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I found it at EB Games for $5 too. Have you tried it with a gamepad? I wonder if that would be any better than using the keyboard. The games are OK, but the system requirements are a bit steep for what is essentially arcade emulation. I think it was 700mhz minimum, 1ghz recommended. Correct me if I'm wrong - I don't have it with me right now. Found XIII and Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness for $5 too.

I have about 1/3 to 1/4 of the 2600 carts we had in my childhood. I think we gave away our Sears Video Arcade II (7800-style case) after we got a C-64. I only have a non-functional 7800 I bought about 15 years ago, 30+ 7800 carts, the 2600 carts, and for some reason 4 Dreamcast games. As another poster has done, I've had other systems but traded in or sold them to get something more recent. A C-128D was traded for a 286 motherboard. A SNES was traded for a PS1. Either that or a few games would be bought and the system would be played hard for a while, then would be left alone for 6 months and the system would be sold (PS1, Turbo Duo, Turbo Express).

Not my best game of Food Fight, but it'll do.... 94300

340,200 I would have done better if the key used for firing on the keyboard wasn't acting up.

Looks almost exactly like the Sears Video Arcade II I had as a kid.

Has anyone else had problems seeing the sprites using the ProSystem emulator? I thought at one time it worked, but after the game starts the only thing visible is the background.

Getting Better... 52300

37200 I forgot how badly I suck at this game....

I forgot how hard Y was! 320,530. Strangely enough, on the Prosystem 7800 emulator button 2 didn't work, so the only bombs I used were the ones that I shot. If button 2 did work, I probably would have finished the game.

It powers up (the red LED is on), but shows no picture at all. The last time I had the system out, it would show green and orange vertical bars on the TV until you tinkered with the cartridge a few times.

Good news - I found my 7800! Woohoo! Bad news - it does not work. There seems to be some rust or something on the back of the circuit board near the power connector. Actually after removing the shielding, there is quite a bit of rust on most of the solder joints. Rats! Any suggestions besides getting another one? It appears to be a 1984 system based on what is stenciled onto the circuit board. Found quite a few games with it too... 7800 games Ikari Warriors, Asteroids, Xevious Desert Falcon, Centipede, Joust Tower Toppler (x2), One-on-One, Donkey Kong Jr Food Fight (my fave!), Galaga, Pole Position 2 Ms. Pac Man, Barnyard Blaster, Choplifter Robotron: 2084, Summer Games, Jinks Fatal Run, Karateka, Dig Dug Ballblazer 2600 games Atari: Swordquest Earthworld, Super Breakout, Berzerk, Missile Command, ET, Realsports Baseball (case cracked by Dad's boot ), Bowling, Millipede, Star Raiders (no keypad), Circus Atari, Vanguard, Jr Pac Man, Solaris, Battlezone, MouseTrap Sears Tele-Games: Space Invaders, Stellar Track M Network: Super Challenge Football, Super Challenge Baseball, Dark Cavern, Armor Ambush, Air Raiders, Astroblast, Tron Deadly Discs, Adventures of Tron Imagic: Demon Attack, DragonFire, Quick Step, Solar Storm, Cosmic Ark, Riddle of the Sphinx Coleco: Carnival Sega: Tapper, Star Trek: SOS Activision: Starmaster, Grand Prix, Spider Fighter River Raid (pirate) US Games: Commando Raid, M.A.D., Entombed Parker Brothers: Tutankham, Q*Bert, Reactor

From how you described the options, that sounds like the boot order. I'm not sure what kind of PC you have, but most have a standard CMOS features page that list the hard disks and the floppy drives. I just looked on a Celeron 700mhz system I have here and it does have the option to specify a 5.25" floppy drive. Older PCs aren't very much depending on where you get them. A local thrift store carries them for $10 and up depending on speed and what is included in them. A basic machine with only the case is $10, a complete PII system with monitor, keyboard mouse and speakers may be around $10. Of course I get parts from helping out at a computer shop. I keep a couple of older systems for playing old games that won't work in 2000/XP. Usually one stays at home, the other one at work. At the moment one of them has System Shock 1 (DOS) & 2 (Windows), and William's Arcade Classics (DOS) on it. The machine has the following: - ATX Case - Baby AT motherboard with an AMD K6-2 500mhz processor - 256MB RAM - 4 GB hard disk in a removable drive bay - 48X CD-ROM drive - AOpen PCI sound card with Crystal CS4382 chipset (has DOS drivers!) - Generic PCI 10/100 NIC with RealTek 8139 chipset - ATI Rage IIC AGP video card with 8MB RAM (only video card I had that would work with the board, 3D hardware accelerated graphics suck on it) - Voodoo2 PCI Video card with 12 MB RAM (also works in a Macintosh with the correct drivers) - Windows 98SE with Firefox, Avast Antivirus, and the unofficial Win98 Service Pack While the games would work with something slower, if I want to do some web browsing on a fairly recent site a faster processor helps. The second computer is being upgraded, but it may revert back to a similar configuration to the one above depending on how well the upgrades behave. I have hundreds (!) of older games, but most of the floppy-based ones were imaged to CD-ROMs years ago due to lack of space.

I agree with the 128D with one exception - if the internal drive went bad it would be difficult to find a replacement. I had one many moons ago and that was my main gripe with it. That and waiting 3 months for warranty service on said internal floppy drive and having it returned working worse than before!

For me it would be Food Fight and BallBlazer for top picks, followed by Dig Dug and Joust. While I have a 7800 and several games, it's buried in the closet and does not work properly. I've had a blast playing these games on the ProSystem emulator.

I did notice one thing slightly off with the game. When wrongway (green creature with legs) jumps on tiles on Level 3, if the tile is till the original color, it will changes to the desired color. I'm not sure how the arcade version behaves, but on the Colecovision version if wrongway jumped on a tile with the original color, it stayed the original color. It didn't try to help the player out in any way.