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I noticed the local Hastings has a handful of SNES games. I saw a baseball game (no box or manual) for $6. Of course by the time I'd pay s/h on ePrey, I'd probably spend just as much.

An aside, I just now realized I have H.E.R.O. The sad thing is I'm not sure I've played it or where I even got it from. Now do I keep it and play it or do I sell it since I could really use the $$$? Lol!!!

I've managed a couple of times to roll the score on Pac-Man and I could handily do it again if my hands would cooperate. There's just something about the hands not working as well at 41 as they did at 11! Once or twice I apparently frustrated the ghosts so much that they went to the escape hatch and wouldn't come it!

I did it!!!! I made it through 83 pages and it only took 4 days!!!

Slightly off topic, but since it was mentioned about the younger generation being interested in the Atari, I thought I'd share something. I'm a returning college student at the age of 41. I decided about 1 1/2 years ago that it was time to finish my education. Obviously a lot of my classmates are late teens and early 20's. One classmate mentioned his love for video games, so I mentioned I still had my Atari. Instead of the weird looks that I expected, this kid was practically on his hands and knees begging me to give him my Atari!!!! Lol!!!!

The nod goes to Activision: River Raid, Pitfall, Megamania Honorable mention to Imagic for Dragonfire and Demom Attack

I'm not trying to argue, but yes, it IS something to do with the cart. I've saw it for the 30+ years I've been playing it, almost the same screen shots he posted. You take the cart out, blow in it or clean it, and it disappears. It is nothing at all to do with interference.

I bought a copy of Frostbite at a flea market years ago, and it does stuff like that all the time. I've cleaned it dozens of times over probably, but still the same thing. If I fiddle with it enough, it will play.

On top of that, none of the links work to navigate the site. The last copyright date is 2005, so I bet they're no longer in business.

I believe so

Though it's with the joystick, Towering Inferno does the same thing.

I never got rid of my Atari stuff, and still own all of my original games except for Math Gran Prix and Demon Attack. I traded those to my cousin for Popeye back in the day. I've managed to find them again, so no sweat.

Welcome aboard, Justin! I'm kinda new here myself, but not new to the Atari. I'm really enjoying my time here, and I hope you will, too!

And those are valid points. Most of my 2600 "life" was spent playing on a 19" Magnavox in my bedroom. I played it some as an adult after marrying and having kids, but obviously not as much. Now that my kids are getting close to grown (and divorced now), I'm savoring playing again. Perhaps it's something to do with all those years of staring at a 19" screen. Funny though, because there are some TV shows that are broadcast in SD, and I see how crappy they look on an HD TV. I don't remember seeing them looking like that, but obviously the TV brings out things that were limited on an old TV. Perhaps if I played the Atari on an old TV again, I couldn't go back.

I believe between 150-175. The funny thing is, I've been culling my LP collection, but I refuse to part with any of my 2600 carts. Oh, I'm seriously considering adding Stella's Stocking to the collection. I've had the order page pulled up for a few days.....guess I should bite the bullet!

I did have an Epyx (it's in the donate to Goodwill pile now), but I broke the darn thing! I was going intently on one of my games, and I felt it "crack" on the inside. It's somewhat usable, but not too much. Nice joystick, but I'll stick with the Slik Stik!

Puke Man

I guess I should dig out I and II both. I haven't played II in so long, I don't even remember what it was about.

Megamania from Activision

Two Slik Stik joysticks. I had them as a kid, and I found them to be my favorite joystick ever. Found a couple on the auction site at a good price, so I couldn't pass it up!

Albert, the irony of this is that I got up this morning and had an e-mail in my spam box from someone named Stella!!! I don't think she was wanting to deliver me this cartridge though......

I can remember when the Nintendo craze started, all of my friends would ask me when was I getting a Nintendo. I think my parents even asked if I wanted one. I always told everyone I was keeping my Atari, and that one day they would regret getting rid of theirs! 30 years later, I don't know if anyone regrets it or not, but I'm glad I kept all of my Atari stuff.

I wish I could turn my kids on to the notion of the Atari. All three of them like the SNES, and they liked the NES when I had one. For some reason, the Atari hasn't caught their attention at any point in their lives.

I'm sorry if this is posted elsewhere. I didn't see it, but I thought it might make for a good topic. I believe mine was in 1981. We were in Walmart and my parents were talking about getting it for me. It only came with Combat at the time, so they also purchased Pac-Man for me. I still have both original cartridges! I've actually managed to keep 99% of the games I had when I was a kid, even after moves, marriage, divorce, etc. Some of them I can even remember when my parents bought them, but I continued to collect even into my 20's. I'm 41 now and I couldn't tell you the last time I bought a game, but I'm hoping that changes soon. I sadly no longer have my original console. Apparently a bad capacitor is a common occurrence from what I read now. I ordered a new capacitor, soldered it in, but had a b&w picture no matter what. I wound up throwing it in the trash thinking it unfixable. As luck would have it, a friend was wanting to get rid of her 2600 (4 switch, woodgrain). For $20 I got the console, power adaptor, 2 joysticks, paddles, 15-20 games and a holder for the games. Her dad had found it in the trash (he was the local trash collector), but had recently found 2 NES systems, so she and her husband wanted them instead. I wound up flipping Tapper on eBay (it was one of the games) for $15 a few years later, so I essentially gave $5 for the whole system. 20 years later, I'm still using that $20 Atari!