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So I got the version on my VCS. It's AMAAAAAAZING!! I literally couldn't stop playing it. Will there be a physical cart for the 2600?

oh wow! thanks for clarification. Know anything else about the numbers? or...since we've determined it's not a heavy who cares?

Hello, friends! It's been a long time since I've been on here. Took a bit of a step back from my Atari and my collection. A few months ago I decided to dig out the gear and reconnect to my collection. Started to get the itch to hunt for stuff and got my hands on a gorgeous Sears Heavy Sixer in fantastic shape. This is my first one (sears and heavy sixer). I'm trying to understand all the dates and serial numbers I found to better understand it's age and just get a sense of how this beauty came together. Here's are some additional images I took to give you guys a look. Based on the posts I've read, the 160 stamp would indicate an April, 1980 date for the shell? The scratched in serial and date is new to me. 51233 - 12-4-82C Have a look at that sticker. We have the serial but not sure about the 51232 red number written over. Does this link to the scratched in 51233? Here are some interior shots. I'm taking a guess here that Dimerco put her together in April 1980? Just unsure about the Red number and the scratched in numbers. Would love the atariage fam's eyes on this! Thanks DJ

when are we talking about starting?

This is a really fun game! I'd love to get it as a Cart as well!

Space Fury?

holy hell... just got this today. I actually never even heard of this title until i saw this thread. I knew it HAD to be amazing. I can't believe how awesome this is...thanks so much. This game is seriously awesome and it looks great on the 7800. I can't believe I never heard of this game! I guess Galaga kinda hogged all the limelight.

Punch holes in them and make key chains! Or mount a magnet on the back and make a fridge magnet! Belt buckle! TONS OF FUN STUFF!!

That's a really good idea...it's like OWNING it

I created a Poll for this topic... http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/188829-high-score-keeping-solutions-poll/

I previously started a thread on this, but I think a poll would be a more appropriate format to gauge a generalized interest. Hope everyone weighs in... DJ

I was going to auction off my 2600 and some games, but i thought I'd throw it out to a more appreciative and receptive community first...keep it in the "family" Basically, I bought a nice refurb'd light sixer off ebay a few months ago. Once the Atari bug bit me, I found a great deal on a 7800 and never turned back. I'm looking to sell the system with one joystick and a handful of classic games: Pitfall joust combat enduro space invaders missile command ms pac-man asteroids defender If anyone is interested in giving the gift of atari to someone let me know. Works fine. Cosmetically the console is in great shape. I will disclose that someone broke a piece of the plastic frame where the left joystick plugs in (probably from jamming it in to hard), but it doesn't affect anything...except it might be easier to plug controllers in. I'm asking $40 PM me if interested. DJ

Just a question I wanted to pose to everyone. How do you guys keep record of your high scores? A notebook? Some fancy spreadsheet? I was thinking about starting a "Gaming journal" where I could keep all my notes and scores, but I'm just wondering if and how everyone does it and if anyone had any recommendations... I know nothing beats old pencil and paper for quick and easy recording, but computers make things easier to stay organize. It's funny when I get manuals with my games, the back of the books sometimes have scores that kids have written down..it's just neat to see things like that. I know when I got my asteroids cocktail table, in the coin slot, there were handfulls of scraps of paper with names and scores on them. Mostly scribbled by the kinds that played it..then I installed a high score save kit, and there's no need. I still saved the paper for posterity. Years from now when my parents sell their house, someone will go down in their unfinished basement and see where I wrote in chalk on the cinderblock walls mike tyson punch out codes and high scores for games years ago... I'm thinking about designing a old school pencil and paper journal to organize your scores. What does everyone think?

Let me know if you ever come across a copy of mean 18 with a manual. I looooove golf games and I'd love to get a hold of this one.

i really love xenophobe! I used to play it on the NES all the time, but the 7800 version is way more boss.

it's looking more and more badass, dude!

jocular... man! I love that kinda talk. = )

thanks! I've been leeching off this site long enough...i figured I'd try to give back.

I also hear that the XM is going to save the world and reduce government deficits around the world. Is this true?

Well... in that case, forget it... I'm gonna trash the thing when it gets here.. http://www.atariage.com/programmer_page.html?SystemID=2600&ProgrammerID=17

Oh... I saw something on the XM status page on curt's entry regarding HSC compatibility with Stargate. I misunderstood that...All this hardware jargon is beyond me.

does HSC support any 2600 titles in the XM?

That's always my worry...wearing out the boxes. i hate working the boxes over to get to the game. In a perfect world, I'd have a stock pile of these: Keep my games organized in those and on a shelf...then have the empty boxes lined up as well..

Well, I knew there was bound to be a backlash sooner or later, given the coverage Jobs has gotten these past few days. I also knew that somebody was going to seize upon the fact that he made lots of money, as if that's a bad thing. Inventors and businessmen like Jobs create more real social value through the products they create than any saint ever did, yet somehow, it's the saints who are always held up as the virtuous ones. To be clear, I was not and am not faulting Jobs for making lots of money. That's kind of my point: he was a businessman, and that's what businessmen do. They make money. If they don't, they're failures as businessmen. People are allowed to buy and appreciate his creations all they like, I'm all for free consumer choice. All I'm saying is that I strongly feel these people across the blogosphere weeping on their keyboards need to get a grip. In the same way that Facebook has cheapened the sentiment of "happy birthday" by means of allowing 150 people you haven't talked to since high school to post those words on your wall when the automatic reminder pops up in their newsfeed, it cheapens the concept of mourning death when people get all gushy over the passing of a man simply because he dreamt up a device enabling them to watch YouTube at the bus stop or post vapid tweets from their camper in the mountains. I realize this is all personal opinion, but before I accept the designation of "philanthropist via technological contribution" as appropriate for Steve Jobs, I'd need to be convinced that his products are actually making our lives better and making the world a better place to live in. In doing so, it's critical to carefully distinguish between "improving" our lives and simply "changing" them. That he achieved the latter is self-evident, but it's not so cut-and-dried for the former. For every person that points out "hey, I can have a video chat with my grandma from my iPhone, that is so handy!", somebody else could say "every time I go out into a social setting, people's faces are buried in their iPhones, and that's sad". Changing gears a bit, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that a business plan that involves strong-arming consumers into buying Apple products to play music from his much vaunted digital distribution network is an odd move for a philanthropist. Back in the CD era when Sony was a much bigger player in music distribution, I'm pretty sure most of us would have thrown a fit if we brought a CD home from the record store only to find out that it wouldn't play in our Samsung CD player. I don't really know how to respond to the article you posted--the author was obviously a died-in-the-wool capitalist, so it makes sense that he would deify Steve Jobs. Again, if capitalism is the be-all-end-all, then how come the biggest capitalist economy in the world is unable to pay back billions in loans to China, a communist country? No, I'm not advocating communism, and I do not wish to talk politics, I'm simply making the point that it's all too easy to see a certain reality when you want to badly enough. There is one thing in the article that I have to address, though: This guy really likes to speak as if his perception is synonymous with reality, doesn't he? The first half of his statement is completely subjective, the second half is patently and demonstrably false. Maybe he's never read a Best Buy flyer? it's all good... you're canadian, we forgive you

i'm a bit early on in my collecting for 7800 and 2600....but typically, I look to get the cart and the manual. The box isn't all that necesary to me and tends to slow me down. I will say that I have some games with boxes, and I generally just keep them separate with the matching manual in them. All my carts are in a separate plastic bin organized by mfgr. I think have a bundle of manuals kept off to the side..