Re: Introduce Yourself: What's your User Name based on?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 4:52 am
Thanks for all that info Ward, certainly makes for enlightened reading. Sometimes I've encountered that when trying to preserve games for the C64 or Vectrex, or occasionally for the Vic20, but usually it has involved physically buying the cartridge, as opposed to being loaned it. Ian Baronofsky (Ianoid on AtariAge) did loan me a couple of carts to dump and preserve (before returning) but that's been the notable exception.
You may have heard of Gamebase? I took over a Vic20 database in the mid 2000s of all (not just cartridges) games released, and have been slowly putting together an archive for the machine. It's probably going to approach near 3000 entries by the time the next version is released. That's probably way more games than you thought were out there, albeit that includes magazine listings, and duplicate entries if the same game was released by multiple publishers (fairly common!)
I think you'd be surprised Ward by how many entries in your cartridge "rumour mill" area have actually come out of the woodwork since the late 90s. And a number of titles you probably never knew about. Have a read through a few of these...
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... f=4&t=6680
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... f=4&t=7152
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... f=4&t=5157
Oh, and a genuine copy of D*Fuse by Tymac (in solid blue case) was recently unearthed. Still not been able to secure dumps of the pile of OEM carts that Albert supposedly won/owns even now. Maybe we can hope there.
I'd move this spiel to a separate thread but only the admin (not mod like myself) can do it from a thread in the Announcements forum, as opposed to anywhere else. Maybe some admin can?
You may have heard of Gamebase? I took over a Vic20 database in the mid 2000s of all (not just cartridges) games released, and have been slowly putting together an archive for the machine. It's probably going to approach near 3000 entries by the time the next version is released. That's probably way more games than you thought were out there, albeit that includes magazine listings, and duplicate entries if the same game was released by multiple publishers (fairly common!)
I think you'd be surprised Ward by how many entries in your cartridge "rumour mill" area have actually come out of the woodwork since the late 90s. And a number of titles you probably never knew about. Have a read through a few of these...
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... f=4&t=6680
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... f=4&t=7152
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... f=4&t=5157
Oh, and a genuine copy of D*Fuse by Tymac (in solid blue case) was recently unearthed. Still not been able to secure dumps of the pile of OEM carts that Albert supposedly won/owns even now. Maybe we can hope there.
I'd move this spiel to a separate thread but only the admin (not mod like myself) can do it from a thread in the Announcements forum, as opposed to anywhere else. Maybe some admin can?
I can't take credit there, the recent Vic20 article was written by Andrew Fisher (Merman) instead. I think since Imagine Publishing took over Retro Gamer, that's the first Vic20 related article in the magazine NOT written by me though heh.Wardster wrote:This is as good a time as any for me to say a public thanks for your mention in Retro Gamer. Adam Trionfo lives in the same U.S. state that I do (that is, in New Mexico -- but roughly 200 miles apart), and we sometimes visit one another's homes. When we do, we almost always end up talking about old video game stuff, etc., and this time he brought issue #154 of that cool magazine with him. And he pointed out the mention you did, on page 59. Coolness! Puts a smile on my face to see it!