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  6. Posted

    57 minutes ago, keithbk said:

    Am I the only one that hates Berzerk?

     

    Yes, the graphics are good. But it's not a real maze! You exit one way, and you cannot go back! It's a CHEAT!

     

    For this reason alone, I prefer Berzerk on the Atari 5200.

    Yes. Quite clearly there is something wrong with you. Berzerk is a metaphor for life man. Every step is a one way ticket closer to death. There's no going back. The maze is unsolvable. Like life. All that matters is your score at the end. You dig? 🤫

     

    This post courtesy of me listening to a band from the early 70's called Pluto. 🤣

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  7. Posted · Edited by JasperAK

    3 hours ago, nightmonkeyii said:

    Unfortunately, nothing in the online store is really grabbing me. Id like to see things like lapel pins, merch that isnt centered around the old stuff. A poster of the new cloudy mountain of some sort would be cool, like the gran turismo posters

    I LOVE the retro stuff, but seriously, if I'm going to pay for and walk around wearing a Nike swoosh, why the fuck am I going to wear one from thirty years ago? Now to be fair, I wear my black-distressed-running man hat, but I am ready for the new.

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  8. Posted

    10 hours ago, Jstick said:

    This one really exceeds the definition of hack in my opinion, having so much extra added...

     

    I think this is the only "hack" I would consider buying an actual cart for (maybe with the exception of Berzerk VE, but that is more of a cool novelty)

     

    I'm sure everyone would agree Venture Reloaded definitively replaces the original.

    I can't possibly upvote or like this post enough.

     

    This Venture hack shows what the original hardware is capable of. This Venture hack is amazing, and something I would like to have on a cart. Look at what is possible with this little 6502 system we have been dicking with for the past 40 years. And that's not even talking about what is possible with ARM.

  9. Posted

    A few points.

     

    I bought Wizard of Wor Arcade and Galagon for myself for Christmas. They are in a box with many other retro game carts that I am not currently using. When I want to play either game, I play the demos on my Harmony Plus Cart. I do not regret my purchase, but this has lowered my chances for purchasing other full productions.

     

    I don't need boxes or printed manuals, but I do enjoy the physical carts. My son also loves the carts, so I have now all of the carts for the roms he likes to play. He loves the visceral feeling of changing the carts to change the game. He's six. He likes the agency. The look on his face when I took a cart of Battlezone out of a bubble mailer was priceless. What neither of us needs is a box.

     

    I enjoy physical carts so much that I am tempted to get custom carts of a few games that I hacked (Canyon Raid, Night Raid, or Pittsburgh vs. Montreal/Ottowa/San Jose/New York Islanders/Philadelphia/Toronto/Vancouver/Washington in Ice Hockey). I also want one for a Berzerk/Dr. Who hack, but I think the author fell off the face of the earth.

     

    But back to the roms. A while ago, I had seriously considered reaching out to some developers here to offer to pay for full roms with Venmo or another cash app. I'm glad to hear that that may soon be in the offering here, because I also don't mind supporting this site. I don't mind rewarding the developer, the publisher, and the distributor for games that I enjoy. I don't want to side-track the thread, but I think Amico has it right. I don't think I will have any problem paying $10 for a digital download game. I will almost certainly buy a few physicals if they are around $20 or so. I'm glad to see AA may possibly offer something similar.

     

    You know what would make physical purchases so much easier for me? The digital copy for free to put on my Harmony.

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  10. Posted · Edited by JasperAK

    1 hour ago, BassGuitari said:

    Is this game really a "homebrew?" It was created by veteran professionals who formed a company to sell their games commercially. 😜

     

    It's an Activision game in all but name. Which poses the question: is this the first "official" third-party release in 30 years, or should publishers and developers like AtariAge, Spiceware, and others finally be considered real, legitimate third parties and Audacity is just joining the "new wave" of 2600 development/publishing?

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    EDIOT: 🤣

  11. Posted

    So at 550+ and possibly slowing, is it safe to say that they will sell about the same or a little more than the best sellers here?

    If they sell more or even significantly more over time, where would those sales coming from? What market are they hitting that Atari Age isn't?

    I mentioned it in an earlier post that I thought they might be trying to grow the market. Any thoughts on how they may be doing it? Or are they selling to the same crowd but getting more sales because they are rock stars? Does Circus Convoy look like such a superior game to the homebrews we have now to explain greater sales?

    I'd really like to know if they can get 1000+ sales, how could they possibly do it? Who are they selling to that Atari Age is not?

     

    I wish them all the best; these questions I think of are not meant to disparage anyone. I just see this as a Sales and Marketing exercise. A little bit of SWOT and Market Analysis.

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  12. Posted · Edited by JasperAK
    I type too fast

    26 minutes ago, mos6507 said:

     

    Come on, man.  You're manufacturing controversy up out of thin air.

