Combat in Context

[Hornpipe2]

At E3 in May 2000, Harmon Leon of the now-defunct gaming site DailyRadar.com set up a booth that featured an Atari VCS with a Combat cartridge plugged into it. The unit was wrapped in aluminum foil. Leon announced through his megaphone and using a hand-lettered sign that this system was actually a new game called CyberBattle 2000, and he enticed several conference attendees to play it (Leon 2000). A humorous review of CyberBattle 2000 appeared in DailyRadar.com after the conference, which read, in part...

 

http://gamestudies.org/0601/articles/montfort

 

This (somewhat lengthy) article from 2004 takes a more academic approach to analyzing Combat, and makes an effort to correctly place the game in a historical context while providing a solid review. Recommended if you've got the time.

 

As a side note, whenever the AtariAge store comes back online, it might be fun to stock T-shirts with a hex dump of Combat on the front.

Edited September 2, 2009 by Hornpipe2

[seanhq]

http://gamestudies.org/0601/articles/montfort

 

This (somewhat lengthy) article from 2004 takes a more academic approach to analyzing Combat, and makes an effort to correctly place the game in a historical context while providing a solid review. Recommended if you've got the time.

 

As a side note, whenever the AtariAge store comes back online, it might be fun to stock T-shirts with a hex dump of Combat on the front.

Thanks for sharing. That was actually a pretty cool article.

 

I also agree that a T-shirt with a hex dump of Combat would be geektastic and would buy a couple for sure.