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  2. Posted

    24 minutes ago, Atarifever said:

    I like almost all of them in some way (even RealSports Baseball made an absolutely epic High Score Club week), so it's hard for me to choose. 

    Top 15 in no order right now might be:

    Dig Dug

    Ikari Warriors

    Food Fight

    Robotron

    Midnight Mutants

    Fail Safe

    b*nQ

    Double Dragon (especially with my 7-year old)

    Rampage (only with my 7-year old, as it is boring as dirt alone)

    Galaga

    Dungeon Stalker

    Scramble

    DK Jr.

    Motor Psycho

    Joust

     

     

     

    You didn’t mention Dark Chambers...

     

    On ‘advanced’, it could be a challenge for both 1P and 2P.

     

  3. Posted

    1 minute ago, Atarifever said:

    I've honestly spent almost no time with that one, which is odd, as football is a sport I absolutely love to watch.  In the HSC post I linked to, if you real through all the pages you'll see that me and another few people started to really dig into Realsports Baseball and learned how to beat that one at least, despite it originally feeling impossible and deeply broken.

    Ha ha - someone need to be the first’ to ‘break the code’ for mastering touchdown football

     

    🙂

  4. Posted · Edited by Giles N

    39 minutes ago, oyamafamily said:

    Pac-Man Collection, which is my TOP favorite homebrew. I love playing Pac-Man triology - Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man mostly.

    Recently, I played this 7800 homebrew on my real console and recorded my gameplay footage via camera, like this:

     

    Is the Ms.Pac Man here the standard 7800 version with additional games in the package, or is also Ms PacMan redone?

     

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    cool joystick you had there

  5. Posted

    11 minutes ago, Atarifever said:

    I like almost all of them in some way (even RealSports Baseball made an absolutely epic High Score Club week), so it's hard for me to choose. 

    Top 15 in no order right now might be:

    Dig Dug

    Ikari Warriors

    Food Fight

    Robotron

    Midnight Mutants

    Fail Safe

    b*nQ

    Double Dragon (especially with my 7-year old)

    Rampage (only with my 7-year old, as it is boring as dirt alone)

    Galaga

    Dungeon Stalker

    Scramble

    DK Jr.

    Motor Psycho

    Joust

     

     

     

    I’ve test-tried Midnight Mutants on emu, waiting for the PAL version in the mail.

    Perhaps I’ll review it then.

     

    Agree with many of titles, but not tht Ranpage is boring alone.

     

    With my brother we could keep on using infinte continues, and we went through all named 132 cities.

     

    Single player I last 7 or 8 cities.

     

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    I’ve not gotten in to prototypes or homebrews as of yet, so don’t know.’

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    question: I liked the parallaxing field of touchdown football and the grfx on the players; is there a good way to learn to handle/master it well?

  8. Posted

    2 hours ago, AverageSoftware said:

    Magical Fairy Force, my upcoming 5200 title, will be demoed at the AtariAge booth at this year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo.  This thread will track the development of this demo and also explain how this game works.  I will be in attendance at PRGE for most of the day on Saturday, so if you see me hanging around, hit me up and I can show it off in person.

     

    The game is very heavily influenced by Twinkle Star Sprites, an awesome Neo-Geo game that you should go look up if you aren't familiar with it.  Twinkle Star Sprites is a competitive top-down vertical shooter featuring a cast of cutesy characters blowing each other up.  If Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and a game like Strikers 1945 had a baby, it would be very much like Twinkle Star Sprites.

     

    My game has the same basic gameplay concepts as TSS, but the details are very different.  In this game, you will select one of eight characters, and attempt to defeat your opponent's character by shooting things on your half of the screen.  Each character will have a set of unique abilities that can be used against your opponent.  The last fairy still flying wins the game.

     

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    For the Portland demo, the game will be locked into the two-player mode, so you'll see a character select screen like the one above.  The game is compatible with the trak-ball, and hopefully we'll have two working trak-balls hooked up for the demo.  The full release will include a single-player mode, hopefully with simple character endings.  I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to do the single-player AI, but if I could make a 5200 beat me at curling, I'm sure I can figure something out.

