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When it says 85% complete, does it mean there are glitches and lacks, or that you can get to 85% of the game lenght, but not finish the game? Anyone who knows?

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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 — 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:

Is it possible to complete the game despite glitches or no official release? What does it cost? Or how is it (re)produced (if no longer available?

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!

Re-arrangement of my retro-gaming setup:

Are there official requirements? 🧐🥴😳🤨🤨?

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

You said you also liked Pole Position 2. What is your opinion about Motor Psycho (since you love a driving game)? Is it, in your view, a good driving game?

Got to: Wave 21 Got Score: 4,226,901 Used: Wico Command Stick

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.

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. — 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.

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).

I have sometimes wondered how many here on AtariAge use the hardware they either grew up with, or at least bought a decade or two back.

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’.

But you found Food Fight and Galaga! Not bad!

MAMA can teach us much about gaming history.

My new gaming-set-up 🙂

Its a very long time since I played the Arcade... And I was just this young kid hardly understanding the concepts... ...still, remember it... and love the cartoon style of it all... Think the 5200 version is as it is, a very, very good game.

BTW: all Pengo play-tips are welcome here on the thread.

Actually... one of the best reasons why buy an Atari 7800 is the line-up of unique games, found on no other system or almost no other system.

Young, like, born when? Yes, I think Food Fight is one of those arcade games that only was ported for the 7800. But if you’re into good ports, Ms Pac Man, Dig Dug, Joust and Robotron 2084 are very solid ports from this ‘generation’ of arcades (82-85). Many have debated whether Xevious is better on NES than the 7800. The 7800 version is anyway a lot of fun, but Xevious is of course, not very unique as it was ported to like everything back then. Pole Position 2 is another arcade-port. Its not that close to the arcade (at all), as Food Fight, Ms Pac-Man, Joyst and Dig Dug, but I really enjoy it. And I think its one of the best home-console-ports (not arcade-emulation/arcade-on-new-system) of this game. But I don’t think that many home-systems had a version. Galaga is good fun on the 7800. But I’m not so much into the arcade and all the ports that I can say which one version is best. The 7800 version plays very smooth and fine, and have chuncky sound-effects and this little short Galaga-music theme as you come to new sections of the game.

Agree with much here. Fatal Run is a cool game. I haven’t ‘run’ through it yet. But looks and plays good so far. Yes, Ninja Golf is a must-have. I thought the silliness would not be my thing, but I got it and love the humorous take on the karate/kung-fu/ninja-craze of the 80ies. I don’t see you mentioning Scrapyard Dog... For me I’ve gotten to really love the game, even though its very(!) hard... And yes, there are some exclusive stuff to be found on the 7800. Whether I’d call them quirky or just exclusive titles is another matter.

I know popcorn was the music used in the Arcade. I just happen to like the 5200-music better.