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That is so perfect!! The cheerful instrumentation with that song. Wham's "Wake Me Up". Nice...

Well it only took me two years of off and on play, but I finally beat the hard level! Had a score of like 105,955 or something like that. Lot of fun. I think I'm wearing it out. Loads sometimes, and sometimes not. I think I like the speeder bikes part the best.

The main reason I played it. I just love how the characters were all over the place. Also, go for ultra gore/blood. Makes it even more hilarious.

A compact 600XL? Could get behind that. Soooo... how it the pack in joystick for this thing? That will be my ongoing question about this after having like five modern day joysticks fail between the Flashback 2 line, and other replacement joysticks I picked up at video game stores. We wanna play games, and we don't want to be delicate about it. Don't cheap out on the joysticks.

Sounds like something worth building. See what we can do. Which actually brings up a good point. 1) does BS:G* create a .e2p file? 2) I seem to remember patches could be uploaded to Battlesphere through BJL link? If so, would that information be saved to the .e2p file? Suffice to say I've enjoyed what the .e2p file outputs. Sometimes it is legible (and you can alter with a text editor... whistles...) and sometimes it does not. I will say this, on Attack of the Mutant Penguins I found that if have all 16 levels unlocked, then play a game from the start, it will save a few levels short of the level you completed on that round. So if you want to have the ability to start on level 16 I believe not letting it save the final ending screen/game over might keep that from happening. If it does, just reload the AotMP .e2p file on the Game Drive.

I've been enjoying using an Atari 800 with FujiNet here recently. Mostly use it for getting on BBSs to write other users on those systems. I use mainly Bobterm for ATASCII and Flickerterm for ANSI. I've gotten on some of the games that are FujiNet modified and played them through that. And of course while there is much that I have not tried, the lists of what you've tried also help.

And you did just that. Thank you.

That is some good information, overhauled artwork, and an extra stage? Nice! In relation to KMF that is interesting. The other eight games are also interesting. Not the information was asking about, I don't buy games for the boxes, but thank you for that extra bit you put into these products.

Bubsy is like a spring, the more you swat him down, the higher he springs back up. What happened. Tons of anti-fan hate (JonTron and the many that followed), which kept him on the radar. Then he was thought to be the mystery character in Sonic Forces which lead to two new games in two years. Hilarious. Actually heard of another guy on twitter being the biggest Bubsy fan. That was weird. Well, when you have a thread as old as this one, and a forum as complicated as the Jaguar forum could be, you get some interesting visitors. Let's take a look at "the banned"... I remember Laird. About all I can say. He liked Zool 2 and Rayman so obviously alright. Ahh KevinCal! He was a regular in the Jaguar High Score club, tried Bubsy, and I in turn tried Cybermorph which was one of his favs. I just thought Cybermorph was so dull before KevinCal; I can complete Cybermorph in about two and half hours now thanks to him. Red_Queen... reminds me of something I heard in a Yes song once. Oh wait, that had chess analogies not cards. Nevermind. (Really don't remember Red_Queen) Context: "I think I will have truly arrived when I find the "Bubsy Shirt" that was sold with the earliest copies of Bubsy, and when I find a copy of Super Bubsy for the PC. " Hahah... ah Gorf. I still enjoy the games Gorf and Surrounded on the Jaguar that he did. Well, a shame to whatever lead to them being banned. But glad they stopped in and commented and hope they are doing well whereever they are. And back to Bubsy: Atari has Accolade titles, they have the interest in Bubsy, will we see a new Bubsy game, or at least Bubsy added as a patch to the 50th Anniversary Collection? Stay tuned!

I have to ditto this statement. Spend a little money on some good bins that have latchable lids. Does protect things a bit better than say a cardboard box would.

Well I re-downloaded the final version from the Reboot site... oh, reBOOTed. For $70 I can have a score saved, thanks for the information. Curious, what other features were added to existing homebrew games?

