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  1. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    He's back with Bentley !! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

    He already did Bentley before he came back and that means you can't really say he's back programming a new game. He thought the game was done in October outside of the sound. The sound improvement is going to be done by temp392. PacManPlus is only making adjustments to the game.

  2. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    Jaynz,

    I think the biggest concern is that you are speculating on something that may or may not be true. We've had several people on AA that seem to intentionally stir the pot (not saying that you are). The last being Fernando who was banned from AA. The problem is people who are creating games/hardware/etc because they enjoy the hobby are getting burned out by some of the comments/speculations/accusations/etc that are made on the boards. Please don't be "THAT GUY" I'm not accusing you of doing any of this, just pointing out some of the crap that has gone on.

    Fernando's banning wasn't all caused by intentionally stir the pot. What Fernando has done as an atariage seller was enough to ban him even without stirring the pot. Fernando was selling bootleg aka counterfeit items on Atariage and ebay. Basically what Fernando did was something that sellers at local flee market that got arrested by federal agents a few years ago for which was selling counterfeit items. Albert himself isn't allowing Fernando to buy any items from the Atariage store. People have been banned on Atariage before for selling making copies of homebrew/hack games without asking the homebrew author or hack author's permission.

     

    The items that had been bootlegging actually is games that fellow atariage members developed. What Fernando had been doing is buying a copy of a homebrew game and make copies of the game by using the game's rom.

  3. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    The best non homebrew games I have are Astroids, Ballblazer, Centipede, Commando, Dig Dug,Food Fight, Joust, Mario Bros. Midnight Mutants, and Robotron 2084.

     

    In terms of Homebrews, while I don't all of them, You really can't go wrong with any of Bob's games at the Atariage store. All of the games he programed the for the 7800 are great.

     

    To let you know that Meteor shower actually is the 7800 version of Astro Smash.

     

    I have both of games of Ken Siders. Beefdrop is Burgertime. B*nq is Q*bert. Both are good ports of the 2 arcade games.

  5. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    I did look on ebay, but only had the asking price for buy it now. I am asking since intellivision isn't my specialty since I really don't collect for the Intellivision.

     

    I bought a loose copy of Diner with Instructions for $19.99 at local store that sells used items such as video games, movies, books, computer games, cassettes, and electronic equipment. What I gathered from the employees is they were shocked that no one bought it before me because the comments they hard from customers saying how rare it is.

     

    The instructions of Diner are showing their age by how the paper looks and it appeared that a past owner of the game spilled something on the instructions at some point by how it looks. The label is in good condition. The game works and is fun. It was the first time I played the Intellivision II since some point in the 1980's as a young kid.

     

    I just wanted to make sure that I didn't over pay for diner in my area before today.

  6. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    Curt,

     

    Forget about the XM right now. I am sorry about medical issues right now. I know how it is with heart issues from family experiences.

     

    I wish you a successful operation and a healthy recovery.

  7. Posted

    3DS XL system

    Code of Princess - 3DS

    Kid Icarus Uprising -3DS

    Majong Cub3d - 3ds

    Nano Assault -3DS

    Shinobi -3DS

    Tales of the Abyss -3DS

    Kung Fu Master -Atari 2600

    Mahjong Journey - Quest for Tikal -DS

    Shin Megami Hensei Devil Survivor 2 -DS

    Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey -DS

    Lock N'n Chase -Gameboy

    Solomon's Club -Gameboy

    Chip's Challenge - Lynx

    Rygar - Lynx

    Earthbound Reproduction Cart - Nes

    Aladdin (Import) -SMS

    Bonkers Wax Up! (import)-SMS

    Mortal Kombat 2 (import) - SMS

    16 Bit Xmas 2012 -SNES

    Military Madness -Tg-16

    The last Story - Wii

  9. Posted

    How are the Baseball titles? Never played them,

     

    Pete Rose Baseball is the better game from a graphic standpoint, but the game itself is worse than than Real Sports Baseball. The truth is Baseball is a mixed bag on the system.

  10. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    I have to say that without a doubt the best sports title for the 7800 is Ballblazer...especially when two players are involved.

