doctorclu

Good job Doctorclu!! Only 5?? There's more than that once you get the Twisted Metal and WipeOut games! I also recommend LUNAR games, All Crash Bandicoot, both Suikoden, both Pandemonium, All REs, FFs, GEX, Critical Depth, PlayStation Music Maker, Spyro, Spider, Legend of Dragoon, Colony Wars, Shipwreckers, Einhander, Army man 3D, Chrono Cross, Arc the Lad, Mega Man, Skullmonkeys, Driver, Rogue Trip Vacation, Silent Hill, Castlevania...and any and all Arcade and console comp...

...console compilations, Retro remakes, etc.,...And lots of RPGs. But that's just off the top of my head

I even enjoyed games that were too....I don't know, artistic, strange, Non-Winable, and relaxed for the general populace...For example, I liked Aquanaut's Holiday, and actually thought Tail of the Sun was Brilliant!...

I tell you another one I can really get into is "Electric Dreams".

And wow, Virginia Madsen

Would make a great picture on the Atari 8-bit under Aladdin or other picture viewers.

Last night on MeTV the show "Sventoonie" reviewed Species and it was quite funny.

Does anybody have any idea how cool Star Raiders was/is ?

Well, it's 30 years later and I'm still playing the game. I would attribute it all to the action pace of the game. The graphics might be very basic, but I've come to see that as instrumentation or heads up display graphics. Yeh, overall, great game.

Aside from my strange LunarLander fantasies. StarRaiders was one of the first games that entirely lifted me out of this world and plopped me elsewhere.

It was one of the few games I could charge my friends to play. Free if you would act as co-pilot and man the keyboard!

Awesome. I have been looking for Supercharger resources, and so far I found the binaries that Nukey Shay modified a few years back, the Worship the Woodgrain CD archive, and I found the makewav binary site: http://web.archive.org/web/20090605074606/http://members.cox.net/rcolbert/makebin.htm

Any other resources or archives out there with already converted binaries either to work on the Supercharger or in wav or mp3 format?

You can check Atarimania. Mine are dated 2009, so it's been a while.

Thanks RickR on all the advice.

Micro Center should consider setting up shop in Slidell.

Fry's was pretty cool when I first went to one, 20+ years ago. I looked forward to visiting the stores and looking at all of the stuff I couldn't afford (but wanted to buy). As Radio Shack deteriorated, Fry's became one of the few retail stores where you could buy stuff for electronics projects. They had a huge selection so you could compare different brands and had competitive prices. My HDTV was bought there, and I got a great deal on it.

That was in 2007.

Over subsequent years, the stores deteriorated. There were fewer products, the displays fell apart, demos didn't work, entire sections weren't restocked, and the employees just seemed to stop caring. I don't recall the last time I went into a Fry's. I certainly didn't buy anything the last several times I went in either, because they didn't have what I was looking for.

Online retailers often get blamed for the death of brick-and-mortar retailers like Fry's, Radio Shack, Sears and Toys 'R' Us. But if you really look at how the stores were run, and what a miserable experience in-person shopping became, they did it to themselves.

The nearest Micro Center to me is in Tustin. 85 miles away, on the other side of Los Angeles. Not visiting anytime soon.

Micro Center opened here about 12 years ago.  Still appears to be busy and doing OK, thankfully!

I'm so spoiled with their SD and MicroSD cards at the cash register.  I get a new one every trip just because they are so cheap.  I am flush with 32/64GB micro SDs.

Not to mention the only place where you need "X" cable or part.  They will have it.  Not even Radio Shack would compare back in the day.  Have even gotten fiber network cables there during a work emergency.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I know there are multiple makers of joysticks out there.  Few seem to get the stick portion of the joystick right for durability.  The Flashback sticks of rigid plastic that screwed on... breaks where it screws on.   These and others the base of the controllers are made so small and flimsy it is no wonder they broke.

These are great for someone who wants to collect this stuff.  Show off a game or two to a friend of "what was" and pack it all away.  But a lot of joystick makers just don't get the serious gamer who are playing to win, hours and hours of gaming against increasingly difficult foes.  Vintage sticks seemed to understand that and they last years. Why mess with perfection?

I have a basket of various 2600 controllers.  I find some work better than others for certain games.

For most games I'm using an old Suncom Slik Stick I bought off eBay for maybe $15.  

I find it sometimes gives a false UP in Frogger, and has laggy input in Q*Bert, but other games it works great...

In those cases I fall back on a Hyperkin Trooper for games with mostly cardinal directions (like Ms. Pacman) or a Hyperkin Ranger for games that are free range like Missile Command.

I think Slik Stiks are Fantastic! (I also use)  Europads,  FB controllers, Genesis controllers too...And of course Edladdin for the True Luxury!!  I also sometimes adapt a PS2 Arcade controller (HORI) and it works very well but left handed...

Let's see,

The PCBs came put in backwards

The labels are crap

The font on the boxes is too small to match your other Atari games (with the Atari Logo coming out in the wrong spot)

The games have sometimes been known to crash (when they do play)

I gotta admit Nutari did a better job on this than I thought they would!

Hey now, unlike the Amico, ar least these exist!

Yeh when I wrote this I was actually impressed by the re-release.   Still somewhat am and might pick up Warlords as I always loved that game.

Just the idea that FM was new and they only had staticy AM before. The miracle of FM, etc. Loses relatability over time. 

kind of like like a song about wonders of cassette tapes or, maybe to be more extreme, the automobile or electric light. 

Oh I get you.   And now we have digital radio channels.  

Hard to imagine a world with just AM, just like world with just the three broadcast stations even though I grew up to some extent in that world. My parents bought me a 1980 pickup when I was 16 that had an AM only radio. 

