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July 13, 2023

I got a copy of the Homevision Repro game copy unit; then found out there a cartridges that go with it....&$%*.

July 13, 2023

On 7/11/2023 at 8:42 PM, Dopy25 said:

Just picked this up locally, thankfully. Brought it home and sat down to eat dinner.

Also, didn't buy this but on my way to pick up the TV, found this silver penny.

Quite the steel/steal, both of them...

I look at ebay every now and again for local CRT tv's. Still no luck.

July 11, 2023

On 6/23/2023 at 12:05 PM, sramirez2008 said:

Literally...just arrived.

Nice! I am waiting for Caramujo to be officially released in the AA store with a manual and box.

I don't think I will ever get the GORF patches due to arthritis hand pain.

This just in...don't get old ,it is not glamourous at all.

July 8, 2023

On 6/27/2023 at 1:53 PM, Atari_Bill said:

Finally nabbed an Odyssey 1 Run 1 with the ‘Test Container’ designation. Outer box is quite rough, but the inner box is fine. Got a great deal on this one.

I should have bought some Odyssey (1) stuff 25 years ago, it is so expensive now.

July 8, 2023

4 hours ago, 4300 said:

Whoa! That's awesome. Hope you got a good deal, looks expensive.

July 8, 2023

I have all the books and the kindle copies. The first checklist b/w book is the one I use to keep track of homebrews.

I am impatiently waiting for The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion Vol 5...You know, when you have nothing better to do.

Or better yet, a homebrew and hack companion and checklist book for the 7800.

June 30, 2023

Had to buy two auctions to make a numbers matching Sears Breakaway IV text label 49-75107.

Now impatiently waiting for the cib picture label version.(Actually a lot of picture label ones)

Still climbing Sears mountain...started at base camp with my back in the day copy of Haunted House,

now have eight 19 quart boxes of cib Sears releases. The top of the mountain is shrouded in perpetual fog....

June 30, 2023

On 6/25/2023 at 5:38 PM, Atari_Bill said:

An unexpected recent pickup that I’m extremely happy about.

AtariAge newsletter Vol 1 #1. This completes my AtariAge run

Hall of Fame scoreboard as sold in the Atari Club catalog

AtariAge poster of the AtariAge #1 mag as sold in the catalog. Still with mailer tube.

Also, 2 Swordquest Certificates of Merit for the entering the contest. I don’t think I’ve ever seen these before.

Wow, that newsletter vol 1 number 1 is so rare! I missed getting it by one month since I have the other newsletter vol 1 number 2, which I consider to be the rarest Atari VCS/2600 item I own. Great finds...

June 22, 2023

A big thank you to Albert for being one of few that made the retro scene possible since the year 2000.

I look forward to seeing what interesting original titles will be made available in the AA store in the future.

Got 16 19 quart boxes full of AA goodness and counting....

June 15, 2023

Just got mine in the mail. Thanks Brent

June 14, 2023

Has anyone made a Berzerk using the AtariVox to add all the speech phrases?

June 7, 2023

I am stuck on level 88. The middle chute is a dead end at the bottom with a gold piece sitting there. I assume that is the last piece of gold to collect ,then a ladder appears, but it is hard to keep the other runners from falling in there and being in the way.

Also, what the heck does the AtariVox say when the game is powered on?

June 1, 2023

13 hours ago, GoldLeader said:

I've always maintained that eBay is just fine, if you're dealing with quality buyers and sellers. It's always just the handful of assholes trying to ruin it for everyone. Thinking back to the old days, well and now, I think they need a way to report scammers and eBay needs to kick them off permanently, And go after quite few of them. Treat them like the criminals that they are; get the authorities involved. Of course the law needs to be stiffened...Then again I think eBay scammers And "porch pirates" ought to have mandatory jail sentences...(How about this ridiculous idea?) Maybe have them spin a wheel of punishments, like on Wheel of Fortune but instead of cash, make it days behind bars...Spin twice, add it up...And instead of "Bankrupt", have "DEATH"! Don't worry, you'd have to get it twice in a row...LOL...And YES a Death Penalty for an eBay scammer would bring a smile to my face

Porch Pirates should be stuffed into a box and randomly shipped around the country (that is happening to some of the items I buy anyway) like it was portrayed in the south park episode that was all about Amazon. And if opening the box kills the Pirate, of well...

June 1, 2023

On 5/30/2023 at 2:27 PM, MrTrust said:

Because we're sedentary, fat, and anxious. That's what being addicted means. Heroin addicts know the dope is killing them; but they ain't going to stop.

In order to do the stuff you're talking about, you have to have IRL friends and people increasingly do not have those. Look at the data; people have fewer close friends and fewer friends overall, they spend less time with extended family, they're not getting married, they're not having kids, they're not even having sex. Restaurants are doing sometimes half their sales on delivery apps and cutting their hours of operation because people just don't leave their houses. Go to a bar and shoot pool? What bar? They're closing left and right. That business is never going back to pre-2020 levels.

Correct, and I'm not convinced that this is possible for gaming because it's the only medium of the ones you reference that requires input from the audience. This is always the problem.

There were many experiments to this effect in through the early 90s. Kojima would be a late example. The problem is that as technical advancements make artistic visions more realizable, publishing has become more democratized. No longer do indie arthouse types have to get a job with an actual game company and learn their actual craft. They can put whatever juvenalia out they come up with and get it funded through Kickstarter or put it up on Steam for $5. There is no mechanism to refine the artist himself.

