tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51699644510922864062024-03-28T07:08:33.855-07:00Seattle Retro GamerOne Seattle guy looking for his childhood years. I visit garage sales, shops, Craigslist and eBay to find consoles and computers from the 70s and 80s.Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-21797889221082380812019-02-07T14:58:00.000-08:002019-02-07T14:58:34.008-08:00Apple II #2068, Rev0 all originalLong time ...<br />
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So I found this in the wild the last day of 2017. It was offered to me as a non working machine with the purchase of a II+.<br />
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Took it to Bainbridge Island to get it fixed, there were only a few chips that were causing issues. Everything was original when I got it, and almost everything stayed original when it was revived.<br />
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I sold it as I didn't have a use, and price are crazy enough on these machines, and it is now in the hands of a very well known Apple collector. here are the pictures I took while selling it, I just didn't want to lose them.<br />
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It was in a a very nice condition, very little paint chips. I got it with a lot of other computers at the same time, the owner was an early enthusiast, very nice conditions most of them.<br />
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-45772209712579686782017-06-18T20:19:00.000-07:002017-06-18T20:19:11.661-07:00SRGE 2017Went to Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2017, but as often it was very disappointing because of its size. There are a dozen vendors, all from the area, so really nothing new to be seen.<br />
<br />Some cool folks and a lot of $3 PS2 games, but really I can't wait for PRGE.<br />
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-60813878535524669892017-04-04T18:48:00.003-07:002017-04-04T18:48:48.244-07:00Zelda Nintendo Switch already at GoodwillSometimes I wonder what is the story of the items found at Goodwill. How come a game that is at best 1 month old for the latest console can end up donated at GWill ?
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Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-51297317169772872282016-11-26T09:53:00.000-08:002016-11-26T09:54:33.886-08:00Dreadnaught Factor INTV is Activision patch #17A first for this new Activision patch, I used an Intellivision game. I couldn't find another Atari game to beat (there must be some somewhere in my mess, but nothing easily spotable), so I looked or other systems, and ended up with this one.<br />
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This game is really nice, I can see how they jumped on the Star Wars train, destroying these mother ships really look like a death star destruction experience.<br />
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I likes the super colorful graphics, the variety of objectives, and the really well dosed difficulty.<br />
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About the different ways of beating the game, the goal is to destroy vents in order to make the mother ship overheat (awesome explosion when this happens), and you can simply go for these vents, avoiding shots and flying enemies. But it gets really hard, so you can try destroying all the shooting guns, but this can be difficult also. The real way to beat each level is to destroy the command centers, that will reduce the number of shots from the gun, you can then shoot each gun, or just avoid their shots fairly easily.<br />
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But this is not enough, the ship gets closer to your planet on ever turn, so taking your tie to destroy things methodically is not sufficient. You also need to destroy the reactor to slow down the ship.<br />
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In short a great game, each game is different than the previous one.<br />
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The Intellivison controller is really the issue here, while I think it can be fine for games that don't require shooting a lot (BurgerTime is amazing with it), but as soon as there is a lot of shooting needed, these edge buttons are horrible.<br />
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<tr><td>Freeway</td><td>Medium</td><td>Nice game speedy cars, great colors. netter than Frogger </td></tr>
<tr><td>Dragster</td><td>Medium</td><td>Weird game, with 6 seconds gameplay. Super stressful</td></tr>
<tr><td>Laser Blast</td><td>Very easy</td><td>Boring and pointless</td></tr>
<tr><td>Skiing</td><td>Medium</td><td>Scrolling, colors, learning path, awesome game</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pitfall!</td><td>Very easy</td><td>Classic, so many screens, animations, colors, it has everything</td></tr>
