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I'd like to put a vote in for Data Age's Sssnake. I actually bought this one as a kid and it sucked so bad I wouldn't even play it then. Speaking of Data Age, bugs was a real stinker too.

I got this idea after reading about ranking your collection. Since it's football season, if you had to equate your collection to a college football team, what team would your collection be and why? For example, I'd say Marco's collection is Oklahoma because it's #1 while my personal collection is probably more like a Texas since it's a very good collection but not among the most elite.

I don't think we'd ever get a universal benchmark but it would be fun to vote on the top collections and rank them based on atariage member opinions. Especially now that it is college football season Just think, you might walk around and say "I'm rated #4 in the AA (atari age) and #6 in the DP (digital press) this week".

Got mine in the mail from Amazon today so it shouldn't take too long.

I'd like to see someone create a version of Oil's Well for the Atari. I really enjoyed playing this game on the C-64 and later the Colecovision. It seems like it would be feasible for the 2600.

There's an auction on eBay for over $1,700. What's the most you've ever seen someone pay for a whole collection? Usually I think you should get a discount for buying a large quantity (like a collection) but do you think there's a point where someone's collection is so good that bidders would actually pay a premium (more than the cost of buying everything separately) to get it?

You can also pick up NES style controllers on eBay (although I haven't). I think the Sega Genesis controller will work also.

I like to pull out my collection of classic videogame magazines and read through them. Or you could grab a book. I just received Arcade Fever from Amazon a couple of days ago and I'm reading Phoenix that I picked up at CGE.

I'll second Galaga for the arcade and I'll give Beamrider a plug for console games.

Made a trip to Fort Wayne Indiana over the weekend to visit inlaws. Thought that I could at least hit the two flea markets that I knew about but sadly they were both gone. Anyone know what happened to the market that was near Southtown Mall (which is also empty)? It was pretty large so I'm hoping they just relocated. Any other stories about your favorite locations that don't exist anymore?

Rolenta, Nice article. I don't know when you wrote it but Paul appeared out of nowhere a couple of months ago and actually refunded the money that I had sent him for 'the Core'. I think he did that for everyone he was able to contact.

Since it's "want", I'd go with... River Patrol Eli's Ladder Video Life Gauntlet Cubicolor

Combat II, CGE Elevator Action, CGE Secret Agent, CGE SCSIcide, CGE

When I first started collecting Atari games I found a Color Bar Generator at a flea market. I almost put it down because I found some other games I wanted more than it (like Pitfall, Enduro, etc) but the seller dropped to price to $2 so I went ahead and bought it. I didn't even know it was extremely rare for a long time afterwards

I'll third that. I've had nothing but good experiences with Tom.

I'm going to go with Starmaster but I'm biased since I owned it as a kid and never played Star Raiders until much much later. Captain Atari, I think your keypad idea was excellent!

It's a toss up. In my opinion H.E.R.O. is more fun but I'm amazed at how well M.R. was written.

River Raid. I also give it credit for being an original game instead of a conversion.

You mean that your Star Raiders cart plays the game Berzerk when you use the keyboard controllers!!! Sorry, I couldn't resist

It was fun reading about everyone's favorite 5 games but who do you think are the top 5 2600 collectors worldwide? I could be wayoff but I'll take a stab and guess the following: 1. Marco 2. Ianoid 3. JerryG 4. Jeff Rothkopf 5. John Hardie

Usually when a place refers to a block of rooms they just mean a limited number at the listed price. Not necessarily a group in the same location. However, when I called the Plaza and reserved my room for CGE, they laughed and told me that $60/night is the regular price for that weekend and they didn't need the special code

I'd have to go with: 1. Beamrider 2. Pitfall II 3. Tapper 4. Ms. Pacman 5. Super Breakout