Atari Age Votes: Best shooting game on the 2600! (Ranking)

[TigerSuperman]

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

[Video]

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

[retrogoober]

1. Phoenix

2 Beamrider

3. Juno First

4. Asteroids

5. Space Invaders

Edited September 27, 2018 by retrogoober

[+CyranoJ]

No love for Carnival?

[wizardschamber]

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

[dj_convoy]

River Raid

Beamrider

Phaser Patrol

Asteroids

Demon Attack

[+save2600]

Gyruss

Space Invaders

Space Rocks - homebrew

Scramble - homebrew

Super Cobra Arcade - homebrew

[Shawn]

Gunfight

[8_is_enuff]

1 Millipede

2 Turmoil

3 Spider Fighter

4 River Raid

5 Solaris

[doug0909]

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..

[+jeremiahjt]

1. Asteroids

2. Omega Race

3. Spy Hunter

4. Space Invaders

5. Atlantis (although I am not sure this qualifies as a shooter)

[Feralstorm]

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

[Lauren Tyler]

1. Space Invaders

2. Moonsweeper

3. Missile Command

4. Asteroids

5. River Raid

[dark-aleph]

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

[high voltage]

I go for hidden gems

 

Pigs in Space

Planet Patrol

Communist Mutants from Space

Journey Escape

Missile Control

[CX40Hero]

1) River Raid

2) Demon Attack

3) Sky Skipper

4) Star Wars Empire Strikes Back

5) Asteroids

[+save2600]

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?

[+Karl G]

Journey Escape might be more fun as a shooting game, actually.

[Atarian7]

1. Lead

2. Gorf

3. Spider Fighter

4. River Raid

5. Asteroids

[Gentlegamer]

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

[CobraMJD]

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

[retrogoober]

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

[Skippy B. Coyote]

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

[atarilovesyou]

1 Chopper Command

2 Megamania

3 Spider Fighter

4 Demon Attack

5 River Raid

[8_is_enuff]

It pained me to leave off Demon Attack. It's not the hardest or most frantic, but man its a lot of fun