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    Omegasupreme

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    Unless of course GoldLeader comments...Then Pay Attention!

     

     

    It will vary by day sometimes...

     

     

    Ya caught me on a Dark Cavern day...

     

     

    Other choices include Space Rocks, Star Castle Arcade, Midnight Magic, Pitfall!, Seaweed Assault, Pleiades, Yar's Revenge, Montezuma's Revenge, Demon Attack, TRON: Deadly Discs, and Frankenstein's Monster.

    Nathan Strum

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    A crowdfunding "Pre-Order" isn't [necessarily] a real Pre-Order, because some of those (ahemmm Atcobox) don't even have Prototypes yet...And some of them I have No Faith in, and I wouldn't want it if you gave me one...Actually if ya gave me 2 nutari "VCS"s...One to poop on and one to wipe my butt with afterwards...Maybe then....

     

    At any rate I did Pre-Order a Phoenix Console because I have very reasonable expectations that it will exist. And 2 of them are my friends on AtariAge! If I don't get one I will rebel and take to the streets with rocks and sticks and broccoli, and ...Well it doesn't matter because it Will exist...Sometimes you need only believe :)...

     

    BTW, famous "Pre-Orders" for me that didn't pan out include something called a PlayStation 2 (I think it was)...By Sony or something like that...True story,...I was on a list at Kay Bee Toys and they tried to screw everybody by changing the terms after we'd paid our $10 (refundable at least)...At first, (October 2000) they got in either 6 or 12...Either way they had I'm guessing over 300 "Pre-Orders" and they told us we were all buying bundles now with an additional controller, memory card and a game of their choosing...And I said "Nope!,...Not what I signed up for" Besides I bought 2 (Technically 1 and a half) on launch day, well one for me, and my friend and i split one to ebay, of course there were no others left in town...So I just kicked back and waited just to see if they'd call...

     

    They never called and I cashed in my pre-order asking for my money back 6 months later! Totally screwed up their books and never shopped there again...And they went and disappeared like Sears so maybe they shouldn't have gotten greedy and tried to screw everybody...

    doctorclu

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    That's what I remember; was that they had good Special FX for the time (and for their budgets!)

     

    You'll probably laugh, but back then we watched a show like this for one or two space ship shots (as in camera shots), and always hoped for one or two weapons shots (as in Lasers or whatever their ships fired) and with any luck an explosion or two...I don't even think I paid attention to characters or plot or anything like that.

     

     

    I get them mixed up, but I seem to recall Space Academy had one kind of ship and the sequel (?) Jason of Star Command had 2 kinds of ships...I always assumed those 2 were related. I think the ships were called the same names, but as far as Ark II, if I saw it I don't recall...I get the impression it is not really related except for being by the same company.

    Nathan Strum

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    Yep! (Maybe with the exception of The Far Side especially when it was new and novel) ...As we get older, I figure humor requires pushing the envelope...More mature themes, perhaps?...Which basically explains why South Park is Funny,..Hilarious at times, but Scooby Doo never was....Well maybe it was once in a while...

     

    Either way I appreciate the work!

     

    Yours reminds me, in a good way, of the Sunday comics...Plus being Atari themed is nice!

     

    I also read "Space Roanoke" by pacman000...Not for humor, per se, but to read a serial style comic that someone came up with...And has stuck with. He's up to episode #45!

     

    Don't work too hard, but keep up the good work!

     

    Cheers!

    Nathan Strum

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    WOOOHOOO!

     

    I really dig the return of Artie!

     

    And it's perfect that I come to this on a Sunday morning...As a kid I would sometimes look forward to reading the comics in the Sunday newspaper as it was the only day they were in color ...I know I was strange kid. Usually laughed hard at The Born Loser comic ...

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    DoctorSpuds

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    I like that game as it was another one I had BITD, but Bermuda Triangle has a unique distinction in my collection.

     

    I believe it was the first loose cart game I ever bought! I do remember not knowing what to do with it since there was No Box! I was astounded at the time that a game could have No Box haha... I can't remember the details but I'm thinking I got it at a yard sale or something. The only other game without a box in my collection at the time was this copy of Bank Heist that went on sale and my friend and I split the cost of it. We took turns "owning" Bank Heist and that way we each got to play another game but only pitched in (I think) it was around $11 a piece. Sometimes Bank Heist was at my house and sometimes it was at my friend's house. We were supposed to trade off every week or two haha...I own it now :) I think we flipped a coin for the box and I lost ;)

    DoctorSpuds

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    For some reason, I tend to think of Data Age as one of those companies that are "Victims of The Crash", but I don't know that I'm right. Maybe it's the fact that you could get them around here, unlike some of the more obscure stuff that never made it to (local) stores...

     

    We would have killed for a Great game selection, ... but we did OK I guess...Around here games by companies like Apollo or 20th Century Fox were also considered exotic! In fact I only remember seeing one Apollo game in my life in a store! And it was in a computer store.

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