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  5. Posted · Edited by classicgamer74

    On the suggestion by one of my fellow AA posters, I am going to start posting all my new video and channel information here. If you have any suggestions, or comments about my channel, please feel free to post them here.

     

    Today's episode is the first in a three part series where I interview legendary programmer Al Lowe. Many of you are familiar with his work as he is the creative mind behind Leisure Suit Larry, The Black Cauldron, Freddy Pharkus and many others at Sierra On Line.

     

    https://youtu.be/-s8Ye4kcq3w

     

    Do you have any suggestions of programmers you'd like me to interview? Or are you a programmer yourself who is interested? DM me and we'll set something up.

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    I'm really looking forward to the game. I still think that if the original programmer had been able to advertise on a bigger platform then everybody and their brother would have probably ordered it. I know I would have loved to have it. That would be a keepsake that you'd never get rid of. When I was a boy some kids lost their minds when their parents got them pencils with their names on them!

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    I wish youtubers would stop saying things like "everyone hated it" It is absolutely not true.

     

    You know what? You're exactly right. From now on I'm going to give my own opinion. Generalizing is a big problem and I don't have a clue what's in anyone else's heads, much less my own sometimes... Personally, when I was a kid I liked it and so did my mother. We used to have challenges as to who got the furthest. We did that for Ms. and Jr.

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    Never bothered to learn how to play it... and wasn't keen on video board games until SMS Monopoly and Battle Chess for the Amiga arrived on the scene. :love:

     

    I can't even tell you how many hours I spent playing Battle Chess. Good times.

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    ...and boo/hiss to NES Pac-Man! I mean, what's up with the characters not even fitting in the maze? It's like they're all uncomfortably bloated in that thang. :lol:

     

    No seriously... and you don't play Pac-Man with a gamepad. Especially an NES gamepad. ;)

    I like this guy. :)

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    In the latest episode of my channel I compare and contrast Pac-Man with its various ports. It amazes me how similar each port is, and yet how different. It's funny how everyone hates the Atari 2600 port, but to be honest I think the Intellivision is probably the least spectacular. And have you seen the Atari 8 versions? I'm not sure either of them are official ports or not. Plus, I also discuss two homebrew versions: Pac-Man 4k and Pac-Man Collection for the Atari 7800.

     

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    Okay, thanks for answering. I dont understand which one to purchase. I have the 32G card to put my bins on. But which cart should I get? I want a cart for it, not just the chip. Pretty much the one in the picture. What are the difference between them? I know one is more expensive but what else? Which do you recommend?

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    Okay, thanks.

     

    I'm looking for Basic Programming for the Atari 2600. I would like to get the overlays and instruction manual. I have a set of keyboard controllers so I don't need those. It doesn't have to be in the box, as I'm going to play it.

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    In this episode I discuss more Atari 2600 hacks. All of those profiled are up for Atari Awards, so please after viewing this head over there and vote for your favorite. I'll have a Homebrew episode up in a few days also profiling this year's nominees.

     

     

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    I totally agree about Atari's video game box art. It's always been one of my favorite things about the games of that era, and I've talked about it a few times in earlier threads:

     

    Most of the above was originally written in response to some comments which said in effect that the Atari box art was "ridiculous" because it "had nothing to do with the gameplay" or "didn't really look like the game". In addition to being literal-minded and unimaginative, I still think that criticism totally misses the point of what the box art was intended to do. I'd love to have some high-quality poster-sized prints of those paintings, especially the ones listed in my third quote. Marvelous artwork.

     

    There were several artists who deserve credit for creating Atari's famous game artwork style, including: Steve Hendricks, Cliff Spohn, John Enright, Susan Jaekel, George Opperman (who also created the Atari logo), and Ralph McQuarrie, who was a concept artist who also worked on the Star Wars films. Here is a really good article from The Verge which goes into much more detail:

     

    http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/19/4716444/how-atari-box-art-turned-8-bit-games-into-virtual-wonderlands

     

    I agree with what you wrote. It must have been disheartening to not get credit for your work. Thanks for finding out the names. I've been curious about that, too.

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