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  9. Posted

    Sure, you can view the completed item, but if you go to Advanced Search and choose "completed listings" and type 'Atari 815 Dual Disk Drive' into the search field, you get back a bunch of items, but not the 815. Same for sold items.

     

    Someone who does a lot of selling may know what that means. Does that mean the seller ended the auction prematurely without selling it through eBay (a possible side deal)?

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    I can only give you my experience with it, which was that I was blown away by Star Raiders on the 5200, enjoyed the upgrades of the other launch games over the VCS versions, and never had an issue with the joysticks (which I thought were amazing). But, I only had the system for a short while before the computer bug bit me hard and I upgraded to the Atari 400 so I could start programming my own games.

     

    I wasn't aware of the 5200 having a bad reputation back then because, while I did subscribe to Electronic Games Magazine and saw their negativity about it, their complaints contradicted my own experience and no one I knew had a bad impression of it. We thought the Intellivision and Colecovision controllers were fine as well. They were different, that's all. It's not like the VCS joystick was without fault. They broke and needed repair periodically, and using them for a long time could be painful.

     

    I always had good memories of the 5200, and it was the second retro system I got (after the VCS) when I started collecting around 1990.

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    I was sure the thread was going to be "Picked up my first 5200....and threw my back out!" :)

     

    As for the 2-port, the p/s plugs into the unit instead of into the switch box, and the switch box is just a standard one. The p/s is different voltage, too. See the FAQ for more.

     

    Get a nice controller and enjoy! :)

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  16. Posted

    People dump on that game like it's the day after the 4th of July and they all ate some bad potato salad. You so much as mention the US version, and the internet at large says "LOL, not a real Mario game! Just changed the graphics, I bet you didn't know that! Japan got the REAL version which is so much better! Oh yeah, except I never play the Japanese version because it spanks me like a Nebraska housewife."

     

    Those Pavlovian responses are so funny. E.T., the 5200, SMB2...so many "trigger words." :)

     

    I enjoyed the heck out of SMB2. Later, I found out the story behind it, but that didn't change the game or my enjoyment of it.

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  18. Posted

    SMB was fun at the time, but boring now.

    SMB2 was fun then and still has a charm. (I'm talking about the NA release that was a reskinned different game.) I played it every day for at least half a year, just for fun. I'd be willing to play that again some day.

    SMB3, I bought, brought over to my friend's place (this was while I was in college) and we stayed up all night taking turns on a world-by-world basis and beat it. Never played it again.

    All the rest were "meh" except for 64, which was fine at the time but is now hobbled by that bizarre controller. Otherwise it was fun replaying it a few years ago.

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