Aardvark for Atari VCS/2600

[Aardvark for Atari VCS/2600]

Hill 15 is a very advanced level in the arcade, let alone 20.

 

I make no judgement on the difficulty of a homebrew game over an arcade game. I think the game should probably have the same difficulty advancement in both versions. Anyway, it's hard enough to write homebrew without imposing additional game design standards besides.

[Aardvark for Atari VCS/2600]

Responding to something from earlier:

 

 

I only found that the days become shorter, so the spider appears sooner and sooner. Eventually the spider will appear so soon, that the player has no chance to clear the screen before. That's pretty lame and IMO should be changed.

 

Spider management is an important part of late game strategy. The spider doesn't kill you until it reaches the tip of your tongue (traveling from the base), and is cleared from the screen when you eat a Queen Ant like all the other bugs (it immediately respawns from its starting point). The appearance of the spider is by no means the end of your game.

[If you could have only 1 Atari Aracde Machine in your home...]

With me, it'd probably be Rampart.

[Best Nintendo VS arcade games?]

My favorite Vs. game is for the two-screen Duosystem, Balloon Fight, which has a vertically-scrolling playfield and an extended remix of the catchy bonus round music.

[A game about old-school ASM programming]

Just chiming in, an assembly game I've enjoyed a lot is Human Resource Machine.