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Atari 2600 Congo Bongo might be the worst of all. Atari 2600 Zaxxon is pretty rough too.

What is the advantage of having 320k? Are there any applications that can take advantage of the extra memory over 128k?

The game difficulty switches seem to have been phased out eventually in later games. I believe they are a carry over from the difficulty switches on the Pong games, which had difficulty switches which made your paddle smaller.

People need to just get along. You don't need to cry for the mods to "please lock the thread" after you take your personal swipe at someone, in a conversation in which you may not have even been involved. Please lets discuss things like civilized adults and respect each other. Most of us here are adults, or at least act like it. I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion, if you don't have something nice to say about another person, please don't say it. It goes without saying. Atari 7800 Donkey Kong is one dimensional without decent sound. Nice graphics, but bad sound. That sums it up.

Just be ready to spend money to get working controls. Once you have a system with 2 good controlers, you will be a happy camper. The 5200 is a classic system. I always prefered Colecovision, and it's titles, it's joysticks, but the 5200 is a unique system, and as long as you have the space for it, it is one of the nicest looking systems ever.

Did anybody else have this game? This was a fun game with decent graphics. Comparable to Sega Genesis Madden 92/93. It came out the same year as Madden 94 for Gen/Snes. This is the one Turbo Grafx game I still have after I sold my system. Every once in a while I still play this CD on my Turbo Grafx emulator. Like all the early Madden games it came with the player ratings. Unlike todays newer games, which are too cheap to include a pack in of the player ratings.

It is such a shame the way Atari did things in the 80's. The Atari 5200 was axed in 1984? The 7800 was introduced with backwards 2600 compatibility at the same time, but then quickly pulled. Then in 86 or so, the 7800 is shoved back out there, along with the Atari XEGS (closely related to 5200) and they are both given shoddy support. Just imagine if the 8 bit computers had been kept separate from the game system line. An Atari 7800 with a good sound chip would have been a great competitor to Colecovision. And the Atari home computers would still have their own distinct quality identity. At least we can still enjoy them through emulation, and the actual hardware (thank God for ebay!).

Here we have the kettle calling the pot black. http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...01886&st=25 This is so funny. I had a Turbo Grafx CD System with System Card 3.0 to play Turbo Duo games. I bought every one one of my Turbo Grafx CD and Turbo Duo CD games. Please do me a favor, and don't ever give _me_ a lecture about honesty or morals again.

It is usually the hypocrites who cry the loudest... http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=102006 "So we all know that the TurboDuo doesn't have region/copy protection on its CD's, so I was thinking about trying out some imports that I could never afford normally (ever seen the price of a copy of Sapphire?). My question is can using CDR's in a TurboDuo damage the system? I know they work in the Duo (this is how I played Dracula X), but someone told me that CDR's cause strain on the laser in the CD drive and causes it to wear out quicker. I know that the Duo isn't the most well built system on earth (actually it's one of the most fragile sytems I've ever seen), so I'm a bit warery about doing anything that could cause it harm. Tempest"

I finally got my Atari 800 setup with the 1050 drive. Thank you to all who helped me out with the sio cable, power supply, and Atari DOS. As an Apple II person, I never realized what a loyal and strong following the Atari 800/XL/XE computers have. Now I just need someone to suggest a website or websites that explains Atari Basic/DOS/ etc.... Thanks Jeff

I am amazed at all the saints on here. A couple years earlier when I was 14, I bought Congo Bongo for the Apple II at full new retail price from Toys R Us. Somehow they didn't have the original box. I didn't think much about it. When I got the game home, and it crashed on the 1st screen, I realized what had happened. Somebody else returned a defective game, and then Toys R Us sold me a game as new, that was defective returned merchandise. So morally as a junior high kid, I had no problem a couple years later in leaving their sorry asses with a Poker N Black Jack cart. Let those crooks explain to the next customer how a "new" Super Pro Football is actually Poker n Blackjack. It takes soooooo much courage to rag on my junior high buddy who stole a video game and a Lego. Grow up. If you don't like my posts, don't read them. If you are "perfect" and want to criticize me, thats fine. Just say so at the start of the post.

This is my favorite version of Civilization. Another couple of interesting versions pre-Civ2, are CivNet, and Civilization for Windows.

I remember in the late 80's when Intellivision saw its rebirth, I was probably about 16 or so, I bought Super Pro Football, which was an incredible game. Anyway I switched the labels on Super Pro Football, and the standard old pack in crap game Poker & Blackjack. I returned the Poker & Black Jack game with the Super Pro Football sticker on it, and got like $45 back at Toys R Us. I can just imagine the next person who bought that Super Pro Football game at Toys R Us, only to see Poker & Blackjack pop up on their TV screen! What a laugh that would have been. And then their trip back to Toys R Us "yeah someone switched the stickers on the game cartridge" ..... Toy R Us was always infamous for selling damaged used/returned merchandise as "new". A friend of mine returned like 5,6 a whole bunch games for another system after switching stickers after I told him about my trick. Shortly after, Toys R Us changed their return policy.

