SteveW

When I read comics, I always wanted to buy original comic art work. The only thing I ever got around to buying was some pages from the Marvel New Universe series DP7, directly from the artist. I was one of the very few people that liked the New Universe. This has little to do with Atari, either.

ThinkGeek's overcharging out the ass for those Atari 10-in-1 units. Their reccomended retail price should be about $20. I bought mine for $25 in a GameStop right after they came out. I knew $25 was too much, but I really wanted it. I wouldn't pay $40 for one, though. Oh well. I guess if I want another one, I could just pick one up from the Kroger I work at. We've got a pile of them.

I've always thought about getting a Saturn, mainly because I liked the Scud: Disposable Assassin comic book, and the Scud game only came out for Saturn.

Atari doesn't really have any mascot characters. Not at the same level as Sonic or Mario. I only recognised Bentley Bear. They might put in other characters, like a Yar or maybe Skylar from Cybermorph. What Atari characters would you want to see?

CompUSA is a little iffy when it comes to games. Sometimes i've found games there a lot cheaper than other stores, and then i've seen them $20 more than other places. I check them out every once in a while anyway. I bought Super Monkey Ball for my nephew not too long ago there. It was marked $19.99, but it rang up $14.99. Sweet!

I'm one of the few people who enjoyed the game. I never really watched the cartoon more than a few times, so I don't know if the footage from the game came from the first episode of the cartoon. I know that some voices were recorded for the game, though.

I used to be good on Hard Drivin'. But I can't seem to play it as well as I used to. I tried playing the arcade version not too long ago, and I was lousy at it. But I used to be able to get all the way through it years back. I guess i'm getting old or something.

I used to spend a lot of time in my local gas station playing Legendary Wings and Ajax.

Hey Shaggy, that looks like a Samsung N2000 Nuon DVD player, but what's that underneath it? Is that a Streammaster?

These kind of printing errors happen all the time. Like recently Gateway had a magazine ad advertising their laptops, but having a picture of a guy using an Apple Powerbook G4 instead. And knowing the Tramiels, they went with the lousiest, cheapest print house they could find.

As far as gaming forums go, I only post to AtariAge and Nuon-Dome. I've also signed up for and posted a few times at http://pub73.ezboard.com/bintellivisiongamingnetwork , but as you can tell, it's not too active. I don't really count that one. When you post a question and it takes about 6 months for another member to get around to access the site and answer, that's telling you something.

I've owned an American built Plymouth Neon for almost 8 years, and it's never broken down. It's never given me any real problems, other than an oil leak. All I do is put oil and gas in it.

Thunder Castle is a great maze game. The music will knock your socks off. Tower of Doom is nice. It's a great D&D type game. Pinball on the INTV is one of the most playable pinball games on all the classic consoles i've played. Everybody knows how good Utopia is, so there's no point in saying it again. Hover Force is a nice action game, played from a bird's eye view over a large scrolling cityscape as you blast terrorist helicopters and put out the fires they set.

I registered my Atari Jaguar and most of my games. Did I ever get anything? Nope. Did anyone get anything? I doubt it. Did anyone ever get any cartridges when they sent in a Jag game registration form? Those forms said you'd get the opportunity to win games, but the Tramiels were so notoriously cheap that i'm sure they never sent any games out.

I always thought Viking Child was just too tough. I couldn't get very far without cheating. Whereas Switchblade II's difficulty is just right. It's not that difficult to complete, which in my mind is more satisfying.

Wasn't there a new version of Space Harrier supposedly coming out for the Dreamcast before Sega axed the console? I remember the Official Dreamcast Magazine drooling all over the arcade version, and talking about it's eventual port to the DC, because it was based on NAOMI hardware. I haven't been in an arcade in a while, so I don't know if the arcade version even came out. Anyone?

Sorry. I was looking for a Vectrex multi-cart on his site and saw the ECS games. I didn't realise the page was out of date.

I don't think Barnyard Blaster was all that bad. I only have the Atari XE version, and it was okay, if not very interesting. It had a little more variety than Duck Hunt on the NES, anyway.

Well then, i'm not buying it. My main modern console is the GameCube. Unless it's orgasmically great, i'm not going to get the Xbox version.

Did they sound condescending? Those articles usually do. "Why would anyone want a new game for the Atari 2600? Don't they know the graphics suck? Why won't they buy a PS2 instead?"

Sean Kelly has some for sale on his site. http://home.xnet.com/~skelly/gamelist.htm

Are they emulated versions of Sega's console versions of the games, or in the case of the arcade games, are they the emulated arcade versions? The Genesis version of Golden Axe wasn't all that great. I'd much rather have the arcade one.

How much will they cost?

Something about Dirty Larry always bothered me. In some early screenshots from a catalog, Larry could move up and down along with left and right, making it easy to dodge gunfire. But in the final release of the game, you could only move left and right. The game would have been a lot better if they'd have left in the ability to roam freely onscreen instead of forcing you to walk in a straight line. Anybody actually finish Dirty Larry?

I'm pretty sure that Switchblade 1 was on the Amiga. I think I used to have a copy. It wasn't all that good, though. I really liked the Lynx sequel. But I never thought it had a lot of replay value. I played it through a couple of times, and now I don't really have any interest in trying it again. It was a fun game when I first bought it, though. There aren't a lot of good side-scrollers on the Lynx (emphasis on the word 'good') so I think people just didn't pay that much attention to it. It doesn't really stand out. There's not a much about the game that makes you wish there was a Switchblade III made. It had good gameplay, but not much personality.