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I was very suprised when I found it for the first time as well in the 90's. I had never known there was an Atari 400/800 version of Donkey Kong, as I thought Coleco was the only one who had the rights for the video game consoles. The Colecovision version is more arcade like, and the Atari 400 version plays more like a typical classic arcade type of game of the day. Both are very good.

Turbo Grafx had a good port of Galaga as well.

I have had some moron, an aquaintence of a friend, ask me if I "wanted to buy some emulators" on instant messenger. I asked him "why would I buy something from you that I can download for free". There are some real pathetic dummies out there!

As a kid I remembered seeing the ads in the video game mags for Bounty Bobs Great Sky Scraper Caper, or whatever the Miner 2049'er sequel was supposed to be called. Years later, when I found out it had never been designed or released, I was very disapointed. Miner 2049'er II seems to be a bit of a let down, compared to the original.

If you were going to build an army of robots to take over the world, and you only had access to any 8 bit computers (even TRS80's), which would you use for the individual brains of your robot army, and why? And which computer would you definitely not use and why?

What good 2 player games are there for Atari 8 bit? I am still looking to try out the netplay. Are there any good war games?

The dreamcast is a nice system for emulation play on your television. I play Stella Atari 2600, NES, and Colecovision mostly on my Dreamcast, and some other emulators. Maybe 10% of the time, I will actually play a dreamcast game.

I had an Atari XEGS 10 years ago, and I didn't like it. The keyboard is mushy, and even though its "detachable", it has a rigid cord 8 inches long, so you can't really do much with it. On the other hand, the Atari 800xl is not much more than a keyboard, and very compact. Right now I have an Atari 800 and I prefer that to my old XEGS. I know the Atari 800 has an A/V port, because I bought an A/V cable for it, and I hook it up to the RCA plugs on my television. I believe the Atari 800xl may have that A/V port as well.

In 10th grade, after removing the Atari motherboard from the case, and using it like that for a while, I taped some of those waxed fuse M60 firecrackers onto the Atari board, and lit them and threw it into the canal behind my house. Colecovision and my Apple IIe computer had made the Atari 2600 expendable.

For the Apple II basher above, the Apple II displayed red with no problem. NTSC artifacting?? I believe that is an Atari thing. I had clean red, and all the other colors on my RGB monitor. The sound on the 8 bit Apple II's is nothing special, but it was adequate for a home computer in 1979.

I actually had some cool programs back in the old days, that I saved to tape. One was donkey kong jr running and falling into a pit, then you see the trap jaws eat him up, and the pit fills with blood. You could do some neat things through basic language, but the 2k it gave you, really limited what you could do.

I was wondering what people prefer here, the Colecovision and/or the Atari 5200, or the NES. Although the NES is superior, so many of the games have no personality, and are just bland and look rushed out for a buck. The NES Donkey Kong looks nearly identical to the arcade version, but seems kind of plastic. I much prefer the Colecovsion and Atari 800 version of Donkey Kong. Just wondering what everyone else thinks.

I was just wondering if there are any 7800 fans who love the Atari 7800 system as their favorite system as it relates to Atari 7800 media, not the Atari 2600 catalog. I would imagine if the 7800 was someones first system, someone might have a special spot in their heart for it. I consider it a nice oddity, with some interesting games.

Anyone else ever have one of these in the old days? The ECS was the Intellivison computer module, it added 2k to the 8k Intellivison. You could use the extra 2k for programming basic langauge, which I always used to the last byte with my programs. The best part were the 2 games I had. World Series Baseball and Mind Strike. World Series Baseball took advantage of the Intellivoice module, and the computer module provided extra sound voices for the music. The game had multiple 3D television views of the game(a first), and decent play by play. Most of all it was a fun game, and we had a lot of fun playing it. Mindstrike was sort of a simple checkers type game, with giant numbers that "killed" smaller numbers by jumping on top of them on a game board. At opposite ends of the board were enemies castles, which you had to land on and conquer to win the game (or stamp out your opponents numbers). The best part of the game was that you could design your own boards, which made it really fun. You could play a turn based system, or you could play the "Speed Strike" version, which let you move as fast as you could move the controler. I have another ECS that I got off of Ebay a while back, and a Mind Strike cart, but I have held out buying World Series Baseball. There is some clone selling a copy on Ebay for like 150.00 or so. Anyway those are two really good games, which I have never heard anybody mention much, (I have heard World Series Baseball mention once or twice before).