Congo Bongo! Donkey Kong/Jr Bump N Jump Jungle Hunt Pengo Venture Mr. Do Dig Dug Tutankaman Super Sprint Joust Mario Brothers Vangaurd Star Wars Arcade Game

I remember when I was in junior high, seeing Montezuma's Revenge. With great graphics, and tons of screens, I was very impressed reading my electronic games magazine. Even the 2600 version was incredible. My mom dropped me and my friend off at the mall one weekend, and me and my buddy went into Sears, and I opened a Montezuma's Revenge box and we began playing it on the Atari 2600 demo machine in the store. My friend was so impressed by the game, he decided he wanted to steal it. I didn't steal, but I didn't see anything wrong with opening games and trying them out So anyway, my friend steals a shrink wrapped Atari 2600 Montezuma's Revenge and some Lego stuff while we were in Sears. We played the heck out of Montezuma's Revenge. I think that it is still my favorite Atari 2600 (and Colecovision) game to this day.

Windows does copy Mac OS. That is just a fact, plain and simple. Apple has always made quality hardware. Apple makes intel PC's now, just like everybody else. The only real comparison is between operating systems.

In junior high me and my friend used to go to Radio Shack and we would type a program that had about a 2 minute delay, and then it would make a loud buzzing sound. We would turn the volume all the way up and run the program. We would exit the store a couple a minutes before it went off, and then watch the noisey destruction from across the way!

Let me rephrase my last message, I mistyped. Super DK has all 4 screens, and the opening/in between sequences. The 4th screen does not have sprite collision-detection (Pie Factory). Super DK Jr does not have the in between sequences, but does have a functioning 4th screen (Mario's Hideout).

Thats always the first thing I do when I upgrade operating systems, is try out all the emulators It seems like such a waste. Shouldn't you be trying to slim down, and speed up and operating system? Rather than bloat it up and bog it down and increase the memory requirements just to run it properly. My first Win XP machine had 256 megs, and now my 2nd machine with XP has 1 gig, and it runs fine. Why should I have to spend money on a whole gig more of memory just to upgrade? Maybe in 6 months or a year it will be worth upgrading, when all the bugs are worked out, and most of the emulators work properly with Vista.

You must have one of the very early original Apple IIc's. When I get around to it, I want to get one of those fancy little Apple IIc Plus machines, which runs at 4 mhz, and has a built in 3.5 inch drive.

I finally hooked up my 1050 with an sio cable, and power supply, thanks to the Atari community here, thank you very much. I don't have a disk to test it with, but it powers up and says boot error. So I am assuming it will work once I get a disk to insert. The Atari has built in OS right? So once I insert a disk, I should be able to format it? How do I get to the Atari DOS menu?

I learned on my old Intellivision ECS computer/module. I had one program I wrote, which had Donkey Kong Jr (his 2 sprites pulled from the INTV cart) running along and he falls into a pit, and he is then eaten by the DK Jr trap jaws, and the pit fills with blood. Most of the other programs were text adventure games me and my friend would take turns writing, letting the other person play. Basic language only had 2k of programable memory, you had no access to the RAM on the Intellivision unit, only the computer module. When I got my Apple IIe a year later, I hit that running. I wrote some very interesting games with graphics on the Apple IIe. I will have to make disk images of them one day. Kids today are spoiled. Anybody can stumble onto the internet and act like a moron today. In the old days (1980's), you had to have a brain to operate a computer, and get online. Today it is as simple as point and click. If anyone can recommend a free programable basic languge for windows, (especially one similar to classic basic lang) I would be thrilled.

I just came across Super Donkey Kong, and Super Donkey Kong Jr roms the other day. What a nice suprise! From what I understand, these are the Coleco Adam versions hacked into cartridge/rom form. The Super Donkey Kong has all 4 screens, and has the opening sequence and the in between sequences, which add to the game. The music and sound is so good on the Colecovision versions, it just adds another element to it. The only part that lacks, is the Pie Factory screen, which lacks sprite collision detection, but otherwise it is playable. Super Donkey Kong does not have the in between sequences, but does have all 4 screens. The Mario's Hideout screen looks really cool, and plays really well!

Turbo Grafx is a good system, you can get a System 3.0 CD card for it, and play Turbo Duo games with a Turbo Grafx CD player. 3DO is a nice system to collect for, and the Apple IIgs is a very nice computer, and you can play all the old 8 bit Apple II titles as well.

I had nearly every console every made to a certain point (except for old Nintendos), in the 90's. It just came down to space for me, and tuition. I needed space, and money for tuition for community college. Among my favorites, I had a Turbo Grafx CD w/Sys3(TurboDuo)Card, nice 5200 system, with two working controls, two wico controls, 30+ games, nice Colecovision system 20+ games, Atari 7800 system with ~ 10 games, 3DO with about 15 games, Sega Gen, Master Sys, N64, and Atari2600, Intellivision.