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[reply]I am not too interested in those old consoles because the games are bad versions of arcade games that you can play using MAME. I want to create a MAME console of some sort. Either a cocktail table or a mini standup. You can play 1000s of games on those.

That’s an achievable goal.[/reply]
Yeah you can get them for around 5k here in california. I wouldnt mind having one for my game room as well. But im not shelling out 5k. Maybe 5 hundy but certainly not more than 12 hundy

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and a Turbo grafix 16

Turbografx 16 - the beginnings of my gamer rage

That was my first console. I remember being 3 or 4 years old playing by the name of Alpha Zones and throwing fits over how difficult it was.

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[reply] and a Turbo grafix 16

Turbografx 16 - the beginnings of my gamer rage

That was my first console. I remember being 3 or 4 years old playing by the name of Alpha Zones and throwing fits over how difficult it was.[/reply]
I’d read it was a single player console. Is it really a single joystick controller port?

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You can make one yourself. Even an old Pentium is powerful enough to run most of them. The ROMs can be found for free. All you really need to do is buy some good joysticks and make a console. Making one for $500 is probably realistic.

Id need to find a cabinet and then when it comes to mapping all of the arcade buttons to the computer as well as the spinner and track ball thats more work than id want to put into it especially since id be terrified id short something out. I know barely anything about wiring. I think that project is a little out of my range.
Im fiddling with the idea of adding RCA cables to one of my atari consoles. Im nervous id screw something up like drop some solder where it doesnt go… but that should give you some idea where im at when it comes to wiring.

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[reply][reply] and a Turbo grafix 16

Turbografx 16 - the beginnings of my gamer rage

That was my first console. I remember being 3 or 4 years old playing by the name of Alpha Zones and throwing fits over how difficult it was.[/reply]
I’d read it was a single player console. Is it really a single joystick controller port?[/reply]

It is a single port system but they did have multiplayer games. You had to get an add-on called the ‘turbo tap’ to play multiplayer. a handful of games were 3 and even up to 5 player.

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I rolled out 2600 a couple of years ago. My games:

ET on my TV

Whoa!!!

Porkys!!! Wtf!!!

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The wood panel game holder things match the console perfectly. Why was wood paneling so popular in the 70/80s anyways?

That’s an awesome collection Revco!

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Why was wood paneling so popular in the 70/80s anyways?

Because it’s ugly. And we all know the 70s and 80s were all about ugly fashion and ugly interior deco and whatnot. Evidently, gaming consoles were no exception.

I sincerely hope Atari don’t try to implement wood paneling on their new console as some sort of nod to the 2600.

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In the '70s it was popular for things to look organic and earthy. That’s why there was so much wood paneling and everything was shades of brown and orange and dark green.
Whenyou see that kind of style in the '80s, it’s probably actually a '70s holdover. '80s style was more about the capitalist cutting edge. Lasers and chrome, cherry red and silver.

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YAR’S REVENGE!!!

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Remember “Combat” and there was that one game variant where 3 small planes, each firing small bullets (so you’re shooting 3 at a time and fairly fast) square off against the one clumsy jumbo jet that fires one slow moving square bullet. That shit was hilarious. You could only convince some dumb kid to be the jumbo jet once, then no one would ever agree to it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR91YLi5cM0&t=2s

Looks like Atari’s is doing some kind of survey to see what people prefer the console look like.
Personally I’m not crazy about either, but id give the slight edge to the orange box; it’s different, and frankly I don’t think woodgrain would fly with the current consumer in 2017 or beyond.
It would be like Ford releasing a Grand Marquee with the wood paneling and thinking it’d sell in this day and age.
You have to appeal to the current consumer. The old Atari fanboys will be there regardless, you dont have to cater to them. You gotta market this thing for the current consumer.

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atari was a fustrating system. pitfall can just bite my ass. and haunted house with those 2 eyes floating around. tired of that house. donkey kong was the deal. i play this call of duty zombies…it is a piece of shit too. these fuckers can come back from the dead and have enough sense to chase you all over a castle and yet they cannot seem to overcome a figure eight pattern, i need a game where the characters can die of fucking boredom.

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i need a game where the characters can die of fucking boredom.

Test driving the idea with your posts?

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[reply]i need a game where the characters can die of fucking boredom.

Test driving the idea with your posts?[/reply]

Yeah that was a good zinger…

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New console designs finally released. Two designs released. Thing looks slick as fuck. Manages to look retro while still having a modern form.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15980990/atari-ataribox-specs-pictures

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Looks like an old modem or wifi box

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Looks like an old modem or wifi box

HAHA!! I just hope ‘Atarbox’ isn’t the official name. The Xbox fankids would have a field day with this.