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That's unfortunate! Well, hopefully it's all okay. Hopefully I can still download the ROM in the other thread. Great game, btw. Hope this doesn't impact your other new game effort.

Great to hear! Excellent!

Congrats on this! What a fun and exciting find!

I'd be in and have a harmony cart too!

I think it's hard to beat the 4-switch woody. Gotta love the faux woodgrain. And imo, the Jr. is a piece of junk. The switches are cheap and easily malfunction, and the whole thing FEELS cheaply made, unlike the 4 and 6-switchers, which seem like tanks compared to other hardware.

Agreed. This game gets crapped on by people who apparently never wanted to read the manual. It's a fun, treasure-hunt adventure kind of game, and I dug it as a kid, and like it now. The pits could be slightly improved to help keep you from falling *back* into them, but overall, it's pretty great. I'd give it a B.

Very cool stuff! What do you plan on focusing on?

This is amazing! Keep up the great work. This is very exciting stuff...nice job, and thanks for sharing your talents with us all!

Very cool! What kind of work did you do for Atari?

Thanks so much for the info!!

Necro thread revival. Just curious -- what museums and universities collect video games and the material? Thanks!

More fuel to the fire. A film company has paid the city in NM to film a documentary about digging up the ET carts. Interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufTKXf6PP8k Though I suppose it could be another "Al Capone's Vault."

Thanks for sharing the process, Al. And I know he didn't say all of that to get pats on the back, but this man has done SO much for the hobby, in providing not only a forum for us to come and share the Atari love with each other, but also enabling and empowering great programmers and artists to share their talents in the form of great games for sale at very reasonable prices. IMO, Al doesn't get enough props for all this. Thanks again!!

I'd like one too. Now just need to get a Starplex controller.

That's too bad, but it makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. Excited for this game!

This might have already been discussed, but the 2 button Atari joypad doesn't workforce this game, does it?

So now you've changed the base price, but I see the shipping is now $34.55! eBay broken?

Very cool, and I'd be interested. But why is the shipping $16.85?

The music is wonderful! Can't wait to play this. Fantastic work.

So glad to hear you're feeling better, Curt. Looking forward to this happening some time soon!

We got our first 2600 when I was barely 6 in 83-84, post-crash. My Dad was never excited about plunking down hundreds for video games, so we didn't have one until after The Crash. My Dad said he bought it for $25, and it included Pac-Man, Combat, and some of the classics. We had Asteroids, Barnstorming (why did we like that?!), and many others. Games were being clearanced out so we could pick up a couple every weekend when my Dad took us to The Video King on the northwest side of Chicago. After we slowly amassed a larger collection and moved to the burbs, my friends started getting the NES, and I loved Mario, Castlevania, and Metroid, but never got one of my own. I defended the humble 2600 to my mocking NES-loving friends, but lost interest and got really into comic books in the late 80s and 90s. The old Vader was forgotten in a closet until I got to college in 1996. Some guys on my dorm floor had a 2600 and did regular Warlords tourneys, and I fell back in love with it. Dusted it off, brought it to school, and played and got into the scene. At the time, that seemed to consist of Tim Duarte's 2600 mailed newsletter, and early eBay. I bought one of the first runs of Edtris via mail, and got my hands on a boxed Supercharger and Stella Gets a New Brain, and loved it all. From there I really started to collect carts and always introduced (or re-introduced) my friends to the joy of old school classic gaming. Discovered AtariAge, homebrews, and all of that. I didn't get into collecting boxed games until 2006 when I wandered into Videogames, etc in Norridge, and bought Missile Command and ET, still NIB. Now I have a pretty solid boxed collection (specifically Atari releases and some Activision) and have become obsessed with early Atari box art. Still loving it, and I've started dabbling in Vectrex, and now have my own NES that gets good use with the great RetroZone multi-cart.

So, that's interesting. Now I'm assuming those are not related to the grey boxed games. Wonder what the story is behind those...

In whatever form, I'd be excited to own this. Consider me signed up for one.

That's a very helpful insight. Guess that's the price I pay for getting into serious 2600 collecting a little late in the game. Ah well. I'll just have to look a bit harder. And thanks for the related digression. Now, back to your previously-scheduled MGC thread!

Yeah, I was talking about boxed 2600 games -- where were you looking? Only a couple of dealers had boxed ones, and the one at the end of the hall had a few re-shrinkwrapped ones that were in bad condition and overpriced. But there weren't too many at all, and I scoured the floor several times, and asked almost every dealer. Few were selling any that weren't loose. There were a LOT more boxed NES games versus 2011.