The Night Phantom

March 9, 2002

The wraparound river is indeed controlled by the difficulty switches, as explained in the manuals for both the Parker Brothers cartridge and the Starpath SuperCharger release.

quote:

Originally posted by Jess Ragan:

Experiment a little with the difficulty switches on the back of your system...

Unless, of course, the difficulty switches are on the front of your system.

March 9, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Inky:

I put Pac-Man in my 7800 today.. and actually ENJOYED it..

Don't worry, Inky. This is perfectly normal. Just remember not to turn the power on.

March 9, 2002

I acquire to play—so, no boxed game in my possession stays boxed for long—but I do prefer to have the box, manual, and other materials, as they go a long way in re-creating those days of yore. However, a box is not a sine qua non, and I'm getting to the point that most of the VCS games I still want are going to be harder to get “complete”.

March 9, 2002

Oh, and make sure you have a nifty nylon dustcover, too.

March 8, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Atari Master:

I thought it only played two players.The 2600 that is.

Each set of paddle controllers is a pair whose cords join together to plug into a single controller port. Since the 2600 has two controller ports, four-player paddle games are possible.

The Warlords suggestion is good. I would add Video Olympics, which also includes some four-player games and has a greater number and breadth of gameplay variations.

March 6, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Jeffy Arensmeyer:

Was there any

one character

that was representative of Atari

and

everything they did for video gaming? The Fuji did the job,

but it never became an official game character

.

Not a character per se, but it was part of the playfield in Video Pinball.

March 5, 2002

A mascot is supposed to promote whatever it represents. From a 2600 perspective, at least, Pac-Man would generally conjure feelings headed 180° from the right direction.

March 5, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Rhindle The Red:

I think it should be:

*ahem*

Rhindle the Red.

Yorgle's in all the variations, and as such he embodies the ubiquity intrinsic to mascot status. Rhindle, on the other hand, is the badass dragon trotted out only for special occasions in Mascotland.

March 5, 2002

I like the Basketball idea. Here are a couple more Atari-owned 2600-specific characters:

[*]Yorgle, the yellow dragon from Adventure

[*]the Yar

March 5, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Albert:

So what other clever, six-character Atari-related license plates can you guys come up with?

“CX2600”?

March 5, 2002

A stock CX40 joystick. With hands and feet, if necessary. On second thought, that might look much too Freudian.

OK, a Fuji with hands and feet...?

March 5, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Pitfall Harry:

Either player could also display his own Ship Placement grid at any time during the game just for laughs. All ya gotta do is tell your opponent to look away while you flip your player difficulty switch to take a quick peek and then flip it back to restore the Radar grid to resume the game.

And if you happened to flip the wrong difficulty switch by “accident” while your opponent wasn't looking, well, that's just the luck of the flip.

March 3, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by StanJr:

So when the Charger says "press play" you select which track the game is and play that? What about multi-load games?

That's how it works for all of them. Multiload games ought to be encoded over multiple tracks; so, choose the appropriate track and play it.

March 3, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Nukey Shay:

Cuttle Cart

It might be easier to obtain an actual Supercharger. Here's why, from Chad Schell's Cuttle Cart page:

quote
The Cuttle Carts are sold out and no longer in production. They were a limited run item, with a total of 204 carts produced at a price of $100.00 each. I currently have no plans of producing any more, especially not as I work to finish up my thesis.

March 3, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Monster greifen an:

I'm down with some weird al "it's all about the pentiums"

"you think your commodore 64 is really cool,

what kind of chip you got in there, a dorrito?

your desktop is a month old...thats great

if your lookin for a paperweight

Small corrections:

quote:

You think your Commodore 64 is really

neato

What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?

quote:

Your

laptop

is a month old?

Well,

that's great

If

you could use a nice, heavy

paperweight

Overall I find Running with Scissors the most lackluster of “Weird Al” Yankovic's albums, but I certainly enjoy this song.

March 3, 2002

Arguably 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe would fit in this category.

March 3, 2002

Dark Mage is a 2600 game available from Hozer Video.

March 2, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by StanJr:

Since Starpath games are on cassette, could I record Fireball over my old Milli Vanilli tape and have two copies?

Would the information transfer the same way? I can't imagine Starpath would allow something like that.

Why not? Milli Vanilli did!

March 2, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by scooterb23:

Journey's Greatest Hits

Heh. Right now I'm listening to the Tron soundtrack, which helped set the mood while I wrote my review of Tron reissue toys.

March 2, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Monster greifen an:

No, I meant

Kleine

. Like

Tiny Mouse Lives Here

. Like I said, These are only for demonstration.

I.e., the game doesn't exist. Hence, “keine kleine Maus wohnt hier”—no tiny mouse lives here. QED.

—Das Nachtphantom wacht hier

March 1, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by MattyXB:

The Night Phantom you can too german?

More german fans here then I thought.

I'm a “German fan” only in the sense of being a fan of the German language, rather than a fan who is German (unless you trace my ancestry back several generations).

quote:

Originally posted by sonnenhexer:

Yeah, Shadow, so the shadows are in germany or another german-speaking-country.

The shadows could be anywhere, and they have fallen on German soil a couple of times, but they usually and currently darken my homeland, the USA.

Before you guys get too excited about my German-speaking proclivities, remember: I added only one word to that sentence! (And it's a short one! )

—Das Nachtphantom

March 1, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Albert:

Heh, you ain't played Warlords until you've had it plastered up on a wall with a diagonal width of 120".

I had similar thoughts a couple of Christmases ago when I attended a party thrown by someone with one of these projector TVs throwing images against a blank wall. No games were played, but man, Troops (from the DVD accompanying the first issue of Total Movie magazine) has never looked more awesome. I've had a lot of fun speculating what VCS games would benefit most from the supermagnification. (Not as much fun, I am sure, as if I actually played them that way. I'm going to have to get invited back...)

March 1, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by jahfish:

"kleine maus wohnt hier" ???

you got me puzzled ..... what game is that supposed to be?

quote:

Originally posted by Monster greifen an:

these are not real games

Oh...keine kleine Maus wohnt hier.

March 1, 2002

Why, Pac-Man Fever, of course!

February 28, 2002

quote:

Originally posted by Monster greifen an:

I just read that string of comments on good ol Mike R. I hope he sees it and writes in to defend himself.

Heck, he could cash in!!

quote
Some foolish carpenter stuck a dumb sticker on it.

A carpenter, eh? You think Mario has something to do with this?!?

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