David Alexander Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 A copy of Archon for me please so put me on the pre-order list and let me know when its time to pay. Cant wait !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfraMan Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Archon is one of the original classic EA games. I'd LOVE for someone to bring MULE over too. And Star Raiders... But that's another post entirely. +1 M.U.L.E. was awesome! It's funny looking back now at EA's early days... there were such a great company with an artist-first mentality. It's amazing that they're still around after all this time, but wow how times have changed, huh? But I digress... bring on the CV Archon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Archon is one of the original classic EA games. I'd LOVE for someone to bring MULE over too. And Star Raiders... But that's another post entirely. M.U.L.E is on my To-do list 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Archon is one of the original classic EA games. I'd LOVE for someone to bring MULE over too. And Star Raiders... But that's another post entirely. M.U.L.E is on my To-do list And I would love to do a game like Star Raiders on the CV (it would make good use of the CV controller keypad, for one thing) although I would probably steer more towards the Starpath game "Phaser Patrol" because it's the same kind of game but the space battles seem a little more intense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Alexander Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 M.U.L.E is on my To-do list 1 copy of Archon and M.u.l.e. Please and thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Count me in for one of Archon and M.U.L.E. as well! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mufla Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Put me down for Archon M.U.L.E. & star raiders would be great 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamester81 Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Please count me in for a copy too. Thanks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RelliK111 Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 I'm in for a copy!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LynxVGL Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 And I would love to do a game like Star Raiders on the CV (it would make good use of the CV controller keypad, for one thing) although I would probably steer more towards the Starpath game "Phaser Patrol" because it's the same kind of game but the space battles seem a little more intense. I'm surprised nothing like Star Raiders or Phaser Patrol never was done for the CV. The Inty got Space Spartans, and the 2600 got Star Master, Star Voyager and... I guess some would call it Star Raiders... The 5200 showed how the controller could work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LynxVGL Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 And I would love to do a game like Star Raiders on the CV (it would make good use of the CV controller keypad, for one thing) although I would probably steer more towards the Starpath game "Phaser Patrol" because it's the same kind of game but the space battles seem a little more intense. I'm surprised nothing like Star Raiders or Phaser Patrol never was done for the CV. The Inty got Space Spartans, and the 2600 got Star Master, Star Voyager and... I guess some would call it Star Raiders... The 5200 showed how the controller could work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Star Raiders actually slows down on the Atari during explosions and the CPU has direct access to video RAM.Some form of the game is certainly possible but I would expect a few corners to be cut on the visuals.M.U.L.E. would be alright but it would have to be a 2 player game on Colecovision. On the Adam two players could share the keyboard I suppose.Archon doesn't a lot of sprites moving at a given moment so it shouldn't be too difficult. The biggest issue would be matching the AI of a 6502 version which was slightly different from one machine to the next anyway from what I understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBuff Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Thanks for all the kind appreciation of my choice in bringing Archon to the CV - now I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes this game I spent(d) many hours in playing this game and as far as I can remember back, nobody actually did beat me yet. Would be a cool network game. Now if there would be some kind of hardware for the ColecoVision... I will set up an interest list for all you early adopters, but you do know that we are talking about a possible 2015 release, don't you? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youki Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Thanks for all the kind appreciation of my choice in bringing Archon to the CV - now I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes this game I spent(d) many hours in playing this game and as far as I can remember back, nobody actually did beat me yet. Would be a cool network game. Now if there would be some kind of hardware for the ColecoVision... I will set up an interest list for all you early adopters, but you do know that we are talking about a possible 2015 release, don't you? On what version did you play? Atari , C64 or else? I used to play with a good friend . And the funny thing is that he always beat me on the C64 version and i always beat him on the Atari XL version!. on DOS version , sometimes it was me , sometimes him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBuff Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Youki, we play both the C64 and the XL version, rarely the Amiga one. Either my opponents are so weak or I seam to have the hang of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Words iManifest Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Ugh, all these amazing releases. I just can't keep up...that's a good thing though. Archon is one of my favorite games, played it like crazy on the C64 and still pull out the NES regularly. I'm glad it's quite awhile off as I would love a CIB copy myself ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cruise Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 You can count me in for a copy of this as well, can't wait to see how it turns out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBuff Posted September 18, 2014 Author Share Posted September 18, 2014 In talks with Jon Freeman about the official license for Archon on the ColecoVision. More news as they happen. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 In talks with Jon Freeman about the official license for Archon on the ColecoVision. More news as they happen. Well that's great news. Good luck with the discussions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfraMan Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 In talks with Jon Freeman about the official license for Archon on the ColecoVision. More news as they happen. That would be awesome, good luck! Here's hoping you can use that iconic black and white Archon from the original release! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamshaft Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Good news for sure! Loved this game, a definite classic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mäsäxi Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 There are 36 characters on the screen with 2 colours each but only 2 of these are animating at any one time and the rest can be just tiles. and the battle scene the characters are 1 colour plus 1 projectile each so it won't break the 4 sprites per line rule. There are couple of exceptions from that rule, the phoenix and ghost like flying creature. They don´t shoot projectiles, but the first one makes a big fireball around itself and the ghost makes a big blue force field looking thing. On Commodore 64 those were easily made using magnified sprite, I think Atari did the same. In talks with Jon Freeman about the official license for Archon on the ColecoVision. More news as they happen. Please kindly ask a permission for the possible later MSX conversion too! *hint* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamshaft Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Any news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBuff Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 Unfortunately not. Official license for the ColecoVision is being worked on. The game itself is being worked on. We'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Any video or screenshots you could share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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