WildBillTX

Wow, didnt know it was worth that much now. I bought my 2600 Jr. for $25 dollars at a Federated Electronics close-out sale in 1988. I wonder how many Jr's Atari made?

I bought my 2600 Jr for 25 bucks at a Federated Electronics store close out sale in Wichita Kansas back in 1988. Its still my main Atari rig today. In the early 90's I went to a mall toy store (I think it was Kay-Bee) and they were getting rid of all thier 2600 cartridges for a dollar each. Picked up Midnight Magic, Epyx Summer Games and Jr. Pac Man. If I known how rare these games were I would have picked up more (and saved the boxes!!). Our local thrift stores here in East Texas have 2600, NES and Genesis games now and then anywhere from 2 dollars to 50 cents each. Most of them are run by old ladies who file them in with the 8-tracks and cassettes instead of the toys

The Beasties have a fun shockwave game called "Triple Trouble" on thier website thats a clone of Frogger with the sound effects. http://capitolrecords.com/beastieboys/tripletrouble/

I remember a referance to "Boggle" in thier lyrics. It was an word board game like Scrabble but I think Milton-Bradley made a PC version back in the 90's. Check out http://bboylyr.soopageek.com/ - they have annotated lyrics for all thier albums plus what samples they used. Fascinating reading along with listening to thier albums. I think "Paul's Boutique" has the record for most samples used on a single album. You'd couldnt make a album like that now without paying a fortune for copyright fees.

Some of the P2P networks like Kazza and WinMX have mame roms in large Zip files. Be sure to scan them for viruses after you download them.

Thanks for that info - I live in a area where we have a 50,000 watt FM station nearby that leaks into anything electronic (Phone, TV). I will be on the lookout for one.

Where were the light sixers made? Are the heavy sixers better and more reliable than the newer consoles? My parents bought my first 2600 in 1981, Im sure it was a light sixer. It started having problems and died because we played it so much. I bought a 2600 Jr in 1987, still my main rig today.

Most of the Apollo games I have survived with the labels intact. I bought a few of them in the mid-late 80's at toy and discount stores when they were trying to get rid of 2600 stuff cheap. Apollo was one of the worst 2600 game companies out there. Besides Spacechase did they release anything worthwhile?

On the "Rush at Rio" DVD they a roadie came out with a laundry basket and swapped clothes while they were playing. On the "Test For Echo" tour they had a refrigerator in line with Geddys bass amps.

From what I read about the game, Midway used a tape loop cassette (simular to ones used in answering machines) for the music in the concert scene. The sound quality wasnt very good, but digital sampling was still very expensive back then. I thought Journey was a fun game though very silly and cute with the band's digitized faces on cartoony bodies.

BTW who now owns the Imagic name and catalog? I have seen some of thier games included in Activision's 2600 games for the PC collections. Great company that put out short run of good games, too bad they didnt last when the video bust happened in 1984.

I guess this is the wrong place for this question, sorry! I did a couple google searches and found information at: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1698/cy...faq.html#sec2.1 http://members.cox.net/rcolbert/makewav.htm Now I wish I had learned about the Cuttle Cart sooner, since the 2600 version is gone for good and I dont have a 7600.

I really like the game but I kind of wish the invaders looked like aliens (like the mothership at the top of the screen) instead of blocks of green and yellow cheese. I hope that didnt offend you, just my opinion.

The guy should wear a jock. I wonder if he glows in the dark??

I have an arcadia supercharger that I bought years ago and glad I hung onto it. I have heard you can convert bin files for StellaX and X26 into wav files to burn onto a CD-R with nero. What program for windows do you use to do this, any guides or suggestions? Thanks!

WOW!! this looks great and I like how agressive the monsters are. My little gripe is the power pills should larger blocks and not flashing slashmarks - sometimes its hard to see them. Keep working on it, Yes I would buy it!

I've always been curious about one thing - why didnt Atari copyright Pong and kept other companies from making clones and thier other early games? Was it because video games were a new thing, they knew Ralph Bayer was the real inventor of Pong and it was previously available in the first Oddessy system, or they just wernt paying attention??

My local Wal-Mart supercenter had a huge display of those Jaxx games for 18.99 Thats proably why they have sold (shipped) millions. My brother bought the Namco Pac-Man. The games look nice but the joystick control is lousy. I havent seen any of those 2600's on a chip - but I have seen the NES version called a "Power Player 76000" - it had something like 76 games with a zillion variations (hacks) on a controller that looked like it was cloned from a dreamcast. I checked one out at one of those "fly by night" car audio sales they have at our local fairgrounds - they were selling them for about 59.00. http://famiclone.emucamp.com/power-player-...player76000.htm They are no subsitute for a real 2600 or MAME, but if they get kids interested in playing classic games then I have no problem with people buying them. Hopefully I will find one of those at my local thrift store in a year or two after some kid breaks one of those joysticks and thier parents give it away to Goodwill.