SteveW

Sorry I couldn't be any help, but I got stuck very, very early on. I gave up fairly quickly.

I never found a Gameboy in a parking lot, but I did once find $200 wadded up, in a parking lot. I'll take the cash over the GBA.

I used to use a Mac Voodoo 1 years ago in my old UMAX C500 Mac clone, and it worked great. When the ATI Rage 128 cards started coming out, I wanted to upgrade, so I bought the Rage Orion for $200. I kept getting artifacts and glitches on my desktop, and my then-new game Tomb Raider III would freeze the computer when a lot of polygons were on screen. Some research online got me to realise that it had happened with several other people. I also discovered that my cheap Taiwanese UMAX machine had lousy PCI slots, 1.0 instead of the standard 1.1 that all other computers use. The ATI card wouldn't work in those PCI slots. I took the card back, and the Apple Store sales guy at CompUSA talked me into buying a PC 3Dfx card, and downloading flashROM updates and video drivers to make it work on my Mac. The 3Dfx Voodoo 3 card worked perfectly. Plus the 3Dfx cost half the price of the ATI. I used the $100 store credit left over to buy my first Dreamcast games. I've always been angry that 3Dfx went out of business. I've always liked their stuff.

Ugh. I went on another thrift store spree today, and found almost nothing. 3 Atari compatible joysticks, a pair of Gemini paddle controllers, and Sewer Shark and Microcosm for the Sega CD. I'm not sure I can muster up the enthusiasm to keep looking for games and consoles in thrift stores, because I never find anything. It just seems pointless. It's as if someone goes out on a regular basis and wipes all the stores clean of anything videogame related before I get there. I can find overpriced Xbox and PS2 gear in pawn shops, but I can't find a freakin' thing in thrifts.

I think I might have rented Amagon for the NES about 16 years ago. Other than that, i've never played a single one of their games. And I have no idea what Guilty Gear is, since I don't like Sony and don't own any of their consoles.

Towers II is also available for the GameBoy Color. And so is the original, Towers 1.

http://www.redoctane.com/arcadestylecase.html http://www.redoctane.com/arcadecasthappparts.html You could always build your own. Just flip the top plate over to make it right-handed.

How anyone could ever say that Wild Metal is one of their favorite DC games without cracking up and saying "just kidding!" is beyond me........

I was inspired to play Iron Soldier 3 tonight. I have tried all my other Nuon games out on my new SD-2300, but not IS3. One thing that bothered the Hell out of me when playing on my N501 is that after a random amount of time, my N501 would just shut off. No reason, it would just switch itself off in the middle of a game. The SD-2300 has been running for a couple of hours, and it's going steady. Oh yeah!

I always liked TI's Super Demon Attack. When Demon Attack originally came out for the Atari 2600, I remember playing it at a store kiosk and feeling like i'd truly seen the future. I was used to playing Space Invaders, but this new game blew SI out of the water for me. The TI version totally blew my mind when I played it for the first time. I thought the Intellivision version was okay, but the second stage with the boss type character was a little too difficult. Those little kamikaze bird things would wipe out all my extra ships in a few seconds. For me, the TI's version has better playability along with a better second stage. Not to mention superior graphics and music to the others. So, when is someone going to remake Demon Attack for modern consoles?

I've been thinking about modding a joystick to work with USB, but this seems a heck of a lot easier. I just placed my order. Too bad i'm not going to use the software. PC only. I just want the Atari 2600 USB joystick!

There was a local computer store that had piles of Carmageddon 3 in their PC markdown section. I think they were only $3 or $4 each. Didn't Carmageddon 1 come out for the PlayStation? I could swear I saw that someplace before. I know they made a GameBoy Color version. It was a stupid top-down racing game. It looked like it was related to Carmageddon in name only.

Cel Damage on the GameCube is one of my favorite games. And I loved Vigilante 8: Second Offense, even with it's crappy physics and horrible collision detection. It was such a good game that I didn't mind occasionally slipping through the road surface to my death every once in a while. If they had worked on the game a little more, I would still be playing it regularly today. As it stands, i'll fire it up every 5 or 6 months and play it until I get tired of fighting not only the other characters but the bad programming.

