SHAGOHOD X99

My 7800 ProSystem package deal with 35 games is still en route to me, and I've only ever played Robotron in the arcade and the N64 version. My question is, is can the 7800 game be played using only ONE joystick or do I have to somehow play using both joysticks? If it's using both I could see this being a bit hard to get used to. It's one of my all time fave games and I'd like to enjoy playing it again without undue frustration. It's probably a stupid question, but even though I grew up playing the 2600 VCS, I haven't really revisited the Pre-Famicom/NES era of gaming until recently... now I'm hooked again and want to dive into this stuff head on full steam.

Thanks for that info Robert M. I'm actually amazed at how many different projects are being worked on be them "hacks" or totally original works for the 2600 and other pre-Famicom systems. Now the problem is having enough money to buy the stuff and help support the people doing them so that they'll... well, keep making more.

All I know is that it's too bad it's not some kick ass RGS (run & gun shooter) game, because that cartridge cover art is bad ass!

Is there a way (or was there ever) to obtain an actual 2600 VCS cartridge of Wolfenstein 2600, or is it just in a playable ROM format for emulation? That looks bad ass! ***Same question on the Berzerk VE. Emulation is fine but I like to have an actual tangible cart when possible. Sort of like how I did with certain Neo:Geo MVS games, and IMO (on that last note) King of Gladiator a hack of KOF '97 was an improvement. Again I'm new to the pre-Famicom era of game collecting/playing so if this question has been asked before I mean not to offend, I'd just really like to own an actual cart is all.

WORD. It didn't bother me at first, but when stuff like KILLZONE came out (at least to me), the danged side-by-side analog controls weren't as comfortable to me as playing on the "S" controller on the XBOX. To me it's not fluid/responsive enough with the way the tops of the button feel on my thumbs. Strangely enough I had the easiest time in FPS games (though I don't play too many) with the Nintendo GC controller over everything else, though that controller sucked for the majority of "other" games. As for the old school stuff, shoot it's all about the FAMICOM AV or NES "Top Loader" Dog Bone controller over the brick, and I only ever use my Mega Drive gamepad on my 2600 VCS because while the joystick worked for me from '83 till about '88, I just can't get used to it anymore. Though on that note I sometimes will use the Sega Master System controller as well.

I have a few issues with the touch screen & Stylus pen, but beyond that I'd have to vote (and did) Nintendo DS. At least they haven't lost their minds in the portable gaming market because I've just not cared about their regular consoles since the N64 days on certain games but more to the point since the Super Famicom days. PSP is okay, but I'll take the DS over it any day.

No offense taken, hard to offend me anyhow. I don't use GOOGLE too often right now as I've had probs with my computer as of late and the fact I'm even online seems to be a miracle. I figured since I'd joined a community of others into retro/classic gaming it might just be easier to ask around here. Just like I would still rather give my business to mom & pop stores versus corporations... well I'd rather ask the community. Thanks to the others who posted as well. P.S. I realize it's finally going to come out on 5200 after 22 years after reading through the link that Atariboy 2600 gave, but does anyone foresee someone (anyone) doing a 7800 port? I mean the ProSystem could technically handle the game right? I only ask because I've got too many systems already (heck I'm selling a few off in a few days) and it be nice to not have to buy yet another one.

any of the ATARI home consoles? I always liked the arcade game, and I remember in the movie of the same name the kid is playing it on some kind of video computer system... thus I've long wondered if this game actually saw the light of day @ home be it on 2600VCS, 5200 or 7800? I can find nothing on this online anywhere so I figured I'd ask the community at large here. Heck even as a prototype even? The game's graphics would be closer to 7800 vs say the 2600 I'm sure. I'd have posted this in the ATARI section but it doesn't belong in either/or but more of general question. Any help on this is appreciated.

Quoted for truth ...but for me I had to have a 2-Slot NEO:GEO Strangely enough I ended up with the very RASTAN arcade cab that I first played the game on in 1987 in Del Rio Texas at a Mr. Gatti's there. (I know because I put my initials on it with a knife and cut a piece of the plastic screen cover away from the unit's control area... and it was still there!) The IKARI III cab I had to have specially made for me but I loved the arcade version over the Famicom one (though I own that one too) and that MX 5000 was a shooter I had also played in Del Rio @ Laughlin AFB in the summer of 1990 and never saw again but had to shop around on Ebay for the parts and PCB. I hope to build the cab for that one soon, but after this I said no more next cab will be a MAME cab if I ever get around to it.