<tr><td>Kaboom</td><td>Hard</td><td>Awesome, colors, paddle control, in the zone feeling.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pitfall II</td><td>Easy</td><td>Huge map, so many screens, colors, sound, awesome</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chopper Command</td><td>Easy</td><td>Speed and colors, such a long road from Tank</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tennis</td><td>Easy</td><td>Colorfully boring</td></tr>
<tr><td>Megamania</td><td>Easy</td><td>Like 8 games in 1, great game</td></tr>
<tr><td>River Raid</td><td>Easy</td><td>My hands.....</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ice Hockey</td><td>Easy</td><td>Nice sprites.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oink!</td><td>Hard</td><td>My hands.....</td></tr>
<tr><td>Barstorming</td><td>Hard</td><td>Like a racing game when you go up and down</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ice Jinks</td><td>Easy</td><td>Meh, looks great</td></tr>
<tr><td>Decathlon</td><td>Easy</td><td>First try, pole vault is the key, read the manual</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dreadnaught Factor (INTV)</td><td>Medium</td><td>If only the controller was better..</td></tr>
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-45405100905907229122016-10-20T07:48:00.001-07:002016-10-20T07:48:03.587-07:00Chess Box Atari HeavySixer on ebayI wrote about heavy Sixers before, and the even rarer Chess boxes.<br />
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Here is a new one on eBay. the console seems fine, but it missed one switch, probably an easy fix.<br />
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$99 + shipping at this time. Not a great deal, but if you need a chess box, they are getting rarer and rarer.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit, serif;">Since getting my<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.seattleretrogamer.com/2011/05/apple-c-tiny-brother-who-can-do-little.html" target="_blank">Apple //c in June 1984</a>, I have been a huge fan</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit, serif;"> of this machines</span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;">, and I regularly </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit, serif;">browse</span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"> Craigslist for machines to rescue. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit, serif;">I now have 6 machines of various kinds in my garage, m</span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;">aybe it is time to admit that I
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit, serif;">Over the last 5 years, </span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;">I managed to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit, serif;">locally </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><a href="http://www.seattleretrogamer.com/2013/01/dr-benjamin-i-found-your-apple-ii.html" target="_blank">find a couple of original Apple IIs</a>, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit, serif;">great machines, </span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;">but both were upgraded to <a href="http://www.willegal.net/appleii/appleii-integer.htm">Applesoft roms</a>.
Back in 1979, I would have done the same, upgrade to a newer firmware, get new
features. I do this with my </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit, serif;">p</span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;">hone, my car, whatever can be upgraded. But 30 years later I
am trying to get things in their original state.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit, serif;">This
means re-installing the original Integer roms. For many hardware fanatics, this
is fairly easy, but I am not one of them :) I had both machines open on
my workbench swapping roms right and left, but could not get them to work,
various errors, no boot.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit, serif;"> Removing chips from the board with a
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Browsing the </span><span class="fwb"><span data-ft="{"tn":";"}"><b><span style="color: #90949c; font-family: "inherit",serif;"><a aria-controls="js_y" aria-describedby="js_z" aria-haspopup="true" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/group.php?id=5251478676&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22nf%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/5251478676/?ref=nf_target&fref=nf" id="js_10" role="null" style="cursor: pointer; word-break: break-word;"><span class="highlightnode"><span style="color: #365899;"><span style="background-color: rgba(88, 144, 255, 0.14902); border-bottom: rgba(88, 144, 255, 0.298039);">Apple</span></span></span><span style="color: #365899;"> II Enthusiasts</span></a> </span></b></span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit",serif;">group on Facebook, I got in
touch with John who lives close by. He agreed to help me, so I went to see him
with my machines, and a bunch of roms to try out. This ended up being a great
