EdwardK

They had a Porky's game and a Megaforce game too. The Megaforce game is still graphically one of my favorites on the 2600. My vote for weirdest has to be the 2600, based entirely on their games based on movies. Seriously, what about the movie Alien made the designers think, "yeah, that would be great as a game that plays somewhere between Pac Man and Wizards of Wor, Lets make that!!"

I always have atleast 1, and every time I sell or trade that one game off, the system ends up landing in my lap. Had Flipper Slipper for Colecovision for nearly 15 years, it was randomly in with a pile of 2600 games I got, sold it to a local game store when I was getting rid of a bunch of NES and 2600 duplicates I had. No joke, 5 days later, someone gave me a colecovision with the expansion module 1 and a handful of games for free because they couldn't get it to work. I cleaned the power switch, everything worked just fine, and then I kicked myself in the ass for selling Flipper Slipper. Next time i'm near that shop I'll probably check and see if they still have it. lol That's the longest I've owned a game that I never got to play.

They definately don't look as sharp now considering what we have now. Better than VHS (if they're still in good condition) but not by much. Also, they look HORRIBLE on modern high def tv's. Definately something you should hook up the old CRT for.

Maybe it's all because I have never had an issue with jitter. I keep them clean, like i do the pots in everything else I own, and they work fine. Never really had an issue with throw length or smoothness either. Guess you just have higher standards than I do. Your idea seems sound though and I wish you the best of luck with it, but I wonder if the extra precision will even be noticed in game.

Potentiometers gone? Since when? 1Mohm linear pots are in nearly every electric guitar on the market, and widely available. Why reinvent the wheel and overcomplicate a beautifully simple design? As for adjusting the throw, you could probably go down to a 500k pot and end up with tighter controls. (haven't tested this, but the math is there) Sorry if that sounds overly negative, but you asked for thoughts.

Love some CED's. They're my current favorite item to take to conventions to have actors sign. You'd be amazed how confused they look when they see them, even though they were in that movie. Barry Bostwick thanked me for keeping my CED player in working order as he signed my copy of MegaForce. Good times. Sorry for the necro post, just didn't realize more had been written in this thread till HoshiChiri bumped it.

First version I had was the 2600 version, then later got the Colecovision version. Since I only have those two to compare, I'm definately going with the colecovision version. I did sink quite a bit of time into the atari 2600 version. Not sure why it's drawing so much hate, it looked terrible, and all in all wasn't anything like the arcade version, but on it's own I still found it fun and playable so long as I didn't try to compare it to the original.

Thank God i'm not that bad. Maybe I managed to dodge that label too.

Wait.... I'm a retro audio/videophile? I hate the internet. I keep learning there are labels for everything. As for the video game collector being more similar to the videophile or the model train guys, I think it's all just kind of shades of the same thing. My collecting seems to be a bit closer to my comic collection. I have the ones from when they were new, and the ones that I wanted then and never got or never saw at the store I bought later. Not for any reason really except I wanted to know what I missed. Here's an example with my comics, Lets say I have Invincible Iron Man #213 from years ago, then missed a few issues, and got #216. If anything really major happened in 214 or 215, it would be referenced in #216. Even though I know Iron Man wins in those two issues, I still want to see what's in the pages, No idea why, but I do, and the only reason I look for the actual comic book is because I hate reading comics on screens. Just doesn't look right to me. No idea why. As for the quality of the books I go for, as long as it's not damaged all to hell, overly discoloured, or otherwise deemed by me to be in worse condition than it should be for it's age and the price is right, I get it. I have plenty that most collectors would pass on because they couldn't flip it for a price premium, solely because I wanted to read the story and see the artwork in a format that I enjoyed and honestly didn't plan on reselling anyways. For me, the games are very similiar. If I saw an add for a game years ago, and never got to play it and I can find it at a reasonable price, I get it. For Sega Genesis games, it's more often than not a game that I played the hell out of, loved, but can't play on the system now because I played it on Sega Channel. The reason I do that instead of emulation? No clue. I just feel compelled to do it that way. That mindset has screwed me a couple of times due to games not being nearly as good as I remembered, or due to having never played the game, plugging it in and finding out it's a turd. More often than not I get luck and come out good though. Also I don't end up blowing much money anyways, mostly due to the fact that I don't care about the boxes, instructions, and if the game is a really good game, I don't even care if they label is mangled and the cartridge looks like it has been chewed on by a pack of wolves, so long as it works. Im comic collecting circles, my collection has been referred to as a "readers collection." So I guess by that same logic, my game collection can be referred to as a players collection. Meanwhile, now that i've talked myself in to it, I guess game collectors are more similar to comic collectors.

Only paddles i've ever had that weren't fixed by a good cleaning had had the cable chewed by the original owners pet dog. Spraying some contact cleaner into the potentiometers makes the whole process quicker than opening the pot and scrubbing the contacts with a cotton swab and alcohol. Just spray it in the component, spin it back and forth through it's range of motion a few times, let it dry and you're typically good to go. I've noticed no difference in the length of time it stays clean between ones cleaned with the spray and ones cleaned by taking apart the pot in the controllers.