Hey Reboot folk! Was playing this today while inside on the wintery storms, and of course I still enjoy a game of this from time to time. Great replayable game. If you ever feel the itch, I would love it if this game had Game Drive support to save the high score.

Do I wish I had picked one of these up? Kinda. Oh well.

About to moan not getting in a Club Drive score but I see that wouldn't have made a difference. Congrats @masematte & @MichaG!

So Fun Bubsy facts. First there was a Bubsy cartoon pilot. It is 24 minutes of your typical 90s cartoon meyhem. In that they introduced some other characters such as an inventor, his niece and nephew, and the mostly competent slightly dingy Russian Blue Cat Oblivia.. She is totally into Bubsy but Bubsy is too in love with himself to notice.

Hah.. could be fun. I'll even say this for free: If I could advise Atari on at least three things it would be 1) hire the twitter personality that Tommo had to play Bubsy to interact with fans in 2017-2019. 2) Hire the voice actor for Bubsy that was in the Bubsy games from also 2017-2019. 3) Though the recent games made some nice changes and additions don't do a reskin like in 2017-2019 but make an original game. There we go.

Thanks! Been talking over there for a little bit. One thing I mentioned there, this might have been an early concept/inspiration in their sales pitch for the Last Starfighter.

Video I was watching shows photage of arcade Missile Command from 11:19 till the end of the video. Are you both watching a different video link? White computer though is interesting: Love the screen design. It's like he said "sure I'll develop on a Atari 800 as long as it's not beige. The whole development area has a variety of what I believe to be terminals. Seems the staff there either worked on the terminal of their choice, or just worked with what they could get their hands on: It's no wonder the Activision guys left en masse as they did. Kinda bleak.

I was wondering the same thing yesterday: "Starfighter Command"? Makes me wonder if this was an early marketing teaser for possibilities for "The Last Starfighter"? I love that this newscast captured so much that we as fans have not even heard of or seen.

In this news report they talk about a "Starfighter Command" game, which was a demo game that apparently involved some Atari 800s painted green in a sit down kiosk playing something that at least sounds like Star Raiders. Here are some of the shots of the above segment: I did a search for "Starfighter Command" here on Atariage but didn't get any hits on it. So does anyone know anything about this game? Was were the differences between it and Star Raiders, and do we know where this game might be and possibly ported and saved? It's Star Raiders related so naturally I have sooo many questions.

Star Raiders was maybe my first impression of an Atari 400. Was at Tanner electronics in north Dallas where normally they sold Heathkit computers, and now they were dabbling in the Atari computer market and I'm sure a few others. My Dad was friends with the owner and they were talking so I looked around the place and saw at a distance stars flying by on what looked like a movie being shown. Was that Star Trek? No.. it was a video game! This I had to check out. At the time I was about nine years old and had a Sears Telegames Atari System (Atari VCS), and this was like seeing a super computer by comparison. And all the awesome graphics was being showcased by a projection television. So there was Star Raiders being projected onto the area of what would now be a large LED TV hung on a wall. On top of this display where the projector was sat the Atari 400 with it's keys so colorful. A full keyboard on a Atari product? I was impressed. This was obviously much bigger league stuff than my Sears Telegames system at home. And what was this? The stars were flying by and asteroids were coming at me. Oh! This was a first person asteroids!! I had always dreamed of a first person asteroids game in the hours that my mind would drift, imagining what was going on in the game. I would dream I was a person piloting a ship blasting asteroids to save my life. And now here I was playing the 3D asteroids game for real!! I got a hold of the joystick and piloted the ship. I hit the fire button and these energy balls shot out. They were not a flashing pixel or a line, but a balls of animated energy!! And they made a sound that was like a photon torpedo on Star Trek! Oh this was amazing. But what happened next was even better. The energy balls impacted the asteroid that was growing larger and larger on the screen, and the asteroid gave an explosion sound that was quite awesome as it flew into many pieces! The ship flew forward with the stars and the debris of that asteroid flying by me. I went after asteroid after asteroid and the experience was amazing. I tried the keyboard and different screens came up. The galactic map didn't make any sense though it looked cool. The different views were nice. I think it was while I was trying to shoot asteroids from the aft view that the ship hit an asteroid in the forward view and the game was over. I'm not sure if I restarted or said that was really cool but either way I let someone else play. I believe at one point I saw someone activating hyperspace and fighting Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica looking ships!! But by then my Dad was ready to go so I didn't get to try that part of the 3D Asteroids game. A few years later I would get a Star Raiders cart out of the dumpster of the Arlington, TX Atari Service Center as my Dad and I would make runs out there to check that out. And when Best Products sold an Atari 400 for $150 with a $50 rebate I took the Atari 2600 I won selling newspaper subscriptions and sold that and bought an Atari 400. And it was there I would be re-united with that game I had first seen in the electronics store. And "3D Asteroids" is still one of my favorites on the Atari 400/800.

