WildBillTX

Awesome game room (envy!)... BTW is that an hacked Ms Pac Man-Galaga that can play multi-games? It looks like it's demoing Time Pilot in of your photos.

Great job on the new mazes...freshens up a old classic. How many more new mazes can be added to this game?

I had a freind who used to go to the arcade and play video games and pinball listening to his Walkman full blast. The arcade we used to hang out was also a pool hall and they always had some rednecks inside blasting country music on the jukebox. What I can remember playing my 2600 to: AC/DC Cheap Trick The Knack The Kinks New England (anyone remember this band?) Today Jet Foo Fighters Dragonforce The Darkness Dream Theater and a thousand other bands off my IPOD. BTW if you LOVE ELO check this new project band out: http://www.notlame.com/leo.htm

Great job, I'm amazed you have kept working on this for 2+ years. Just got my crocodile cart and thats the 16K version is one of the first games im going to try out on it. BTW Is the flickering of the score a bug? I have played both the 8K and 16K on StellaX and Z26 and noticed it.

I was in Jr College in 1982 and also working part time for a small 5000 watt AM station in Pawhuska OK. When Pac-Man for the 2600 came out the station ran a big weekend remote promotion with a local TV dealership who sold Atari consoles and carts. He must have sold 100 of them that week. (The town had no Wal-Mart then) But looking back Atari had no clue that Pac-Man would create such a big backlash. Not only from gamers but from the new gaming magazines that were coming out then. After creating so many winning games that showed they gave a damn, they released a real turkey that caused a lot of people to jump the 2600 ship for home computers and other gaming systems.

Looks great, why cant Infoatari make and sell 'em like this?

Is there a online how-to guide about making your own 2600 carts? I'm still waiting to buy a Crocodile cartridge.

I like it! When I was going to college (in Northern Oklahoma) a lot of the Pac-Man's and Ms.Pac Man's at the local convenience stores and arcades had that speed chip. Many of them were converted non-successful or older games with bootleg romkits. Could the mazes and Pac Jr. be hacked to make scrolling screen versions of Ms. Pac Man or Pac Man?

It was more the epilictic flicker effect that killed Pac Man for me - oh and the poor use of sound. If they called it Crap Man or GNC Vitamin Man that might had been a better descriptor. 882032[/snapback] LOL - more like "Suck Man" to me.. It just amazes me that the idots at Atari thought they could rush out a lousy game and think it would please everyone. Almost everyone I knew who bought it thought they were ripped off. All Pac Man did along with ET (and with other companies lousy 2600 games) was turn a bunch of "Atarimaniacs" into ColecoVision, Nintendo and the first home PC fans. I voted for Nukey Shay's version - had Hack'em came out in 1982 it would have been a MONSTER for Atari. Too bad Nukey cant go back in time and show the company his hack, he could have made a quick thousand! Second place is Pac Man Arcade, so glad I got that on cart last year. Honorable mention is Nukeys "Ms. Hack" - his unfinished attempt to give Hack' Em a Sex Change. http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69801 (post 6)

Wow Atari had thier hands in every part of the Coin-Op pie then! But I hate that 70's jukebox design where they covered up the mechanism with title strips. Too bad Atari USA didnt have a hand in desiging these. Imagine what they could have come up with. Maybe a cool looking jukebox/video game combo? These are proably NSM France or Wurlitzer Germany made jukeboxes, with Atari labels pasted over thier logos. I havent heard of them before on any Jukebox website, so I guess they are super-rare or just not collectable. I love those 50's Jukeboxes where everything is chrome with lots of glass and light. And it was always fun to watch the record load up and play. Edit: found a website with some info http://jukebox-guide.com/France/Jupiter.htm

Gotta be Demon Attack, one of my all-time favorite shoot-em ups for the 2600. I remember playing it for HOURS trying to master it. Now that this "2600 on a chip" is reality, I wonder if there will be any Korean/Chinese bootleg knockoffs?

