briwayjones

I think for me it probably would have been the 7800. I think the newer games with more functionality (two button functions) and the backwards compatibility with the 2600 would have done it for me. I was/is a 2600 fan.

Ah, okay, that makes more sense now. With all of those phase shifted color charts being thrown around my head was starting to spin. Thanks Rev.

What I mean is on the color picker charts. There is a 25.7, 26.7 and others. With very little difference between them. What is the purpose of that? Do you just pick one to use?

I've dabbled with programming in various flavors of basic over the years but wouldn't call myself a programmer. So please bear with me. I'm not understanding why there is all of the different color phasing color palettes for the 7800 as opposed to just one color palette like there is for the 2600 for example. And also I don't understand how to implement using all of these palettes.

The promotional sixer console.

I understand

That was a trick to get the first generation Sony Discmans to work after they got some age on them.

Okay, that's what I was asking about in my first post. High scores in general that are not part of a competition. Thanks

How do you submit high scores for whatever game in general? When you are not competing in a season competition?

I just remembered another one. At some point I bought a friends Game Boy after he got a Game Gear. Had the Game Boy, a bunch of games, the light for the screen attachment, adapter and case. After a while I sold it for $30. Something else I wish I would have kept.

Someone gave me an NES when I was about 14. It was past it's prime at the time. The SNES was out. It was maybe after I got rid of all of my Atari stuff. That is the only thing I have left as far as video games from my childhood. In the last couple of years I've gotten nostalgic about my video games from the past. I as always curious about the 7800 because I never had one. So since you can also play 2600 games on them I got a couple 7800s to kill two birds with one stone.

For me unfortunately, there is a lot I regret getting rid of from my childhood. Toys like He-man, G.I. Joe and Transformers. Including an original metal Optimus Prime. But also my Atari collection. My first Atari was a woody 2600 sixer. Given to us by a friend when I were just a few years old. It was the promotional pack Atari 2600. Had chrome switches and yellow instead of orange highlighting around the switches. Came with Combat of course, Pac-Man and maybe Tapeworm. I'm not sure if Tapeworm came in it or separate. Since it wasn't an Atari game it probably didn't come with it. It also came with two controllers and a set of paddles. From what I gather it's one of the more rare and more valuable Atari 2600s. Over the years I was given a couple more woody Atari 2600s from people. Maybe a Vader. I bought a Jr. along the way, and was given one or two more. I had at least 80 games. In those days you could get the games from yard sales at .50c a piece. Sometimes even .25c a piece. In the end I wanted to make room and get rid of the stuff, think I sold the promotional woody 2600 I had, with all of the games and controllers for $20 at a yard sale. If only I could go back.

How do you tell factory sealed from resealed? Do you have a thread on it? Or have you thought of making a thread about it?

crap Sorry it wasn't quoting a post properly.

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I'm left handed so I do too. I grew up as a kid with both Atari joysticks and Nintendo game pads and am completely used to both. Albeit I was exposed to joysticks a few years earlier. I'm probably in the minority but I prefer joysticks over game pads. When speaking about game pads I'm speaking of retro ones like the Nintendos. I find holding a decent designed joystick more comfortable over a long period more comfortable than a game pad. On a joystick your hands are not closed as tightly as holding a game pad which I find less fatiguing. The biggest thing is I find joysticks more accurate and responsive. You are holding the stick on a joystick and it is in constant contact with your hand. As soon as you start moving your hand in any direction it starts moving the stick. On a game pad to change direction you have to move your thumb from one corner of the pad to the other which takes time. And you have to try to predict when you need to move ahead of time, instead of just moving when you need to. Even on circle type d-pads where you can kind of slide your finger and push the whole pad in the direction you want without going to the actual direction corner there is more lag. Especially if on the initial push the pad doesn't respond, and only responds once your finger slides closer to the direction corner you want. I have a NES Advantage stick for my Nintendo which I would prefer to play with over the game pads. Except I don't only because I find the control buttons sticky and because of that slow, and not very responsive. Especially for button mashing. I agree with others that I think the only reason game pads became the standard is because Nintendo was released with game pads. Nintendo then became popular, became the standard and others followed suit.

Thanks, I saw that thread but didn't look at the attached PDF. So it looked like something else. I guess I should have poked around a little deeper. Thanks, I also saw that but thought it had to do with just the season, not all time. Again I guess I should have looked closer. Feeling kind of dumb here. :/

Hi all I'm Brian! I've been lurking here for years but never had a reason to post. I have tended to come and go from my Atari it seems. And I have started dabbling around with programming for the 2600 and 7800. While reading how the HSC works I saw what might be an error. Under the game mode setup it says that on the difficulty switches on a 2600 that the "A" position is Expert and "B" is novice which would be correct. For the 7800 it says" "On an Atari 7800, moving the switch to the left is equivalent to "B" and moving the switch to the right is equivalent to "A". So to the left would be novice and to the right would be expert. However in my 7800 manual it says: "When a difficulty switch is moved to the left, the game becomes more difficult." so the expert setting. Which would match the setting position on the 2600s. Anyway that just caught my attention and I thought I would point it out. Has anybody thought about also having an all time high score list? Just an ongoing running list of all time high scores for games? Or would that be to much work? -Brian