Lucky Man Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 And a few more that I've had backlogged since forever... Solar Fox: http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/s...ox/solarfox.htm Cakewalk: http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/c...lk/cakewalk.htm Tempest "Sadly Cakewalk is mired in the realm of mediocrity that seemed to plague the Atari 2600 library." That's a pretty negative statement about the good 'ol 2600's games. I beg to differ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 14, 2008 Author Share Posted March 14, 2008 And a few more that I've had backlogged since forever... Solar Fox: http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/s...ox/solarfox.htm Cakewalk: http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/c...lk/cakewalk.htm Tempest "Sadly Cakewalk is mired in the realm of mediocrity that seemed to plague the Atari 2600 library." That's a pretty negative statement about the good 'ol 2600's games. I beg to differ. On the whole, the 2600 had more mediocre games than good. That's the problem when you have a library as large as the 2600's. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Man Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 And a few more that I've had backlogged since forever... Solar Fox: http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/s...ox/solarfox.htm Cakewalk: http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/c...lk/cakewalk.htm Tempest "Sadly Cakewalk is mired in the realm of mediocrity that seemed to plague the Atari 2600 library." That's a pretty negative statement about the good 'ol 2600's games. I beg to differ. On the whole, the 2600 had more mediocre games than good. That's the problem when you have a library as large as the 2600's. Tempest Yeah, that's what you say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 The Atari 7800 version of Food Fight is a very good port. The graphics are bright and colorful, and the gameplay is pretty much exactly the same as its arcade counterpart (only losing the trackball). Did some versions of the Food Fight arcade game have a trackball? The ones that I played all had joystick controls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Did some versions of the Food Fight arcade game have a trackball? No. I don't know what he's referring to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 Did some versions of the Food Fight arcade game have a trackball? No. I don't know what he's referring to. Apparently yes, or so I read. I've personally never seen one though. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Apparently yes, or so I read. I've personally never seen one though. Interesting. Both arcade flyers released for the game show analog joystick control... http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=thumbs&a...eodb&id=408 http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=thumbs&a...odb&id=4817 But a quick Google search yields a few references to trackball controls... http://archive.gamespy.com/legacy/top10/trackball_a.shtm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Fight ...GameSpy includes it in their list of "Top Ten Trackball Games" and the Wikipedia article mentions that the game originally had trackball controls (claim is not sourced). I dunno...until I see a picture or something from a concrete source, I'm inclined to think this is a rumor that people are running with based on someone thinking that they saw one with a trackball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 You know I could have sworn I played it with a trackball once (and found it really hard), but that could just be my memory playing tricks on me. I should probably change my page until I'm 100% sure. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 You know I could have sworn I played it with a trackball once (and found it really hard), but that could just be my memory playing tricks on me. I should probably change my page until I'm 100% sure. The way that segment of the Wikipedia article is worded makes it sound as if it was originally offered as a conversion kit for trackball machines (Centipede, etc.) but used joystick controls when sold in dedicated form (a ROM swap is mentioned). If that's the case, there should be two ROM sets floating around out there...one for each control method...no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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