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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?

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....

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.

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.

Or maybe, MMF, it was all part of Nintendo's plan to destroy Atari altogether.

---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?

Yes, it is somewhat frustrating considering some of the best auctions I have ever seen are available to US only customers. Hmmmmmmmm.....

Right on!!

Right on!!

I may be out of line here but, may I have a Mac version of EDM please?? Thank you sir.

Xot!!! That's great. Most appreciated. I can't figure out which emulator to use though. Maybe I should upgrade to carbon lib 1.2??

Damn you!!!! That is a darn nice deal. Let me know when he puts more stuff up please.

Thats really cool. I have Basketbrawl but no Mean 18. Where did you get that cart for such a great price??

NES - Super Mario Bros. definately had the largest impact on the history of the Atari 2600.

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.

I just wanted to say that I was watching these auctions and I was totally interested in a few of those items. What a major disappointment to see that the entire thing had been cancelled. Count me in if you plan to put the items back up. Sorry about your luck.

Nice score. Yeah, I am in Kingston and I look everywhere all over Ontario trying to find Atari 2600 games. Where the heck did you find that? Its pretty dry where I am for some reason.

Beautiful!!! Now, where do I find it?? I have been using z26 on my windows based set up at work and I must say that I am totally impressed. My home computer is a Mac so I need this to work at home too. Please let me know if you can. Thanks.

NES finds: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Predator Woohoo!!

I have stumbled across some Colecovision ADAM carts. The decision to buy them will partially be based on whether the ADAM carts will work on a regular Colecovision. Can someone tell me if ADAM carts work on the regular Colecovision?? Thank you kindly.

Yo Vardelith, I too am in Canada and I never find stuff like that. Where the heck are you???

Wasn't the Atari 2600 a drug inspired invention?? Weren't all of the employees a bunch of stoner electronics majors?? Didn't Atari have a "Get high" policy?? Come on kids, this is a druggie device for sure. Let's be honest here. Atari and hash brownies go hand in hand.

Hey man. I am from Ontario and I can't for the life of me figure out where Kincardine is. That's a fairly small town right?? Where is that near??

Just in case you did not read my other post, I am in Kingston. I hit Ottawa every once and a while. Let me know what you are looking for. The more the merrier.

Yes!!!!!!!!!! A Mac version!! Genius. Pure genius. Sign me up Kenny old chap.