Have You Played Atari Today?

[pixeljunkie]

Ugh. rebuying old 7800 carts I gave my nephew years ago because I thought I'd never touch them again is painful.

 

[Takumaji]

That's a good price for Xevious.

IMO a 7800 must-have.

 

[GoosehanX]

My bud dropped off his 5800 with a few games and a flash cart. Aside from the dumb controllers, pretty cool. A moddin' we will go.

 

[famicommander]

My bud dropped off his 5800 with a few games and a flash cart. Aside from the dumb controllers, pretty cool. A moddin' we will go.

7800 or 5200?

 

[GoosehanX]

5200. Fuck.

 

[famicommander]

5200. Fuck.

Get you some Kaboom. It actually works well with those controllers.

Trackball/paddle/spinner games are pretty much the only ones that work better on those floppy non-centering analog sticks than a standard digital stick.

 

[GoosehanX]

I have Kaboom! I just don't have a functional 2600 at the moment, and this system will go back to my bud when I mod it.

 

[gum_drops]

Atari Jaguar Iron Soldier II : BETA Cartridge | eBay

It is region-free, making it playable on any Jaguar console worldwide.

www.ebay.com

You can get the actual release for 1/3rd that price. Who buys this shit.

 

[Takumaji]

5200... one day, my useless friend made of plastic, one day...

Ah well.

By the way, buy a pair of paddles and also get yerself a copy of Astroblast, it even has been re-released now (M-Network collection). Best paddle game ever, gets really intense and is friggin' addictive.

"Can you get to 20k"?

 

[Johnny16Bit]

Given that the OG 7800 I bought is being a bitch, I goobed a 7800+ that I hooked to the living room TV for everyone's pleasure.
Been playing some a couple games of Berzerk after dinner since then, and it's still stupid fun.
I'll be adding some carts to the pile soon.

The 7800+ itself isn't a bad product/pack, but it seems annoyingly usual with these emulation systems to have something faulty. This one came with a dead HDMI cable.

 

[Takumaji]

The enemy firing rate in Tiger Heli can get really tricky, specially when bullets are coming from behind. It's doable when I'm in the groove so to speak but sometimes I can't make it past level 2, the game is 100% pattern-based so it's important to map out a way around the really tight spots, like when the little 10k bonus house/rooftop appears in level 1 and three tanks come in and fire at you with nasty timing and angles or the battlefield in level 3 with the gun turrets and tons of tanks.

The little heli updates are great, specially the left/right firing one which helps a lot in said level 3 part or the sea area in level 2. Completing a level with two little helis also gets you lotsa points.

Anyone found any more cool hidden stuff?

 

[smokey]

Played some atari on my AES today. Fun game albeit frustrating as fuck.

 

[pixeljunkie]

The enemy firing rate in Tiger Heli can get really tricky, specially when bullets are coming from behind. It's doable when I'm in the groove so to speak but sometimes I can't make it past level 2, the game is 100% pattern-based so it's important to map out a way around the really tight spots, like when the little 10k bonus house/rooftop appears in level 1 and three tanks come in and fire at you with nasty timing and angles or the battlefield in level 3 with the gun turrets and tons of tanks.

The little heli updates are great, specially the left/right firing one which helps a lot in said level 3 part or the sea area in level 2. Completing a level with two little helis also gets you lotsa points.

Anyone found any more cool hidden stuff?

This makes me feel better. I am so inconsistent with this game. The firing rate of the tanks feels somewhat random sometimes. I know I have time to get under them but I get hit sometimes.

Still searching for more secrets. There's a few spots that I wanna bomb. I can't help but think those 3 jets on the runway in stage 2 hold something score related.

 

[pixeljunkie]

oh shit

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1976039725333950550

 

[Takumaji]

Bring 'em on!

Truxton 7800 or bust

 

[Taiso]

I have been wanting to make a war room thread called 'Have You Gayed Atari Today?' but I think it's obvious we're all pretty gay for classic Atari so it's a redundant question.

 

[famicommander]

Atari is also reprinting/updating their Game Boy games:

ModRetro Chromatic is getting three classic Atari games

Asteroids! Centipede! Super Breakout!

www.theshortcut.com

For the Modretro Chromatic, that Game Boy clone made by that arms dealer assbutt, but they'll work on original hardware too

 

[pixeljunkie]

Atari is also reprinting/updating their Game Boy games:

ModRetro Chromatic is getting three classic Atari games

Asteroids! Centipede! Super Breakout!

www.theshortcut.com

For the Modretro Chromatic, that Game Boy clone made by that arms dealer assbutt, but they'll work on original hardware too

Are those reprints? I only know of their Super GB compatible carts. I didn't know of any GBC versions.

 

[famicommander]

Are those reprints? I only know of their Super GB compatible carts. I didn't know of any GBC versions.

They're remastered versions of
Asteroids (Game Boy, 1992) [new version is fully colorized]
Centipede (Game Boy Color, 1998)
Super Breakout (Game Boy Color, 1999)

 

[Tron]

Not atari related but they are coming out with there own intellvision,plug'n'play console with built in games.It's not a plus with a cartridge slot but it has a option to side load games using a flash drive and homebrew etc will play on it to.

 

[famicommander]

That thing is ridiculously overpriced.

 

[Johnny16Bit]

That thing is ridiculously overpriced.

Makes sense as I don't think they're expecting to sell nearly as many as the 2600+ & 7800+ - which aren't particularly cheap either.
Wondering how this will do; I'm digging the Atari-with-new-carts releases but this being a rom-only thing doesn't add to the excitement.

 

[famicommander]

Makes sense as I don't think they're expecting to sell nearly as many as the 2600+ & 7800+ - which aren't particularly cheap either.
Wondering how this will do; I'm digging the Atari-with-new-carts releases but this being a rom-only thing doesn't add to the excitement.

They need to just stop releasing ROM boxes altogether. They have shit out like 50 different models in the last few years and almost all of them are terrible.

Focus on releasing carts and doing stuff like Atari 50 on other platforms. Adding Intellivision games to Atari 50 would be an infinitely better use of the brand than this shit.

 

[Tron]

That thing is ridiculously overpriced.

Agreed i would probably wait on the price to drop if i were to buy one.I see allot of intellevision fans in general for the response towards it are disappointed it doesn't have a cartridge slot at all like the 2600/7800 plus.

 

[pixeljunkie]

7800+ on sale again

Amazon.com: Official Atari 7800+ Console & Wireless Controller - HDMI Output : Video Games

Amazon.com: Official Atari 7800+ Console & Wireless Controller - HDMI Output : Video Games

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