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I Am a Child from the Dawn of the Video Game Age
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My Retro/Vintage Gaming Hobby I Am a Child from the Dawn of the Video Game Age Taking a side trip here away from my adventures here. Anyone who knows me personally, can attest that I am somewhat of a geek and so it’s no surprise that I became an mechanical/aerospace engineer by trade. With that stated, I always had an interest in building things and tinkering with electronics, etc.. As I was growing up in the 70's I was fortunate to experience and be able to participate in the dawn of a new era. It all started simple enough with my father coming back from a business trip in Texas one year with one of the first ever digital calculators. I was hooked. I loved the display, the tactile feel of the buttons and the ease of use. I was further inspired when I saw advanced calculators becoming available and even into my high school and college years where I always had to have the latest programmable calculators for my science, math and eventually engineering courses. Now this seems pretty minor in this day and age, but back then, looong before cell phones, home computers, high level object oriented programming languages, etc.. this was an exciting era for me. Read more here... http://rubikonadventures.blogspot.com... A long time friend of mine came by for a visit one day and asked if it was OK to shoot video of my old video game collection and my "man cave" where I hibernate during the winter months when I am not out exploring. Enjoy another facet of my persona here: https://youtu.be/818OZog0Y4I Me Meeting Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari and founder of the industry. -
I've been dying to buy POKEY games for the 7800, but it's getting to be expensive and troublesome. Copies of Ballblazer for the 7800 are getting harder to find and this was to be expected. On eBay things are quite limited. Boxed copies can be had for about $30 to $50 dollars, but I'm not buying a mint or sealed boxed copy just to get the cartridge. Loose copies, well I'm only finding the ones with the red end labels, and they tend to go for $50 to $80. I sometimes see loose PAL cartridges for around $25, but I don't even know if they are compatible. POKEY chips can be found in a 5200 console, but then I'd have to buy one, pay to have it shipped to me, destroy the console to get at the POKEY chip, remove the POKEY chip (which I don't even know how to do), and then ship it to Atari Age. POKEY chips can be found in some Atari Arcade games, but no way am I going that route either! The cheapest option that I can find is to buy just a board with a POKEY chip on it. Cost $30. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ballblazer-Atari-7800-Pokey/152564067928?hash=item238586ee58:g:RJ8AAOSwjKtccao9 The one POKEY version that I'd really like to own is Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest. Cost? $52.25. So if I could go with the board that I found on eBay, which includes free shipping, my cost would be $82.25 not counting the shipping charge from Atari Age, and assuming that I can have this board shipped directly to Atari Age. And that's the CHEAPEST option! If these boards like the one that I've linked to are common, and I have no idea if they are, perhaps Atari Age could buy them in bulk. The seller seems to be offering that option (for $25). If Atari Age passed that expense along I'd be willing to do it. Actually, I'd also be willing to buy the board, have it shipped directly to Atari Age, and have them use that. But I am disabled now so my options are limited.
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See photos. All games boxed with manual and et cetera flyers. Prices are negotiable for some of the higher end games (it's very hard to try and determine fair values). All games (except sealed of course) were tested when received at the time. F14 Tomcat (sealed) - $300 F18 Hornet - $50 Kung Fu Master (sealed) - $450 Pete Rose Baseball - $100 Super Skateboarding - $80 Titlematch Pro Wrestling (sealed) - $450 Double Dragon (sealed) - $450 Rampage - $125 Asteroids - $15 Realsports Baseball - $10 Robotron - $20 Summer Games - $175 Touchdown Football - $15 Winter Games - $25 Tank Command - $SOLD Water Ski - $SOLD
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Playing Atari 7800 wirelessly!
