TigerSuperman Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 (edited) Hello Atari Age, This thread is about voting for the best shooting games of any sub-genre for the Atari 2600. Original titles as well as homebrews can be included. I ask you to make a top 5 so that I can tally them in the results at the bottom of this opening post. I'll be updating the results frequently, if I forgot to include anything feel free to give me a holler. One vote only of course. This will be a single round poll, so I'll be including every game mentioned in the results. The games that have the most votes will be at the top of the list. This poll will run around 3 weeks to give everyone time to join in. Not only will this help us determine the best shooting games for the 2600, decided by the Atari Age community of course, it will also be a great way to find hidden gems as well! The point system works as follows: 5 points for your first choice 4 points for your 2nd choice 3 points for your 3rd choice 2 points for your 4th choice 1 point for your 5th choice I will start first! 1. Asteroids 2. Phaser Patrol 2. Star Fire 4. Atlantis 5. River Raid RESULTS: 1. River Raid (67 points) 2. Demon Attack (54 points) 3. Asteroids (45 points) 4. Space Invaders (37 points) 5. Spider Fighter (32 points) 5. MegaMania (30 points) 6. Phoenix (29 points) 6. Beam Rider (29 points) (Games Less than 25 points) Atlantis Juno First Missile Command Phaser Patrol Millipede Turmoil Solaris Galaxian Berserk Centipede (Games with less than 10 points) Skeleton (+) outlaw Allia Quest Super Cobra Arcade - homebrew Omega Race Spy Hunter Stargate/Defender II Battlezone Cosmic Ark Moonsweeper Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Fantastic Voyage Sky Skipper Lead 2 Gorf Combat Snoopy and the Red Baron Worm War I River Raid 3 (Hack) Space Rocks (Homebrew) Chopper Command Gunfight Solar Storm Defender Starmaster Space master X7 Yar's Revenge Vanguard Astroblast Draconian Demons to Diamonds Seaquest Laser Gates Marauder Gyruss Space Rocks - homebrew Scramble - homebrew Edited October 4, 2018 by TigerSuperman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 This could be interesting, considering the majority of games for 2600 are some sort of shooters. Anyhow, here's my top 5 in rotation. 1 Skeleton (+)I 2 outlaw 3 river raid 4 Atlantis 5 asteroid 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrogoober Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 (edited) 1. Phoenix 2 Beamrider 3. Juno First 4. Asteroids 5. Space Invaders Edited September 27, 2018 by retrogoober 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 No love for Carnival? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardschamber Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Hello Atari Age, This thread is about voting for the best shooting games of any sub-genre for the Atari 2600. Original titles as well as homebrews can be included. I ask you to make a top 5 so that I can tally them in the results at the bottom of this opening post. I'll be updating the results frequently, if I forgot to include anything feel free to give me a holler. One vote only of course. This will be a single round poll, so I'll be including every game mentioned in the results. The games that have the most votes will be at the top of the list. This poll will run around 3 weeks to give everyone time to join in. Not only will this help us determine the best shooting games for the 2600, decided by the Atari Age community of course, it will also be a great way to find hidden gems as well! The point system works as follows: 5 points for your first choice 4 points for your 2nd choice 3 points for your 3rd choice 2 points for your 4th choice 1 point for your 5th choice I will start first! 1. Asteroids 2. Phaser Patrol 2. Star Fire 4. Atlantis 5. River Raid RESULTS: Oh I have to jump into this one. 1. Space Invaders 2. Asteroids 3. Missile Command 4. Phoenix 5. Demon Attack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_convoy Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 River Raid Beamrider Phaser Patrol Asteroids Demon Attack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Gyruss Space Invaders Space Rocks - homebrew Scramble - homebrew Super Cobra Arcade - homebrew 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Gunfight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8_is_enuff Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1 Millipede 2 Turmoil 3 Spider Fighter 4 River Raid 5 Solaris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug0909 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1. Beam Rider 2. Demon Attack 3. Phoenix 4. Juno First 5. Allia Quest Honorable mentions, Spider Fighter and Space Instigators... And the ROM I played of Space Game is growing on me too.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1. Asteroids 2. Omega Race 3. Spy Hunter 4. Space Invaders 5. Atlantis (although I am not sure this qualifies as a shooter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feralstorm Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Too many options: 1: Stargate/Defender II 2: Battlezone 3: Demon Attack 4: Galaxian 5: Cosmic Ark And somewher between ten and fifty honorable mentions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1. Space Invaders 2. Moonsweeper 3. Missile Command 4. Asteroids 5. River Raid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark-aleph Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1. Beamrider 2. Juno First 3. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 4. Turmoil 5. Fantastic Voyage ...honourable mentions (if I had a top 10): 6 Stargate 7 GI Joe - Cobra Strike / Action Man - Action Force 8 Starfire 9 X'Mission / Raumpatrouille / UFO Patrol 10 Crossbow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 I go for hidden gems Pigs in Space Planet Patrol Communist Mutants from Space Journey Escape Missile Control Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CX40Hero Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1) River Raid 2) Demon Attack 3) Sky Skipper 4) Star Wars Empire Strikes Back 5) Asteroids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 I go for hidden gems Pigs in Space Planet Patrol Communist Mutants from Space Journey Escape Missile Control Looking for a shooting game... which one of these does not belong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Journey Escape might be more fun as a shooting game, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1. Lead 2. Gorf 3. Spider Fighter 4. River Raid 5. Asteroids 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlegamer Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 (edited) 1. Tank Pong 2. Tank Pong 3. Tank Pong 4. Tank Pong 5. Tank Pong If the above is not acceptable: 1. Tank Pong (Combat) 2. Snoopy and the Red Baron 3. Demon Attack 4. Asteroids 5. Space Invaders Edited September 27, 2018 by Gentlegamer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobraMJD Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 (edited) It's so hard make these list, cause there is the games I loved in my childhood and the others I liked more as an adult. I'll try to equalize as this: 1-River Raid 2-Megamania 3-Worm War I 4-Demon Attack 5-Phoenix Feel bad for leave Space Invaders out, great feelings towards him in the 80s. Edited September 27, 2018 by CobraMJD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrogoober Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1. Phoenix 2 Beamrider 3. Juno First 4. Asteroids 5. Space Invaders DANG, just remembered Turmoil, hard to leave that out, eclipses Space Invaders, maybe, SI is just so iconic though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 (edited) Oh geez, "shooting" is such a broad category but I'll give it my best... 1. Millipede 2. River Raid 3 (Hack by Nukey Shay) 3. Lead (Homebrew) 4. GORF 5. Space Rocks (Homebrew) Edit: I just noticed homebrews were included and had to modify my list. Edited September 27, 2018 by Jin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarilovesyou Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 1 Chopper Command 2 Megamania 3 Spider Fighter 4 Demon Attack 5 River Raid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8_is_enuff Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 It pained me to leave off Demon Attack. It's not the hardest or most frantic, but man its a lot of fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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