What is your favorite eye candy in a 2600 game?

[Red 5]

What is your favorite eye candy in a 2600 game?

 

For instance, as a kid, I was blown away... and I mean totally blown away... when I got past a level in He-Man Masters of the Universe and there was that giant picture of He-Man with the theme music playing.

 

I never thought my Atari 2600 had that much power.

 

Also, the opening screen on Airlock I always thought kicked arse.

(And I always thought this game was better than people say. I always get nervous as the clock ticks down and the water gets closer.)

 

Anyway, anyone else have any favorite eye candy in a 2600 game?

[bjk7382]

The end level explosion in Star Wars: Ewok Adventure is pretty neat, I think.

[Philflound]

Shoot me for liking ET, but I thought ET getting taken by the ship was cool. Also, I liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark rising of the pedastal.

 

Phil

[Red 5]

Just thought of another one.

 

In the game Frankenstein's Monster, when the monster is stomping towards you when you die. That was pretty good.

[sidcrowe]

Parker Brothers' ESB going apeshit when you leave it alone for about 10 minutes.

[Han]

I was amazed by the start screen on ET.

[Godzilla]

Yea, I agree with what's already been said. Especially ET and He-Man. I'm still impressed with the swordquest sword. Also loved the fireworks at the end of escape from the mind master. The music at the end of Dragon Stomper (& the whole end scene with the nicely drawn dragon, too,) really impressed me at the time. I also love the warp and explosion effects in Solaris, especially how they get some cool effects on them and never always sound the same twice.

[Mindfield]

I always loved the title screens on the Swordquest games. Of course, those were the best parts of the games whether you liked them or not.

 

I was also blown away by Tunnel Runner -- that was a game that amazed me with its programming genius.

[cvga]

I was purely amazed at how many screens Pitfall had. Especially compared to the other games that were out when it was released.

[lhfreak]

I'm amazed at all the use of the word 'amaze'!

 

Seriously tho, I freaked the first time I saw the explosion on Yars revenge......Also for some strange reason, the rippling water on the surface in Fishing Derby. So realistic at the time!

[privateers69]

The opener/intro for Ms. Pac Man it had the best feel of an arcade game.

[Rocko]

the lines in the challenge of nexar...not incredible, but I just found this game today and am addicted to it....fun game

[Lord Helmet]

The opener/intro for Ms. Pac Man it had the best feel of an arcade game.

 

With Ms. Pac-Man it was like "OMG they got it right this time...finally" It totally blew me away after the turd that was Atari Pac-Man.

 

The ET screen blew me away also.

[kyle]

As a kid i was really amazed by the title screen on california games and really the game as a whole. When i first saw how great the skateboarding part looked on it i was shocked. Also in recent years i was amazed at how good road runner and bmx air master looked.

[Evilbay]

This

[Atari Rescue Group]

I concur.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

The fireworks in Pele Soccer.

[Feralstorm]

I was amazed at the first Activision game to have the little white text logo WITH the rainbow attached on the front. I was all "How'd they do that?" back then.

[+Random Terrain]

I was impressed by at least a handful of games including the arcade-like graphics of Demon Attack, but my overall favorite was E.T.

 

The already mentioned Raiders of the Lost Ark was

 

I was also impressed by Laser Gates, Subterrenea, and Moonsweeper. There are probably others, but that's all I can remember right now.

 

 

Speaking of E.T., I started up my emulator to play it just a little while ago, and although I had trouble finding the Call Ship Zone (it was in the bottom left corner of Washington, D.C.), I got E.T. home in around 5 minutes. It never stops being fun after all these years.

[+Random Terrain]

Oops, I forgot I wasn't done with my post:

 

The already mentioned Raiders of the Lost Ark was impressive in some places. I remember liking the looks of various things in the game.

[gdement]

Pretty much all of Return of the Jedi Death Star Battle:

 

I thought the gradual color changes on the energy shield were cool.

I was amazed by the sound effects.

I loved the lightspeed sequence, and was proud when I discovered you could make R2D2 beep by moving the joystick during this. That was my first easter egg.

The buildup to the explosion and the explosion itself.

 

And actually I even was impressed to watch the death star finish getting built. I did that many times, from both distances. The whole game was an amazing tech demo for me at the time.

[Flack]

Since someone already mentioned the Yar's Revenge explosion, I'll go with the lasers in Laser Blast. They always seemed extra cool to me.

[Cootster]

It's a tie between the explosions in Star Raiders and "You're getting fatter".

[tiggerthehun]

I liked the level 2, level 3 etc screens in between stages in "Turmoil".

[Goochman]

The 'rainbow' background from Activision

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark and the size+complexity