SteveW

I'm pretty sure it's been released on DVD. Not that i'd ever buy it. It just wierded me out too much. Thanks for the link!

I used to see those every once in a while, but haven't seen them recently. I miss them.

I've only got one ECS game (Mind Strike), and i'll never sell it off, because it's my favorite INTV game. But why don't you make your own ECS games? It's programmable, after all. It's BASIC interpreter is a little odd, and you don't have a lot of memory to work with, but you can still make a decent game with it. If you just want to type some already written games in, try this link. http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~mjhayes/ecs/EcsBasic.html

That movie seriously screwed with my head when I saw it as a kid. Like all of the worst fever dreams i've ever had, squished into concentrated form and sprinkled with LSD. That game itself was pretty fun! I just wish it had gone on longer. I was getting into it. And the link to the designer's web page at the end of it doesn't take you anywhere. I'd like to see some of their other work.

I got a composite cable from Montgomery Ward's around 1984 so I could hook up my TI to an amber monitor. The cable was also compatible with the Atari 8-bit series and the C=64, too. It had three cables coming off it, one for video and one for audio. The third cable wasn't used, and the TI wouldn't start if that unused RCA plug was plugged into anything, if I recall. Some of my TI games I got as floppy disk backups from Tigercub Software. Games like Arcturus and such. I also got most of my cartridge games from Triton's great mail order catalogs. I still have most of those catalogs, too! I'm a serious pack rat. Do you know where I could locate disk backups of some rare cartridges? Or even prototypes like Germ Patrol? I'd love to be able to start adding to my TI collection again. Also, do you know what happened to MICROpendium magazine? I subscribed for years, but they went bi-monthly and didn't give me 12 issues, I only got about 7 or so that year. I stopped subscribing then. I heard that the owners shut it down and that another guy was trying to start it up again, but I haven't heard anything else.

Mind Strike is definitely my favorite ECS game. Come to think of it, it's my only ECS game. I totally lucked into Mind Strike anyway. One day in 1989 my friend told me that he had seen an Intellivision with a bunch of games and stuff at a pawn shop. So we stopped there on our way to a computer store he used to work at that was shutting it's doors. No Intellivision hardware, but I bought a bunch of games, one of which was Mind Strike. An hour later we went to the computer store, and I found the ECS there for $10. If that store hadn't had an ECS, I would have just tossed Mind Strike into a box and forgotten about it. Kind of what i've done with my Coleco games, since they don't play on my Inty II console. While I was at that store, I also bought two of those third party Atari 5200 replacement controllers for a co-worker along with an open box 2600 converter. That stuff cost next to nothing then. What I wouldn't give to get my hands on those controllers now!

I just think there's swarms of eBay losers sweeping across the thrift stores and pawn shops like a plague of locusts on a wheat field. They snatch up anything and everything that might have some value, and resell it on eBay for a ridiculous profit. I should have started checking thrift stores years ago, but have only started looking in those places this year. And I haven't found anything. Not a single 2600 game. The only classic era game I ever found was Super Breakout for the Atari 5200.

I couldn't justify paying more than $500. And that would take me a while to put together. I guess nobody has recovered the prototype of Virtuality's game Zone Hunter, have they? Does anyone know what happened to Virtuality's development systems when they went out of business?

I always thought the Area 51 hardware just had a 68030 added instead of the 68000. I don't remember reading anything about extra memory being added, but it's always possible.

Escape From The MindMaster for the 2600 blew my socks off. Walking through 3D mazes, dodging sliding shields while picking up pegs and finding the right pegholes. All the while being stalked by a monster that most of the time you didn't see, but heard. Multiple complex mazes, randomly hidden mini-games, and an actual game ending made this one a technological marvel for the lowly Atari 2600.

I think you paid too much for that one.

I've got most of those games, except for Rotor Raiders, Star Trek, Anteater, and Congo Bongo (i've always wanted that one!) I think I might have a copy of MunchMobile somewhere in a box of junk. I've never really wanted to play it, because I always thought it was a kid's game. Next time I sort through my stuff i'm going to have to look for it.

I decided to go thrifting today, even though I hate going into thrift stores. Nothing in the first store, so I went somewhere else. At a Goodwill store, I found nothing video-game wise other than a couple joysticks, a Quickshot II Turbo Atari compatible stick, and another strange one. It has an NES plug, but it's not a stick i've seen before. (But then, i've never been into NES stuff, so it might be common and i'm just uninformed.) It's an arcade style stick with "Wing Commander Family Computer" on it. It's got fire buttons set off at an angle on either side of the stick. It's dark grey and the buttons are orange. The bottom says "HORIElectric Co., Ltd Model HJ-8 Made in JaPan" I don't even know where my NES is so I can see if the stick works. Does this joystick sound familiar to anyone?

When I had a bad night at work, I used to come home and play Unreal Tournament on the Dreamcast for hours to get rid of my frustration. Always in low gravity, so you get that nice Matrix feeling. And the maximum amount of beginner level bots, like lambs to the slaughter. There's nothing like a good FPS to take your mind off the world outside.

I bought my first DVD player mainly to play games. I kept up with the ex-Atari guys as they worked on Project X, later Nuon. I didn't want a DVD player, because the format killed my beloved laserdiscs. Out of loyalty to my Pioneer LaserActive, I wasn't going to go DVD unless there was something really compelling that really made me want one. And that turned out to be the Samsung N501. I hung around the official Nuon forums, learned more about the technology, and then bought one of the first N501s available in my area. The Nuon games I later bought are pretty fun, but the best part is I could play DVDs on it. I started buying them a little at a time, and it just snowballed. That DVD player I told myself I would only play games on has given me so much more.

I'd like to get a Vectrex, but have never been lucky enough to find one I could afford. I might pick up Protector anyway, so i'll have something to play (other than Minestorm) if I ever do get my grubby paws on a Vectrex.

Nice site! I really like the instruction manual covers on the Details page. I hope you do that with all your carts. All in all, it's a really well designed site. And welcome aboard AtariAge!

It's a digitized voice of Bill Gates saying "I'll own you all someday".......

What exactly is a Creativision? It sounds familiar, but I can't seem to recall anything specific about it.

This goes back to my post on a thread about console games people wanted to be in arcades. Imagine mulitplayer Ballblazer with multi cabinet networking. How about up to eight players on each side? And big-ass monitors in the machines, and surround sound stereo. It makes me drool just thinking about it.

I bought a 2-pack of Interact Superpads when my local K-Mart went out of business. They work fine for me, except the placement of the pause button. It's recessed from the other buttons. That 2-pack I bought while K-Mart was trying to get rid of everything, I only paid $11.99 for it. Man, I love going out of business sales.

I've seen some N64 in places like Wal-Mart. They just can't get rid of some of them. The ones i've usually found tend to be 3rd party controllers.

I know that Phear didn't come out because Nintendo bought the rights to it and turned it into Tetrisphere on the N64. They wanted it to be exclusive to their console, so no Phear for the Jag.

I definitely remember seeing it advertised for the C=64. It's the only home version i've ever seen. I used to love playing that game, back when convienence store used to have arcade games in them. That Diamond Shamrock got rid of Bagman and brought in Vanguard, then later Baby Pac-Man. Ah, Memories.....

Nobody has anything to say about #10 on that list, My Scene Chillin' Out Barbie? That one's begging and pleading to be made fun of.......