PM SENT! SMB on the 2600 VCS... man I gotta' have one of these bad boys! DOH! didn't see he'd already sold them all. Edit II: BAAAAAAAM looks like I got the last copy anyhow!

Well from the Poll listings I'd have to say I'd want to see/play a port of the arcade version of either Contra or Super Contra if not both. But based on their arcade versions not the revisionist Famicom 8 stage versions. Personally though, just about to kick off into 7800 collecting and playing, I'd like to see an arcade port of Rastan Saga and the Konami up into the screen (Outrun/Space Harrier-esque faux 3-D) RGS game of Devastators. Also if the Sega Master System could handle a port, it be nice to see someone do a port of Commando II: MERCS

That's some nice swag there man. I remember that game, there were a few other video game licenses that got made into board games too.

@ shadow460 ...thanks for the further elaborated on details. Yeah I'm sure I can get used to the Proline joysticks since I did learn to manage my way around the ColecoVision controller which to me is still an engineering condom leak for all purposes, but I do like the looks of those CX-78 controllers much better, though I'd rather be able to use my Mega Drive 3 button controllers like I do on my 2600 VCS, but unless someone's selling modded gamepads I'm not even going to attempt trying to mod one myself. Thanks again for the assistance.

Well the best days for me in the arcade was at a place called Diamond J's Gameroom from about 1985 until 1992 in the Westlakes Mall here in SATX (San Antonio, Texas) when that mall was thriving. That place had it all back in the day. Used to spend hours in there playing: Rastan Saga, Thunerblade, Street Fighter, Bottom of the 9th, Battlefield of the Wolf II: MERCS, Final Fight, Play Choice 10, Pit Fighter, Gauntlet, Xybots, NARC, Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja, Top Gunner, Punch Out, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Gladiator, Super Contra, Operation Wolf and that's all that I remember but there were about 13 or more other uprights in that place, and that's not counting the 3 different times new games came in and some left. Even had one of those TV things that showcased one of the games so that ppl walking in the mall could be enticed to go in and play. Final Fight was showcased the longest. For me those were the days. I'd spend $5.00 for 30 Tokens at least once a week after school.

Easiest = NES or PC-Engine Game Pad Hardest = ColecoVision

{In Darren McGaven's voice from Christmas Story} GAWD DANGIT BLOB! ...I was kind of hoping that would come out in the US myself. I used to use the TV Tuner for my Turbo Express back in the day, figured it be cool to do again on the DS. But now that I think about it if I couldn't watch History Channel or something like that it be all but worthless anyhow. Most of regular TV these days sucks anyhow.

I'm going to probably save up a small portion of whatever it is I get back to put towards a PS3 system, since right now the X360 doesn't have anything I want on it and I'm not too big on Online Gaming. Right now what's calling to me is that KILLZONE 2 and STRANGLEHOLD ~Hard-Boiled 2~

You're talking about that new Nintendo DS game right? If so I'll be the first to say it On The Record and with no problem that I for one am going to buy the game Super Princess Peach as I stroll on up to the counter with a swagger and dare the checkout guy to say something to me. Like most of us here, I'm sure... I grew up with the Super Mario games, SP Peach looks pretty (yeah pretty) bad ass to me, and so far it's getting good reviews too. In this day and age of 2-D being an anachronism with the current gen of gamers I'll take what I can get, and it looks like Nintendo is doing something right again, though I'm still skeptical on the "Revolution" system. Even for me that one seems a bit far fetched. Will the game be a SMB 3 or Super Mario World? I somehow doubt it, but you never know. Last time I used Peach in a platformer game was Super Mario USA (SMB 2) on Famicom, by now I welcome her return.

My first video game my father bought for me at Radio Shack a few months before bringing home the ATARI 2600 VCS. I still actually own the first video game (devoted) system to... I played the above ^ for hours as a child, a bit later I got the devoted Donkey Kong Jr. and something else, neither of which I still own, but I never got rid of the Tandy game Zackman. As for FIRST video game on a home console, well my father had got the 2600 with about 20 games on it (unboxed, loose carts) but the first one I popped in was Video Pinball which I'm still hooked on in 2006.

Well this is my private mini arcade in my house: Still have to work on building up the following game: ...beyond this I can't see buying anymore uprights, though I might end up getting me an ATOMISWAVE setup in a few years, but by then most of what I want will probably be "ported" to the PS2 or PS3 anyhow. I think having an arcade cab in your house is awesome but you really need a lot of room, the damn things are bulky as hell (doesn't seem like it in an arcade), and the hobby can be damn expensive, so much so you can feel your wife's thousand yard stare burning into your back while you play a few rounds of Metal Slug 2.

