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For 365 and Mission24 "Invade"
The second I saw the mission today I was instantly 7 years old again sitting in front of a TV playing with the old Atari 2600. I'm mashing the one button and jerking the joystick left and right. Oh man, I'm laughing just thinking back to those days. This mission rocks. Thanks Bill. Thanks for bring my youth back, if only for a few minutes.
Hereios - Nerds & Geeks
I've built up quite a number of game tickets over the past 2 years at Dave & Busters (over 26,000) so I've decided to start using them. I used 15,000 to get a retro Atari machine. You young'uns can have your Call Of Duty and Minecraft. Give me Video Pinball and Yars Revenge any day. :)
Old School
I pulled my old Atari 2600 down from the attic to sell on e-bay. I plugged it in just to make sure it still worked and to take it for a spin one last time. Those familiar bleeps and bloops came back to life and it felt like 1981 all over again. It was a little surreal watching my kids playing games I played, and probably last played, when I was their age.
Bj. und Veröffentlichung 1993
Im Gegensatz zum japanischen Mega Drive 2 wird die 2 in römischen Ziffern angegeben.
Neue Form
Kein Kopfhörerausgang
anderer AC Adapter
Mini-DIN Multi Output Mit PAL signal in 50 Hz und Stereo Sound sowie RF-Adapter.
Unterstützung des Sega Mega-CD und Sega 32X.
Hardware-inkompatibel mit japanischen Mega Drive-Spielen aufgrund der Form von Steckmodul und Modulschacht an der Konsole (passende Adapter sind erhältlich).
ursprünglicher Power-Base Konverter passt aufgrund seiner Form nicht auf die Konsole. Zum Abspielen von Master-System Spielen wird der Power-Base-II Konverter benötigt.
Zusatzgeräte:
Sega Mega Drive 32X
Sega Mega-CD 32X
Our new TV stand. Cost: $23 cabinet wood board + 2 free cuts + 20 cinder blocks @ $1.39/ea = $50.80 + tax.
More expensive than most furniture in our house, but more versatile. I could never remove a piece of furniture this big from my house alone if it were in one piece, but this is more like playing with legos.
First off, my door is installed backward, so I need something here to act as a doorstop, or opening my front door will rip it right off the hinges.
Second off, the TV currently faces across the narrow dimension of the room, and I would like it to face across the long dimension of the room, for largest comfortable viewing area. Plus I want it raised up, so it can be seen over people sitting. This is a Rock Band setup.
Third off, it turns out the cinder blocks provide neat places to put stuff.
Managed to hide a "secret" cd player in the back, as well as a box full of Atari 2600 cartridge and controllers (freeing up a more-asessible cabinet drawer that can now be used for something more useful than Atari 2600 cartridges).
I also liked how my 2 vertical Atari 2600 cartridge holders fit perfectly on the side, between the cinder blocks. Real furniture doesn't tend to have useful side-storage like that.
The hard part: Figuring out how the hell to get the TV up there.
P.S. Some of those cartridges are Atari 7800, not Atari 2600. (Asteroids, Joust, Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position 2, and Karateka.)
Asteroids video game, Atari 2600 cartridges, Atari 7800 cartridges, Atlantis video game, Brain Games video game, Combat video game, Defender video game, Frog's And Flies video game, Frogger 2 video game, Haunted House video game, Joust video game, Kaboom! video game, Karateka video game, Man Ms. Pac video game, Pole Position 2 video game, Q*Bert video game, Star Raiders video game, TV stand, Warlords video game, Yar's Revenge video game, cinder blocks, shelf, skulls, wood.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
September 11, 2011.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
I did not get my copy from the Alamogordo landfill. I've had it for years and just neglected to take this picture. The game seems to be ok to me and not deserving of its very negative reputation. It does have a few issues that make it harder to play for no good reason, and it doesn't tie in very strongly with the events in the movie, but that is what happens when a developer gets an unrealistic deadline. There is at least one modified version of the game that fixes the bugs to make it easier floating around the internet.
The shirt is a design by Pauline Acalin (Pacalin). She made one other referencing E.T. at the Alamogordo landfill, and lots of other cool designs.
If you bother to look at the full-sized image, you can see some of the patterns used in the color printing on the cartridge. Hooray for high resolving optics and cameras, and for great auto-focus usable while in front of the camera!
During the Great Atari Boom in the early 80's, developers struggled to differentiate themselves. Activision and Imagic made good games, while companies like Mythicon shoveled crap to the masses behind a low price tag. XONOX, however, went a different route. If one game is good, then two games are better, so why not make one cartridge with two games on it?
