+Psionic Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 ...Crossbow, Desert Falcon, and Crystal Castles (three more red label gems). Crystal Castles was a silver label title (originally released in '84, reissued in '87). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Tapper is one of the best arcade ports on the 2600 period. It captures the action of the arcade game beautifully and the fact that they were able to squeeze in the bonus round screen is also amazing I think. They could have left that out and nobody who is familiar with the VCS would've blinked an eye. I'm not sure, but I think I might have preferred to lose the bonus round, and keep the tips and dancing girls. It's nice to get a bit of a breather in the middle of a round, not just between rounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Tapper is one of the best arcade ports on the 2600 period. It captures the action of the arcade game beautifully and the fact that they were able to squeeze in the bonus round screen is also amazing I think. They could have left that out and nobody who is familiar with the VCS would've blinked an eye. I'm not sure, but I think I might have preferred to lose the bonus round, and keep the tips and dancing girls. It's nice to get a bit of a breather in the middle of a round, not just between rounds. It's hard to say. The C-64 cartridge version had both the bonus round and the tips/girls, but unfortunately they had to cut it from four bar screens down to two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Tapper is easily one of the top 5 arcade conversions on the 2600. Dare I say, probably the best. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Tapper is one of the best arcade ports on the 2600 period. It captures the action of the arcade game beautifully and the fact that they were able to squeeze in the bonus round screen is also amazing I think. They could have left that out and nobody who is familiar with the VCS would've blinked an eye.I'm not sure, but I think I might have preferred to lose the bonus round, and keep the tips and dancing girls. It's nice to get a bit of a breather in the middle of a round, not just between rounds.It's hard to say. The C-64 cartridge version had both the bonus round and the tips/girls, but unfortunately they had to cut it from four bar screens down to two. Really? I played the heck out of the C-64 floppy version, and I'm sure it had at least four different bars (cowboys, jocks, punk rockers, aliens). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Falcon Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Do you know if there is a PAL version of this excellent looking game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I haven't tried 2600 tapper.I do have the Colecovision version and it is a pretty damn good game.I'm curious as to how 2600 Tapper plays.Don't exactly know till you plug it in and try it.The 2600 version seems pretty hard to find, i've never seen one in the wild when i think of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I think the reason why Tapper didnt get much love on the consoles is because most of us played BUDWEISER Tapper in the arcade and not 'Root Beer Tapper' like we got on the consoles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 It's hard to say. The C-64 cartridge version had both the bonus round and the tips/girls, but unfortunately they had to cut it from four bar screens down to two. Really? I played the heck out of the C-64 floppy version, and I'm sure it had at least four different bars (cowboys, jocks, punk rockers, aliens). Yeah, the disk version had all four screens, but the cartridge version didn't. I was just pointing out how different compromises were made in that version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Thag Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Yep, I agree. This is an outstanding arcade port that never gets mentioned due to it's late release and relative obscurity. It's very fun. I am a big fan of Tapper, Up n' Down, and Spy Hunter. All of these games show what the old VCS could pull off with some talented coding. Great games. I think the late release Sega games fall into the same category as the late release Activision and Imagic games. I mean, how often do you hear about H.E.R.O., Pressure Cooker, Moonsweeper, Subterranea and Cosmic Commuter? Almost never, and yet they are A-list games. Those of us player/collector types who have delved into the library love them to death, but they are unknown (generally) to the pubic at large. Which is why this site is nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 tapper is one of my fave 2600 games, like it better than the arcade! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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