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Here we have an Atari 7800 Console Bundle with eight (8) games, two controllers and all required cables. Everything has been lightly cleaned and fully tested and works great! Here is everything you get: Atari 7800 console - plastic protective seal is still present on the metal nameplate. Some scuffs here and there but overall in very good shape. Two controllers - one OEM Atari 7800 "Proline" joystick and one 2600-style joystick by Gemini RF AV cable (OEM) with RF adapter for more modern (and older CRT) TVs alike Official Atari 7800 power supply Eight (8) Atari 2600 game cartridges (fully compatible with 7800 console): Combat, E.T., Frogger, Haunted House, Maze Craze, Porky's, Racquetball and River Raid Please see pictures for exact condition of all items. As many of you know, this particular 7800 console is from the second production run, denoted by AT84, a very early run manufactured by Atari Inc. before Warner sold the company to the Tramiels and it became Atari Corp. The 7800 only saw a very limited release during the Atari Inc. days, so it is very hard to find such an early version of this console. This is a particularly low serial number within the AT84 production run, too. Since it is from an early run, the expansion port is present (it was abandoned in later revisions) and the cartridge slot is very friendly to all cartridges, including third-party 2600 games which do not fit well - or at all - in later 7800 revisions. Kind of hard to put a price tag on this as I haven't been able to find any other consoles from this run for sale, but I'll go with $200 175 including shipping via Priority Mail to anywhere in the US. Also taking offers. Cross-posted on eBay. SOLD! Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions.
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This is a hack originally from 2015, but I didn't upload it because I wanted to make some changes to the title screen and never got around to it -- until now. It's nothing spectacular, but the point of this hack was to make Louie a little more cute like the Lynx version. The title screen isn't that much different, but Louie is a mix of his appearance on the 7800 boxart and his appearance on the Lynx. List of changes: (UPDATE 12-JUN-20 Scraps Version: Added a bounce to Scraps' step with a little bit of ear flop. Also tweaked the knocking sprites and edited text from "Persistent Fellow" to "Persistent Mutt". Final boss screen Louie sprite outline color changed to dark brown. ALL versions in single zip file, including a green title text option.) - Edit in-game Louie sprites. - Changed color of sky in junkyard levels to be slightly more blue. - Tweaked color of dirt to be a little more brown. - Edited Louie in title screen. - Unlimited Lives (thanks to RevEng) rom included in zip Scrapyard Dog (Graphics Hack).zip Also included is a hack started from a request by @Giles N to replace Louie with Scraps. I liked the idea, and here is the result. Giles did the base Scraps sprites and I edited them to fit within the constraints of the game and did various other re-draws. I've redrawn Scraps kidnap graphics to show Louie. Text was also changed that referenced Scraps or Louie in order to match the new story line. List of changes: - Replaced Louie with Scraps and vice-versa. - Replaced text and graphics referencing Scraps or Louie. - All changes from previous hack included here (title screen edit, sky and dirt colors, invincibility version) Prosystem.dat File Additions:
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Hi gang, I think I'd like to dip my toes into 7800 ownership, finally. I want one mainly for playing Atari 2600 games, but also some 7800 arcade titles that I never got to play yet. All in all, I'm looking for stock, working console in great shape.. Nothing too beat up or scratched up. Doesn't have to be Mint either, just as long as your dog didn't chew on it and plastic & metal trim isn't all gouged up. ? A Power Supply and Controller(s) isn't crucial, but are of course preferred. Thankfully I do think I have some compatible controllers already. However, I don't have any 7800 games yet. So if there's any cheap commons to throw in, that would be great too, but again, not a necessity. I plan on doing my own mods/upgrades and hopefully scoring a Concerto SD Cart soon, but I need to track down a decent system first. I'm down for buying this system outright, or possibly (hopefully) working out a trade for it.. I collect for lots of different systems, mainly vintage and some new(ish) ones (see my profile for the list). I don't have anything in mind specifically, trade wise, but if you have a nice, starter 7800 bundle/setup and have something you're after, that you'd like to trade, just give me a shout.. I'm sure we can figure something out. I'm pretty easy to work with. ? I live in the USA (OH), so I'd prefer to pick a 7800 within the states if at all possible, so that I don't get murdered on shipping. Anyways, that's about it.. Please PM me if you can help out. Thanks! ✌️
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Today we discuss even more Atari 7800 Homebrews. I am always happy to share the hard work and talents of these homebrew programmers. What has been your favorite homebrew in this series? What is a game you'd like to see programmed?
