Lauren Tyler

A little better this time around...

OK so I haven't had time to play on my actual hardware, but here's my first score for the week.

It's truly ironic, I just got this game a couple weeks ago at a trademeet, since I wanted to have all the Pac-Man games for my Atari 2600. Unfortunately, I don't know where the digital camera is, so I'm still stuck using emulation! (I'll have a score ASAP)

I think it was Ze_ro who used the random number generator to pick a game in instances like this. Why not this time?

I'm getting better.

It's amazing to think that Tod Frye hated Pac-Man, and decided to do a sloppy job just so he could get his paycheck. I wonder if he regrets what he did now? Still, there are people who liked this version nonetheless. I remember my mother telling me about the time she stayed up late one evening playing it, and turning over the score at least once. Nonetheless, here's my first score.

Getting a little better here.

Just a little something to remember: Once you've filled in a square, you don't have to worry about chase cars erasing your lines for that one.

When I first saw this title awhile back on the internet, I thought it was Demolition Derby, and that it was a port of the arcade game. Well, I was wrong, but it's still neat.

I always thought Pole Position was fast. It was even faster than the arcade version!

I'm just curious, has anyone one here ever done their own custom labels? I have a lot of interesting thoughts for my own labels, but I stink royally at drawing.

I remember Archon. I played it a lot in 5th and 6th grade, when we still had Apple 2 computers at my school. I would later find a CGA version for my ancient computer in 1994, and it turned out to be one of the timesucks for me when I was in my room.

Whoa, someone's been VERY busy! Keep it up folks! I'd love to make some hacks of my own, but I don't know where to start.

Paperboy Qix Roadblasters Road Runner (Just a few I could think of)

I've tried using Genesis controllers on my Atari 2600 a few times, and it worked fine for the most part. However, I don't recommend using High Frequency controllers (some 6-button controllers are like that) since they can cause the game to act screwy. It happened when I was playing Dodge 'Em with a High Frequency controller, my car started going full speed without me touching the button, and it wouldn't respond to my controls.

OK, you're probably wondering why I'm submitting a smaller score than my previous submission. I just found out today that the score I had earned was not, in fact, the true score that I should have gotten. I accidentally got it through a glitch which I had not known about untill today. At any rate, I would like to have my current score withdrawn and this score used as my current entry. I was not intentionally trying to cheat, but nevertheless, I want to play the honest way.

I remember in fifth grade, there was this kid who came up with the idea of creating his own paper 'board' games, where he made a die out of paper, cut out little pictures of cars as the game pieces, and the goal was to be the first to complete a race, with various spaces telling you to lose a turn, go back one, etc. Man, what I would give for the abililty to design my own board games.

Man, I could think of so many great 2600 games that could be made into paper games (or board games for that matter! )

For the first time through I did pretty good actually!

Football competition? That's something I could go for. We need an Atari 2600 emulator with the ability to play head-to-head online!

I'm still 'fired' up about this game.

I ain't 'dragon' my feet around anymore!

If I knew how to program, I'd do a remake of this version of the game. Unfortunately, I don't know how to write games yet...

Sometimes, I wonder why the king didn't ask for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch! (Because if he did, then there wouldn't be much of a game, now, would there? )

This really burns me up!