Best/Worst M-Network Title

[Inky]

Another in the seemingly endless Best/Worst questions... I have to get to be a 4 star poster SOMEhow

 

Best M-Network IMHO -- Air Raiders. I loved this game and the challenge it presented. It was one of the better first-person games on the 2600

 

Worst? BurgerTime.

How did the Blue playfield on the arcade version turned yellow, and due to the ever increasing stupidity of marketing (See Dilbert and Douglas Adam's book Life the Universe and Everything ) We have breadsticks and cheese and tomatoes chasing Peter Pepper around. And control is horrendous (although I do note that control on the arcade version was good, but it did have its foibles).

 

A better version could have been made, but Marketing sticks thier noses where it shouldn't be once again.

[StanJr]

Super Challenge Baseball was the best when I was a kid. It really sucks that there isn't a one player version.

 

Burgertime could have been soooooooo cool! It totally sucks on the 2600.

 

There aren't many M-Network games I have played, so my experience is limited. Frogs and Flies is fun too!

 

Stan-Network

[Inky]

The only reason I didn't say that the baseball or football were #1 was due to the fact the games were 2 players only. Plus football had the annoying 10-yard hyperspace manneuver that made the game too easy.

[Ze_ro]

I'd say Air Raiders is the most impressive title... though I seem to play Lock 'n' Chase more than any of the other M Network titles. I still don't have Burgertime (Though it was always amung my favorite arcade games), so at the moment I'd say that Space Attack is the least fun. I just never could get into this game.

 

--Zero

[videotwit]

2-Player Frogs and Flies is by far my favorite. It's at least 8 tons of fun.

 

On the other hand, Kool-Aid Man really sucks the big donkey.

[moycon]

I really didnt like any of the m network carts too much... Air Raiders/Bump and Jump/Burger Time were the ones I liked the best.

 

Just about every other one to me were boring!! I remember I got Dark Caverns and as a kid to read the box youd think it was the best game in the world... BORING!! The sports ones were OK.

[woodyi76]

most m-network games suck! There one of the worst companies for atari 2600. The only ones I enjoyed were astroblast and amorambush. I also hate the shape the games are in. It makes it hard to stack them with the other games.

[Lemmi]

Bump-N-jump was good

Dark caverns

He-man masters of the universe

 

Adv of Tron? was this a m-network game or Disney?

[moycon]

Yeah your right M network did suck!! I forgot about how annoying the shape of the cart were. Some of the 3rd party carts had toungue and groove stacking going on. But not M Network. They didnt fit in with the rest of the collection at all!! Now that I think about it... I HATE M NETWORK!!! (Cept for the 3 I mentioned earlier...But I still hated their shape)

[san-d-2000]

Dark caverns is my favourite, get´s realy fast on the higher levels, I used to play this one quite often as a kid.

 

As far as the shape of the cartridges and the problems stacking them is concerned , I started looking for boxed copies

 

 

Sandy.

[Joel D. Park]

I used to play alot of Astro Smash, it was a great game. Also, I was very impressed by Air Raiders.

 

Most of the other sames weren't great, but they were all ok, no 100% stinkers IMHO. I do hate the cart shape though. Gimme at least a front label, that's what I live for.

[memorymoog]

Lock and Chase is my favorite... it captures the atmosphere of a paranoid nightmare... and those goons marching after you!

[The Night Phantom]

quote:

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Originally posted by Lemmi:

Adv of Tron? was this a m-network game or Disney?

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Both. Adventures of Tron and its sister game Tron: Deadly Discs were M Network releases (later rereleased by INTV) based on a Disney property.

[cvga]

I think Space Attack is their best game and Masters of the Universe is their worst. Overall though I thought MNetwork was one of the better 3rd party developers for the 2600.

[StanJr]

I've only played it on the emu, but He-man is stupid hard.

 

By the Power of Grayskull, Stan

[Ze_ro]

I always thought it was weird how Mattel changed the names of some games when they brought them over to the Atari... for example:

 

Atari -> INTV

Astroblast -> Astrosmash

Space Attack -> Space Battle

Dark Cavern -> Night Stalker

Major League Anything -> No-name Sports Game

 

Of course, some of their games weren't changed at all (Burgertime, Lock 'n' Chase, etc)... but mostly because they were such big name titles already.

 

Overall, I think M Network was a good company. Not because they were particularly good, but mostly because they weren't as particularly bad as companies like Froggo and Panda. Oh, and their cartridge shape sucks. I can't imagine why they would do this, since it probably costs more (more plastic + at least one extra assembly process to connect both pieces), and it's stupid looking.

 

Maybe they wanted Atari people to accidentally buy INTV games, and INTV people to accidentally buy Atari games.

 

--Zero

[paul]

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I always thought it was weird how Mattel changed the names of some games when they brought them over to the Atari

 

from the official intellivision website:

 

The games were introduced in 1982 under the tradename "M Network" (M for Mattel). All of the games were Atari 2600 versions of already released Intellivision cartridges. In recognition, though, of the concern that the simpler Atari versions might reflect badly on the Intellivision originals, the names of the games were changed

[atarimastermarty]

i really have ths thing for frogs and flies

threee of my freinds were over and we just played for like 1 our (we were trying out new carts it was suppose to be one round) the only problem is its only one player bt thts a good game that couldve been better

[StanJr]

Frogs and Flies ONE PLAYER? What is this? The one I had as a kid was definitely two player.

[The Night Phantom]

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Originally posted by marty:

i really have ths thing for frogs and flies

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the only problem is its only one player

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quote:

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Originally posted by StanJr:

Frogs and Flies ONE PLAYER? What is this? The one I had as a kid was definitely two player.

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From AtariAge's HTML Frogs and Flies manual:

Whenever either joystick controller is not used for 15 SECONDS, com- 

puter will take over and jump frog automatically. Automatically con-

trolled frog will jump every couple of seconds. Tongue flash is also

automatic.

[StanJr]

Right, so its both 1 and 2 player.

[The Night Phantom]

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Originally posted by StanJr:

Right, so its both 1 and 2 player.

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Also no-player, for the computer can play against itself!