I don't know about pricing info, but some of those TI games are fairly rare. All in all, you got a really good group of games! 4A Flyer and Computer War are rare, because they came out after Texas Instruments stopped production on the computer line. A few of those I don't own, so I can't comment on them. Actually, I wouldn't mind getting Driving Demon and Rabbit Trail from you. If you'd like to sell them, PM me. TI's Donkey Kong is one of the best home versions available. Super Demon Attack is also most likely the best version of Demon Attack available for any home computer/console. I remember playing Computer War for some time. Can't recall much about it though. Jungle Hunt is a good version, 4A Flyer was one I couldn't really get too involved with (I never cared for flight sims), and Dig Dug is a really good version. Most of the games you have are at least decent. Although, naturally, they don't hold up that well anymore. Games like TI Invaders, Chisholm Trail, A-Maze-Ing, and Tombstone City might not hold your attention for all that long. But all those games are worth a good play.

What games are they? There's a lot of really common as dirt TI games out there.

The Mac version was held up from American release for a while, and I only had the demo to play for a long time. I found out how to patch the demo so I could play it more than 5 minutes. When the game finally came here, I found patches and modified the hell out of it. I bought a Voodoo 1 card specifically to make it work better. I played the life out of that game. I don't play it very much now, because it doesn't seem to work very well with my eMac's video card. I have to run it in software rendering mode, and there's a lot of graphical glitches. It won't work at all in OS X's Classic mode, so I have to reboot in OS 9. I bought Carmageddon 2 when it came out, and it SUCKED ASS. The frame rate on it was painfully slow, even with a top of the line Mac, and it's mission mode totally screwed up the gameplay. Even now, on an 800mhz G4 machine, the frame rate's so low that it just detracts from the fun of the game. With all of #2's faults, i'm kind of happy that Carmageddon 3 never made it out to the Mac. The original can't ever be eclipsed anyway.

Got my IS3 from Kevin at the Nuon-Dome too. Not the boxed version that came out briefly, the plain disc with "demo" written on it with a marker. And I just got my copy of The Next Tetris, so other than the game Crayon Shin Chan that came with the South Korean Samsung Nuon player, i've now got all the officially published Nuon games. This has nothing to do with Nuon's or JagCD's VLM, but i'm proud of my collection!

That might be kind of heavy for a Christmas tree's branches to hold. What you could do is go to a craft store, buy some balsa wood, cut it down to miniature cartridge size, paint them black, and print out little labels and glue them on. Voila, 2600 cartridge ornaments! Make some little joysticks with balsa wood too! Somebody needs to sculpt some little wax Atari characters, like a Yar, or Pitfall Harry, or Q*Bert, and so on. Make some molds out of them, buy some plastic at a craft store to melt and pour into the molds, and put together an assortment of little Atari ornaments. If I had more artistic skill, i'd take a whack at it.

Did anyone come out with a version of Wolfenstein 3D? I remember hearing something about that years back.

Man, I hate those escort missions. Those missions are the reasons I don't get into the Iron Soldier series more. I just find them aggrevating.

Good. I'm just happy that there's something other than Space Invaders in the console. It would have been nicer if there were more classic Taito games in it. Here's a quick list, games between 1980-1983, taken from www.klov.com's Taito listing. Wild Western Electric Yo-Yo Jungle Hunt Space Dungeon Colony 7 Front Line Elevator Action 10 Yard Fight

I wish they were doing a Neo Geo type of thing, with something like 4 different games in the cabinet. Taito has plenty of games under it's belt, they could put 6 or 8 in one console. 50 cents is just too much for a boring game like Space Invaders. I have a copy of Space Invaders XL Special Edition for my Nuon DVD player, and I can't play it for more than 3 minutes. Space Invaders isn't all that deep a game, and I can't imagine a lot of people playing the arcade game, especially for 50 cents a pop. They can't get Space Invaders running on a console for less than $2700? The Atari 2600 had a superior version of the arcade game, and the console only cost $129. What are they putting in that cabinet that makes it so expensive?

Although i'm not into fighting/wrestling games, I really enjoyed Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee. Defender was a little disappointing. I eventually gave up on it. Just not enough fun to keep me going back to it. It's an okay game, but nothing really makes it stand out. If you do want it, don't pay more than $10 for it.

There was also a version of Towers (not sure if it was I or II) for Windows 95. The grocery store that I worked in had a software rack with Towers for sale.

That game personally killed my appreciation for other 2600 games. Once I saw that games could have an end like that, I needed more than the mindless, endless gameplay of crap like Space Jockey. I ended up going over to computer games and left console games behind. I needed to get that sense of closure in a game, and most 2600 games didn't have that.