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I recently dug out my Atari 7800 7800 Monitor Cartridge that I bought from Video 61 in August 2000. It's been quite a few years since I've messed around with it. I was showing a friend of mine how it worked. We looked at the three demo programs that are on it (Bumper Tanks, Hex Demo and Color Display), plus we typed in a couple of the very short demonstration programs and tried those too. I suppose that after nearly 20 years the battery in the cartridge that saves the RAM is dead, but I'd still like to play around with this rare cartridge and maybe make a video of it in use since I can't even find video of anyone using it (not even pictures or screenshots of the three demo programs on it). I know that the manual for the 7800 Monitor Cart isn't freely available. This is a shame, as this certainly would get more people interested in the program. I wonder if Video 61 would allow, at least, the manual to be released as a pdf? Did anyone ever write any short subroutines that I could type into this machine language monitor using those trusty keyboard controllers? Are there any generic 7800 programs that I could use with the Monitor carts? Adam
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I'm trying to learn 7800basic so I did this silly graphic hack of the sample "Smasteroids." Now you control a deep fried turkey and shoot at asteroids resembling Shatner, Hello Kitty and bikes. I even tried to lower the score when you get hit but the score reverts to 999,999 if you get hit at the start. Included is the .bas file. shatneroids.bas.a78 shatneroids.bas gfx.zip Update (December 1, 2015): Newest version. EDIT- You may be interested in the updated version below with extra "secrets."
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today I'm discussing more great Atari 7800 homebrews. Which are your favorite? Thanks for your continued support.
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For those who don't know, I have a new homebrew out for the Atari 7800 titled, Crazy Tank. Details about it are here.
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Atari 7800 Discovery Thanks for letting me join, I know absolutely zilch about the Atari Consoles. I had an Atari 800XL once upon a time and absolutely loved it, so many great memories. So I went on a bit of a discovery with the Atari 7800 the other day and it really impressed me. Left me thinking “what if”. I thought I’d share it here, it’s nothing special, but just wanted to share my thoughts on what I think of this console and its games. Anyways here’s my video, I played every game using RetroArch and built this vid from it. https://youtu.be/TogzSRUVEMc Thx
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I did a live stream of Fight Night and uploaded the video to YouTube. Some comical moments in this but overall the game is pretty bad.
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In this episode I celebrate the hard work of the many talented programmers who make games for this system. This will be the first of many as there are a lot of great homebrews out there. Which was your favorite homebrew? Which games would you like to see made?
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Here we have Water Ski for the Atari 7800 Complete in Box (CIB) with game cartridge and manual. As most of you know, this can be a tough game to track down in its original box with manual. The game cartridge has been cleaned and tested and works great! Also comes with a game box protector. Please see the provided pictures below. The game box has wear, as seen in the pics. However, all flaps are present and the game cartridge still sits inside the box as it should. Manual is in good shape with no handwriting inside. Asking $100 OBO, shipping included, to anywhere in the US in a carefully packed box. SOLD Please send me a PM with any questions or to purchase. Thanks!
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I am interested in getting an Atari XE light gun for my Atari 7800 for games such as Crossbow and Barnyard Blaster. There is a problem though - these light guns are hard to find and the few I see on Ebay cost a small fortune. This leads me to two questions: 1. Is there a third party alternative out there to the Atari XE light gun? 2. Can another light gun (such as the NES Zapper) be rigged/modified somehow to work with an Atari 7800/2600/XE? Any input is appreciated.
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In today's episode I discuss the few prototypes for the Atari 7800. Are there any that I missed? Were there more games planned than the ones I listed?
