25 Most Valuable Bally Astrocade Games (From 2002 to 2022)

[@FWDSUXARSE]

Had an astrocade when I was a kid. Had the infamous cpu issue (poor ventilation design) Now I have one that works and hopefully it stays working.

[@teknohed]

That is awesome. I would love to get one, the games all look and sound great. But they are so expensive. Unless i get lucky at a swap meet I will have to stick with emulation.

[@FWDSUXARSE]

@@teknohed They are pretty tough to find. Finding controllers can be tough as well. It was actually a pretty fun system.

[@Papernails]

I had assumed the player was going to embody "The Incredible Wizard" but from the box art it looks like you are going in to defeat the wizard as an astronaut with some kind of laser? Also I guess the year is 2017? In the far flung future of 2017, going off to battle space wizards in their dungeons is commonplace.

[@teknohed]

all games are numbered. I think that is a product number rather than a year. and based on the game play you are basically shooting something …might as well be a laser.

[@ArcadeDude44]

It's a home port of their arcade game, Wizard of Wor...an awesome classic and a quite decent port of it.

[@saltysaltytears]

I'm assuming Bally also sold an external tape peripheral for storing and loading programs? Or did BASIC enthusiasts have to load-in at consumer tape deck speeds?

[@teknohed]

yeah the basic cart has an audio in port so you could load games to it via tape

[@128Kgames]

@@teknohed the original Bally BASIC did not, the later Astrovision / Astrocade BASIC had a 2000 BAUD interface on the revised Bally Basic and later Astrocade BASIC cartridge. The original Bally BASIC used an additional 300 BAUD interface that connected via the light pen port to load / save programs. All of these required and external tape player / recorder, which Bally did not make.

[@Papernails]

Oh I just realized that all the games had some sort of 20XX number after the title... what's up with that?

[@jackofallgamesTV]

Will you do Emerson Arcadia 2001?

[@teknohed]

Yes! I am still working on that one.

[@MitchellAzevedo-e3x]

Since there were only 28 officially released games, identifying the 25 most valuable seems a bit strange. Why you didn't you do "All 28 games ranked in value", I'll never know.

[@teknohed]

@@MitchellAzevedo-e3x that’s a good point. the main reason is that all my other videos were top 25, the video for the channel F has a similar problem as there was only about 30 games released for it , maybe i will make a directors cut at some point. ;)

[@128Kgames]

Sorry Billy who? Never head of the guy or his pseudonym. And Muncher was never an "official" release, btw. More rare would be the actual prototype of Munchie, the cart Astrovision / Astrocade was going to release...

[@teknohed]

billy galaxy. it was a store in the pacific northwest.

[@128Kgames]

@@teknohed ha! OK, that makes more sense! Does it say who wrote the book from / for that store?

[@teknohed]

@@128Kgames this is the author bio on Amazon: "Billy Galaxy has been dealing in classic video games for many years. He owns the Billy Galaxy classic video game and toy shop in Portland, Oregon."