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Analog TV looks great on the 30" HDTV I bought at Wal-Mart - and it has a built-in HDTV digital tuner that works with an antenna, and it also works to get basic (unencrypted) local HDTV stations on cable, too. I think it helps that it's a good old-fashioned "regular CRT TV". And it's under $600. And the picture on High Def shows (like American Idol last night) is scary good.

I nominate Duke Nukem Forever

In Wil's new weekly classic videogame review column in The Onion A.V. Club, he tackles Alien this week. Here's the link - good review... Here's a taste, but I recommend reading the whole review at the link...

I was only able to score 1,149. Here's a tip, though. As far as I have been able to get in Pac-Man, I have been able, at the start of a new life, been able to go left, then up, then around the box that holds the legendary "ghost quartet". This can come in very handy if the power pill is available just as you are starting a new life.

Good point -- an SP with an updated backlit screen (similar to what they put into the DS), somewhere around $70 with a good pack-in game, would probably sell well and would be a tempting upgrade for me...

I always figured that they didn't use the "game boy" name for the DS because they had another Game Boy under development. I still haven't upgraded from my Game Boy Advance yet...

Thanks.. I realize you probably would've gotten it in before me if you hadn't been commenting on the "Fishes, Fishest, Fishiest" suggestion... Yeah, I was prettying my post up instead of being "e-fish-ent" (it's ok to groan)

Wow, Lost Monkey -- great minds think alike! You posted that right as I was posting it too. I hereby give credit to Grow Fish! over to Lost Monkey.

Here are my incredibly fantastic submissions : Grow Fish! A take on the card game Go Fish!, and it nicely summarizes the game in two words. The exclamation point at the end is a nice little homage to Shark! Shark! Gulp! In the grand tradition of one word Atari games with exclamation points at the end of them (like Kaboom! or Oink!). Eat 'Em to Beat 'Em Hey, it's true -- that's what you've gotta do! NE146 would be a guaranteed customer! Ocean Motion A very classy title that is also catchy. I hope you like them, vdub_bobby. BTW, I also like Lost Monkey's Survival of the Fishest (a slight improvement in my opinion over Rob Mitchell's "Survival of the Fishes" and Thomas Jentzsch's "Survival of the Fishiest" because it sounds more like "survival of the fittest")

Congratulations, Kirk and Albert. Thanks for the q&a posting, Kirk - super technical reading. I'm curious to hear more, including stuff about how you came up with the AI for the opponent and about your work with Paul Slocum to integrate the music theme into the opening and closing segments. I'm glad I'm one of the "Lucky 70" JP cart owners, and good luck with FlapPing.

The High Score Cartridge made by Curt Vendel. (btw, the High Score Cartridge functionality is built into the Cuttle Cart 2. It's great fun to keep your top scores just like at the arcade!)

I enjoy 2-player Robotron action with one player handling the firing and the other handling the moving. Great fun.

Don't forget H.E.R.O.I.N, where R. Hero is a drug dealer and is going through city sewers to the homeless guy at the bottom, where R.Hero proceeds to shoot him up with heroin at the end of the level...

Q*Bert Tapper Burgertime Wizard of Wor Super Pac-Man

Exactly. And it's newest purpose -- a Cuttle Cart 2 player -- makes it even sweeter.

A Cart with music songs on it would ROCK!! I would be sure to buy one, Maybe if you get a pre-order" thing going it would be enough to get one made?? Just a thought. But with that said, I'm first on the list!! Also, Does anyone remember the NES game "Sunday Funday"? It had a 4HIM (Christian band) exclusive song the was was on that cart that was choosen from a menu. There was 3 options, 1 play Sunday Funday, 2 Play some Bible Trivia game, 3 listen to the song as the lyrics scrolled on the screen. But as well all know it would be much more cool if it was on the ATARI :wink: Well, Marble Craze, as well as the "formerly available in cart form" JoustPong, Combat Rock, and Mr. Roboto are carts with music songs that ROCK, and they have some nifty bonus games

My avatar is an "atari" from Go...

Cosmic Commuter came out after the crash, and even though it's not entirely original (it's from the Defender family tree), and it's not the best Activision game ever, it is fun and worthy of the Activision label (and it's also by the programmer of H.E.R.O.). Plus, it's tied with H.E.R.O. for the highest rarity Activision cartridge I own I also have the post-crash Ghostbusters 2600 cartridge, which is not easy to pick up and play without the manual, but is a solid effort nonetheless.

http://www.abevigoda.com/ According to them... he's quite alive. is I know Abe Vigoda's alive In fact, he made a cameo on Conan last week. I posted that because that's an actual question from Remote Control. One of my favorite segments was "Dead or Alive", where they would ask if an old celebrity was dead or alive and you had to guess!

I have Grand Prix and Kaboom!, but haven't opened or played them yet. They charged $1.29 each at my local Burger King. I want to buy spares so I can open them up and look inside at the battery. Do the games have sound or are they silent?

Abe Vigoda - Dead or Alive?

Dragonfire has been one of my favorites for years. I'll start playing later this week. This doesn't matter for the HSC, but I've always enjoyed it as a 2 player game. Like some other Imagic games, such as Demon Attack, you switch from Player 1 to Player 2 at the end of each level, so you're not sitting there forever waiting if you are playing with someone who is good, and you're not feeling guilty if you are playing really well and the other person is getting bored ps - Sir noble award winning Ze_ro, it looks like I'm not on the Season 2 list. Could you please add me?

You can get a reader thing and a MMC for less than 25 bucks total. Easily. $8.80 MMC reader $13.51 MMC Shipping is free. Total cost = $22.31. No tax (depends on where you live) and free shipping. I personally use the larger 128MB MMC from SimpleTech for $18.23 and it works great. The 32MB is big enough for all of today's 2600 and 7800 games and most of the manuals -- the 128MB is big enough for future growth, hacks/homebrews, etc.

Yes. My select and reset buttons are almost shot. I've opened holes in the membrane surrounding them and sprayed in Radio Shack TV Tuner contact cleaner, which helps. I wouldn't mind a link to new switches that could be soldered in, though.

Another reason to pick JoeyBastard's design: It will be ultra-rare after Procter & Gamble x-rays Big Player's apartment (as part of their ongoing Cincinnati collective mind control experiment -- if you don't believe me, check out the Bengals' uniforms this year!), finds the cartridge, and demands that AtariAge changes the label!