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  2. Posted

    The first VCS game with sound that blew me away was Missile Command. It really adds a nice sense of fear when the smart bombs get louder when they get closer to the cities. The sound of the apocolypse at the end is cool, too.

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    Oooh - I've never tried Party Mix! I can't believe that it has passed me by...Looks like it's time for me to get it on my Cuttle Cart 2!

     

    By the way, there is one other 4 player simultaneous game out there -- Marble Craze! I've tried it, and it's a good 4 player party game (2 teams of 2). It's a lot of fun having one player be left/right and the other be up/down for each team -- it requires real teamwork.

  4. Posted

    I still think 2600 Centipede ranks right up there with Missle Command as one of the best early arcade ports. Don't forget 2600 Millipede, which IMHO has more stuff going on at once than any other 2600 game and blows away the Intellivision version.

     

    btw, 7800 Centipede doesn't feel like a rush job to me, and I really like the 2 player simultaneous team mode.

  6. Posted

    I have never taken the plunge to buy a link cable. I have Zelda LTTP and have never played 4 swords! I also have Activision Anthology and haven't played it in 2 player mode...

     

    I'm thinking that if I really like using link cables that I can keep myself from wanting to spend $$ on a DS or a PSP.

     

    2 questions which (I believe) haven't been asked on this forum?

     

    1) What are some of the best 4 player games for the GBA that require only 1 cartridge? Mario Kart?

     

    2) What are some of the best 2 player games for the GBA?

     

    Also, any recommendations on link cables, etc.

  9. Posted

    In Wil's new weekly classic videogame review column in The Onion A.V. Club, he tackles Alien this week. Here's the link - good review...

     

    Here's a taste, but I recommend reading the whole review at the link...

     

    Could be mistaken for: Pac-Man, if Atari's Pac-Man didn't suck out loud.

     

    Kids today might not like it because: Unlike the Atari versions of Raiders Of The Lost Ark and E.T., Alien doesn't try to recreate the plot of the movie.

     

    Kids today might like it because: Unlike the Atari versions of Raiders Of The Lost Ark and E.T., this is actually a fun game.

     

    Enduring contribution to gaming history: When you sit down at your fancy Xbox, in your fancy castle on the Fancywine River in Fancyland, and you play Lord Of The Rings, have one of your servants give thanks to 20th Century Fox and Alien for inspiring a generation of programmers to create games based on movies, Fancypants.

  10. Posted

    I was only able to score 1,149.

     

    Here's a tip, though.

     

    As far as I have been able to get in Pac-Man, I have been able, at the start of a new life, been able to go left, then up, then around the box that holds the legendary "ghost quartet". This can come in very handy if the power pill is available just as you are starting a new life.

  11. Posted

    The article seemed pretty vague as to details.  It sounded like it  

    might be a new version of the GBA rather than a new generation  

    of Game Boy system.  Perhaps an upgrade akin to the GBA -> SP

    transition.  I don't know that that's the most likely explanation, but  

    I wouldn't get too excited until more firm details come out.  

     

    Nintendo is in a delicate position, and I'm sure they would not like  

    to damage either the DS or the GBA line if they can help it.  Given  

    their general trend of backwards compatibility on portable systems,  

    I would be surprised if the new system is both 1) more powerful  

    than the DS and 2) incompatible with DS games.  But we shall see...

     

    --The Eidolon

     

    Good point -- an SP with an updated backlit screen (similar to what they put into the DS), somewhere around $70 with a good pack-in game, would probably sell well and would be a tempting upgrade for me...

  13. Posted

    Wow, Lost Monkey -- great minds think alike!  You posted that right as I was posting it too.

     

    I hereby give credit to Grow Fish! over to Lost Monkey.

     

    Thanks.. I realize you probably would've gotten it in before me if you hadn't been commenting on the "Fishes, Fishest, Fishiest" suggestion...

    :ponder:

     

    Yeah, I was prettying my post up instead of being "e-fish-ent" ;) (it's ok to groan)

  15. Posted

    Here are my incredibly fantastic submissions ;) :

     

    Grow Fish! A take on the card game Go Fish!, and it nicely summarizes the game in two words. The exclamation point at the end is a nice little homage to Shark! Shark!

     

    Gulp! In the grand tradition of one word Atari games with exclamation points at the end of them (like Kaboom! or Oink!).

     

    Eat 'Em to Beat 'Em Hey, it's true -- that's what you've gotta do! NE146 would be a guaranteed customer!

     

    Ocean Motion A very classy title that is also catchy.

     

    I hope you like them, vdub_bobby.

     

    BTW, I also like Lost Monkey's Survival of the Fishest (a slight improvement in my opinion over Rob Mitchell's "Survival of the Fishes" and Thomas Jentzsch's "Survival of the Fishiest" because it sounds more like "survival of the fittest")

  16. Posted

    Congratulations, Kirk and Albert.

     

    Thanks for the q&a posting, Kirk - super technical reading. I'm curious to hear more, including stuff about how you came up with the AI for the opponent and about your work with Paul Slocum to integrate the music theme into the opening and closing segments.

     

    I'm glad I'm one of the "Lucky 70" JP cart owners, and good luck with FlapPing.

  21. Posted

    The 7800 certainly needed a better chance and by this, an 84  release may have been alot better for it.  I really like  the 7800, i only have about 30 of the  possible 47? titles, I like all of them, and that does include Karateka. Ive got ninja golf coming in the  mail which im more excited about then my saturn xmen vs street fighter in the same package. I think the 7800  has a certain feel to it, it's a good thing and a worthy system imho

     

    Exactly. And it's newest purpose -- a Cuttle Cart 2 player -- makes it even sweeter.

  22. Posted

    I just previewed it on iTunes and it does sound kinda Slocumish. I don't know if its using the synthcart however, it just doesn't sound quite right.

     

    And IMHO Pual's work sounds much, much cooler.

     

    Speaking of Paul's music I wonder if he will ever release a record on an atari cart. Not a game or a program to make music, just songs on a cart with a menu to choose between them. I think that would kick ass.

     

    :)

     

    A Cart with music songs on it would ROCK!! I would be sure to buy one, Maybe if you get a pre-order" thing going it would be enough to get one made?? Just a thought. But with that said, I'm first on the list!! Also, Does anyone remember the NES game "Sunday Funday"? It had a 4HIM (Christian band) exclusive song the was was on that cart that was choosen from a menu. There was 3 options, 1 play Sunday Funday, 2 Play some Bible Trivia game, 3 listen to the song as the lyrics scrolled on the screen. But as well all know it would be much more cool if it was on the ATARI :D :wink:

     

    Well, Marble Craze, as well as the "formerly available in cart form" JoustPong, Combat Rock, and Mr. Roboto are carts with music songs that ROCK, and they have some nifty bonus games ;)

  24. Posted

    Cosmic Commuter came out after the crash, and even though it's not entirely original (it's from the Defender family tree), and it's not the best Activision game ever, it is fun and worthy of the Activision label (and it's also by the programmer of H.E.R.O.). Plus, it's tied with H.E.R.O. for the highest rarity Activision cartridge I own :)

     

    I also have the post-crash Ghostbusters 2600 cartridge, which is not easy to pick up and play without the manual, but is a solid effort nonetheless.

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