Kialan

He revised the auction.

I just wanted to say congratulations!

Mario Bros. rules. Yeah the 2600 version is kinda iffy (I mean, that hack Return of Mario Bros. here at AtariAge looks so much better...atari just got lazy) it plays alright though. This game on 2player is so fun, especially in the later levels. 5200 version=good 7800 version=just got it, funky sound (REALLY different from the others) but it's fun. You can't be running one way and jump back the other way like in the other versions. Or that may be only the 5200. NES version=perfection

"Do you use the 2600 compatibility a lot?" Not until you reminded me I could.

Forgot to mention I've got even more consoles but I'm gonna sell them on ebay: a pirate famicom boxed with 4 games, miscellaneous non-atari pongs, a Magnavox 500 boxed, an Intellivision 2 with cracked keypads I repaired, tons upon tons of controllers, a rusted broken cosmetically atari Super Pong for parts -I think it still plays, but the game switch is rusted and doesn't work-, a Telegames Pong, and an Atari Pong. Plus some duplicate carts. Oh, and to add to the system list above I forgot Atari Ultra Pong Doubles boxed! Such a fun party system, I mean, 4 player! ...I'm not gonna list my games because it'd take all night, running between the bookshelves and the computer.

Born in '87 here. My first system was an NES...Super Mario and Duck Hunt. I played for the first time I think at age 3. I still have this memory of not being able to sleep at night and bugging my dad to go with me downstairs to help me play duckhunt (or was it watch him play duck hunt..forget.) We also had a game boy..so I could play mario anywhere we went. I wasn't into the very classic gaming yet. I didn't even know there was anything before NES (serious.) I got a Super Nintendo, and I'd perfect Super Mario Kart every day before and after school. After saving some birthday money.. a Genesis. I'd play Sonic 2 and 3 all the time (for some reason my gen didn't come with #1...I had to buy it at a fleamarket without a case and photocopy the neighbor's case in black and white...and color it with colored pencils, lol) I got a game gear but only had Sonic Chaos for like 4 years till I got World Series Baseball...and now 3 others. Anyways. My dad sold our drum set for a 3DO (like $400 or 5 by then?) I got very far on Gex. I can't remember right but I may have gotten Saturn after that or gotten into classic gaming. But either way, I got into classic gaming after seeing an Atari 2600 with Donkey Kong at a fleamarket (my dad would drag me to the fleamarkets) and wondering, what the hell is that? I didn't get it then because the guy wanted like $25 for it (if that seems like a good price to you you're unlucky-because I have gotten most of my 2600s at $5) It's a long story or I'm just bored and have nothing else to do! lol, you still reading? Ok. So then I was talking to my friends in 5th grade about it, and my friend's family turned out to have a 2600 and some games. He brought the system to school to show me in the cafeteria, and I was once again amazed. He wouldn't sell it to me but he wanted to sell a couple games. I bought some commons for like 3 bucks each (we both didn't know the rarity of games back then) and later I bugged him enough to sell me his Deadly Duck for 5. he wanted it back because it was his fav game but back then I was stubborn and wouldn't give it back. We lost touch or else I'd give it back to him today (if he wanted it) From then on I just bought any system I could find. I'm not like a lot of you, where you focus on one system to complete and then move to another. No, I buy everything (no I'm not rich either lol damn yuppies..lower middle class). Guess you could say video games saved my life, but that's a bit private. Total system list: Magnavox Odyssey complete boxed -Atari Pong -Atari Super Pong broken battery holder..looking for replace -Fairchild Channel F -Atari 2600s (um maybe like 10 of em...some are in the garage rafters in storage. I use the Heavy sixer and a Junior as my mains. Got around 3 vaders, 3 lightweight woodgrains. Exact number uncertain right now) -Odyssey2 (quanity 2) -Mattel Intellivision (1 original, 1 model2) -Colecovision (only works on channel 4, fuzzy picture, seems screwed) -Atari 5200 (1 4-port which is my main, 1 2-port) -GCE Vectrex -NES -Atari 7800 (1 with expansion port...1 without) -Sega Master Systems (1 with snail maze which is the 2st model and my main. 2 With Hang On/some other game) -Nintendo Game Boy (the first...unfortunately my dad carved some identification in the back and initials) -Sega Genesis (1 first model...and 1 second model which was the one I bought new back in the day) -Sega Game Gear -SNES (yellowed top half...anyone know how to get rid of the yellowing?) -3DO (FZ-10) -Sega Saturn -Sony Playstation -N64 -Nintendo Virtual Boy (am I the only person who thought this system was awesome? It never hurt my eyes or gave me headaches...Panic Bomber is the best) -Sega Dreamcast -MS Xbox Dunno why, but Playstation never really got along with me. I was pissed 3DO (my fav 32 bit system) had lost to it....or I just didn't like their games. I haven't played it since my third-party memory card erased my complete Ape Escape game, Vigilante 8 completed game, and everything I held dear on it. lol Same with Playstation 2. The games just don't appeal to me. Haven't gotten to try Jak and Daxter or others. Maybe I'll get it used for 30 bucks in the future. Gamecube is just screaming at me:new rehashes of old games! Pikmin was fun though. The way I know about PS2 and GC are that my best friend has them. Right now, as far as I'm concerned, if they don't start making more original games and not rehashes of old ones/sequels to old ones, I'm not buying any new system in the future. Give me the classics!

