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I find the vertical vine graphics on the Gameboy version much clearer than the MSX. There is also a Japanese version of the Gameboy game with goofy SD intro graphics.

With the upcoming Godzilla movie arriving in May, I wonder if these MSX games would be candidates for Colecovision conversions...ie do they fit within the specs that the other conversions have? Godzilla vs Three Major Monsters Monsters Fair Godzilla-Kun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvMO_yeRc8M

I'm in Palm Springs for the week, anyone know of good retro games stores, primarily SNES and older that are nearby? Or decent swap meet/ collectable stores with 70s and 80s stuff?

Mail Order Monsters (Atari 8 bit) Shamus (Atari 8 bit) Shamus Case II (Atari 8 bit) Necromancer (Atari 8 bit) All games I remembered playing on my Atari 800

Everything you need to know about Coinops is here http://coinopsproject.freeforums.org/coinops-6-f57.html

Coinops 6 just came out, I'm just dowloading it now...85gig.

I just use Slice Audio File Splitter and cut them into 20 minutes chunks, copy them to the media player in my jeep and listen to to them. Makes it easy to find where I left off if my kids change to a music folder.

I'll add another rant: as a Canadian I will never buy anything that goes thru Ebay's Global Shipping program. They take well packed items from the seller, open the package, and repack it with as little packing material as possible. Then they ship to Canada (or wherever.) I've had packages well wrapped in bubble wrap in a large box that were repacked in "official" Ebay GSP boxes, with no packing materials.The GSP's customs and duties also is inaccurrate. Took the chance 3 times, 3 times burned. Never again.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=atari+eprom&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xvintage+atari+eprom&_nkw=vintage+atari+eprom&_sacat=0 Anyone know what the origin of these is? And what is the purpose? They all appear to be from the same seller, are they just writing roms to eproms? You would think that if you had the tools and knowledge to make use of these, then you wouldn't need to buy the preloaded eproms in the first place...

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In my narrow mind, no book about BYTE would be compete without an interview with Jerry Pournelle. His column was the first thing I read in each issue as it reflected the regular user and his trials and tribulations with new technology. http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/

My younger brother used to always steal the little pencils...and I don't mean just one or two... Some Consumers Distributing Catalogues here. http://www.cdarchive.ca/ One of my teachers in college was the part of CD's IT for awhile. He had a great explanation of their inventory system. When a store ran out of something, they would place an order with central. If central had it, they would throw it into the cage for that city. Only when the cage was full would they then put it on the truck to send to the city, which would then ship to the store...but only if the the store's cage at the city's warehouse was full...

There is a site for that: https://www.wishbookweb.com However, they need to up their professionalism a bit, the url redirects to an IP address...I have to give them credit though, scanning a complete catalogue is labor intensive and tedious, not to mention that you basically have to destroy the bindings to do a proper job.

I remember always being disappointed as a kid as we lived out in the country so my parents would do a lot of ordering over the phone or catalogue orders at the local depot Sears in town. They never had stock on the listed games carts. A place called Consumer's Distributing was even worse; it was like their catalogue was obsolete before it was printed....

One thing about the Special Objects in the Arcade version of Frenzy...they are always in the same quadrant, 4th over and 2nd down. I like the idea of being able to play either variation...Fixed locations as in Arcade or random slots (including the four corners)

A friend of mine is a game collector (Atari VCS and up) and has decided he wants to collect the Sears Canada Wishbooks from the 70's and 80's. Here is a scan from the 1985 Sears Canada Wishbook. The Colecovision was given a whole page. The Atari page has no systems and only features cheap games and controllers. There is no Intellivision page. I have a bunch of scans from 1985, 1977 and 1982, I'll start a new thread for those in a more appropriate forum. Warning, the Scan is big...

I have an original Frenzy stand up by Stern, and a cocktail of indeterminate origin with a 60-in-1 board in it with a monitor that was hooked to an Alpine Ski board in its past life. In the past I have owned Mr Do, Satan's Hollow, and a Gorf that I still kick myself for selling. I technically owned a Rampage and a Disks of Tron Environmental for 25 minutes (in the days before ebay drove the local arcade providers to double their prices) but measuring them resulted in me having to give them up as they wouldn't fit thru the doors of my house...

A friend has been using VGCollect as well. Has some features like cataloging different hardware, not just carts and you can show your collection publically like this: http://vgcollect.com/TheKid4Ever/

What about some sort of puzzle card sub set? I have several card sets that do this, they can be framed and displayed this way. Maybe a unique, distinctive poster can be worked up (like the Intellivison running man poster made of the 125 original box covers) and turned into a 3x3 or 4x4 subset puzzle.

A vote for Berzerk, voice or not, but a system with the roller controller needs more trackball games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trackball_arcade_games I played this a few times Ataxx http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6960 I never really got into this one: Kick http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8294 I put more than a few quarters into this Wacko http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10390 Rampart I don't know how well this would translate, but I played it lots http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9263 Bouncer http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7201 Cloud 9 http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7354 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trackball_arcade_games

I've always thought Frenzy could use an overlay similar to this: (Yes I know the yellow locked door is not in a valid position based on the wall above it it is just for illustrative purposes)