pocketmego

I've heard such horrendous things about Mythicon. Were they so bad? -Ray

Xenophobe might be the greatest Arcade port ever done for the 2600 and possibly the best game on the system. -Ray

Good job. I like that it gets faster and faster. However, it does need a shark. That was a term that the Activision guys used when they first made fishing derby and it was missing just one element to make it a perfect game. You need to add some sort of random danger to the player other than the pigs to make this harder, or its just goign to be about keeping score. Think of the ahark in fishing derby that eats the fish you are trying to catch. Or the Spider in Centipede, or the saucer in Asteroids. Other than that though, you did a great job with this. -Ray

I don't see why we should stop. If the current Atari is reading this forum (and I can't believe they aren't) they should know that many people are unhappy about the decision to drop something like a working 7800 for the sake of a Flashback. The Flashback did OK, but a Neo 7800 would have done fantastic business as a retro gaming machine. It would have been an experiment sure, but I think it would have been MORE successfull than the Flashbacks have been. -Ray

Perhaps some were traitors, but I'd say a great many were like me and never touched or owned an Atari anything before I got my C64 in 1983. Matter of fact I didn't even get a Atari 2600 till fours years later. Garak Or like me, my parent's knew I was interested in computers so they got me a C-64. It was cheap. As it turned out it ended up having the best library of games on any system and much like the VCS was way more capable of stuff than the original designers had imagined it to be. It was an incredibly flexible machine with a LOOOONNNGGG life for games. -Ray

Totally agree. Double Dragon is in my opinion the HARDEST 2600 game there is. -Ray

Actually before I edited my first post, I did have something in it about the variable points thing. However, I edited it out and didn't think about putting it back in. So I'm glad you mentioned that. That's one important factor that seperates it from being "just air hockey". a-Uh...1st Person Air Hockey. -Ray

It's a fine game. But, they need shoes. -Ray

I have to be on the side of the people that don't believe there was enough graphical issues to cripple the 7800. It would have stood up, just as the C-64 did, just fine to the NES with good, solid, comparable games. Things like Scrapyard Dog and Midnight Mutants should have been in its first year grouping of games and not its last years. More 8 Bit computer titles would have worked out great. Impossible Mission 2 would have been a good idea. Hell I bet Nintendo's collective heads would have exploded if jack had had the guts to release Great Gianna Sisters on the 7800. Cauldron 1 and 2 Barbabrians 1 and 2 Jeff Minter's stuff More EA stuff Microprose stuff The 7800 could have been the PERFECT venue for Home Computer Games on a console at an affordable price. It would have been the PERFECT alternative to the stuff on the NES. -Ray

I got an adaptor that lets me pretty much use the actually joysticks for any games I want on my emulators. i love my emulator, it lets me play any Atari games ever released. But, I still own 4 2600 and a 7800. Why? Because there is NOTHING like the feeling when my newest homebrew or classic cartridge arrives in the mail and being able to pop it in my 7800 and just play, like when i was a kid again. Buying classic hardware and carts keeps this hobby alive. Without the plastic, its just a bunch of ROM images that mean nothing. You must follow your own heart, but I think you'll regret the loss if you get rid of your cartridges. -Ray

I don't know that they'd make a lot of money, but I'd sure like to see someone try. A new Genesis from Sega would pretty much be my next gen solution if it came out. I'd be especially interested if it were a system ready for a rerelease of the old games plus some new ones. I wouldn't even care if they reshaped the carts and pulled some reprogramming so you had to buy the games new from them. Of course, we'd buy it, but sadly probably not enough people would to make it worth their while. Why would Sega do that when they can just release their Genesis (and other system games) for the Virtual Console, X Box Arcade, Gametap, and various collections for current gen systems and not have to worry about the manufacturing costs of the new hardware. AND they already have 3rd-parties building Genesises and footing the bill FOR them. Where can I get such a device? -Ray

Wouldn't any game of REAL Air Hockey be first person? -Ray Ah, perhaps I miswrote then. By "first person" I mean that your view is from the front of the striker itself, rather than being the guy at the table holding it. It's all symantics. LOL, I know, I was just giving you a hard time. -Ray

