does anyone here on the board got all 2600 homebrews?

[does anyone here on the board got all 2600 homebrews?]

The short answer is no.

I blew it and did not get more stuff from Hozer Vidio Games a few years back.I am always outbid on ebay, so I figure it will be next to impossible to finish this collection.

I am only missing the first x-mass cart from Atari Age.

I have not gotten all the hacks that have been offered in the AA forums, but that's another topic....

[Last 10 games you will ever play]

What is this; Final Destination 4?

If so, I want to at least die in some freaky accident way involving the Atari 2600, with a high-score on the screen...

[AtariAge Autumn 2600 Game Bundles Sale!]

I might get the Sea Battle/Swordfight, just because one of the two I got from the original run don't work(plus the new instruction booklets would be cool to have).

[How did you feel the day you got 2600 Pac Man?]

My dad made it a point to go and buy PacMan for my brother and I.

Needless to say, we both did not have the courage to tell him how much it stank.Like the rest of the people here, when Ms PacMan was released,we wondered why that game was so much better.

[Which is your favorite?]

Millipede on the 2600 is crazy.Sometimes there are so many things going on that some of the enemy sprites slow down and stop moving vertically.

[Who Are You Anyway, Atari 2600 Fan?]

Mine is just my initials, but 'room34' on the forums here wrote that it stood for 'diabolical world hypnotist' which I guess I am a member of but have been hypnotised to forget...

[Rare Complete Atari 2600 Mogul Maniac and Joyboard]

These used to be more common on ebay a few years back;should have gotten one then...

[Why I Think Adventure is the Best Game Ever]

It's the gameplay, with the random elements of the bat and dragons coming thru walls from other parts of the kingdom.

Later games were just linear-go here do this, then go there and do that, every single time;the only improvement over Adventure was the save game feature.

[How Things Work Show....2600 Edition]

I believe it was called "80's tech" on history channel;they kept showing milipede being played...

[Are there any games in your collection for systems you don't own?]

Intellivision "Carnival" because the person on ebay misadvertised it....thought I was getting a Colecovision cart. I didn't bother sending it back.

 

That happened to me to..got two colecovision carts via ebay and have since traded them off.So sometimes the mistakes help your collection along.

 

I have War Room for Colecovision just because it is related to the Odyssey 2 stuff I have, but no Colecovision to test it on.

[My next homebrew should be.....]

Pink Panther :D

 

Only if you are willing to pay $100 for your copy...

 

Get Stratogems!

[Atari 5200 Boulder Dash PREORDER]

My pre-order(I picked the basic black cart) and an Odyssey 2 order is in.

Who knew that this one sentence could be worth over $400...

Oh well, the price of being a vidio game collector.

[Pink Panther 2600 Prototype On Ebay]

Geez, I think this guy is awfully greedy...he sure passed on a bid of $1,500 though....

To make even more money, the binder with all the cool info in it, is now in a separate auction.

[Where are the game variations, dammit!]

The homebrew game Warring Worms got the many variations theme right.But, basically, I would agree, more variations, damn it!

[Even boxed these are insane prices!]

These prices are why I am glad I do not have a pay-pal account--

I would be much poorer than I already am...

I do not have those two boxes either.

[New pics of the basement 2600 wall]

Nice! The odyssey(1) boxed games are cool.I just can't justify buying stuff for the original Odyssey, I'm too much of a slave to everything that is for the Atari 2600.

[Bugs bunny going high]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Very-RARE-Atari-2600-B...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

I got mine for $40 plus it's autographed.

 

DITTO!

[Did you care about flicker?]

[quote name='Feralstorm' date='Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:47 AM' post='1122806'

 

back on track, flicker never really bothered me unless it's unusually bad, like lots of things on-screen at once in Adventure or Wizard of Wor - bad.

 

The flicker on Wizard of Wor just made the game end sooner for me.By the time you get to level 8 or so, everything is moving so fast...and due to flicker you can't see them,that's just cheating!

I forgot about the whole moon flickering on lunar lander/star ship,"Oh the humanity!"

[Hunchy 2]

I have only gotten to level 10 once,very briefly, then the guard chased me down;did not have enough time to look at the layout and figure out a way around him.

Oh yeah,BTY, the game does kick ass!

[How do you store your loose carts?]

Mine are in plastic boxes with lids(so they can be stacked),with labels on one end letting me know which companies games are in which box.

I now have three of these boxes with Atari Age released games!

Two boxes are full, the third box is just getting filled with new games.

[Why did Atari hold back the launch of the vcs by 1 year]

If Bushnell had kept Atari, we'd now be members of OdysseyAge.

 

Bushnell didn't have enough money to launch and support a programmable system. Only a major company like Warners could handle that sort of investment. The VCS never would have became a mass market commodity without them.

 

Bushnell was in the right place at the right time. He got his start by ripping off SpaceWar. He made his money by ripping off Pong. Throw in the home consoles and he was pretty much ripping off Ralph Baer in general, taking advantage of Magavox's missteps to do things a little better. The guy from the Sears sporting goods department who took a chance on Atari consoles is the real unsung hero.

 

 

Careful, Magnavox might sue this site and force us to change it to OdysseyAge(!).After reading the Ralph Baer book, it seems that he spent half his life in court for Magnavox.

[Odyssey Demon Attack on Auction - Rare? Value?]

Demon attack and atlantis are not as rare as the parker bros games,but cool to own because of so little third party games for the O2.

[Shopping Online Vs Shopping in Stores]

I live rural, so I have no choice but to shop on-line.

(I'm not a shut-in, I just don't get out much)

[Origanil 70s Arcade To VCS Ports.]

Dude, are you posting drunk again?

 

 

Hehe thanks for the link now seeing the both verion now I haved the 2600 arcade ports more then ever, thank god for Homebrew & Hacker Programers

 

 

Uh.....ummmm.....4?

 

These quotes made my day!

[compiling homebrew list]

A little off topic but does anyone know how much time elapsed between the last commercial cart for the VCS (Atari or third party) and the release of the first homebrew game?

Thanks

Edtris 2600 and SoundX came out in 1994, two years after Salu and HES released their last Atari games.

 

 

Only two years!It's almost like the 2600 never stopped being supported.