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SOLD Recycled Thread, Yes, this is available until I mark as sold. $30 + Shipping. $30 is what I invested to build this about 5 years ago, but I never use it. The box is wood, but not solid wood. I'm really not sure where the box came from, but it's sturdy, and looks pretty good. The joystick is a $10 unknown brand I bought online back in the day, and includes 8 way octagonal joystick gate. It works on the Atari 2600 and 7800, and it's wired for two button operation on the 7800. The cord is only about 3', but I'm including a NEW belt buckle and wrist band! Price does not include shipping from 45005, box is 3 lb 13 oz, 11" x 15" x 9". Include your zipcode in the PM, and I can get you an estimate.
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I am curious if anyone knows whether the Atari 2600 pause mod can be installed on a 7800 console to pause the 2600 games and if so, can you provide me with the instructions on where to connect it to the board? Thanks in advance!!
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In my latest video I start the unit on the Atari 7800. I discuss the system itself and some of its rare and valuable games. I had a 7800 back in the day and have nothing but happy memories of it, spending hours and hours playing Pole Position II, Food Fight, One on One Basketball, and others. In my opinion, and I'm sure the same of many others, this is probably one of the most underrated game systems in history. What do you think? What are some of your memories?
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I have read comments, here and on YouTube, over the past 3 years. I have made some updates to all of these games here! A quick note about the hacks: I have decided to place all of my hacks in one, convenient thread. As I grew up with my Atari 5200 and Atari 800XL, there were certain games that I thought had a little more potential. I had created basic hacks for a few of these games. I always thought that my 5200 Popeye could look better. Brutus didn't have a number "5" for a head in the arcade version. I knew I had drawn more accurate Mario characters on my 800XL. If only I could plug them into the games. I teamed up with Playsoft, who provided the tools and wisdom to make these games possible. Some of these games have other contributors. Tep392 helped us tweak the collision and touchy controls in DK Jr. I believe that Tep392 and Kjmann worked on the original Donkey Kong RMT sound version. I believe there is another member who helped Playsoft in some of the A8 to 5200 conversions. I am not sure who drew the giant Popeye head. If anybody has clarity on this, let me know, so credit can go where it is due. These are truly community projects, and I had a great time watching them transform. Playsoft did an amazing job of hacking display list interrupts, giving me a little more height area (eg. thicker 5200 Mario Bros floors, as well as multiple floor types). I have been holding off on releasing the latest Mario Bros hacks, because I didn't want to release as many revisions. I was also hoping for some upgraded sound effects for Mario, but there's not always enough time in the day. There's a bonus hack for the 7800 Mario Bros. I found the 7800 graphics tedious to hack. The characters were drawn too small and flat, and the game itself plays horribly. That version has the least number of animation frames, so the animation is poor regardless. It is my "Lipstick on a Pig" release. Donkey Kong: Atari 8-bit Computer Arcade version -- DK_A8_Arcade.xex Atari 8-bit Computer RMT version (Updated sound) -- DK_A8_RMT.xex Atari 5200 Supersystem version -- DK5200_Arcade.bin Donkey Kong Jr: (Arcade & Enhanced versions) Atari 8-bit Computer Arcade version -- DKJr_A8_Arcade.xex Atari 8-bit Computer Enhanced version -- DKJr_A8_Enhanced.xex Atari 5200 Supersystem Arcade version -- DKJr_5200_Arcade.bin Atari 5200 Supersystem Enhanced version -- DKJr_5200_Enhanced.bin Popeye Arcade: Atari 8-bit Computer version --PopeyeArcade_A8_Final.xex Atari 5200 Supersystem version -- Popeye5200_ArcadeFinal.bin Mario Bros (1983, 5200 version): Atari 5200 Supersystem bin version -- MarioBros_Arcade_52.bin Atari 5200 Supersystem car format -- MarioBros_Arcade_52.zip Mario Bros XE: Atari XL/XE version - MarioBrosArcade_XE.zip Mario Bros 7800: Atari 7800 version - Mariobros_7800_Arcade.a78
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Can anyone tell me the largest MMC cart that Chad Schell's Cuttle Cart 2 can handle for the Atari 7800? (Is there a max?) Thanks in advance, I just snagged a brand new CC2 off of ebay. Finally! Tom
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