lucifershalo Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 can someone scan the instructions of Meltdown from the repro edition? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snider-man Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 There were no instructions released with the repro version at CGE - unless there was another release I'm unaware of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifershalo Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 ok, thanks I was sure there were instructions like for Rush Hour my mistake.... thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHATETHEBEARS Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Could someone then explain in easy to understand terms how exactly one plays this game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vectorman0 Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 There was no CGE reproduction of Meltdown, only the ROM was released. I know Scott Stilphen made a handful of carts and sold them for $12 or so at CGE2K7, but that was his own thing. Anyway, here's how you play: You have a 4x4 grid of circle's you want to protect. Quick particles will jump from circle to circle shrinking them down. Your job is to line up your cross-hair and hit the tiny particles, keeping your 16 circles as big for as long as possible. You can read a page on it here: http://www.digitpress.com/archives/cc_meltdown.htm Also, one interesting thing to note is that the circles get squished and aren't displayed properly in an emulator. It doesn't have an effect on gameplay. I also could be wrong and maybe that emulation issue has since been fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I did a review of Meltdown awhile back: http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/m...wn/meltdown.htm Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Primus Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Speaking of Meltdown - Tempest, were you ever able to recover the data from that EPROM? -Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Speaking of Meltdown - Tempest, were you ever able to recover the data from that EPROM? -Ian Sadly no. I still have the EPROM (somewhere around here) and haven't given up hope, but it's not looking good at this point. You never know though. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 That's the one you (or someone else?) found in a store somewhere? Where did the ROM that we have come from? *memory getting fuzzy in old age* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 A second unrelated copy was found/surfaced/revealed around the same time. And ironically they/he decided to release the rom freely without a huge production like most of their proto repos.. Me thinks someone was worried Matt was gonna get a working copy out of his purchase and start selling copies through the AA store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vectorman0 Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 (edited) Or they could have sat on the ROM and been called ROM hoarders. Would you rather they had not share it at all, or sold it as a CGE reproduction? Edited March 3, 2009 by Vectorman0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Or they could have sat on the ROM and been called ROM hoarders. Indeed. Sharing is good. Would you rather they had not share it at all, or sold it as a CGE reproduction? I'd rather they sold it as a CGE reproduction...then I'd have another cart to collect. Actually, I'm bummed I missed out on Lasercade. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I also could be wrong and maybe that emulation issue has since been fixed. MESS emulates this correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vectorman0 Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I regret my earlier post. I merely meant to suggest how I think the other courses of action that could have been taken with the Meltdown ROM would have been met with equal or worse attitudes, given the situation Tempest was in with his prototype. I also could be wrong and maybe that emulation issue has since been fixed. MESS emulates this correctly. Thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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