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Atari 2600 Paddle TV Game Gets It Right?
Thanks to IGN Pocket for its hands-on reviews of the latest JAKKS classic 'TV game' devices, including the Ms.Pacman-starring Namco device and an unlicensed 'Classic Arcade Pinball' game combo, but, more importantly, the previously mentioned, much-awaited Atari Paddle 'TV game' ("...a fantastic follow-up to the company's Atari Joystick plug-and-play controller released two years ago.") There's also a retro expert's review on the Atari Age forums which indicates the Digital Eclipse-developed 2600 conversions are "a 180 degree turn around from the sloppy job of the [original DC Studios-produced joystick], and it's definitely something to put on your want/wish list." Finally, disappointed fans are addressed regarding the lack of Kaboom! on the 11-game compilation, explaining: "If it was an Activision Paddle Games Collection, then Kaboom would be included, but this was Atari owned titles only."
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Mistrustful Muslim Clerics Allow Polio to Spread
Thanks to Muslim clerics in Nigeria, polio is once again spreading through the African continent.
Polio * a very debilitating but equally preventable neuromuscular disease * was never completely eradicated from the globe (only smallpox has this distinction).
But officials from the World Health Organization say they could have nearly wiped polio off the map by the end of 2005.
However, according to reports, Muslim clerics in the Nigerian state of Kano and elsewhere in the northern part of the country convinced government officials to stop providing vaccines months ago.
The clerics said the vaccines made in the West were tainted, containing anti-fertility drugs designed to depopulate the area.
Voice of America news reported, "An activist from a human rights group based in northern Nigeria, Nasir Abbas, says local Islamic leaders like Alhaji Datti Ahmed of the Supreme Council on Sharia continue to play a large role in influencing policies in Kano State."
Local, anti-Western Muslims allowed children contract polio rather than allow the government to provide the medicine to prevent it, no matter the source.
And, by waiting for a vaccine to be tested and found "safe" in Indonesia, that's just what happened.
The World Health Organization says the Nigerians' stoppage of the immunization program has caused a resurgence of polio cases all across Africa, from nearby Ivory Coast to Botswana in southern Africa.
More specifically, the group says 90 percent of the new cases have been traced to a strain of polio found to have originated in Nigeria.
The Washington Post continues: "Nigeria, where the current upsurge began, now has five times as many cases of polio as it did this time last year, officials at the World Health Organization in Geneva said. New cases have been found in 30 of its 37 states, with most in the Muslim north . .
"Right when it should have been disappearing during the low season, this virus was gathering steam to come roaring out," R. Bruce Aylward, global coordinator of the eradication campaign at WHO, said in a telephone briefing.
WHO aims to vaccinate all 74 million African children under the age of 5, at a cost of $100 million.
There were no figures provided for what it will cost to take care of the African children who have recently contracted polio because of Muslim clerics' continuing disdain for the West.
This article has already been alive for so long, and thew only post is of a person spreading anti-Islam FUD?
This must be a very slow day, or no one cares about Atari anymore.
how is a NEWS ARTICLE about FACTS occuring NOW "Fear, uncertainty, doubt?" HOW?
Sure thing Geobbels. Lets hear how the TRUTH is a lie, FUD, and your edited clean reality is the real one, where clitoris chopping is cool, doesnt hurt and doesnt cause infections, sharia trivially beheads people in Saudia Arabia, Islamic militants chops off heads of people, chopped clitoris, dead people everywhere, talibans destroying historic buddhas and Palestinians blowing up bars and night clubs not police stations and military bases, because people murder is fun for Islamists.
Murder supporter.
create something like Nintendo's iPaq(which is an snes/n64 built into a controller that they sell in China) were I could take my tv game, go to a game store, pay a few bucks, and download the 2600 game of my choice. Or better yet, do it online. You wouldn't even need that large of a memory card to hold a lot of these games. Come on people, innovate! You have that IP just sitting around, do something with it or else people have no choice but to download roms. And please make it better than these tv games, I don't want to have to pay $20 for a device that only holds a few games(then has to take up space in my house when it's not in use)
In high school, I remember taking a paddle controller apart and mounting a 3' metal rod through it and affixing it to a 5' stand. On the end of the rod was a clamp for changing the amount of weight on it. I made...a pendulum.
After carefully debugging the software and hardware at home, I brought the whole apparatus into school and hooked it up to the school's Atari 400.
On screen, with a couple of keypresses you could get a realtime graph of the pendulum's oscillations against a set of scales (time and distance). Changing the length of the pendulum (with a wing nut), position of the weight, size of the weight, etc.. allowed the other students to really visualize what was going on.
It was still there and working, long after I graduated.
Get off my lawn.
I just have to say that I think they've missed the boat on at least one important thing.
The lack of being able to play 4 player games.
The best game on the set is Warlords, at least in 4 player mode. I still have seen few games that are as fun with 4 players as the original Warlords, and this set does not allow 4 player play.
It would be like a Street Fighter compilation that was exact in every detail - but only allowed single player play.
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
If "gets it right" has anything to do with "met customer demand" then no, they did not get it right. The reason fans would be upset about the missing Kaboom! game is because that's the one they wanted. If there was a dictionary entry for "getting a retro paddle device right" it would be defined as "includes Kaboom!"
Oh well. I'm sure some of the people reading this will be happy with the other games. I'll just keep waiting for Activision's version, I guess.
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No doubt, without Kaboom! this is just a neat toy. To be honest, if they released a paddle set with just Kaboom! and Warlords I would love to try it out. It's too bad that they don't make paddle controllers or paddle games anymore, sure there are only so many things to do just going right and left but a lot of those games were the most fun to play. Well, 25 years ago anyway.
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Somehow these OT/Trolls get more and more pointless every day...