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I would have sworn that the Yar was a female, but I just checked the comic to make sure. Alas, it was not to be cherie. Adieu. And as for Alien from 20th Century Fox, that has to count because of the movies. 'Human' does not preclude female. The messed up thing though, is that with the VCS' graphics capabilities, we're talking about either adding one pixel or taking away one pixel from a sprite. Seriously, the problems of those two little pixels don't amount to a hill a of beans in this crazy world.

Happy New Year everyone. Damn that went by fast. Glad to see some progress on this. I just wanted to post and acknowledge all the Hard Work that has gone into this project. Cheers.

Proud owner of Galagon and Wizard of Wor

Happy New Year everyone! No Knight Rider 2600 announcement? Oh well, I guess I'll just wait until next year. See you all then.

Of the only 30 or so games from the '70s, Combat, Air-Sea Battle, Basketball, Home Run, and Bowling are the only ones that screamed Atari for me and were ones I ever replayed. Breakout and Indy 500 would be on this list if I had them back in the day. But truth be told, if it weren't for the next series of games, I would have gotten bored and rather played outside. So some more games that defined the Atari for me and more importantly hooked me into video games were (in approximate order of publication according to Wikipedia): Space Invaders (1980) [Defined the Atari--all my friends loved it--, but it's one I hate with a passion to this day], Asteroids (1981), Missile Command (1981), Haunted House (1982), Pac-Man (1982), Yars' Revenge (1982), Chopper Command (1982), SW: The Empire Strikes Back (1982), Defender (1982), and Star Raiders (1982). I went more than ten, because I loved that with Defender I didn't have to hit a button to change direction, and I never found anything like Star Raiders (or Haunted House for that matter) in the arcades that I remember. Both Warlords (1981) and Berzerk (1982) would have been my Ur-games for Atari if I had them back then. It pisses me off to this day that I never saw these.

I had such high hopes for the 2600+, but now it's a hard no for me. No KR2600, no 2600+! This is where I draw the line!

Nope on a rope! I just heard a rumor that the Star Raider's keypad will not work properly on the 2600+. That's the whole point of KR2600; using the Keypad! A whole lot of HardWork must have gone into that to make that controller work. We'll see DOOM(TM) working on a coffee maker before we see KR2600 work on the 2600+.

I suspect the people behind the 2600+ only developed it to get more KR2600 into people's hands.

I would love to see this game for the 2600!

Actually looks good in Chrome, but the screenshots are from Firefox. I don't see anything I can change. edit: I have allow sites to decide what fonts to use checked.

Or how about this

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, with the ultra thin sans-serif typeface on similar color backgrounds, so much of the site unreadable for me without zooming in.

And to further my thought, I googled "atari 2600 dragon's lair" and look what comes up but this. I knew I saw something like this somewhere!. There were development videos in the Movie Cart thread on this site, and Andrew Davie posted this and other videos on Youtube. I don't know how to direct link videos into a post so here is just the link to his most recent Dragon's Lair video. Andrew Davie's most recent Dragon's Lair clip on Youtube

I can see Custer's Egg Catch being a combination of the infamous game and Fantastic Voyage.

You say that and I counter with the thread that keeps popping up about an actual cart that can play movies on a 2600. If I remember correctly there were demonstration clips for Dragon's Lair. I don't think it would be too much of a stretch for a very simple choose your own adventure type game to be written that uses the movie making technology. I even think the developer put the schematics on github or something like that.

Nope! The takeaway is share your ideas with the community and listen when those before you give you advice. That is the takeaway from that thread; have ambition, but temper it with the experience the community has to offer.

This topic immediately reminded me of how awesome Knight Rider 2600 is. You don't need realistic graphics or expectations to create something as entertaining as Knight Rider 2600. My thanks to all the HardWork that went into a game that has brought us all so much joy over the past two decades. Someone had to do it 😝 EDIT: Changed the smiley as what I had typed and intended did not come out as expected. I'm not sure my direct choice is any better. 🤪

I like it just the way it is. Personally, I'm not a big fan of people constantly working on their stuff to make it better. Once it's out in the wild, and there is nothing broken about it, I wish people would just start a new project and grow. As a shitty writer, I've found that there comes a point where I can't grow if I keep working on the same project looking for perfection. Maybe it's time for a new game. Mash together two more games and see what comes out. Cheers

@rbairos I hope you are able to find a way to share all of the work you've done on all the movies. For educational purposes of course.

I almost edited my last post but figured I'd just post this separately. This game really captures the Atari vibe for me. The graphics do exactly what they need to. The gameplay is simple to pick up, but learning the strategy behind the game would take some time I think. Speeding up the pieces so they come out at different speeds was a brilliant change of pace. This game hits all the things I love about playing games on the Atari! While I love me some Solaris, the games I go back to are the Yars' Revenge, Moon Patrol, Asteroids, Ice Hockey, Robot Tank, Wizard of Wor (original and homebrew), Galagon, Empire Strikes Back, and Defender type games that you just want to go back and play for no more than 15 minutes of time. Games you just load up and see if you can break your high score but have fun while playing. I have and love Turmoil, I have a legit cart. I see that the Turmoil influence is there but I love the tongue/punching mechanic. A few times I wasn't as quick on the draw as I needed to be and lost a life. This will be one that is in constant rotation on my Harmony. Again, impressive job.

Addictive little game; I love it! I got 390 the first time AFTER I figured out what was going on. I never read the manuals BITD and didn't read your notes today. I love how simple it was to pick up but challenged by the tactics and choices you have to make. I left a rating and comment on itch.io. I said there, this is going on my Harmony. Great job! But the big question is: How many points do we need to get the patch? 😜

Just so you all know, I picked up a bit of an accent from watching those boys. 🙃 Also, I've been calling my cat Emmers. She's fat and doesn't wear a shirt. RIP Leaky Lahey

I'm really impressed with all of you for ignoring this thread almost a whole month. It got half way down page 2.

Nice, George Burns in 'Oh O-D!'. I'd love to see Rock 'n Roll High School. Nothing better than playing my Atari... while listening to... the Ramones. Wait, ok, watching my Atari play the Ramones while I draw Asteroids or something. The whole idea of watching movies on the Atari is blowing my mind.