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  1. Posted · Edited by Bountybob

    When I got my Atari VCS in Christmas 1980 we couldn't get the TV Tuned to play it we even brought it to my next door neighbours house and couldn't get it to work there either.We thought there might be something wrong with the console.We called up the TV man and he came around with his son turns out we were trying to tune it in on UHF instead of VHF or vice versa.His son got it working and tried out Space Invaders he had a couple of games of it and said to me that's pretty cool.I had to wait a whole week for these guys to get it working because it was during the holidays.

    The funny thing is something similar happened two years later when I got Defender for Christmas.The Pal Defender came with a heavy European multiple language instruction book .Can you believe when I opened it up Christmas morning no game cartridge inside it.The guy at the store forgot to pack it after demonstrating it us.I was gutted but we rang up the shop a few days later and they checked the stock and had an extra game so I got it a week later better late than never.

  3. Posted · Edited by Bountybob

    I got my Atari VCS Christmas 1980.I'm positive it was a heavy sixer it shipped with Combat and I think it had Captain Atari

    or Atari Club Catalog.I lived in a small town outside Dublin in Ireland most people hadn't even heard of Atari.I already had

    because I had an Atari Touch Me game a couple of years earlier.It was cool to be one of the lucky few to own one(Initially I

    only knew one or other kid who had a VCS and he had the same games I had) but the downside was that meant no game swaps.So I

    was stuck playing Space Invaders and Combat for a while.Luckily these were Two very good games that had a lot of playability.

    In 1980 in Ireland new Atari 2600 games where pricey The Activision games where almost half the price.Anyway over the next year

    or two I ended up getting Laser Blast, Tennis, Defender, Battlezone, Skin Diver, Checkers and Phoenix.After a while the

    price dropped and more kids had Atari's so I got a loan of Pacman, Superman, ET, Missile Command, Asteroids, Moon Patrol, Vanguard,

    Empire Strikes Back, Berzerk, Haunted House, Yars Revenge, Pole Position, Jungle Hunt, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Star Raiders,

    Demon Attack, and Vanguard plus a couple of others that I can't remember.Then around 1984 I managed to pick up some boxed second

    games cheap Polaris, Gangster Alley, China Syndrome, Cross Force and Eggomania the first ever game to make use of my original VCS

    Paddles.By this stage a lot of kids were getting home computers, I got a Sinclair ZX Spectrum at the recommendation of my friend

    Leo who already had one.I wish I had known better I would have got an Atari 800 or a Commodore 64 instead.I ended giving away my

    Atari VCS around 1985.I wish I had kept it.It was well played though and I'm glad I had it.

  4. Posted

    Actually eBay is a good place to look for new games, I see them all the time and they aren't all the expensive, especially if you find a seller that combines shipping.

     

    Yes sure but it's hard to get the original boxes without some rub or wear on them not surprising considering the age.

    The other problem is that the box could be a reproduction.That could be checked with a pocket microscope I suppose.

  5. Posted

    My opinion, collect games for the 2600 in whatever way you want to collect them. If you just want to collect them for the box art, then go right ahead, that will make the collection unique to you! This is suppose to be a fun hobby, so collect in a manor that makes you have fun :D

     

    Imagine if you had all of the original launch games in their original boxes in mint condition.That would be sweet.

    I would collect them just to admire the artwork.I wouldn't even open them up to play them, well maybe just the once.

  6. Posted

    Some of the Artwork is really nice especially on the original launch games Air Sea Battle and Combat would look sweet

    sitting beside each other.I was gutted when my mum chucked out my Space Invaders and Combat Boxes and instructions after

    Christmas 1980 and my Atari VCS box too.It was my lazy fault for not packing it away in my room.

  7. Posted

    Wha?? No way 1981. We would have freaked having that type of quality game then. :)

     

    I first saw Stargate in the stores when I went out to college in Fall of 1987. It must have been renamed to Defender II after that.

     

    Thanks guys, you are right dude could you imagine if we had Defender 2 in 1981 Atari would have prob charged us 200 bucks for it.

  9. Posted

    That's why I like the functionality of the Stargate which takes you to where landers are picking up humans, instead of just a random warp out. (Unless you are holding 4 humans and the level skip kicks in when you fly into the Stargate.) Like on the other thread, Stargate is one of the hardest machines EVER. In some ways playing it on an emulator is easier because of control mapping. A gamepad helps Stargate a little, but nothing matches making your hands fly around that machine to REALLY play it. :)

     

    If you have 4 or more humanoids and want to avoid the warp you can reverse into the Stargate.Also there is a secret bonus, if the last enemy

    is a lander and it has picked up a humanoid shoot it and let the humanoid drop then pick it up just as it hits the ground for a 2000 point bonus.

