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Alleyway was the first Game Boy game I bought. I got mine at Christmas, along with the pack-in Tetris game and Super Mario Land.

I love Gaplus. I have it on Switch. 

Saturn emulation was notoriously difficult in the past, but it is much better now, though I still had to work on it a bit to get it running well on EmuDeck.

I prefer original hardware where possible, but the Astrocade and its games are a bit hard to find in the wild. I've also got this set up for the Atari 8-bit (though I still have my Atari 400 mini, which does emulation a lot better than EmuDeck does), the PC-Engine CD, and the Saturn - mostly for English language versions of games like Far East of Eden and the Saturn Sakura Wars games and Shining Force III Scenarios 2 and 3.

Thanks for this tribute. Rest in peace, Michael.

This was emulated through MAME. There's even a site that tells you everything you need to know about the Astrocade and emulating it, Bally Alley, and that site helped me get it running on EmulationStation on my Steam Deck, which is what I was playing it on. Bally Alley actually has the entire Astrocade library on it, including homebrew games that were released long after the console itself was discontinued. 

I have seen Astrocades in the wild at Fallout Games, a Phoenix-area used-game store. Unfortunately, I failed to take advantage of them. Next time I see one I will definitely buy it even though I have it running on emulation. 

In its heyday, Bally, like Konami, had multiple lines of business. in fact, it had largely the same types of business as Konami has - video games, pinball, health clubs, and gambling machines/casinos. Only Bally Sports and a few casinos carrying their name survive currently.

That tractor is over 70 years old. It belonged to my grandfather and was passed down to my mother. It still runs, though it needs work done on it. 

I learned about the Astrocade (and Odyssey2) through a book by Jeff Rovin, The Complete Guide to Conquering Video Games. Voice in video games at the time was expensive. Just having a game as close to the arcades as this one was was a minor miracle, given how home arcade ports usually looked. 

I remember Michael117. Very sad to hear of another community member passing.

You are already a Switch friend. I'm loving Mario Kart World myself. It's basic bones are a big improvement over MK8. Ongoing support will make it even better.

I had Munch-Man. It was one of the better Pac-Man clones. The pseudo 3D mazes and shape changing monsters kept it interesting, and it was really fast. My dad bought the TI in 1983 when they were winding down production of the computers. 

TI is actually a huge company. They made those $200 TI-83 graphing calculators my college math professors wanted everybody to have. They mostly do behind the scenes work, like chips for Apple and such.

I'm enjoying DK Bananza. I really like how Nintendo is going back to Donkey Kong's roots in Bananza and Mario Kart World, which started with the Super Mario Bros Movie. At the same time, they've kept a lot of the Rare lore. 

Anyway, Happy Birthday! Here are a couple of tickets to Namco's Wonder Eggs amusement park in Japan.