Ironically, I always felt that this show worked best in black & white.
I've had a picture setting with color turned off through the years on multiple generations of televisions now, with Gilligan's Island one of the primary reasons. I always thought that the Gilligan's Island set looked much...
Hopefully this isn't inappropriate to ask (I feel kind of strange posting such a request, so perhaps it is), but if anyone that's a member is up for placing an order for me, there's several things I'd love to get.
While I've paid a premium price for several things like The Parent Trap on...
It does sound funny, I'll admit. But the 2600 is a complex and strange piece of hardware. Further, 2600 games sometimes pushed the hardware in unusual ways which requires utmost accuracy with the emulation. The end result is that Stella (the world's premier 2600 emulator) can push fairly modest...
Stock firmware is 720p, but beta firmware has pushed that to 1080p and the developers are hopeful that they'll be able to include that in an official firmware update soon.
There's some bottlenecks with some of the more intensive 2600 games that can cause some missed frames that they're working...
Just as a quick tip, if you find that Moon Patrol lacks the background music that you may remember, just slide the left difficulty switch.
Quite a few folks never realized that it serves as a mute button for the music (which also is the case with Phoenix, another great coinop port from Atari...
The 2005 DVD's were new scans and weren't the videotape transfers created for syndication. They just weren't new scans of the actual original film masters.
Image wasn't allowed access to those back then so happily they had to use film elements that were a generation or two removed from the...
Stella outputs a rock solid 60 hz picture (the premier 2600 emulator, which Atari is using here). Games that don't run at an exact 60 hz (of which the 2600 has plenty of in NTSC land) are frame interpolated to get them to 60 fps.
People are having good luck resolving the issue of sprites...
I assume that this is the same transfers used on the Blu-Ray's and the last complete series DVD set, but in a cost reduced form factor (20 versus 25 discs, for instance).
There's no reason to create new transfers at this point since it seems highly unlikely that there's any room left to improve...
Ironically, I still quite like the visual style evident in the original screenshot.
Too bad that the supposed remaster of it didn't turn out better. Instead of the lazy and cheap port that created more issues than it fixed, it should've been the opportunity to program out all the jankiness from...
Original joysticks and paddles are indeed compatible (as are those made for Legacy Engineering's Atari Flashback 2 that used a 100% accurate 2600-on-a-chip IC and then all the AtGames emulation based Flashbacks afterwards). I'm unsure though if the old trick of using a Genesis gamepad still...
No, the paddles don't go 360 degrees. There's a physical lock each way to stop movement just like the originals from 1977.
If I had to take a shot at estimating it, I'd say that 2600 paddle controllers spin roughly 300 degrees which has been replicated here (as well as in past AtGames replicas...
Maybe we'll see MPI put that out as a standalone later on.
They've done at least one release in the past that was basically all bonus style content, when they put out 'Petticoat Junction: Return to Hooterville'. It was interviews, commercials, etc. The only actual episode included was the...
Seems that Atari SA and Koch Media/Plaion values retailers like Amazon over customers that preordered direct from them. I'm not sure of the sense in that, but you're not alone in getting that message. :(
There's been some other Atari 2600+ news recently. They're showing off a prototype of a new...
But sadly not surprising.
The surprise would've been seeing the errors in these transfers that Universal made after the vault fire actually be corrected.
Thankfully they're minor, but it's irritating none the less.
It is and appears to be the only bonus content.
A shame that the US Savings Bond episode apparently is absent since I'd of liked to have owned that on disc. While I own the 2020 cost reduced version of the Shout Factory set, it omits all the bonus content like that.
It's not super cheap, but if you ever want to upgrade your new tv purchase in order to play these on it down the road (such as if your old flat screen dies), this is a quality option at a lowish price point to upscale those and output them via HDMI to your new television...
I'm also on Spectrum Cable and still like watching some tv on my classic CRT's that stick around primarily for classic videogaming. There's been no recent change here at my end since TCM went HD several years back.
The standard definition transfers are still full-screen and the HD transfers...
It depends on if it's a HD transfer. SD transfers are still full-screen SD. HD transfers will be letterboxed (which means if it's an Academy ratio film, it will be windowboxed on your 4:3 tv with borders all the way around).
Great to see another Powell/Loy pairing.
I just wish I liked this one more. I'm not sure why it has never clicked for me given the exceptional cast, my love of this era of Hollywood, and how popular it was when it released. Undoubtedly my loss that it doesn't quite do it for me.
Hopefully one...
I really wouldn't put much thought into these alleged rumors that ComicBook is pumping out. It's telling when so many more mainstream outlets out there like NintendoLife and Eurogamer that want Switch 2 content to generate traffic, aren't picking up all this "inside information".
It's traditionally been no better even when they have a close working relationship with Microsoft, too (i.e., what gamers would classify as a 2nd party studio). Ask the Bizarre Creations guys about how that works out.
I wouldn't be surprised if it will go the route that so many before have...