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Beware I LIve!!! yeah, scared the ~~~~ out of me. Ron Howard haha

I agree. Though I must say that Atari games (particularly in-house and Activision titles) do have that indefinable feel that the INTV lacks. But..oh...that speech unit!!!

Difficult to say. The videogame crash happened as a direct result of the success and abuse of videogames immediately preceding it. So to imagine if it didnt happen would mean to also have to change all the history of gaming. A bit off topic, but I think we're just about to have another one.

why not just play the games on the system they were designed to run on? You might as well be using an emulator as playing these titles. Same goes for modern stuff - Crazy Taxi just doesn't look right on PS2! Imagine Mario on master system!!

Good idea, I'll go to my Star Wars sit-down cabinet with a hammer and eprom blower and see what I can do - hmmmmm.

It would still have died a horrible lingering death, no doubt someone else would have picked the name up to hammer to their tat.

I want a pop at Mad Atarians - looks a laugh

Miyamoto himself recently revealed that it really was the 'clumsy' in Japanese translation thingy. I think the telex story was a bit of an urban myth. However, it has happened - anyone remember the Racing game- Continental Circus? (doh)

yeah, photo glossy paper and spray mount does the trick.

So now you have it, what's the verdict? gold or beans?

Yeah, what IS it with AOL disks? In a few million years time, geologists will find a thin silver strata on the earths crust where all the AOL disks fell.

Stick em in those folders that you use to archive Marvel-size comics.

Cool yeah, I'm not big on sports either, but I might get that baseball game and pretend it's rounders (see'off topic - world series')

I think 8-way would be just fine I don't have too many Intelli games, are there any that REALLY need 16-way control? I did think of modding a NES controller, puting a tiny keypad on the right hand side (heck, I'm only making one of them - I could make my OWN overlays)

I absolutely suck at Star Raiders but it is a great game. That video touchpad might as well be one big button saying "kill me now". - anyway - this thread was about odd games, we all know the Atari had a slew of bad games (though the ones mentioned were not - dragster rules) which is why we had that videogame crash. I agree with the above, most Atari games are odd and that's what makes em great. it seems Nintendo are attempting the same thing on the new Gamecube - I hope they can pull it off. I don't want to live in a world of driving games, fps and beat-em-ups. Gimme monkey ball any day (yeah - I know that's Sega)

ah heck, its cheap and you get to use the paddle. It's gonna entertain you for at least 5 minutes - which is a lot better than Tekken tag

yeah, but when do you define '3d games' as starting. Novalogics 'Mercenary' on the c64 was pretty convincing 3d, as was the Star Wars arcade machine. Filled polygons, too, were around way before the genesis. For me, classic gaming is anything from the era where game design mattered more than 'graphics engines' - and when a killer game could be written by one person

I'll give the commander patch a go i did manage to get (apparently) the 2nd fastest Dragster time in the world so I could well be on a roll (life's too short to do the Freeway badge tho)

centipede was great - VERY fast. worst one - pac man or double dragon. I actually liked the original defender. not much like the arcade game, but it played pretty well in its own right. berzerk wasn't much good, but that wasn't the atari's fault. it needs speech.

I got sick of rooting around in the packaging of the games I won trying to fish the gherkin out

Oh My God! Just got space shuttle today (the activision one). I can't believe this is running on a 4-6k atari cartridge!!! totally brilliant!! And there was me thinking that the function of the colour/b+w switch was gospel set in stone. Its the kind of game that makes you glad to be american.....even if you're not.

you gotta know how to use ebay, i mean - in terms of being able to judge the character of the guy you're buying from. I've only been burned once, cause I was optimistic and pretty dumb. and I never..ever.. send cash. yay! just got a really nice boxed pitfall!

extra copies of combat and pacman should be bundled up with an atari you bought somewhere and given to a non-atarian for Xmas. That's what I'm doing - spread the joy

quote: Originally posted by rolenta: The first issue of the original Electronic Games was dated Winter 1982 but it actually came out in the fall of 1981. ] Thanks reason for asking was, I just wanted to check my facts - that magazine I was on about 'computer and video games' always claimed to be the first ever games magazine (excepting in-house stuff obv.). it started march 81. Just checking

hmmm, Pac Man is pretty odd when you think about it. what the hell was going on there??