     

    As far as Touchdown Football...that game, to me, isn't worth the circuit board its built on..I bought that Game solely because it said Electronic Arts on it..and back then EA made mad computer games.

     

    And because of TD football I never played any of the baseball titles..but I have read several reviews on them and viewed video reviews of the baseball titles and you can keep them as far as I am concerned.

     

    Honestly the 7800 wasnot built for playing sports titles...not enough processing power to sufficiently run the programs. Ballblazer is the only exception to that statement...mainly because of its simplicity.

     

    Ok I have ranted long enough.. LOL

    While the 7800 didn't have a good sports game library, you are underrating the power of the 7800. I am saying that because of Super Football for the Atari 2600. California Games also was a very good sports games for the 2600 also. Super Football for the Atari 2600 was an excellent football game for the Atari 2600. The 7800 is the better system from a technical spec standpoint compare to the 2600. The claim of the 7800 not enough processing power to sufficiently run the programs is false.

     

    The 7800 had some poor programming for some its games and was not a hardware issue such as a Karateka. Touchdown Football was not a good programmed game. The fact is making field goal for Touchdown football can't happen despite making field goal attempts. Having a game that can't make field goals is a programming issue.

     

    You have look at who the 7800 had for developing games and the programmers for that matter. While Hat Track is a bad game hockey, IBid Inc. was responsible for developing it for Atari Corp. IBid inc. is the same people that were responsible for Karateka and Choplifter.

     

    The thing is also Atari cop. limited the size of Atari 7800 rom cartridges and the amount of ram that can be added to a 7800 game cartridge. The 7800 was capable of doing more thank 144k rom cartridges. There an empty cartridge shell that was found many years ago that was 512k. Touchdown Football was only a 64k game cartridge matter of fact. Summer and Winters originally was planned to be 256k rom game cartridges, but wasn't because Atari Corp according to Arthur Krewat. Arthur Krewat is a member of Atariage matter of fact.

     

    I do own Ballblazer and is a great game. Had a lot of great 2 players game memories with that game.

  11. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    I think One on One is best sports title for the 7800. I own Hat Trick, Pole Position II, Touchdown football, Hat trick, Pete Rose Baseball, and Realsports baseball since the 1989-1990 time period.

     

    Hat Trick to me always been lame. The only cool thing about Hat Trick to me always been the music the game has when the zamboni is moving.

     

    Touchdown Football even when I first got it sucked to me. This is one poorly programed game. Touchdown football had a major problem with the game and no one can throw a pass past 10 yards past the line of scrimmage. The fact is no one can make a field goal in the game besides the amount of yards a QB can pass for a play.

  13. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    Bob's impact on the 7800 can't be understated. If Bob programed his games when the Atari 7800 had games commercial released during it's lifetime, people would looked at the 7800 differently.

     

    Bob developed system sellers that the 7800 during its commercial lifetime didn't have. While the 7800 sold 3.77 million units in North American during its commercial lifetime, Bob would have caused the units of the 7800 that were bought by consumers to increase.

     

    Bentley Bear: Crystal Quest would have been a system seller. Pac-Man fans back in the late 1980's and early 1990's would have bought the 7800 for the amount of Pac-Man games developed for the system. I believe the 7800 would have had an advantage over the Nes and the SMS in terms of games in a Pac-man franchise if the amount of Pac-Man games Bob did including the Pac-Man games found in Pac-Man collection.

     

    Even without counting the Pac-Man franchise, Bob's arcade ports would have brought in people that remembered play arcade games that were released in the late 1970's to the early 1980's. Space Invaders, scramble, Asteroids deluxe, Moon Cresta,Space Duel, and Ripoff been great additions to the 7800 from its late 1970's to 1983 arcade game release. The 7800 did have 13 games during its commercial lifetime that were released in the late 1970's to 1983. That meant the 7800 would have had big game library in terms of older arcade games.

     

    What also Bob brought to the 7800 is games that shut the critics up claiming the 7800 is capable of doing such a game or how good the 7800 really was from a graphical standpoint like Bentley Bear: Crystal Quest proved.