    I'm not the one who mentioned that one of them might have had a condescending attitude. I am not trying to stir up drama. I am saying that I don't appreciate anyone coming here and crapping on this community and the hard work that these people do. If they weren't jerks then awesome, I'm looking forward to what they produce. I'm looking forward to what they add to the community. I love this place, and I started getting strong negative vibes from some of the posts in this thread and posts in other recent threads. I can understand that stuff happens in the TACO and Amico threads, but there seems to be spill over now.

     

    I've never said that I thought they were boo-boo to the community. If it isn't clear, I have not seen the video so I do not have an opinion of any of their behavior. That's why I assumed that if multiple people had concerns, then there was probably something there. I reacted to other people's concerns and not anything I had direct contact with. That is my bad and even though I threw an IF in my original comments, I see how my comments could be taken the way you and others had. Again, not trying to be part of the problem, just trying to stand up for the community I like to call myself part of. I'm sorry if I've cause any strife in the community.

  13. Posted

    I'm guilty of reading these posts and feeling a very strong negative vibe from people. I'm a passionate person and as you can see from my posts in this thread I love this place. Others are mentioning concerns and I am stepping up running my mouth when maybe I don't have a place to. I do not intend to start crap, but am being proactive in defending the community if some person or group wants to imply the people here are not as good as them. I did not accuse anyone or anything, I just registered my displeasure with them if they ever did. You know, because what people earlier in the thread were either saying or implying. Again not trying to start anything, but anyone that doesn't respect what we have would lose my support and business, and I don't think I am alone in that. We have a small community and we need to stick together even if we have different ideas on how to maintain our community or in the case as I suspect with Audacity, grow our community.

  14. Posted · Edited by JasperAK

    55 minutes ago, Tempest said:

    I'm probably going to annoy a lot of people, but here we go.  Grabbing my soap box...

     

    The classic gaming community has become impossible to please.  For years, almost right after the 2600 finally died out and people started becoming nostalgic for it, people begged the original 2600 programmers to do another game.  Of course back then they were still working their real jobs and had no time to spent trying to do a unprofitable side project to please fans.  Now that time and technology have marched on and they can finally do it, people still complain!  They're not doing this for free, they're selling a product so some complaints or concerns are fine, but the level of nitpicking and 'armchair programming' (if that's a term) is mind boggling.  This community has started to grow toxic over the last several years.  As much as I hate to use that overused and loaded word, it fits.  I'm surprised people even bother anymore, all they get are demands and complaints.  We used to be better than this.  Maybe it was always there and I just never saw it before, or maybe I'm just getting old.  Either way, I'm sad.

     

    Ok I'm done.  Carry on people.

    And then you have a bunch of people trying to get Albert to sell the roms on the store so people can pay the developers (and distributor) for their work. Not everyone wants a $50 box, manual, and cart, but some people want to reward the people that make our scene possible. Now I don't follow the homebrew or programming threads nearly as much as the general so I can't speak for people being bitches or special snowflakes during the development of these games. The only hostility I ever see is in the Taco and Amico threads, and with careful moderation even that has died down.

     

    EDIOT: Now I read the programming threads when I find a game that interests me, and maybe it's because I haven't been here very long, but for the most part I don't see negative. One of the threads I have been following is Andrew Davie's Chess thread. That looks like a thread where Andrew shows us the development as it occurs and where the community offers input and questions. The progress that has been made in that thread is amazing. That's what I see.

  15. Posted · Edited by JasperAK

    5 hours ago, kheller2 said:

    I hadn't given much thought to the word "homebrew" until this thread.  And after reading through all these pages, I can see where home-brew could be construed as just that -- you brewed beer at home (and all the positive and negative feelings that come with that), in comparison to say the local small brewery that just opened a few years ago and is expanding and is now being served in the local bars --- vs the major corporate brewers out there at the grocery stores across the country.

     

    I like the phrase "modern release" as it doesn't imply who made it or where, just when.

    I was going to draw a cupcake analogy but I like beer just as much.

     

    I can go into my local Grocery store in Virginia and buy the same beer that someone can buy in California. I can also buy local brew in the same store or the bar down the road but its local only. I can't get it in California, or Pennsylvania for that matter. Brews like Sam Adams started as 'homebrews' and grew to cover the country and possibly beyond by this point. And then there are the local brews that can only be bought in one bar. I have one of those type of bars three minutes away. To me, that last one is Atari Age.

     

    Galagon could very easily be sold in any local retro game store. It's professional from start to finish. But it's boutique. As far as I know it's sold in one location and no one makes a profit on it. Atari Age is for the love of the game. Is Galagon or Atari Age really a commercial enterprise? I think that's the difference. Intention.

