SteveW

The small 5200/7800 looking machine is, in all likelihood, an Atari 2600, also nicknamed 2600jr. It was made in the mid-to-late 80's. It should have an on/off button, color/B&W button, select, and reset buttons on the top, and controller ports and difficulty switches on the back.

I just pronounce Sega as "Sega", the same way the Sega Genesis start-up screens on Sonic games sang it.

Nuon players weren't videogame consoles, they were targeted as enhanced DVD players. It was originally supposed to be a console, but they thought they'd get better market penetration my making DVD processors that could also play games. And now they're gone........ I think what they meant was that it was a console that was designed from the beginning with internet connectivity, instead of some add-on module that you had to buy separately.

I just went to their web site. I'm disappointed that I couldn't pay by credit card. I don't have a PayPal account, so I have to mail in a money order. I'm not sure they even got my order, all the buttons on the ordering page are white text on slightly off-white backgrounds. I could barely read anything. And they were out of AOTMP. Dammit. But I did order some games that I don't have. And I don't really care if the boxes are a little bit damaged. As long as the game carts are intact.

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I'd just tell them that i'd already received the games. I'm just an honest person. I'd feel guilty if I tricked them out of a game. What's the website of that company? AOTMP is one of the few games on the Jag that I want but haven't bought.

Would you really drive 8 hours round trip to buy a game? Now that's devotion. I used to work on the edge of Lancaster. It's a 20 minute drive for me. I've been wanting to get Breakout 2000 for some time, but I don't want to pay for shipping and handling when it'll only cost me half a dollar in gas money to get it in person.

Hey Saturn, what city do you live in? I'm in Grand Prairie. I'm just wondering if I can order over the phone and drive over and pick it up an hour later. I bet they'd still charge me for shipping and handling, though.....

Hey, what is the ordering e-mail for www.vectrexcarts.com anyway? On the ordering page, clicking on the e-mail link is supposed to open a javascript window, but it won't open in my browser. Does anyone have a direct link?

Wow. I know the Xbox is really dense (like it's filled with concrete), but i'd never imagine that it would deflect a bullet. It's not like the early iMacs. (The early iMac's shells were partially made with Kevlar, the stuff they make bullet-proof jackets out of.)

It's all about the fun of playing games. If the games are still fun to play, keep 'em. If you think they'll be fun 10 years from now, hang on to them! In 10 years you'll be glad you didn't sell them!

I don't understand why someone would have that many unopened videogames sitting around. That's totally alien to me. I bought all my games for the sole purpose of playing them. It's just odd to me to spend so much money for games and not use them.

I also like the guest stars they get on Futurama. What other show has ever gotten Dr. Steven Hawking, Vice President (at the time) Al Gore, Gary Gygax (creator of Dungeons & Dragons), and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura from Star Trek) onto an episode? Al Gore was easy to get to do Futurama, because his daughter worked on the show.

Speaking of the Amiga, did anyone play Gauntlet III on it? They completely destroyed the game. Slowed it down to a crawl, gave it a strange point of view, and threw in a bunch of other elements that screwed up the gameplay. It's totally unrecognisable as Gauntlet.

You don't have to show up with a baseball bat, you just have to do little things to the store every once in a while. Like dropping by in the middle of the night and putting superglue in their locks so they can't open the store. Or paint all the parking spaces in front of the store as handicapped. If you want to do something really big, then steal the manager's car, take it to a junkyard, have it crushed into a cube, and then have a towtruck set it back into it's old parking space. Take the license plate off before crushing it, then bolt them onto the cube so he knows it's his car.

Wasn't Sega planning on licensing out the Dreamcast technology to be embedded in DVD players? I remember reading something about that and feeling a tiny bit of hope when the DC was spiralling down the toilet.

It's kind of hard to figure out what's going on in 2000 mode. The screen's so cluttered with info. Without instructions, it's too hard to work out what all those gauges do. That's why i've never played 2000 too deeply. Plus having 2000 levels is kind of intimidating.

I miss Ultimate Gamer magazine......

I never really played the 2000 mode for very long. I couldn't figure out what was going on either. The 2000 mode isn't a hidden game per se, it's the original version of Battlezone 2000. After it was done, Atari didn't think it was very 'Battlezone-like' and made them start over. I'm just amazed that they had enough room on the cart to put in two separate games.

I still love that line. "It's Saturday night. I have no date, a 2 liter of Shasta, and my all-Rush mix tape. Let's rock!"

I liked both of them. The 7800 is a little nicer, in my opinion. But the Lynx version is ComLynxable, which is nice if you have a spare machine and another copy of the game.

But the 7800's Ms. Pac Man was programmed by the guy who programmed the arcade game. Or at least hacked Pac Man and created a mod turning it into Ms. Pac Man.

The Intellivision 25-in-1 is really one of those NES type machines. I want to know if the Namco is the same hardware. Has anyone taken one of them apart to see what makes it tick?

What about Dark Chambers for the 2600? That stinkbomb doesn't even get within a light-year of the 7800's version. The only thing that carried over from the 7800 to the 2600 were the lousy sound effects. I don't play Desert Falcon on the 2600 anymore, I will automatically go for the 7800 version. The gameplay is the same between them, but I only have the 7800 hooked up, so I might as well play games designed for the 7800 first.

$40? I could scrape up the money for that!