2600 games you never plan to play again:

[MaxSpeed]

Strawberry Shortcake

Activision Boxing

Blackjack

 

 

What are yours ?

[Joey Kay]

***Joey puts flame-retardent suit on***

 

REACTOR

[Lemmi]

Sneak N Peek

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer

math Grand Pricks

Othello

Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups

Swordquest: Earthworld/Fireworld

[MaxSpeed]

Oops - need to add Swordquest Earthworld & Fireworld

[Rob Mitchell]

Oh I will definitely play Boxing, Blackjack, Baseball, Basketball again and again and again ..

 

I will never play Canyon Bomber or Lunar Lander again!

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

[MegaManFan]

As much as I hate to admit it, half or more of the US Games I collected will probably spent little time ever being played. Entombed may be the lone exception - their hit or miss development team actually struck gold on that one!

[IceCold]

Star Raiders, can't even figure out how to play the damn game. And now I have 2 star raiders carts. Just one was too many.

[StanJr]

Word Zapper

Journey Escape (don't kill me Scooterb!)

Basketball

 

and many more

[Scooterb23]

*kills Stanjr*

 

*re-reads his post*

 

damn...

 

Oh well, anyway...Sssnake comes to mind as one I don't have to play again...I can live without Adventure (I know, BLASPHEMY!!!) quite honestly...no Swordquests in my forseeable future...and I really despise Mr. Do, Burgertime, and Gorf as well (mainly in general, those are my three most hated games of all time!!!)...

 

*tries to give CPR to Stanjr*

 

*realizes head isn't quite attached to body anymore*

 

*goes to find duct tape and stapler*

 

I really have to read these posts closer...

[NE146]

***Joey puts flame-retardent suit on***  

 

REACTOR

 

Since you got your suit on...

 

How could you say you won't play it again when you obviously never REALLY have?? (By that I mean with full knowledge of HOW to play and read the directions and knew what the goals were etc... rather than popping in the cart and blindly giving it a go for 2 minutes)

[cvga]

Sssnake

Bugs

Swordquest(s)

Skeet Shoot

Karate

Sorcerer/Fire Fly/Star Fox

 

and

 

Berzerk (now that I have the voice enhanced version)

[Big Player]

The games I never play are the ones I have had since the early 80's--my original games.

 

I have just played them too much over the years. I never had a huge collection of games back then, so they got played to death.

 

That list includes:

Chopper Command

Starmaster

Stampede

Vanguard

Freeway

Turmoil

Dark Cavern

 

One game I had that I miss is Mountain King. The cart died before it's time--but I still did get a lot of games out of it.

[SS]

As much as I hate to admit it, half or more of the US Games I collected will probably spent little time ever being played.  Entombed may be the lone exception - their hit or miss development team actually struck gold on that one!

 

 

WHAT?!? Have you gone completely loco, my friend? Eggomania, Entombed, Gopher, Raft Rider, and Towering Inferno are among my favorite 2600 games!

 

(Of course, I'd buy a Venetian Blinds cart too! )

[Joey Kay]

Since you got your suit on...  

 

How could you say you won't play it again when you obviously never REALLY have??  (By that I mean with full knowledge of HOW to play and read the directions and knew what the goals were etc... rather than popping in the cart and blindly giving it a go for 2 minutes)  

 

Okay... okay... you're right... It's the first 2600 game I have ever owned that I couldn't plug in and figure out in 2 minutes flat... therefore, it got tossed aside. In all honesty, I probably spent half an hour trying to figure it out and gave up...

 

And I guess I can add the Swordquest games to my list, too!

[raindog]

Reactor was always one of my more favorite 2600 games, but probably only because I loved the arcade game and found the 2600 version a nice simplification. I got to play it a few times with a trakball (in joystick mode of course) though I can't remember if that made it better or worse.

 

There are lots of 2600 games I probably would never play again, but they'd probably be the unmemorable ones whose names I've already forgotten. I have no real desire to play Air/Sea Battle, E.T., the original Atari Pac-Man, or the original Atari Asteroids again though, off the top of my head.

 

Rob

[MegaManFan]

WHAT?!?  Have you gone completely loco, my friend?  Eggomania, Entombed, Gopher, Raft Rider, and Towering Inferno are among my favorite 2600 games!

 

(Of course, I'd buy a Venetian Blinds cart too!   )

 

Raft Rider is okay, except that my copy of it is somewhat flaky, so I'd rather not mess with it more often than not. I have to admit I'd probably like Towering Inferno except I have no idea how to play it and never bothered to look up the manual here on the site; I just gave up on it. All things said the US Games are as a whole not as spiffy as the Parker Bros. or Activision games, which seem to be higher quality overall.

[pitfallaimee]

I am never, ever going to play Word Zapper again. I had that in my original collection...I have no idea why anyone thought it was a good idea to purchase it.

 

I'm also never going to play Sneak 'n' Peek again, if only because I was scared to death of the game when I was a small child.

[Big_Mo]

Demons to Diamonds

Star Raiders (I can ace the 5200 version...the 2600 version blows)

Pac-Man (obvious)

[King Atari]

One word: Karate.

[cimerians]

I probably will turn these games on again but who knows maybe I never will:

 

3D Tic-Tac-Toe

Basic Programming

Math Grand Prix

Football

Bridge

[rasty]

I'm not going to play any Slot Machine for sure!

[Inky]

Slot Machine

Basic Math

Demons to Diamonds

 

 

I WILL continue to play Blackjack and Reactor!

[Brad2600]

I will probably never play ET ever again. Falling constantly into a pit lost it's novelty years ago..about 16 years ago to be exact.

[Rob Mitchell]

Well noone wants to touch Word Zapper again .. but ...

 

if you have kids or nephews .. you can have a blast playing Basketball, Boxing, Air-Sea Battle, etc .. so you may play some of those games again that seem tired today ..

 

Share the games .... and let another generation discover the simplicity of the Atari.

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

[Stunt_Cycle_Rules!]

How about, Video Olympics, and Atari Golf. I never could figure out how to play the thing. I'd almost put Raiders of the Lost Ark on there. Should I?