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AKA Skin Diver AKA Sea Hunt? YES! This is THE crappiest game for the 2600, bar none. My review Even the Mythicon games aren't as bad because they don't make you as angry that you wasted your time trying to play them.

Funny, that catalog doesn't look familiar to me either, and I thought I'd done a good job of picking them all up...

I played the arcade version first, and I was disappointed with the 2600 version -- those jumps you need to memorize? Just doesn't work in the 2600 version. If you jump from the same place with the same speed, you can land in different places, and that's just not correct. Sadly, I have yet to try out the Intellivision and Colecovision versions, but the NES version isn't that bad. They add a boss to the game (ugh), but at least it uses the same game mechanic, so it's acceptable.

Heck, as I noted in THAT thread, I already won the Digital Press contest held years before. "Going Under"

Yeah, I don't like it either... Took me a while just to figure out where the seller info was. But, I'm sure I'll get used to it in time.

Are they repros? That's B&C Computervisions; they do have lots of Atari stock.

Doppel, you're posting in an announcements forum. Perhaps if you posted your question under Web Site or some other forum, or better yet, just sent one of the moderators your question via a private message, you'd get an answer. (And yes, I realize the hypocrisy of not sending THIS via PM, but I figure others besides doppel may benefit)

Are you hitting "quote" or "Post Reply" to reply? I mean, the " " that appear in your posts should do the trick, but maybe something is up with your character set or something... Does it look okay when you preview?

It does? IIRC, Kousokusen stands for "light-speed ship" i.e. "starship", or somesuch.

So, is there a story about how you got them?

No I dont think it was Joystik. I had the record. But never collected Joystik. I honestly cant remember where I got my copy. But its possible they were handing them out in stores. That's possible. I'm about 98% certain they weren't ever included inside of magazines, unless the mag was not a videogame mag. Me, I got mine by mailing Data Age and asking for it; I never saw it in stores around where I lived.

I think it's your memory playing tricks, but I'm not sure.

But how many? I've always wondered what happened with Waterworld, since my brother and I were in -- but didn't pass -- the first tier of winners; I've always wondered if the tiebreaker winners got anything. I know there was a lawsuit, and had heard they all got paid off with money instead of prizes, but never heard for sure... So, does Jack have just the Airworld prize and the final sword, or does he have the Waterworld prize too?

Look at the end of the cartridge... Atari cartridges are shaped like this: +-----------+ | | +-----------+ ...but Colecovision games are shaped like this: /----------- | | +-----------+

I don't remember it being included in any magazines, and I got most of them. I'll guarantee it wasn't in EG, since I got every issue of that mag no matter what, and it probably wasn't in Electronic Fun or Video Games either, as I could find those regularly too. Most likely would be Joystik, but I wouldn't bet on it. You might just be thinking of the ads which showed the record pretty clearly IIRC?

But there is a cart in the 2600 adapter and another laying atop the Colecovision. I can't identify what they are though. The one looks like maybe Outlaw or Warlords, but dunno, and they look like they could almost be the same cart too.

Electronic Fun magazine published a phony game review in an April Fool issue. The game was called "Orient Express" for the 2600 by Imagin (clue to the hoax). The punchline: a competing magazine soon published a review of the phony game and thereby severaly embarassed themsleves. Ding ding! That's 100 points to NovaXpress for getting not only the reference, and the implication (whyfor I posted it), but also correcting a couple details I screwed up! For the most part, that's probably true, but... well... you never know.

Something like this WAS in the works... The guy I talked to said they had a game much like Tempest running on it. I think it was supposed to be for a cable-based games download system IIRC.

I might surely be interested in games they have <=$10 that I don't have, which is to say many of them.

I have a friend back home who will wet himself when he finds out that he can play Bosconian... Hmm, actually... How many systems was Bosconian available on? I can think of only the M5, which was only available in Europe and Japan.

looks like a good idea, but what is LGSS? LGSS is a way to link up Lynxes only requiring one cart, right? BTW Harry, may I interpret the as "coming soon"?

I can't determine what any of the carts are, but I dig the band and the site.

Because everybody has an idea. [...] And the programmers themselves - without exception - are working on their own stuff. This is the crux of the issue... Since it takes so much time to program a 2600 game, and even more so to program, test, revamp, retest, etc, a GOOD 2600 game, guys like Thomas, Paul, Manuel, Dennis, et al, can only program so many things. And it's only natural that they will put their own projects first. Now, if one of these guys suddenly runs out of ideas, they'll be a lot more receptive to programming something for somebody else. Hell, they might even do it for free. But that's not going to happen -- unless a pile of money really DOES show up and/or they have a real interest in the idea -- until all their own stuff has gone from their head to the screen already.

Yeah, that's a pretty fun idea. Hmm, though I think I STILL haven't put that one in the 2600 Connection... *sigh*

If you'll be at AGE, you'll see it on display. It's posted to the AGE website. I know Mika's been working on it forever. I assume it's just a "demo" and not a "new product"? The AGE site doesn't make clear which are which...