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Here's gameplay only of a game I thought would be perfect on the VCS: 80s Overdrive. Throwback arcade racing on a stock 8GB VCS in ChimeraOS.
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Casual gameplay of Jr. Pac-Man for the 7800. This fantastic homebrew by Bob DeCrescenzo faithfully recreates the 1983 GCC developed arcade game.
I love this version. It's even better than the official 2600 port. Played with a Trooper because the CX-40+ wasn't up to the task. I really want a good 4-way stick for this and the other Pac games.
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Casual gameplay only of Xenophobe (7800) on the 2600+. I was spoiled by the excellent Lynx port, so this never got a ton of play. Lack of character choice and clunky controls make this somewhat hard to recommend. But it does fill a gap in the 7800 library.
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My exploration of the Atari VCS PC-MODE continues with the re-release of Balls Of Steel from Atari & Big Boat Interactive.
Played on a stock 8GB VCS using Steam via ChimeraOS.
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Casual gameplay of Eggomania on the 2600+ with CX-30+ Paddles. This game takes Kaboom and cracks a few green eggs to create a fresh retro omlette.
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I'm exploring PC-MODE on the Atari VCS using ChimeraOS. Formula Retro Racing is a game I thought would be a great fit for the VCS. Here it is on a stock 8GB system.
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Casual gameplay of Beef Drop for the Atari 7800 on the Atari 2600+. Programmed by the late Ken Siders, this homage to Data East's Burger Time plays very close to its arcade inspiration. Played with a CX-40+.
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Casual gameplay only of Rampage (1989) for the Atari 7800. Published by Activision, this port of Bally-Midway's arcade monster bash puts you in control of the fearsome George, Lizzie, or Ralph as you destroy city after city. It's good mindless fun and the arcade game was a childhood favorite.
My best friend had this on the SMS, and that is a far superior version. Still, the 7800 version has it's own cartoonish charm.
Thanks to the future Mrs. Sabertooth, who graciously assisted me in capturing this footage. Played with a pair of CX-78 gamepads.
Note: You'll have to be on the Rev2 beta or experimental firmware for this to work. It does not load with the shipped firmware.
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Casual gameplay of Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600+. DK - along with Mouse Trap - were the pack-in titles for my Coleco Gemini which I received for Christmas way back in 1983.
Internet rumors abound regarding the quality of this port. Was it a part of a conspiracy to make the obviously superior Colecovision look...superior? Hogwash!
Garry Kitchen did a solid job bringing the game to the 2600 in limited time on a 4K cart. I like it in the same way I like 2600 Pac-Man. If you're a younger GenXer (Xennial, if you will), this was probably your DK.
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I don't know that it was hobbled specifically to make the ColecoVision version look good, I just think they probably had budgets and deadlines such that they didn't care if that happened. At the time I had a Coleco so knew nothing of the Atari version, but the magazines seemed to run with that theory a lot...Meanwhile, I think people enjoyed it at the time. I'd always heard it played well, even with inferior graphics and only 2 levels, etc...Has anyone asked the programmer about these theories?
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Garry Kitchen has indicated that the missing levels were due to constraints of time and ROM size - mostly time - and that he made the best game he could within those constraints. Here's a great interview with him on the Video Game History Hour where he gets into detail about development of the game.
https://gamehistory.org/ep-7-donkey-kong-came-to-the-atari-2600-thanks-to-garry-kitchen/
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Casual gameplay of Mouse Trap on the 2600+. This - along with DK - was my first owned game. It came with my Coleco Gemini way back in 1983. Of course, the game was later re-released by Atari after they acquired several Coleco assets.
Played with smart/fast cat settings. Otherwise, we'd be here all day.
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Casual gameplay only of Activision's Spider Fighter (1982) for the Atari 2600. Programmed by Larry Miller, players protect an orchard from a host of bugs.
Played (poorly) with a CX-40+.
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I remember buying that one BITD! At Pay N Save for $26.95 according to the price tag still on it! I wonder about the actual release date. Wikipedia says 1982. My box says 1982...I notice the screen says 1983....HMMmm...Price charting says January 1, 1983. (I wondered if I bought it while I was mainly collecting ColecoVision at the time)...I do seem to remember it came out later so 1983 is probably right (January or not)....
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FWIW,
Late January 1983 according to our own @Random Terrain
https://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-history-1983.html#spider_fighter
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Can't wait to try Ca$h Cow DX on your Atari VCS? Here's the demo played and captured in PC-Mode. Hopefully we get a native port!