Elk Attack...

[schuwalker]

I know I'm late to the party on this one.... but I never knew there was a Electric Yo Yo port! Another shocker was

this game was super rare in the arcades.

 

The timing is perfect since I'm currently trying to restore a EYY arcade game I received months back...

 

Can anybody enlighten if the made it to cart form? If so, was it called Elk Attack or EYY? Also, if

they were available, know where I can purchase?

 

Thanks, EYY fan......

[+atari2600land]

It never got released. There is a prototype though avaliable for download here

http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=841

It is a good game, one of the few prototypes I paid someone to put on a cart for me.

[Rom Hunter]

http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/elkattack/elkattack.htm

 

From DP:

 

DP: I heard that Elk Attack took you 3 months to write, and was based on Taito’s Electric Yo-Yo, correct?

Mark Hahn: Yes. We had a Yo-Yo machine in the NY office. I spent many hours late at night playing that game while I was waiting for my assemblies to finish, or downloading test code.

 

The history of Elk Attack is not very interesting. In the spring of 1987, finding myself unemployed, I wrote a VCS game based very loosely on Yo-Yo. Those things that were easy to do I did; those that were hard, I changed or dropped. I named my cart Elk Attack as a joke and sent the cart to Atari and Epyx for them to evaluate. Neither were interested, so I stuffed my test EPROMS in a drawer and forgot them until I ran across the STELLA emulator. Brad Mott had a wonderful emulator but no binaries to distribute with it. I gave him permission to include Elk Attack with distributions of STELLA.

DP: What equipment did you use to program it?

Mark Hahn: I used a Microtek Mice-II In Circuit Emulator and a PC as my development system.

 

DP: It appears you used some code from Pengo...

Mark Hahn: The hardest part of Elk Attack was getting the screens to look the way I wanted them to. I started with some screen code I had written for Pengo and modified it quite a bit. I re-used very little code from Pengo, but it I did use parts of the Pengo code to prototype things I was working on in Elk Attack.

DP: Do any of your other games have any glitches in them?

Mark Hahn: No ... my code is bug-free ... not! I'm not aware of any bugs in Pengo that the user would see. There are numerous bugs in Dukes, but it was never finished. Elk Attack has an extra scan line bug in it somewhere. Under just the right (or is it wrong) conditions it will put out an extra scan line (193 instead of 192, some TVs will roll the picture when this happens). Since I never sold Elk Attack to anyone, I never bothered to fix that bug.

 

[SoulBlazer]

Interesting, I didn't know Stella used to be included with a free (although unfinished) game.

[the.golden.ax]

I have or had a copy of Elk Attack on 2600 cartridge and it never struck me as incomplete. Quite fun actually. Not sure who I bought it from or if I sold it. but anyway it certainly exists and is quite a fun little game.

[+SpiceWare]

Interesting, I didn't know Stella used to be included with a free (although unfinished) game.

I used to maintain the OS/2 port of Stella. An archive I have from 97 includes the "Wavy Line" test ROM as well as the games Elk Attack, Okie Dokie. The archive from 2000 it also includes Oysteron and This Planet Sucks.

[CPUWIZ]

I know I'm late to the party on this one.... but I never knew there was a Electric Yo Yo port! Another shocker was

this game was super rare in the arcades.

 

The timing is perfect since I'm currently trying to restore a EYY arcade game I received months back...

 

Can anybody enlighten if the made it to cart form? If so, was it called Elk Attack or EYY? Also, if

they were available, know where I can purchase?

 

Thanks, EYY fan......

 

Hint, hint...

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/103015-elk-attack-question/#entry1249067

 

Thanks to purduecrum for digging up that old thread for me.

[keitaro]

Elk Attack ... I completely forgot this game! It was too many years ago when I played it. I liked it, the only issue I remember maybe It was too easy.

 

Interesting, I didn't know Stella used to be included with a free (although unfinished) game.

I used to maintain the OS/2 port of Stella. An archive I have from 97 includes the "Wavy Line" test ROM as well as the games Elk Attack, Okie Dokie. The archive from 2000 it also includes Oysteron and This Planet Sucks.

 

And It was a excellent idea. Thanks to including these games is how I discovered the existence of 'homebrew' games for classic systems. Oystron is still one of my favorite homebrew games for atari 2600.

[ComputerSpaceFan]

Okay someone help me out here. What is the objective of this game? I tried it on my Harmony last night and I am very impressed but I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

I know this is based on Electric Yoyo by Taito so I watched some YouTube vids of that game being played and I am still perplexed. Do you just go around picking up dots and avoiding bad guys? Is that it? Is it Pacman minus the maze?

[schuwalker]

Okay someone help me out here. What is the objective of this game? I tried it on my Harmony last night and I am very impressed but I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

I know this is based on Electric Yoyo by Taito so I watched some YouTube vids of that game being played and I am still perplexed. Do you just go around picking up dots and avoiding bad guys? Is that it? Is it Pacman minus the maze?

 

 

Yep...

 

Collect all the dots and the further the dots are - more the points... It looks like the 2600 version is lacking the snake which is a pain in the a$$ in the arcade.