29th November 2018, 5:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 5th December 2018, 5:19 PM by A Black Falcon.)
... I know I've gotten a lot in the past week, but one of the local places around here got a bunch of Atari 5200 stuff in, and while I didn't get all of it (boxed, working 5200 trak-ball!), I did get a few games... one being one of the system's more prominent ones and a pretty nice find.
Atari 5200
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Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns - $20, cart and manual. Activision's Pitfall II is kind of ahead of its time -- it's a somewhat open ended exploration-platformer with unlimited lives and checkpoints, like a modern game. Impressive stuff for 1983. This is the best version of the game, too, because the Atari 8-bit computer/5200 version has a large additional area added that adds a bunch of content to the game, and which doesn't exist in any other version. It's a 5200 must-have and I'm glad to have found it.
RealSports Soccer - $5, cart and manual. This soccer game looks fairly well-featured for the time. It's got decent visuals, an AI opponent, etc.
James Bond 007 - $15, cart and manual. This is a Parker Bros. game, and it's not too highly thought of I believe but hopefully it was worth getting anyway... we'll see. There is also a 2600 version, but I don't have it. It looks like a takeoff on Moon Patrol, which is promising, that's a good game.
Atari 2600
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Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes - $2, cart only. This was from a different place, and it's a nice find because this game is not common and it was in very nice condition. I hope the game is good too, but with the 2600 you never know.
Switch
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Penny-Punching Princess - $19, new. A beat 'em up essentially.
Atari 5200
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Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns - $20, cart and manual. Activision's Pitfall II is kind of ahead of its time -- it's a somewhat open ended exploration-platformer with unlimited lives and checkpoints, like a modern game. Impressive stuff for 1983. This is the best version of the game, too, because the Atari 8-bit computer/5200 version has a large additional area added that adds a bunch of content to the game, and which doesn't exist in any other version. It's a 5200 must-have and I'm glad to have found it.
RealSports Soccer - $5, cart and manual. This soccer game looks fairly well-featured for the time. It's got decent visuals, an AI opponent, etc.
James Bond 007 - $15, cart and manual. This is a Parker Bros. game, and it's not too highly thought of I believe but hopefully it was worth getting anyway... we'll see. There is also a 2600 version, but I don't have it. It looks like a takeoff on Moon Patrol, which is promising, that's a good game.
Atari 2600
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Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes - $2, cart only. This was from a different place, and it's a nice find because this game is not common and it was in very nice condition. I hope the game is good too, but with the 2600 you never know.
Switch
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Penny-Punching Princess - $19, new. A beat 'em up essentially.