Mental Vortex

I remember seeing a bunch of these machines throughout the 80s in the midwest and northeast U.S. Ms. Pac Man was the one I remember seeing the most. I always thought it was cool that you could sit down and play them instead of having to stand all the time. I think I remember seeing a Burgertime cocktail arcade game if I remember correctly.

Like others, I'd like to add my name on here if the cost isn't too much. I need to start playing my Coleco again regardless! I forget how good the games are on it.

I've never heard anyone say that it was NOT true...until I came here Based on the poor sales of E.T., I voted yes because there's a good chance something like this did happen.

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I'll see if I can dig it out sometime this weekend and check for sure. I'll take a picture as well if anyone wants to see it.

Can you give some examples of these? I'm trying to think of all the classics that I normally play, and I can't think of too many that are exclusively on the CV as opposed to any other console.

What's wrong with Jedi Arena? I think it's a pretty good game. Plus it's a third party game used with paddles, which you don't find that often.

Ms. Pac Man Jr. Pac Man Frogger I'll probably add a few more later if I can think of them.

Another vote for Crane. He did a great job on everything he did. Although you have to give Robinett credit for creating the first Easter Egg.

It doesn't help that I can't play it on my TV!

You know what, I think this may just be the #1 worst game in my book. Gameplay is horrible. Well, actually everything about it is horrible! But I'll still play it every now and then just to see if I can actually do anything with it.

So I guess I got a good deal when I got it for 50 cents at a thrift store several years ago? Seriously, it's a pretty good game. Add the fact that it's sponsored by Charlie Hustle, and with all the trouble he's been in, it's a nice item to have in your collection.

So was Jeff Pilson and Jason Bonham. And having Jennifer Aniston in it sure didn't hurt

How is it compared to the 7800 when playing the same games? Is it that much better, if at all?

Nice to see someone else remembered the TI 99/4A's voice module. When my brother and I were kids, our babysitter had one at his house and we'd use to play Parsec all the time with that. It was pretty cool. The Intellivoice is still pretty impressive considering the technology at the time, as someone already mentioned with Bomb Squad. Probably the one that REALLY caught my attention was when I first played Jinks on the 7800 and heard the "YOW" and the other sample from Gauntlet. Oh, if they only released that game for the 7800 back then with those sounds, but no luck.

Whoa! No way. It's my hometown so I'm definitely interested. Anyone ever been to one of these, and if it's worth going if you can't spend a whole lot of dough? I'm curious if you can really get any deals on anything.

I have a few Pong units myself. One of them is a yellow Magnavox model, but I can't remember which model it is. I'll see if I can get some pictures up here of them sometime.

Looks like a Gorf console to me.

I visited here once about a year or two ago, but haven't been back since about two months ago and registered then. After years of frustration, I posted about my copy of Desert Falcon that kept scrolling, thought maybe I had a PAL version, and thanks to some troubleshooting by several people here it turned out to be my old TV that was the culprit. And now I'm stuck here as I got the collecting bug again

Is that an actual game or made up graphics? Haydn 838897[/snapback] That's gotta be Auto Racing on the Intellivision. I grew up playing that game, and it's a good one too.

I could've sworn my copies of Bounty Bob and Marauder worked in my 7800 without any problems. Or maybe I just got lucky with mine. I'll have to check on that tonight.

Well, for the first time in quite a while, I had it! At least for me anyway. Found Secret Quest, Roc 'N Rope, Skate Boardin' and Private Eye for $1 each. No manuals or boxes but hey, it's a start! Found the red end label version of Ballblazer for the 7800 as well, same price. So, not a bad day for a change.

(raises hand) I actually had one last night. I dreamed I went to a flea market and scored a TON of Atari stuff. Zimag manuals, some hard to find Activision carts, and some non-Atari hardware like an Odyssey 2 voice module. Is it any coincidence it's Saturday and it's time to hit the flea markets for real?

You mean this? Sorry it's kind of hard to see, but it's clearly an Asteroids cart.

Less than a two hour drive for me if this actually happens, so count me in as well. It'd be nice to go to a classic gaming show that's nearby.