7800Lover

Panic Restaurant, 1992, NES - this title showed up later on in the system's life. That chef looks like Mark Twain with a cold. The character is supposed to be a Japanese ninja...why is he carrying a European style sword on the box?

Well that homebrew, Dark Mage, for the Atari 2600 managed to make a text adventure work with a joystick.

I don't know - it doesn't look any worse than those stylized renditions that Activision had on their early Atari 2600 covers.

Yes, I've heard of SCUMM. What about SCI? I know that was used for the later King's Quest and Leisure Suit Larry games. In fact, it was engineered specifically to work with the point-and-clock interface. Could these game engines be adapted somehow to run on an Atari 7800?

The NES seems to be okay with a graphic adventure game. It handled a click and point interface all right with KQ5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blqPEZQ_kIY&feature=colike Has anyone tried a click-and-point for the 7800? The two systems are about equal so if the NES could handle such an interface, why not the 7800?

Funny we should mention Japanese vs. North American/European box art. It may have been more of a matter in those days that anime/manga as a style was all but unknown here in the USA. Anyway, here's a comparison of superior Japanese cover art to its Western counterpart. Case in point - Phantasy Star 2 for the Sega Genesis. Get a load of what we got here in the West... That girl with the horns looks absolutely nothing like Nei from the game. And that middle aged guy with the laser gun? Is that supposed to be Rolf, the hero of the game? Does that dude look anything like the fascimile in the Japanese art above?

I finally beat the second quest of the Legend of Zelda.

Why not? It was done with the SMS and NES. Plus someone actually did a text adventure game on the less powerful 2600 (Dark Mage).

I've had a thing for graphic adventure games like King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Hugo's House of Horrors, etc. After a long absence, I returned here to the AtariAge forums and was impressed to see the homebrews proposed for the Atari 7800 - and that got me thinking. Could a graphic adventure game be done for the Atari 7800? Perhaps...let's not forget the the first King's Quest was put on the Sega Master System and King's Quest 5 on the NES. Of course, we'd have to implement a point-and-click interface since I'm unsure how well as text parser interface would work with our beloved 7800. Whaddyathink?

How about the cover to the SNES port of Street Fighter 2? Those renditions of the characters look quite cheesy. In fact, that was a common criticism I heard from SF fans. Many didn't like the cheesy art used for localization and preferred the anime style art that was used for the Japanese promos. This was around the time that anime/manga started to go mainstream in the USA after all.

They're back at the Plaza hotel? I haven't gone to CGE since 2000/2001! Plus downtown Vegas is pretty cool - the Fremont Street Experience is fun to watch and I loved the Garden Court Buffet next door at Main Street Station. Where else could you have enchiladas, egg rolls, and French toast all in the same meal?

Spiffyone and all the other contributors here - this looks like some pretty neat stuff! I'd definitely want to play a side-scroller like this on the 7800. What about the other power-ups? The milk bottles, honey girl and eggs with items might have to be adapted for Bentley Bear. Would there still be rocks and campfires? Hmm...maybe you could also explain why those fires are burning unattended. Fires just don't start themselves...or do they?

Who here remembers the side-scrolling platformer, Crystal Caves? This was a computer game from around 1991 produced by ID but published by Apogee. It's quite similar to Commander Keen. You played this guy named Milo Steamwitz who went through levels collecting gems and firing a gun at enemies. The levels could be taken in any order. It was part of a trilogy. The first episode was called "Trouble with Twibbles" (a parody of the Star Trek ep "Trouble with Tribbles") - you could get that as shareware. The other two episodes required you to pony up money. I used to play this in school. On Fridays in my computer classes, we were allowed to play various shareware games and this was one of them. It could get hairy in some places, especially when you had to change the gravity controls.

Donkey Kong Jr. for the Atari 2600 At least Donkey Kong on 2600 was playable. What happened here? Bad graphics and they dumped the fruit you can drop on enemies. This baby monkey should have stayed in its crib!

Just remembered this one a short time ago... Rival Turf from the SNES - a localization of the game Rushing Beat. Seriously, it look like Jaleco just took two kids off the street and said "Hey, wanna make some quick dough? Pose for our game box cover!"

Curses! You beat me to it! Oh well - at least someone else agrees with me. Since when is Pacman some frisbee-eating, buck-toothed marathon runner living in a castle?

I never went beyond Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals (try saying that three times fast!) - there's the downside with graphic adventure games like this. Once you beat it, why go back? You've solved all the puzzles.

Yikes...it's sad to see video arcades going away. I felt the same way when Chinatown Fair in Manhattan closed. The only arcade I tend to see nowadays are in tourist traps like boardwalks on the East coast.

I remember ROTJ - I saw it in a few arcades down in North Carolina in the early 1990s. Funny you should mention Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I was at the North Carolina State Fair in 1993 and I hung out by the video arcade set up there. This was around the time that Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat were popular. Those games had many kids gathered around them - so many that I could even get close. I stumbled upon a Temple of Doom arcade machine - and found it had 30+ credits on it! I spent the whole afternoon playing it.

Who here remembers this game from Kemco-Seika released for the NES around 1990 for the NES? It was made to coincide with the 50th birthday of Warner Brothers cartoon star, pop culture icon, and role model to many impressionable children, Bugs Bunny. The story of the game involved Bugs getting a birthday bash in his honor. This wouldn't be much of a game if Bugs could just go to his party. The other Looney Tunes - Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, etc. - are steamed that Bugs is getting a party while nobody ever gave parties in their honor. So they plan to stop Bugs. It was a Mario-type platformer. Instead of coins, you collected carrots which could be used in bonus rounds in between levels to win extra lives. Instead of fire flowers and stars, you had a mallet to hit enemies with. Rather than Goombas, Koopa Troopas, etc, you took on enemies called "Contraptions" in the manual. Some of these were creatures like Stoplight Worms, Jumping Telescopic Bullet Sprinklers, and even evil soap bubbles (!) and they were all out to get you. At the end of almost every level, you took on a Looney Tunes character that you had to get past (in the case of Daffy Duck) or fight off like Tweety, Elmer, Sylvester, and so on. Interestingly enough, Porky Pig was featured on the game's cover but doesn't appear in the game. The ending was a twist. When you beat the last boss, Taz, Bugs makes it to his party...only to find the other Tunes crew waiting for him there. Apparently, these guys were in on it the whole time. Can ya beat that? Who here has played this game? I have and I beat it. It's quite fun and I did like it better than Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle.

Funny that Mr. Do's Castle should be mentioned - that flea market in Eden, NC that had Mappy and Pac-Land also had Mr. Do! Here's another one - Loco-Motion! Anyone find one in the wild? Again, I spotted this title at that same flea market!

The second quest of the original NES Legend of Zelda - in spite of my best efforts, I just can't beat it. Super Mario Bros 2 (JP) - The Japanese ones that was released as The Lost Levels in the US. World 8-3 was as far as I got. Don't be ashamed if you can't beat Super Mario Bros. - it can be a hard game. I couldn't beat it myself and it wasn't until my college days that I finally beat it.

Looks good so far. Gotta love the round as opposed to square balloons...and you gotta keep the death scene with the splattered head. I always found that hilarious.

I know the original game was panned by some critics...yet it has sold very well. It's one of the top selling third-party Wii games and IMHO it makes a fun party game. But seriously, how does New Carnival Games play in comparison to the original title?

I own Carnival Games for the Wii and it is quite a fun game. I only found out today that a sequel has been put out called...(surprise!) New Carnival Games. I understand that it has new games, including bumper cars and a fun house. Has anyone played the game? Is it any good? Is it better or worse than the original Carnival Games?