I am an Apple II guy, so I have no horse in this race. When it comes down to it, its quality versus quanity. The Atari 8 bits were quality hardware, and had quality software. The C64's were low priced budget computers designed to bring home computers to the masses. Although you could buy both Atari's and Commodores at the toy store, I never saw an Atari computer at Eckerd Drugs, unlike the Commodores, and Texas Instruments. I always took for granted, inserting a disk into my Apple and turning it on(and having it boot). On the C64, you had to go into basic and type some weird ass commands to start a C64 disk, and then wait for an eternity.

In the early to mid 90's I could find odds and ends every once in a while. In the 21st century I never see ANYTHING. Too many cheapo's and mizers out there, hording and being pigs about it.

As a kid, Front Line was my favorite arcade game, and it wasn't a super popular arcade game for some strange reason. I was originally an Intellivision owner, and about 3 years after that, I finally got an Atari 2600 like the rest of my friends. I was very happy when I got Front Line for Atari 2600. I hoped and prayed there would be an Intellivision version of Front Line, but Coleco never made one. I think Front Line is one of the most underrated arcade games of all time, and underrated Atari 2600 games as well. Coleco did a good job of releasing overlooked arcade games. The Coleco library is full of classic arcade games that would have otherwise probably never seen the light of day on home consoles.

I had Intellivision Q-Bert back in the old days, and so I never bothered buying the Atari 2600 version, which I took for granted. Considering the Atari 2600, it is a decent port. The funniest part is how you can jump QBert "through" Coily the snake, who appears from block to block, just jump QBert as Coily makes his move, and you can go back and forth all day.

Anybody have any luck fixing Colecovision controls? I have 2 so so controls, and I got 3 more off of Ebay, and they are much, much worse than what I had! I wonder if it is worth taking apart to mess with? Both controls I have, work, but it takes a lot of strength to make it "work". I have the 128 in 1 flash cart, but I don't bother much, since the controls make it too much work

We actually had a football league in the original Atari Football when we were in elementary school. A 3 person league. Then later on we got hooked on 4th and Inches, and then came the original Madden cart, which is the all time best

This is truly incredible. But let me ask you all, isn't it about 25 years too late! Just imagine if this had been released back in the old days? Radio Shack would have seen Coco3 sales skyrocket!

In the United States, I think most people missed out on the non-PC 16 bit era, which is a shame. Those are some of the best computers ever made. The most popular classic computers in the US in alphabetical order. (Apple)Apple IIe and other in same family (Atari) Atari 800xl and others in same family (Commodore) C64 Nobody ever cries over the old days of the PC jr, or the VIC20.

As I mentioned before, me and my friend Chuck had some intense sports rivalries on the Apple II. We played tons of 4th and Inches for the Apple IIgs. I had the team maker disk, and we played NFL teams, with NFL rosters. I had Atlanta and St Louis Cards, and he had Pittsburgh and another team. We played a lot of GBA Basket Ball for the Apple IIgs. Earlier, I had an Apple IIe version of GBA Basketball, which I have not seen on the internet. International Hockey was a favorite, I always got stuck using the keyboard, and lost. Our best game ever, was on Apple IIgs Hardball. Very good graphics and music. We were playing game 7 of our world series, full count, bases loaded, he was winning 3-0, and he just did a wild guess pitch at the end, laughingly. I swung. GRAND SLAM! Hahahah, I won the game 4-3, and the world series 4-3. I never let him forget that one. Finally in 1990 came Sega Genesis and John Madden Football in the same year, and that ended our interest in Apple II sports games.

You have an image or a Apple II disk of the game? I have a cracked Apple II disk version of the game, and I imagine the original version is copy protected. I am interested in getting it uploaded to the internet to help preserve it for Apple II fans out there, as well as some cheesey homemade games of mine from ages ago. Until recently I had an Apple IIgs system, which I let go. I could have made an image very easily with that. I have recently been playing around with an Apple IIc I bought on Ebay, but I am barley able to get on the computer these days, and doubt I would be able to do the transfer myself in the coming days. Back to International Hockey, it is the best Apple II hockey game out there. Its a lot of fun. Its a real nice 8 bit Apple II ware that came out during the Apple IIgs era. My and my friend Chuck used to have intense rivalries in Apple II sports games.

I have a rare Apple II Hockey game, "International Hockey", by Artworx Software. The game is from 1987. I have never seen this disk image on the internet. I no longer have the cables and equipment to make a pc disk image. I am very ill, and will not be able to get on the computer anymore in the very near future. If there is anyone out there who knows how, and has the necessary items to make a PC *.dsk disk image from an Apple II floppy, please contact me, and I will mail you the game. There is no copy protection, so there shouldn't be a problem. I also have one or two games I wrote in junior high school, that I would like to have on disk image, available on the internet for download. If you can help, please send me a private message. Thanks Jeff