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Very good game! Just got it along with a few others for my "holiday cart" order and it's a winner. If you like platform games at all, I think you'll be very impressed.

I just got mine! Very nice book, and I think it'll be a handy reference too.

1. Age: 34 (is everyone here 34? ) 2. Male 3. Got my first Atari in '83, got back into it a few years ago 4. At the time, I wanted one just like everyone else! Now I have a bunch of systems , but I just love the old games and the simple gameplay 5. Great, fun games and lots of them. With all the great homebrews now, it's better than ever. 6. Coffee, tea, booze - not all together 7. mostly 30 mins - 1 hr. at a time. Another nice thing about Atari games is that mostly you can play several rounds of several games in this amount of time 8. I play something pretty much every day. 9. Top 3-5 games - hard question, it varies. Right now: Breakout (just read " Pilgrim in the Microworld" - great book!) , Demons to Diamonds (more fun with the paddles hooked up!), Marble Craze (great homebrew - paddles again!), Holiday QB (it is almost Christmas, and QB a great game) 10. Yes! Recently though, not much. 11. Gaming today seems even more popular than in the 80s, but it's lost some of the quirkiness and originality. Also, it seems like games are more about living out a movie with some control over the action, and a large time investment required, rather than a lot of fast paced fun. 12. Usually play alone, sometimes with a friend or my brother when he's in town. The latter is especially fun since it's cool to play a game of Ice Hockey or Combat 20 something years later and still have a lot of fun 13. Ever tried to win anyone over to Atari? My wife - largely unsuccessfull, but she is (thankfully!) endlessly tolerant of my obsession with it.

1) around 300 2) I keep them in cases on my wall - grouped by developer 3) Probably not - I like to keep them out and play them, so I keep track of them OK!

Alligator People and Holiday QB. Fun games, both!

What a deal!! Thanks to everyone involved with the holiday cart and AtariAge in general. I got the multi-cart, Swoops, Crazy Balloon, Hunchy II and the holiday cart -of course. Can't wait.

I think Atari Popeye is great. I liked it back in the day because it was "pretty close to the arcade version ", and I like it now for the opposite reason. One thing that's fun about Atari 2600 versions nowadays (for me anyway) is that it's like having an alternate version (re-interpretation? ) of a favorite game.

YES!! I'm ready to get some new homebrews AND the holiday cart. I'm psyched!

Collector's cards and games has good deals.... you'll have to clean the carts up maybe, but he gives better deals than most. I've also had some good deals from 4Jays, though mostly for systems. Can't beat an Atari just dropping into your lap - congrats!

Sweet! I'm excited.

The mailman story's hard to beat! What luck. An old friend of mine (who I hadn't talked to for about 10 years!) called me over the summer and said another friend had told him I was into old games and he was bringing some around. I got a TI-99 and some books, a Sylvannia Intellivision and about 20 games and a nice game center for the INTV! That IS kind of call we all love

Yep, I want all three.... but I'd better wait and see what holiday deal is in store this year.. <hoping>

Better even than arcade SI - it's more like Space Invaders 2. It has flashing motherships, splitting aliens and the mother ship drops aliens etc. I like it a lot better than Atari Space Invaders. Why did they remove the bunkers anyway??

Got Taito Ledgends and I LOVE it!! I've been waiting for Jungle Hunt, Zookeeper and Elevator Action for awhile. Gladiator was at one of my favorite arcades as a kid, and I've always liked that one too. So many good games on this collection! One thing I really liked from the PS1 Namco museums is ... the museum part... Am I alone? I loved all the extras you could look at/read about and the whole idea of walking around a virtual game museum. Taito has a couple nice interviews with the designers (cool) and some tips etc., but I'd like even more of that stuff.

Great ! Thank you guys very much. Gauntman - that's exactly what I was trying to figure out... I have the same Compute! Machine language book, and I was stuck. I'm doing a lame little Space Invaders in BASIC using character graphics and I'm trying to use a couple routines to speed it up. Thanks again for the help!

I'm trying to write some little subroutines in assembly to go with my BASIC programs. Here's my problem: I've found that using indirect addressing with the Y register and memory location 88, I can "print" a character to the screen pretty easily... Except I can only go from 0 to 255 (about 5 BASIC lines in GR.0) How do I print lower on the screen? Can anyone help this assembly language noob? Thanks.

Yep - there's a few there that you don't see everyday. If I didn't have them, I'd pay that for sure.

Great! Thank you both for the help. That book especially will answer a lot of questions.

I've just finished reading my second book on Assembly language (Atari Roots) and I'm starting to get a little clue about how to write something in it.... but I still have a lot of questions. From reading these books, I know that BASIC is being translated into machine language by the computer so it can perform the tasks you program from BASIC (sorry if this is ignorant - I'm a newbie to this!!). So, I wonder - is there a source that will let me know how the computer translates the BASIC commands? For instance, if I type in plot or print from BASIC - what set of commands does the computer change that into ? My goal now is to be able to write some little ML subroutines to put into my BASIC programs. Thanks - any help is much appreciated!!

River Patrol would be cool. Can't pay the admission though.

Anybody else out there just getting back into programming the 8-bit Ataris? After about 20 years, I've been programming games again on an Atari 800 I bought. Right now, I'm still in BASIC, but I'm reading up on Assembly and hope to be using more and more machine language as I go along. So, is anyone else in a similar place? If so, I would love to trade disks (or cassettes) of game programs with other amateur programmers to see what others are doing and to give/receive feedback. I've got probably 3 games I'd be willing to show ( ) and I'll gladly send a disk with these on them in exchange for a disk of some of your games. Anyone interested?

Sweet. I'd also like Street Fighter 1 - but I can't complain about that line up.

I FINALLY got it just the other day off E-bay. Cost me a bit, but I was sick of waiting!! Even though it's not considered that rare, I had a very hard time getting my hands on this. Probably since it's such a good game.

Thrust and Starfire - definitely GREAT games.

Ok, passed one of these at Toys-R-Us and figured - why not? It's $20 and has 25 games - I have most on the real thing, but I thought it would be fun to have just for portability etc. Does this thing really suck as bad as I think it does - or is mine defective? It seems like the buttons don't even work right half the time. I especially have trouble selecting games and resetting the unit. Also, the sound, graphics and gameplay all seem messed up. Is this thing defective or is it really this bad?