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I've seen people play Gauntlet 2 well into the 100+ levels, some of the mazes are really quite impressive and others can be completed with only about 30% worth of the overall maze traveled. Wish they put G2 on Midway Treasures, I like the reflective shots, acid puddles, moving exits, and the other cool stuff in the sequel. remember the voice saying "fooled you!" when you step into a false exit. Anyway, G1 has levels 1 to 8 fixed and the rest are random - can be flipped or mirrored when repeated. G2 has only 1 to 6 fixed. (in both games there are skip level exits in level 1.) I think the total mazes is over 100 unique to each game.

edit: sorry I couldn't find that rarity guide list, I'll keep looking

here's another site with images of arcade games in movies (not only Atari) http://www.mameworld.net/movies/index.html

I have World Karate Championship on disk for the Atari 8-bit, nice game with impressive graphics and music, and the AI puts up a good challenge too. sorry I don't believe I have the box to that though.

I can't wait to get the MsPac-Man MM for my GBA, thats truly a great pac game. I played the PC version all the time when that came out.

I never even heard of a COCO computer, and I hate side-mounting cartridge slots. The old computer I really disliked was the Vic-20, that 24 column giant text - ugh!

while we are giving away the 800 section, here's one of my favorite Atari 3rd party developers - Epyx. http://www.atariage.com/company_page.html?...00&CompanyID=21

cool! I can't wait to see this section completed. I've been anxiously watching to see the cart and box scans of those classic games.

The 1040STf floppy drive controller chip (WD1772 as I recall) will not recognize a HD 1.44MB drive, you will have to use a standard SSDD 360KB or DSDD 720KB drive from the old days, or replace the chip with a HD compatible (will require soldering). hope that helps...

I like the look and detail of the pigs in Activision's 'Oink', they are nicely animated too.

On today's episode there is a plug for AtariAge in a segment about 2600 emulation, awesome! {hope we get a few new memers from this.} way to go Al! check the website... http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/howto/st...3673359,00.html

I give my vote to Activision for River Raid II and Starmaster, those are 2 of my all time favorites for the 2600

I am starting a new project of scanning my game boxes, I came across this box for my ST "Battlezone" and I am just curious as to how rare this is. It give a copyright date of 1986 and that as I recall is the the Tramiels were still so against seeing the ST series as gaming machines. here's a quick scan... (sorry that the box is so squished it was in a tight file cabinet for many years)

thanks for helping to show that image Here's another scan I did from that same magazine, sorry it's kinda blurry I'll try to find that issue and redo it. note that many of the early games have different names. Atari didn't get the license from Atari Games and Midway to make thier coin-op games for the system for a few months after this article. {note:you need to copy/paste this into your browser, ...whole page scan... its a big image} www.geocities.com/geosteve_99/vgc/lynx/lynx2.jpg

Here's an image of the pre-Lynx model, it's referred to only as the 'Portable Color Entertainment System' in the article. http://www.geocities.com/geosteve_99/vgc/pces.jpg

I don't know if this qualifies for what you are descibing as sequels, but on the same cartridges many of Atari's earliest games based on coin-ops offered several play variations that the coin-op or and any sequel never had. for example, Space Invaders has moving bunkers and invisible invaders and Combat (TANK in arcades) has steerable or reflective shots.

3 laps of SprintMaster, or clear a wave of Galaxians - I just saved the world!

I've heard that most PAL versions have a "P" on the end label.

I think there were a few others kits for duramold cabs, KLOV shows an Atari Batman duramold. http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter...=B&game_id=7027

I have the Toshiba SD2300, when I got it I didn't know that it was such a stripped version of the VLM2 - what an upset! but it does play DVDs perfectly and the zoom and slo-mo features were cool (few players at that time offered that). I just preferred that Toshiba's cool black case over the ugly silver Samsung models. I also discovered that the Toshiba doesn't play any music on CD-Rs (mixed or exact copies) but the Samsung ones do. oh well! it's still worth it to play my T3K!

VLM is really neat, it automatically starts when a music CD is put in. you use your controller to set its features and play music tracks and many of the VLM effects can even be manipulated with the controller. the only other game console that has anything like this is the late NUON DVD players.

Trevor is clearly an aged game and rushed out. the backgrouds do indeed look nice in those still screenshots but in playing the game the lack of any paralax scrolling looks much too flat and dull, the much older 16-bit games that used paralax looked so much better than Trevor was an instant disappointment, remember "Shadow of the Beast" from like 4 years earlier? if you can get it cheap then it is still worth it, just don't expect much

Did you notice there is also a link to the Namco II arcade tvgames with Ms Pac-Man and others. also due out May 15th, another one for your collection. later this year, others rumored are Midway licensed arcade games and a Spiderman one too.

the local arcade here has a nice condition Ms. Pac cabinet with the Pac Man ABC kit installed, all 8 games can be either regular speed or fast, and it keeps the 10 high scores too (for all games not each). the #1 score is over 800K. best part, it's cheap to play - 1 token, sold at 8 / $1.00

That was no hack! http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter...=P&game_id=9149 sorry I guess I pucked up... I can mention that Ms Pac-Man was in fact orginally a hack, done by the same team who hacked Atari's Missile Command into 'Super Missile Attack'