List of 2600 games with boss battles?

[sloth-machine]

Off the top of my head:

 

Subterranea

Vanguard

Dragonstomper

Desert Falcon

Krull

Off the Wall

Sinistar

 

Maybe:

Adventure

Empire Strikes Back

Dragonfire

Yars Revenge

Edited February 12, 2018 by sloth-machine

[Gabriel]

Phoenix

[sloth-machine]

Phoenix

 

Oh yeah, that made me think of Death Star Battle.

[masschamber]

double dragon

[pacman000]

Zaxxon

 

(P.S. How do you get past the big robot?)

[BassGuitari]

Kung Fu Master

Radar Lock

GORF

And I guess Name This Game is like one giant boss battle...

[4ever2600]

Ummmm the whole game homebrew BOSS.

[+atari2600land]

Princess Rescue, if we're counting homebrews.

[CapitanClassic]

SW Empire Strikes Back doesnt have any bosses. It is a never ending stream of mutant camels.

 

I wouldnt count Dragonfire either. You always fave a dragons fireballs on each screen. Otherwise you might as well start counting DK or DK Jr.

[sloth-machine]

SW Empire Strikes Back doesnt have any bosses. It is a never ending stream of mutant camels.

 

I wouldnt count Dragonfire either. You always fave a dragons fireballs on each screen. Otherwise you might as well start counting DK or DK Jr.

 

Yeah, that's why I but them in the 'maybe category.

[+SpiceWare]

[HatefulGravey]

Does the mother ship at the end of each sector in Beamrider count? We just finished playing that in HSC.

[toiletunes]

gorf?

[xucaen]

Can the UFOs in Space Invaders and Asteroids be considered boss battles?

[nanochess]

Space Raid

[HatefulGravey]

Can the UFOs in Space Invaders and Asteroids be considered boss battles?

 

Good questions. Seems we need to define the terms of this conversation. I don't think the "boss character" needs to be harder to deal with by rule, though they normally are. I guess being seen as in control of the lesser beings in the level is pretty important.

 

Does the wizard in Wizard of Wor count? What about his flying beast thing? Sub boss?

Edited February 13, 2018 by HatefulGravey

[BassGuitari]

gorf?

 

Kung Fu Master

Radar Lock

GORF

And I guess Name This Game is like one giant boss battle...

 

 

 

Can the UFOs in Space Invaders and Asteroids be considered boss battles?

 

Nah. Defeating them isn't necessarily a central goal of the game, they don't mark the end of stage or wave or game loop, they're not stronger or substantially more difficult to defeat (except maybe in Asteroids), nor do they present a different kind of challenge that bosses typically do. They're incidental bonus targets and x-factors to prevent the game from getting too monotonous.

 

I hadn't considered The Wizard in Wizard of Wor, but he does seem to check most of those boxes.

[high voltage]

X Man for sure (It's always a battle)

Edited February 13, 2018 by high voltage

[Flojomojo]

But fellas, who destroys the Gond?

 

[Flojomojo]

How about Jungle Hunt? The fine young cannibals at the end, of course. You just jump over them, but still ...

Same with the helicopter from Spy Hunter.

 

Side scrollers, pay to continue, mini-bosses, and end bosses seem to be ideas that were mostly in the next generation from Atari. Like the NES-ized version of Gyruss.

[Mountain King]

How about, Blueprint?

[pacman000]

Krull!

[Spriggy]

Frankenstein's Monster.

 

Your battling Frankenstein's Monster by encasing him in a wall. If you do ... you stop him coming to life and the game ends.

[CaptainBreakout]

Saboteur

Escape from the Mind Master

Oysterion

He-Man (sorta)

Edited February 14, 2018 by CaptainBreakout

[HatefulGravey]

Frankenstein's Monster.

 

Your battling Frankenstein's Monster by encasing him in a wall. If you do ... you stop him coming to life and the game ends.

I thought about this one. If there is a fight against the monster I would think of it as the main game. IMO one doesn't fight the monster in the "boss fight" sense. The thought did get me in the mood to play the game again, and it is one of my favorites in the sleeper category.