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  2. Posted

    I for one am going to wait. Sure I would like my other items but Al spends a lot of money to keep this site going so I don't have a problem waiting.

     

    I've been waiting for Adventure II and Raindeer Rescue as well. And I'm going to keep waiting for the same reasons stated above.

  3. Posted

    My younger brother and I played a ton of Atari Football, until Super Challenge Football was released. He used to kick my ass at the game too. It as close as I'll ever come to living under a totalitarian regime. We just didn't know anything else.

     

    Basketball is the best original sports game for the 2600. It's funny how the other sports games released at about the same time don't hold a candle to it. I think Basketball's quality kept it from getting a released Realsports game.

  5. Posted

    I'd like to see any of J. D. Casten's Atari 8-bit games ported to the 2600. These were type-in games published in Antic magazine back in the mid 80's.

     

    Biffdrop and Box-In are my favorite. But then Rebound, Escape From Espsilon and Risky Rescue are great as well. Only Advent X-5--a text adventure--wouldn't be that great on the 2600.

     

    J. D. Casten has even given permission on his website for anyone to modify or port his games to any system.

     

    Here is a link to his games page. You can download the ROM's there.

     

    http://www.jdcasten.info/Atari/Atari_Page.htm

  6. Posted

    Improves your dexterity, improves your logic / problem solving skills. But you'll have to keep playing different type of games. After a while once you have "mastered" a game your learning stops.

     

     

     

    I know you've heard it all before but watching TV and playing video games actually makes you smarter.

     

    Brain Candy by Malcolm Gladwell

     

    Also, this only applies to modern games. So all the games in my collection are not helping me at all.

  7. Posted

    And before you bitter Atarians speak, go try and build an Archon-style for the 2600, then tell us how much it sucks. What's that, you say? You don't think it's very doable? Poor babies... :P

     

    The main challenge with making an Archon style game for the 2600 is displaying many differently shaped sprites at once.

     

    The challenge with the O2 is getting differently shaped sprites at all. Even Mr. Roboto! has that problem.

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  9. Posted

    So does Sean Kelly's 5200 Multi-Cart have hacked ROM's of Krazy Shoot Out? It appears to work on my 2-port but I only played it for a few minutes when I was going through all the games on the cart.

     

    What happens when you put the game in a 2-port? If I remember correctly, I had trouble leaving the room.

  11. Posted

    I was too old for the Happy Meal so the only fast food kids meal I knew was the Burger Chef Fun Meal. Burger Chef was my favorite fast food place as a kid.

     

    Burger Chef also had some great Star Wars posters. I found I still have them when I cleaned out the attic at my parents house, but they aren't in good enough condition to be worth anything to anyone else.

  12. Posted

    The 2006 show was much bigger than the 2002 show. There were plenty of vendors whose focus is classic gaming. I only collect for pre-NES systems and I got a good haul of stuff, as I posted earlier in this thread. For someone starting a 2600 collection, there were tons of common carts around. And a lot of uncommon to rare 2600 stuff too for collectors like me.

     

    Since I don't collect for newer systems, I didn't notice the newer stuff getting in the way of the older stuff. Some vendors had wide selections that covered both classic and the newer games.

     

    I was disapointed about the lack of arcade games. All that was there was a Moon Patrol and a cabenit with 17 priated arcade games. It wasn't a MAME machine. I know there were going to be more games, but there were strong thunderstorms in the area during Friday night set up, so I think that kept them from being unloaded. Still, would have liked to have seen them.

     

    I hope the show will return to being an annual event. Three and a half years is too long to wait.

  13. Posted

    Can't agree with that Vanguard assessment at all. That was one of my favorite machines in the old days. I could work those four fire buttons.

     

    I'm with Nova here. Vanguard is much better in the arcade. The fire buttons were in a perfectly spaced diamond so you could easily fire in any direction in an instant. I still like the 2600 version that I got for Christmas when it came out.

     

    This is a great idea for a thread, however there is one limitation. If you have only played the game in MAME, you haven't played the arcade game. I never realized how great arcade Warlords is until I played the cocktail version at one of the Philly shows. My first thought after playing was, wow 2600 Warlords sure is lacking. Good to know that Spiceware is working on an improved version.

  15. Posted

    CinciClassic has returned and it was bigger than ever. It was a blast. Got to see and spend time with a lot of faces from the 2002 show: Stan Jr, Aimee, Taylor.com, Scooterb23, MattG, Bill Augustine, Jason from Trade-N-Games, the various vendors named Mike (at least 3 or 4, I believe), the Bitsmack guys, Chuck and anyone else that I missed. Plenty of new faces too such as taylorcomm.

