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  1. Posted

    Ha Ha! Excellent strip.

     

    This reminds me of my freshman year in college. My roommate was the first one on our floor to get an NES. Needless to say, our room was constantly packed with people.

     

    Then Christmas break came and in January everyone came back with his own NES. Our room was quite empty that winter.

  2. Posted

    I got to play 2600 Thrust at CGE and was definitely impressed. Am trying to get a copy of the newer version from Albert at some stage (just the game) cos I already own a footpedal  :D  

     

    One comment on the control method however. I found it hard to turn and thrust at the same time (almost an essential part of the C64 original which I love to death) using the current control setup. I would have prefered the following:

     

    L/R - rotate L/R

    Fire - thrust

    Up - fire

    Down - shield/tractor beam

     

    I also found it almost impossible to tractor beam the pods off the surface! How do you do that properly?  :?

     

    The button does activate the ship's thrust when you hold the joystick in the down position. This should make lifting the pods off the surface much easier. Read the instructions! :P

     

    Just kidding. ;) I played the game for a long time before I read them and found this feature. I started to get a lot higher scores after that. Also got much better scores when I started playing level #5 instead of #1.

     

    This was well after the high score contest was over, but like I need a contest to have a reason to play this awesome game. :thumbsup:

  4. Posted

    Always keep the tanks/planes in front of you--number one priority. Then back up and let the tanks and planes come to you.

     

    I keep moving backwards all the time and rotate left or right to avoid fire. Only stop if the tanks are moving out of firing range-and if you are safe of course.

     

    The planes come at you very slowly with your tank in constantly in reverse. Just line them up and they are quite easy to kill this way.

     

    I also spend most of my time looking at the radar screen. I only look up at the main screen to avoid fire, avoid a plane attack or for final targeting.

  13. Posted

    I'll add that these are ROM sizes listed.

     

    The 2600 has 128 bytes of RAM and most games had this to work with. Only a handfull of games had extra RAM chips in the carts. Here is a list of the Atari Superchip games, from the Stella list archives.

     

    Atari games that use the superchip RAM are:

     

    Defender 2 / Stargate

    Chrystal Castles

    Dark Chambers

    Desert Falcon

    Dig Dug

    Jr. Pac Man

    KLAX

    Millipede

    Off the Wall

    Radar Lock

    Save Mary

    Secret Quest

    Shooting Arcade

    Sprintmaster

    Super Football

     

     

    Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg

     

    M-Network's Burgertime and the CBS games Tunner Runner, Omega Race and Mountain King are the only other games for the Atari with extra RAM. As least AFAIK.

  16. Posted

    [My problem with Pole Position II is that there's something wrong with my cartridge... every time I play it by the time I get halfway through the race the game goes wacko and a bunch of garbage graphics start showing up on the bottom half of the screen.  Is there any way to fix this?  I have cleaned the contacts several times.

     

    I have the same problem with both of my Pole Position II carts, except I only get about 20-30 seconds into the race. :x I bought the second one because I thought the first had a defect. I have no idea how to fix it.

  21. Posted

    The 800XL was my first computer as well. I've never used any of the other 8-bit models, so I really can't say much about the others.

     

    I did hate how the 800XL keyboards were different. My first 800XL had a great keyboard but had some defect and I had to take it back for another one. The new one lasted for 8 years, but the keyboard sucked--it was flimsy, felt cheap and made typing difficult.

  23. Posted

    There used to be an emulator that solely emulated I, Robot. I had it on my old computer before the hard drive crashed. Just searched the net for it and came up empty. :sad: It was an excellent emulator, the game ran pretty quickly on my old Pentium 75.

  24. Posted

    I ripped this off from some comedian.

     

     

    Guy sees a sign for an adult bookstore and walks in. Looks around, confused.

     

    Asks the clerk, "Hey, where's all the juvenile masturbatory trash?"

     

    Clerk: "Sir, this is an adult bookstore."

     

     

    Ah, maybe it's all in the delivery. Another thing I don't get. Gentlemen's clubs? That's as bad a description as adult bookstore.

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