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  1. Sure do, even remember we all had dinner afterwards. You had a drink that you thought was too sweet and the server thought you were trying to get a free drink from them. Not sure if it was a daiquiri or a margarita though, my memory isn't that good.
  2. Looks like they got a better deal than my parents did at that exact time. I got my 2600 for Christmas in 1981 and my mother told me they paid $149 for just the system. I got Asteroids, Dodge-Em and Freeway as well.
  3. I was wondering if you had created a new contest that was so complex, that while testing it out you got lost for 12 - 15 years.
  4. Yes, since it was just a link to a news story. Could have been much more embarrassing. I blame it on my switching between Mac and Windows daily. Those keyboard short cuts kill me. Command + C, Control + C. Ahh!
  5. Thanks, I can't believe I messed up the link that badly. Really embarrassing.
  6. Not quite Montezuma's Revenge, but Hunchy II is a great platform game. It's more of an action puzzle game, in which you have to get all the bells to clear the screen. It came out in 2005 and is a 4K game. I believe this link takes you to the final rom. https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiVWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZWF0bGFudGljLmNvbS9pZGVhcy9hcmNoaXZlLzIwMjQvMDIvYW1lcmljYS1kZWNsaW5lLWhhbmdpbmctb3V0LzY3NzQ1MS_SAQA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen It's also available in the Atari Age Store. https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=330
  7. Albert was interviewed by G4 back about 20 years ago at the PhillyClassic 5. https://atariage.com/features/shows/pc5/Page1.php
  8. So I did end up getting a copy of MULE from Bryan at the end of 2006. I had to check my records for the exact date. November 2006. Can't remember if he had some extras or if some of the buyers didn't come through with payment. As far as playing MULE now, I'm looking to get an Atari 400 Mini, since I still have a 2 port 5200. MULE is one of the games it comes with, along with 4 USB controller ports and the ease of connecting to modern televisions.
  9. Good thing I didn't say anything about the dirty knife.
  10. "The C64 dominated the low-end computer market (except in the UK and Japan, lasting only about six months in Japan) for most of the later years of the 1980s. For a substantial period (1983–1986), the C64 had between 30% and 40% share of the US market and two million units sold per year, outselling IBM PC compatibles, Apple computers, and the Atari 8-bit family of computers." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 (paragraph 2)
  11. Yes, I see I was using an Hungarian translation book. It's kind of old too, I think from the late 60's or early 70's.
  12. Translation: My hovercraft is full of eels.
  13. Back in the 1980's, the term "video games" meant console games. Computer games were different. While there was some overlap with gamers, a lot of people who owned second generation consoles did not move on to computers. Computers were more expensive and required more knowledge to use, so they were a much smaller market. Even computers then had different tiers. The C64 dominated the computer games market in the mid 1980's. I owned a Atari 8-bit at the time and I was jealous of all the great C64 games that were not ported over. There were games for the IBM PC, but they didn't sell any where near what the C64 did. Arcade were affected. There was a huge decline in revenue. The independently owned arcades near me either closed or down sized, one going from the the largest space in a strip mall in 1982 to the smallest space in the same mall in 1985. The crash lasted for much longer than one year. The NES was introduced in 1985 but didn't become popular until 1988-1989 and it still took a few more years for console revenues to match their 1982 peak. Here is decent and recently created chart of revenues. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues-by-platform/ One problem I see with this graph is I think it only counts computer games as IBM PC games, so I think computer game revenue is under represented for the 1980's. But it again shows the crash and how long it lasted.
  14. I just realized I screwed up the links in my post. If you click my links, they all go to 1981. Just change the year in the url to get it right. Too late to edit my post. The full site is here with catalogs from Sears, Montgomery Ward and JC Penny going back to the 1940's. https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ It's page 523 as printed though. The numbering is off on the site for a few of the years. I put down the printed numbers but I realize now I should have put down both.
  15. Some evidence the crash. Sears was the largest retailer in the US back during the 1980's and had an extensive mail-order catalog. I looked through the Sears Christmas catalogs from 1981 to 1988. Here is what I came up with. Consoles and cartridges only, other hand held electronic games and home computers not included. Anyone can check my work. 1981: 5 pages devoted to video games. Pages 663-667 of the catalog. The links below has slightly different page numbering. https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1981-Sears-Christmas-Book 1982: 11 pages of video games. Pages 637-647. https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1982-Sears-Christmas-Book 1983: 14 pages of video games. Pages 598-611. https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1983-Sears-Christmas-Book 1984: 8 pages of video games. Pages 589-596. https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1984-Sears-Christmas-Book 1985: 0 pages of video games for sale. (Two pages for Commodore computers, one for the C64, one for the Amiga C128. Pages 608-609.) https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1985-Sears-Christmas-Book 1986: 1 page of video games. Page 523 for the NES. https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1986-Sears-Christmas-Book 1987: 2 pages of video games. 1 for the NES, 1 for the Atari 7800. Pages 666-667. https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1987-Sears-Christmas-Book 1988: 6 pages of video games. 3 for the NES. Pages 438-443 (including the Atari XE as a console) https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1988-Sears-Christmas-Book (edit: 1985 - it was a C128 for sale, not an Amiga.)
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