1984 Activision 2600 games

[John Stamos Mullet]

Some of my favorite games on any system!

 

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/285473-activision-2600-semi-rare-lot-hero-pitfall-ii-private-eye-ghostbusters/

 

Discuss.

 

BUY!!!

 

Make my Christmas that much better!!!

Edited November 28, 2018 by John Stamos Mullet

[Video]

Never had or played private eye or hero, but absolutely love ghostbusters, and pitfall 2. Were those really 84 releases? Didn't know that.

 

Pitfall 2 I had from bitd, it was definitely a must have for me, which is weird cause I never was a fan of pitfall. Yeah, I know, sacrilege right? Just wasn't my style of game, but this made it for me by having a coherent structured level, and just felt more polished over all. And that kick ass track, I love most any games with theme music, and those rare ones with a soundtrack in game.

 

Ghost busters came later, like MUCH later, I picked mine up in the late 90's. I played the heck out of it back in the day though (c=64 version) so I knew~ish what I was getting into. I couldn't believe how much of the game was in there, it amazed me, yeah, even a decade and a half later. While nothing as refined as pitfall 2, it also has the theme music in game.

 

Sometime I'd love to get the other two, but no PayPal limits how I can get them. I still keep an eye out though.

[glazball]

Are you plugging your thread which plugs your auction for these games?

[+save2600]

Seems to be a trend these days. People creating new threads, that point to others. WTF?

[Machine]

Are you plugging your thread which plugs your auction for these games?

 

He's posted a thread that points to a different thread, that points to an ebay auction.

[John Stamos Mullet]

Seems to be a trend these days. People creating new threads, that point to others. WTF?

people get all pissy when you create a thread in the general gaming sections like the 2600 directly linking an eBay auction, and tell you to "go post that in auction central, this doesn't belong here" but auction central gets very little traffic. So I created a proper thread in auction central, and posted a link to it here, and a general comment about these 4 games.

 

You can ignore the link to the auction and just discuss the games. Or not reply at all.

Edited November 30, 2018 by John Stamos Mullet

[Keatah]

I was hoping this might be a discussion about early activision games.

[Keatah]

Seems to be a trend these days. People creating new threads, that point to others. WTF?

 

Post a link, share a link, gimme the link. It's a social media thing and different from old-school forums. Go here, do this.. Doesn't matter what, as long as you're doing.

 

But this specific case is a form of spam and misdirection. Low.

Edited December 1, 2018 by Keatah

[+fdr4prez]

I had Private Eye as a kid.

 

Played a few times (not reading the manual) and got too confused and frustrated and promptly put it away.

 

At some point in time I did read the manual and still didn't like it

 

 

Pointless Link

Edited December 1, 2018 by fdr4prez

[Keatah]

I clearly recall my gramma getting all exciting and stuff when activision published Laser Blast. It was novel concept that a *NEW* company was making games for the Atari VCS. She also claimed it was a hot game and everybody was playing it - so therefore she insisted I get it.

[John Stamos Mullet]

I was hoping this might be a discussion about early activision games.

it is a discussion about Activision games, though no one would consider 1984 "early".

[John Stamos Mullet]

 

Post a link, share a link, gimme the link. It's a social media thing and different from old-school forums. Go here, do this.. Doesn't matter what, as long as you're doing.

 

But this specific case is a form of spam and misdirection. Low.

it is neither spam, nor misdirection. It is a thread about 4 games I happen to like, and am also selling as a lot. People post links to eBay in here all the time. Calm down. Edited December 1, 2018 by John Stamos Mullet

[Supergun]

I was a bit confused by the title of this thread myself, labeled as 1984 Activision games. And then the picture provided included Ghostbusters, which was technically 1985, and omitted Beamrider & Cosmic Commuter, which were technically 1984.

 

But that aside, yes, of course the 1984 titles (final Activision releases before the crash were kick ass games. I loved them all. They were some of the best 2600 games ever made.