Tried that a few times, my favorite was doing it all without the sword, or only using the sword outside the gold castle. Used to call it the Monty Python version "Run Away!!!" (just remembered how I always figured the sword was a spear, but everyone else i knew insisted it was a sword) Those Dragons got crazy as heck if you let to many get in one area.

So i'm guessing judging by these times, no one else was after the easter egg? I considered it beat when i got the grail just outside the castle, then went and got the easter egg. different strokes for everyone I suppose.

Setting 2 for me depends on how much of a pain in the butt the bat decides to be. I'd say on average it takes me about 15 minutes ish (a large part of that is due to the bat), but it's been a few years and I wouldn't by any means consider myself a pro. Setting 3 is the fun one though.

I know that this doesn't require much modification(if any other than a little polishing), but Robot Tank would be cool.

Just a suggestion, a MAC 10 would scream 1980's and look sweet in a ninja's hand. Sorry, just had to throw that out there.

Nice one. Meanwhile, if Tony Stark was the only one calling me out for gaming at work, my day would be much better. lol

You got lucky on the yellowing then. Also, the vanilla works well for getting the smell out of your cooler if someone leaves fish guts in it and doesn't tell you. Good old redneck ingenuity.

You could try putting them in a container with a cup of baking soda. Should help clear up the smell a bit(won't fix any yellowing though). If that doesn't do it, you could try activated carbon, or even a rag with vanilla on it. Rag with vanilla works amazingly well with alot of smells.

Artificial intelligence sure has come a long way. Maybe some day it'll take to job of the people playing games and yelling in youtube videos that my stepson thinks are so funny. Meanwhile, the title of this thread made me think of this.

Nothing on my list will probably ever be considered important to anyone on here, but here's mine 1. The blue coax cable from our Sega Channel unit from the 90's. Nothing special about it except my brother and I hid it when the cable guy came to pick up the unit that plugged into our system when the service was finally ended. We were on it from the launch year (in our area, little after bigger markets) till the last day. Not sure why we wanted to keep a blue coax cable with Sega printed on it, but we did. 2. My friend's Nintendo Entertainment System that we used to play on when over at his place. Has a Super Mario Land sticker on it still that got put on it when the sticker was new. This was one of 2 or 3 Nintendo's that actually remember seeing back then. He gave it to me when he got an N64. 3. A copy of Mega Bomberman for the Sega Genesis I bought a couple of years ago. My brother and I played the hell out of it on the Sega Channel, Saw it at a game store out here, had a flashback, and decided that my stepson and I had to play it. Got the multitap to go with it. 4. Pitfall 2 for the Atari 2600. Must have played that game a million times, but it still amazes me how good it looks, how many colors are on screen, and how big the playfield is for a game on that system. 5. This one was the hardest one for me to decide on. I've got alot of things I could have put here, but the last spot goes to my Game Boy Micro. It was given to me, all I had to do was get a charger. Online reviews seem to slam the Micro for cramped controls and too small of a screen, but I haven't had a problem with it, and it comes to work with me every day. Whenever I know i'm going to have a few minutes of down time it keeps me occupied. Mostly i've been playing Galaga on it lately, and it sure as hell helps pass the time.

I liked this thread better when it ended like this.

Kinda with you on that one but also more to the point, to what end does one have to go to to meet the demands of an NTSC game in a PAL territory? If I wanted a PAL system here, not only do I have to ship one in, get some sort of adapter so my US wall sockets will work with it, then either get a converter to allow the system to properly display on my TV, or buy a TV from said PAL region and address the power concerns yet again. Otherwise my option, depending on the system, is to open a perfectly good system, muck around with the guts and potentially screw it up so I can play games from outside it's region, or do some crazy adapter business because the cartridges are shaped differently. In the end, this doesn't seem worth it to me. It'd be like my redneck self buying a famicom and learning Japanese so I can play Final Fantasy 2 on the original system instead of just playing a port that works here much more easily. Needless to say, the PAL/NTSC purist argument gets on my nerves. And don't even get me started on DVD regions.

If for whatever reason the AV mod doesn't fix it for you, the offer for the circuit board I mentioned earlier still stands. Depending on where you are at in Texas, might not even have to ship it. Good luck with the mod though.

That's one badly managed auction. I used to work live auctions and their rules were that you couldn't bid on your own item, and if you were caught you were fined and barred from putting your items on the block in the future. If you had a buddy doing it for you, it was called collusion, which was also against the rules, same penalty, only they wouldn't let your buddy in next month. And God forbid you try that at a livestock auction in Pasadena. As for Ebay, the way I always did it was set my bid at whatever the max I would want to pay for the item whenever i found the listing. If I got outbid, the item already passed what I wanted to pay anyways. It's worked out pretty well for me. If they try to bump the price with a fake buyer, they miss out on the sale, because I wasn't going to go that high anyways.

Those look cleaner than any of my connectors and mine still work, so I'd rule that possibility out. (I live near the coast in Texas, thinks corrode and there's not much that can stop it) Came up with one other theory though after noticing your accent in the video. Are the tv and the Atari from different countries? Could be a frequency mismatch thing? (either a PAL vs NTSC problem or maybe an electrical frequency thing, some power grids being on 60hz others on 50hz) Just offering up the suggestion. Never ran into that one personally so I have no idea what it would look like, perhaps someone with more experience in the subject knows?