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Centipede for Atari 2600
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Watch out! Here come the slithering Centipede, the poisonous scorpion, a mischievous spider, and pesky flea! Aim you magic wand and shoot sparks to stop these pests in their tracks.
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Joust (Atari 2600)
Sale Price: $18.85
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How on earth did you fall into this bizarre world? Look around you -- the
sky is filled with knights astride enormous armored buzzards. These
characters look mean, and the buzzards they ride don't look very friendly
either.
THE JOUST
The objective of JOUST is to defend yourself and score points by unseating
opponents in a joust. The winner of a joust is the rider whose mount is
highest at the moment of contact. If the mounts are of equal height, the
joust is a draw.
Your opponents are the Buzzard Riders. There are three types, each more
dangerous than the last: the Bounders (wearing red), the Hunters (wearing
gray), and the Shadow Lords (wearing blue).
When you unseat a Buzzard Rider in a joust, he and his mount turn into an
egg and float ominously around the jousting arena. If you grab the egg,
it will disappear and you'll score bonus points. If you don't grab the egg
it will eventually hatch into an even more dangerous opponent.
When you lose a joust, you'll materialize again on the bottom ledge -- if
you have any lives remaining. Until you fully materialize, you're protected
from attack. Once your bird is moved, however, you become fair game for a
joust.
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Adventures of Tron
Sale Price: $36.95
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For 1 player, 2 skill levels. Avoid deadly Grid Bugs, Recognizers - even tanks! Keep TRON moving up the elevators, jump him down a floor! Keep TRON alive & scoring points! Jump him up to intercept flying "bits"! At the start, TRON has 4 lives. 1 on the screen. 3 more in reserve!
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Evolution of Arcade Games
Early 1970’s saw the emerging of games on the online platform for the first time. Since then, these online games have become a part and parcel of our day to day lifestyle. These games have evolved from simple rectangular blips to rich-textured, full-color graphics with excellent sound and complex interaction between the players and the system. Many video game systems have built-in special effects that have features like unique lighting or texture mapping in real time. An arcade game is a coin-operated machine installed in restaurants, video arcades, public places and entertainment centers.
The most popular arcade games were the shooting galleries, ball toss games, or coin-operated machine that tells a person their fortune. The first commercial arcade game, the Computer Space was introduced in 1971 by Nutting Associates. In 1972, Atari introduced Pong to the arcades. Interestingly, Atari and Computer Space were both formed by Nolan Bushnell. In 1975, Atari brought in the home version of its popular arcade game Pong. Pong was sold exclusively through Sears and also carried the Sears logo. Pong being a huge success opened doors to home video games.
In 1976, Fairchild Channel F released the first removable game system. In its footsteps, Atari too introduced the Atari Computer Space, 2600 which became a huge success. It used removable cartridges, permitting a multitude of games to be played using the same hardware. The complicated 2600 hardware contained a MOS 6502 microprocessor with 128 bytes of RAM and 4-kilobyte ROM-based game cartridges. Stella, a custom graphic chip controlled the synchronization to the TV and other video processing tasks. Games were encoded on ROM chips housed in plastic cartridges. The ROM was wired on a PCB that contains series of metal contacts along the edge. When power was supplied, it would sense the presence of ROM and load the software into the memory.
Although systems like Atari 2600 gained interest among the players, but it faded with time due to poor arcade standards. It was due to this fact, that in 1985, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) by Nintendo was introduced that changed the picture of online Video Gaming forever. The NES introduced three concepts in its gaming console:
•   A pad controller instead of a joystick.
•   Authentic reproduction of Arcade Video games for the home playing system
•   Used the hardware as a loss leader by pricing it too high, then making profit on the games themselves.
This strategy paid off and Nintendo is still expanding to new horizons in the field of online video games.
Make sure you make the best of your online gaming consoles!!
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if you could own something cool or innovative from the past, what would it be?
Here's mine..
An RCA CT-100 "Merrill" color television, the first mass-produced for the everyman color TV set. The CT-100 made its debut in 1954, and there are some working sets that have been restored.
An original Ford Mustang!
An old Sears Silvertone portable stereo like I got for Christmas when I was ten years old....
"Jesus Christ Superstar", original London cast recording, on VINYL rather than CD(the original album had a cool cover and a lyric book that came with it!)
A Plymouth 'Superbird' muscle car(like the one that's in the new "Cars" movie)
An RCA TK-41 color television camera, the first color TV camera widely used here in the USA
An original Atari 2600 video game console, the first videogame system I ever owned!
A "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" horse drawn carriage complete with horse! Not particularly practical transportation but a lovely way to travel locally.
A modest stone home with working grist-mill and ice house.
Those would be my major choices, I already have the recording you mentioned.
One foot in the past, one foot in the future
Well, it’s been an interesting first few weeks with the Bulletin. Now, with three columns under my belt, it’s time for FortysomethingGamer to tell you a bit about himself:
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