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I've always liked Snokie and Flak. Never spent a lot of time on them, however. I don't know that I've played Time Runner more than just to try it out years ago. Also, Deteacher appears to be playing a different version of Snokie than TRBB.

I think I agree with everyone. Petscii > Atascii. Color. Ice-T is a different story.

None of those games seem very fun. Disagree?

Cart Clone

I had a Parrot (paddle device), and I'm pretty sure I sampled about a min of Yello's "Oh Yeah" back in the day, and some Art of Noise and Kraftwerk too. Sadly, all of my disks are lost.

Wow. That's hilarious. I've been playing that game for many years, and never knew about the flash (shift) function. Time to give it another try.

6550 on Caverns of Mars II (first try ... I know it's not impressive). Can't remember what I scored on Super Cobra, but I will try to play it a few more times.

Yep, that's MASH. Thanks for the tip. Sorry if this has already been asked. I know Gremlins, Mario Bros., and Moon Patrol (5200 versions) have all been fixed (sound issues). Was Space Invaders (filed a8 cart version) ever fixed? The sound is wrong when the saucer appears. If you run it with a translator, it's correct. It's kind of funny because Atari criticized 3rd party developers for violating programming "rules" yet this was their own release.

Mauve, perhaps?

I also don't have a land line. I seem to remember a couple of Carina BBSs in Indianapolis back in the day. They were highly configurable, but seemed susceptible to crashes, if I remember correctly. Wasn't it written in BASIC? If I remember correctly, you could pretty easily run on-line games with Carina too. My BBS (ICE) ran Oasis Jr. which was pretty solid, free, and limited in other ways. However, I was a high school kid with limited funds, limited disk space, etc. John

Pretty good looking fake label. I've made a couple myself. Nice font, etc. Like others have said, corners are clearly not rounded.

I would offer that, if you don't already know the difference between a 400 and a 2600 ... don't bother. Nostalgia factor lost.

I believe that is accurate. Not an official port, but I remember hearing Avalanche was the inspiration for Activision's Kaboom. I like Kaboom better, but Avalanche is an actual arcade port. I would imagine it may not have ever been ported to any other system besides the Atari 8-bit computers.

Avalanche.

I'm surprised MASH never got converted. I don't know if it's any good because I never spent much time playing it, but it's such a recognizable brand name, I guess. My sister received Fastgammon on tape for Christmas one year. It was ok. Also, not XL/XE compatible. It sort of looked like a basic program, but I believe it was ML. Note: The same year my sister got Fastgammon, I received Rally Speedway. I think I won that round of gifts.

10780. Need more practice.

Haha. "Wrong." Cracks me up.

Some pretty clever stuff.

My weekends are NOT always open, but I do have some flexibility. And, Ryan, that looks like more than two weeks of beard growth. Same thing happens to me all the time. John

Had a lot of fun with "Adv. Music System" back in the day...

Amazing. Hard to believe, really.

You guys end up getting together?

Mark, I'm probably out for this week, but would like to get together with you guys soon. John

I'd like to be on the list.

Never really cared for the Ramones. I know it's not "cool" to say, Still nice find.