BoatofCar

This is more forgiveable for me. Youtube commentors (commentors apparently not a word) are the lowest common denominator.

Can you post a pic? I'd love to see your setup

Would anyone be interested in doing all the grunt work and selling the new boards already inside an 800? I have no electronics skill at all, but would still love to be able to have an 800 that could handle all A8 software.

Bring it on! My gamer tag is boatofcar. Just like you, I've heard people rave about this game for forever, and I can see that it can be really fun once you get it down, but all the games I play are just horrible, horrible defeats

So I've played about 50 games against the computer, and over that time I've scored two goals. Can someone help me out here? What am I doing wrong?

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Something tells me you listen to the 1Up podcast...no way anyone else could come up with that comparison

Is there a guide somewhere that specifically deals with how to program music on the A8?

Is there a list of 2600 games with music that plays during actual gameplay?

Fishing Derby gets my vote.

Atari prices will only continue to lessen over time. The majority of collectors who started collecting 2600 games for nostalgic purposes in their 20's and 30's are now in their 40's and 50's, and many have sold their collections to pursue more "mature" collections of art, furniture, etc. The next generation of collectors now in their 20's and 30's is feeding the high prices found in the NES and SNES market. When that generation ages ten or so years, the same thing will happen to those games. Just be thankful video games will never be subject to speculators looking to invest in them as commodities. You only need look at what happened to the comics and baseball card industry after these speculators cashed out.

You don't happen to have a picture of it, do you? I saw some really small arcade machines here in South Korea too, but they were Neo Geo.

Here's a direct link to his blog post. http://rluzinski.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html

What is the difference between a "gold" cab and a regular one?

Wow, I'd love to get a chance to play the Furminator. Talk about scary, seeing that ball come right for you!

Couldn't disagree more. The XE version is as close to perfection as any arcade port to an A8 I've ever seen.

Exactly. This is the best post of the thread. Thanks for contributing something intelligent instead of taking shots at a guy who sends out a couple ads a week and is being roasted alive for it.

My advice is to take the shrinkwrap off, and if necessary, protect the boxes with big ziplock bags. Sure, it's not pretty, but if your games were just being displayed on a shelf they wouldn't get the scuffs...

Because of spam, I've found USENET to be unusable for discussion the for the past five years or so.

Sorry to state the obvious, but anyone who is buying an A8 is an Atari fanatic, not someone looking for a budget general purpose computer. This is today's budget computer for the masses: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3829 Now this is something to get excited about. That article is a bit old--is this thing already on the market?

I think the best and only feasable idea in this thread is to make some kind of hobby kit A8.

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