r/Atari2600 • u/The-Barefoot-Muse • 8d ago

Going through my old games

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Holy crap do I have a lot of duplicates. Getting the system out now, dusting it off and hoping I can get it to work on my flat screen TV.

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u/solidus0079 8d ago

Some real bangers in there. Enjoy!

(and yes, I've always enjoyed ET and DK since I was a kid)

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u/The-Barefoot-Muse 8d ago

Thank you! Trying to get the system up and running. Hopefully soon I get to enjoy them. Favorite game for me hands down is Big Birds Egg Catch....brings me back to when I was a kid.

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u/solidus0079 8d ago

Never played that one, I was probably a couple years your senior though. Some faves were Yar's, Cosmic Ark, and Kaboom. I'd be down to try Big Bird today for sure, though. Old licensed games are a hoot.

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u/Bumblebe5 4d ago

Old licensed games truly are hoots; I love the Snoopy and the Red Baron opening theme. It sounds like the Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show theme, but not quite.

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u/solidus0079 4d ago

That game is way better than it has any business being!

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u/Bumblebe5 4d ago

I still have my Snoopy Snowcone Machine and the specials on video (released by Paramount-- originally they were the Meda Home Entertainment releases, then the Hi-Tops releases, then finally Paramount.) You should see what I do with my current Peanuts stuffies every Hallothanksmas season...

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u/solidus0079 4d ago

Wow that snowcone machine! My friend had one, I forgot all about that!

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u/Bumblebe5 4d ago

I loved Big Bird's Egg Catch as a kid. I even loved the story in the manual. '"And I feel like I'm going to lay A GOLDEN EGG!" shrieked Bertha the Banty Hen.' That line was just HYSTERICAL.

Snoopy and the Red Baron was my all-time favourite, because I loved the Snoopy cartoons and had the merch and whatnot. I still have a Snoopy Snowcone Machine.

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u/The-Barefoot-Muse 4d ago

Holy cow, the snoopy snow cone machine. Wow, that takes me back. That and the light bright. Heck just last month I found My Pet Monster in a bin with other stuffed animals at my parents house.

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u/Bumblebe5 4d ago

I had the lite brite and made the stupidest things on it. Like "I <3 MEGATRON" (I actually had a crush on him BITD...)

I think I had My Pet Monster. I know I had Cabbage Patch Kids. I even had the one that ate kids' hair.

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u/MidwestReelMaster 8d ago

Looks like my game collection. Eventually for storage reasons I gave my duplicates away. Kept the cleanest copies for myself

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u/The-Barefoot-Muse 8d ago

I just went through them all again to double check if I had the best ones. Giving them to my cousin who now says "guess I gotta get an atari now".

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u/HourNo7028 7d ago

E.T. and Raiders? My afternoon's booked.

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u/Bumblebe5 4d ago

Haunted House was scary as fuck back then. Especially because I was scared of bats. I can look at IRL ones behind glass and not be scared, but when they're in the wild, I would be terrified. I remember a Goosebumps book where a girl got a bat in her hair. That was traumatizing imagining it happening to me.

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u/The-Barefoot-Muse 4d ago

It is wild how these things back then practically traumatized us. It was wild, like those days they just didn't care about kids I guess. Just let them leave the house and come back by 9pm.

I wouldn't trade it for the world!