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    Its been a very long time. I watched Dr Who in the late 70's on TVO here in Canada. The funny part is, I was VERY young but fondly remember Dr Who for what ever reason. My dad liked the show and the theme song is imortal. I remember episodes with a poseur looking R2D2 with horns sticking out of its head speaking distorted heavy English and funny looking brillo pad monsters etc... and Tom Baker was extremely ecentric. I remember an older grey haired Dr Who but he wasnt as entertaining as the original one. I remeber we then used to watch another British show called "Dont Ask Me" where they taked about where snot came from and strange stuff like that. Where can I watch episodes of this shownow (Dr Who)?? Is this show in rotation anywhere?? The Space channel here in Canada should play this show.

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    Lets all hope that the kids over at Infogrames read these posts from the somewhat hardcore Atari purists....

     

     

    I would hope that the capital raised from "The Matrix Reloaded" game will set the ball in motion for -ahem- Atari to now right the wrongs so to speak that were made in the past that eventually led to their demise. It would be a beautiful thing to see if -ahem- the latest incarnation of Atari will offer us a minimalist type of retro 8-bit type of console that would hopefully bring the world back to where Atari left us back in 1984. It is totally obvious that this was the archetypal design that ALL video games still to this day aspire to be. The technology HAS peaked and it is now time to return to the more simplistic "games should be easily learned and difficult to master" approach. It would seem obvious that the folks at Infogrames would know that this is blasphemous but only time will tell.

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    Where is the bush that has no shadow?? Also, at this point in the game, how far along am I?

     

     

    BTW - I just got this game and I must say that it is quite good so far.

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    I feel like I have to admit that I am a poseur or something here.

     

    There really will never be anything like the originals. That IS my point (I think). I really don't delve into the new games too much. Too expensive. Call me ignorant if you wish. It is definately by choice. I used to hate video games. My friends would all sit there for hours and just get fat as they improved their hand eye coordination while I peferred other things.

     

    Then I found an old VCS at Value Village last summer.....

     

    I started collecting the old stuff for nostalgia purposes and also because I want my 5 year old son to appreciate the history of video games. This has become a good way for us to bond. The old games didn't have much to work with so they had to be exceptionally fun to play (as opposed to 200 seperately moving sprites with extreme realism and no flicker sacraficing fundamentalism fun and $100 million advertising budget). This minimalism works to our advantage.

     

    You could say that I am deliberately trying to repeat history for him so that he can have as much fun as I did when I was growing, if not more. He loves Atari and I suppose he could have a PS2 if he could conceive of it but I want him to avoid the commericalism of the state of video games today. To him.. the story of Jack Trameil, Coleco, and Nintendo are useless. He likes games that are fun.

     

    Remember the old Atari 2600 boxes with the pictures of the kids sitting there with their parents playing games as a family?? It seemed as though they were trying to say that it was meant to be a family experience. The games were intended to be family oriented with less emphasis on hedonism. Video games just don't seem to be like that now. The significance of what happened to Atari and the overall commercialism in video games now becomes more rellevant. A family oriented concept suffers major permanent setbacks because it cannot commercially compete.

     

    This is why I ask "where are these types of game makers today?"

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    I think they go by the sticker on the front that states what the item is and it's value. If it is over a certain amount and it says "merchandise" then they deliver it to your door and charge you the delivery plus the GST and PST. If the sticker says "gift" then usually we have no problems no matter what the size, weight etc..

     

    BTW... Sly man!! You're the guy that found the Waterworld for $1.00. Don't tell me that you are a Canadian. Are you in Ontario??

     

     

     

    (EDIT immidiately followed birdman reading more posts)

     

     

    Not EVERY Canadian opposes the situation in Iraq. Some of us are just as bloody English as the Windsors and were quite ashamed of what our french Prime Minister had decided. Let's not forget that the media can be one's worst enemy at times and the Canadian civilian support for stabilization of Iraq was barely covered likely due to it's lack of charisma. There are tonnes of Canadians who come from a different part of Canada that feel the same way if not more enthused about what is happening. Just because an elected government makes a decision doesn't mean that the society as a whole agrees. I am sure that America can draw a few parallels. I know a few soldiers who would have loved to had been there. I am sure that the right people in the US government already knew that there is lots of community support for the US troops here in various divisions of the real Canada.

