SteveW

Yep, Cosby pimped TI Computers back then. He was their spokesman for two or three years, if I remember right. There's companies developing monitors that deliver true 3D without using glasses. If arcade game manufacturers used that kind of thing in their machines, it would give people something they couldn't get at home. And drop the prices of game rounds back down to a quarter. Most new machines are based on home console technology anyway. If the hardware inside only cost $200, you don't have to charge $1 each play just to make up the cost of the hardware.

I remember Rad Racer was supposed to come with 3-D glasses (my memory's a little fuzzy), but did Rad Racer 2 have a 3-D mode too?

I couldn't find any info about it on Google. I just found a blurb about the auction stating the console would be autographed by Bushnell, and the console hasn't reached the market yet. From the picture in the magazine, it's a curved wedge shaped machine with it's own built-in monitor. I'm dying to know more about this thing for some reason.

I've got a copy of Wired Magazine (the one with Linus Torvalds on the cover) that has a charity eBay auction listing on page 60. You can win a new SNAP console and a night of gaming with Nolan Bushnell. The console is supposed to have 50 games pre-loaded. I've never heard of this new console. I'll admit that I haven't Googled for the info yet. Has anyone heard of this before? I didn't know Bushnell was working on anything like a new console.

If you want to hook it up to a TV, just use a standard auto-switch RF plug, like the kind that come with Genesis/NES/Turbo machines. If you're looking for S-Video or composite, you'll have to find one of the Jag-specific cables. You really should of picked up a Jag and games back around 1997 or so. You could pick them up dirt cheap then. Nowadays, eBay makes everything cost like they were high priced collectables. Back then, I picked up two controllers (one regular and one Pro) for $3 each, and a copy of Myst for $4. Now those controllers cost $35. Ouch. If it weren't for eBay, these things would probably cost $10 at the most now.

My favorite type of game would have to be automobile/vehicular combat types of games, like Vigilante 8 on the Dreamcast. I love almost any kind of game where you shoot from cars. I am one of the few people who love the game Fatal Run on the Atari 7800. My favorite Sega Genesis game was Outlander, which was kind of an extension of Fatal Run, in which you had to get out at the towns in side-scroller mode and fight/scrounge for supplies. The best part of Outlander would have to be when one of the bikers gets right behind your car, and you slam on the brakes. You see his burning body fly over the hood of the car. Sweet!

I just tried it out with Windows Media Player 9 for Mac and it worked fine. I know you end up feeling kinda dirty going to Microsoft's web site and downloading it, but bite the bullet.... It pisses me off when I see someone doing something like that to a video game console, no matter what company makes it. And at the end he buys another GameCube with a GBA Player just to destroy it. How much money does this loser have, that he can just throw it away with childish acts like that?

They'll be as valuable as those collectible Xbox coasters they have at GameStop. In other words, virtually worthless.

The Atari 10-in-1 joystick being sold nearly everywhere helps too. The grocery store I work in stocked a case of the things out for Christmas! They're mixed in with other holiday toys like Easy-Bake ovens and Play-Doh George Foreman toy grills(?). I wish there were TV sets I could plug one of those joysticks into and play on my lunch breaks.

Psygnosis hired a lot of great graphics designers back then. All their games had a style that elevated them above every other software house then (and even now). I played a lot of those games just to hear the incredible music! I always loved the music from Blood Money, even if the levels each took a fucking hour to get through, if you actually survived that long. Stuff like the music and intro animation to Leander blew my mind. I only had a demo of Agony, and it was kind of glitchy on my machine, but it looked incredible. Psygnosis needs to go back to those days and re-establish themselves as the most graphically stylish game company around. By the way, one of their graphic designers went on to do a great CD-ROM graphic novel called Sinkha. I bought it years ago, and it was cool as hell. They're coming out with a sequel that looks even better. Check it out. http://www.downloadsinkha.com/default.htm

I also have to vote for Cybermorph. It was a great game and incredibly advanced for 1993, it was what the system needed at the time, to show off it's graphics capabilities. Too bad the Jag didn't have very much memory, it would have been nice to have less pop-up. How about the Japanese Jaguar's pack-in game, Aliens vs. Predator? Sweet! They should have done that over here. Or packed in Tempest 2000. That would have sold a lot more machines.

