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Retro Rogue

Member Since 30 May 2001
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In Topic: What is the actual size of Atari Basketball?

Fri May 25, 2012 9:40 PM

View Postalmightytodd, on Thu May 24, 2012 9:35 PM, said:

View Postsimbalion, on Wed May 23, 2012 10:38 PM, said:

No problem. There should be more love for Black and White games!
I agree. I'd love to see some kind of Flashback unit with a built-in B&W screen (either real CRT or simulated with LED/LCD) and a bunch of built-in 70's era B&W coin-op titles.

The problem is, for a majority of the well known 70's Atari titles you wouldn't be able to do it. They were not microprocessor based and contain no ROM game code to be able to run now. You'd be limited to late 70's games.

In Topic: What is the actual size of Atari Basketball?

Tue May 22, 2012 5:27 PM

It has a 23" crt in it, and the depth on those is usually around 20". So it seems it's entirely possible to have a 30" depth on the top half of the cabinet. Bottom half (midway and down) needs room for the control panel and such, so I'm not as sure about that.

In Topic: Coleco Industries History Book

Mon May 21, 2012 8:21 PM

View PostNIAD, on Mon May 21, 2012 7:09 PM, said:

View PostRetro Rogue, on Mon May 21, 2012 5:27 PM, said:

Good to hear it's coming along. You didn't answer my previous question through - did you get Nuvatec's involvement in the total re-design of the system to what the production version was?
This is extremely important information that needs to be covered in the book and I'm sure it will be more than touched on by Retroillucid. Indeed Nuvatec's involvement, redesign and most importantly the addition of the front Expansion Module Interface should not be taken lightly and if you want to take it a step further... this expandability was one of the greatest additions as well as one of the worst. By this I mean it started the ball rolling for expanding the ColecoVision into a full-fledged computer which we all know now as the ADAM Computer.

I'm not saying this was the wrong thing to do as many other videogame manufacturers were following this formula back in the day, but in hindsight of knowing what transpired, I wish Coleco would have kept the two entities separate... so to speak. They could have probably continued on rather successfully with the ColecoVision as a dedicated game system and then taken their time entering the computer market with an entry that was ColecoVision compatible, like the Stand-Alone ADAM Computer.

I, for one, can't wait to see how this entire subject is handled in "The Book of Coleco" according to J-F. :P

Glad to hear it if that's the case. I interviewed one of their ex-employees at length back in 2001, and was surprised as well to find out how they had took the proto and redid the entire thing to be of a general purpose computer with open bus (expansion bus). Also to find out what came was the actual first proof of concept game on that version. ;)

In Topic: What's the deal with Star Castle 2600?

Mon May 21, 2012 5:31 PM

View Postsolidcorp, on Mon May 21, 2012 7:18 AM, said:

I hope he and everyone else has noticed that I used his real quotes with links to his interviews on Kickstarter story page and in interviews I've given.

It was the youtube video about your game that he was responding to:



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A minor point: Kickstarter is not a marketing site, in this case it's basically being used as a pre-order system - the vast majority of marketing is done elsewhere ultimately driving people to the Kickstarter site.

Never said it was a marketing site. That main page of every Kickstarter project however is a marketing page. It's where you're marketing what you're trying to raise funds for by explaining the project and why people should give money. We used Kickstarter for the book, I'm well aware of how it's used.

Didn't see a response to my previous question btw - why would you think Atari had the rights to the game?

In Topic: Coleco Industries History Book

Mon May 21, 2012 5:27 PM

View Postretroillucid, on Mon May 21, 2012 11:59 AM, said:

Progress has been done with the book
I frequently update the book as I receive new Coleco catalogs
In fact, I have now 90% of all existing catalogs now,.... Wich I'm more than happy to have

I should send the final text to Ikrananka in the next few weeks so he can proof read everything

I've think about this title for the book... Does it sounds right to you? .... Or any other ideas?

Coleco Industries; The Eternal Legacy

Good to hear it's coming along. You didn't answer my previous question through - did you get Nuvatec's involvement in the total re-design of the system to what the production version was?

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