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Division                       “Jerry G” Calls It Quits
                                                 Software
                                                Offers Bet-                             Citing failing health as the
                                                ter Control                        cause, long time classic videogame
                                                    For                            collector and seller, Jerry Greiner,
                                                                                   has decided to close shop.
                                                Intellivision                          His immense collection is now
                                                 Lives CD                          up for grabs at a discounted rate,
                                                                                   and merchandise is moving
                                                    Division Soft-                 quickly.
                                               ware of Ontario, Canada sells an         Also up for sale is the domain
                                               adapter called The INTV2PC,                   name he has used for
                                               which allows you to connect your              his sales, http://www.
                                               Intellivision disc controller to your         atari2600.com.  It is
                                               PC.  The device will allow for much           Jerry’s hope that once
                                               greater precision over the standard           the website is sold, the
                                               keyboard option.                              new owner will see that
                                                    They offer 2 models which go             it gets used as Jerry
             New Games Announced               for $30 and $35 dollars.                      had once envisioned it.
             for “Intellivision Lives 2”            For full details on how to obtain   “We. . .intended to make sub-
                    Compilation                the device, visit their website at:   sections of our website available to
                                                                                   other collectors to post their classic
                Intellivision                     http://www3.sympatico.ca/        game pages, fanzines, stories, and
           Productions                                division.software/           whatever, if they so desired,” Jerry
           recently an-                                                            stated on his website.
           nounced the                                                                  If you are interested in either the
           games that will be present on the                                       domain or the merchandise, visit
           Intellivision Lives 2 compilation.                                      Jerry G. at:

           Many classic games were sorely                                                www.atari2600.com
           missed on the first effort and will be
           a welcome addition on their second
           offering.  At present, no release                                         New Pac-Man Hack Now
           date has been set.                                                        Available For Download

           Games will include:                                                          Rob Kudla has created a new
                                                                                   Pac-Man game, free to download,
           Atlantis, B-17 Bomber, Demon At-                                        for use on Atari emulators.  “Pac
           tack, Beauty and the Beast, Atlan-   “Protector” for the Jaguar         26” is actually a hack of “Ms. Pac-
           tis, Dreadnaught Factor, Dracula,           Now Shipping                Man” created to look more like the
           Ice Trek, Dragonfire, Pitfall, Happy                                    arcade version of Pac-Man.  Rob
           Trails, Microsurgeon, Safe Cracker,        The long awaited Jaguar game,   created it for fun; he wanted to see
           River Raid, Swords and Serpents,    Protector, is now on sale and avail-  what the 2600 version of Pac-Man
           Tropical Trouble, Stampede, Worm    able to play.  Protector is a       might have looked like had it been
           Whomper, as well as several oth-    “Defender” like game featuring over   done properly.  This impressive
           ers.                                40 waves of play and stunning       creation includes blue walls, open-
                                               graphics.  Visit Songbird’s website   ing theme music as well as true-to-
               www.intellivisionlives.com      for details.                        arcade sound effects.

                                                    http://songbird.atari.org         http://24.25.144.93/raindog/
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