Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames - 4th edition

[Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames - 4th edition]

I look forward to the new edition....I just wish it would come out sooner instead of towards the end of next year.

[Why I should not buy a 7800 to play mostly 2600?]

I haven't heard of any 2600 games that are incompatible with the 7800. I think you should buy a 7800, it is a better value in the long run considering that its two systems in one. Here in the US, a 7800 costs about $20 to $25 more than a 2600 on Amazon. I don't know of any sellers of 7800's on Amazon.com that offer international shipping, but it wouldn't hurt to check.

[Latest finds at store in Milton, Ontario]

LOL..

Yup.. Canadian money worth slightly more right now... time to go shopping at Comerica Park for a Prince Fielder jersey!

 

What I meant was I didn't go to Ebay or any online stores to do any comparison shopping before purchasing.. from my search right now... that was quite reasonable compared to eBay, 4jays.net and atari2600.com

 

I thought you were wondering how much $150 Canadian was worth in US dollars...my bad

[Latest finds at store in Milton, Ontario]

So you paid $150 Canadian for all of that? It would have costed roughly $152.08 in US money. The current US$ to CA$ rate is 1.01388

Hope that helps..

[Atari Flashback 3]

I think that this would be decent for someone who might not care if emulation is used, or never had the original growing up. The hardcore are never going to be happy with something like this...

 

...And I'm one of those people. I'd much rather have an actual Atari VCS/2600 than a cheaply made knock-off system that runs games in emulation. I know some here will disagree with what I have to say, but it's just not the same as having a real Atari.

[Interview with John Mathieson]

Here are my thoughts on the Jaguar: People were still buying 16 bit games at the time Jaguar came out and others were holding out for the PlayStation and Saturn. Also, the controller was terrible. IGN named Jaguar's controller the worst ever made. I think that if Atari had redesigned the controller, made it easier for third party companies to make games for it, and had used a better CPU and UART, then it could have done better. It also would have helped if Atari had marketed the system properly. Atari claimed that the Jaguar was a true 64-bit system. However, the system had a 32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU, and both the CPU and GPU executed in a 32-bit instruction set.

[New Atari 2600 Game Discovered - 28 years later]

We have indeed found a RELEASED Atari 2600 game made in 1983...

 

The game is called "Extra Terrestrials" and is a combination of (in my opinion) Freeway, E.T., and Pac-Man. The game was created in Burlington, Ontario and sold in VERY limited quantities...

 

Sounds like a cool game...if there are any other copies still in existence, there's no telling how much it could sell for online due to the fact that this game was sold in limited quantity. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[2600 Vs Vic 20]

The 2600 had a life cycle of over 14 years. The VIC-20 had a life cycle of just 5 years. That alone should tell you which was better.

[Top 100 2600 games of all time]

Here's my Top 10:

 

1) Pitfall

2) Missile Command

3) Frogger

4) Space Invaders

5) Dig Dug

6) Asteroids

7) Yar's Revenge

) Mario Bros.

9) Adventure

10) Q*bert

 

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