afternoon, I met a great guy, so knowledgeable of both hardware and software</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The machine would boot to a garbage screen, but never complete the process. John used his own board that checks every important chip for i/o, voltage.<br />
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After checking every chip (replacing 2), the machine is still not booting, time to dig deeper. John opened <a href="https://archive.org/details/understanding_the_apple_ii" target="_blank">Understanding the Apple II</a>. This book is a collector item, I had one at some point. It was nice to see the actual value of the book at work, it is not only an expensive collector item, it is also a very useful book.<br />
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Wile John was deep into following flow diagrams, I browsed his amazing colleciton. If I have a problem with 5/6 Apple IIs in my garage, he has 20, at least....<br />
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Decathlon was one of my favorite as a kid, and I am still amazed at the graphics, even at the box, I love that blue. I remember having blister in my palm, and my grandma made a soft cushion for me to put between the stick and my palm.<br />
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This one I did it for sure as a kid, but just redid it with 9247 points (8600 needed). The only difficulty is to remember to read the manual to understand how to do the pole vault event. Without it, you will ruin your 3 chancres, and it will get really hard.<br />
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In fact this patch was hard just because I had to try 4 carts before finding one that works.<br />
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At this point, I think I only have Space Shuttle let to beat in my collection, so I need to find some more games with a patch achievement.<br />
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<tr><td>Freeway</td><td>Medium</td><td>Nice game speedy cars, great colors. netter than Frogger </td></tr>
<tr><td>Dragster</td><td>Medium</td><td>Weird game, with 6 seconds gameplay. Super stressful</td></tr>
<tr><td>Laser Blast</td><td>Very easy</td><td>Boring and pointless</td></tr>
<tr><td>Skiing</td><td>Medium</td><td>Scrolling, colors, learning path, awesome game</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pitfall!</td><td>Very easy</td><td>Classic, so many screens, animations, colors, it has everything</td></tr>
<tr><td>Kaboom</td><td>Hard</td><td>Awesome, colors, paddle control, in the zone feeling.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pitfall II</td><td>Easy</td><td>Huge map, so many screens, colors, sound, awesome</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chopper Command</td><td>Easy</td><td>Speed and colors, such a long road from Tank</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tennis</td><td>Easy</td><td>Colorfully boring</td></tr>
<tr><td>Megamania</td><td>Easy</td><td>Like 8 games in 1, great game</td></tr>
<tr><td>River Raid</td><td>Easy</td><td>My hands.....</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ice Hockey</td><td>Easy</td><td>Nice sprites.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oink!</td><td>Hard</td><td>My hands.....</td></tr>
<tr><td>Barstorming</td><td>Hard</td><td>Like a racing game when you go up and down</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ice Jinks</td><td>Easy</td><td>Meh, looks great</td></tr>
<tr><td>Decathlon</td><td>Easy</td><td>First try, pole vault is the key, read the manual</td></tr>
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-64666894227785539792016-07-29T18:55:00.000-07:002016-09-02T12:59:54.926-07:00Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2016 (again)Last week end was the Seattle Retro Gaming Expo. It seems that it was marginally better this year than last, but it is still years behind the Portland Expo.<br />
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-13820623452447190402016-07-29T18:49:00.001-07:002016-07-29T18:49:05.270-07:00Seattle Retro Gaming ExpoSo I went to the SRGE 2016 last week end, and I saw the Nintendo PlayStation.<br />
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It can play Super Famicom games very well for now.<br />
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-68814770095520126902016-07-15T19:53:00.002-07:002016-07-15T19:53:52.106-07:00Teardown of the Nintendo-Sony PlaystationFound a year or so ago, the Nintendo-Sony PlayStation prototype is still quite unknown because o some failed attempt to monetize this discovery.<br />
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This week, Ben Heck is tearing it down and attempting some repair.<br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-CyGXMabg<br />
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-58214396370555331962016-05-18T11:58:00.004-07:002016-05-18T11:58:50.261-07:00Dino Dini InterviewShootout to a game that was unknown in the US, but that was huge <span style="font-size: large;">huge </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">HUGE </span>in Europe in the early 90's.<br />
