The Night Phantom
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Try this: rename the file to
stella.proand place it in your Stella folder (thereby replacing thestella.proalready there). If this doesn't solve the problem, post here again and maybe we can come up with something else. Good luck! -
Well, I still blame Liveinabin. Thank you, O anti-Quoon.
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Dear AA (“AtariAge” or “Alex & Albert” ),
On the main Message Boards page, the topic-link for the last post in Modern Gaming (currently in topic “I tried out Super Mario Advance 2 last night”) is not appearing, nor is the name of its author. However, the message icon, date, and time all appear as normally. The message author is Liveinabin; who knows what new deviltry he hath wrought?
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I look forward to seeing an AtariAge 8-bit Rarity Guide, someday. In the meantime you might want to head over to Andrew Krieg's Video Game Hunter's Oasis, which sports an Atari 8-bit cartridge list with rarity ratings (I think the guide may be for NTSC only). The Oasis has lists for other systems as well.
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Although I have a VCS and some other systems too, the VCS is the console I dream of most today.
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Originally posted by Maze Crazer:is there an "end" to Pitfall?
I just did a search for “pitfall” in Amazon.com's video games category and got seven results. So, apparently not!
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In the '80s I already had a VCS. For a while I dreamed of a ColecoVision; when its Adam computer module became available, the dream became a reality as I got my first home computer.
Although I fantasized about having other systems, the big unfulfilled dream was the Atari 5200, over whose screenshots I drooled, little suspecting that on the inside the console and games were not all that different from the Atari computer my cousins had. Nowadays I have an XE Video Game System from that same computer line, which is pretty close to the dream. One of these days I might finally pick up a 5200 just for the heck of it. And for Space Dungeon.
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Originally posted by StanJr:Well, I don't think they call ya theNIGHTPhantom for nothing!!
Unfortunately the Night Phantom has a Day Job; so, much of the time, my natural proclivity is not allowed to assert itself. I seem to be in form tonight, however.
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Originally posted by vwyob:do you guys ever sleep ?
Preferably during the day.
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Originally posted by z_a_n_z_a:subtle change uh
« Vive la différence » ...
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Originally posted by Inky:There was one called Comin' At You
That one had slipped my mind. IIRC the title was more precisely Comin' at Ya!
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Originally posted by Lemmi:What the hell does "IIRC" stand for?
“If I recall correctly”...if I recall correctly.
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It seems that in the early '80s (our kind of time period!) there were a number of 3-D feature films: Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Amityville 3-D, Friday the 13th Part 3, and Jaws 3-D all come to mind. I never went to see any of them. All of these were in color, and so I presume the different-colored-lenses trick wasn't used for them either. Perhaps they also used this same polarization trick? Or maybe there's some other technique afoot that's applicable to the VCS?
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Frogger, definitely.
(By the way, you double-posted; you might try deleting the other topic.)
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The only thing you need the switchbox for is, well, switching. I don't use one; I just unplug my cable input and plug the 2600/7800 cable into the TV when I want to play. For this I needed a cheap adaptor (available at Radio Shack and elsewhere) to fit onto the end of the video game cable (see the page Raccoon Lad linked to), but that's it.
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Originally posted by King Atari:Strange, I have a few Imagic carts and I've never had any problems.
Apparently the trouble depends on one's 7800 model, and also on the actual cartridges. My Demon Attack fits just fine, whereas my Star Voyager screams bloody murder if I try to insert it. The carts' casings are clearly different (though the differences are far more obvious on the “handle” end than on the contact end).
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Sometimes I wonder if it would be worthwhile for someone to make a high-score cart without the high-score feature...i.e., just a pass-through cart.
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Originally posted by John K. Harvey:How many people does it take to make a question that is asked a true "Frequently" Asked Question?
Just one...if he asks it a lot.
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SMURFS
in Atari 2600
Even among US versions, the rarity level depends on which Smurfs game you're talking about. Fortunately, AtariAge's 2600 Rarity Guide covers both:
Note that the Rarity Guide uses the plural “Smurfs” in the title of the first game; so far as I know, only the singular is used on the game's packaging, label, and manual.As for how good the games are: I've played only Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, and I enjoy it quite a bit. Your smurfage may vary.
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Originally posted by Andrew Davie:They are not interested in releasing or associating the Atari name with the retro games of yesteryear.[...material deleted...]they're very serious about making sure the name stands for modern high-end
That's crazy...it's like buying up Star Trek and then plastering the name on works that have nothing to do with science fiction. I'm sure the Atari name was wanted for recognition; but with such a huge gap between the public's idea of “Atari” and Infogrames' use of that name, will the recognition thus reaped be worth the investment? Perhaps Infogrames could have saved itself some dough by coming up with a brand-new name to connote the desired image.
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You're on a rollover roll!
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Congratulations, Stan! When I read the title, I thought maybe you had rolled both the score and the make-break counter, but this is pretty cool, too! Keep those zombies running!!!
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The most fundamental difference between this new technology and the MindLink is that the new technology was tested on a monkey, whereas the MindLink was apparently being produced by a whole troupe of them.
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By the way, for whatever it's worth, “Daumen” just means “thumb(s)”—there's no numbness in “Daumen Club”, just in the picture.
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The euro is divided into one hundred cents, but according to www.xe.com, right now one euro is worth less than 87 US cents.
[ 02-25-2002: Message edited by: The Night Phantom ]