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  6. Posted

    The worst game EVA! was Star Raiders. When I was little I managed to sneak past my all seeing eye dad and bought the game at the flea market. Carefully camelflaging it on the way home. I tried to play it that night but found out I didn't have the right controller. Noooooo!

     

    So you couldn't have video games, but you could have camels? :grin:

  7. Posted

    Never said you were defending them, but usually, whenever someone badmouths E.T. around here, the thread gets flooded with posters defending it as some sort of "misunderstood gem".

     

    I see. Why on earth would anyone say that game is good anyway? I had the misfortune of playing that game on my uncle's VCS and it gave me nightmares!

     

    well it is the whole concept of how a programmer could turn out a product like that in 6 1/2 weeks. it's like laser blast, people only hated it because it took more effort to be good at it.

     

    But Defender, especially the arcade, took a HUGE amount of effort to be good at, and you'll likely not find many people who hate that game. It's not about how hard the game is to become good at, it's about how hard you have to fight the controls and bad game programming to get good at it. When a game is difficult or unplayable due to either shitty controls or just bad programming, then that's unacceptable. When a game is difficult because it's simply something you have to work at to play well, then that's another story.

     

    For the record, I don't think E.T. is the worst game on the system. Not by a long shot. For the time he had, HSW did an amazing job at cobbling it all together. If he'd had another month of time to make it, I'd say it would have been an excellent game. It's just that there are other, far superior games on the system, and I'm not going to waste my time on playing a game that I have to try incredibly hard to squeeze even a modicum of fun out of when I could be playing something incredible like Yar's Revenge or Ms. Pac-Man.

     

    a lot of people who talk about defender won't have much good to say about it. a lot of people say the 2600 defender was a terrible game..

  8. Posted

    Never said you were defending them, but usually, whenever someone badmouths E.T. around here, the thread gets flooded with posters defending it as some sort of "misunderstood gem".

     

    I see. Why on earth would anyone say that game is good anyway? I had the misfortune of playing that game on my uncle's VCS and it gave me nightmares!

     

    well it is the whole concept of how a programmer could turn out a product like that in 6 1/2 weeks. it's like laser blast, people only hated it because it took more effort to be good at it.

  20. Posted

    I confirmed it with my teacher today, Yes this is happening. Here is what Im going to have with me:

     

    My RCA Tv

    An iMac purchased by the school in september

    My Atari

    A couple of Coleco Games (to show what bad things can be produced with asm also)

    Frog Pickle

    A Stelladaptor (if I can buy one soon)

    2 Joysticks (if available)

    My Atari 800xl and a Machine Language Book, plus a Memory Map (to show what you'd need to program back then)

     

     

    Displayed on the iMac will be:

    Stella

    ASM, HEX, and bB source code

    other bB made Games

    RT's Website

    Atari Age Forums

    An Explanation of how the 2600 works and how it's different from most classic systems (NES, ColecoVision, etc.)

    how the compiler works

    and if you guys have any ideas for it I'm glad to listen!

     

     

     

    and also, I would like some FINISHED bB games... here's what I have so far:

     

    Frog Pickle

    Trashmania: REMIX 2012

    Seaweed Assault

    Epic Adventure

     

    I need more! Any Suggestions/links would be much much much appreciated.

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