BoatofCar
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Yeah, no need to choose - just get more desks. I put 3 desks together and now I have 7 classic systems (Amigas, Atari XLs and 4 monitors) all wired up and ready to go. Or you can do what this guy did, but that's pushing the boundaries of sanity.Can you post a pic? I'd love to see your setup
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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.
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Yeah, I suck at this game, too. Xbox Live is my first exposure to this game and after hearing for years just how great it is, I feel awful for being such a piece of shit at actually playing it.Maybe we should play each other and see who really is the King of Soccer Suck (also known in some parts of the world as the Queen of Football Folly)!
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 
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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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Bump! Any new news?
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Anyone has or played this game? I picked it up the other day at one of our local "Mom and Pop" game shops and its quite good i think.Its a mix of Magic the Card Game and Monopoly which is strange why i like it because i never liked either of thoses.
Something tells me you listen to the 1Up podcast...no way anyone else could come up with that comparison
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Is there a guide somewhere that specifically deals with how to program music on the A8?
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Is there a list of 2600 games with music that plays during actual gameplay?
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Fishing Derby gets my vote.
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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.
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Why is it that some games are in cabinates that look child sized? A local pizza place has a Frogger in one of those and you have to sit in a tiny little stool to play it, which feels pretty silly for an adult.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.
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What is the difference between a "gold" cab and a regular one?
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Gotta check these machines out. Especially the "Furminator" (a couple machines down).If I only had lots of money and space
oops, forgot the link
http://www.pinpedia.com/blog/2007/08/custom_pinball_machines
Wow, I'd love to get a chance to play the Furminator. Talk about scary, seeing that ball come right for you!
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Mario Bros. A5200 is the best version for all 8-bit Atari's (best graphics and animation), Mario2007 is enhanced A5200 versionMario Bros XE (cart version) has only nice introduction, animation and graphics is poor, programming sprite engine is too slow
Couldn't disagree more. The XE version is as close to perfection as any arcade port to an A8 I've ever seen.
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I can't tell you how anoying the 20 and 30-something loosers on the Amiga forums are. They drone on forever about how evil M$ killed thier hopes and dreams and we should all be living in an Amiga-powered Shangri-La and everything else sucks and the world can never be put right. Meanwhile, they post thair rants from thier Mac, Linix, and Windows(!) boxes. Every time thir HD crashes they log in to say how this would never have happened if Amiga had survived.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.
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I'm undecided, I have a load of 7800 and 5200 games that have never been opened, still in the shrink wrap, and of course they are getting squished.I also have a couple of never opened games with no shrinkwrap, and they are getting scuffed and damaged because there is no shrinkwrap to protect them
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...
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Because of spam, I've found USENET to be unusable for discussion the for the past five years or so.
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I have seen the one laptop per child, but I want a totally new piece of hardware to be developed. Once the cost is known to produce such an item, then we will know what the price is. But the aim would still be something that is affordable to most families. $200 is not out of that range, unless you are just cheap.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:
Now this is something to get excited about. That article is a bit old--is this thing already on the market?
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I think the best and only feasable idea in this thread is to make some kind of hobby kit A8.
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This is more forgiveable for me. Youtube commentors (commentors apparently not a word) are the lowest common denominator.