     

    What Bob did for me is give the 7800 game library that My younger brother and I would have had gotten better choices of 7800 games to pick from back when we bought or received 7800 games from 1989 to 1991. When the Nes was at its peak in the late 1980's, we didn't have a Nes. I believe most of the students that were video game players in elementary school we went to owned a Nes at the time. What Bob's games would have done is have the people over would have had better choices to select a game to play.

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  14. Posted

    . Without him, the XM may end up like Atarivox. Supported by a couple games, and then forgotten. I sure as hell hope not, but well, there it is. With luck, perhaps some other hobbiest will take his example, step forward and continue to support the community by writing.

    I think the XM will have more than a couple games. Groovybee has 6 expansion module games that need to be completed. Perry is doing expansion module games in terms of hacks and it doesn't appear that he'll be stopping anytime soon.

  15. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    Mark can finish whatever game he wants whenever he wants. No one really has a right to have any particular game finished unless they've already paid money for it.

    Mark did tell the Intellivision board earlier this year that he'll be working on the Intellivision games once the 7800 expansion module is done. That means the Intellivision board has his word.

  16. Posted

    Does anyone know if Ken Siders still make homebrews or are in the process of doing so for the 7800????

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    Ken Siders hasn't done a 7800 homebrew game since 2007. I know he did mention about a Tetris game for the 7800 in Tetris thread a few years ago, but he put it off.

  17. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    That's what I said.....Yoda spoke of another hope....Groovy Bee will bring balence to the force...Starting with Super Worm World. :)

     

    Since Bentley Bear is hybernating for the winter, purhaps Groovy Bee can create a new Mario type sidescrolling game with a bee as the main character....The title of the game can be....."groovy bee".....that would be groovy.... :)

    Don't count on GroovyBee creating Super Worm World anytime soon. I am saying that because he has 6 7800 expansion module games that he needs to be complete. GroovyBee also been helping Curt with the 7800 expansion module hardware.

     

    The people on the Intellivision message boarding are waiting for him to be done with the 3 Intellivision games he announced after he's done the 7800 expansion module. GroovyBee also has 3 games that need to be complete for the Atari Jaguar also.

     

    All this means is don't count on GroovyBee creating new 7800 projects for a while once his current 7800 XM games are completed and the 7800 Expansion Module is done. I wouldn't be shocked if GrooyBee does more 7800 once his Intellivision and Jaguar games he started are completed though.

     

    The people on the Intellivision and Atari Jaguar forums have the right to have the games that GroovyBee started for Intellivision, and the Jaguar to be completed also. The games for the Intellivision and the Atari Jaguar has to be a priority for him once is done with the 7800 expansion module and the current expansion module games.

  18. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    A friend at work walks into my cubicle and says, "I saw this at Target and I said to myself, oh, I have to get this for my friend." Then he gave me the shirt in the attached pic.

     

    So, I just wanted to share that, and then I got to wondering if anyone else has had something similar happen to them. Have you ever had someone from outside our Atari World unexpectedly favor you, just because it's known that you still live inside our Atari World?

     

    I actually got that shirt earlier this year as a birthday gift and it wasn't a favor. I was an unexpected birthday gift that I had no problem with getting.

     

    Yes, I do get birthday gifts despite my age. Lets say the person who gave it to me a gift got the information from my younger brother that I am still into Atari like I was back in the 1980's and early 1990's. My younger brother knows that I am still into Atari by the fact he buys me video games as Christmas gifts including Atari 2600 games.

     

    I did forgot to mention that back in the early 1990's there was flea market vender that gave my younger brother and I a free Atari shirt. I wish I know what happened to it. The vendor know my younger brother and I at the time because we bought a lot of Atari 2600 games at the time from there.

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  19. Posted

    Does anybody know why he left? Another thread, perhaps?

    I wish I know, but I have no idea. There is only speculation. He didn't make a post about leaving or a topic either about leaving.

