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Grabbed these and tried some out in the Wii 7800 emulator. Worked perfectly. Thanks!

I have a question here also. Does the Wii version of the 7800 emulator count? I usually didn't play games that way in previous HSCs (with a few exceptions), as I hate playing 7800 on the PC. Now that I have my Wii soft modded, I saw there's a version of, I think, Prosystem on there. I think I could deal with playing that way if it's acceptable to the HSC.

Got a replacement CRT TV, got a replacement score. 84200 EDIT: And one more tonight: 94700

Moon Cresta.

To the main post here, I agree with the listed games as impressive. In particular, I think Motor Psycho is overlooked. It moves at a great clip, has some nice graphics, and, I think, is actually a lot of fun. I also really wish Plutos and Sirius could have made it out in the day so I could actually get my hands on them. They're great looking games.

Solid advice... which I have never taken because I went for boxed and sealed as much as possible.. It's real easy to get boxed and sealed 7800 games (especially the good arcade prots like Ms PacMan, Joust, and Dig Dug), and to get them pretty cheap. The problem is, once you start seeing them all lined up, settling for loose games becomes an issue as a collector. I say grab lots like Jinks says, and go for arcade ports to ensure you only get the best games.

LOL. Knowing your abilities, if you get around to doing more than participating, your next score will have six digits in it.

No, Nintendo and Sega had no old systems out in 1986, because they were just getting started and had no previous hardware. As they both went on to show, as soon as they were old enough in the industry to have old hardware, they sold it and new hardware together, just like Atari did. Also, they were only in one market in 1986, while Atari already was a computer company, so they had computer stuff to sell too. As soon as Nintendo and Sega found another market (handhelds) they went in two markets too. In 1986, Atari and Sega had only one new console each. By 1992, they are both supporting an old system, a new system, and a handheld. As soon as they were able to do what Atari did, they did it. It was not "being focused" that stopped them in 1986. It was having no options. As for the computer comparison, have you looked at Atari computer games from that time? Computers had been well ahead of consoles (as they still are today). A slightly old computer in a new form factor actually was a really good console when the XEGS came out. Computers were Atari's biggest market at that time, and made them a lot of money. Your theory is that they should have completely ignored their biggest (possibly only) competitive advantage in favour of not doing what Nintendo and Sega weren't doing simply because they didn't have computers?

Nintendo had games on the 2600 and 7800 from old contracts, supported the Gameboy and NES from 1989 on, and launched a new system in 1991. By 1994, the SNES was already playing Gameboy games, helping the SNES cut its own sales of software for cheaper portable games, with the same characters. Sega had the Master System, Genesis, and Gamegear all on the market and supported across multiple markets by 1991. By 1994, Sega would have no less than the Sega Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, and Game Gear being supported in North America, with the Saturn already out in Japan (check an old Gamepro and see how much Sega stuff was going on in any issue).

Well said. This has been my belief for some time. I agree completely with all of this. Had Atari known where the industry was heading, and what a goldmine that market was going to become then and into the next 30 years, could they have afforded to risk it all spending like drunken sailors? Possibly. But they didn't know that, and couldn't. They were trying to dig out of a huge hole, and the idea they should dig deeper first based on a market that had been dead recently, and considered a fad at the previous height, was not something many people would have done at the time.

72900.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I think my problem may be the equipment. I bought a fairly cheap kit at "The Source" (one time Radio Shack in Canada), and perhaps it was not up to the job. In addition, I think my practice items may have indeed been too small, and perhaps I need to start with some bigger items (like the old radios.) Time to hit up goodwill for old electronics junk.

I tried to learn to do some soldering about four or five years ago, got frustrated and gave up. It feels to me like trying to help an elephant mate with a mouse. And the mouse ain't having it. I have no idea how anyone can work with so large a tool in so small an area and actually make something happen (you're still thinking about the elephant thing now ). However, I always have tons and tons and tons of things I'd like to be able to do if I could solder, and I collect for 7800, so eventually I'd like to stop buying new systems and just fix a power button. Anyway, are there any good youtube (or elsewhere) streams teaching this that people could recommend, especially console specific stuff? Everything I found last time was basically "get it ready, then solder" and I could never figure out what I wasn't doing that they were. Any tips? Any "startup" kits I should buy? Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry I have no feedback on that one, as I don't own it yet (next order for me). However, I'm just getting back into the 7800 after awhile away from it, and thus just found your podcast. Just listened to episode 1 (Beef drop) and loved it. I have them all downloaded now and am looking forward to listening through them. Keep it up and thanks!

One more thing, I just saw that the NES HSC game running most recently is "Joust" too. That's so cute. They think there's an NES version of Joust.

Been so long since I did this, I've forgotten default difficulty switch settings (I know it isn't usually anything, but want to make sure they're set right). How would you guys run it jointly? Pick games alternating weeks? One picks the game, one picks settings, one picks bonus and alternate that? One compiles and updates points, one posts, and one runs polls? Anything to keep the club going will be much appreciated.

Thanks for this. Thematically, this is a great game to begin a contest on. Prepare for the 2017-2018 HSC... Buzzard bait.

Well if we're doing requests, and I am perhaps the only fan of this game (which is totally great), can you do some Kick Master? Absolute gem of a game.

Is it okay to rip the sound from these for play on MP3 player or do you have them for sale somewhere? I love videogame music and have always been disappointed there wasn't much of any for the 7800 for me to listen to. This is very cool.

Pole Position II was the first one I played. It came with the system when I bought it in 2004. I knew so little about the 7800 (I don't know if it was even ever sold in Newfoundland when it was new), the guy had to explain to me what it was and that it was backwards compatible with the 2600. I totally thought he made it up. Joust was the first one I played after that. I had a "only collect games I find in the wild" rule back then, and I was absolutely shocked to find a loose 7800 game here at a flea market. I vow (on my honour) to play every game of the 7800 HSC this year (no matter how terrible and noncompetitive my scores) if NIKON does get it up and going. I've missed it.

Very, very sad. I'm not on here every day anymore, so this is news to me about two minutes ago. I literally (literally) just pulled out the 7800 games for some play and just looked over both Bonq and Beef Drop not 10 minutes ago and thought about how great they were. A sad day.