AX-025, Keystone Kapers!

Happy Gluttonous Shopping Season everyone! Please be sure to visit your local mom and pop stores this season, they'll feel good and you will too. Today I am discussing Keystone Kapers by the one and only Activision! I apologize for the refrigerator this episode, it sounded really loud and distracting on my end, so I hope you don't hear it. Next up on the show will be Mr. Do by Coleco, and I'll also throw in 3 Coleco games that had part numbers but never made it to programming, at least not that we know of. If you have any comments on Mr. Do or any game I've already covered (say, Mousetrap fer instance), please send it to me at 2600gamebygame@gmail.com. Also, if you have any Christmas or holiday memories of really any kind that you'd like to share, I would love to hear them! Please send those to me by December 16th. Thank you for listening everyone!

Egg Nog (makes 1 gallon, cut it down to the quantity you like)

2 quarts half and half
1 dozen eggs (I use large)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract (DON'T USE THE FAKE STUFF, I WILL FIND YOU)
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 cups sugar
1 cup rum
1 cup brandy
1 cup bourbon

Beat eggs in a blender until frothy and lemon yellow colored. Add sugar, vanilla, and salt and blend well. Pour into a large container (save your gallon milk jugs!) and add the remaining ingredients. Shake well to combine. PUT THE CAP ON FIRST. Sprinkle some nutmeg in there if you like that. Do NOT sprinkle pumpkin pie spice in there (see vanilla extract). Don't worry about cooking it, all of the alcohol will take care of whatever salmonella is in the eggs. I'm still here, aren't I? Refrigerate unused portion and shake well before you serve it again. Unused portion, that's a good one. Enjoy! :)


Pertinent Links

Batteries Not Included show with Garry Kitchen
Keystone Kapers on Atari Protos
Keystone Kapers scratch card from Atarimania
Keystone Kapers 2 entry on Digital Press Rarity Guide
Activisions Spring 1983 issue on Atari Age
KK patch on DP
KK patch accompanying letter
Play Block the Knight by Rex Allison right in your browser!
Atari Flashback Portable Compatibility List from AA

CX2683, Crazy Climber!

Hubbi Frubbiends! It's your old buddy Ferg, bringing you some info on Crazy Climber from my bathroom this week. Oh yes I did! I hope you enjoy the show. Coming up next is Keystone Kapers (MORE alliteration, wow!) by Activision, so's if you have some thoughts on it or any game I've covered already, you can send it to moi at 2600gamebygame@gmail.com, and hopefully I won't lose it. Happiest of Thanksgivings to you all (except Canadians, you couldn't wait apparently), and I will see you in December. Thanks for listening!

Crazy Links

Crazy Climber on KLOV
CC on Atari Protos
Atari Age Crazy Climber cover
CC Easter Egg page on 2600 Connection
CC different box art from Atarimania
Black picture label in Atari Age magazine
No Swear Gamer 280 - Crazy Climber
BlocTheKnite by Rex Allison on Google Play
Pyrex (Python library for 2600-style games) also by Rex Allison
Coleco Retro Gaming Expo August 2017
Nichubutsu Arcade Classics on SUPER NINTENDO (with Crazy Climber)
Atari 5200 Super Community My Extra Life donation page
Rick's Extra Life donation page
Wade's Extra Life donation page
Bill's Atari Party Extra Life donation page
Marc Allie's Extra Life donation page
Reference material for those not in the NYC area.

GCG1001T, Music Machine!

This week I discuss one of the two religious games released for the 2600, Music Machine by Sparrow. It's an expensive game but worth your time if you use emulators or Harmony cartridges. Next, uh, time on the show, I will be talking about Crazy Climber by Atari, one of the Atari Age magazine mailaway exclusive games. So yeah, another rare game, I promise I did not plan that! If you have feedback for Crazy Climber, you can send it to me at 2600gamebygame@gmail.com. Please be sure to join me this weekend for Extra Life, and if you can donate, there are plenty of people to choose from in the links! Thanks to all who donated, and I thank you all for listening. I hope you had a Happy Halloween!

Pertinent Links

Palmtex/Super Micro Cartridge based system
Sparrow Records today
Peter Engelbrite's Music Machine page
2009 Kotaku article about sealed copy on eBay
2013 eBay auction for sealed copy
Video from above auction
Stella at 20 on Internet Archive
Art of Atari by Tim Lapetino
My Extra Life donation page
Rick's Extra Life donation page
Wade's Extra Life donation page
Bill's Atari Party Extra Life donation page
Marc Allie's Extra Life donation page