Your Favorite and Least

[Your Favorite and Least]

If you could choose one (oh no, not another best/worst list ) Favorite and one least favorite Coin Op game what would it be?

 

Favorite would be Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom. I spent many a quarter on this thjing "back in the day" and still consider it a fine game. I just wish it was emulated..

 

Least favorite? Mortal Combat. I have tried to play this game over 20 times and only once did I ever make it past the first guy. In fact, that time I made it to the third. Then some moron put a token in the machine, killed me, and kept on playing. Never played the game since.

[A question about "Today's Active Topics"]

Just change it to Normal Standard Time AKA Central...

 

This works for 1 main reason... There is a town of "Normal" in Illinois.

[What else do you collect?]

I have a unusual collection... Dirty Diapers. 'Course I have a 2 year old and a 5 month old...

 

Seriopusly, I collect roadmaps and maps of national parks. I estimate that I have in the neighborhood of about 750 maps total. Great hobby, because new ones are free, and after a while you can't be beaten in the Geography category of Trivial Pursuit

[Top Ten Best Games.]

I enjoyed Buck Rogers immensly too. Kept playing that one and got good at it. Level 10 doesn't say "Level 10" onm the intro, but a couple different characters if I remember correctly. Unfortunately I haven't been able to duplicat that on an EMU yet.

 

10 Favs, huh?

 

1) Raiders of the Lost Ark

2) Pitfall 2

3) Reactor

4) Tac Scan

5) Tapper

6) Adventure

7) Robot Tank

Starmaster

9) Stargate/defender 2

10) Blackjack (I got good at blackjack after a while...)

[Mr Do!'s rollercoaster?]

We cannot give you the site to get roms or else we'd have to kill you.

 

Personally I don't know where to get them , but I'm sure you'd figure something out.

 

 

 

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[Which game should be ported to ATARI 2600 ?]

If you break desert strike down to its bare graphical elements, yes, I'm convinced it could be done. Think of a cross between desert falcon and defender. 'course I only know some visual basic and how to print "Hello, world!" in C++

 

cout >> "Hello World!"

[Best/Worst M-Network Title]

The only reason I didn't say that the baseball or football were #1 was due to the fact the games were 2 players only. Plus football had the annoying 10-yard hyperspace manneuver that made the game too easy.

[Which game should be ported to ATARI 2600 ?]

First, I think Desert Strike, the classic EA game could be done. It would follow the same minimalist treatment as Desrt Falcon 2600 followed. I loved this game on my ST and would love it on the 26.

 

Tron Arcade? This could be done, and done right graphically. Control would be a bit messy though.

 

I'd like to see a pseudo-sequel of Crystal Castles.. Crystal Castles II: Bentley Bear's Adventure. Sounds like a project for Khryssun's VCS Simulator.

 

And, a very easy one to do... Robby Roto.

 

Wasn't a 2600 Kickman programmed by Digital Eclipse?

[Best/Worst M-Network Title]

Another in the seemingly endless Best/Worst questions... I have to get to be a 4 star poster SOMEhow

 

Best M-Network IMHO -- Air Raiders. I loved this game and the challenge it presented. It was one of the better first-person games on the 2600

 

Worst? BurgerTime.

How did the Blue playfield on the arcade version turned yellow, and due to the ever increasing stupidity of marketing (See Dilbert and Douglas Adam's book Life the Universe and Everything ) We have breadsticks and cheese and tomatoes chasing Peter Pepper around. And control is horrendous (although I do note that control on the arcade version was good, but it did have its foibles).

 

A better version could have been made, but Marketing sticks thier noses where it shouldn't be once again.

[Seaside Heights board walk in Jersey]

And what's this tri-state area thing? It is, as everyone knows, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin..

 

 

 

[Major Havoc - cool]

I never saw it in tthe arcades. Personally, and this is just from playing it on MAME, I don't think its all that spectacular. Definitely not bad, but not amazing.

[Mr Do!'s rollercoaster?]

Sure does, Stan! My little 5 month old falls asleep nicely thanks to the music and colors on the First Mr. Do.

 

A lillte hint for parents...

[Virtual Super System]

Good job on this one. I have 2 questions though..

 

1) Is the dradnaught Factor a bad dump? I don't remember the colors being all of a green hue.

 

2) Some games play too fast. Is there a way to slow iit down?

 

Is it just me, or are the 5200 graphics better on TV than on a monitor? I owned a 52 once and I don't remember them being so blocky.

[Best Game/ Worst Graphics]

Don't be ashamed of liking Journey Escape. I thought it was a decent, mildly challenging game...

[I, Robot]

Thjis is one of the few new, cool games that Aladdin's Castle in Jolit IL got. Fortunately I got a chance to play it. It was, and still is one of my all time favorites. If you haven't played it, get the emulator today and give it a whirl.

[Milan Computers - what are they?]

Something that gives me a bit of pause after reading thier website is this:

 

In the meantime, however, Milan Computer GmbH owns all rights to the TOS operating system;

 

Does this mean that I'm being involved in illegal activity by using the TOS for my emulators? I do own an ST computer, mind you...

[Pistol Grip Atari Controller]

The Mindscape Power Player is my favorite controller. I had a friend that owned an Atari store up in Lombard Illinois (Mars Merchandising) and he procured a huge box of these things unassembled. I remember helping him slap them togehter before the giant Computerfest in Dayton Ohio about 6 years ago.

[Which 2600 games had the worst graphics?]

Actualy, Sega released COngo Bongo on all except the Coleco Vision.

[Best Game/ Worst Graphics]

What, in your 'umble opinion, is the best 2600 game you played whose graphics out and out sucked?

 

I can think of a couple.

 

My #1 in this category was Reactor. Nobody bought it because the vastly under-rated arcade game didn't exactly set the arcades on fire, so I picked it up for a pittance when it first came out.

 

Man is the game ever addicting.

 

The music was pretty close to the arcade as well.

 

Spelling errors come at no cost to you, the consumers.

[New Run of Elevator Actions Available]

The problem with me is that, while I would like to have one, my car just broke down, and my kids have an annoying habit of eating! Can you imagine? I wonder where they picked THAT habit up from. Certainly not dad!

 

It's a little thing called priorities.

 

Now when my stand up comedy career takes off...

[Arcade ports.]

Moon Patrol, Ms Pac, Stargate/Defender II, Frogger..

[Atari Sequels]

And Atlantis/Cosmic Ark

[Atari RPGs?]

I think one that everyone is missing is Dark Mage. Ever play this one? I've played the rom on the Z26 Emu, but haven't gotten really far into it.

[Music you play to]

Almost anything 80's is fun to listen to. Now I listen to my kids crying and my wife screaming.

[What was the first game you bought?]

saved my money from my paper route to purchase Missle Command. It was the first time I was introduced to the concept of "sales tax".