XONOX carts were double the size of normal Atari carts, with a game at each end. This was largely due to the fact that you just can't fit Chuck Norris in a regular-sized Atari cartridge.
It's worth noting that the name "XONOX" is an ambigram, chosen because it would appear the same whichever end of the cartridge was plugged in. XONOX was actually a division of the TV record company K-Tel.
In 1983, an Atari warehouse in El Paso, TX, sent several truckloads of industrial waste north to the landfill in Alamogordo, NM. While industrial waste disposal is usually not a very interesting topic, the waste in this case is not typical. You see, Atari had severely overestimated demand for the ET Cartridge for the Atari 2600. The rumor is that Atari decided to deal with its oversupply by simply burying all of those extra cartridges in the Alamogordo landfill, crushing them with bulldozers and covering them with cement. Reportedly, other items were also dumped, including returned Pac-Man cartridges, broken Atari computers, and perhaps even prototypes of unreleased hardware.
The years go by and the landfill closes down. The landfill is now on the outskirts of town, there's an expressway running through it, and it is in the process of becoming a city park. While I passed through, I had to stop at the site of the mass grave and pay my respects.
Somewhere out there, 10-20 truckloads of Atari rejects lie beneath the desert sand...
Can you say Mythbusters/Time Team crossover episode?
After the success of Donkey Kong in the arcades, Nintendo licensed Coleco, short for Connecticut Leather Company, to make cartridge-based Donkey Kong games. While Coleco made the games first for their own game system, they later made them for other systems, including Atari's 2600 (games on left).
Later, at the Consumer Electronics Show of 1983, Nintendo was close to completing a deal with Atari that would have Atari sell Nintendo's Family Computer in the United States. Coleco was showing their Adam computer at the show running Donkey Kong, which upset Atari enough that the deal with Nintendo fell through.
Eventually, Coleco went bankrupt and Atari released their 7800. Atari even managed to get Donkey Kong licensed for it (games on right).
Atari 2600 Jr. Collection:
* Atari 2600 Jr. "Short Rainbow"
* Atari 2600 Jr. Rev A "Long Rainbow"
* Atari 2600 Jr. "Black"
Bj. Juli 1985
Technische Daten:
Prozessor: Motorola MC68000
Taktfrequenz:7.09 Mhz (PAL)
Arbeitsspeicher:
256 KByteChip-RAM
ROM:
256 KByte Kickstart-WOM
8 KByte Bootstrap-ROM
Betriebssystem:
Kickstart 1.0 bis 1.3
Chipsatz: Alter OCS
Grafikchip: MOS 8362 "Denise"
Soundchip: MOS 8264 "Paula"
Dieses Board besitzt noch die Piggy-Back Platine worauf das Kickrom noch vorgeladen wird.
Competition Pro EXtra Joystick
mit "Auto Fire" Funktion.
If kids are going to play a video game at least make it a real video game, none of that PS3 or XBOX 360 garbage.
(8 bit Ära)
Bj. und Veröffentlichung ab Juli 1983 in Japan
Oktober 1985 in Amerika
September 1986 in Europa
Verkaufszahlen: Ca. 61,91 Millionen
Konsole im Bundle Super Set Inklusive:
TV Adapter
4 Controller mit der Four Score Einheit
Die Spiele Super Mario Bros.
Tetris und Worldcup
Nicht im Bundle enthalten das Spiel
Maniac Mansion von Lucas Arts
für das NES (1987)
Bj. und Veröffentlichung
November 1988 in Japan
30. November 1990 in Europa
Verkaufte Einheiten Verkaufte ca. 30 Millionen
Erfolgreichstes Spiel Sonic the Hedgehog
Technische Daten
Primäre CPU: 16-Bit-Prozessor Motorola 68000 mit 7,60 MHz PAL
Sekundäre CPU: 8-Bit-Prozessor Zilog Z80A mit 3,55 MHz Pal
ROM: Maximal 32 MBit, mit Bankswitching mehr
68K-RAM: 64 KiB
Grafik: VDP (Video Display Processor) für Playfield und Sprite Control
Video RAM: 64 KiB
Colour RAM: 64 × 9 Bit
Farbpalette: 512 Farben (RGB, 3 Bit pro Farbkanal)
Maximale Farben gleichzeitig: 64
Maximale Sprites: 80
Auflösung: 320 × 224 (NTSC), 320 × 240 (PAL), 40 × 28 Textmodus
4 Planes: 2 Scrolling Playfields, 1 Sprite Plane, 1 Window Plane
Der YM2612 war für den größten Teil der Tonerzeugung verantwortlich.