Whew-formatting so they read up to down. Btw notice how the article says "the last games for systems usually are the most valuable to collectors, just thought we'd let you know" haha Btw, $44.95 each, ouch eh.

Ok so the other day I was looking at the Lynx rare list...and I came across Fat Bobby, Raiden and Bubble Trouble. I had seen these in my Tips n Tricks magazine from 1996 back in the day...it was a bottom article spanning 2 pages in the code sections. Well the rarity rating amazed me, 7! If only I had a Lynx back then (or now) I would have bought them. So for all you Lynx fans, I took out the old mag and took some pics for you. They're compressed "Best for Web" with our kodak easyshare prog. If you would like the full uncompressed versions (1mb to 1.6mb each pic!) you can message me on AIM: Ynen76.

Hmm this loaner cart I have says 8-16-1983

Just read the whole thread, that's horrible! I say give him a neutral but say exactly what he did in the feedback comments...it's like giving a negative without the negative.

I can call him a dumbass because he's abusive and I haven't seen him in 3 years. I concur! My friend's family has a stand up Tempest...it is awesome! For some reason emulators or re-released computer progs with it (Atari Arcade Hits 1 by Hasbro, anyone?) just can't compare with the arcade!

My first was PSO (Phantasy Star Online) for Dreamcast. It was so awesome I bought 6 more memory cards to have 6 more characters the game went downhill with hackers freezing your game so you lost items and money. They also made/hacked the rare weapons which ruined the economy. But damn it was fun. That game was the first I stayed up to sunrise with. After I quit that game I got Everquest. Wasted 1.5 years on it, had a 62 or 3 Iksar shaman...but I quit because it became more work than play at the high levels, and I found myself constantly frustrated with the game. It wasn't fun anymore. Sony ruined it basically....and the shaman class is broken in a big way. My next MMORPG isn't even out yet! World of Warcraft - we're waiting for the beta tester emails to come out. I want to be a Troll Shaman.

I agree, Galactic Pinball for VB is awesome. Pinbot for NES is also pretty good. Spents some hours a day playing that as a kid.

Well um..we had a couple arcade machines (and pinballs) but only because my dad had a spending problem. (we didn't have all these at the same time) -We had a cocktail Pong. -stand up Kid Niki Radical Ninja (so fun...as a little kid I used to rule it. But I play my NES cart of it now and it seems so hard ?) -stand up Pac Man -cocktail Missile Command (awesome) And I think that's it but my memory is fuzzy. I can't think of any more we had...because all those pinballs are clogging my mind (F-14 Tomcat...Fire...Bullfight...Funhouse...Simpsons...) My dad would buy a pinball/arcade machine for $2000 and sell it for 300...what a dumbass.

Interesting, thanks (although I wonder if it was more cost cutting by the Tramiel guy argh)

The problem is only left/right. IC chips...are those the rectangular-grey ones?

Just wondering if the horizontal lines across the startup ATARI logo are intentional? Both my 7800s do this. (already posted this but it disappeared hmm..so I can't retype everything I said) If so, I wonder why they made the logo have the lines.

I got my Atari heavy 6er at this one fleamarket for like 5 bucks or something...works everythings fine no frayed cords or anything I used it as my main 2600 until it pissed me off by shredding part of my Solaris game's label. Apparently the slot was too small for it!

Well hello all this is my first post. My trakball has been in its box, in the rafters of the garage (in another box for protection of course) for the past 2 years or so. I would have gotten it out sooner but it was behind tons of boxes and spiders. At first I was happy because it had been awhile and I noticed the serial number 1294-kinda low eh. But then I hooked up my 2 port 5200 to try it out and on both Missile Command and Centipede left/right malfunctions. Up/down works fine. You will be trying to play and the cursor goes left on its own...or right on its own. Then if you manage to move it and get it to stop moving...if you barely move the trakball (slightly) it will move full speed either left or right. I opened up the trakball unit and couldn't see anything broken. In fact it was pretty new looking (mint-ish), cept for the roller the trakball hits, which were orangish at the ball contact point but it doesn't affect anything. Next I put the 2 port away and tried the trakball on my 4 port. Same problem. Then I put some contact fluid on the plug/connector and plugged it in again...no fix. My biggest worry is that since it was up there for 2 years...it gets pretty warm up there especially in summer...and I wonder if it somehow got screwed. The manual says do not expose to extreme cold/warm temps and it is hot up there spring/summer/last fall. So...ack help ><