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About CaptainBreakout

  • Birthday 03/14/1978

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    Space is what's up!
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    Rough & Ready
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    I'm into retro gaming in the Sierra Nevada region of California. I have a lot of interests, but mostly my personality is dominated by being the single father of a 6 and 8 year old.


    Likes: Apple II, MS-DOS PCs, pinballs, arcade games, cartoons, melodic electronica, lakes.
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    Robotron... The game is working and doing well. Also VS Super Mario on the Red Tent. I'm hacking the ROMs to get a high score save on it, and Burgertime at the arcade.
  • Playing Next
    Well, hopefully one of the pinball games I'm working on. Black Hole, Black Knight or Baby Pac-Man.

    Winter is coming. Maybe I'll do an old school jRPG.

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  1. Aie yi yi! This kind of thing. Anyone know if there was a development thread? Maybe a good picture of the PCB? This is the exact kind of obscure game situation where I'd really like to "roll my own".
  2. Does anyone know how to make a bank-switched 5200 cart perhaps?
  3. I've never heard of the "growth chart" before from Hasbro. That's amazing. And from a different time. Nice busting open Pigs in Space. That created a bit of an earthquake, from your post. In its own way. Very cool. I see you've got a good amount of impressively rare games and prototypes, @sramirez2008. I'm curious about a few of them. For one, is Good Luck, Charlie Brown playable?
  4. One on One is pretty fun. This was a game I had on Apple II. It's especially cool that you can occasionally break the backglass. I have Double Dunk. I wonder how it compares.
  5. I'll give mine a good run when it gets here. 😁
  6. That's funny, I was unaware of the pamphlet instruction version! I thought there was only a poster version. Pigs in Space also had similar instructions in the form of a poster. It's actually extremely cool. I've considered framing mine, but then I'd never see the back! 😂
  7. Everyone loves HERO, including me. I wrote a little about my experiences with HERO to new friend and fellow collector in Germany (who I met in this thread, love this place). Ill quote some of my message to him... ... Oh fun comment... Yeah, I also sold my original collection many years ago. I gave almost all my Atari stuff to a kid in 8th grade for a Game Gear (which I'm sure, looking back, he must have stolen). The one game I kept tho? HERO. I remember getting my stuff together to trade to Game Gear Kid. I took out my copy of HERO (and remembered buying it at a yard sale years before... And NOT being disappointed for once spending my allowance on a used Atari 2600 cartridge). I set my Hero cart aside and said to myself "I'm not giving him this one." Still have it! one of my favorites for sure!
  8. Here's a little present for everyone... A few years ago, I was trying to locate the instructions for Snoopy Vs The Red Baron. Turns out the instructions are actually a poster. There didn't exist any good scans of it in it's entirety, so I rounded up the best images I could find and started to make a composite of the front and the back. It took a long time getting the creases out and fixing the typewriter text. I was planning to reproduce it. (Meantime, I found the original on eBay for a reasonable price, so I stopped the project) Anyways, since I was almost done, I completed it. Attached are the files. They are pretty big, so I had to compress them into JPEGs, but they should be high enough resolution to print if you wanted to. Enjoy. This is one of the best games for the 2600. -I wish it the Red Baron had a little better AI, because once you totally figure him out he's easy. But it's fun getting to that point for sure.
  9. Yes. Squirrel is Snail Vs Squirrel. Although the "Squirrel" looks more like the Teddy Bear... The same one from Mr Postman (and the same code, I'm guessing). I'd like to think he's the mascot of Bit Corp. I bet he had a name too... but maybe only the programmer knew it. A Misterous Thief (and yes that's the spelling on the cartridge) is fun but HARD AF. It's a complete game, as far as I can tell, unlike some of the CCE releases like Immies and Aggies and, debatably, the hideous Pizza Chef. Whoever left a comment on AtariMania regarding Dragon Defender was pretty harsh to it. Well, seems the theme of the discussion is since these games were from a different time, when gameplay was a... less refined art, we can look at them with fresh eyes. What's old is new again!
  10. I love how this thread is shifting into an exploration of obscure PAL games. Back when I could only play NTSC I went to great lengths to obtain the CCE versions of Squirrel, A Misterous Thief, Bobby is Going Home, and Mr Postman. Squirrel and Mr Postman I consider good games. Both have an A-HA moment when you figure out what you are supposed to do. It's also fun discovering all these weird games nowadays. Even the bad ones.
  11. No, but this convinced me that I should. There's a very extensive review of it here... https://www.orphanedgames.com/articles/Gas_Hog/Gas_Hog.html I decided to spring for it on eBay too. I went with the PAL version, since I discovered recently that I can see PAL carts just fine on my TCL TV (with some finagling), and the PAL version of Gas Hog cost 20% of what the NTSC version goes for. So I'm waiting on this from Germany, along with another package, also from Germany, of some really unusual games... And that one I owe thanks to a very helpful and gracious member here who is helping me a lot!
  12. Here's two of them, hacked by the very talented @Omegamatrix ...
  13. All of those except Snoopy (which I agree is very fun) use the Kid's controller (aka the Star Raiders controller). I thought that controller wasn't supported by the 2600+ also, but perhaps there's been an update there too. I think there's a hacked Rom floating around somewhere for Big Bird's Egg Catch which lets it use the joystick. That game is hard enough for adults and is totally fun. Does anyone know if anyone ever "finished" Good Luck, Charlie Brown? There was a community effort to complete the game from it's prototype form. There was talk of that years ago, but I don't know if that ever happened.
  14. Oh that's good! Maybe there was an update... My info came from a YouTube 2600+ compatibility video, but it sounds like it's outdated already! I found the thread I was talking about if anyone is interested...
  15. I started an old thread around here call Atari with a Two Year Old that goes into depth about experiences playing these old games with little kids. I remember some of the best... Fishing Derby was a HUGE hit. Oink! was also fun for awhile. I seem to remember there's a mode where a second player can control the wolf. Also if you've got Centipede for the 7800, you are in luck! There's a two-player co-op mode hidden in there! This is really fun, especially since you can subtilty defend the younger player a bit, and it can get really exciting. There's a lot more suggestions in that thread if you dig it up. @Intellivision Master... Nice CBS games. I don't know if you chose them on purpose, but if not you're a bit lucky. CBS released several "Ram PLUS" games. I believe those don't work on the 2600+. None of the carts in your picture are Ram PLUS carts.
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