Hauptsoundchip: Yamaha YM2612 6 channel FM @ 4 MHz
Zusätzlicher Soundchip: 4-Kanal Texas Instruments PSG (Programmable Sound Generator) SN76489
Signal/Noise Ratio: 54 dB (YM2612), 36dB (PSG)
Z80-RAM: 8 KiB (Gesamter Adressraum für den Z80, oft als Sound-RAM verwendet)
Ein-/Ausgänge:
nur Mega Drive 1:
Stereo-Kopfhörerausgang vorn
Antennenausgang
8-polige DIN-Buchse für RGB-Video und Mono-Audio
9-poliger EXT-Port (nur in früher Original-Version)
nur Mega Drive 2:
9-polige Mini-DIN-Buchse für RGB-Video und Stereo-Audio
Expansionport rechts für Sega Mega-CD
zwei 9-polige Joypadanschlüsse vorn
Our new TV stand. Cost: $23 cabinet wood board + 2 free cuts + 20 cinder blocks @ $1.39/ea = $50.80 + tax.
More expensive than most furniture in our house, but more versatile. I could never remove a piece of furniture this big from my house alone if it were in one piece, but this is more like playing with legos.
First off, my door is installed backward, so I need something here to act as a doorstop, or opening my front door will rip it right off the hinges.
Second off, the TV currently faces across the narrow dimension of the room, and I would like it to face across the long dimension of the room, for largest comfortable viewing area. Plus I want it raised up, so it can be seen over people sitting. This is a Rock Band setup.
Third off, it turns out the cinder blocks provide neat places to put stuff.
Managed to hide a "secret" cd player in the back, aswell as a box full of Atari 2600 cartridge and controllers (freeing up a more-asessible cabinet drawer that can now be used for something more useful than Atari 2600 cartridges).
I also liked how my 2 vertical Atari 2600 cartridge holders fit perfectly on the side, between the cinder blocks. Real furniture doesn't tend to have useful side-storage like that.
The hard part: Figuring out how the hell to get the TV up there.
P.S. Some of those cartridges are Atari 7800, not Atari 2600. (Asteroids, Joust, Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position 2, and Karateka.)
Asteroids video game, Atari 2600 cartridges, Atari 7800 cartridges, Atlantis video game, Brain Games video game, Combat video game, Defender video game, Frog's And Flies video game, Frogger 2 video game, Haunted House video game, Joust video game, Kaboom! video game, Karateka video game, Man Ms. Pac video game, Pole Position 2 video game, Q*Bert video game, Star Raiders video game, TV stand, Warlords video game, Yar's Revenge video game, cinder blocks, shelf, skulls, wood.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
September 11, 2011.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
Uno de los modelos de Atari 2600 que me faltaban, al fin pude conseguirlo.
Este es el primer modelo que uso oficialmente el nombre "2600", para diferenciarse del recien "5200 Super System". Este modelo es completamente negro y sin madera como los otros modelos de 4 y 6 switchs, lo que llevo a conocerlo como el "Darth Vader"
En la foto la consola con CX40 y el juego Pacman.
An artifact of moving - all kinds of old crazy stuff gets dredged up to the top. Suddenly I have space for my old Atari 2600 to be hooked up to the big screen TV!
Time for some old school gaming!
I had a Coleco when I was a little boy, and I absolutely loved this stupid game, and its screeching theme music, which is not the "tra LAAA la-laaa la la" music from the show. I'd find myself whistling this digital tune set all the time. Each section of the world had its own music that would cut in replacing the last bit whenever you switched backgrounds, which occurred every 2 screens or so. The musical bits were constructed of short, roughly 10-second loops, and so could conceivably annoy the crap out of parents if you played too long.
I had Donkey Kong there, too, but none of the other few on the table. One of the cool things about the Coleco was their Atari adapter, which they were eventually sued over. There's a port on the front of the Coleco, centered horizontally in front of the cartridge hole into which you could plug the wedge-shaped Atari adapter, and then you could stick Atari 2600 games into that, and it had its own reset buttons, etc. As such, I never actually had an Atari 2600, though I had original joysticks, and several of the games. It's weird, because I've ended up with strong nostalgic feelings for this other system I never actually owned.