Hack'em! / Hangly Man combined :)

[Hack'em! / Hangly Man combined :)]

HOLY CRAP!

 

I figured out how I can add point value sprites in...tho I'll have to drop 5 animation frames for the player :)

 

YES! thats what I wanted! Thanks. The point values look and work great. There's also a point value for the fruit too.

[Hack'em! / Hangly Man combined :)]

One thing I noticed about this game is that Pac-Man (Hack-Man?) doesnt pause when he swallows a monster as on the original arcade version. Could adding a quick pause help with the collision detection?

[Pictures of me and my VCS]

Now I want a banana!

[The Story of Mythicon.. How cool is this.]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8122734443&rd=1

[Hooked on Berzerk....again!]

2600 Frenzy

It might just be out there . . .

 

I would love to see it - but knowing that Coleco didnt make great 2600 carts I have my doubts its any good.

 

BTW can the robots in the Atari 2600 version be hacked to shoot horizontally?

[THRIFT SHOP BLUES]

YEah, there's a LOT of stuff out there that will never be reissued on CD, so LP is the only way to pick up some of this stuff.  I'm also very fond of the pivate label LP's that people had made of their high school bands, rock act hopefulls, etc.

 

Some are fun - most I have found are horrible - people who thought they could sing.

 

Go to http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/01-2.html and download Mark Savage - Do You Think I'm Sexy. Its from some high school talent show album and its a riot.

 

And theres no way a CD can replicate the cover art, liner notes and some put in a booklet or poster. Im also a fan of 70's/80's Power Pop, Punk and New Wave and many great and hard to find albums from those genres have never been reissued on CD.

[New (sorta) hack]

I got a monster stuck inside the wall of the tunnel - it was the red one and it tried to chase me anyway!

 

Also it feels like the joystick response isnt that tight. Trying to make "Hairpin Curves" in the no maze mode is damn near impossible. Then again im playing this on X26 using a Microsoft gamepad.

[THRIFT SHOP BLUES]

Im seeing a lot more old 90's computer gear tossed out more than video games now. And again they are overpriced!

 

I collect records too and the late 80's-early 90's were a blast for collecting. People were buying CD's and getting rid of thier record collections. I remember going to one store where they had 25+ boxes of nothing but 70's rock/jazz/country LP's. Truckloads of cheap cassettes too. Now everyone has CD's and you're lucky to find anything rare.

[THRIFT SHOP BLUES]

Stop 2: Damnation Army Thrift Store. Nothing remotely interesting here, but I took a look at their prices. They must be insane. The stuff they had was so high you could almost buy a new one, or in some cases you could buy a new one for the same amount. One example was a 19 inch TV for $100, last time I was in Walmart they had 21 inch TVs for something like $85. Nuts.

 

It happened to most ofl the Goodwill stores here in Texas - they all went corporate. They stopped renting space in old supermarkets and strip malls in the older/seedier parts of town. They bought land near the newer (white) shopping areas and built new stores - and jacked up the prices on everything.

[Why was the 2600jr ever released?]

Given the market at the time, at least making _carts_ for the 2600 made sense financially to Atari up to the very late 80s, especially when you consider the international market which was about 5 years behind the tech curve.

 

I almost forgot that - wasnt the 2600 still very popular overseas back then?

[Why was the 2600jr ever released?]

I'm glad all those cheap late-model cartridges entered the marketplace!

 

Me too - epecially when stores blew them out in the late 80's and early 90's. I paid 30 dollars for a new 2600 jr and many carts were a buck each.

[Atari Vote for Zombie for Jones Cola Label]

"gimmie soda...."

[101 uses for a dead 2600 carts.]

31: Hollow the inside out and use them as covers for your cassettes

 

32: Mini Bong!

[James Bond 2600!]

I wonder about the company that makes it: Dactar (Milmar).

 

I'm guessing it's some kind of (Tiawan? Spain?) bootleg knock-off.

[Why was the 2600jr ever released?]

I dont recalll Atari ever gaving the 2600 jr or the 7800 a strong promotional push. Nintendo was all over the TV and print media promoting the NES while Atari just stuck the consoles on the shelf.

 

I guess Atari thought people would come and buy them again on thier famous brand name alone. Great products - lousy promotion.

[James Bond 2600!]

[James Bond 2600!]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8122706545&rd=1

 

A nice way to sneak a 2600 into your office/plane/hotel.

 

PS: sorry if this link/item has been posted before.

[Are you a snob, when it comes to Sears TeleGames Carts?]

It doesnt matter to me if they are Atari or Sears. But I havent found too many Sears carts over the years at thrift stores.

 

My parents went to Sears all the time when I was a kid, they bought me and my brother a lot of (now hideous looking) clothes and cheap "The Winner" sneakers - and my Parents still buy Kenmore appilances now and then.

 

Lets give Sears some credit - they helped start a customer base for the 2600 before Space Invaders exploded. I think the first time I ever saw a home Pong game was at Sears too.

[*finally* got myself a Supercharger]

Thanks for the info - is there a list somewhere of all the games an unmodded supercharger can play??

[Unique Missile Command]

Could it be a bootlegged convert-a-kit version?

[Pinball machine that was the size of a car, what was it?]

I remember playing it back in 78-79 at the Grand Prix arcade at Crossroads mall in Oklahoma City.

 

The game was impressive to look at, but it wasnt much fun to play, the action was very slow.

[8k Atari Pac-Man]

What are the game settings?? - I think #2's the hardest (and the most fun).

 

Looked at the HTML docs - its "Game 6 is the most

difficult game variation. For a real challenge try Game 6 with

difficulty level A." Okayyyy but I like Game #2 because the ghosts can catch up quickly.

 

loved this quote:

"NOTE: Sometimes the ghosts try to hide behind each other, so they appear to be one single ghost chasing PAC-MAN."

no..just bad programming.

[8k Atari Pac-Man]

What are the game settings?? - I think #2's the hardest (and the most fun). I had one monster follow me into the tunnel, which hardly happens when I played the original cart.

 

I also liked the way you fixed the sprite detection, I hated when you'd die if you just bumped a monster.

 

Keep working on it - theres a good game in here somewhere.

[color in 2600 pac man?]

The colors look great - now could someone simplfy the maze to resemble something closer to the original arcade game or the Pac Man Arcade hack?

[What was the first Atari game you bought?]

Missle Command - bought it with our 2600. My brother and I bought so many games during 1981-3 I cant remember which came second.