     

     

    My haul:

     

    Atari 2600

     

    Off The Wall

    Sentinel (also picked up the light gun from Trade-N-Games)

    Xenophobe (NTSC)

    Subterranea

    Tapper

    Demolition Herby

     

    Intellivision

     

    Buzz Bomers

    Shark! Shark!

    Microsurgeon

     

    Atari 5200

     

    Pengo

    H.E.R.O

    Space Shuttle

    Miner 2049er

    5200 Multi-Cart (I wish I had picked this up first, because now I have basically every game for the 5200.)

     

    Hardware

     

    Atari 400 with 4 common carts

     

    Vectrex (No games for it but I got it at the auction at the end of the show. Need to look into getting the Multi-Cart for this.)

  18. Posted · Edited by Big Player

    Here is the entire piece from Popular Science, July 1984, p. 32 (the "Look and Listen" column by William J. Hawkins).

     

    Popular Science once did a prizewinning story on how the space program has contributed to life on Earth. Now, in a small way, perhaps the Activision video game "Space Shuttle" has returned the favor.

     

    "The real shuttle uses its large engines to de-orbit and its smaller ones for minor adjustments," Steve Kitchen, Space Shuttle's designer, told me. "Our game works the same way, but during the two years of game development and testing, someone accidentally landed using just the small engines."

     

    Kitchen thought it was an error in his programming, so he asked NASA to simulate the same event on their computers to see what the real results should be. "We were astonished," said Kitchen. "It did it on their computer, too." While Kitchen claims no credit for changes in NASA's plans, he says an emergency procedure on how to land using just the small engines in now part of the real shuttle's instruction manual.

     

    Here is where I found it on the web.

     

    Lee's classic video game info.

     

    Thanks for the clarification on the Shuttle's engines. I didn't know the details and I didn't look up the article before I made my previous post. The last time I read the piece was about three years ago. "Auxiliary" was my error.

     

    It should be "land the Shuttle using only the RSC engines."

  22. Posted

    For us out-of-towners, what hotel is everyone generally staying at? Is there one close to the convention center?

     

    Tempest

     

     

    The convention center is in the same general area of town as the mall where the 2002 Cinciclassic was held. So if you liked where you stayed last time, it wouldn't be that much further of a drive.

  23. Posted

    Which reminds me regarding Space Shuttle... next question!

     

    3) What was it about Space Shuttle (cos I can't remember) that was proved possible to NASA to do in real life?

     

     

    Land the Shuttle using only the auxiliary engines. Technically it using them for deorbit burn to slow speed.

  24. Posted

    Actually, the 5200 could have done better if some hadn't recognised it for what it was...an Atari home computer in a new package. Any exclusive title made for it would inevitably end up (or had already been on) their home computer format...and not necessarily be limited by cartridge size. The only thing that the 5200 really had over the home computers was that it's ports offered true trackball support (and that's because Atari generally didn't allow multiple control schemes for it's games).

     

    This was the 5200's big problem. It wasn't anything new. The launch titles looked exactly like the 8-bit computer versions. And at the time I had no idea it was an Atari 400 without the keyboard. I could just look at the Space Invaders screen shot in EG magazine and know it was the same game.

     

    Activision's founders were still at Atari and had even designed the 8-bits operating system. They all passed on designing games for the 5200. If they had stopped making 2600 games in 1982 and switched to the 5200, that might have given the system a chance.

     

    No one I knew back then bought a 5200. You either stuck with your 2600 or got a Colecovision. Or you bought a computer, where you could play games with a lot more depth to them like MULE and Murder on the Zinderneuf.

     

    That all being said, I did move up to an 800XL and I do own a 5200 now after a long search. Though maybe I like it so much because it's easier to collect for than a computer.

  25. Posted

    Less than two weeks away. I can't wait.

     

    Also, does anybody know if there'll be a decent import presence? I'd like to expand my PC Engine Library....or Neo Geo library for that matter...

     

    I'm sure there'll be plenty of chances to work on my Lynx and Atari 8 bit collections...and to finally get a 5200 to play the huge stack o' games I have...

     

    Unngh...I'm gonna be broke...even moreso...after this.

     

    You won't know until you get there. That's what makes classic gaming shows great. Every one is different because you always have a different mix of vendors, even if the show is in the same place. All three of the shows I have attended in Philly have had quite a difference in the selection of classic games for sale. They might not have exactly what you're looking for, but if you should find some good stuff. I got my Supercharger at the last Cinciclassic.

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