davidbrit2 Posted June 8, 2001 Share Posted June 8, 2001 Someone should hack the graphics in Outlaw to make it look more like Unreal Tournament or Quake III. That would be hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted June 8, 2001 Share Posted June 8, 2001 hmmm.... That would be funny. It'd go well wih the Doom 2600 hoax cart from a few years back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidbrit2 Posted June 8, 2001 Author Share Posted June 8, 2001 Then we could turn Artillery Duel into Worms, but that still leaves the question of Diablo II. He he. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyp Posted June 12, 2001 Share Posted June 12, 2001 Any chance of getting a ROM image of this Doom 2600? Was it an actual game or just a faked screenshot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagDiesel Posted June 12, 2001 Share Posted June 12, 2001 the one I'd like to see... Alien vs Predator for the 2600 that'd be sweet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted June 12, 2001 Share Posted June 12, 2001 quote: Originally posted by GazP: Was it an actual game or just a faked screenshot? It was just a faked box and cartridge label. It was pretty cool, though, and I think it had a few believers at the very beginning. It even got into EGM! You can read all about it at The Official 2600 Doom Page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyp Posted June 12, 2001 Share Posted June 12, 2001 That actually is very good Any other famous hoaxes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted June 12, 2001 Share Posted June 12, 2001 Now that I had a chance to re-read the 2600 Doom Page, I do see that he made fake screenshots as well. Pretty inventive stuff, actually. He did the "screenshot" graphics on an old Atari computer to mimic the look of a 2600, and then took the screenshots off a real TV. Pretty authentic-looking IMHO. It probably would be a pretty cool game, although more than likely impossible to pull off with the 2600's graphic limitations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted June 12, 2001 Share Posted June 12, 2001 quote: Originally posted by GazP: Any other famous hoaxes? I don't remember ever seeing any other hoaxes that were quite as believable as the "2600 Doom Incident." There were the "2600 John Deere VCS" and "7800 Delorean Edition" fakes. Even though they were cool in their own right, they didn't really make it as big as Doom 2600. Am I missing any? I know there have been many hoaxes, but these are what immediately come to mind. [ 06-12-2001: Message edited by: twit ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagDiesel Posted June 12, 2001 Share Posted June 12, 2001 Well, looks like you got most of them... Atari7800.com has some fakes of their own that are pretty good. I think they're listed as worst games ideas or something like that.. All in all pretty entertaining.. who else would come up with "the Greatest American hero" or "threes company" or even "Mr T vs Mister Belvedere" pretty good stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted June 12, 2001 Share Posted June 12, 2001 There are a few more that aren't necessarily hoaxes, but are fakes. Check out: - Christopher Drum's Atari 2600 Design Project. There are many cool label fakes there. - ResQsoft has a page on some cART Creations. (These are all done by the same guy that put together the Atari 2600 John Deere Edition. - Then, there's always the A#1 Fancy Lable(sic) Club Gallery. (I had to get that plug in there...) This is more fan-made 2600 label remakes than hoaxes, but it does fit into the "fakes" category... kinda. - I'll be releasing the A#2 Fancy Label Club Gallery soon, too. So far about 7 out of 18 labels have been completed and distributed. I'm currently developing the gallery, so it should be up in the next couple of weeks. I'd personally like to see more. Do any of you know about more fan-labeled/modified 2600 stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 There have been a few other fakes, though not outright hoaxes: Space Haggis (who did this?), Monkey Adventure (Frank Traut), Tron (Lee's Peek n Poke)... There was Mortal Kombat Trilogy for a bunch of systems... Actually does anyone have pix of Zimot carts? I thought I had them, and want to print them in 2600 Connection, but I can't find them. No one seems to remember these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 Oops, nearly forgot... There's also Tomb Raider. James Catalano did a screen shot, and Jess Ragan did a screen shot and box. All have been printed in 2600 Connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 I made this pacman fake a while back before I heard of the Ebivision version or A Better Pacman came out: http://www.gameovernet.co.uk/newpac.gif but I guess now that's ancient history and it really isn't a "fake" anymore eh? well.. i guess it's still a little off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 A friend of mine from Amsterdam did the famous Garfield on April Fools' Day a couple of years ago. He really fooled the lot of us on #rgvc, even though he showed us a picture of a commercially released game with production label (and actiplaque!) of a game that could not ever have been passed the prototype stage.. I guess we can be easily fooled by things we'd love to be reality. Little did we know Garfield would indeed surface three years later... Cheers, Marco PS: sorry, I don't have a pic or URL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 quoteThere was also a hoax a year or two back, where the Atari 2600 was presumably re-introduced as the "iAtari." It was the same old hardware, but the iAtari came in a variety of newly designed console cases sporting vibrantly colored plastic a la the Apple iMac. With a little bit of work I could probably actually get something like this made. I'd have to have 3D models of the two 2600 case halves made, probably by laser scanning. Then I could have some cases made and get the silkscreening printed on them. Would be a neat little project. There's a hardware guy at TiVo I worked with who's done tons of work like this (mostly for SGI before he came to TiVo) and he said it's relatively easy to do. It's funny because I had asked him recently about a similar project and it never dawned on me that it'd be cool to make translucent 2600 cases. I'll fire him off an email and see what he thinks and try to get an estimate of how much it would cost. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugclone Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 i agree it would be awesome to have an "iAtari" with a translucent case and matching joysticks..i would actually pay instantly for something like this.. somebody make it so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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