Whatever your opinion of Bubsy... wishing you a great 2024!

Here we are the day before leaving 2023, and things in the Bubsy-verse have been quite interesting. Chatter continues on the Bubsy Officious Discord Server and new Atari continues to hint at further Bubsy games after buying the Accolade titles. At the very least the execs seem to remember Bubsy well. In all this we lost our good friend Michael Berlyn, creator of Bubsy, back in April. His humor and comments are missed. Ultimately I feel among his many projects, we the fans helped show him how much his creation of Bubsy as a character is appreciated. (by Sponge Fox) Earlier this year we witnessed Bubsy Fractured Furry tales as the game was explored with mapping and more short cuts found. And we also saw hacks of the game maps, and replacement of the music. And on the "Bubsy Opinions" thread we even got some input from Andrew Seed, the programmer of Bubsy: Fractured Furry Tales. If you look on that thread there is a version of the game that opened up a hack to the lost room on the sixth level. Earlier this year in April there was an interview with Bubsy Fractured Furry Tales producer, Faran Thomason. We see Faran on some of the Atari forum on Facebook and other places. In the Bubsy merchandise we caught a sighting of a long sleeve version the Bubsy 1 shirt. And we caught a few more examples of the ever rare Bubsy plush! And here at the end of the year one of the iron on T-shirt Transfers showed up on ebay: What are iron on T-Shirt transfers? Well growing up in the 70s and 80s and into the early 90s there was a promotional item for whatever was being promoted. I honestly don't remember what my first shirt was to sport a iron on decal. I did recently find another iron on from a Cheerios cereal box promotion: You would place this on your T-shirt decal side down, and the heat from the iron when pressed against the wax paper surface would do one of two things: 1) activate the adhesive so the decal would stick to the T-Shirt and 2) release the decal from the wax paper even so that you could peel away the wax paper once the iron on transfer/decal was applied. When it came to the Cheerio's promotion for the T-shirt image for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" which you see above from 1978, I honestly can't remember if it came in the cereal box, or if you sent off for the iron on transfer by sending in a certain amount of box tops to a certain address and the cereal company would send a iron on transfer. Honestly the latter would be a better way to go as not everyone would want a iron on transfer of a movie. Some might just want to eat their Cheerios in peace. That brings us to the Bubsy iron on transfer, which I believe came from around 1993 and around the Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind game: So far the Bubsy Fan Blog and friends have not found out how this iron on transfer was distributed. Currently asking the person this transfer was bought from, so we'll see if they can shed some more light on this. (and they responded on January 2nd) "I used to be a store manager at a game stop and it was offered as a pre Purchase promo item if I remember correctly" Well there we go! Party on Bubsy fans! See you in 2024!! -The Bubsy Bobcat Fan Blog! Originally posted at: https://forums.atariage.com/blogs/entry/18803-cruizin-ebay-the-bubsy-iron-on-t-shirt-transfer-december-2023/ (By Spongefox)