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Similar thing happened to my FBP. My son dropped it and the only way it would turn on was if it was plugged in. I opened up the unit and found that the battery must have shifted during the fall, damaging one of the tiny connectors on the board. It was one of the connectors from the battery to the board. I was able to solder the connector and it works. Sure was tiny compared to working on a real VCS!

Space Invaders- it may be basic but compared to the arcade it stacks up quite well. Also, Ms. Pacman.

Flash Gordon and Kool-Aid Man.

You would still go to Best, you would just hate yourself. Honestly the Best rebuild kits are better than the reproductions I have purchased. As for his website being behind the times...so what? We are playing a game system from 1977!

20) Maze (Sears) This is a lot of fun with a second player 19) Tank Plus (Sears) Another great 2 player game 18) Race (Sears) 2 player madatory 17) Journey Escape 16) Demon Attack 15) River Raid 14) Galaxian 13) Superman 12) Frogger 11) Asteroids 10) Video Olympics 9) Star Voyager Pitfall II 7) Jr. Pacman 6) Realsports Baseball 5) Warlords 4) Space Invaders 3) Missile Command 2) Ms. Pacman 1) Adventure

What about Solaris?

I have a lot of interest in some Atari decals. Who wouldn't?

I absolutely love Sears Telegames Maze. I do not remember the Atari name but Maze with two people would make us laugh and also get really angry growing up. Tank Plus was another gem and as a really young child Target Fun was a beast. I remember playing with my dad and hearing those Target Fun sounds brings me back in time.

I'm interested in this. My laser blast looks terrible. River Raid is the text label. Why did Activision use the text labels?

Watching the winter olympics is making me want to bust out Activision Skiing, Any other games that are good for the winter games?

In the late 80's I loaned out a signifigant amount of my vcs games to the neighbor kid. I was too busy playing the XL and never noticed they were not returned. I also loaned out Airball for the XL, never got it back either.

I am a Gemstick fan. I think the button was a little larger than on the standard Atari stick. The Gemstick seemed to hold up a little better on Track and Field (A8) too. I had the slick stick too, but always preferred the Gem. Years later I got the 500XJ and it is great so long as you get used to the button placement.

I got an Intellivision and a Heavy Sixer. The Atari plays great and came with the original box and a letterhead from Atari Service stating the unit had been repaired. The Intellivision had a gimpy contriller that was easily fixed and it is a great machine too. There were some cartridges too but they were so common I forgot what they were.

Too bad you don't understand the way licensing works. Regardless of how much Target sells the t-shirts for Atari has already been paid.

Also, Jack Black was not in an Atari commercial if the game was Pitfall. Back then everyone knew the difference between Activision and Atari.

Hmm I seem to remember it being a magnavox 13" BW

At some point you could go into a Radioshack and purchase games. I did so during the Jr. era- they also sold them in the store catalogs in the early 90's.

1- Adventure 2- Jr. Pac Man 3- Space Invaders 4- Tank Plus ...Ok Combat 5- Warlords 6- Ms, Pac Man 7- Pitfall 2 8- Journey Escape 9- Missile Command 10- River Raid

Remember that in the 1970's Sears was huge. Getting your product in the catalog meant big time money. Atari already had a good relationship with Sears. Sears calls up Atari and says they want to sell the VCS, but they want it to be branded as a Sears product and Atari says "of course!" I do not remember people being confused at all back then. We knew the VCS and Tele games were compatible. Heck, Sears even got an exclusive redesign of the 2600 and a couple exclusive titles so I don't think it was a situation where Sears was "allowed" to change names. It was a negotiation.

I had the wallet and it came with a text label cart (Atari version.) I seem to remember the box mentioned the free wallet and it was bigger than the standard box. The wallet was nice for the time, but extremely cheap. I would be surprised to find any in good condition as the interior was cheap plastic. Still, it was cool for a 4 year old.

Worst? Any stick that just had the misfortune of being used to play Decathlon or Track and Field! Those games killed every stick I owned.

Yep, and the lines including the $80.00 one were all very long, always 10 or more people waiting to buy Pac-Man.They had no problems selling them, everywhere they were sold out pretty quick the day Pac-man was released.I remember the hype campaigns stores were doing a month or two before it came out, posters every where. They were handing out Pac-Man stickers to everyone coming off the escalators at this one department store, it was unreal!!!!! Gah there must of been some pretty pissed off kids later on that day when they got home. Maybe not as many as you think. It's been stated before and I'll repeat it but Pac Man was a popular game when it first came out.

You can say that again! You can stop saying it since Journey Escape and the Journey Arcade are not the same game. Escape came out in 1982 and shares the artwork with the Journey Escape Album from a year prior. The arcade references the Frontiers album which was released in 1983. So one is not a version of the other. The arcade is better though.

Bugs. I ended up with the family VCS but Bugs was all my brother's doing. He got some cash for his birthday and bought a couple Data Age games for the same price as an Atari or Activision game. Man did he make a mistake since Bugs and Encounter at L 5 really suck. I only have a few of the original games from my childhood. Most were borrowed and never returned after I moved onto the 800XL. I guess none of the neighborhood kids wanted to get stuck with Bugs.