I just bought a copy of the Collector's Edition of Robotech: Battlecry. Only cost me $20. I want to know how they managed to cram an XL t-shirt into a tiny shrinkwrapped disk shape. And it's not true, what the little sticker on the bottom of the shirt disk says, that the wrinkles will come out when you wash it. It didn't with mine. There's a pretty good chance that I won't even get around to playing Robotech: Battlecry anyway. I bought the Xbox version, and it wasn't all that great. I just bought the collector's version because it was cool.

I'm using Netscape 7.1 right now. I can't try out any other browsers, as i've just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.3, and for some reason, it's killed my other browsers, including Apple's Safari. Oh well, I give up.

No, Javascript is on. Like I said, when I click on the cover art, a javascript window pops open with the picture in it.

But 'frying' on a 2600 actually did something other than give you garbage graphics. I found out that frying the Arcadia/Starpath Supercharger pack-in game Phazer Patrol would make the enemies meaner, faster, and sometimes invisible! It doubled the challenge! Frying Space Invaders always did something fun, and there were a few others I can't recall off the top of my head that got a lot more interesting after frying. Were there other consoles you could fry and actually change the gameplay, instead of giving you scrambled graphics only?

My least played consoles: SMS, Atari XE, TurboGraphix, Pioneer LaserActive, Xbox, Nuon, GBA. Most played consoles: Atari 2600/7800, GameCube, Intellivision, Dreamcast, Jaguar.

I've got several Xbox games, and I really don't care for any of them. The only one I really spent time on was Futurama, but only because the GameCube version got canned. But in fairness, the Xbox was a gift from a friend who didn't seem to understand my personal beliefs, that Microsoft is an inherently evil company, and that the world would be a better place if Bill Gates was drug out into the street and shot through the head. Therefore, it's a little hard for me to enjoy playing it.

That's a shame. I played Robinson's Requiem at AGE. It was a strange game but I could probably get into it. I couldn't get too far when I tried it, I got lost in a cave or something.

Or someone could hack Commando or Ikari Warriors to work like the arcade game, with it's rotational controller. Maybe someone could try making a game along the lines of Robotron, and use the stick for movement and the paddle for directional auto-fire. The ultimate would be if someone ported the Tron arcade game and made it compatible with the Gemini stick.

That commercial was jerky as hell.... damn WMV format.... one thing I noticed watching it was that they were playing La Bamba. In Spanish. In Japan. Which of course made me think: why? It's not like they don't have a zillion j-pop bands over there. And all those singers sing in their native language.

One Jag and Jag CD, but no bypass cart. I'm wanting to buy one, though. I've seen stuff like Caves of Fear and another one for sale at AGE, but I didn't have enough money for all the gear I wanted to buy. I would definitely buy one if BI/WN were widely available. Or some of the other games floating around out there, like Robinson's Requiem. By the way, everyone here seems to have a copy of American Hero, but how do I order one?

A lot of kids in the early 80's (like me) figured out that if you screw with the Atari 2600's power switch, you could "fry" a game and get it to go squirrely. Most consoles didn't use that 2600 flip switch, but could other consoles (up to present day) be fried somehow? And if you removed the old power button and installed a power switch on a console, could you fry one of those? Or is "frying" a game something only the 2600's hardware is capable of?

Not when I click on them....

I've got one. I really like it. Really pushes the machine more than most other Jag games.

Sean Kelly makes menu driven 2600 multi-carts? I bought one with the little bank of switches. I don't even know where the list of games on it is. It's too easy to lose a few sheets of paper.