Hey guys! Here is the SPACE Newsletter for November, 2017.
Our next SPACE meeting is this FRIDAY, November 10, 2017 at 7:30 PM. SPACE meets on the second Friday of each month at 7:30 PM in the Falcon Heights Community Center at 2077 West Larpenteur Ave. St Paul, MN 55113. Doors open at 7:00 PM.
I'm thrilled to announce Atari I/O Secret Santa 2017!
Please wrap your presents if you can! Let's make this fun!
Happy Holidays! It's time for our 3rd Annual Atari I/O Secret Santa! If you'd like to be part of Secret Santa this year, please post a message below saying that you'd like to participate. If you can, include a link to your Want List in your post, or a list of game systems you collect for. The last day to sign up is Wednesday, November 15, 2017. Names will be assigned impartially by our Moderating team, and we will send you a PM with your Secret Santa information no later than Friday, November 17, 2017.
It's really important to us to create magical and special holiday memories for our friends here in the Forums. We're like a small town here, a warm community of friends with similar interests. For some of us who may have to sacrifice to make a special Christmas for our families, this may end up being the only presents we get to open. If you'd like to participate in Secret Santa this year but may not have the means, please send me a PM and we will try to find a way to help.
This special tutorial video will show you how to use V-61's Ultra Translator cartridge on the Atari XL/XE computers. This is so you can operate disks and cartridges that you cannot work with otherwise on newer Atari 8-bit computers.
Thanks for sharing your review here, nosweargamer. BurgerTime will be our first Intellivision Squad Challenge. For me, the most exciting aspect of hosting High Squad Challenges is encouraging people to try a game they haven't played before, or may not have picked up in a while. We've tried to balance pillar titles with some overlooked favorites for a nice mix. BurgerTime in my opinion is one of the top reasons to buy an Intellivision. Everybody here may not have one, but hopefully can find a way to play. Your video is a great introduction to the game and overview on how to play!
I'm assuming most people here know the basics of the game including scoring and controlling, but if you don't, I covered it all in a previous review.
Guys I'm super excited about this. This Game means a lot to me because it was one of the games at my father and I used to play together. We had some serious serious high score challenges back in the day against each other. I can still remember him digging through the bargain barrel and paying only a couple bucks for this. This was after the crash and before Nintendo, and quite frankly when I was a kid I didn't even know there was a crash, only that my dad was bringing home games for cheap. Really looking forward to playing this on my original hardware, with my original game, and hell I might even have the old man come by and play a few rounds.
Objective: Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between November 1st through November 30th, 2017. Screen captures are not allowed as they are easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the 1-month competition is the victor!
Difficulty Level: Medium. When game title appears, it is time to decide on your playing speed. Press 2 for Medium speed.
There was an exciting post today over on the Atari Jaguar Facebook page. Apparently, some folks are working on a reproduction of the Jaguar ProController. If you're a Jaguar fan, you know that the ProController vastly improves on the original Jaguar controller in terms of feel and function. Many of the late releases (1995 and beyond) have ProController support that enhances gameplay. Unfortunately, these controllers regularly exceed $200 on eBay, making them out of reach for many gamers. The reproductions will reportedly cost $50-60. They are asking for an interest check now but I'm hopeful that this comes to fruition. Maybe Clint can confirm and provide more information?
Uneventful Recycle Bin Check but lovely snowy scenery!
Headed out for a check of the Electronics Recycling Bin again, uneventful but at least I did not go for a spill in the slushy wet snow lol. Please go visit Lactobacillusprime excellent channel!
Been a gamer since Intellivision on the console side and TI99/4a on the computer side. Been an arcade gamer since Chuck-E-Cheese and currently own about a dozen machines in my house and some at a local arcade.
But more recently have launched this new magazine for Old School/Retro/Classic Gamers and would love to send you all the digital version for free forever and 1 issue in print to start things out.
Also looking for anyone with ideas as to what they would like to see in the magazine, or to possibly write for us.
Hey guys! Here is the SPACE Newsletter for June, 2017.
Our next SPACE meeting is TODAY! - Friday, June 9, 2017 at 7:30 PM. SPACE meets on the second Friday of each month at 7:30 PM in the Falcon Heights Community Center at 2077 West Larpenteur Ave. St Paul, MN 55113. Doors open at 7:00 PM.
Wow I wonder what this box could be? It reminds me a lot of your post about the Retroblox retro console, even the name sounds similar.
welcome to Atari I/O Indy!
Jim fights his laptop over good audio while Sean repeatedly gets the name of a Pretenders song wrong. It's all a barrel of fish until someone gets hurt, right here on Pie Factory Podcast.
I have 3 cabinets that I hope to come across some day - Crystal Castles, Space Harrier and 720. One ove these day I might have one, or all. Plus I got to fine that Jaguar kiosk, you know that would look amazing for the show in the background.