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Thanks for reposting @adamchevy! The Retro League was one of the big factors getting me into podcasting, I am very grateful to them for that. On the latest Retro Game Club, Hugues mentioned that he arbitrarily picked the age of 50 for when he would stop podcasting, which is sometime this year. I hope he reconsiders, but I get it. I just enjoy his take on things

It's there now https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Archive-Vol-Kevin-Bunch/dp/195518321X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=atari+archive&qid=1694619790&sr=8-1

I'll give it the old college try, but I can't promise anything

Necro-bump Kandyman Sales (KMS) had a storefront in Wichita. They bought out lots of 2600 3rd party company stock, Telesys included. This ad is from July 1983. Not sure if or when Demolition Herby made it to The Store, it was being closed out in other stores starting in October 1983 at the latest

I didn't know Kurt but of course knew OF him here. I played many of his hacks and enjoyed them. Much love to his family and friends. Safe travels to Kurt, you are missed by all of us here on AtariAge.

Oof, the best way to beat Super Pitfall in my opinion is with a sledgehammer. You are a brave man Austin, kudos to you

Is Ernest Cline the seller

That part feels different than Pitfall to me, I don't know how to describe it. It's almost like it would be harder to walk into the gator's mouth from the eyes.

Did anyone get #2600 yet?

Hello! I just released a podcast episode about Blinky Goes Up, if you are interested in giving it a listen. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/2600gamebygamepodcast/Blinky_Goes_Up_by_Jan_Hermanns.mp3 I also did an interview with Jan that you can find here. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/2600gamebygamepodcast/Interview_Jan_Hermanns_Blinky_Goes_Up.mp3 Jan also has a new website with the PAL and NTSC Blinky roms, along with the source code. http://www.sushi3003.de/blinky/ Thank you for listening!

I have been errant with this thread and I'm trying to fix it. The new episode featuring Bank Heist is now available. I thank you for listening. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/2600gamebygamepodcast/Bank_Heist_by_20th_Century_Fox.mp3

Oh my gosh, that is hilarious. Thanks so much for the kind words!

MOULTY

Okay, got it now. I didn't realize it had downloaded and the Baby montage came up. I didn't put 2 and 2 together until you started talking, even after hearing the excerpt from Just Once In My Life ?

Scott Stilphen runs the site.

Damn, it hasn't shown up yet on Pocketcasts.

Thank you so much for listening

It's never too late!

Thank you Matt and Prizrak, I wanted to post this yesterday but I haven't been getting much sleep these days. My friend Curt found the cart back in 1997 at a flea market in NJ. He thinks someone may have cleaned out the Imagineering offices (which were an hour away from the market) and started selling off the stuff there. Last year he gave it to me for my show, and Rob (Ballblazer) dumped the rom for me in February. Dennis Debro disassembled the code and found a lot of the differences that happen later in the game, as did GlitchCat7, who previously held the Frostbite World record. I am very grateful to all of them. Hopefully Dennis doesn't mind, this is the list of differences he sent to me: Looks to be no day and night scenes The game ends after reaching over a million points. Score gets set to 999,999 The temperature value modulates colors instead of blinks when below 10 degrees The number of lives doesn't "flash" when below 10 degrees Magic Fish icon shows when player reaches level 24 Polar Grizzly appears after Level 2 Igloo door doesn't flash in DEMO mode Only 2 game selections (i.e. ONE_PLAYER and TWO_PLAYERS) There is no fish maximum per level...player can eat as many fish as produced Production release no longer spawns fish for a level after the player captures 12 There are no Killer Clams New obstacle (I don't know what that yellow thing is to be) King Crab graphics are different Fish colors are different Additional Fish object (there are green fish and blue fish) The game speeds look to be increased in this proto. I didn't get to deep in the math though. Here's a picture of the cart, my phone is only letting me post one for some reason. Wqw7eHb_d.webp I've also attached the rom if you would like to try it out. (Edit: I missed the part where Prizrak posted the rom, sorry) Thank you! Iceman (Frostbite Beta) (07-27-83) (Activision, Steve Cartwright) (Prototype).bin

Hopefully not stepping on any toes here. I didn't realize the site was gone, but I was able to get the link from within Discord. I don't remember there being any vetting process. https://discord.gg/d9QDJ3

Hi Mario, thanks for sharing this! I'm sorry I missed it when you posted it, if you don't mind I'd like to read it on my next episode. Thanks again!

The Retroist is still going on Discord, or maybe not. The last post was August 20th, but there wasn't any announcement there and it's still working.

Michael Salzman puts out a digital zine as well as many books on Atari 2600 games. https://www.patreon.com/atari2600

I hadn't heard anything about them stopping, they recorded a new show 5 days ago. I know Hugues was planning on closing the forum and moving the website, maybe he's doing that now and having some problems with it.