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Here's another in my series of efforts to start threads...

 

This question arises from my personal experience, as a die-hard Atari 2600-loving youth in the early '80s, to a passive collector throughout the '90s, to a more serious collector only in the past few months.

 

I am a player/collector, that is, while I am mainly collecting to get a complete collection, I also still like playing the games, and I am having fun playing games I never had as a kid.

 

Therefore, the question: What is your favorite Atari 2600 game to play NOW that you never owned and had never played back THEN?

 

Mine is a bit of a surprise... to me as well as probably to most of you... Circus Atari! It's the same kind of insanely addictive paddle game as Kaboom! and I just can't get enough of either of them!

 

Another recent favorite that I never had before is Stargate. I was very excited about it when I read about it in Atari Age magazine, but I never saw it for sale anywhere in the '80s.

 

OK... let's hear yours!

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My favourite games i never had as a kid are Xenophobe,

Ms.Pac-Man and Millipede.

I always wanted Ms.Pac-Man as a kid but somehow never

got it. Last Summer i found it on a Flea-market and i was

really impressed how much better it is than Pac-man.

A must have, no doubt!

 

Same goes for Millipede which i also found on a Flea-market

last Summer...

I never cared much about it as a kid coz i liked Centipede

but it was never my favourite Game... So i just thought it

wouldn´t be much better than Centipede!

But i was very wrong... while Centipede is just a good game

Millipede is a rush!!! Bigger, better, faster, more!!

I never thought it would be that good!!!!!

 

Well, i´ve never heard of Xenophobe as a kid. I got it from

Ebay and to my delight it turned out to be one of the best

and most fun Games i ever played on my 2600!

Xenophobe rocks!!!

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HERO and Pitfall II. Always wanted to play those games, but my parents refused to buy any more Atari games after the crash. Which of course added to it. So blame them for it.

 

I agree about Stargate--it really surprised me. What a great port of the game. It really makes Defender look weak.

 

There are a ton more games I never played as a kid and always wanted. It's what makes collecting them now so great.

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Seems like everytime I plug in the 2600 I play Jr. Pac-Man and Star Trek S.O.S...After that, there is the other 100 games I never had as a kid, and of course the homebrew games that did not even exist then.

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Phoenix, far and above any others. I love this game now, and never ever saw it as a kid.

 

I like Cosmic Ark and Gravitar also, those are really fun on my emulator, and I'll get those soon enough

 

Artillery Duel, how could I forget that?? Dang it is fun (I have the Chuck Norris/Art Duel double ender).

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Well, I grew up in a ColecoVision household, so I guess I could say pretty much any game here... but I'll choose either Dark Chambers or Secret Quest. Both are incredibly well done, and I don't think I'd have appreciated them nearly as much as I do now. I also probably wouldn't have had the patience to get much farther than the first level.

 

--Zero

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Game I used to want badly but never got as a kid: Vanguard.

 

But I don't like it anymore!

 

Instead most of the games I overlooked as a kid are now among my top favorites! Too many to count..

 

Rasty.-

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I'm more of a player than a collector -- I have hundreds and hundreds of VCS games (and ColecoVision and etc. etc.), and buy them wherever I see them, but if I didn't have fun playing, it wouldn't do me much good. I understand the fetishing of tangible objects that look neat (and fascinated me as a kid), but I resist that purely collectible impulse and concentrate on the games I love to play. For instance, I'll often trade 2 rare games that I never play for a more common game that I like. That sort of thing.

 

My favorite games NOW that I never played THEN are Stampede (believe it or not, I never had it back in the day, and when I first played it a couple years ago, I was pleasantly surprised by how addictive it is), Pressure Cooker, Frostbite, Spacemaster X-7, Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes, Millipede (far superior to the prequel) and Jr. Pac-Man. And probably a lot more, but this message is long enough already.

 

CF

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quote:

Originally posted by Chris Federico:

Stampede

 

Good one! I never wanted it when I was a kid. I hated anything cowboy-related. I guess it's the effect of growing up in a small town that is just big enough that there's a city-kid/country-kid division and I wanted nothing to do with anything rural. Since growing up I've only lived in very large metro areas, and now I have a lot more appreciation for the rural, especially the West!

 

Anyway... I digress. I just got Stampede recently and I was nothing less than shocked at how fun and addictive it is! (And frustrating, too!)

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