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Ian Primus

Wow, it's been a while, but I'm back.

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I have been away for too long. I used to post here a lot about two years ago. (I can't believe I remembered my login and password!) I kinda drifted away from Atari a year or so ago, mainly because things were hectic for a while, I moved from Indiana to New York, etc, etc. Anyway, I still have all my carts and stuff, and hadn't played them a lot, but I got a chance during the blackout... When the power went out here, I had nothing to do. We were without power for like two days. I could listen to the radio on a battery powered set, but all the good radio stations were down. I couldn't really go anywhere because I was almost out of gas and the gas stations (and stores for that matter) were without power. Anyway, I glanced over at my six switch sitting on top of the TV set in my computer room, and had an idea. I rigged the Atari to run off a couple of radio batteries, and connected it to a 5" black and white battery powered TV set. It was really the first time in a year that I had enough time to sit down and play Atari. Needless to say, those hours I spent staring into a tiny TV blasting away at Space Invaders, Asteroids, and all those other great games got me hooked again. I also learned a couple of things that day :

 

1) Mountain Dew tastes just fine warm.

2) Milk does not.

3) Cheez-Its are a great meal substitute (OK, I already knew that...)

4) Space Invaders is really hard to see on a black and white set if you turn the switch to "B&W", but it looks great with the switch on "Color".

5) E.T. is still a lousy game in black and white.

 

Anyway, I'm hooked on Atari again, and hopefully I'll have more free time now.

 

Ian Primus

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Thats awesome. When I first played atari it was on a b/w set too. It's always great to hear 'the power went out, so i played b/w atari on batteries' instead of 'the power went out, and i can't LIVE without my (X) so I went on a killing spree.'

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Welcome back, Ian Primus...

 

 

 

Welcome back, young warrior

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