     

    I don't think anyone here is using the profit motive to drive their production. Games are not developed using a production schedule. Albert makes the physical product when he can, not to a distribution schedule. As far as I know, you can't buy any Atari Age games at retail. I get the impression that Audacity is looking at our market (and other retro game markets?) in a completely different manner. That's what will make them different, not necessarily successful, but different.

     

    But I'll say it now. EDIOT [Poo-poo] to them if they ever denigrate Atari Age or the people that make our niche possible. I'd like to think we are happy with the community we have, and if they try to come around and bully us with any holier-than-thou attitude they can just piss off. We didn't need that attitude before and we don't need that nonsense now. All we need are fantastic games to buy from people that respect their market. Atari Age is that right now. I love this place.

  16. Posted

    33 minutes ago, Nathan Strum said:

    It's a truck convoy. The box art shows trucks, not trains. Also, in the trailer at 0:58 you can see the front of a semi truck.

    You know I missed that split second of the front of the truck the first time through. It makes total sense now, jumping from moving trucks that are in a convoy that belongs to a circus. Yes sir, I get it now. I feel so stupid.

     

    My confusion could be due to the gold rush train game they are releasing soon.

  17. Posted · Edited by JasperAK

    39 minutes ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said:

    CIRCUS CONVOY TRAILER POSTED!


    Tune in this FRIDAY to ZeroPage Homebrew for the EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE OF CIRCUS CONVOY from Audacity Games and LIVE INTERVIEW with David Crane (Pitfall), Garry Kitchen (Keystone Kapers) & Dan Kitchen (Crackpots)!!!!


    Friday March 12th @ 4PM PT/7PM ET/12AM GMT
    https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/

     

     

    This looks like a love letter to so many games from Activision's past 2600 games. That snake was amazing.

     

    EDIOT: I hate how it looks like the train is on a highway instead of train tracks; I think the gold lines are the worst choice here, but otherwise super awesome.

  19. Posted

    10 hours ago, Supergun said:

    Oh my friend, you don’t need to wait for anything to unfold! I can tell you with 100% certainty and with no hesitation, that absolutely no game released by anyone in 2021 would  ever be classified as part of the official collection.

     

    From a previous thread for those who may not be familiar with it:

     

    “...In order to qualify, a game must meet or exceed the following requirements:
    1) 100% plug & play compatible with an unmodified original NTSC / USA Atari 2600.
                        AND
    2) Available for purchase at a retail store in the United States from 1977-1990.
                                            OR
    3) Available through a mail order offer; advertized in a magazine or television ad.

     

    Every cartridge presented for admission to this list is subjected to these questions:
    (1) Was the cartridge NTSC compatible? Meaning, did it function properly when inserted
    into a factory stock USA 2600 console connected to a 70s/80s era USA television set?
    (2) Was the game a repeat or a copy or a clone or a rom hack of an already existing
    and released game that was already on the list?
    (3) Was there another one available? Meaning, at the time, had another person been
    right next to you, or had they called the same phone number right after you,
    could they have also purchased it at that time?
    (4) Did you need to have a passport to get it? In other words, did you leave the
    country and buy it elsewhere and/or did you have it brought in from outside the USA?
    (5) Was the cartridge available during the natural lifespan of the system?

     

    So it doesn’t matter whatsoever wether it’s some simple 2kb pong game programmed by a teenager or some highly advanced 64kb DPC Pitfall III programmed by David Crane himself, ANY game that is made today and forever forward, is merely a Homebrew.

    I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with this thread you reference. Could you tell me who defined those qualifications or link to the aforementioned thread.

  20. Posted

    Agree 100% donjn. Joystick with single button like at the arcade or controller that kinda looked like that bastard from Atari's Star Raiders; yeah, Atari wins that one.

     

    On a slight tangent, I wonder if I took my Atari Flashback and Intellivision flashback into work, which one would people gravitate towards? Imagine letting both machines run and play random attract screens; what would happen? I think the Intellivision has clean consistent graphics, but the 2600 has some amazing looking games like Battlezone. No doubt Atari also has shit looking games like Pac-Man, Defender, and Donkey Kong. But in any case, picking up a controller, anyone can dive right in.

     

    With the Intellivision, on the other hand, there's a little bit of a learning curve, but I think especially with the sports games, most would have a much more rewarding experience. Oh, and Intellivision has B-17, so for a simulation type game, Intellivision is the only one that could do that type of game.

     

    Wow, sorry for the big tangent.

  23. Posted

    I went back and put the binaries on my harmony and holy crap did that make a difference. The three lines under the Red and gold band hurt my eyes because they look like they are vibrating. The JFK- through uvwxyz-lines are the most readable color wise. If I could change my vote I'd knock Small caps out and put Tri-12 in. Small caps had too many vertical lines. The roundness of the Captain was by far the most readable to me.

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