Steve the Atari Guy

Obsessed with Atari games since 1981. (Also way into Star Wars and heavy metal.)

[Steve the Atari Guy @AtariGuy1]

@JanelleWaz It’s a fun movie, well worth watching, if not to be taken at all seriously. The joke is referring to how ubiquitous the treacly Bryan Adams song from the soundtrack became. It was pretty unbearable.

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@JanelleWaz Such a perfect number

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@Johngcole Yeah, but probably better than the overconfidence of 2016, right?

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@Nintendork9 It’s an odd device… NES hardware with 2600 and 7800 games that were rewritten. Some of the ports are surprisingly good, others much less so. The sounds are typically way off, as the NES sound chip can’t really replicate those funky Atari tones. As a NES guy, you might dig it.

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@damnyouwillis Enjoy your well-earned break!

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@IndieGamerChick Sorry to see you go, but I understand. “See” you on your excellent site!

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@DuchessODork Such a great song… you should play it way more often. 🤘

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@IndieGamerChick One can always hope. In the meantime, it’s been nice to see Berzerk and Frenzy finally gets lots of love this past year since being sold to Atari. Hoping if companies don’t want to do anything with their games themselves, they might at least be willing to sell.

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@IndieGamerChick It’s admittedly not a great model, but at least they keep the games out there. I weep for the arcade games by Sega ( ! ), Universal, Exidy, Cinematronics, and others that haven’t seen releases for forty years.

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@rockmarooned I’m personally happy that they’re doing both. I do wish the carded figures were a bit nicer though - could really live without the big RETRO sticker, the fake aging, and the generic card backs. But still happy to get what we are getting.

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@Nintendork9 @theyorkshow I strongly remember playing Xybots when it was brand new. Great game, and a real glimpse at the 3D shooting fun that was to come in the near future.

Surprisingly, the Lynx port of the game is also quite good.

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@prchovanec Every President / Presidential candidate gets goofed on in this country. It’s an old, great, and important tradition.

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@inthefade It’s worth remembering! 🙂

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@inthefade

[Steve the Atari Guy @AtariGuy1]

@inthefade Undoubtedly Devin Townsend. Dude is about to release his 29th album (not counting his many live releases, bonus discs, and compilations of his earliest material.) Alice Cooper’s discography is also enormous, but haven’t collected all of it just yet.

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@AtariAge @RetroGamingExpo Super cool multi-cart! I’ll be sure to order one once it hits the store.

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@Nintendork9 Hey that’s true! Looking forward to playing Gun Fight when I’m 99!

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@inthefade Can’t recommend old video game nostalgia comas highly enough. 👍👍

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@rockmarooned Daaaamn