Mitkraft

Man, I thought Atari brought back some memories but you guys are really hitting the nostalgia button! I had lots of these when I was young. I loved them. I had the several of the old led "football" games as well as a larger baseball one. I had two of the coleco tabletop games: Donkey Kong and Galaxian. I see Donkey Kong is available as one of the simulators but not the others, I wonder why. I hadn't heard the sounds of that game since I was a kid. When I fired up the simulator and heard that low-fi Donkey Kong start-up sound that really brought me back. I'd had to get to caught up into re-collecting all the handhelds I had since that could be a slippery slop, but I would love to pickup the entire set of those table-tops again if I found them. I saw over at BYOAC where someone turned a broken Donkey Kong tabletop into a mini-mame machine!

I haven't seen those. If you Got a link? I searched before and again just now and never found such an ad. I'd love to know where I might be able to buy some repros.

I'd like to hear how you made your own hex disks. I have a pretty slim chance of finding a set with intact Sears disks so I may have to resort to that.

Congrats! Absolutlely still will throw in the CRT.

You know you want it. You wouldn't even have to wait for the mail man! Heck if it's local pickup I'll even throw in a 27" CRT that I originally picked up for consoles gaming. I ended up getting a different one so I don't need it.

Haha, you are so right. I completely forgot about Circus and Video Olympics. Oh well, everybody loves Kabbom! Yeah, I was pretty bummed when the auction was stalled at $62. I'd pay that price just for the joysticks! I'm holding out hope of either finding some Sears CX-10's some day or some good repro Sears hex disks. Otherwise I'd keep these.

Not sure if it will be priced in your range since its already up to $92 but I have an auction closing this evening for a full Heavy sixer set (paddles, CX-10 joys, driving controllers & games). Here's my thread in the auction section: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241565-atari-2600-heavy-sixer-your-choice-of-sears-or-atari-cx10s-and-more/

Yep, it was noisy, I'd forgotten that. I found a video of it. It was called "Hit and Missile" Thanks a lot Roli! Just when I thought I was wrapping up my frenzied Atari 2600 buying, you've opened Pandora's box to a nostalgic category of toys I'd completely forgotten about. And there's no Harmony cart for handhelds!

Less than 24hrs to go and only $62!

Oh man, I had some of these when I was a kid. I love all those handheld games BITD! I think I had Digital Derby and another very similar one where you shoot missiles from teh bottom at stuff that scrolled across the screen. It has the same counter/timer as Digital Derby.

I agree that whoever wrote the article doesn't get it and probably wasn't alive or was the wrong age at the time.

No complaints here. I appreciate the help!

Can you capture in native resolution also? I'm going to be running into an SD CRT and I'd love to see how pixel perfect it looks in native res. Thanks!

FYP for you

HAHAHA! Dyslexia skcus!

I think pong (pong only console you connect to the TV) was about that time to.

Must be what the local guy with the light sixer asking $300 on CL just read before he posted his ad. I've seen a spike in the 3 figure Atari ads on CL locally. None of them had anything generally considered valuable or came with the volume of pieces to justify that. Matter of fact the ads with the valuable Atari stuff are generally the ones that dont know what they have.

Games, books, albums, audio CDs, audio tapes, and video tapes - I never throw any of them away. Seems wrong. When I get VHS or Audio tapes on DVD, Bluray, or CD I put them aside and donate or give them away when I get a bunch. Albums and books, never thrown any away yet. Fortunately I don't collect any of those at a rate that some of you do so I probably don't have as many as you might imagine.

This is an RGB output mod and I'm pretty sure it's the only one. Unless I am mistaken all the other mods are composite video or svideo. Generally speaking, the signal types from best to worst quality are RF (native kind used by the 2600), composite video, svideo, component video, RGB (also called RGBs, RGBHV and VGA[in a sense]), DVI, then HDMI. Check out http://retrorgb.comfor more info on RGB and its use with retro consoles in particular.

I also just realized that I was selling a console with paddles but no paddle games. I'm correcting that mistake by including a copy fo Kaboom! also. Seems to be everybodies favorite Atari Paddle game.

I keep meaning to come back and update this thread. I was finally able to fix it. I went back and cleaned up my solder on the 4050 chip and tested all the connections for continuity using my working board as a guide. I also re-soldered the voltage regulator which was loose. This got me back to where I was initially with everything working except the paddles on the left port. Even though they looked rock solid I checked the continuity of all the pins on the port and sure enough one of them wasn't making good connection. I re-flowed the solder on that pin and suddenly everything worked!

If someone local wins it and goes for the tele-games unit they should snag the $30 lot on Craigslist that some guy has that included a tele-games storage center. He's selling it with a handfull of games, some controllers (not all complete) and an untested 4 switch & Jr. When I settled on my Tele-games heavy I was siked to get a Tele-game center and some Sears branded controller. It just seems cool, to have a complete set. I'll snag Sears/Tele-games carts here and there and maybe one day I'll be lucky enough to find some CX-10's with Sears hex disks!

I was the other buyer in the mix up. I even offered to pitch in so that Fujiskunk didn't have to absorb the extra shipping but he wouldn't let me. Couldn't ask for a more trustworthy seller!

Not sure if you saw, but since shipping is free, local pickup comes with a $15 refund.

I forgot to mention that the CX-10's have hex disks.