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Kick Off and Kick Off 2 from Dino Dini.<br />
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Here is 2 part interview with the developer<br />
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Interesting interview on early industry relationship between different actors. I was always baffled on how there was really no follow up to this massive game. the interviews explains parts of the reasons why.<br />
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I spent so much time player with friends, picking up Cameroon so that no one could see where my players where on the radar (green on green = invisible :) ).<br />
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-56443110836861785082016-03-03T16:57:00.001-08:002016-03-20T09:32:17.388-07:00Still a lot of Xboxes @RE.PC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzzaDxEr-fqEhxf3Cw_2IiXCers9I4H59kd8Yx4lYoimz6UFxRkuKW51btEekHaW2GCUwM6L4XsA2veLc9D0qg8IZ_Z9ehWfaFy3XjqqPQZY5esxRHQKCbQXjnB56U-YZPYjLZuw4Hw1X2/s1600/1457053014429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzzaDxEr-fqEhxf3Cw_2IiXCers9I4H59kd8Yx4lYoimz6UFxRkuKW51btEekHaW2GCUwM6L4XsA2veLc9D0qg8IZ_Z9ehWfaFy3XjqqPQZY5esxRHQKCbQXjnB56U-YZPYjLZuw4Hw1X2/s640/1457053014429.jpg"> </a> </div>Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0Industrial District, Seattle47.563957 -122.334335tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-17970897951714672562015-12-13T14:07:00.001-08:002015-12-13T14:07:55.131-08:00New low? Xboxes are now $4.99 at GoodwillI got one that had it's stickers removed just as a curiosity. What did the previous owner installed ??<br />
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-18094342998591095452015-08-04T11:24:00.000-07:002015-08-04T11:24:46.020-07:00Crazy game of the week: Incredible Crisis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I read back an old issue of RetroGamer and got interested in the Top 25 psx games. Next to the usual (FFVII and such) was a few gems that I did not know about. I picked them up (eBay gets you anything).<br />One of the most bizarre is Incredible Crisis (I paid $20), <i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><b>Tondemo Crisis!</b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja">とんでもクライシス!</span><sup class="t_nihongo_help noprint" style="line-height: 1;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets"><span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #0000ee; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; padding: 0px 0.1em;">?</span></a></sup>, lit. "Huge Crisis!") in Japan. The game was btought to the US and Europe by Titus (sooo famous for Crazy cars and Crazy Cars 2 :) ). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it is a collection of mini games happening to a japanese family, starting with granma's birthday, and the dad doing some Parappa moves. I got stuck early (second game), but I will get back to it soon. </span><br />
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Apple-1 sells for $236k on ebay. Time to dig in your garage for granpa's computerMarchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-12916807622054741682015-04-17T13:03:00.003-07:002015-04-17T13:18:59.229-07:00Early 1976 Apple-1 computer, from the garage of Steve Jobs on eBay<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Open Sans; font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;">I have seen one of these for sale on eBay for a long time, they usually end up at Sotheby's nowadays. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Open Sans; font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;"><b><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Early-1976-Apple-1-computer-from-the-garage-of-Steve-Jobs-/271836061695?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f4ab11fff" target="_blank">Early 1976 Apple-1 computer, from the garage of Steve Jobs</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Open Sans; font-size: small; line-height: 22px;"><br /><br />THE COPSON APPLE-1 PERSONAL COMPUTER, one of 63 known survivors<br /><i>• Owned by the original owner and his family for over 36 years<br />• Very early first-series machine with low Byte Shop number<br />• Includes original and extremely rare accessory Apple-1 Cassette board<br />• Recently serviced and started up by Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen<br />• Rare original owner supplied clam shell case and date stamped keyboard<br />• Correct and period Sony Solid State TV-115 television monitor<br />• Original owner’s story told in major section of ‘The First Apple’ book</i><br /><br /><b>Specifications</b><br />Original Apple-1 motherboard, labeled "Apple Computer 1 Palo Alto. Ca. Copyright 1976" with four rows A-D, and columns 1-18, white ceramic MOS Technologies 6502 microprocessor, labeled MCS 6502 1576, 8K bytes RAM in 16-pin 4K memory chips, original 3 “Big-Blue” power supply capacitors by Sprague, firmware in PROMS (A1, A2), low-profile sockets on all integrated circuits, two external period correct power transformers; all mounted inside period clam shell case as originally provided by selling dealer Byte Shop or original owner, case dimensions 13.25” by 16.6” by 5”; with integrated Datanetics keyboard date June 2, 1976 stamped on backside; period Sony model TV-115 Solid State television; contemporary replica Apple-1 Operation Manual autographed by Steve Wozniak, 8 ½ in by 11 in.; original Apple-1 cassette interface board; Panasonic RQ-2102 cassette recorder. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Open Sans; font-size: small; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span>Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-66551049769998298332015-03-16T11:59:00.001-07:002015-03-16T14:26:46.888-07:00My old boss fixing a Computer Space machine.... <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #474747;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px;">Most people would say the modern arcade game business started with the creation of Atari and the release of Pong in 1972, but as with most things, most people are wrong. The first commercial arcade game was actually released a year earlier, in 1971, by a company most people today couldn't name. That company was called Nutting Associates and its chief engineer at the time of the release was a crazy character named Nolan Bushnell. The same Nolan Bushnell who would soon quit to start Atari and change the world. But before that, he and his partner Ted Dabney would create and release the first commercial video arcade game, a machine called “Computer Space”. .....</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://edfries.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #474747;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px;">Ed's </span></span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px;">restoration</span><span style="color: #474747;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px;"> project here</span></span></a></span><br />
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-53348544394494788612014-10-07T09:12:00.003-07:002014-10-07T09:12:37.899-07:00I am at 15 Activision patches, Barmstorming and Sky Jinks are behind me <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbGayt3ifxYIGQZ4PMzWEiJ4kXKBeN0X2NaqsWpsbJ8D-dg-JUyj71koUN76GuS4aQzJGpaik4iFZUD9MjNwCQkaqrjL-Qljw2G4jB0JwpVL0ABHZjlSst3Scl9koKVUvdB_-ohE8emq6/s1600/$_12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbGayt3ifxYIGQZ4PMzWEiJ4kXKBeN0X2NaqsWpsbJ8D-dg-JUyj71koUN76GuS4aQzJGpaik4iFZUD9MjNwCQkaqrjL-Qljw2G4jB0JwpVL0ABHZjlSst3Scl9koKVUvdB_-ohE8emq6/s1600/$_12.JPG" height="320" width="228" /></a>Tell all your friends, I am now at 15 Activision patches.<br />
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Because Space Shuttle is too damn hard, I made a run at the Sky Jinks patch score and beat it fairly easily. Sky Jinks is basically Skiing with an airplane. Same need to get through different doors, slightly correct trajectory etc.. It was relatively easy to beat, and I won't play it again as it was only so-so. You get the patch by beating 37 seconds at Game 1. You can beat that score even without a perfect run, which is I think the fun in the game, playing with friends I can see how you would compete for the best trajectory. Thinking about it, a game that ends in 37 seconds, that is not even enough for the editor logo to be shown these days. Not as crazy as Dragster, but still.<br />
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The second game I beat that evening was Barnstorming, and this was was harder, because you do need an almost perfect run, and I had cramps from crushing the joystick :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Because of of this (me trying to crush the joystick for no reason), it took me a long time to beat the 33.3 time in game 1) in order to get the patch, but I did it. The game is particularly beautiful , the number of colors on the screen being quite incredible. In act, how the sunset is drawn was an entirely new technique that got reused in other games later on. The gameplay it self is just a racing game, except that instead of going right or left you go up or down. Not very interesting, besides the graphics.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-37693605937379165922014-10-06T19:24:00.005-07:002014-10-07T11:49:39.896-07:00Seattle trip, Goodwill and RePCBusy for work but with a couple of hours to kill, I stopped by the bug Goodwill on Dearborn, and found a lot of interesting things. Including Sony PVM monitors, and many consoles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goodwill Atari Carts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Goodwill Atari Carts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guitar Hero collection in box at Goodwill</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goodwill Ganesis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goodwill Wii boards and DJ Hero, boxed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shy Goodwill GameCubes, NES phaser</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goodwill Guitar Hero in box</td></tr>