     

    For a more detailed look at the eight characters, check out my previous character thread.

     

    For the demo, the gameplay should basically function, but a lot of details will be missing.  In particular, I'm not sure how specialized the characters will be at this point.  Currently the only difference between them is the size and shape of their character sprites.  None of the special attacks are in place yet.  At best, I might have a basic character ability set up for each character, but I wouldn't count on that happening by October.

     

    I will continue to post here with more information and gameplay details as the PRGE demo evolves.  I will also be posting the demo ROM once it's ready so anyone that isn't attending the show can give it a try.  At this point, I expect the game to be completed early next year.  As is my style, the ROM and complete source code for the finished product will be freely available so people can play around with it or perhaps port it to the Atari 8-bit computers, as some kind folks did with my last two games.

     

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    Congrats and good luck!!

  9. Posted · Edited by Giles N

    10 hours ago, toiletunes said:

    It's good, not great. I like that Atari was trying different things. You score more points while jumping, but have no control where you land. I'd like it more if it was the only racing game on the 7800, but PP2 is so common (and MS is so rare and expensive). It's much better than basketbrawl.

    Well, I’m European, and my first 7800 was a PAL version, and PAL editions of Motor Psycho is not hard to get a ebay.

     

    Not necessarily expensive either.

     

    I use jump mostly when I know there’s a straight.

     

    Getting used to gear-down to break or let go of acceleration in turns, is paramount, but high difficulty-level for sure.

     

    I would give it 8/10 for a 8-bit racer.

     

    PP2 is 9/10: colourful and playable.

     

     

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  13. Posted · Edited by Giles N

    On 8/30/2019 at 3:43 AM, The Strangest said:

    Another vote here for Food Fight. I'm young so I have no nostalgia for it, I popped it in and was blown away at how much I enjoyed it. I don't think I'll ever sell my 7800 because it's the only way I can play that game right now.

     

    Galaga is one of my favorite arcade games of all time so I'm still looking for a nice copy of that one.

    If you enjoyed Food Fight for the 7800, there are a number of very cool pick-up-and-play arcade-ports for the 5200 system you might enjoy:

     

    Pengo

    Mr Do’s Castle

    Pitfall 2

    Vanguard (horizontal, disgonal and vertical side-scrolling shoot-em-up),

    ...and others...

     

    The graphics are 1/2 generation earlier, but many of them highly playable and lots of fun!!m

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    Check out discussion on favourites and quality (pros/cons) of titles here:

     

     

    And here is my review of Pengo (5200):

     

     

    Conpare with my First-Inpression Food Fight (7800)-review:

     

     

  15. Posted

    On 9/17/2014 at 7:46 PM, nosweargamer said:

    Hi everybody! I have a little show on Youtube as The No Swear Gamer where I review all sorts of retro stuff, including Atari. You may have heard my voice on some podcasts here and there including some audio submissions I did for Ferg the Great and his Atari 2600 Game by Game Podcast. I know podcasts are king around here and that many of you are more knowledgeable then me, but I am an Atari fan and thought some of you may enjoy these videos. :)

     

    Here are some Atari related reviews I have done:

    Ep 6 Rampage (7800) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac4l8MgImSw

    Ep 8 Tax Avoiders (2600) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkb7gsWKbdQ

    Ep 9 E.T. (2600) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrUWuMsXOSg&feature=autoshare

    Ep 25 Haunted House w unintentional speed run (2600) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTUNyxAZBUM&feature=autoshare

    Ep 26 Atari 2600 System Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyaCmrKyOis&feature=autoshare

    Ep 30 Lock N Chase (2600) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpz6BIZdvlQ&feature=autoshare

    Ep 31 Mouse Trap (2600) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4JbO__J7yM&feature=autoshare

    Ep 34 Pac Man (2600) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-DSOXeW0bQ&feature=autoshare

