Your favorite First Gen Atari games?

[Your favorite First Gen Atari games?]

Combat & Air Sea Battle

 

-S

[High Score Club Week 2: Superman!]

59 seconds! I had to go get the camera out of the car:

 

 

Am I the first to come in under a minute?

 

Don't know if I can top this or not. All the baddies were within one screen of the jail. Gonna try to shave off a second or two if I can.

 

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[Rare Mario bros.?]

I stand corrected. I thought Mario was the guy at the bottom of the screen. Turns out it's some guy called Stanley. Make that "Super Mario Brothers was the fourth, not first Mario game".

 

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[Rare Mario bros.?]

This is the Mario game that started it all

 

Apparantly this seller has never heard of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong III and Mario Bros. Super Mario Brothers is the fifth, not first Mario game.

 

Edit: Jasoco- looks like you and I were making similar points at the same time!

 

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[Q*Bert questions]

Q*Bert seems to be the most popular 80's arcade game that hasn't been featured in an arcade compilation of any kind.

 

This is probably because it used a four way joystick mounted a 45 degree angle. It's pretty difficult to play with anything else IMO.

 

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[How do you A/V Mod a 'single-chip' 2600 Jr. ???]

Your best bet might be to post an ad in the marketplace tosee if someone will just swap you a three chip jr for yours.

 

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[High Score Club Week 2: Superman!]

Do you guys use the subway to get around? Or do you actually memorize the layout of the city from above ground?

 

IMO the subway is the key to beating this game in under a minute.

 

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[High Score Club Week 2: Superman!]

The number one trick to this game is knowing by heart where the jail, the gap (where the bridge goes) and the Daily Planet are. Once you have that down you'll really shave a lot of time off your score. Also you really need to learn to use the subway to your advantage.

 

I still haven't gotten a chance to play (still at work), but I play this one a lot and can consitantly finish in a little over a minute so I should be in the running on this one.

 

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[Build your own controller.]

It is true that the size of arcade sticks sort of precludes their use in a handheld stick, but one of the the main problems that I have with Atari sticks is that they have to be hand held. I wanted something that can be rested on my lap so I don't have to keep a death grip on the base while I'm using it!

 

It's the same style as the genuine Wico leaf sticks, but I belive this one is a generic (made in China) replica. I have some genuine Wico leafs, but I paid a lot more for those. I've got a set of 8 way Happs microswitch sticks on my MAME cabinet, the clicking really doesn't bother me, it's not that noticable.

 

The cable is an old style Mac printer cable which has nine wires inside. I cut the ends off and soldered a 9 pin din connector from Radio Shack on one end.

 

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[I am Finally selling my Arcade Controller for the 2600]

It's an 8 way.

 

Nice work by the way.

 

-S

[Joystick, Paddles and driving controllers.. Oh MY!]

I belive that the wires colors are consistant at least on Atari-produced controllers.

 

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[Joystick, Paddles and driving controllers.. Oh MY!]

Tim, joystick pinouts can be found on this site's faq:

 

2600 pinouts:

 

_________________

o5 o4 o3 o2 o1/

 o9 o8 o7 o6 /

 ___________/

 

pin #  2600 control     7800 control

 1    WHT- Up          WHT- Up

 2    BLU- Down        BLU- Down

 3    GRN- Left        GRN- Left

 4    BRN- Right       BRN- Right

 5    unused           RED- Button ®ight (-)

 6    ORG- Button      ORG- Both buttons (+)

 7    unused           unused

 8    BLK- Ground(-)   BLK- Ground(-)

 9    unused           YLW- Button (L)eft  (-)

 

I've worked this info out with a multimeter for paddles & driving controllers, but it's at home. I'll try to remember to post it after work.

 

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[Huh... thanks for including pictures.]

If you bought a tape deck that didn't come with the optional Klingons you got ripped off.

 

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[THRIFT SHOP BLUES]

I never check Thrift stores, but there are a couple of local used game shops that always have plenty of 2600 carts in stock. Given that, maybe I should check the thrifts.

 

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[WTB 2600 joystick cords/ dead joysticks.]

Cool, let me know.

 

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[Look at this rediculousness]

But he says they're rare. That's not good enough for you guys?

 

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[WTB 2600 joystick cords/ dead joysticks.]

Indeed they would. Thank you for the suggestion.

 

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[FAVORITE JOYSTICKS]

My favorite is the one I built myself from leftover arcade parts.

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.p...e0616cae82a75d1

 

-S

[High Score Club Week 2: Superman!]

One of my all time favorites. It was on my list to choose for next week!

 

-S

[WTB Gray PS for heavy sixer]

Looking for a gray power supply for my Sears heavy sixer, but so far no joy. Anyone?

 

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[WTB 2600 joystick cords/ dead joysticks.]

BUMP!

 

I'm not gonna have to buy some perfectly good joysticks just to rip out the cords am I?

 

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[Who here has a Heavy 6er?]

I just got a Sears heavy sixer, but I still need to locate a gray power supply and possible an original controller or two.

 

 

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[How many carts do you own?]

About 75 unique.

 

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[High Score Club Week 1: Circus Atari!]

A breakthrough (for me anyway): 20008! I don't think I've ever managed to roll this game twice. As you can guess from my score, I freaked again when the counter rolled over. I'm not even going to try to top that one, I've been playing this game all morning. I'm ready for something else.

 

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[Build your own controller.]

 As for a switching method, any ideas?

 

I've been thinking about this, but haven't come up with anything brilliant. I think I need to take a trip to radio shack to see what they have in the way of switches and wait for inspiration to strike.

 

-S