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Of course, but if we told someone NOW (Oct 12) that we wanted a Pac-Man release in time for Christmas, how good would it be? It's not really fair to use a home brew as a comparison. They don't have the marketing and sales depts. on their ass all day.

Coleco probably sold more 2600 DK carts than CV systems. And no company would waste that much money on R&D, engineering and manufacturing to intentionally release a bad game. There's no guarantee that it would result in more system sales. The problem was a 4K limit which doomed it like it doomed VCS Pac-Man

They even say in the manual that you should line up Do's foot in the space between the blocks when you try to knock them out. So obviously it was a known issue in testing.

I spent some time with MDC tonight. It's not as horrible as I remember. If they patched up kicking ladders and knocking out blocks a bit, it would be pretty good. It's kinda frustrating but not unplayable. After some practice even that stuff became less annoying.

Same here. One of my favorite games and hope it gets dumped at some point.

Barnstorming is just Grand Prix with a plane and Sky Jinks is Skiing with a plane. They look nice though. But I never understood Activision's fascination with timed games. Did any other company make so many?

Is it set to the right channel? There's a switch on the back that you can select channel 3 or 4. Or maybe 2 and 3. Forget exactly which one. Might be different depending on which country you're in. But it looks something like this http://yesterbits.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/cx2600-channel-select.jpg Might be worth checking out.

Was the last DK Arcade update in APRIL?! What happened?

Was this the one sold by the Atari Club?

The only thing wrong with Fire Fighter is that it's ridiculously easy. Looks nice, solid controls. But no challenge. It's essentially a kids game.

Why can't I edit my initial post? Wanted to add the games I missed.

That's why I didn't include it it in my list above but would include medieval mayhem. a port of an arcade port of a home game

What was the arcade version again? There was a nagging doubt in the back of my mind as I passed by it, but I wasn't sure

Yeah the Atari 2600 didn't have a disk drive, maybe you have a 2600 and some Atari computer parts but they're not the same. Pictures would help solve the mystery.

Have we done this already? I probably started it myself a while back. Messing around with my CC2 and adding an ARCADE subfolder. Here's what I have. Probably missed some homebrews that aren't in the AA Rarity Guide. Air-Sea Battle (Anti-Aircraft) Amidar Anteater (unreleased proto) Asteroids Basketball Battlezone Berzerk Blueprint Breakout Buck Rogers: Planet Of Zoom Bump 'n' Jump Burgertime Canyon Bomber Carnival Centipede Chetiry (homebrew) (Tetris) Circus Atari (Circus) Colony 7 (homebrew) Combat (Tank) Commando Congo Bongo Crazy Ballon (homebrew) Crazy Climber Crossbow Crystal Castles Defender Dig Dug Dodge 'em (Head On) Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Jr. Dragster (Drag Race) Edtris (homebrew) (Tetris) Elevator Action (proto) Espial Frogger Front Line Funky Fish (proto) Galaxian Gorf Gravitar Gunfight (homebrew) (Gun Fight) Gyruss Human Cannonball (Cannonball?) Ikari Warriors Indy 500 (Indy 800) Ixion (proto) Joust Jr. Pac-Man Jungle Hunt Kangaroo Klax (proto) Kung Fu Master Ladybug (homebrew) Lock 'n' Chase Looping (proto) Mario Bros. Millipede Missile Command Moon Patrol Mouse Trap Mr. Do! Mr. Do's Castle Ms. Pac-Man Night Driver Omega Race Outlaw (Gun Fight) Pac-Man Pengo Phantom II (homebrew) Phoenix Pleiades Pole Position Pooyan Popeye Q*bert Q*bert's Qubes Rampage! Reactor Road Runner Roc 'n' Rope Sinistar (proto) Sky Diver Sky Skipper Solar Fox Space Invaders Space War (Space Wars) Sprintmaster Spy Hunter Star Fire (homebrew) Star Ship (Starship 1) Star Trek: Strategic Operation Simulator Star Wars: The Arcade Game Stargate Steeplechase Strategy X Stunt Cycle (proto) Sub Scan Tac Scan Tapper Tempest (proto) Tetris 26 (homebrew) Time Pilot Track and Field Turbo (proto) Tutankham Universal Chaos (Targ) Up 'n' Down Vanguard Vault Assault (homebrew) (Space Zap) Venture Video Olympics (Pong) Wizard Of Wor Xenophobe Xevious (proto) Zaxxon

I pretty much ignored Seaquest until it was a HSC game. Love it now. But I'm not looking at the spreadsheet. I like to figure things out for myself. It's like reading the "how to solve a rubik's cube" book. Ruins it.

If you set the difficulty to "A" then you get the snake and the red balls. If you time it right, when Coily is about to jump on you, you can jump towards him and you'll pass through each other. Seen here

Well, any of the board games like checkers, chess, othello. And two player only games. Also Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Adventure

The thing that kills Q*bert for me is the jump through the snake trick. Makes it a bit too easy.

Warlords is not a port, the arcade game came later Also, no love for Vanguard?

That's how you know it's good. Because the arcade game was a pain in the ass too. I have a real love/hate relationship with this game because the enemy movements were designed by a sociopath

This game is awesome. Love frantic shooters

There's a nice bit at 10 30 that goes on for a little while. Is that the Missile Command extra city sound? Then around 16:25 when it slowly builds and locks into a groove again, love it. So I think there's some nice stuff in there but overall it would give me a headache listening to a solid 20 minutes of it. I tend to prefer the groove instead of the random bleeps and bloops and fuzz. But hey, rock on. Just my worthless opinion

Ha. Been there. Get some sleep!

Psoriasis Apprentice? Psoriasis is a skin disease, how does that relate to a bar?