Keith Weisshar Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Why does the Atari 2600 Bowling sometimes crash into vertical stripes when knocking the bottom of the last four back pins toward the top line creating a domino effect with the difficulty switch set to A? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamrodHare Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Don't quote me on this, but I think it's due to a rip in the space-time continuum. It seems that those four pins are part of the structure that holds our reality together. Hitting them in this manner destabilized the quantum vortices that balance our universe. It's very possible that repeatedly hitting those four pins in this way could cause a permanent tear that could result in a super black hole, which could suck our universe into a parallel dimension where Raccoons with oversized testicles rule the Earth. No one wants that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 That's the "drinking too much while bowling" variation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari-dna Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Why does the Atari 2600 Bowling sometimes crash into vertical stripes when knocking the bottom of the last four back pins toward the top line creating a domino effect with the difficulty switch set to A? Can’t say I’ve observed this behavior. Pics? Video? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hizzy Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Is this with the cart or on stella? I've seen this in stella. Thought the rom was bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Never saw that, but if its reliable I'd like to see that. Don't think I've ever had it crash outside of bumping the system though. Do you have other copies of the game and system? If something is wrong with one or the other, then the problem likely won't repeat on other systems and game copies. If it isn't a defect, then combinations of games/carts shouldn't matter. From the description, are you talking hitting the ten pin and knocking 9,8,and7, or hitting pin 1 and it hitting 2,4,and7? I'm assuming the rest of the board is clear at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Weisshar Posted October 10, 2017 Author Share Posted October 10, 2017 (edited) Hitting Pin 10 and knocking 9, 8, and 7 on difficulty level A. Happened on Atari 2600 when I was a kid. Can also reproduce in Stella but makes weird noise when it crashes. Edited October 10, 2017 by Keith Weisshar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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