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then I stopped at RePC, which besides from its museum is dead zone when it comes to classics (they sell on eBay), but they did have a wall (double pane at least) of Xbox and Xbox 360 for $5.<br />
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<br />Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-36479067362316363432014-09-25T21:08:00.000-07:002014-09-25T21:10:47.642-07:00In other news I passed Activision patch #12 (Ice Hockey) and #13 (Oink!)Beating Ice Hockey patch score (beat the computer) was very easy, did it on my second try. Again I am really surprised how easy it is to get these patches, I am not bragging, I know I am not a god at these games, still I pass everyone of them, many times easily.<br />
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This game is a good example of the evolution between Pong and EA NHL games. You control sprites that actually look like real hockey players, and you have some control on the ball. I write some because I am not 100% certain that I was doing what I intended, but since I got better and better at "controlling" the puck, I assume it is just matter of time before someone get full control on the ice.<br />
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Really fun game, nicely done, but I don't think there is much replay value in a single player mode, seems way to easy.<br />
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Next game on my list was a harder one, I spent a few evenings tying to beat it, most of the time it would hurt my hand from cramping due to stress, pure Atari fun. This game is OInk!, and it is not a very good one. I feel that while the first screen is very colorfull and could make your think the game will be brilliant, you actually see everything on the first screen. Nothing else happens, the wolf just moves faster. and you get tired.<br />
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To get the patch you must achieve 25000 points, which is not too hard after some time, but it took me a really long time to achieve the score. Now I feel that I can do it anytime, but I won't try because the game is super boring.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Activision patch #13, Oink! 35936 points</td></tr>
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And I tried Space Shuttle, that game is incredible. Ingenious to use the color, level commands on the 2600 to control the space shuttle, makes it very realistic, but it is a hard game, I am not ready to compete for the patch yet.<br />
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<tr><td>Freeway</td><td>Medium</td><td>Nice game speedy cars, great colors. netter than Frogger </td></tr>
<tr><td>Dragster</td><td>Medium</td><td>Weird game, with 6 seconds gameplay. Super stressful</td>
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<td>Very easy</td>
<td>Boring and pointless</td>
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<td>Skiing</td><td>Medium</td><td>Scrolling, colors, learning path, awesome game</td></tr>
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<td>Very easy</td><td>Classic, so many screens, animations, colors, it has everything</td>
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<td>Hard</td><td>Awesome, colors, paddle control, in the zone feeling.</td>
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<td>Pitfall II</td><td>Easy</td><td>Huge map, so many screens, colors, sound, awesome</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chopper Command</td><td>Easy</td><td>Speed and colors, such a long road from Tank</td>
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<tr><td>Tennis</td><td>Easy</td><td>Colorfully boring</td>
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<tr><td>Megamania</td><td>Easy</td><td>Like 8 games in 1, great game</td>
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<tr><td>River Raid</td><td>Easy</td><td>My hands.....</td>
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<tr><td>Ice Hockey</td><td>Easy</td><td>Nice sprites.</td>
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<tr><td>Oink!</td><td>Hard</td><td>My hands.....</td>
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Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-77962810344345142752014-09-02T21:15:00.001-07:002016-09-06T18:36:19.909-07:00River Raid, a classic for my patch #11I was waiting to play this one, but I had forgotten how painful it was for my hands.<br />
