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Edward Tang, the president of Answer Software, gave me a private demo of the PGP at the 1993 Summer CES. I remember little about it except that the code was displayed in Hex.

Not that it has anything to do with this topic, but he's a history of homebrews that I wrote for Gamespot in 2000. http://web.archive.org/web/20000815235024/http:/videogames.gamespot.com/features/universal/new_blood/

If there 's a reserve list, please add me to it!

God forbid they asked the publisher of his book for a tribute. And there was one person who they quoted, who is New York-based and I don't think ever even met Bill. Funny, I didn't see him at Bill's New York memorial last night.

I have to change my evaluation of Harold Goldberg's book. I had found eight major errors in the first 50 pages (and two I couldn't substantiate). However, in the following 150 pages I found only one minor error. The book is lively and turned out to be entertaining and informative. He's a pompous ass and he stole material off Ralph's computer without permission when he was at Ralph's place. Really? I was telling Ralph last week how I hated the book because of all the errors and Ralph said he enojyed it, and liked Goldberg. He's not some relative of your's is he? Nope. Though he (Harold) joked about that during our brief exchange. It was brief because he booted myself and Loni from his facebook group after we called him on not getting permission for Loni's statements that he used. She never gave them to him or any of the other material but he readily claimed it didn't matter and he got it from Ralph. Ralph did not give him the material either and suspects Harold took it (personal emails between Ralph and Loni) off Ralph's mac when he was visiting. She's trying to launch a suit against the publisher over this, but Ralph doesn't want to be involved in any more lawsuits. Ralph goes back and forth on Harold, basically saying he seemed nice enough when he was in but their exchange was a one time thing. Well where ever he got his information from, he sure didn't research it. My favorite part is when he talks about Atari's first appearance at Toy Fair. When was that? 1974 or 1975. He writes: "Their space for Toy Fair wasn’t in the building at Broadway and Twenty-third Street where most business was done. It was far away (in the Jacob Javits Convention Center). Few stopped by." The problem with this is that the Javits Convention Center didn't open until 1986. And to be really anal, the Toy Building is at 23rd and Fifth, not 23rd and Broadway. There's just no excuse for errors like this.

I have to change my evaluation of Harold Goldberg's book. I had found eight major errors in the first 50 pages (and two I couldn't substantiate). However, in the following 150 pages I found only one minor error. The book is lively and turned out to be entertaining and informative. He's a pompous ass and he stole material off Ralph's computer without permission when he was at Ralph's place. Really? I was telling Ralph last week how I hated the book because of all the errors and Ralph said he enojyed it, and liked Goldberg. He's not some relative of your's is he?

I have to change my evaluation of Harold Goldberg's book. I had found eight major errors in the first 50 pages (and two I couldn't substantiate). However, in the following 150 pages I found only one minor error. The book is lively and turned out to be entertaining and informative.

I'd like one too.

Please add my name to the list.

Although I own it, I haven't read your book yet, Roberto. Right now I'm reading Harold Goldberg's "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" and unfortunately finding too many errors to make the book enjoyable.

Game Informer named my book: Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames, the second best book on videogames: http://www.rolentapress.com/GameInformerList.jpg . Information about it can be found on Amazon or at www.rolentapress.com .

Don't forget Tape Worm from Spectravision, and there's also a homebrew called Warring Worms

Bill's obituary is in the New York Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/technology/bill-kunkel-early-chronicler-of-video-games-dies-at-61.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

Since the 2800 was only sold in Japan and didn't do well because of the Nintendo, and they rarely come up for sale ANYWHERE in the world, you're not likely to get many responses. The Sears ones are probably the ones that most people have that uses that plastic shell, so you should probably count them as 2800's for purposes of this thread if you want more replies. I have my Atari 2800 and Sears Video Arcade II sitting next to each other and they look identical except for the labels. Interestingly, the 2800 was made in Japan and the Video Arcade II was made in the US.

Since the 2800 was only sold in Japan and didn't do well because of the Nintendo, and they rarely come up for sale ANYWHERE in the world, you're not likely to get many responses. The Sears ones are probably the ones that most people have that uses that plastic shell, so you should probably count them as 2800's for purposes of this thread if you want more replies. I have my Atari 2800 and Sears Video Arcade II sitting next to each other and they look identical except for the labels. Interestingly, the 2800 was made in Japan and the Video Arcade II was made in the US.

The four were used for paddle games. Since the controllers were duel paddle/joysticks, only one paddle could plug into a port, unlike two with the 2600. In order to play 4-player paddle games, 4 separate duel controllers were needed.

Here are never-before-seen photos of him and Ralph Baer at the 2005 Videogame Expo outside of Philadelphia, where they both attended to promote their new books.

After going to three Targets, I finally found the set. Unfortunately, it was 19.99, but I bought it anyway.

I just found this thread! Anyway, I saw the error that you pointed out and I had hoped that this was fixed in the rewrite that I'm working on, and it wasn't! So I have since changed it where it says that there are 55 invaders arranged in five rows, each containing eleven. Thanks for pointing this out! Any idea when the 4th edition is coming out? No. It's been very slow-going. Taking a lot longer than anticipated.

Next year there will be a book out called "Before The Crash", edited by Mark Wolf. which contains essays about the pre-crash period. I contributed a chapter on Ball and Paddle consoles.

I just found this thread! Anyway, I saw the error that you pointed out and I had hoped that this was fixed in the rewrite that I'm working on, and it wasn't! So I have since changed it where it says that there are 55 invaders arranged in five rows, each containing eleven. Thanks for pointing this out!

I have a Japanese Pippin ATMARK. A boxed American @WORLD was on Ebay recently but I think it was missing cables so I didn't bother with it.

Tarzan for the 2600 was shown at the 1983 CES (can't remmber off hand if it was winter or summer) . However, they only showed a video clip of the game, not an actual one on a 2600.

I bought my first VCS, my first videogame console, in May 1979. I had a friend who worked in the Service department at Crazy Eddie in Union, NJ and he allowed me to get a console at his cost. I couldn't decide between an Odyssey2 or a VCS. The Odyssey2 had the keyboard, which I really liked, but the VCS had Breakout, which I really loved. So I bought the VCS for $110 and with it I got the Breakout cart and the Casino cart. The box for the Casino cart said it was a 'Special Edition' so I wanted to get it before it wasn't available anymore! After that I was hooked. The collector in me then went and bought every cartridge that was available for it. And I hven't stopped yet.

I have an NES Camera controller built by Ralph Baer. Actually, it doesn't work, just a toy camera with a plug attached to hook it up to an NES. And the back of the camera also has an NES controller template on it. Ralph wanted to develop a camera control but it didn't go very far. I also have one of his reproduction Brown Boxes!