I think Infogames could have negotated with Namco just for the 2600 version rights without any problems from other companies, unless Jaxx has another 2600 joystick planned for the future. BTW: I wonder if the old Paddle controls will work with this new console?

I wish they could have gotten the rights from Namco and other companies for the 2600 versions of Space Invaders, Ms Pac Man, Galaxian, etc. I didnt see any Imagic games listed here, bummer! Getting those games on proably would have added another 10-20 dollars to the price

Is the original Ms. Pac Man an 8K or 4K cart? Just wondering if it can be expanded and made tougher. Because the game was so popular with girls/women in the arcades Atari made their version very easy. Liked your hack of a hack Nukey! I would remove the Hanglyman part of the game and intermissions for more ram space, and just concentrate on making the fruit move around the screen and fix other small problems. I'd hate to see this one go unfinished.

I liked the arcade version better, tougher to learn and play. But you could play it forever if you knew what to do. The 2600 version is still a classic, a breakthrough in 2600 programming considering that it the console was never created to handle such a game. To bad Atari didnt use those programmers for Pac-Man. My biggest gripe about that version is after you "die" the game sometimes returns your spaceship back... right in the path of a oncoming asteroid thats too close to destroy! I still played it for hours, cotton candy and all. BTW Check out this excellent freeware PC version called Disasteroids 3D - Its a tiny little game that can fit on a floppy (anyone still use them?). I use it to test out video cards on computers I put together to make sure the drivers are working for gaming. http://www.lmnopc.com/disasteroids3d/

I remember one I love the 80's where the guests went crazy over the Mattel Football handhelds. I always enjoy watching those Vh-1 80's specials, always a fun and irreverent review of 80's pop culture. Havent seen the new 70's ones yet. Also thanks to Ferris and Atari7800 for also posting "Alan - A Video Junkie" - I saw this originally in 1982, a SNL classic. Go download it, its a huge file but worth it.

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Demon Attack Asteroids Galaxian Pitfall River Raid Missle Command Bezerk:D

I think this infogames situation sucks. 1) Most homebrew/hack cars have only sold in a few hundreds to diehard 2600 collectors. 2) The games are created for a system that hasnt been made since the late 1980's, and will never be revived again. 3) Atariage arent selling these carts or products at Wal-Mart, Best Buy Toys R Us, etc, only through their website and at expos.

Be sure to download the full version and not the "lite" version of Winamp at www.winamp.com I dont think the lite version has the plug-in for playing AAC files. You can also use Winamp's "Disc Writer Plug-In" to convert ACC to Wav files so you can re-encode them to OGG, MP3 or burn them to CD-R. I enjoyed CX2600 - I like the little sound effect "quotes"..

I would love to get it on cart from AtariAge too, but I noticed they have removed most of thier hacked carts from thier sales webpage

The car to own was Pontiac Trans-Am or a Camero. The Mustang had been devolved to the "Mustang II" - which was basically mostly Pinto parts with a larger body. You could get a 5.0 (302) but it was only 140 horsepower. The late 70's was a terrible time for performance cars with engines full of smog junk and low horsepower.

42 (43 in late november) And it was a very different world in the late 70's when the 2600 first came out. Back then you were cool if you owned a Mattel Electronic Foootball and a digital watch. Most of my freinds had 8-track players in their cars and if you wanted to hear rock music it was all on AM radio. FM was dominated by "Beautiful Music" MOR stations were I lived. If you wanted to find out if your favorite team won you had to stay up and watch the 10 o'clock news or read it in tommorow mornings newspaper. I liked most of 70's classic rock and wore out albums and tapes by Styx, Kansas, KISS, REO, Genesis, Rush, Skynard, and Van Halen. There was a lot of great bands in the 80's but most of those hair bands and new wave groups music hasnt aged as well. I thought the 2600 was an exotic and expensive piece of electronics.

Had the same thing happen with a pair of eyes trying to return to the box on x26. Should have got a screen capture. Youre getting closer with the "Wocka" sound in the slow mode, I didnt hear it while playing the fast mode.