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Froggeritis - The transformation of a Parker Brothers cart to turn into a Frogger once the label falls off

I would not pay to see the movie. Hollywood's been out of ideas for years and every time they try to make a movie tied into another product hoping to fill theater seats, the movie ends up crap.....

Anybody have a spare working power supply laying around? Just got a CV and anxious to test/play it.. Thanks

None with the system, But I had Zaxxon sitting around so Once I get a power supply it'll get some play....

Only problem is it doesn't have the power cable or AV cable. Is there anything particularly I should be looking for? What type of power supply does it need? I never had one as a kid so this is my very first one. Thanks in advance for any info.

Saturday bump

yeah it's a cool little system, it just never hit it big in the US... Shame because there are a few good games for it, and the box art is pretty cool too...

I gave $20 for mine and it came with 26 games 2 months ago.

? you mean they still have some of the grey/white prototypes? man I got my fingers crossed, perhaps multiple inquiries might make something happen.

Just put together a follow-up to my retroblast review of the USB joystick. Here it is, an interview with Curt. Happy reading: http://www.retroblast.com/20081128724/Late...Curt-Vendel.php and thanks again Curt.

this has been around forever, but there's a few who may not have seen it, which fits nicely with panamajoe's find: http://www.wayoftherodent.com/gd101/bs_paperarcade.htm paper arcade cabinets

58.398 why not? they use the 3rd decimal place when pricing gas..

the splinter I use works fine, but it's only a 2 way... I got my NES on on and my Atari on the other then my Sega is daisy chained into the NES.

you got to wonder if some of these scores were helped by the use of depends...

couldn't you use a coax splitter?

For those who subscribe, be sure to check out my article on Atari 2600 collecting and let me know what you think. (December issue, page 57) Hopefully if things go well, i may have more articles to submit in the future.

What are everyone's thoughts about a .net vs. a .com. Does it really matter any more? I really like Junkanew and .net is available -- .com is not. As I said before its a Bahamian Party so I could have an Islandy flair to the site which always wins people over. JunkAnew.net. you need to go with a dot com. I'm tend to type the name I'm going to and hitting ctrl+enter which fills in the www. & .com for me. I've done it that way for so many years that I don't even think about it. so times if I'm hitting a .edu or .net site, I have to backtrack and fix it if it's not in my drop down list of sites I frequent.

1: How many different titles, counting same game by different company as a different title, do you have in your 2600 collection? About 160 2: What's your favourite 2600 model? (Clones included) Sears Telegames Woody 3: What are your 5 favourite games for the 2600? Fast Food, Warlords, Vanguard, River Raid, Super Break-out 4: What company made the best looking games as far as casing goes? Coleco 5: Do you still own the first system you ever bought? Nope, it's long lost and I have no idea what ever happened to it. 6: What other game systems do you own? Odyssey 2, C64, NES, Genesis, PS1, N64, Flashback 2, bunch of Jakks plug n plays 7: Do you own any of the "adult" titles for the 2600? no 8: Do you buy games online, in the wild, or both? whenever, wherever 9: How do you store your games? In plastic bins, but will be making custom shelves shortly. 10: Do you have any complete collections from any maker, not including homebrew companies, for the 2600? Not yet

I agree. I really love this game when I have someone I can play against. But since that doesn't happen very often, there are countless other games I usually play instead. By this logic, then Warlords is the crappiest of crap that ever crapped because you need to have 3 other friends and two sets of paddles to truly enjoy this game. Note * I think Warlords is awesome and when friends come over it always gets game play....

It amazes me how much debate on how "crappy" Pac-Man is for the 2600. When I was a kid, I didn't think it was a bad game. I thought it was so "totally awesome" to get to play it at home in my bedroom any time I wanted. To my recollection, no one I knew complained about it either. As a matter of fact, owning Pac-man for the 2600 was a badge of honor, bragging rights even, to our friends who still haven't pestered their parents enough to get their own copy. Sure it wasn't the real deal like the arcade, but in my mind at age 8 and the minds of my peers, it was close enough. We can look back and pick apart every game made back then and say look how badly they are done in comparison with today's standards, or look at the code and figure out mistakes made and what they should have done, hindsight is after all 20/20. When I play them now, I don't analyze them and pick them apart, I just kick back and it's me against my high score. Sure there were some games I didn't care for as much as others, but back then Pac-Man wasn't one of the bad ones.

damn so now wearing gaming shirts is cool and hip... Guess I'm years ahead of my time... Guess it is time to start wearing something else so I'm not like everyone else...

2 player FTW