Either that or look on Ebay. I often see old game machine games and parts up for dirt cheap as long as someone doesn't come along and bid the item out of reasonable price.
James from Alchemy wrote: > Probably an Atari 7800 which was a 5200 that was backward compatible with a > 2600 (hence the name). Star Raiders was my very first game. You can find > these old beasts at thrift stores for like five bucks. > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of allan thompson > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 1:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: audyssey: Monty, of course > > > > Hello Tom, > *gives secret atari brotherhood handshake* > Atari will rise again! > lol > It is good to hear some of those machines are still kicking. My atari > computer kicked the bucket in the late eighties and I grieved over it. > I can't seem to recall my atari call sign. I want to say it was 7600? It was > > white and had this interesting feature where you could create a virtual ram > disk with it. I am probably wrong about the number, I also owned the > advanced atari game machine with the controllers that had a number pad and > > side fire buttons made of soft rubber, and a joystick. I remember playing > galaxians and star raiders on it. Oh and pac man. I can't remember any > others. It all starts to run together after a while. > keep gaming, > allan > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:14 PM > Subject: RE: audyssey: Monty, of course > > > >> Hi Allan and all. >> >> Ah, another Atari Freak! Hail brother! I remember all those titles too, >> in >> fact I still have several working atari systems here and have some of them >> on good old 5.25" floppy disks and tapes although I avoid the tapes like >> the >> plague whenever possible. Not sure if I have the original Montezuma game >> or >> not, may have to hook one of the old beasts up and see. It is amazing how >> many of those old games we can play, true not as well as a sighted guy/gal >> but we could learn them because the sounds actually meant something. >> >> Regards, >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> --- >> msn username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> skype username: lord_amexos >> yahoo username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of allan thompson >> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:03 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: audyssey: Monty, of course >> >> >> Hello,I remember playing several old atari computer games in the old >> days. >> My friends and I would have to load the program into the olde timey atari >> 800 with a cassette loader. Any little bump or movement in the load would >> crash the load and we would have to start it again. So basically you had a >> bunch of kids being very still and quiet for ten to twenty minutes, and >> then >> a flurry of fisticuffs for the wico joystick when the game was ready to >> play..lol Man, we used to play blue max, shamus, this very cool game >> called >> age of discovery, and the classic lode runner. I seem to recall playing >> monty's revenge as well and this game returns back alot of memories... >> One >> question for James. Was any sounds used or recreated from the original >> game? >> >> Anyway, I am going to have to buy a copy for myself and my friend from >> those >> old days. He is sighted, but playing something like this, being a >> recreation >> from a game he actually played might be very cool. thanks allan >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> Yahoo! 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