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  1. Posted

    1984 doesn't seem so bad, but 1983 had some real stinkers. There were 3 Mythicon games in 1983. We're really lucky the world didn't explode. It seems that 83 had most of the games from the obscure 3rd party publishers and lower quality later releases from established companies. Atari did seem a bit over-extended.

     

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

     

    -Ray

  3. Posted

    I made this fixed (you can move up & down, though.) space shooter game with Batari Basic. What do you guys think?

     

    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

  4. Posted

    Can we stop the "if it played real games" stuff witht he flashbacks in no way shape or form is that a reasonable request.

     

    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

  5. Posted

    I used to think all of those C64 owners were traitors to Atari.

     

    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

  6. Posted

    The new homebrew/hack Atrix from the last NWCGE will kick your ass. It's hard as hell!

     

    Of the original games, I'd have to say River Raid II and Double Dragon are merciless. Double Dragon is damn near unplayable.

     

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

     

    -Ray

  7. Posted

    Also, people so far have failed to mention, that it has variable points. If you drive up to the goal, then you get 1 point. Stay a ways off, and you get 2 points. I like trying to shoot from acroos the play field, when you can either barely see the posts, or not see them at all for the 3 pointer.

     

    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". :P

     

    a-Uh...1st Person Air Hockey. :P

     

    -Ray

  9. Posted

    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

  10. Posted

    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

  11. Posted

     

     

    You and me think a LOT a like dude. I sometimes wish someone like Sega would take a chance ona low cost modern version of the Genesis. I bet it would sell pretty well and a lot more people would buy it than they think. Look at all the NES clones that are sellign well these days.

     

    -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

  12. Posted

    Actually there's not much to get about the game. It's really simple when you think about it:

     

    Take air hockey, make the strikers pilotable, turn the puck into a ball, and make the goals move from side to side, and shrink as you make more goals. That's Ballblazer in a nutshell. "First-person Air Hockey" :P

     

    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. :P

     

     

    LOL, I know, I was just giving you a hard time. :D

     

    -Ray

  13. Posted

    See, that's what I'm talking about there. Make a Flashback that is one of those. I guarantee you there's a market, as big, ore even bigger than the Current PNP systems, especially if you toss in a cart with 4 or 6 games like most PNP systems have.

     

    I'd be the first out to buy it if that ever happens. Unfortunately, there's not anybody competant enough in the businesss that make PNP to figure that out.

     

    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

  15. Posted

    Actually there's not much to get about the game. It's really simple when you think about it:

     

    Take air hockey, make the strikers pilotable, turn the puck into a ball, and make the goals move from side to side, and shrink as you make more goals. That's Ballblazer in a nutshell. "First-person Air Hockey" :P

     

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

     

    -Ray

  16. Posted

    http://kotaku.com/gaming/nolan-bushnell/no...ucks-199593.php

     

    Now THAT'S a collector's item! Namely, it's a brand new Atari 7800, signed by Nolan Bushnell and with an iPod-inspired 21st century design. They were supposed to go into mass production, but Atari decided that the Flashback 2 would be more than enough to satisfy retro gamers. Now there's only a few of the new wave 7800's available.

     

    Personally, I never cared for the system, but I wouldn't be embarassed to have that particular 7800 tucked away in my entertainment center!

     

    JR

     

    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

  18. Posted

    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

  20. Posted

    No. Rob Liefeld's Atari Force would RAWK!

     

    Martin Champion would become the obligatory Cable clone.

     

    Dart -> Domino

     

    Babe -> Badrock

     

    Tempest -> Shaft

     

    Hukka and Morphea would get EXTREEEM redesigns. (Maybe Hukka would adopt the Wolverine/Feral template. "Don't fuck with the Hukk!")

     

    There would be EXTREEM dialog like "Eat shit you shitting shitter!"

     

    Every panel would be packed with EXTREEM non-proportional action and movement lines.

     

    Dart would develop serious jugs and a broken back.

     

    How could you be against something like that? :D

     

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

     

    -Ray

  23. Posted

     

    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. :lust:

    To say this doesn't hold up to the Fri 13th films is BLASPHEMY! :twisted:

     

    - 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. :ponder:

    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

  24. Posted

    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

  25. Posted

    That wasn't a personal attack, Vinnie. It was meant as a joke.

     

    I'd send you some custom made joints that I've been smoking, but the post office refuses to ship dangerous chemicals.

     

    Actually, yours and the Video Game Critics' webistes are good sources of review info. I'm surprised that no one's directed pocketmego to them yet.

     

    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

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