Giles N

You might want to express your opinions on favourites on the thread about which 5200 games means most to you and why... Could be interesting to hear your top 10 or top 15.

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Different tastes and thats ok! I’m glad Pengo 5200 have original music, not popcorn as I just don’t feel it fits and I don’t like the tune very much. So as to my 30+ year-late ‘discovery’; my story is; I bought an Atari 5200 about a year ago, had to spend 5 months collecting and importing the necessary bits and pieces to have it up and running, and have played games for the 5200 and 7800 for ca 8 months now.

And if you have gaming-experiences with Pengo that may help players, here is the place to share them!

Sure do!

So this is my best round of Star Wars Arcade 5200 I used a refurbished original controller, and played on a CRT TV (which gives a softer, more 80ies-arcade look than PC-emulation). I got to trench on Wave 11. Score was 1,840,294 See pictures.

Thanks!

Ok, I never had a 400 or 800. Checked out some gameplay-videos. Here I post screenshots with titles.’ Anyone here know if these are good games? Anyone who’s played them? Remember them? What are they like (1-10)? Did the developers miss out on not releasing for the 5200?

My own ‘techniques’ are 1) go up or down to an enemy, then use normal kick 3-4 times so the enemy gets knocked down 2) fly-kick from a particular distance a) standard bad-guy can be hit with several flykicks landed on them as they rise up again b) on big guys - you need greater distance so the flykick won’t be blocked 3)using punches, headbutts etc to ‘surprise’, ie break up on the AI trying to hit you between kicks and punches 4) line up enemies so they are horizontally on same level, then use multiple flykicks on all of them 5) corner one badguy and use standard kick repeatedly

Ok... if its that hard... then ok... sure I hear ya... My own ‘techniques’ are 1) go up or down to an enemy, then use normal kick 3-4 times so the enemy gets knocked down 2) fly-kick from a particular distance a) standard bad-guy can be hit with several flykicks landed on them as the rise up again b) on big guys - you need greater distance so the flykick won’t be blocked 3)using punches, headbutts etc to ‘surprise’, ie break up on the AI trying to hit you between kicks and punches 4) line up enemies so they are horizontally on same level, then use multiple flykicks on all of them 5) corner one badguy and use standard kick repeatedly

Marble Madness, Ramparts... would be natural fits for the 5200 w/ trackball... ...perhaps even all sorts of driving games... ... and definitively aiming-games/rail-shooters...

So, any new games in production, right now? How much time did you spend on making these games? How much time available to you now for making 5200-games? — What’s your top 10 or top 15 of the officially released 5200 games. I got that Qix is number 1. 🙂

Ok, Sounds like glitch... but isn’t that a somewhat boring way of getting through it? Or does some action still happen?

What about making back-up-cartridges of games I’ve purchased, but which may not last forever? Anyway of doing that besides contacting, say, Lucasfilm or Sega or Atari personally (a fairly outlandish amount of work to get a back-up-cart). (Lets say I provide a photo of my copy of Resque on Fractalus. Something like that). Doesn’t it say that it will reproduce them but put ‘reproduction-cart’ on the cart so it can’t sold as real-copy on ebay?

I’m getting on. Pretty much, I felt it all became easier when I use common kick as I would use standard punch in the arcade. Yeah, people say ‘elbow’ and backward-flykick. They aren’t always easy to pull of at will. But I’m getting on. Had a hard time getting past level 1 until I began using moving up or down to an enemy and then use 3-4 standard kicks, and now I’ve gotten to level 3 at least. Thanks for input.

Ok, thanks, I’ll try that.

Pokey music: That would be cool.

Or something else (than hardware)? I’m unable to run it properly on the A/V modded console. On both PAL and un-modded NTSC it works all fine.

And the modded version is unable to deal with it?

No wonder you enjoy the analog controller then. For me, its like, yeah I want that on the games mentioned above (typical 3D or action-strategy), but not on games like Mr Dos Castle etc. I can get Pengo to work with it, and Moon Patrol, but I’d much rather seen a plethora of usual digital/arcade/joypad-things for these kinds of games. Fair ‘nough, Congo Bongo will probably never get high on my top-list, but with the analog controller its a nightmare to play.

Ok, Thanks for info.

Anyway, are these on Carts?

I have actually three 7800 units. One PAL One NTSC modded for A\V (yellow and white video and audio-plug). This did however not work with 1) Tower Toppler; all the levels starts in succession, then jumps to the next, ad infinitum. no gameplay. 2) Commando loose music but not sound-effects. So, I bought a standard 7800-unit which plugs into the antenna-in of a usual old-type (CRT) ntsc tv. (But the colours on Commando got so greenish... dunno why), but it plays Tower Toppler and Commando without bugging.

Ok, thanks. And overseas (I live in Europe)? And when will we get the game-list?

Ok, thanks. Is it possible to have it produced on a cartridge which I can use directly on original hardware? And if so, is it limited to either PAL or NTSC? (I have both, could be interesting to know).