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Post by strudders on Nov 22, 2016 10:30:20 GMT -5
Nice pickup Strudders! I have a copy now, but I also had this one when I was a kid. It was probably a second tier Activision title for me; I would play it when I got sick of Keystone Kapers or Pitfall. Fun game! Yeah, Barstorming is one of those simple 'learn the pattern' Activision games. Ferg has discussed this very point in the podcast before - how some of the Activision games fall into that category and didn't age too well. I didn't have it though and at this point in my 2600 collecting I'm filling in some missing carts that are (relatively) cheap. After that it all gets a bit expensive !
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Post by starbuck66 on Nov 29, 2016 10:47:54 GMT -5
Here are some games I got in a trade on the Atari.io forums: And here are some games I found at a retro gaming store that usually doesn't have much Atari: The bottom right cart is Outer Space; it's the Sears version of Star Ship I believe. Got them all for under 5 dollars. I'm only missing one of the Mythicon games now, Star Fox. I'm also with Ferg on Sorcerer; I kind of like it! The music is catchy to me :-)
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Post by strudders on Nov 29, 2016 12:18:00 GMT -5
Nice pickups, especially for the price ! Love the Sorcerer music too. Probably the best thing in all the Mythicon games I also like Alien. A real shame they couldn't have made the aliens look a bit more like the movie though - but still pretty good for a 2600 license.
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Post by iddod on Dec 1, 2016 15:29:50 GMT -5
found a couple of carts out in the wild today while working... the megadrive cart is destined to become a donor for another game, not sure which one yet though but always handy to pick them up when they're a quid... the gameboy cart is Metroid II, pretty nasty label, but it's for playing not looking at... i played and finished metroid zero mission on gba after the stone age gamer podcast recommended playing that instead of the first nes game, i then started playing metroid ii on the gb everdrive but got distracted by real life and didn't get back to it... so i'm hoping that having the original cart will nudge me into playing it more...
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Post by starbuck66 on Dec 27, 2016 21:14:25 GMT -5
My wife got me an Intellivision for Christmas! I also went out and picked up some loose carts for it today: I also got a copy of Turtles in Time from her (label is a bit dinged up but who cares, this is an awesome game!): And finally she got me this 7800 homebrew from AtariAge; its like Night Stalker but faster paced and with different levels: Its been a great Christmas :-)
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Post by iddod on Dec 28, 2016 4:20:12 GMT -5
that's a wonderful haul... she's a keeper that one... all my girlfriend got me was a PS4, i'm thinking of trading her in...
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Post by iddod on Dec 31, 2016 15:45:48 GMT -5
postie's been today... Super Everdrive for SNES... (this is the version with DSP support for mario kart, pilot wings etc) this is the pressie my girlfriend paid for on my birthday back in november when Krikzz was having his black friday sale... this also completes my everdrive collection, at least until Igor releases his next one...
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Post by iddod on Jan 6, 2017 12:12:36 GMT -5
postie's been... again... this time he brought me a pair of famicom carts... both of which are very playable for idiots like me that only speak english... 1st game is gegege no kitaro youkai dai makyou... which is the original version of the game that was later released in the west as ninja kid, it plays the same, but this version seems to have more of a universal monsters vibe to it than a ninja vibe... the 2nd game is baltron, which plays like scramble but with the radar type thing like defender, which comes in handy for when the ememies try to sneak up behind you...
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Post by fergojisan on Jan 6, 2017 17:37:12 GMT -5
I have a handheld thingy that plays Famicom games. It's well made, it's basically an N64 controller with the cartridge slot underneath, so you have to hold the cartridge in with your hand. Anyway, I don't have a lot of Famicom carts but I do really enjoy Binary Land and the Hello Kitty game where you travel on balloons.
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Post by iddod on Jan 6, 2017 18:53:52 GMT -5
those lil cheap famiclones you speak of are great, i have a bunch of them myself... did yours come with the 84 in 1 cartridge? that cart has a hack of mario with the main sprite changed to a panda, it ticks lots of boxes for me
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Post by fergojisan on Jan 6, 2017 20:50:11 GMT -5
Nope, no carts. Just a controller that plugs into the TV.
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Post by iddod on Jan 7, 2017 9:34:23 GMT -5
Nope, no carts. Just a controller that plugs into the TV. pretty sure i have a spare, i'll lob it your way if i can find it
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Post by iddod on Jan 17, 2017 17:16:47 GMT -5
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Post by iddod on Jan 26, 2017 15:20:17 GMT -5
finally something Atari VCS related... (and the SFC i forgot to post a pic of)
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Post by strudders on Apr 4, 2017 10:21:24 GMT -5
Has been a very long break away from 'the Bay'. Been very tight on funds. Decided to dip my toe back in and get some of the Sears carts that I don't have. Also, one of the manuals (with different artwork). Got interested in those after looking at this great page at Atari Protos: www.atariprotos.com/other/sears/artofsears.htmIn some cases the art is better than its Atari counterpart. Still shocked at the shipping prices some people are quoting. Using the eBay arranged shipping is ridiculous and even if the seller ships themselves they are often quoting 3 times the price of the item ! For example - a $6 cart has shipping of $18 ! That's just too much to justify. Luckily I did a deal on these three carts and they actually came from europe (although there are no PAL Sears games).
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