I have been a videogame collector a bit longer than I have been a Smurf collector. In fact, that's part of how I got into Smurf collecting in the first place — waiting to get my hands on the Atari 2600 Smurf Rescue game back in 1983. The first system I started off with was the Atari 2600 back in 1981, the hottest system for its time. From there, I went through several other gaming systems over the past 20-plus years. At present I own a Playstation 2, a Gamecube with a Gameboy Player, an NES/SNES dual-compatible FC Twin, an original model Super NES, two Gameboy Advance SPs, two original Gameboy Advances, a Nintendo DS Lite, a Game Gear, five TV Games units, a vintage 6-switch Atari 2600 VCS, an Atari Flashback 2, and a Windows-compatible PC for all sorts of gaming.
Bally Astrocade homebrew games are extremely hard to come by, but for fans of the Atari arcade and 2600 system game Warlords, a homebrew version of the game called War has been finished and will be released for the Astrocade system by RiffRaffGames.com.
| Check out this page for more information about War for the Bally Astrocade! |
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For Intellivision owners who are itching for a new game to play, Left Turn Only has produced an adaptation of IREM/Williams' classic coin-op game Moon Patrol called Space Patrol. It is currently for sale at the BeesLife online store, though right now they are taking pre-orders.
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Legendary classic era game designer Rob Fulop has just made one of his completed-yet-unreleased games, Actionauts, available for purchase at his website. This Atari 2600 game allowed you to program an on-screen robot with a linear series of commands. Your goal as the player was to get the robot to achieve various objectives using these programming commands.
| Check out this page for more information about Actionauts for the Atari 2600! |
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An old MSX computer game, Mr. Chin, has been converted for use on the ColecoVision and will soon be on sale. Not much information is given about what the game's objective is, but it does seem to involve balancing plates on poles.
| Check out this page for more information about Mr. Chin for the ColecoVision! |
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Dutchman 2000 of the AtariAge.com boards is busy at work finishing up work started years ago on the Atari 5200 version of the classic arcade game Tempest. There's no determined scheduled date for when it will be ready for release.
| Check out this page for more information about Tempest for the Atari 5200! |
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Curt Vendel, the man behind the Atari History Museum website and the release of the Atari Flashback 2 system, has now started a new business venture called Awesome Arcades, which will feature upright arcade cabinets with arcade-quality engineering and over 80 arcade games, including classics from Atari, Midway, Exidy, and Williams.
UPDATE: The Awesome Arcades site now has the Personal Arcade Machine (P.A.M.), which allows for adjustable use for either on a pedestal or anywhere you want to play for personal comfort.
| Check out this page for more information about Curt Vendel's Awesome Arcades! |
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Opcode, who has given ColecoVision owners the wonderful nearly-arcade-identical Space Invaders Collection as well as a translation of Konami's lesser-known Sky Jaguar game, is currently working on bringing forth another dual-game collection — this time featuring Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man with the same incredible high-quality arcade-like versimilitude, right down to the demo modes. Keep your eyes peeled for this release, Pac-fans!
UPDATE: Opcode Games is back in operation again, and Eduardo Mello is still working on getting Pac-Man Collection ready for release as soon as possible.
| Check out this page for more information about Pac-Man Collection for ColecoVision! |
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