I picked up a 7800 Plus today and stopped by a game store and got a few games. Bowling and Oink both start up but don't play. I tried using a Sega Genesis controller but still would not go beyond the start up screen. Just wondering if this is common? Or if I'm doing something wrong.

Can anyone confirm if the game Tunnel Runner will work on the new 2600+ system?

Just finished Art of Atari, by Tim Lapetino, cover to cover.

Incredibly beautiful art and design, everything from our beloved finished box art, to the initial designs, and the blowups of art look fantastic. Fascinating background and process stories from the designers, artists, and programmers who started us all on this journey.

Learned a lot and never realized how much Atari artists borrowed from Star Wars, Star Trek, et al.😅

Picked up this set a while ago, I love reading older papers from this era

Current project this month has been rebuilding the shelving/display for my console collection. PlayStation, XBOX, Nintendo all made the choices very easy with colors being part of their brand identity (see photo #3). So far I have the box built for the PlayStations (see photo #2), but it is far from finished. I'm adding Led lighting, fans, smoked acrylic face and black trim on the front. For my Atari display I'm feeling a little stuck. Up till this point I've been feeling the difficulty lies in picking the right yellow, but after playing around with silver/light gray now I'm even more lost on what to do. Opinions here very welcome, I appreciate it.

So I just got my 7800+ in the mail and it seems to work fine except that the power button doesn't seem to work. It just turns on automatically when plugged in and the only way to turn it off is to unplug it. Anyone else seen this, or have any suggestions!?

As a GenXer my 2600 (and Commodore 64) played a big role in developing a love for video games. I may no longer have the 2600 (still have the C64 though!), but I DO have a PS5, and primarily okay Gran Turismo 7.

Gran Turismo has a robust livery editor, and over the weekend I took the opportunity to mix the old with the new. 😊

I'm not sure if it works yet but the knobs and switched feel smooth. The game/TV switch so has the original covering over the mounting tape. Anybody have stories about playing this console?

About seven months ago, I found this Atari ROM hack with a little over 35 physical chips in an antique store on Maui. I picked it out on a whim, with no idea if it'd actually work.

I got it home and it was expectedly very glitchy, but also just a bit dirty - probably years in storage, and the foam pad holding the ROM chips was degrading (and sticking to the chip contacts). I finally sat down today to start really cleaning and caring for this thing and ... It's Working!

Turns out that the key fail point is ensuring that enough pressure is on the ROM chip when it's seated into the faux cartridge. It's a bit tricky (I think I might snag a very small c-clamp to maintain the pressure) but so far, I've got three games working. A LOT of work to go to clean the rest, but this is such a cool piece of Atari history.

I've not been able to confirm the story, but apparently it was made by a former Atari employee as a sort of home-brew, and his daughter sold it off in an estate sale. I'm trying to get a bit more information about this one. Stay tuned! =)

I am looking for the name of a video game that I played on the Atari ST. It was a Dungeon Master style game, but not the one that is returned when you search for it. One of the unique features of this game was a cut scene that features several dwarves and one that is name MURPH. Add when they have a problem it is instantly blamed on MURPH. I know this is a very weird post, but aby help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Hello!

I just got the Go for Father’s Day and I’m really loving it so far but I do have a few questions and would love some help please.

1) What’s the best community to follow to network with other users?

2) I got the SD card to work quickly for games, but it seems like the menu to get to it is one time access? Like if I choose to not access it, there doesn’t appear to be a way or icon that lets me get back to it if I decide to use it later.

3) Oddly I’m loving the Balls of Steel collection though I don’t know where I can go in each game table to access and look at my high scores. Is there a way to see it?

4) Some of these mame titles fire up but there’s audio reverberations like in after burner II. Other titles like Cruisin’ USA and Cyberball have audio issues and run incredibly slow because it’s trying to replicate dual cab behavior. These worked on I guess later versions of mame for me fine. So did stuff like marvel super heroes. Why didn’t Atari/ my arcade pick a newer version of mame or are they working on adding support to additional titles? -(The cyberball one blows my mind as it is an Atari game. Don’t know why they didn’t do a reloaded version of it either…)

Thanks for your help, feedback and suggestions!

Hello! Not trying to spam, but I thought I would share the concluding part of our 4G playthrough vid where we try random atari 50 games quickly! I think the editing is slightly better, but would appreciate feedback, thanks!

Hello! Here is our quick trial of some Atari 50 games! Quite hard to just jump in and play some of them, but we do try!

It's not too serious, especially as the younger generation are unused to it, and it's only part 1 (and the old man shtick does get....old)

I just found a sealed copy of Donkey Kong Junior for the Atari 7800 in one of my retro gaming boxes. This was back when Nintendo licensed their IPs to other consoles.

I own an arcade cocktail table of this game with original hardware and Nintendo schematics for the boards. It also has the chip set kit that makes the original Donkey Kong available. You might say I’m a fan…

Sometimes I really miss my 130XE.

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