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Not for me. I'm a big fan of classic gaming and had never really played any Jaguar stuff (and still haven't) but when I saw this video I thought it would be cool to play one. I also thought- wouldn't it be cool if there were a similar compilation video for every classic console out there? I know there are probably some, but it might be neat to have a page somewhere that had a long list of links of videos like this for every system. I really can't think of any classic gaming system that annoys me or that I wouldn't want to play.

I received some from Santa.

Great video! Some really cool (and wierd!) games there. The viking football was pretty funny.

Accidentally just started another topic on this, but oh well: http://www.retrothing.com/2008/11/classic-atari-j.html Noticed they said it would start shipping in the beginning of December!

http://www.retrothing.com/2008/11/classic-atari-j.html Sorry for the duplicate topic. See Original thread.

Super Mario Bros I Zelda Star Wars (arcade game) Tron (arcade game) And there were some good ones, although not quite as memorable in: Summer Games - various Winter Games - various And for best game "anti-soundtrack", Quake. Even though the soundtrack was good, I used to like playing that with a disco music CD in the drive. Nothing like Quake and BeeGees. Or how about Quake and Rubberband Man?

From http://www.pagetable.com/?p=43 If you have a Commodore PET with BASIC V2 (1979) type the following at command line immediately after it starts up: WAIT6502,1 Which replaces part of the letters at top with MICROSOFT! This easter egg embedded after the definition of the SIN() coefficients also appears in: * KIM-1 * Tangerine Microtan 65 * Tangerine Oric-1 and Oric-Atmos * Pravetz 8D * TRS-80 Color Computer and the TRS-80 MC-10 Another similar easter egg: * TSR-80 Color Computer (1980) - type "CLS9" (or CLS and any higher number) to see MICROSOFT easter egg * TRS-80 MC-10 * Dragon 32 (64, too?) - type "CLS9" (or CLS and any higher number) to see "© 1982 BY MICROSOFT" easter egg Others: * Altair BASIC(?) - at memory size prompt in startup type ctrl-'A' (?) * CompuColor - at memory size prompt in startup type ctrl-'A' * Ohio Scientific’s Challenger - at memory size prompt in startup type 'A'

I'm trying to beef up the page that I use to keep on top of things. Most of the feeds I really like most are the google blog search feeds and retrogaming roundtable, but I'd like to add more. What are your favorite RSS/Atom feeds for getting info on classic gaming and classic computers?

According to google trends, the number of people searching for classic gaming and roms have been steadily decreasing over the past few years, as is the interest in people searching for women (for those interested in men, interest has stayed relatively constant), while interest in the wii is going up (and spikes in early Dec.). From the many searches I tried (apple ii, commodore 64, atari 2600), it at first appeared that classic gaming and classic computing interest was going down, but other searches in more mundane things were also on the decrease, leading me to believe that people are becoming less google-centric and using other sites more (like AtariAge!). Google searches for "roms" Google searches for "women" Google searches for "wii"

what about rules 1-33? and how many rules are there?

For those interested, Digital Press newsletters from Sept/Oct 1991 to July/Aug 2003 now available in the library here: * http://www.digitpress.com/library/newsletters/digitalpress/

For those interested in classic gaming on the wii virtual console, there is a wireless classic controller now: * http://game.blogdig.net/archives/articles/...ripheral__.html

Dare I ask?

Read the thead, it has been posted by some of us forumites an Amiga Forums, the new Pandora Forums, MAME world, its been digged (dugg?) etc etc etc, but no harm in spreading the news far and wide I've been keeping track, mostly. I was the one that dugg(?) it. However, it would be nice if everyone reading the thread that hasn't already evangelized it, did. The more orders he gets, the faster we get it!

Has anyone spread the good news about these joysticks elsewhere? I know there are a number of AtariAge members here http://www.digitpress.com/forum/index.php even though I'm not a member. Might be good to start a topic over there. I searched for topics on their site containing http://www.legacyengineer.com/store.html and found nothing (actually I found everything). And where are the people with well-read blogs that have posted about it? We need to get the word out.

Incredible!

Even Ghostbusters could be considered neo-retro. The game series is listed in wikipedia but basically encompassed a number of computers and consoles as well as arcade and 16 years after the last of original 9 years of releases it's coming out again by Atari.

I think that it is really not a new thing to be using older game characters or themes in newer games. It is not really a fad and has been going on for quite a while with the pacman series (long after pacman there came pac world, and a myriad of others), the donkey kong series (from early stuff on the 2600 to snes stuff, etc.), the mario series (and related character games- from super mario bros. to the Wii), castle wolfenstein series (castle wolfenstein, beyond..., 3D, the one from a few years ago, etc.). I think that as long as those that have the nostalgia for a game are part of the target market, they'll continue to make the neo-retro games.

Slashdot article asking if neo-retro game releases are a fad, but branches out to ask what people think of classic gaming: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/08/0259222 Speak up and be heard on Slashdot while you have a chance...

Curt, Any news? Just curious about whether you have gotten enough orders yet to manufacture and whether you might have a distribution date planned yet. How did sales go so far (ok, good, better than expected?)?

http://csixty4.com/archives/1122 http://c64music.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-r...ic-routine.html This is awesome: http://oxyron-party.untergrund.net/fanta_in_space.mp3

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?...8/11/04/2137200

Sorry for the crosspost, but this is too awesome not to share: This video flythrough of the battlezone and tron cabinets is just awesome. As noted in Retro Thing Higher quality version available at Peter Hirschberg's site: http://www.peterhirschberg.com/portfolio/s...ion_tron_bz.avi (need divx to play that one: http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/codec/ ) His other stuff is here: http://peterhirschberg.com/portfolio/index.html

This video flythrough of the battlezone and tron cabinets is just awesome. As noted in Retro Thing Higher quality version available at Peter Hirschberg's site: http://www.peterhirschberg.com/portfolio/s...ion_tron_bz.avi (need divx to play that one: http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/codec/ ) His other stuff is here: http://peterhirschberg.com/portfolio/index.html

Yes! http://toucharcade.com/2008/11/03/lemonade...le-ii-graphics/