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I must be so stressed piloting that airplane that my hands get cramps and there is no way for me to make it more comfortable, perhaps some other joystick. I did manage to get to the 15 000 points necessary to get the patch, but even tough I like it I won't replay that game, it hurts too much. Once again, thinking that this is the same machine that delivered Combat at launch, what a journey it has been for programmers. Speaking of this, everyone should read Racing the Beam that I mentioned already.<br />
I feel that there is much more for me to learn about this game, I rarely used the speed to avoid objects for example, and definitely did not use the gas and weapons to their full potential. Beating the patch score was not too hard (15 minutes?), so I did not have to learn how to optimize my game. And in the end while I recognize why this is a classic and a must have, I don't love this game, just because it hurts my hands so bad, I don't enjoy playing it,<br />
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Now the exciting part of the evening is that I am going to play Space Shuttle, and aim for the patch score, so I must follow the mission plan.<br />
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<tr><td>Dragster</td><td>Medium</td><td>Weird game, with 6 seconds gameplay. Super stressful</td>
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<td>Very easy</td>
<td>Boring and pointless</td>
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<td>Skiing</td><td>Medium</td><td>Scrolling, colors, learning path, awesome game</td></tr>
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<td>Very easy</td><td>Classic, so many screens, animations, colors, it has everything</td>
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<td>Hard</td><td>Awesome, colors, paddle control, in the zone feeling.</td>
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<td>Pitfall II</td><td>Easy</td><td>Huge map, so many screens, colors, sound, awesome</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chopper Command</td><td>Easy</td><td>Speed and colors, such a long road from Tank</td>
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<tr><td>Tennis</td><td>Easy</td><td>Colorfully boring</td>
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<tr><td>Megamania</td><td>Easy</td><td>Like 8 games in 1, great game</td>
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<tr><td>River Raid</td><td>Easy</td><td>My hands.....</td>
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Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-80913127600072835762014-08-28T19:55:00.002-07:002014-09-02T21:21:10.180-07:00I am at 10 !! Megamania, Activision patch #10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I never really heard of this game, and would have a bad impression about it, but it was recommended, and I have no other Activision game I could beat around, so I tried it. And my guts were totally wrong, Megamania is a crazy shoot them up that I really liked. Because each wave is so different in the shape of enemies their attach pattern or tactics, it feels like it could have been 8 individual games combined into one. I really enjoyed it, even tough the patch score (45 000) was easy to reach. Also, another super colorful game, one of these I could not have enjoyed with the crappy 8 colors of the Secam games. Enemies are taken from regular household items (tires, dice, hamburgers, bow ties etc...). a little bit like what micro machines did 15+years later with driving game. Like for Kaboom!, there is a limited amount of lives you can get, so the tactic is the same, lose life just before you are going to get a free one, this allows to continue for a little longer on an easier wave.<br />
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So I reached 10 Activision patches, and I still have Enduro to beat at home. I order some decathlon, Oink!, chopper command, River raid and others for my next games to beat. I really enjoy building this collection of Activision games in my retro game library, can't wait to see all the colorful boxes.<br />
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<tr><td>Dragster</td><td>Medium</td><td>Weird game, with 6 seconds gameplay. Super stressful</td>
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<td>Very easy</td><td>Classic, so many screens, animations, colors, it has everything</td>
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<td>Hard</td><td>Awesome, colors, paddle control, in the zone feeling.</td>
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<td>Pitfall II</td><td>Easy</td><td>Huge map, so many screens, colors, sound, awesome</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chopper Command</td><td>Easy</td><td>Speed and colors, such a long road from Tank</td>
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<tr><td>Tennis</td><td>Easy</td><td>Colorfully boring</td>
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<tr><td>Megamania</td><td>Easy</td><td>Like 8 games in 1, great game</td>
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Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-3446140281183714892014-08-21T09:24:00.000-07:002014-08-21T09:24:01.729-07:00Activision tennis, Patch #9Quick post to show my progress towards the 10 patches mark, I beat the tennis<br />
