only one at a time!) to carry to unlock doors, I think. Giant worms would try to eat you, and if eaten, it'd switch to an inside view of the worm's gut, allowing you to escape. I wish I could remember more, but I was 7 at the time. Any ideas?

Rubbing alcohol (the less water content, the better) and Q-tips.

Woah-ho-ho, looks that way to me. I hope there're still some Robert E. Howard-themed songs on it, I loved that about their last two.

Eh, I use one of those normally to hook my 7800 to my TV. You don't really need to cram it inside the system's case. But if you were hell-bent on swapping out the connector, then it'd be better to just buy a screw-in connector, drill a hole in the case, and solder that sucker to the correct spots on the motherboard.

Wait... Atari's what, exactly?

Right right, bad choice of words on my part. I was trying to ask if instead of replacing R11 with a 47K Ohm (step 3) and connecting a 47K Ohm to C14 (step 6), you simply did nothing & left both 47K resistors out of your mod. As far as the the 75 Ohm on the video plug though... what's going on with your revision? No connection there, right? That's what I assume, as it seems it would short out the video signal to ground, but I only have a basic understanding of A/V electronics.

Whuddabout Activisions?

Red 5, I'd love to see your plans for those racks too. Looks pretty easy to build & use. As for the MusicMate things, maybe they aren't all made exactly the same. Different production runs perhaps? I found some at a local used game store, tried sticking a random 2600 cart in there, and it would NOT fit. More than label-scraping tightness, the plastic was simply too large for the holder.