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  5. Posted

    I might want to get in on this.... Maybe I can talk my wife into playing?

     

    We might need some kind of handy capping though.

     

    I haven't played for more than a year maybe 2, but I know I would score 240+ first try.

     

    300's are not guarantied as a collision bug exists. Example, if the 6 pin taps the 10 pin, not enough to knock it down, but just wobble it,

    The ball will pass through a wobbling pin and not knock it down.

     

    Just played a quick game... 300 first try. But luck was on my side for a few frames!

     

    Bowling is a quick enough game, do any emulators record? People are doing it, but is it external software or does the emu create the videos?

     

     

    1980gamer - I just reread your post... We are strictly talking about the Intellivision Bowling cart to be played and not real bowling, or other emulators

  6. Posted

    I might want to get in on this.... Maybe I can talk my wife into playing?

     

    We might need some kind of handy capping though.

     

    I haven't played for more than a year maybe 2, but I know I would score 240+ first try.

     

    300's are not guarantied as a collision bug exists. Example, if the 6 pin taps the 10 pin, not enough to knock it down, but just wobble it,

    The ball will pass through a wobbling pin and not knock it down.

     

    Just played a quick game... 300 first try. But luck was on my side for a few frames!

     

    Bowling is a quick enough game, do any emulators record? People are doing it, but is it external software or does the emu create the videos?

     

    I don't think we need any handy caps. We are all fairly handy capped as it is. Some of the people signed up have never played, and some of us haven't played it in 30+ years.

     

     

    Dammit, I think I'm going to participate....and buy a shirt. Anyone want to be on my team? Here are my terms: I'm terrible and I get to pick the team name :)

     

    I think you'll fit right in to most teams.

  7. Posted

    I have. And the TImex Sinclair 1000, too. :-D At least their keys didn't get stuck down all the time and prevent you from entering anything else until you hunted down the stuck key and got it loose again.

     

    You mean you don't have vacuum tipped fingers that suck up the keys as you type like the other ECS owners have? ;-)

     

    Just spray some WD40 around the keys that get stuck, no?

  9. Posted

    Ships and fish are gone? How are you gonna make money or is it 'game over' after the nukes? :lol:

     

    Gotta clean up the environment and rebuild the populous somehow. Or not. :rolling:

     

    Don't you know, it is said that the cockroaches will be able to survive a nuke holocaust, so once the nukes are deployed then the cockroaches will take over.

     

    Or the ants, like in the "Empire of the Ants" 1977 movie and we are all sprayed in the face by the queen ant and become her drones.

  11. Posted

    Sorry, mr_me, it seems that I hijacked your thread.

     

    Both lists are very interesting.

     

    Seeing what games are truly original is just as interesting to see as to what were not original and seeing where they got the inspiration from. Well, for me anyway.

     

    I've mentioned in other threads on AA, as a kid, we've only owned Channel F and Inty, and I've played a few 2600 games through my System Changer and my buddy across the street. I haven't played many arcade games, and I've never owned any newer console system, so at the time I really didn't know what else was out there - and I still really don't.

     

    Both of these lists are interesting to me.

  14. Posted

    So that makes for about 87 original video games (70% of the 125). It is subject to opinion.

     

    Which games are you counting as original?

     

    Checker, Chess, Poker, etc, all sports, are all not original, per se... they've existed for a long time before Intellivision

     

    I don't know much about other consoles and arcade games of that era to really compile a list of what could/should be truly original to Inty

     

    Maybe the list of truly original games is much shorter?

    Utopia

    Astrosmash

    Shark Shark

    All the Tron games?

    Star Strike

    Truckin'

     

    There are more, so does anyone else want to add on to the list?

  15. Posted

    mr_me - it sounds like Asaki does not want to use USB. He mentions that he wants to make a parallel port adapter, so sounds like he wants to go from parallel port to Inty controller. I am not sure if there is any real advantage to that, but we whose to say.

     

    Asaki - what schematics are you looking for? Here is the Intellivision controller pinout: http://arcarc.xmission.com/Web%20Archives/Deathskull%20(May-2006)/games/tech/intvcont.html

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    But I get it, if someone plans to sell cart-only releases, collectors would not be happy without artwork. It's just that what you are trying to do with the cartridge label is what i would like the manual to be: the big fancy artwork that someone can be proud of and show off. :) In that light, more art in the package just competes with that.

     

    I don't think that the artwork on the cart necessarily competes with the artwork on the manual cover, or box. It can complement them. The cart artwork is many times just the same artwork that is on the box or manual.

     

    Do you look at the Congo Bongo cart and say "nah, it is too cluttered and distracting. Let's rip off that label"?

     

    I was just asking a question about the shape/design of the carts, but I don't mind expanding this to a discussion on the labels and the artwork.

     

    The labels on the Mattel carts is just too plain. Just a simple text. I like what they did for BurgerTime and others when they used the game's 'official' font/script

  23. Posted

    Ah, I see. You need pimples for the buttons and the disc area so you get the tactile feel of where things are at without looking.

     

    Grab another screen protector and cut out circles the proper size and stick them where they need to go. Now when you are using the disc you will feel the lip of the circle and know where it is; same for each button.

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