Stampede freezing

[ppelleti]

I've been having problems with Stampede freezing after a minute or two of play on my Intellivision II. I thought maybe I had a bad cartridge, so I bought another Stampede on eBay. It freezes, too, in the same way.

 

I dumped the cartridges, and got the same ROM image from both. It has md5sum e39a9065388384cf439dc1484013d993.

 

When I try playing the ROM image on jzIntv, it freezes too, in the same way.

 

Any idea what's going on here? I swear that Stampede worked when I was a kid!

 

 

[mr_me]

Are you sure it's not that the game is over. What happens if you press clear on the keypad.

[+intvsteve]

I remember thinking exactly the same thing -- there may even be another thread on this on the forum. @mr_me is right -- when the game ends it just ... stops -- not even 'GAME OVER' text.

 

Press 'CLEAR' or one of the game options (1-4) and see what happens.

[ppelleti]

Yes, you're both right. If I press CLEAR, it asks for a game number again.

 

I hadn't remembered it ending so unceremoniously, but maybe modern games have changed my expectation for what a game ending should be like.

[+JasonlikesINTV]

Thank you, ppelleti!

 

But the "Game Over" text is in another castle!