No Cave Man: Community-college game-development student designs game for At

[VectorGamer]

No Cave Man: Community-college game-development student designs game for Atari 2600, Prehistoric Times

[VectorGamer]

BTW - I think there is a factual error in the article. I thought I read that the Fairchild Channel F as being the first cartridge based game console.

[Byte Knight]

No Cave Man: Community-college game-development student designs game for Atari 2600, Prehistoric Times

 

Still trying to make up for all that trashing you did on his game?

[VectorGamer]

No Cave Man: Community-college game-development student designs game for Atari 2600, Prehistoric Times

 

Still trying to make up for all that trashing you did on his game?

 

Fair and balanced!

[+save2600]

Man, that guy's certainly getting enough press! Mediocrity really does reign supreme these days.

 

And isn't Fairchild the 1st cartridge based system? Pretty sure it was. Odyssey2 comes to mind also,

but Wikipedia even lists the Channel F as the 1st programmable cartridge based system...

[Emehr]

Man, that guy's certainly getting enough press! Mediocrity really does reign supreme these days.

Yeah, no kidding! There have been some amazing games made in the past 10 years for the 2600 and *this* is the one that gets the attention? Why? More importantly, how? What's this guy doing that the talented programmers who frequent this site aren't?

[VectorGamer]

Man, that guy's certainly getting enough press! Mediocrity really does reign supreme these days.

 

And isn't Fairchild the 1st cartridge based system? Pretty sure it was. Odyssey2 comes to mind also,

but Wikipedia even lists the Channel F as the 1st programmable cartridge based system...

 

I have a few books at home that also state that the Channel F is the first cartridge console along with the Wiki article.

 

I sent the dude an email regarding this but not like he's going to give a 5h1t.

[VectorGamer]

Man, that guy's certainly getting enough press! Mediocrity really does reign supreme these days.

Yeah, no kidding! There have been some amazing games made in the past 10 years for the 2600 and *this* is the one that gets the attention? Why? More importantly, how? What's this guy doing that the talented programmers who frequent this site aren't?

 

Connections, connections, connections...it's who you know...

[Video]

Farichild was releasedin 76 if Im not mistaken. Of course, if you mean cart, and not remove-able rom, you could throw Odyssey in the mix (wasn't that 72?) People just don't count it because theres no rom on it's carts.

 

I seem toremember the 2600 could have been released a year earlier, but Magnavox had some sort of copyright doe to the odyssey having remove-able media (despite there being no media) Atari, instead of paying, just let the thing run out so they could release their system without having to pay royalties or something like that.

[+batari]

IMO, it's good that a 2600 homebrew is getting some press. Sure, it wasn't one of the popular assembly homebrews, but at least it's something.

 

THey did give batari Basic a blurb as well...

[StanJr]

I get it, and good for this guy for creating the game yada-yada, but this is news?* I have no idea what the game is, how it plays, how he is marketing it, etc., but homebrewing for the 2600 is over a decade old, yet no where in the article is there any mention of a small, but thriving homebrew culture. Where do they think that batari program came from? Maybe it just appeared in a stack of old floppy disks? Instead of taking this opportunity to explore a niche section of computer programming society, we get the big revelation that "computer gaming/programming is popular." REALLY? No shit? I thought all of those WoW dorks were a fluke.

 

I'm sorry, I'm being a uber-picky nerd here, but I think the article drops the bigger picture and acts like this kid is a revolutionary pioneer. Could have been handled better.

 

 

*then again, maybe this is news for the Winston Salem Journal...

[carmel_andrews]

I get it, and good for this guy for creating the game yada-yada, but this is news?* I have no idea what the game is, how it plays, how he is marketing it, etc., but homebrewing for the 2600 is over a decade old, yet no where in the article is there any mention of a small, but thriving homebrew culture. Where do they think that batari program came from? Maybe it just appeared in a stack of old floppy disks? Instead of taking this opportunity to explore a niche section of computer programming society, we get the big revelation that "computer gaming/programming is popular." REALLY? No shit? I thought all of those WoW dorks were a fluke.

 

I'm sorry, I'm being a uber-picky nerd here, but I think the article drops the bigger picture and acts like this kid is a revolutionary pioneer. Could have been handled better.

 

 

*then again, maybe this is news for the Winston Salem Journal...

 

 

 

 

 

Stan....Perhaps this peep thinks he is a 21st century Bushnell/Alcorn etc

 

Probably the concept of retro gaming/old school gaming and emulation hasn't reached some parts of the US

 

Also we need stories like this to keep the interest going in the old school/retro gaming market, bearing in mind that the key market for general gaming is the 18-30 y/o group, that is what we need to be targetting (it is happening at AA it's been slow but at least AA is getting there)

Edited June 6, 2009 by carmel_andrews

[+Psionic]

No Cave Man: Community-college game-development student designs game for Atari 2600, Prehistoric Times

Yet another reference to the fact that the game "sold out" in 45 minutes (all five or so copies).

 

BTW - I think there is a factual error in the article. I thought I read that the Fairchild Channel F as being the first cartridge based game console.

Correct, although this is to be expected. Glaring factual errors in video game articles are par for the course.

[Silvio Mogno]

Is there someone to write an article on me?

[Godzilla]

As an ex-reporter, I do wish journalists would actually research so-called factual statements, before making them

 

That aside, as a 2600 fan, I'm happy to see any press for the 'ol girl.

[Wickeycolumbus]

I find this sentence of the article funny:

 

Leftwich created the game using batari, a computer programming platform developed to write programming for the Atari 2600.

 

 

BTW - I think there is a factual error in the article. I thought I read that the Fairchild Channel F as being the first cartridge based game console.

 

Yes, Channel F is widely considered the first, but you could also argue that the Odyssey 1 is the first.