Kittenmommy

Not much you can do there, though. And if a dragon shows up and sees you there, he'll eat you up! You can also take the bridge into the hidden message room and position it in either the top or bottom (I can't remember which and neither my Atari nor my Atari Flashback are hooked up at the moment) and go through, and you'll appear in the Blue Maze. I... don't even know how that could be. Heh.

Wait... what?

Kittendaddy bought me one for Christmas this past year, and I haven't noticed the emulation issue or the sound issue... and believe me, I'm very familiar with the games on there, having played them for 30+ years or so!

If you take the bridge with you into the secret room, you can use it to go right through the fake passage and into the blue maze!

Yes!

OMG yes. Those were the days! The OP brought back so many good memories. I wish I had a time machine. *sigh*

No, but I totes should have. We dressed up and handed out candy to the kids as we always do. And I love your avatar. I have many fond memories of playing with Micronauts as a kid!

OMG OMG! I'm a Hallmark Gold Crown Member, and so have accumulated points...

OMG DO WANT.

A Trak Ball in joystick mode should produce exactly the same output as a joystick. Are you 100% sure, you haven't disabled that mode? Also (and I may be wrong here, I'm using my memory instead of the user's manual, heh) I think Centipede was one of the 2600 games that actually utilized the "Trak-Ball" setting on the controller. Maybe. My memory is like a sieve and I've had a few hundred glasses of wine tonight.

This is so prevalent in media that it even has its own TV Tropes entry (Warning: The TV Tropes Wiki is a huge time sink; enter at your own risk! :!: ). Adventure will never stop being my favorite video game. Ever.

OMG, this looks so complicated. I'm having a small panic attack just looking at the pics of all the little pieces spread out everywhere! I got out my paddle controllers last Friday to play Breakout with Kittengranddaughter. Unfortunately, both of my sets of paddle controllers are jittery like whoa. I guess I could try taking them apart and cleaning them... it's not like I could make them any more unusable than they are now, right? Wait, those are driving controllers. Are they the same as paddle controllers?

The use (and misuse) of video game sound effects (especially Atari/Pac-Man sound effects) is so widespread that it's got its own entry on TV Tropes (see also: Pac-Man Fever).

LOL!

Yes, this.

The arcade game, "Tempest". I looked at the manual for "Tempest 2000" and while the graphics look amazing and I'm sure it's awesome, it kind of leaves me cold. I want the game I played when I was a kid, darn it!

WHAT. Warren Robinett, is that you??

Thanks! And I love the detail on Sue's eyes. She looks like she has eyelashes, or maybe eyeshadow. Very cute!

there is a program called diojag that does a 100% perfect Atari Jaguar emulation of Tempest 2000 for OSX. I never had a Jaguar, but I knew someone who did. It came with a preview of "Myst", and we were astounded. I ran out and bought a copy for my Mac the next week! Thank you both! I'm going to check out both of those options tomorrow. Bakasama, I love your avatar!

Absolutely! LOL, you give me courage to do the same! I am hopelessly unhip to the lingo. I called my games "tapes" for God's sake! I could swear that I've had one follow me in there while chasing me. But maybe I'm remembering wrong.

This is all so interesting that it makes me wish I understood the programming language. I am hopeless at math and logic, so I FAIL at computer programming! I'm pretty certain I've had a dragon follow me into the programmer's room before, but I can't remember for sure. I don't think I ever saw the bat in there, though.

Your avatar made me smile!

The room below the gold castle has its right wall mapped back to the left unless the dot is missing from the room where it starts. It is not necessary for the dot to be in the room below the gold castle, but it must have been moved out of its starting room. So you do have to go get the dot to access the room, rather than being able to walk right in via another room. Got it.

I remember years ago playing the arcade game "Tempest" on an emulator for Mac OS 9. Is there something similar for Mac OS X? I did a search of this forum, but I didn't find anything. Any help would be appreciated!

I'm downloading Stella now so I can try your hack. There are undocumented movements that are possible in the unhacked game too. If you take the bridge into the programmer's room and put it up at the top where the credit disappears into a doorway, you can go through the doorway and end up in the blue labyrinth! There are other ones that I can't remember off the top of my head, but I know my friends and I found a bunch of them just by messing around. If I remember any more, I'll post them (though you probably know them already!). Edit: Just tried your hack. It's both confusing and awesome, and it really shows how the rooms are mapped out/connected in ways one wouldn't think they are. You can't get into the programmer's room via your hack, can you? Or maybe I just haven't played around with it enough yet.