knievel1 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Reading HSW's comment on having a great idea for a Yar sequel. Did we ever know the gist of this? Not Yars Return from Flashback, right? Maybe if he tells some trusted latter-day maker they could work on a new release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithbk Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 I thought "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was the "Yar's Revenge" sequel... That is where the Yar shows up next... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I was at an event at a local arcade a couple years ago where he was signing games and giving a presentation. He did mention this sequel... I think he wanted to call it "Yars Olympics" Basically, the idea was that the Yars played a sport to train themselves for battle with the Qotile. It sounded like he's had the idea solidly in his head since the Atari days, but hasn't ever got around to doing much work on actually coding it. He sounded open to the idea of recruiting a homebrew programmer to do the work, but clearly he hasn't gotten around to making that happen yet. Hope it happens someday! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knievel1 Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 That's a pretty exciting insight. I think we'd all love to see Yar's Olympics a reality. Maybe one of the great programmers here will see this & reach out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+D Train Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 He's gonna be at PRGE 2019; someone should have a serious conversation with him about that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TwentySixHundred Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) I remember watching Bob Smith from Imagic talk about writing/releasing an homebrew on PRGE panels. Still waiting to hear anything else about that, would be nice to see a few of the original programmers release some homebrews much like the Dan Kitchen is talking about. Edited October 15, 2019 by TwentySixHundred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW127 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Cool. A sequel to one of the greatest classics. ? Finally, after all these yars. Hope it will be as good as the original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 I remember hearing HSW discuss his ideas for a Yars' sequel years ago on some podcasts, too; he didn't share any game design details, but I seem to recall that he did mention paddle controls, which sounds very interesting. I'm glad that some of the original programmers are still thinking of developing new games for the 2600; I'd love to see them do it, and I think they'd be amazed at the tools that are available to them now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamchevy Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 A Yars sequel would be a lot of fun. I hope this gets made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Kaboomer Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 I was at HSW's 2019 PRGE panel this past weekend in Portland and he said he still has the concept and nobody has thought of it yet. He said (paraphrasing) "I do have an idea for a Yars Revenge sequel...it's about 1.5 - 3.0 years out depending on things (most of the "things" are me just getting around to it though!)"...crowd laughs. He didn't say anything about someone else working on it though. I got the impression it was something he wanted to do. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+D Train Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Oh, fun! Now we just need someone with a little juice to give him a noodge... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarifan88 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 There was a game called Yars' Return which first appeared on the Atari FB2. Could this be the sequel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Kaboomer Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 On 10/23/2019 at 9:01 AM, atarifan88 said: There was a game called Yars' Return which first appeared on the Atari FB2. Could this be the sequel? Since that came out a few years ago, and he spoke last week about his own sequel, I don't think this is related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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