Jump to content
Have You Played Atari Today?
2600|5200|7800|Lynx|Jaguar|Forums|Store  

Captain Kiwi

+AtariAge Subscriber
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    152

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

Posts posted by Captain Kiwi

  1. Posted

    37 minutes ago, eightbitwhit said:

    Thanks for this post, as I'm definitely wanting to get a set of these books.  Will you post back here when stock is replenished, or is there another way to be notified?  Otherwise, I'm left to do the "F5 derby" every day in hopes I don't miss out.  

    Same here.  Mailing list or anything for updates?

    • Like 1

  3. Posted

    It came in the mail today. Clean working great, two games with it with overlays and everything. And all for less than $60  Very very very happy with it!

    Thank you all for your advice and insight!  Please keep 'em coming.  Got a lot of interesting games I need to get.  I'm looking forward to hours of fun on yet another system.  :) :) :evil:

    • Like 2

  4. Posted

    On 10/9/2019 at 11:36 AM, Rick Reynolds said:

    It's that time of year again!  Time to raise money for Children's Hospitals across the country.  And time for me to do my yearly 25-hour gaming marathon as my part.

     

    Each year I play games for the full day as a bit of an endurance test, and folks donate money towards my campaign.  All funds in my campaign go to the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

     

    My game playing is live-streamed to youtube at my channel page: https://www.youtube.com/user/rickreynolds1969

     

    The most important bit is the money raised for charity, of course.  If you'd be so kind as to support my campaign this year, go to this link: https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=381795

     

    You can also find those links and other pertinent info at the front page of my personal website: http://www.rickandviv.net.

     

    Please feel free to drop in suggestions for games you'd like to see me play.  Intellivision games would be preferred, of course, but if you want to mention games on other systems (systems that I have access to, of course) then I'm happy to pull those into the mix also.

    I'll donate after payday  :)

    • Like 1

  6. Posted

    On 9/5/2019 at 6:40 PM, Blarneo said:

    This is going to sound like a Toy Story plot line about when kids grow up & abandon toys, but I'll make it short. 

     

    So In 1981, I hoarded my allowance, lawn mowing money, babysitting cash and all I could to afford the $250 price tag for an Intellivision. Frog Bog was what My Mom bought along with me getting Sub Hunt or Astrosmash (can't remember exactly) along with it. I babied that thing. I had this plastic storage box made my Imagic that fit it perfectly. I panicked when my mom would pull the controller cord & drag the console closer to her so she could lounge and complain that "This controller doesn't work! It cheats!" 😂 Through high school, it gave me lots of enjoyment for me & my friends and my little sister. 

     

    Then I joined the Army out of HS, and left it at home. My sister grew older to 8-11 years old & played with it along with her friends while I was gone. The console was in perfect condition when I got home. I hung about for a year or so & my sister & I enjoyed it.

     

    Then I went to college in 1987. It still worked like a charm. I gave it to my sister, cause I knew she would take care of it. 

    I acquired 3 tween and under 10 step brothers during that time & while they had a Nintendo NES, they commenced to abuse and destroy my Intellivision. Ripped the controllers out of the console, broke into and lost a couple of cartridge circuit boards & rip off the bronze metal sticker. My mom threw it out while I was away and I never saw it or my 15 games for it again.

     

    I wish I had taken it with me.

    Well first, thank you for your service.  Though I've never owned an Intellivision, it's very painful to hear that the system suffered such a terrible fate.  If they're built anything like the 2600, it would be working like it's brand new today if it were still around.  

     

    Very very painful

    jake johnson pain GIF by New Girl

    • Like 1

  7. Posted

    Good afternoon (at least here anyway.)

    I've been collecting Atari consoles (and computers) for a few years now.  I've been looking at expanding my collecting at an Intellivision (and ColecoVision..   but one at a time.)

    To All the InTv collectors here,  what do you like most about the system? What do you like least? Is there anything I should look out for when purchasing a system or collecting for it?   (I know I could google some of that, but figured I'd get more accurate and truthful answers here.)  :)

     

    Thanks!

  8. Posted

    On 10/17/2019 at 4:28 PM, Novastar said:

    Just because I always appreciate the tips people give.  Right now I am just over 19k.

     

     

     

    2.  Bigger implication for points.  There is a tone that is played randomly during the game.  If you hit the snake right after the tone you will instakill the snake and get 10k.  Ironically the only time I have done it, I had the audio muted.

     

    You can kill the snake?

  12. Posted

    I ran into this a few years ago.  We had a big storm that spawned a few tornadoes and lost power for 3 or 4 days.  Went to stay with my sister and her family..  however they had to work that weekend..  and without anything else to do found it on Youtube.  watched it over the course or two days.  

     

    A couple years later, I got stuck working a security account over night (sitting in my car the entire shift), hooked up the tablet to the WiFi and watched it all the way through in one sitting.  

     

    I came into the scene rather late (early part of the mid 90's) but it still brought up some good old nostalgia.  I would call a couple of the local boards. And since my parents didn't want me meeting any of those "crazy computer people," I  snuck out to some of the meet ups.  I dreamed of running my own BBS though after the popularity of the internet exploded, I thought it was a lost dream.    

    Watching the BBS Documentary got me into wondering if any of the boards were still around.  I was very excited to see many many boards were around and accessible via telnet.  So I opened my own, the Black Sun BBS.  Looking for more of a challenge, I am sitting with two (soon to be three) Atari 8-bit computers and planning on which one to switch my board to.  

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, Muddyfunster said:

    I honestly didn't know that. I've been a member for around a year and never realised this was a thing. 

     

    I now consider myself educated to all things subscriberish and think grabbing a subscription is a great way to support the site.

     

    Thanks :)

     

    Subscribing is great. I recommend everyone do it!   :D

    • Like 2

  23. Posted

    As already said..  AA should really have had ads a long time ago.  It's a great site with a great community.  I would hate to see it close because the cost becomes too great to operate it.  I fully support the use of ads (and as already been said above..  almost every page uses them.)

     

    Al, I thank you for your continued efforts to keep this wonderful family together. 

     

    • Like 2
AtariAge
Forums
Store
General
Follow AtariAge

Copyright ©1998-2021 AtariAge

×
×
  • Create New...