Well back when my pops had bought the Atari 2600 VCS @ a yard sale with like 20 or so games the year was 1983, things were already going down hill for the gaming industry as I remember TOYS R US and KayBee Toys selling most of the games (already) at no more than $25.00 a pop. Because of that, both before and during the video game crash, which I had no idea about at the time... well I more or less got a buttload of games if I behaved and brought home good grades. There were more than a few though I never got: KABOOM! ---still have yet to play this as of 2006 Midnight Magic ---still have yet to play this as of 2006 Crazy Climber SMURF M*A*S*H Atari Circus Buck Rogers & Planet of Zoom There were more than that I'm sure, but this is what comes to mind right now.

I've long had an idea/business venture to make some sort of Arcade Museum that's more of a tourist destination point for gamers and families on holiday that housed a huge number of arcade uprights, amusement machines, pinball machines, skee ball and more, and sectioned areas off by the respective companies who made and released the games, with tour services ever so many times a day, and let ppl actually play the games for like a 45 minute timespan (as long as they followed the rules of the place)... hell I even began collecting arcade uprights for awhile before I burned out on the idea and ended up selling stuff off, keeping only a few cabs for myself. I only say this here because I know I don't have the time nor the money for such a business venture and it's a bitch trying to track down all the original cabs themselves... but what I would have liked to have had in my arcade museum??? Well here's at least a small listing of what I had in mind: Rastan Saga Shinobi Ninja Gaiden Contra Super Contra Green Beret (Rush 'N Attack!) Devastators GI JOE MX 5000 IKARI Victory Road IKARI III: The Rescue P.O.W. Black Tiger (Black Dragon) Magic Sword AREA 88 (UN Squadron) Carrier Airwing Crude Buster (Two Crude Dudes) Double Dragon Double Dragon II: The Revenge Shadow Dancer Lucky & Wild Chase H.Q. S.C.I. ~Special Criminal Investigations~ Crime City Turkey Shooot Top Gunner (Jackal) Street Fighter Pit Fighter Time Pilot Ms. Pacman Crystal Castles Final Fight FireFox After Burner Alien Syndrome Aliens Vs. Predator RYGAR Twin Eagles Dragon's Lair Dragon'S Lair II: Time Warp Space Ace Thunder Storm FX (Cobra Mission) Road Avenger Mr. Do! Dig Dug Missile Command Berzerk Battlefield of the Wolf: COMMANDO Battlefield of the Wolf II: MERCS RAMBO III Final Blow The Ninja Warriors Thunder Fox Forgotten Worlds Midnight Resistance Twin Cobra NEO: GEO 2-Slot w. [shock Troopers & Shock Troopers 2] NEO:GEO 6-Slot w. [Metal Slug 1-5 + NAM-1975] NEO:GEO 6-Slot w. [Garou MOTW, KOF '98, KOF 2002, SamSho II, Last Blade, RB Fatal Fury 2] Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga III Golden Axe Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder Land. Sea. Air. Squad (LSA Squad/Storming Party) A-JAX Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja Sunset Riders Steel Gunner Steel Gunner II Operation Wolf Operation Thunderbolt Operation Thunder Hurricane Lethal Enforcers Lethal Enforcers II Virtua Cop Virtua Cop II HOTD HOTD 2 Mechanized Attack Time Crisis Robotron 2084 Smash TV NARC Thunder Blade Crime Fighters Crime Fighters II: Vendetta Guardians of the Hood Bloody Wolf 1941 1942 1943 19XX: War Against Destiny Strikers 1945 NEO:GEO 6-Slot w. [Last Resort, Pulstar, Blazing Star, Ghost Pilots, Strikers 1945 Plus, Sonic Wings 2] ...and that's all that comes to mind off the top of my head.

@ diggs130 ...thanks for the link.

So you're saying I have to BUILD my own 2600 Cart then? If so that's a bit too much for me, I'm interested in finding one already made and ready to go, much the same as any cartridge one would buy. If that repo works is all I care. Whom might this person be and what ballpark figure would I be looking at price wise?

I didn't even realize Elevator Action had gotten a release on the ATARI 2600 VCS, and now that I know about it I'd like to find me a copy (don't care if it's CIB, just nice cartridge) for my collection. Since the Atari Ages website has it listed as a reproduction and self published, just how hard is it to get one if you weren't at that CGE event where it was unleashed?