Arcade games that should have been on 7800

[7800Lover]

The Atari 7800 had some great arcade ports and it is nice to see someone out there who is making unofficial versions of Burgertime (under the name Beef Drop) and Qbert.

 

But what I wonder is why weren't more arcade titles made. Here are some 7800 ports of arcade games I wanted to see:

 

Frogger- Given many of its ports on other home consoles, I'm surprised this wasn't turned into a 7800 title.

 

Popeye- Same as with Frogger. 7800 Popeye would have probably looked a lot like the arcade version.

 

Battlezone- With the 7800's advanced technology (at least compared to the 2600 and 5200), the programmers could have pulled off a vector or vector-like game.

 

Kangaroo- It would have looked really good, maybe even better than the 5200 and they could have had the boxing gorilla that snatches the roo's gloves.

 

Anyone else out there have thoughts on what should have been a 7800 port?

[Vic George 2K3]

Frogger was being worked on as a homebrew 7800 game, but I haven't seen any recent work on it to date.

[Nukey Shay]

Battlezone- With the 7800's advanced technology (at least compared to the 2600 and 5200), the programmers could have pulled off a vector or vector-like game.

 

Vector-like. An Atarisoft port for Vectrex would have been nice tho, but Vectrex had one foot out of the race already when Atarisoft began making it's rounds.

[Inky]

Phoenix would have looked nice on the 7800, as would Zookeeper. THAT would have been sweetness.

[PacManPlus]

SINISTAR!

[Shaggy the Atarian]

SINISTAR!

Mmm...Sinistar...

 

I also think that a 7800 version of Space Dungeon would be cool. I think it could handle it better than the 5200. That and Spelunker. It was OK on the 8-bits, but a far cry from the arcade version, which I'm sure that the 7800 could do nicely.

[Shawn]

Smurfs Rescue

[Gregory DG]

I don't think Smurf Rescue was an arcade game.

 

I'd like to see:

 

Ataxx

Blue Print

Bosconian

Congo Bongo

Elevator Action

Gorf

Gyruss

I, Robot (a tough one!)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (I love that game!)

Kangaroo (love every version!)

Make Trax

Marble Madness

Pepper II

Phoenix

RoadBlasters

Shuuz

Spy Hunter

Star Castle

Star Trek

Star Wars

Time Pilot

Track & Field

Warlords

Zaxxon

 

Of course, Frogger, BurgerTime, & Q*Bert, but they have homebrews now, thank goodness.

[jaybird3rd]

Missile Command is a notable omission, and it's one that I'd like to try to implement on the 7800 myself.

 

Another is Qix: it's a perfect match for the two-button 7800.

[Atariboy2600]

For thouse who made both Frogger and Q*bert for the 7800? PLASE make my dream game come true

 

 

[accousticguitar]

I'd like to see pac-man.

[ZylonBane]

Battlezone- With the 7800's advanced technology (at least compared to the 2600 and 5200), the programmers could have pulled off a vector or vector-like game.

I love it when people who obviously don't have the slightest technical clue make bold proclamations about what could have been done. Really, I do.

 

Look, the 7800's "advanced technology" is pretty much confined to drawing lots of sprites. There are no features in the hardware to accelerate line-drawing. Furthermore, the 7800 only has 4K of RAM (vs the 5200's 16K), which means that a vector port of Battlezone would have to run in low-res mode. It would look like ass.

[Spector]

Paperboy has to be given a mention.

[Atariboy2600]

I'd like to see pac-man.

 

 

Been Done 7800: Pac-Man game.

[Feralstorm]

Pengo

Zookeeper

Gauntlet

Kangaroo

And more!!

 

OK, I'd love to see someone TRY a vector-ish Battlezone or even I, Robot, just to see if it's even possible.

 

Actually, I'd love to see a 7800 Battlezone have two modes, "Arcade-style" and "2600-style" (both graphics and gameplay-wise)

[jpfalcon2003]

Jungle Hunt

Jr. Pac-Man

Baby Pac-Man

Super Pac-Man

Kangaroo

Popeye

Frogger

Crystal Castles

Space Invaders

Pengo

Mr. Do

Mr. Do's Castle

Qbert's Qubes

Bezerk

Elevator Action

Crazy Climber

Stargate

Zaxxon

Super Mario Bros.

Quix

Battlezone

Congo Bongo

Frontline

Vanguard

Phoenix

Moon Patrol

Galaxian

Millipede

Venture

Mouse Trap

Road Runner

Heavy Barrel

Spy Hunter

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Arcade Game

Batman The Arcade Game

Dragon's Lair

[Atariboy2600]

A year ago I had a dream of seeing my all time fave Konami games for the 7800 one of them came true see if you know wicth one

 

One down and 7 more to go

Edited April 6, 2006 by Atariboy2600

[jpfalcon2003]

Roc'n Rope would be cool too. What is Jailbreak? That one must've escaped me somehow.

[jpfalcon2003]

Time Pilot would be nice too. Wasn't too please with Super Huey and Tomcat. They are extremely difficult, especially Tomcat. Perhaps Radar Lock should have been ported over to the 7800 along with Secret Quest too.

[Atariboy2600]

Roc'n Rope would be cool too. What is Jailbreak? That one must've escaped me somehow.

 

If you have Mame go get the rom and playe it its very fun shotting jail birds!

[NovaXpress]

No votes for "Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu?"

[jpfalcon2003]

The Atari 7800 had some great arcade ports and it is nice to see someone out there who is making unofficial versions of Burgertime (under the name Beef Drop) and Qbert.

 

But what I wonder is why weren't more arcade titles made. Here are some 7800 ports of arcade games I wanted to see:

 

Frogger- Given many of its ports on other home consoles, I'm surprised this wasn't turned into a 7800 title.

 

Popeye- Same as with Frogger. 7800 Popeye would have probably looked a lot like the arcade version.

 

Battlezone- With the 7800's advanced technology (at least compared to the 2600 and 5200), the programmers could have pulled off a vector or vector-like game.

 

Kangaroo- It would have looked really good, maybe even better than the 5200 and they could have had the boxing gorilla that snatches the roo's gloves.

 

Anyone else out there have thoughts on what should have been a 7800 port?

A kangaroo version with the gorilla like in the arcade would be awesome. I wonder why the 5200 left that out. Surely, it could have been included. The gorilla was included on Jungle Hunt for the 5200 version on the vines.

[jpfalcon2003]

Roc'n Rope would be cool too. What is Jailbreak? That one must've escaped me somehow.

 

If you have Mame go get the rom and playe it its very fun shotting jail birds!

Thanks for the info. I'll have to check it out.

[jpfalcon2003]

I would love to see Metal Slug for the 7800, but I know that would probably be impossible to do. The graphics would truly suck.

[Atariboy2600]

I would love to see Metal Slug for the 7800, but I know that would probably be impossible to do. The graphics would truly suck.

 

Hey Neo-Pocket came out okay