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score yesterday (beat the "computer", 1 set). The game looks good in comparison of Pong and other racket games from the early days of the console, but somehow I can not get hooked on it. I remember getting it as trade towards the end of my original console life, and back then I liked it, so I guess I was spoiled by the later tennis games. beating the computer is not super easy, because until you realize that (like in most tennis games) your only way of winning is to find impossible angles, you can play for hours in front of the computer that just returns the ball without really trying to beat you. So once you get a sens on how to hit the ball, how far away from the player, and on which side of him, then it is doable without too much trouble, but the game is still kind of boring, just waiting for the right angle, and sometimes it work sometimes it does not, seems random to me.<br />
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<tr><td>Freeway</td><td>Medium</td><td>Nice game speedy cars, great colors. netter than Frogger </td></tr>
<tr><td>Dragster</td><td>Medium</td><td>Weird game, with 6 seconds gameplay. Super stressful</td>
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<td>Skiing</td><td>Medium</td><td>Scrolling, colors, learning path, awesome game</td></tr>
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<td>Very easy</td><td>Classic, so many screens, animations, colors, it has everything</td>
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<td>Hard</td><td>Awesome, colors, paddle control, in the zone feeling.</td>
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<td>Pitfall II</td><td>Easy</td><td>Huge map, so many screens, colors, sound, awesome</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chopper Command</td><td>Easy</td><td>Speed and colors, such a long road from Tank</td>
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Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10752389845641556126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169964451092286406.post-85088192816924527502014-08-16T22:49:00.000-07:002014-08-16T22:49:04.008-07:00Chopper Command, I am a cadet!! Patch #8 11000 pointsAnother great Activision game, well described in <a href="http://www.retrogamingroundup.com/shownotes/2014/roundup075_2014.06.php" target="_blank">RetroGaming Round up #75</a> that is actually based on Activision games, a good podcast for long drives. Somehow the game is familiar to me (and I am not talking about the obvious resemblance to D...R by Atari), but I don't recall buying it <br />
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as a kid, perhaps I did, perhaps someone traded it for the <a href="http://mini-babybel.com/" target="_blank">mini babybel wax figurine</a>, anyhow it was easy, and it took me only 2 attempts to reach the patch score (10 000 points). I like the speed of the game, and the radar that allows for some tactical approach on enemies. On RetroGaming roundup they mention how this was unique, I don't recall if this was the first radar enabled game, but it certainly was one of the first, and it works great. Knowing a little bit how the 2600 works(read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Racing-Beam-Computer-Platform-Studies/dp/026201257X" target="_blank">this</a>, it is fascinating), I can't even start to imagine how you would make this work, with a background, 2 objects and 2 missiles sprites. With the amount of games to beat in front of me, I don't think I will necessarily come back, but if I had only a couple of games, I certainly would. I didn't even get to grasp the concept of protecting the trucks, I just shoot everything on the screen, so here must be some tactic to learn and master.<br />
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<tr><td>Freeway</td><td>Medium</td><td>Nice game speedy cars, great colors. netter than Frogger </td></tr>
<tr><td>Dragster</td><td>Medium</td><td>Weird game, with 6 seconds gameplay. Super stressful</td>
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<td>Laser Blast</td>
<td>Very easy</td>
<td>Boring and pointless</td>
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<td>Skiing</td><td>Medium</td><td>Scrolling, colors, learning path, awesome game</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pitfall!</td>
<td>Very easy</td><td>Classic, so many screens, animations, colors, it has everything</td>
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<td>Kaboom</td>
<td>Hard</td><td>Awesome, colors, paddle control, in the zone feeling.</td>
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<td>Pitfall II</td><td>Easy</td><td>Huge map, so many screens, colors, sound, awesome</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chopper Command</td><td>Easy</td><td>Speed and colors, such a long road from Tank</td>
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