Correct.

Yeah, it seems to be like every single dystopian novel and movie is coming true. The artists and technologists gave the evil ones to many good ideas and tools....Oh well, the AI will take care of it all ,a la Terminator.

My answer? When it gets too bad I will walk into the forest. Even if that is the last thing I do ,at least it's pretty there.

May 30, 2023

On 8/14/2021 at 11:40 AM, Tony587327635498 said:

That Boing! box is nice, mine is crushed and ripped open a bit, but it cost less that way. It took me a while to get the a loose regular cart copy. For some reason there are more Xonox style carts out there...

May 18, 2023

I should have bought gold and silver about 25 years ago. It so expensive now...for an evil reason of course, but that's a rant for another day.

May 18, 2023

On 5/16/2023 at 7:41 AM, SpiceWare said:

That doesn't look good at all if you're not on a 16x9 display, such as an iPad:

or if you don't use the full width of a wide-screen monitor for your browser. My browser is usually about 4:3:

as I tend to have other windows open along side my browser. As such I suggest you review your layout on 4:3 displays, and split out any longer notes to a new page that's linked to via a brief comment. That would also let you add additional images, such as the following photos I took and posted in this reply of another topic covering 2600 stereo. Feel free to use them.

6-switch cover reveals location speakers were going to be at

Lower section of the heavy sixer has supports for the speakers. These do not exist in the later light sixer models.

Photos were taken a long time ago, so are a tad blurry due to slight camera movement when I took them. I could take better photos if you'd like, though I need to remember where my heavy sixer ended up

I just had my revision 12 four-switcher open to clean it. That heavy sixer was really made to last. The molded speaker holders are so cool. Surprised no one here have made a mod of the heavy sixer with the speakers in it.

May 18, 2023

On 5/16/2023 at 7:48 AM, SpiceWare said:

Atari homebrews I'm aware of that feature stereo sound are:

A-VCS-tec Challenge
The spear level of A-VCS-tec Challenge is programmed in stereo, so you can hear if the spear is coming from the left or right side. When reaching the middle of the screen, it's switched. Additionally the spear sound is getting louder when coming closer to the player.

Medieval Mayhem
Features: ... Stereo Sound ...

Skeleton+
If your Atari 2600 has been modified for stereo output, Skeleton+ takes advantage of this to help you locate Skeletons in the maze!

The number three was rattling around in my brain for the number of stereo games. Just couldn't remember which ones...thanks for the reminder.

Of course, now we have to add the prototype Sonar, unofficially anyway.

May 18, 2023

My small part of the blame for the crash was growing up and getting a job($3 an hour!), a car($800), going to college(12 credits $146+200 for books); no time for fun and games. I was so busy back then that I didn't even see any of the bargain $1-3 games at all. Of course that has made it very expensive to collect missing stuff now.

I have a lot of the history of video games books and it is amazing to see some of the decisions that were made ,in hindsight of course.

The saddest was Coleco, they eventually sold off their only money maker...the plastic little round kiddie swimming pool. No really!

The worst was the stock manipulation and backstabbing. the Imagic IPO comes to mind, coupled with the insider sale of stock by the Atari CEO and the early 3rd quarter lose of revenue released by same CEO a day or two before the Imagic IPO, thus sinking both companies; Of course the crook got away with it.

Have to give Nintendo credit though ,for the cartridge lockout, vetting of the software and their demand that they produce the game carts. Pretty good business plan for them.

May 18, 2023

On 5/16/2023 at 7:11 PM, atarinut76 said:

Hey I know you!! 😉😉

Hello, I don't know if E(vil)Pay will even allow us to communicate here at all...

May 16, 2023

I'll watch this one, since I lost an auction for this item two weeks ago.

May 12, 2023

Just bought a copy of Pineapple for the 7800 via AA forums.

Proof the AA community is still awesome.

May 6, 2023

You have a great start to your collection. I have collected Atari 2600 games three times in my life and still do not have everything. There is a lot of original releases and now so many homebrew, hacks and downloadable roms, that very few people are able to keep up with it all. But that is what makes it fun and interesting. I learn of new stuff almost every week.

User Submitted News · April 30, 2023

--Prepare for rant--

Google ,Facebook, all these high-tech (corporate spy agencies, gov control facilitators) companies in CA that are just shuffling electrons around, In a state that got very close to maxing out its electrical grid in last summer's heatwaves several times.

When Atari, Hewlett Packard, Apple , the Silicon Valley were there in the 1970's the electric company (PG&E) would give a company a lower rate for using more electricity at their business, factory.

Now we live in an era of no infrastructure improvements and electric rates that were increased in CA three times in one year.(criminal conspiracy anyone?)

And on top of all this, the states across the land want everyone to use electric stoves, heaters, cars, without any reliable alternative to making all this electricity.

--End rant--

As for the history of Atari as a business, they could have been Apple. Instead the east coast suits and their wall street brokers ruined it.(Sorry the rant really wasn't over)

P.S. That Futurama bit with the aliens wiping out NYC, then the upstart medieval castles, is one of my favorite scenes.

April 30, 2023

3 hours ago, eebuckeye said:

That does seem like a great game for the 2600!

Does the Atari VCS/2600 need more pinball games?

"Some ancient alien theorists say YES!"

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