    Ep 40 Pac-Man Bank! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFIasMH528k&feature=autoshare

    Ep 42 Vanguard (2600) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PzR0xO6G48&feature=autoshare

     

    And some pickups:

    Ep 2 Boxed 2600/7800 Game Lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJiFcMfgivg

    Ep 7 Big 7800 lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1TEedxHaOw

    Ep 12 2600/7800 loose game lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg71ePuF7z0&feature=autoshare

    Ep 19 Lynx & Jag stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDLBHR7KBCU&feature=autoshare

     

    In the near future I am planning on doing more 7800 reviews as well as some Atari Plug n Play stuff.

    Thanks everyone and enjoy!

    I’ve seen through lots of your 7800 reviews and gameplay-longplays, and even though I don’t always agree in taste and/or score, your stuff has helped me a lot.

     

    Appreciated very much!

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  18. Posted · Edited by Giles N

    On 8/30/2019 at 3:43 AM, The Strangest said:

    Another vote here for Food Fight. I'm young so I have no nostalgia for it, I popped it in and was blown away at how much I enjoyed it. I don't think I'll ever sell my 7800 because it's the only way I can play that game right now.

     

    Galaga is one of my favorite arcade games of all time so I'm still looking for a nice copy of that one.

    How many 7800 game-titles do you have/have you played?

  21. Posted · Edited by Giles N

    5 hours ago, The Strangest said:

    part of the hobby for me is using original hardware. 

    Many of these 1-3 gen. games looks quite a bit better on CRT TVs in my opinions.

     

    Sure, cool to see them up large, like 55’ , but the CRT picture soften the lines of the pixels and made it look more ‘organical’, less like squares and more like timy light-spheres fading into each other.

     

    BTW: you can use these light-phasers on old CRT TVs.

  22. Posted · Edited by Giles N

    On 8/31/2019 at 10:21 PM, Giles N said:

    But you found Food Fight and Galaga!

     

    Not bad!

    Dig Dug

    Joust 

    Ms Pac Man

    Robotron 2084

    Centipede

     

    are also some of the best 8-bit ports of these arcades as far as I know.

     

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    Actually, when comparing 8-bit-system ports (not 16bit or new systems that runs emulated arcades/arcade-perfect ports), I think Commando for the 7800 is one of the best ports out there.

  23. Posted · Edited by Giles N

     

    On 8/31/2019 at 8:09 PM, The Strangest said:

    , but my parents had an Atari at some point.

    Hm, gaming-generations...?

     

    🙂

     

    Remember my dad bought a Dragon64 (Dragon 32 with more memory), back in, hm, sometime between 83 and 85 or something.

     

    My brother began to program Dragon Basic.

     

    I thought what the heck, I’ll just type in some random stuff here (on the operative-system-screen) and sooner or later it’ll have to work.

    But no.

    And I never learned programming.

    Did some graphics-drawing at times (90ies).

    When I got 10, in ‘87, I got (but as shared present with my bro), a C64.

    We had lot of fun with it.

     

    Had friends who had Atari2600.

     

    Think someone who knew someone who knew someone knew some who had an 7800, but never saw it.

     

    Got interested a few years ago what sort of 8-bit things I’d missed out on.

     

    So I collected a little for:

    first Sega Master

    then NES

    then Atari 5200 (but it was irksome to get all the am./ntsc-things right),

    then 7800

     

    Much of the 16-bit things are readily available on some of newer systems (of course with limited availability if titles).

  25. Posted · Edited by Giles N

    On 8/31/2019 at 8:09 PM, The Strangest said:

    I was born mid-90’s. I didn’t play any Atari growing up unless you count occasional arcade cabinets here and there, but my parents had an Atari at some point.

    Many of game-genres used on 7th and 8th gen. consoles today, were invented on these early machines.

     

    Then the genres have been reiterated and given re-designs in xxx number of varities.

     

    But the original genres were very cleverly designed; making lots out of not that much ‘raw power’.

     

     

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