up2knowgood

I don't have a Facebook account either.

Agreed, I think I'd have gone with Dragonfire. Cheap, readily available, and easily shows off all four directions in addition to the button. Still, very cool hack there man, good work!

The short answer is yes, but a more accurate answer is probably a maybe not. Tech wise, absolutely, all the tools and tech existed back then, but was far more expensive and the knowledge harder to come by. That and back when the 2600 was HOT there's a good chance one of the MANY companies would probably have snapped them up. I mean look at Skeet Shoot, that game was basically a homebrew, designed and programmed by a teenager in his spare time, then he's given $5,000 for it, and a job to program more games. I mean, Atari probably stuck by the 4KB cartridge size for longer than it should have to save money, so a game like Zippy, which is 64KB in size, would probably have been killed off in development because of the costs involved in manufacturing a cartridge for it.

Wouldn't be the first time something cool never happened because two companies couldn't agree. In fact, it wouldn't be the first time in Atari's history either.

Wow, that is pretty shitty. Its a shame people can be that way.

Thank you! Its through the work and know how of people like you that keep the 2600 going. Even now, 40 years after its release! I wait for Robot Zed with eager anticipation!

I know Bioshock 2600 is a fake, but a guy can hope right? I mean, Halo 2600 is a thing. I didn't realize that Mega Man 2600 was just a demo though, seemed like something that would have gotten finished. Sounds like you're a jaded business partner to Hozer. Not gonna lie, the renegade part of me wants to look into getting some Hozer games now after that review. May I ask what happened?

Very confusing.

I only own 3. Pac man 4K, Halo 2600, and Melbourne Tatty. Looking online to see if I could get others like Bioshock 2600 and Mega Man 2600, but it's impossible to find any homebrew games for sale outside of the Atari Age Store.

How is that possible? The Supercharger itself only has 6KB of space. Four loading Escape from Mastermind would therefore be largest, but with a max of 24KB. How did you come up with 33KB?

Agreed.

Oh sure, Atari Age already has something like that in the Store. I seem to remember them as fridge magnets though, but with a custom cart like this one it 100% doable. https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=949 Put your favorite game in there, whatever it might happen to be.

Considering the general consensus is that it didn't even make it to the concept phase, it seems doubtful. That said, I'm sure someone out there could come up with a concept and go from there to designing and programming, but it would take time, effort, and know how.

I don't think you're an asshole. You still appreciate the old games, you just don't like the old hardware. I'm on the opposite side of things, I like the old hardware just as much as I do the old games. Which is why I probably own more cartridges than you, but you probably blow me out of the water with the number of ROMs you have. Neither is right or wrong, just different, I know that. This site is geared for both collectors like me and emulators like you for just that reason. My reason for not owning a Harmony Cart is more of a comedy of errors than any sort of principle. I first heard about it on the forums here, but because it wasn't in the Atari Age Store, I thought that meant it was no longer available. I learned where it was on sale about a month ago, but by then I had already bought a Cuttle Cart off of eBay, and see no reason to buy the Harmony now.

You're a major buzz kill Flo. No appreciation for the original hardware the games we all love, and I know we all love them else we wouldn't be here. That said, it's not like you don't have a point. Though I still have to ask, does the Harmony work with the multi load games?

OR! It lets you load new ROMs onto special carts to play in your system on your TV.

I recommend the Supercharger, it's super cool, and for the most part, the tapes still work. That said, the Harmony Cart should play those games too if you can find the ROMs. The multiload ones might not work, but that's a maybe and an exception, not a rule.

Also true. It's not like today when the date is set in stone and there to help build suspense and everybody in the country can put them out on the shelves at the same time. It was more, "we'll sell them when we have them." Retailers in California were probably selling them long before anyone else because they have to ship them across the country.

When I worked in retail, release day was always Tuesday, except for Nintendo, who released on Sundays. Never knew why. September 11th was a Sunday in 1977, and October 9th was a Tuesday, so I would say Atari released the system for sale to retailers on October 9th, but the date for release to the public was closer to September 11th to give time for everyone who ordered to receive them. Insider Sears might had theirs early, but its impossible to say without records from the time.

Shouldn't be, I use a new Retro 2600 power adapter with mine. Seems to work fine overall, a little touchy at times. I agree with Alex_79 that it might be the carts and not the system.

Please, just call me up2. And I agree with Alex_79, I've had problems with Activision carts. I do find that I need to clean my Activision carts more thoroughly and quite a bit more often to keep them working compared to others. Generally worth it though, love that Pitfall II music!

Probably, mine is a Canadian model, probably made after many American ones. I like it because of the controllers. Love the dual controllers, having the joystick and paddle together in one controller makes it so much easier to play most games.

They seem to work fine on mine.

I like Name This Game and Win $10,000. Though there is no chance of getting that money. I find the game amusing.