What did you buy today?.........

[What did you buy today?.........]

[Honest feedback: Sorry, this new forum sucks]

I thought it was just me, I haven't been here in a while and when I tried to view the newest topics, I got a bunch of strange posts in a list. I look at the topic title and read the post but I really just want the topics listed in chronological order like they used to be. I tried restricting it to just showing content but I don't see how I can change it to display only topic titles and not individual posts.

[I bought an ex Atari developer's stash]

Am I the only one that thinks this is awesome?

[Can I test a post here? Just testing.......]

Yes, I got it worked out, Google Drive updated and I wasn't able to embed images anymore. I just attached them instead. 

[I bought an ex Atari developer's stash]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[I bought an ex Atari developer's stash]

Very neatly organized disks, all in binders with descriptions on the side. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[I bought an ex Atari developer's stash]

What about now? These are just the books, I have more to post. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[I bought an ex Atari developer's stash]

I was hoping linking them from Google Photos would make them visible to others. Let me see if I can fix it, it took me an hour just to link them all.

[I bought an ex Atari developer's stash]

I was picking up some NES games from a friend tonight and as I'm driving to his house he tells me he's throwing in some Atari books and boxes. I didn't really know what that meant but when I got home I looked through this stuff and it's incredible what's in here. It looks like someone's life, from highschool to university, then getting a job writing software on an Atari computer. Here are a lot of photos of what I pulled out of the box, everything is incredibly organized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a separate binder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is how they were organized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I guess I won't be returning any of it.

 

 

 

[Can I test a post here? Just testing.......]

Can everyone see this photo?

 

[What did you buy today?.........]

I traded for this today! Notables are Rampage and Pete Rose Baseball I think.

 

[Is This Atlantis II?]

Don't buy it, Atlantis ll has the day sky pic on the label. And there is no truth to that pink stripe thing.

All websites I've read state that Atlantis II has the night label.

[Is This Atlantis II?]

I'm wondering if I should buy it, I don't live anywhere near them.

[Is This Atlantis II?]

I read it in an Ebay auction earlier this year but kind of ignored it until now.

[Is This Atlantis II?]

I read somewhere that iMagic put a pink stripe on the PCB for the Atlantis II cartridges in order to know which ones had the new code on them, then a couple of weeks ago I had someone send me this photo asking if I wanted to buy their Atari game for $10. Is it Atlantis II? Is the pink stripe true? I want to open up one of my Atlantis cartridges to see if it has the stripe but don't want to ruin the label.

 

[What did you buy today?.........]

Picked these up today. Pengo was $50 and all the rest were $75.

Those are Canadian dollars so subtract about 20% for US pricing.

 

[Are unused 2600 labels worth anything? Also Gemini labels.]

I must have picked these up somewhere along my collector travels, I just found them in a box with a pile of other stuff and didn't even know I had them. Are they worth anything? Where would someone get these?

 

 

[I found some variants. Is there a thread for posting variants?]

These are probably all commonly known by you experts already but maybe others could post theirs. I like variants.

 

- left and right appear to have narrower lettering while the middle one has a fatter font in the text next to the title on top

- right appears to have a more purple colouring

- the green 1625 appears to be the same on left and right but lighter in the middle

- this could all just be label fading but I don't think so

 

 

This one is blatantly obvious. Is one a Sears machine?

 

 

One has all upper case letters and the other all lower case. It's strange they didn't even bother to capitalize the first letters in each word, they just left them all lower case.

 

 

This one I stared at for a while but I realized the CX2646 in the bottom right hand corner isn't in the exact same spot on both cartridges.

 

[Thinking of getting an NES]

The front loader is the "Toaster", nick-named that way because the "moving, vibrating, rattling spring-loaded tin-thing" sound you hear when pushing your cartridge down sounds and feels much like a toaster does when you push the toast down.

 

Also, english muffins go in OK, but bagels don't fit.

 

Those load from the front, they aren't toasters. The toaster is a home made version of a Nintendo with the guts swapped into a toaster unit, I've only ever seen one person with one and you're very unlikely to find one of those, especially for $40. I've also heard people call them Nintoasters. Besides those, there are the front loaders and the top loaders. The benefit of the front loader is that it has RCA output but the benefit of the top loader is that the games work much better in it, pretty much first try every time.

 

[Looking for name of Commodore 64 game in army camp]

That's it, thanks! I just watched a walkthrough video of it, it's amazing how short the game is when I played it for so many years without success.

[Looking for name of Commodore 64 game in army camp]

It was mostly black and white, you were a member in the army and you had to do the daily duties while looking around for clues in your spare time. You had to attend meal hall, keep your moral up and I remember finding a tuba in someone's bedroom. What is this game called?

[Which Mega Man game in the original series is your absolute favorite?]

As someone that has finished Mega Man 1-10 and also Mega Man X - X5, I would say that the very first one was my favourite from the original series. I thought the controls were more responsive and the difficulty was a better match for me. 2-6 were too easy and felt sloppy, 7 didn't feel right with the larger sprites, 8 was way too much reading with annoying animation and little Asian girl voice-overs. 9 and 10 were amazing and the music was some of the best music I've heard in any game I've ever played, especially the Wily battle (below) but they were way too difficult. It took me a long time to finish them and they were so hard I don't ever want to play them again.

 

Check out the music from the Mega Man 9 Wily battle (skip to 5:15):

 

[Can We Buy The Homebrew Boxes Separately?]

I want a Stay Frosty 2 box but I already own the cartridge. Can I buy just the box?

[Atari Spotted On Television Show Hoarders]

Watched another episode tonight and they found a N64 game. It went straight into the garbage, anyone know what it is? I couldn't get a good enough view of it and my stupid pause button covers it perfectly.

 

[Oh well]

 

They care about and spend a hell of a lot more money on the stupidest things... such as 3-screw soccer games

 

I have the only known copy of this and I got it for free.