Army Of 2600 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 My daughter says Super Breakout is the better game. I think Circus Atari is superior. What do you guys think? Help me set my daughter straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Superior how? They're different games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 No not the same game exactly but I'm a Circus Atari fan all the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarifan88 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Circus Atari has more action! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+xucaen Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I love Super Breakout, but my wife loves Circus Atari. But Circus Atari does have the little squiggly squirmy dead bodies. *shrug* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Army Of 2600 Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 Different, but from the same family tree. i.e. keeping an object from falling while knocking things out of the air... Just stick by this old school gamer, and tell my daughter what time it is, figuratively speaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I'd go with Super Breakout. I guess there may be more strategy in Circus Atari, in choosing whether or not to flip the teeter-totter, but in my experience I just keep bouncing clowns up and less than half the time they actually bounce high enough to pop a balloon. And Super Breakout is just that, the original classic but SUPER! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Different, but from the same family tree. i.e. keeping an object from falling while knocking things out of the air... Just stick by this old school gamer, and tell my daughter what time it is, figuratively speaking. The time is a half past Circus Atari and your daughter is very late to the party 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfAmongWolves Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I love Super Breakout, but my wife loves Circus Atari. But Circus Atari does have the little squiggly squirmy dead bodies. *shrug* No, they're not dead. They're fine, still kicking their legs. Spider Man, on the other hand, is seriously dead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 My daughter says Super Breakout is the better game. I think Circus Atari is superior. What do you guys think? Help me set my daughter straight. I think your daughter doesn't need to be set straight. She's a fan of a superb Atari 2600 game. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Instead of bickering which paddle game is better, my suggestion would be to play two player co-op "GI Joe Cobra Strike" with her. Go beat that black cobra together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mingy Jongo Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Sorry, but your daughter is right. Play Game 7 on Super Breakout and you'll understand why. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Sorry, but your daughter is right. Play Game 7 on Super Breakout and you'll understand why. Strongly seconded. Progressive FTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntavio Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 I think that Circus Atari is loads more fun............. I hope Albert will finally release Super Circus AtariAge!!!! (for the 7800) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Super Breakout for me and especially like the variety of play compared to Circus Atari. Multi-ball, cavity, progressive bricks, speed variances, sound effects, etc.Really looking forward to the new Circus Atari though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I think this is an even tie for me. The game variations in Circus Atari actually change the gameplay quite a bit, but I really like the progressive version of Super Breakout. Both of these games are better than their arcade counterparts IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Smash through (if I think it is what you're thinking) isnt in Super Breakout. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Smash through (if I think it is what you're thinking) isnt in Super Breakout. Had the wrong Breakout on the brain! Guess I haven't played any of these games in quite a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mipaol Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Super Breakout because it has an astronaut on the cover so you know its out of this world (also its the one I've played the most so I'm better at it than Circus Atari). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Yeah I like playing Circus Atari on the "Breakthru" variation where your guy can jam left/right across the balloons. The other variation ("breakout") is pretty much as it's named where it's just like breakout and the dude it simply rebounds back all the time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xot Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Strongly seconded. Progressive FTW. Thirded. The resounding BONG when the wall advances makes me jump out of my chair the first couple of times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I have liked breakout style games such as was on my APF M1000 (or whatever it was called) when I was a kid. Not so much with the Atari offerings. The sound effects in Super Breakout are grating to me. So, yeah, Circus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 The sound effects in Super Breakout are grating to me. Musical tones are grating to you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Musical tones are grating to you? Maybe he's got a bad TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 (edited) Maybe he's got a bad TIA! Only if every 2600 I've ever played has a bad TIA. I just don't like the tones produced. Just something annoying about them. Never liked them back in the olden days, and don't like them now. I'm not musically knowledgeable enough to deconstruct the sound and qualify what it is I don't like though. I agree it's a bit odd. Edited February 5, 2015 by BigO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Only if every 2600 I've ever played has a bad TIA. I just don't like the tones produced. Just something annoying about them. Never liked them back in the olden days, and don't like them now. I'm not musically knowledgeable enough to deconstruct the sound and qualify what it is I don't like though. I agree it's a bit odd. I find the 2600 produces some fairly clear audio, but maybe you're just ultra sensitive to odd order harmonics? "The best-known form of distortion is harmonic distortion, where the output of an audio signal contains additional components that occur at the natural harmonics of the input. When a device clips, the waveform is generally flattened. Analog devices tend to gently flatten the waveform and produce what we think of as saturation. When a digital device clips, it does so by chopping off the tops of the waveforms abruptly. If this flattening is symmetrical, it produces odd-order harmonic distortion at the third and fifth harmonics". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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