Too Many Games 2018 (Finally)

It's been over a month, but I finally had a chance to sit down and talk about what I did at Too Many Games this year. I went for one of the three days, met some old and new friends, had a lot of fun, and yes, bought too many games. You may notice the extreme lack of tanks in this episode, I apologize for that. But as always, I do tank you for listening.

Too Many Links

Too Many Games home page
Atari Texas on Youtube
Len Herman's site Rolenta Press
Brett Weiss' web site
Pre-order Brett's SNES Omnibus here, featuring lil' ole me (I called it Compendium in the show, sorry Brett)
Geekade web site
Stone Age Gamer episode recorded at TMG
New Style Ninja Tortoise on Reddit
Retrogen Adapter
Pie Factory Podcast
Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast
Next Level Videogames on Yelp
The Not Alfred E Neuman statue in Oaks, PA

707-111, Tanks But No Tanks!

The 2018 Summer Of Tanks kicks off with Tanks But No Tanks by Zimag, an NTSC version of the PAL game Phantom Tank by Bit Corporation. Don't know what Summer Of Tanks is? Well, fear not, it's only a listen away! Coming up next on Summer Of Tanks is Robot Tank by Activision, which may contain tanks. You have been warned. Do you like Robot Tank enough to shout about it? Well then, direct your shouting over to 2600gamebygame@gmail.com, and your shouting will be shouted or played shoutingly on the show. I hope you enjoy the episode and I tank you very kindly for listening! HAHAHA

Links But No Links

Activision Circle A Box Mark thread on Atari Age
March 1983 Video Game Update on Atari Compendium
Tanks But No Tanks on Random Terrain
No Swear Gamer 459 - Tanks But No Tanks
NSG Tanks But No Tanks gameplay video
8 Bit Rocket Essential Guide to Flash Games book infomercial
Earl Green's GoFundMe page
Earl's Atomic Arcade review
Retrogaming Times - History of Pac-Man on the 2600 by Eugenio
Edladdin Controllers

RA 4300, Fireball!

Hello everyone! Thank you for your patience, I hit a bit of a podcasting wall right before summer started, and now we have quite a few weeks of visiting with family, which has been great. The schedule for summer will be a bit up in the air, so please continue to bear with me, and I thank you. This episode is about Fireball by Arcadia/Starpath, a Breakout style game for the 2600. Sarah always tells me I sound tired when I record the podcast, and I can never hear it. It is very obvious in this episode however, and I do apologize for that. I really wanted to rerecord it, but that would have taken a few more weeks. I hope that you enjoy it regardless, there's lots of great feedback to listen to in the second half of the show at least.

The hardly promoted Summer of Tanks will happen, hopefully it will not become the Autumn of Tanks! The next game in the podcast will be Tanks But No Tanks by Zimag. You can start sending in feedback now if you'd like, I will announce the episode a week before it drops (fingers crossed) so you have enough time to get feedback in. Please send it to 2600gamebygame@gmail.com. Thank you so very much for listening, and enjoy your summer!

Epyx/Summer Games History page by Tobias Weihmann
Arcadia/Starpath Catalog page with Frantic
Fireball on Random Terrain
No Swear Gamer 405 - Fireball
NSG Fireball gameplay
Syd Bolton's web site
Personal Computer Museum web site
Lost Treasures of Gaming Podcast with Syd Bolton