  11. Posted

    Mr. Do's Castle was and is one of my favorite arcade games. It was so different than the original Mr. Do that came out before it.

     

    Which Mr. Do do your prefer best?

     

    1 Mr. Do!

    2 Mr. Do's Castle

    3 Mr. Do's Wild Ride

    4 Do! Run Run

     

    Please enjoy my video review of Mr. Do's Castle. Video Review of Mr. Do's Castle

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o72K1WL2LZw&feature=channel_video_title

     

    Mr. Do's Castle was similar to Universal's earlier game Space Panic.

  12. Posted

    I don't have MisfitMAME installed. dkongx11 works fine in my slightly out-of-date plain old MAME and is the same sadistic game I played at FunSpot/ACAM. Maybe the debian/ubuntu packagers enabled the misfit games at build time, I don't know, but since MisfitMAME is packaged separately I assume that's not the case.

     

    You don't need MisfitMAME to play Donkey Kong 2 it's supported by the latest version of MAME.

     

    http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/

    Search for Dkongx

  14. Posted

    Thanks for your help guys!

     

    I have done some playing with this - and want to use my controller rather than the keyboard.

     

    After a fashion I've actually found a setup that works!

     

    But everything has degrees of success - I can now clear a single screen. After that no chance.

     

    Still - this IS progess, but I won't be winning any high score competitions any time soon.

     

    Try this keyboard setup that I use.

     

    W - Up

    S - Reverse

    X - Down

     

    D - Hyperspace

     

    O - Thrust

    P - Fire (Reassign H to Pause on MAME General Input)

    Spacebar - Smartbomb

  15. Posted

    I'm a pretty decent Defender player on normal game settings.I have started to play Stargate and I can take on the regular 6 enemies

    with about the same degree of competency as on Defender.As for the additional 8 enemies I find the Yllabian Starfighters and Firebombers

    the most challenging to deal with.The Starfighters can crowd the screen and make it harder to rescue humanoids.You can waste a lot of time

    trying to get the Firebombers.

    When playing Defender I found the Hyperspace a very cool way to get out of tight spots but in Stargate we have a new feature the Inviso

    cloaking device.I'm thinking in order to progress at Stargate it is necessary to understand how to use this.I'm finding it tricky though

    knowing when to use it? Maybe it's the way I have my keyboard setup but I find it difficult to fire rapidly whilst cloaked.

    Anybody got any tips ?

    When using Inviso, you can still "see" your ships thrust. Use that to determine where you are and ram enemies. I believe with Inviso on, you are invincible.

     

    Is Hyperspace redundant when you have Inviso remaining ?

  18. Posted

    Not got the machine in the house here to check the exact score. I've been just over 200K a couple of times in 20 years, but that's it. This is on factory settings. I used to score much higher on a machine in a London arcade.

     

    Being from Ireland I only ever saw a Sinistar Arcade game once and that was at the Queensway Ice Skating Rink in Bayswater London in 1983 on a school trip.It wasn't a very common game to find although I suspect that there may have been a few in Dublin ?

  19. Posted

    I'm a pretty decent Defender player on normal game settings.I have started to play Stargate and I can take on the regular 6 enemies

    with about the same degree of competency as on Defender.As for the additional 8 enemies I find the Yllabian Starfighters and Firebombers

    the most challenging to deal with.The Starfighters can crowd the screen and make it harder to rescue humanoids.You can waste a lot of time

    trying to get the Firebombers.

    When playing Defender I found the Hyperspace a very cool way to get out of tight spots but in Stargate we have a new feature the Inviso

    cloaking device.I'm thinking in order to progress at Stargate it is necessary to understand how to use this.I'm finding it tricky though

    knowing when to use it? Maybe it's the way I have my keyboard setup but I find it difficult to fire rapidly whilst cloaked.

    Anybody got any tips ?

  21. Posted · Edited by Bountybob

    Just thinking Laser Blast would be a lot more fun and dynamic if there was an enemy saucer to avoid or maybe if

    the ground came up higher and there was less room to maneuver I was wondering if that would be a difficult hack ?

  23. Posted

    This game was a side scrolling action fighter game like Rush N Attack and Missing In Action.It starts off with your character a bearded pow

    inside a small prison cell in a building and he breaks out through the door with a knife.Then he finds an AK47 but the ammo is very limited.

    It must have been near the end of the 80's when this game came out.

  24. Posted

    rmaerz,

    At least as far as MAME is concerned (it shows the dates when you click on the games and look at their history) Moon Cresta came out first (which makes sense to me), by about 3 months before Eagle. I'd never seen Eagle before and since one of Moon Cresta's sequels is called Terra Cresta and there's been no sequels to Eagle, I'll assume Moon Cresta is the original.

     

    There is only two games really Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta.Moon Cresta had a lot of bootlegs.

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