[atari Mangia worth?]

no matter how many times i tell myself it isn't so, i still read the title as 'Mangina'. am i the only one??

[Some of the most wishful thinking I've seen in an ebay seller -lol]

sometimes i make bogus offers of $1.00

 

i'm SO glad i saw the shipping price of $800.00 before i decided to go that route.

[Games Beaten In 2015!]

2. Mega Man 4 (NES)

 

played a patched ROM on my tablet with a tiny impulse bluetooth controller. i'm sure the infinite health and weapon energy cheats helped. even then, i don't remember having so much trouble with Bright Man's stage. i had to go back after getting Rush Jet to fly past all that bullshit. i also forgot which weapon killed which boss (including Cossack castle & Wily castle bosses). I'm surprised I still remembered where the Wire and Balloon items were.

 

they say MM4 thru MM6 were crap, with boss ideas like Dust Man (a vacuum cleaner), Ring Man (not menacing at all), Plant Man (really?), Yamato Man (what?), and well you get it. i would say MM4 is still a solid entry. especially the music (or most of it). Dive, Skull, Pharaoh, Drill, Dust, all good stuff there.

[Is it safe too use the Dungeons and dragons name?]

Long-johns and drive-ins.

[Is it safe too use the Dungeons and dragons name?]

Dungeness Crabbings

[Games Beaten In 2015!]

1. Metroid II: Return of Samus (GB) with a time of 2:44 (best ending)

[Which cart am I?]

Beamrider was a crap guess. nevermind. i really suck at this game.

[Which cart am I?]

Gunslinger...Outlaw... ...do not sound like hi or lie.

[Which cart am I?]

I'll try to be a little less obscure this time.

 

1. Hi! A lie?

2. Could be George Clooney. Or Don Knotts.

3. Out of the blue. But not on the 2600.

 

i'll jump in with a wild guess... Private Eye?

[Do you consider Jr. Pac-Man to be in the Pac-Man Canon or is it the bastard]

Just checked the store -- didn't see any iOS version of Battle Royale...

 

if it's not in the store anymore, it's still on the internet. google results. sideload?

[Can you live on emulation only 100% ?]

there aren't good emulators for every system out there, so no. i could not.

[A wish list of games/projects you like to see running....]

nevermind. *hic* i stumbled into the wrong bar. *hic* VCS is across the street, right? *hic*

[One change to ET that would have benefited the game's reputation]

who you callin a necro, hacker?

[One change to ET that would have benefited the game's reputation]

that dying ET looks a lot like uncooked bacon.

 

[One change to ET that would have benefited the game's reputation]

sounds like a great candidate for the video game crash of 2015.

[Do you consider Jr. Pac-Man to be in the Pac-Man Canon or is it the bastard]

i think Namco has done some great things with the franchise in recent years.

 

Pac-Man Arrangement (1998 arcade, 2001 GBA port)

Classic gameplay with 3D aspect, bonus abilities, and a nice roster of ghost-types plus a final battle with a giant robot ghost.

1P or 2P simultaneous.

 

Pac-Man VS (2003 Gamecube)

This required someone owning a Gamecube, the game, up to 3 controllers, a Gamboy Advance, and a GBA Link cable (plus at least one other player for real fun it was designed for).

1P-4P simultaneous.

 

Pac-Man Battle Royale (2010 arcade, 201X iOS port)

I never played the arcade edition but i would play against people on my iPhone

2P-4P simultaneous.

[Game & Watches For Sale]

ooh girl you so fine. can i take you for a double cheeseburger?

[One change to ET that would have benefited the game's reputation]

a hack already exists that make the pits smaller. by removing the pits altogether, you can't collect the phone pieces and win.

[Looking for a tabletop pinball suggestion or two.]

i'm digging those seats, and whatever that large first pin is, which makes the blue one on the other end look tiny!

[volume pot hardware question (unrelated to atari)]

i'm trying to add a volume pot wheel and a headphone jack to an annoyingly loud vintage handheld game.

 

i did one modification already, but i can't fully close the plastic shell because of the thickness of the headphone jack:

so for my next project, i have these two parts:

 

i couldn't get a clearer picture, but the jack has 3 prongs, and the wheel has 2 on one side and 5 in a row on the other side. i'm familiar with the jack but have no clue how this wheel works (as in which prongs do what). i suppose that's on google.

 

my questions are:

(1) how do i mount the wheel since i'm not soldering it to a board? should i just superglue it to the inside plastic shell of the game?

(2) how do i rig this thing so that the game's external speaker still works and gets shorted when something gets plugged into the headphone jack?

 

[So What Did You Guys Get For Xmas?]

i bought myself a limited edition signed Intellivision Flashback.

 

my wife bought me Zelda Monopoly, dual bluetooth wooden speakers, a $50 Amazon gift card (i got her one too!), and a $100 GC to Old Navy.

 

my daughter got some cardboard-type books, about a hundred Disney Mega Blocks things, and a FIsher Price record player (or as she sees it, five colored frisbees and a noise-making box to ignore).

[Which cart am I?]

oh wow, this thread is still going.

[The 2014 AtariAge Holiday Greeting Cart Is Here!]

i just ordered Stay Frosty 2 and the boxed edition of Byte Before Christmas. according to AA Store records, i haven't bought anything since 2012's Boulder Dash. dang. so many good ones i need like Omicron, Lead, Dungeon, etc etc.

[What are you playing on 3DS?]

i've been smashing some brothers up as Mega Man or Kirby in SSB3DS

[sega saturn game suggestions. trade?]

Astal, Baku Baku, Blast Chamber, Bug I/II, Clockwork Knight, Darius Gaiden, Daytona, Fighting Vipers, Fighters Megamix, Grid Runner, Guardian Heroes, Herc's Adventure, Mr. Bones, NiGHTS, Night Warriors, Off-World Interceptor, Panzer Dragoon I/II/Saga, Robo Pit, Saturn Bomberman, Solar Eclipse, Sonic R, Virtua Fighter I/II/Kids

 

there, i think that's every game i ever loved on the Saturn. i think...

 

note to self: the one's in italics i still need to buy again.