Don't worry 2600,...I'm never "Where it's at" either,...**Sigh**

haha, WY and WI - a couple of deadbeat zones for sure.

LOL

Whoa, there's a name from the past. I had Zool 2 on the Jaguar back in the 1900s. 

Zool!  I was gonna try that game on either SNES or Genesis,  or maybe Evercade one of these days...But when I try to find info on it,  my PC just growls and says,  "There is no Dana,  Only ZOOL"   (weird)

So currently on world 4 (Tool World) and just loving this game.

It's like they listened to what people said were crap about Zool games, didn't do that, and did the things that people liked about Zool.   Lovely. 

It would be as if they gave multiple hits for Bubsy.   (Hint hint Atari....)

Nice! Have never seen a Nuon in the wild, have been keeping an eye out for a few years now.

Oh nice find. I've only ever seen one in the wild apart from the one I own, so that's a cool find for a nice price.

Score!

We decided to take advantage of the market really.   House of 18 years was worth more than twice what we paid for it.   Sold house, paid off mortgage and completely paid off new house.     New city is nice, getting to try out a new place.  Been fun.

Cool...good luck in your new digs.  Remind me where you moved from?

I lived in South, Dallas so only moved less than an hour away.  But it is more quiet, lower taxes, and people are a bit friendlier here.

I had a woman friend who said "I should probably thank my arms for being beside me through thick and thin". 

I would like to thank my hands.....I can always count on them!

My armless buddy is pretty pissed off.

I'm getting that way myself anymore. Oddly, there are things I'd like to buy, but no-one makes them or they quit making the items.

It is a good problem to have Sega_Shark. I either say "Got it!" or "Don't have to have it". I've mainly run out of Bubsy items to buy.

Simbalion, can definitely see that. It amazes me how many great ideas have come and gone since Atariage started. Take the Cuttle Cart for the 7800. Great hardware, great interface, nothing like it for the 7800 since. Sad really.

The fact that the character and games had potential just makes it all the more tragic.

If you mean Awesome then we are on the same page.

Totally!

Move on to what?

When somebody moves on, it's usually because of marriage or a baby on the way.

Got married. Had a baby. Kept my Atari collection. You can too with this weird trick discovered by a neckbeard.

Happy anniversary 12 years for me as of last November

you guys are old, only 6 for me

(Waiting for Albert to add a comment and show off.)

No,  I'm not on Facebook....You mean there's someone named GoldLeader on FaceBook?

My name Is GoldLeader on YouTube,  but if there's one on FaceBook, that is someone else.

Huh, must have the unbirthday set here too. 

https://atariage.com/forums/blogs/entry/18137-a-very-happy-facebook-unbirthday-to-me-d/

At least this sequel is giving us a good reunion of surviving actors and their characters unlike a certain trilogy that just wrapped up recently.

No doubt!   This one got a good lot of the main characters together, and introduced new characters.  And though George Carlin is no longer with us, he was remembered as well.

Hey Adam242, let me know what you think of it when you see it. 

I haven't done any in many years.. but my favorite of all was giving a former boss fake lottery tickets.  He bought it hook, line and sinker! XD

Tried my best in the Classic Computing forum, but it seems to have failed.

I just gagged.

I agree.   I set my weather app to Celcius and have been working on converting in my head.  I get it mostly right.

We Canadians officially made the switch back in the 1970s and we _still_ used a mixed system. Packaged goods are mostly metric sizes, of course (e.g. milk comes in 1, 2, or 4 litre cartons, but butter comes in 1 lb blocks) and highway distances are measured in kilometers.

Most everything else is mixed:

I have no idea what my height is in centimeters, but in terms of temperature I use Celsius. When I go to the deli, I ask for 1/4 pound of whatever, and the clerk clearly understands my request. Most recipes use cups or tablespoons as a measurement unit. 

As a Canadian I find I use both equally well.  I notice that there is a tendency to use metric for more precise measurements, but imperial for less accurate numbers.

For example, if someone asked the distance to another town you might say 44 kilometers, but if it were a rough guess you'd say "About 30 miles".

But ours are diesels

Car was my first answer.... fully expecting it to end up being something else as the joke.

You!

The danger is always there.  Sometimes things happen.   And for the adventurer that is part of the thrill, to go to such places, dare such dangers, and return.   And most of the time we do.   But sometimes luck runs out.

Ultimately I salate the daring of such adventurers.

I certainly wouldn't have gotten into that thing!  Not Safety Rated,  controlled with a BlueTooth Controller!  Yeah BlueTooth!  That crappy idea whereby you can lose signal at any time for any reason!!

Bluetooth driven?   Holy cow!

True, this has been the go to.  Kinda consolidated it all nicely into one place.

There are a few places I know of.  For starters, quite a few Facebook forums for Atari.

I see some activity on Atari.org.  A very dated and unsecure site sadly.  😕

This one looks active https://atari-forum.com/

Club VCS... looks cool..  https://forums.atari.io/forum/131-vcs-topics/

And back that up a bit, the other forums..  https://forums.atari.io/

There's lots of Atari out there, just curious what other places other people find fun to frequent?

VideoGameSage:  Forums - Video Game Sage

It was created by people who migrated over after NintendoAge was purchased and shut down.  There is a large group of regular posters over there and while the interest typically skews a bit more towards Nintendo and Japanese systems, the users have a lot in common.  There isn't near as much in the way of development and programming discussion though.

Thanks for that Wongojack, looks like an interesting place.

Cool!

Great Job! (Imagine it in a Tim + Eric voice)...

Congrats!