Darkchief117

Haha, yea its not about making money off of the ones that I am getting rid off, its really just about converting them into other games that I would rather have. I got a great deal on all of my Atari games when I started collecting ($1.00-$1.50) per cart off of Craigslist, so I took everything he had. So I'm trying to parse out the games that don't play as well or are not quite as unique and replace them with the more unique titles. Thanks for those recommendations, I think I have all those you had in that first list in my spreadsheet so I will be picking them up eventually. Though Princess Rescue, Fat Albert, and Titan Axe weren't on my radar so I'll look at those!

Thanks! Aside from Street Racer (which I'll take a look at), I have decided to keep all of those other games you listed. On the topic of 'trimming the herd' which you mentioned in your first reply, if there are games on that list that you are interested in feel free to PM me. I have a spreadsheet I can share with the 2600 games I am still looking for if you want to do trades, or we can work out a price for the ones you want if you prefer that. I'm planning to put the ones I'm not keeping up on Craigslist within the next week.

Haha, I'm definitely noticing a bit of truth to that, but this has still been helpful. Many Atari games (at least to me) aren't intuitive right off the bat. Whether that be due to my young age or what, I don't know. So while many I can get a good impression of after a few minutes, there are plenty of others where I'm left feeling like I am missing the point of the game. For example, I just played SwordQuest: Fire World and am left a bit stumped as to what the hell was going on. Having people pick out some of the games on this list at least narrows it down a bit and lets me focus my time on those rather than trying to figure out the merits of every single game on that list. But I'm definitely not adding every game someone mentions to my list, I'm simply using the ones people pick out as ones to play test. So far I've played every game people have mentioned, and added about 10-15 back into my collection.

Thanks for that info - I'm finding a lot of the Atari games confusing because of the duplicate games with different names. I have Missile Command so that is good to know about the Tele-games. I'll give Air Sea battle and race a playthrough!

Thanks! I'll load those up and give them a play through to see what I think. I appreciate the feedback. A Harmony cart is interesting, but like I said in my original post this isn't just to play the games for nostalgia, its to build a historical catalog of great games. I prefer to collect the actual cartridges, its kind of a paperback book vs. kindle type of thing for me.

I started collecting games a couple years ago. I think most people tend to collect games primarily for nostalgia, and that's a great reason. But for me, its a bit different. While nostalgia is undeniably a part of it, I primarily collect so that I can play games I missed out on as a kid as well as to collect a historical catalog of video games. I didn't have the most refined taste for games as a kid. I played what I could get my hands on. So while I was able to play most of the classics, I still missed a lot of good titles, and played a lot of shovelware. When I started collecting I was going for complete system collections. What I've begun to realize though is that if I aim to get all the games for a system that my shelves will eventually be full of that same shovelware that I am trying to avoid. So I've come up with a new collecting goal. I want a collection where it is impossible to pick out a game that isn't either a good game or a game of some historical significance. As such I'm beginning to trim my collection down, starting with the 2600. I have a list of about 110 Atari 2600 games that I want in my collection. About half of the 2600 games that I own aren't on that list. Now I wasn't born until 1989 so I have no knowledge or experience with playing Atari games until two years ago. The games that I've decided I want in my collection are based purely on research and knowledge of the classics. As such I realize I may be getting rid of games that are worth keeping. So here is where you come in. Below I'm going to list all of the games that I will be removing from my collection. If there are any that I list that you think are worthy of keeping (think top 100 lists, and try to keep nostalgia out of it), let me know and why. Here is the list: 1. 34 Tele-games 2. 3-D Tic Tac Toe 3. Air Sea Battle 4. Airlock 5. Amidar 6. Backgammon 7. Big Birds Egg Catch 8. Blueprint 9. Bugs 10. Casino 11. Commando Raid 12. Cookie Monster Crunch 13. Crackpots 14. Demons to Diamonds 15. Dodge 'Em 16. Dodger Cars 17. Dolphin 18. Enduro 19. Fire Fighter 20. Fishing Derby 21. Flash Gordon 22. RealSports Football 23. Gangster Alley 24. Gorf 25. Grand Prix 26. Home Run 27. Human Cannonball 28. Hunt and Score 29. Journey Escape 30. Kangaroo 31. Laser Blast 32. M.A.S.H. 33. Maze Craze 34. Mega Force 35. Mouse Trap 36. Name This Game 37. OiNK! 38. Othello 39. Outer Space 40. Outlaw 41. Planet Patrol 42. Realsports Baseball 43. Realsports Boxing 44. Poker Plus 45. Race 46. Seaquest 47. Secret Quest 48. Skiing 49. Street Racer 50. SpaceChase 51. Space Jockey 52. Star Trek 53. Star Voyager 54. Super Cobra 55. Target Fun 56. Trick Shot 57. Tutankham 58. Sub Scan 59. SwordQuest 60. Tag Scan 61. Taz 62. Towering Inferno 63. Winter Games 64. Word Zapper 65. Worm War 1 66. Super Challenge Football 67. Super Challenge Baseball 68. Frogs and Flies 69. International Soccer 70. Space Attack 71. Tron Deadly Discs Thanks for the help!

So I recently acquired an Odyssey 2 and some games. When I bought it, I checked to make sure it booted up and everything, which it did. Unfortunately, I didn't actually try playing a game. I sat down today to play one, and it seems the player 1 controller has an input problem, because the player is always walking to the left. Its acting the same as if on an N64 where if you have the analog stick held down when you boot the console, that input repeats itself until you reset. I plan to open up the controller and console this weekend and give it a cleaning, but I was wondering if anyone had insight as to what to look for or any videos to point me to. Thanks!