Goochman

Cafeman - with the playtesting I did, the only dot I found was the one where you told me which screen to look. In order to make the dot quest interesting I think some sort of clue is warranted - the original gave a clue due to flashing of objects when it appeared you only had 1 on the screen (dot being the second). With the size of the new kingdom I think without some sort of clue it would become tough finding all 3. Since I like to throw out crazy ideas, I add one more to the collection. Once you get the chalice its kinda too late to use the Dots - how to help locate a dot without being obvious......it would be interesting if holding an object that would change color if it was within 1 square radius of a dot (ie, could be current screen or NW, N, NE, E, SE, S, SW or W 1 screen away).

Atari had a less than 0 chance to be successful. When Sony and Microsoft decided to enter the arena, the checkbook size also went up. Also dont forget about Nintendo. Atari had a 'Chase Freedom Card' budget while the other players had American Express Black cards - try getting to the Lebron James club table with your Chase card..........wont ever ever ever ever happen. Its surprising the number of decent titles Atari did bring out though - Ill give them that for th money spent.

Jack pulled off a miracle giving us another 8 good years of Atari - he couldnt follow that up with another winner unfortunately.

Is that what she said? Sorry couldnt resist

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I agree on Spherical - I spent alot of hours enjoying that game.

The 8bit port is prob one of the most faithful ports of the arcade game - not sure how much beefing up you can get unless you required coins to play it and the bonus offered a free game.

How is this even possible on a 2600!

A number of these questions are answered in the writeup in the zip file. The names of the mazes is not answered

Not sure if these are 'endings' or 'cut scenes' but I enjoyed Gumball and Drol 'level ending scenes' which built upon themselves.

It looks like it was designed for some sort of boss fight - like you could damage him when he lifts his foot, but alas not completed.

One of my fav card games growing up should be doable - Mille Bornes

I think the limit is 20mb

Back when Pac Man was released I got to play a disk version that had the intermissions. My memory might be foggy but Im pretty sure I was told it was 14k and the intermissions were trimmed to make it fit on an 8k cart for release. I def played Pac Man on my 800 with intermissions way back but cant tell you anything different about the game as I wasnt a Pac Man fan.

I worked at Sears when they sold the Franklin Apple and IBM knock offs. The IBM knock off's were desktop models, not all in 1's. They were 8088 with 640k of memory (maybe a tad more). They were nothing special and IMHO a rip off since I believe 286's were starting to come out at the time. The Apple models were compact. I thought they were Laser's, but Im pretty sure we sold Franklin Apple compat models also. We didnt sell many Franklin IBM compat due to price/performance/features. They were junk. We sold a few of the Lasers, but not having 100% compat hurt them. I pushed a # of people to get Atari ST's instead at that time from the local Atari dealer.

OS/2 Warp was actually a good solid OS, but never given the time of day TOS+Neodesk was a good combo also.

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Lol - guess it stays in my collection then

IMHO the 800 could've competed very well with the CV, except Atari crippled the 5200 from the start. The 5200 should've been a cost reduced '800' not '400'. A 48k 5200 with compatibility with the computer line and a new self centering multi fire button joystick. The cross pollination should've been obvious. The computer line moves up scale with 64k of RAM and additional expansion capabilities. Win win - except we got lose, lose lose..............

It appears folks are listing these on ebay for $125+. Some selling. One of them is a copy it appears. Id be happy to sell my original with the manual for $55+shipping if someone was interested.

Ive got a v2 Skunk board for sale for $150 shipped within the US (US buyers only please) It comes in a one of a kind cart encasement - surely you wont see another one like it! The USB cable is also included.

This shows even more how badly Atari butchered the 5200 release. All the specs were wrong out of the gate and they looked to play catchup with CV right after launch. What a complete joke.

IMHO Atari thought they owned the video game market and stopped innovating. They made so much money on carts they didnt need to create arcade hits - they could just keep printing money on the carts they sold. Kassar tried to turn Atari into more of a marketing type company and when the cart model dropped like a lead brick so did Atari. It was easy for Nintendo to take the market away - they were creating the content game players wanted - the new Atari couldnt license the hits players wanted to play at home so the 7800 was doomed. Just my $0.02, but it was painful back then to see Atari turn into a pumpkin overnight.