Trip_Cannon

Has anybody seen this movie? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460402/

Ending today...

I've got a couple things up on eBay... A rather rare game for the NES Bandit Kings of Ancient China and a working Panasonic Toughbook. Both start at .99 cents!! LINK!!!!

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Morton Downey Jr.... nice!!!

Yeah, I can't stand it when they rename the romsets.. I've been testing it out with the Atari 7800 and the BIOS that worked fine with .83 says it's bad on v.145.. Some files still work but wow is it annoying... I do like that you can display the screen on a secondary monitor... However, I'm using "messui" and it works when you start from scratch but every time it creates a .cfg file and you try rebooting the program it crashes... I did notice they released another update of MESS since the last week when I downloaded so I'll give that a try when I get home and see what happens...

Are there any instructions out there on how to operate the newest version of MESS? I've been trying to run it but all it does is say I'm missing files?

Thought this forum might want to see a movie review that has a cameo by Ninja Golf... http://cinemassacre.com/2012/03/11/ninja-iii-the-domination-1984/

Does anybody know if the huge general is in the end of the arcade version?

Commando is easily one of the best on the 7800...

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I got one!! I saw a CIB go on ebay for about $200... this was a while back before the market crash and probably at the top of the classic gaming craze... 2004-5ish maybe?

This is my personal favorite arcade game of all time and I used to dream of owning the arcade machine. Let's see how far I get with the first Wonder Boy stuff, but this one is on my list. Such a great game! Truly tops of its kind... Just now tried to look it up on klov.com but couldn't find it.. wonder what the deal is there?

Wonderboy in Monster Land!!

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BMX Airmaster was pretty sweet...

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Shows like this make me want to go back in time... Mondo Video must have been the coolest place on earth...

And then watch the 7800 take off all over again...

Believe it or not it was Tiger Woods...

Hurcules! Hurcules! Wonder why this game never had a C64 port...

I'd like a million dollars! It could have done just about anything that was hot around that time in one fashion or the other. Just the efforts put into these games were marred by Atari with budget and memory limitations. The attempt at Pit Fighter was just garbage. The finished product probably would have just looked a little bit better than the prototype that surfaced... Mat Mania compared to the arcade is a flippin joke. The difference between Kung Fu Master on 2600 and 7800 is only slightly improved graphics... still can't jump kick.. wtf? Games like Double Dragon 2, POW, Renegade all could have been done on the 7800...

I don't think it's bad in that it is playable, IMO. I find it fun. I like that it's two players and I like that it follows the arcade. But even then, I felt it was sloppy on the 7800, that the graphics could have been better, that the AI was sloppy and that elements of play were outright missing. When Activision put out their ad for it saying "the best ever graphics on 'the Atari'", I thought, "you aren't doing the 7800 a service by saying that!" And I knew already there were games with better graphics out or coming (example: ALIEN BRIGADE). Yeah... sloppy in the way they reused characters from Title Match and pretty much copied characters over from one another except different colors like you had mentioned. That was also Atari's cheapness. If they doubled the memory on the carts instead of sticking to the 128k limit on all of their bigger ones it could have been a different story.

I guess my perception is a little different when it comes to Double Dragon. I thought it was a pretty good conversion for the 7800. Compared to everything else out there? Could have totally used a pokey like every other game... but I don't think it's all THAT bad...