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Atari 8 Bit Greats
« on: July 31, 2015, 09:38:55 PM »
Probably my favorite game on the Atari 8 bit series..  Mr Robot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAR_r2bWUzM

Really quirky early puzzle game but the best part was that it had a construction set to make your own levels!

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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2015, 09:47:42 PM »
that actually looks like a good atari game... so they brings the count to 1
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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2015, 10:44:57 PM »
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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2015, 06:17:29 PM »
Atari star raiders was my first fall in love Atari game / second was    then it was on to Atari 800 computer which I liked better than commodore 64 / so had a Atari 800 with dial up on a compu serve server playing space games with people across the world unit the first phone bill came for 600 dollars (1980's) and that was the end of my internet on it but had some of the best up and coming games / Zork/ Ultima/ Castle wolfenstiens/ spy vs spy . that was the beginning of computers . great times
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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2015, 06:22:03 PM »
I didn't have an Atari 800 as a kid, I was in the C=64 camp. There was a lot of cross overs in the games of course, Archon and Ghostbusters were 2 of my favorites on the system.

I did end up with huge quatities of A800 hardware in the 90s. My mom was a teacher so she got me onto the Surplus School Auctions. Those were fun as you could get pallets of old computers for literally nothing. At one point I had stacks and stacks of Atari 800xls, the drives (1040s?) those little drawing pads and various other items. Sadly never much in software.. usually you'd get 15 Atari 800s and a few Basic cartridges.. maybe a star raiders if you were lucky.

Despite finding masses of the disk drives I think a copy of Odell Lake was the only floppy I ever got with a lot.

Anyway the A800 was a fine machine but I think it got lost in the shuffle of the bigger systems a bit.
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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2015, 07:46:43 PM »
Quote from: bjones on July 31, 2015, 09:38:55 PM
Probably my favorite game on the Atari 8 bit series..  Mr Robot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAR_r2bWUzM

Really quirky early puzzle game but the best part was that it had a construction set to make your own levels!
Yeah, Mr. R was one of my very favorites as well. I remember creating a level I could clear but that my buddy couldn't,  drove him nuts! Great playability and graphics for its time.
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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2015, 03:35:06 PM »
I used to have the Atari 800. Archon, Wizards O Wor, and Starbowl football were my favorites.
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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2015, 10:56:36 PM »
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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2015, 10:18:20 AM »
I am getting my Atari 800 fix finally. Bought the MCC. Hooked up with a NOS Wico controller. RETRO AWESOME!!!!!!!!
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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2015, 11:55:01 AM »
Quote from: bg8ssux on October 25, 2015, 10:18:20 AM
I am getting my Atari 800 fix finally. Bought the MCC. Hooked up with a NOS Wico controller. RETRO AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Just looked this up, very interesting.
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Re: Atari 8 Bit Greats
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2015, 08:27:23 PM »
I just found a couple hundred discs I had from the 80's... Fired up the 1050 drive with Happy Controller and backed them all up to the PC.
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