JamesL

I sold a flight commander donor for parts to Mark and he's a pleasure to deal with.

Do any AA members have the means to reproduce these? If so, I'd be first in line to buy one.

You are not mistaken. I've never seen one in person, but I have seen a picture and description of it in the manual for the game.

I found this Flight Commander controller with a broken handle on ebay for $18.95 shipped. It had a couple parts I needed to pillage to make mine complete. Now I would like to pass it on to someone else that could either do the same, set it on the shelf, or even play it. I tested it, and the directions and fire button do work. I put batteries in it (which are not included) and the light works, but the buzzer does not. The battery cover is there and battery compartment is clean inside. If anyone wants it you can have it for $10 shipped. Please PM me if interested. Thanks.

In the early 1990s, I passed on a loose cart of Star Wars the Arcade Game at a flea market because the vendor would not move down from $5. I have purchased carts I wanted as a kid, only to never play them. I ruined a picture label of Hangman trying to clean it with rubbing alcohol. Forgive me, for I knew not I was doing.

Try games like Adventure and Berzerk where you move through a field in all directions.

I'm probably the one who sold it to you. It's always great to meet a fellow AtariAge member!

For the first time since I've been attending CCAG, the Atari 2600 is getting some tournament love! Kaboom! is a perfect tournament game IMO. But it's going to be with the small buckets. I really wish I hadn't been using the large buckets my whole life. Oh well, only 4 more days to practice. Anyone else going and playing Kaboom!?

The new chip arrived today, and it works perfectly now! Thanks so much for your help!

OK, I swapped the TIA from my parts board, and got no picture at all, so that TIA is bad. So I put the TIA from my system on my parts board. It works better-I get limited paddle movement, meaning that the character (buckets in Kaboom) will instantly move from one end of the screen to the other without fluid scrolling, and the buttons still respond. Could it still be the TIA? Or do both boards have something else wrong? I'm sorry; I'm very new to fixing these. UPDATE: I pulled all 3 chips and sprayed the contacts with contact cleaner, and it went back to buttons only working, no movement at all, on both boards. I'll get a TIA from Best and update the results.

I have a parts board so I can try that one. Thanks!

Hi everyone. I got an untested Atari 2600 4 switch woodgrain system on Craigslist. Joystick games play fine, but the system doesn't seem to read paddle controllers' movements. The paddles' buttons do work, as I was able to start Kaboom!, but get no movement at all. They work on my other 2600, so they're not the issue. Any ideas? Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

Bump. Still in need of the overlay.

I need an overlay for the Star Raiders controller. If anyone has an extra one to send to me I'll send an Intellivision catalog in return. Please PM if interested. Thanks.

Ha! I see that listing all the time! I'm seriously beginning to think it's a joke at this point.

There are definitely some games on it that would need disabled with children that age around. Once a game is disabled, it no longer appears on the onscreen list, and there are no spaces between the titles where those games used to be. But the onscreen list is numbered, so you'll be able to tell if a game is missing because that number will be skipped.

I stumbled across this lot which has a pair of Sears paddles: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATARI-VIDEO-COMPUTER-SYSTEM-in-its-ATARI-GAME-CENTER-Bundled-w-GAMES-ACCES-/222035032855?hash=item33b251bb17:g:Ia8AAOSwo0JWHXDF

The Sears heavy sixer paddles are Atari brand with the Sears logo:

Adding a Donkey Kong Junior for Colecovision to the lot.

Haha let me rephrase that. The only version AVAILABLE would be the original 2600 version. You would have full knowledge and memory of all the others, from the original arcade to Pac-Man Battle Royale.

In video game hell the only version of Pac-Man that exists is the original Atari 2600 version.

WOW!!! Last week I found one at an estate sale WITHOUT the box AND the grey power supply for $60 and I thought I got a great deal. You, my friend, got the deal of a lifetime! Congrats and enjoy!

There's not an LED. The word "TELE-GAMES" on the console is in LED style font, and is the color of LED green. IT's a very cool effect.

I'll trade this lot for a gray power supply for a heavy sixer.

So I was on Craigslist looking for anything Atari and came across an estate sale ad. It didn't have any pics and "Atari controllers" and "Atari games" were the only Atari items mentioned among the hundreds of other things listed. I assumed (yeah, I know) that the system here was long gone with just random controllers and games left, but the sale was near my work so I left early and stopped on my way this morning. The "video game table" was set up right inside the front door with all kinds of modern gaming items, which I expected from the ad. Then I see it under the table on the floor-the Telegames center with a $60 price tag on it. I open the lid, and there it was-a Sears heavy sixer! Included in it were 14 common games, most with mqnuals, all in pristine condition. All the Sears ones were the text labels. It also had the Sears logo paddles and 2 joysticks. Slightly disappointing was there was no power supply, but I wasn't about to pass this up. Then on the table I saw the 4 boxed 2600 games marked $5 each, also in pristine condition. The sale was only 1 1/2 hours old so I knew I didn't have much room to barter, but I asked if I could take it all for $70, which was $10 off. They agreed. I couldn't wait to get home from work. I cleaned the cartridge slot, got a power supply, and...works perfectly! Here's a question for the experts. The joysticks each have a piece of textured tape on the underside. I included a pic of it. Has anyone ever seen this, and if so what purpose does it serve? I'm thinking maybe the early ones had it but I have no idea. Well thanks for letting me share my story; I've always wanted a heavy sixer. And if anyone has an extra gray power supply and would like to trade, I have a Marauder PAL + more in another thread that I'd trade for it. ?