If The 2600 Came Out Today...

[A Sprite]

Imagine a world exactly like ours, with two differences -

 

The 2600 has just been released.

 

People are still willing to pay good money for conversions of popular titles.

 

If your brain hasn't exploded from the logic of the 2600 being taken seriously as a competitor to the X-Box 360 and PS3 -

 

What modern games (16 bit and up) should be converted? Assume two sprites and a missile, with whatever programming tricks you want, but it has to have been a popular game, and the conversion has to be reasonably fun to play.

 

Can you meet the challenge?

[Inky]

World of Warcraft is already on the 2600...

[Kamaria]

How about Chrono Trigger?

[A Sprite]

How about Chrono Trigger?

 

You could easily bring over all of Chrono's dialog intact.

[djdat]

It would have to be san andreas lol Imagine that!!!

[Xot]

It would have to be san andreas lol Imagine that!!!

 

It's been mentioned in other threads but scaled-back versions of DDR, Guitar Hero and DrumMaster would all be feasible, as would several XBox Arcade titiles.

 

Many of the hack-n-slashers might be doable, like the Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance games, X-Men Legends, and Hunter: The Reckoning

[Asaki]

Guitar Hero

 

I'm imagining a piece of wood with a Star Raiders keypad taped to it for the fretboard, and a joystick for the pick. Would be ever so slightly more realistic than the real thing

[A Sprite]

It would have to be san andreas lol Imagine that!!!

 

Something like this?

[MagMax667]

It's been mentioned in other threads but scaled-back versions of DDR, Guitar Hero and DrumMaster would all be feasible, as would several XBox Arcade titiles.

 

A few homebrewers even attempted a DDR-style game for the 2600, didn't they? It was called "Discotech."

[Tursi]

Definately need a Street Fighter clone

 

It would be interesting to see what could be pulled off with a massive ROM.