Auto Fire

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Just found this video today.  Tried it on my junior and it works there also.  Neat trick.

 

 

 

[+GoldLeader]

I thought this was gonna be about a car that catches fire...Auto Fire?   LOL...I crack myself up.

 

 

I guess everything's relative.   Like, I didn't learn until years later how I'd gotten those initials to show up on Yar's Revenge.  But Space Invaders?   I guess I thought everyone knew about this one back in the day. 

[fluxit]

I've heard of this before, though  I don't recall ever using it.  Does anyone know if it was intended to be a hidden feature?

[Gray Defender]

Previous AA thread discussing this question:

 

[davidbrit2]

On 12/29/2019 at 2:42 AM, GoldLeader said:

I thought this was gonna be about a car that catches fire...Auto Fire?   LOL...I crack myself up.

 

 

I guess everything's relative.   Like, I didn't learn until years later how I'd gotten those initials to show up on Yar's Revenge.  But Space Invaders?   I guess I thought everyone knew about this one back in the day. 

 

It always blows my mind when I find someone that doesn't know the continue code for Super Mario Bros.

 

"Man, that game was hard! If you die, you have to go all the way back to the beginning!"

"Uh, no you don't..."

[+GoldLeader]

I never knew whether this was or was not intentional.  I had a friend show it to me back in the day, so word of mouth was a biggie,  but I'm pretty sure magazines (even besides Atari Age) covered it as well.

 

 

My guess (and this is just a guess) was that it was  a bug they later treated as a feature.

 

Either way,  kind of funny to be talking about it again almost 40 years later.