  20. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    I do know that Bob had plans to Battlezone and Armor Attack for Development. I know Bob start both in the past. I don't know at what stage and if he has the code for both games. Battlezone was mentioned in Bob's blog on this site as an unfinished game. Frenzy was mentioned in the same blog and he gave up on frenzy last year because of Spiceware doing Frantic for the Atari 2600. Bob's blog is found on http://www.atariage....finished-games/ .

     

    The proof of starting Armor Attack is found at http://www.atariage....t/#entry2567343 .

     

    Bob didn't give out a bin on that thread either. The only way is by asking permission for Armor Attack and Battlezone to be completed if the remaining programmers we have are interested in both games for completing purposes and complete them for Bob as a good gesture to him and the 7800 community.

  21. Posted

    I don't know what the state of the music in BB is, but I told Bob I could finish up coding it. I would need some help composing if it needs any significant music written. I'm thinking we should go big and use the Yamaha chip for sound. :)

     

    Perry

    Glad to hear about BB.

  22. Posted

    I hope an Atariage member buys Bob's collection and Bob gets good cash for it. There is stuff in that collection that hasn't been in the Atariage store yet such as Pac-Man (320), Ms. Pac-Man (320), demos and a WIP of Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest.

  23. Posted · Edited by 8th lutz

    It is a shame. I have to say good luck to Bob in what the future holds for him.

     

    I thought something was up with Bob when I saw his youtube account having activity and his Atariage account wasn't signed in or new posting in late September or early October. The only thing is I didn't he was the Atari Scene completely.

     

    I hope that his Super Circus Atariage game will be sold on Atariage store once the XM is complete. I also hope his Pac-man (320) and Ms. Pac-Man (320) gets released in the Atariage store once the XM is released also.

     

    Bob to me is a great 7800 programer and a even better person. I pm Bob a couple times in the past and I can't say nothing bad about him as a person based on how how he responded.

     

    He is a huge loss in the 7800 homebrew community. Bob was the only 7800 programmer for some years that was active and programed great games. I hope one of the existing programers the 7800 community has is able to complete Bentley Bear.

  24. Posted

    There is some 7800 games that you can't buy anywhere unless being sold on Atariage's Market place or one of the auctions sites online. It is very rare to find homebrew 7800 games on action sites such as ebay the way it.

     

    Beef Drop and Santa Simon were sold at Atariage store years ago. Santa Simon was a holiday game and had a limited release. While Beef Drop VE is being sold on Atariage store, the original Beef drop hasn't been sold since 2007 or 2008. The original Beef Drop had a limited run due to the game having a sound chip built inside a the game cartridge.

     

    Crazy Otto was a 7800 homebrew game, but it was a limited Edition game that wasn't sold at Atariage store.

     

    If you watched some of AtariPacManplus youtube videos, 3 of the games are completed and aren't in Atariage's Store. Super Circus Atari, Pac-man (320 mode), and Ms. pac-Man {320 mode).

     

    Super Circus Atariage had a limited run for the 7800, but was never sold in Atariage store. Super Circus Atariage actually is really for the Atari 7800 expansion module.

     

    Pac-man (320 mode) and Ms. Pac-Man (320 mode) actually are Atari 7800 Expansion module games. They are not being sold yet because the Expansion Module hasn't been shipped yet. I think no one on this site has a clue when the expansion module will be shipped because it isn't completed yet.

     

    The other video on AtariPacManPlus youtube channel has isn't completed yet to my knowledge unless things changed. Bentley Bear Crystal Quest is the game I am referring to.

     

    Grooveybee does have a lot of 7800 games under his profile page, but only 2 the games are completed to my knowledge. A majority of the games not completed actually are Atari 7800 Expansion Module games. That means you are not missing out on any games by Grooveybee.

  25. Posted

    Good Deal Games and Video 61 are the only other places that carry homebrew 7800 games. Video 61 only has Combat 1990.

     

    Good Deal games also has Combat 1990. Good deal games also few production games for the 7800 such as Klax, Pitfigher, Save Marry, .and Sentinel. The homebrew games Good deal games has in stock outside of Combat 1990 actually is found on Atariage Store also.

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