mbd30 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Parker Bros? Some great arcade ports such as Q*Bert, Frogger and Popeye. Plus the Star Wars games especially Empire Strikes Back. I also love their cartridge design. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAre Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I definitely agree with you about Parker Bros. 20th Century Fox and Starpath are my other favorites. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 AtariAge - best publisher of all time! Seriously, another one that should be included in this conversation would be M-Network, but my vote would be for Parker Brothers. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Parker Bros Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glazball Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Strawberry Shortcake Musical Match-Ups.. hell YEA! Just kidding. Parker Bros. released some great ones, but I can't agree that overall they were better than Activision who imo only put out one turd: Dragster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Parker Bros? Some great arcade ports such as Q*Bert, Frogger and Popeye. Plus the Star Wars games especially Empire Strikes Back. I also love their cartridge design. I always liked Parker Bros games when I was a kid, not least because of all the licenses. Problem is, like with Coleco, once you take away the arcade ports, comic book characters, and movie themes, they don't have much if any intellectual property of their own. Unlike with Activision and Imagic, you're not going to legally re-release a collection of Parker Brothers games nowadays. I thought Sega was interesting (Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom and Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator are among my favorites), but they have the same problem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 ... I can't agree that overall they were better than Activision who imo only put out one turd: Dragster. I'll trade you your Dragster for my Bridge and Checkers. Dragster is neat even though it's a one-trick minigame. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 SEGA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Tigervision 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONEMAN Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Parker Brothers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Parker Bros? Some great arcade ports such as Q*Bert, Frogger and Popeye. Plus the Star Wars games especially Empire Strikes Back. I also love their cartridge design. I'd go with Parker Bros. In addition to the games you named, Gyruss and Montezuma's Revenge are also very good. MNetwork had some great games and I think Coleco is a little underrated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Tigervision Plus 1 for Tigervision. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) Telesys. Small selection, but unique and original and pretty high quality. Demolition Herby is far more playable than Amidar on the 2600 (yeah, that's a dig at Parker Bros.) The CBS ports don't get enough love. They're all pretty solid. Edited April 8, 2019 by KaeruYojimbo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluxit Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I'll put my hat in the ring for Mattel's M-Network games. Lock 'n' Chase is a solid arcade conversion, and one of the better original 'pacman' games on the system. Bump 'n' Jump- another great conversion. Super Challenge Football is simple but fun for two players. Tron - Deadly Disks, Astroblast, Armor Ambush, Space Attack. Heck, I even like Frogs & Flies. I can't really say that I enjoy the somewhat fragile and harder to stack carts, though. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Parker Bros. Plus 1 for Tigervision. Minus 1 for Tigervision from me. The two festering stinkbombs known as Miner 2049er Vol. I and II immediately exclude them from consideration. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Re: Tigervision, at least the Miner speed-up hacks really help redeem the two games, but can't say I dig much else in their lineup. Game for game, probably gonna have to go with PB myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Parker Bros. Minus 1 for Tigervision from me. The two festering stinkbombs known as Miner 2049er Vol. I and II immediately exclude them from consideration. I love Jawbreaker, River Patrol and Polaris. Also like Marauder, Espial and Threshold, which I guess aren't for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I love Jawbreaker, River Patrol and Polaris. Also like Marauder, Espial and Threshold, which I guess aren't for everyone. I'll admit Jawbreaker is a pretty great game. Polaris and Threshold are solid, but I think Parker Bros. still has more quality titles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I appreciated the existence of the many Coleco games, even though they were way less nice than the Colecovision "originals." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I'll admit Jawbreaker is a pretty great game. Polaris and Threshold are solid, but I think Parker Bros. still has more quality titles. I’ll admit they had me at Jawbreaker. I can play that game for hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xybot67 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Parker bros for me with CBS right behind them. As you can guess from my avatar, I Iove Tunnel Runner! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Parker Bros. is my favorite outside of those other two. Q*Bert is one of my top 5 2600 games. I also really like Amidar, the two Nintendo ports, the Star Wars games, the Frogger games, and Montezuma's Revenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Starpath (Supercharger) clearly has the most sophisticated games, but using extra hardware is cheating, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Starpath (Supercharger) clearly has the most sophisticated games, but using extra hardware is cheating, right? Not at all...Playing Supercharger games the way they were meant to be played! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Fox is the one that immediately comes to mind for me. Alien, Spacemaster X7, Fast Eddie, MASH, Crash Dive, Megaforce, Fantastic Voyage, Worm War I, Turmoil...so many great titles there. CBS, M-Network, and Parker Bros. would be others. Tigervision, ehhhhh. I like most of their games fine enough--I even like Miner 2049er in small doses--but none of them strike me as must-plays. There weren't that many in the first place and half of them are more collectible than playable IMO. Even U.S. Games released more titles that I actually want to play than Tigervision did. Which isn't to trivialize U.S. Games; I think they're actually a pretty underrated publisher. I'm tempted to name Spectravision as a runner-up as well, but there isn't quite enough volume there for me. Nexar, Tapeworm, Cross Force, Gangster Alley, and Bumper Bash make compelling arguments, though. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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