briwayjones

My five year old self could wipe the floor with me now playing Galaga. And I was barely tall enough to see the screen and reach the controls.

I don't think I've ever even seen anyone with disabilities working at any of our stores. Walmart seems to do a much better job at that than the Goodwills around here.

Actually Goodwill is for profit. The only "Goodwill" they show is hiring people to work in their stores.

GeForce 2 MX cards were epic. Only about 10FPS slower than NVIDIAS top end cards at the time for about 1/6 the cost at $30.

You know what's really funny about Apple suing Samsung in 2010 or whenever it was because Samsung had the rounded corners and their stuff looked like the iPad? Samsung 2006. Who copied who?

I kind of like halfway in between squishy and clicky. If I had to pick one it would be clicky. That is something I really don't like about the Lynx II, the buttons are very squishy. Feels cheap to me. Is the Lynx I the same way? I've never played one. The original Gameboy controls were about right if I remember correctly.

Personally I think crowdfunding is for the little guy. A major company, financially failing or not, should and should be able to come out with a product on their own without begging for money. It doesn't give me a good feeling about a major company and their product if they're asking for money for it from users, and can't come out with it on their own. At the very least it means they're being lazy.

I like Moon Patrol even though I'm not great at it. I remember being really excited to get it as a kid. I think it was one I saved up for.

Ok, I couldn't remember if it was Donkey Kong, or Jr.

Isn't DK Jr. on the 7800 missing a level? Or am I thinking of something else?

Xevious and Ball Blazer would be a couple.

Haven't installed them yet but the labels look great. High quality. I do have one suggestion, maybe put in fine print somewhere that they are reproductions. That way they don't create any confusion if they are sold or someone else has them in the future.

Out of curiosity did you ever get a refund for the boot?

Hmm, what if a classic Atari video game system is seen in the movie, which is the AtariBox?

Mine is real tight on 26007800 carts too. I feel like I'm going to break the slot every time I put a game in or out. I wish they made them like the 2600 slots. They are rock solid.

I'm beginning to regret that I wasn't. As a little kid I think I played on a Colecovision once at a friends house. I remember thinking, cool, something different than my 2600. This is really different. I don't remember what game but I remember I was having fun playing it. A dungeon game or something.

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Here's some pictures, I don't know if they'll help.

They weren't advertising it as new, just CIB. So I was figuring it would be a used one in the box with the manual. I can't even hardly feel the edges of the hole. The edges around the hole look thinner than the rest of the plastic from being stretched before it was torn. I'm not a collector that has to have everything in pristine condition, or a CIB for every game. I'm more about playing them and the nostalgia. But I guess my thinking is in regards to opening a factory sealed one is, that at some point there won't be any left. And it would be like losing a bit of history. Is having a "My Media" media library section only for subscribers? I can't find that section. It doesn't look like there is anyway to attach images to a post unless you link it from an outside site?

I would say the corner of the seems aren't that hard on mine. It does have a similar but small hole on the bottom right on the front. The top flap of the box is damaged in such a way like it was pried open. So it must be a reseal. I don't know if it means anything, but the tag instead of sticking up like yours is perfectly bent/creased over the top of the box and lays flat on the top of the box. I'll see if I can get some pictures of it tomorrow. What's an O'Shea copy? Somebody named O'Shea had a bunch of unopened copies to sell?

I asked because I recently got a boxed copy of Dig Dug for the 7800 from Best. I didn't realize it was going to be sealed. If it's factory sealed I'm not sure I want to open it. To me it looks factory sealed. At least it's not an obvious ghetto reseal I've seen on some things. It also has a plastic hang tag on it. The plastic is soft and pliable though. Actually I'm looking at it more as I write this, the box underneath looks too dirty to be a factory seal.

How can you tell a factory sealed game vs. a resealed game for Atari 2600/7800 games?

I like Pac-man I sold 3 or 4 2600s one of which was a promotional model, about 80 games for dirt cheap when I were a kid. (about $20) I threw away all of the game boxes.

Some of the sounds on the 2600 Yar's Revenge.

I want to say in my mind it happened for me when games got to about the 2GB mark. I want to say that's when how good the graphics engines were, and how well they were implemented really started to take over and matter. I don't know if that's the case but that's what's kind of sticking out in my head.