Food Fight 7800 - why no other releases?

[Hawkangel]

I just discovered Food Fight on my Atari Retro handheld device. This is a fun game. Just wondering why this awesome game never got any other releases on Atari Flashback or even the VCS with Atari Vault? 

[Trebor]

18 minutes ago, Hawkangel said:

...never got any other releases on Atari Flashback...

The original Flashback has it.  Though it is a NOAC system.

[SS]

45 minutes ago, Trebor said:

The original Flashback has it.  Though it is a NOAC system.

You know, I don't know if I've ever actually played a Flashback 1.  I think that I skipped on it *because* of the fact that I knew that the games were recreations rather than the origional roms themselves.  Now this thread has me wondering how "Food Fight" actually plays on that system?  Maybe I should search one out after all this time to give it a try.

[Hawkangel]

52 minutes ago, Trebor said:

The original Flashback has it.  Though it is a NOAC system.

Ok so I stand corrected but that’s only once it was released on Flashback. 
I guess my point is, it’s a great game and got no regular release like the others. 

Edited June 8, 2021 by Hawkangel

[SS]

1 hour ago, Hawkangel said:

I just discovered Food Fight on my Atari Retro handheld device. This is a fun game. Just wondering why this awesome game never got any other releases on Atari Flashback or even the VCS with Atari Vault? 

FYI, "Food Fight" is on the Evercade Atari Cartridge 1.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Evercade-Atari-Cartridge-1-Electronic-Games/dp/B07XDB9FZT/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=evercade+atari&qid=1623111959&sr=8-4

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There was also a release for the Atari 8-bit computers as well. Aside from that and the other versions already mentioned, I'm not aware of it on any other platforms other than Atari.

 

[Jaden (JRH)]

An interesting fact about those Atari and Intellivision Flashback units is that many of their games ended up getting hacked into other games and put on various bootleg units. For example, Food Fight became the brilliantly named Nut Cracky. 

As for the original NES recreation of Food Fight, I remember it playing kinda sloppily. Same with the Atari 8-Bit version. It's cool that those ports exist, but they're just not very fun to play IMO. So, I think the 7800 is still the way to go for Food Fight.