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    Yes. I totally agree with this. So, after all that has happened, there is now a serious "Atari gap" in the world of video games. Infogrames is cool but there is definately no comparison to the days of Space Invaders and Pitfall. Obviously there will not be a time like that to come for quite a while.

     

    To me, it seems as though there was a deliberate destruction of Atari. It is hard to imagine that the original spirit of the VCS or Pro-System lived on in the console offerings that followed. Atari could have lived on but it did not seem as though enough people wanted that to happen. In it's infancy, video game creators were constantly trying to improve themselves - and they did - over and over again.

     

    I compare it to being a musician, there are players that are technical and there are players that are soulful. To be both is to be a master of your craft. Take Jimi Hendrix for example. A pioneer, soulful emotion like no other player from his time, considered a master by all of his peers, generations ahead of his time.

     

    Where the hell are the game makers that are like this today?

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    Aside from that, I think that it is kind of neat that there are a small amount of people who know the facts and a whole bunch of people who do not. It keeps people like us more "in the fold" so to speak and at the same time, it serves as a form of protection for the hobby because this type of information could be commercialized and blown way out of proportion. Maybe Nintendo paid to have that documentary made to boost public opinion of their company. We don't want everyone raiding our secret Atari spots out in the wild. Let them settle for the wanna be video game finds like PS1 and SNES etc....

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    I just went to the cafeteria and got an orange pecoe. I was not trying to offend you. As you may have guessed, I am interested as well or I would not be here. I am facinated by the notion that people are coming here to decide how it all went down. I own 300 or so Atari 2600/7800 games and collect the stuff like devil just like the rest of us. I was there in the seventies playing the stuff as it came out like many of us. I am just trying to find out what all of this is about. Why do people need to know the historical facts regarding the fate of Atari? Is there some underlying facts that have yet to be determined. What strain of canibus were they smoking at Atari in the infancy of it all? This discussion implies that ther is more to the story than what is public knowledge. Sheesh.

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    Knowing what actually happened. Where does that leave me? I don't really appreciate my Atari games any more because I know the truth about why they went out of business. It doesn't make the games any more fun to play because I know that the NES was a factor in the demise of the Atari 2600. Maybe it is just the essence of the relationship between humans and machines to have a natural tendancy to gravitate towards what we feel is the more useful machine. People loved Atari at the time and there was definately a video game culture circles mainly around Atari for a while back in the eighties. They were pioneers of the machines that created a video game sub-culture/lifestyle. Nintendo became the machine of choice for some strange reason. They did not force this machine down our throats..... Simulatneously, as this post is typed, in a distant body of water, a fish, foreign to the waters it inhabits, devours an old fish reaching the end of it's life. :sleep:

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    ---YAWN!!!!----

     

     

    Either way, Atari is gone. There now is only the spirit of nostalgia thriving in a sterilite box, waiting for us to relive our memories of Atari games we only dreamed of owning in the eighties. If Atari would have survived, is it totally uniformed to assumed that the XBOX would merely be called the Atari XBOX today?? This argument is strange to me. Why are there these so called retro-gaming hobbists trying to figure this trivial history out. What is the goal of attempting to set the record straight?

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    Somebody just gave me a Famicom Disk System w/ 30 or so games plus a crap load of different Famicom pirate multicarts. This is great!! A whole box full of stuf but no console. The problem is, I don't know much about Famicom or how to get one so I need to get some help. I don't own a Famicom but would like to get one (or something compatibile) so I can start enjoying this stuff with my son. Does anybody know much about these or where I can get a Famicom? Ebay just doesnt have much to offer. I have a cart adaptor to use most of the Famicom carts in my NES so that is solved for the most part. I have a double sized Famicom cart that must weigh 1 lb that doesnt fit into my NES so I would like to get a system to see what games are on the cart. Plus, it would be great to get the disk system working on a system as well. If anybody has any help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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