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A fun time for sure! Instant recommendation from the big HDN.

Any fans of Desert Falcon here? It seems to be one of those “love it or hate it” games.
Me? Love it. Which is strange given my thoughts on a lot of OTHER isometric games.

DANG! Looks awesome. Not a TG16 guy myself (never played), but I would love to try sometime.

I'm very interested in where this will go.

If Nintendo REALLY wanted to blow people away for Super Mario's 35th, they'd do a physical release of Super Mario Odyssey 2 on the Magnavox Odyssey 2.

I probably won't spend the money on Pac-Man collection. I mean, it's really cool and all, but I'll spend most of my time just playing Ms. Pac-Man. I don't mind the OG 7800 version and I don't need the update on the Collection or the speed hack.

And I heard Robotron is pretty good too! I haven’t tried it out with a proper two stick setup yet on 7800. I made this holder for my joysticks seems to hold them pretty well. It’s okay to laugh if you want as it’s pretty ugly, but I’m not complaining! I think it will work well. I plan to blast some robots tomorrow on my day off.

Whoops, sorry. Looks like I can’t insert a picture on my phone. Or at least I don’t know how to. I think I will do a video on it and maybe post later. Sorry!

But rest assured, it’s not winning any beauty contests!

Those are all very good games! The first three you mentioned (Xevious, Commando, Ms. PAC-Man) are all easily better than their NES counterparts.

What are some of your favorites on the console? I am loving Choplifter, Commando, Galaga, and Food Fight especially.

Cool, be sure to tell me when you watch it!
Commando is a lot of fun. I tried them all out and they do work. I haven't spent equal time with all of them, but I played at least one game of each (except some of the sports games). So far, I have been really enjoying Commando, Choplifter!, and Crossbow mostly. The 3 "C's".

Whoops! I forgot the BIG ONE! Commando is also in there. One of the two games that uses the POKEY audio chip instead of solely the stock 2600 TIA sound.

Well, @TrekMD , you won't have to wait long! Here it is, in all its 7800 glory!



I think that's how you insert a hyperlink here. Not entirely sure if that'll work or not. I'm still getting used to the way things work here.

Anyways, if you are too busy to watch the video, here's a list of what I all got:

Asteroids
Centipede
Choplifter!
Crossbow
Dark Chambers
Desert Falcon
Dig Dug
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Junior
Galaga
Hat Trick
Joust
Ms. Pac-Man
Pole Position II
Rampage
Realsports Baseball
Robotron: 2084
Touchdown Football
Xenophobe
Xevious
Xevious (yes there were two in the box)

Thanks so much, cjherr!

Today is very special! I'm getting a box in the mail from cjherr over at AtariAge filled to the brim with 7800 games! He didn't use them anymore, so he wanted to send them to me, free of charge! How nice of him! I'm very humbled by this generous donation and incredibly thankful. I'll post what's all in there here in this thread later. I plan on doing an unboxing video.

Oh, yes. I'm pretty sure it was a prototype, though I'm not sure if it was ever found. If I remember correctly from the 7800 Game by Game Podcast, they thought they found the original prototype for Millipede, but it ended up being just a faked hack of Centipede.

So I guess it's a little bit of both.

Yes I have, @TrekMD ! Personally, I prefer Centipede to Millipede, but to be honest that's kind of like splitting hairs. It isn't like Galaxian where the sequel, Galaga, is almost a completely different game. Centipede and Millipede are almost identical. I like Centipede more of the two personally, but I'm not sure why I do! I will tell you this: I have played a LOT more 2600 Centipede than Millipede.

I actually don't have either version on cartridge for my VCS. I'm getting Centipede in the mail in a couple of hours, but that's for my 7800. The Centipede series is among the higher-priced 2600 games at my local game store. They're both $10 as opposed to the usual $5 or $2. So since I'm getting 7800 Centipede, given the choice between getting the two 2600 versions I would most likely go for Millipede. There's no 7800 version of Millipede!

You know, the NES got a really good version of Millipede. The borders are pretty ugly, sure, but the game plays really well. And isn't that all that matters?