Don't have to tell me. It makes me so sick that they went with the Flashback instead of releasing this. It could have been a fresh new life for the 7800. -Ray

As I've been following this SAGA, I'm eerily reminded of Mr. MaGee from the Incredible Hulk. He was always just inches away fromthe big secret and missed it every time. The ET Cartridges are believed to be dead and they must let the world think that they are dead... -Ray

Wouldn't any game of REAL Air Hockey be first person? -Ray

I would have been thrilled to have seen this go into mass production. It would have meant new life for the 7800 and for old 2600 games that it would still have played. So my dissapointment is notin its design, its in the stupid idea of the Flashback instead of the real deal. -Ray

Interesting how the Atari computers took the lead this time. So far pushing very much ahead of the C64. -Ray

I definately thing game specific marketing would have doen them a world of good. They had agreat game for all the sportsw people with One on One and it was better than ANY basketball game Nintendo had. Spending a little money and actually using Al lewis in a commercial for Midnight utants could have made it another Zelda. -Ray

Here ya go... -Ray

Because, this is what comics are going to look like in Hell. -Ray

Um... you spelled "Commodore" wrong... --Zero I hate you. -Ray

Geez, I was really rooting for that Pancake boy thing. -Ray

I enjoy playing Halloween. i think it holds up a lot better in terms of feel and theme than even later horror games do liker the Friday the 13th game on the NES. Halloween feels like the movie. That movie was much newer than TCM though and I have a strange feeling that development for the TCM game went like this... I disagree. Halloween for 2600 was fun and an okay game in its own right. BUT It's not like the movie. Michael Myers, didn't swing his knife over and over. Nor did he 'EVER' cutt anyones head off. Laurie didn't have blond hair and a skirt?? Is this a tennis game? The object in this game is to take kids to a safe room, away from danger. It's a cool idea, but there's no outdoors, for the kids to go, lol. No closet. But the music is dead on. Also there's a nice Pumpkin overhead. Overall, this was a good adaption. BUT! I felt that Friday the 13th was the best horror movie game ever! It had it all. Errie music, challenges, camp counselors, Jasons' mothers head!, The hockey mask..an array of weapons. Only thing missing is the Camp Crystal Lake sign. As adaptions go, this one really captured the movie feel to me. Just look at the title screen. To say this doesn't hold up to the Fri 13th films is BLASPHEMY! - Texas Chainsaw , had the morbid feeling right, in comparison to the film. game was only mediocre though. I guess there isn't much you can do for it. It's really not a bad game. There was a wheelchair in the movie, and a chainsaw. It's creative that the game ends when Leatherface runs outta gas. heh. And then the dreaded ass kick. OK, I might have to run through F13 on the NES again, because I'm not feeling it. -Ray

No one is going to ever say the 7800 stood a chance agaisnt the NES and the SMS. Yet, it did carve an interesting niche all its own. To combat the 3rd party wrangling of Nintendo and Sega, they managed to create a pretty unique library. Classic Arcade Hits 7800 specific games Many over-looked 8-Bit computer games. One on One was one of the first games EA ever ported to a console and I think I read it might have been the systems best selling title. They had a couple of good commercials for the system and one lousy one. I'm very curious as to where the system COULD have gone. I think for one thing getting the rights to Jordan Vs Byrd would have helped immensly. We might have seen more original titles, the likes of Ninja Golf, Scrapyard Dog, and Midnight Mutants. Activision may have eventually come aboard with some of their 8-Bit computer games. Atari could have gotten the rights to more 3rd party classic game companies like Imagic. Producing 7800 versions of the classic 2600 library. So much COULD have been done to save this wonderful machine. Damn you, Tramiel!!! -Ray

I've been to he VGC site tones of times for 2600 games and because of that I seek your opinions first. Because sometimes that guy is right and sometimes he is WAY OFF. -Ray Try Cousin Vinnie's Froo-Froo. It might not have as many reviews as VGC does, but it gives you a second opinion. Thanks! And I have more 7800 reviews than anyone............... cause I got them all! That reminds me, I have a Review of Robot Finds Kitten coming this week! Cousin Vinnie How about a link Vinnie. I'll be glad to check it out. -Ray