The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[pocketmego]

When Atari was big, we kids would sometimes here strange rumors about the existence of X-Rated Atari games and even games based on horror movies. But, no one ever seemed to be able to confirm or deny such things. Usually the story went...

 

"My uncle so and so had this killer game on his Atari, you had to make this cowboy do it with some indian woman..."

 

But, of course later in life I discoverdd these rumors to be disturbingly true.

 

And, thanks to the miracle of modern technology I can actually play some of these MYTHs from my childhood, mostly by way of emulation. Not that I'd actually pay money to play a Mystique game these days on my actual Atari.

 

But, I would by the two horror film games, namely Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Even though TCM is not nealry as playable as Halloween.

 

In fact from what I've seen TCM SUCKS.

 

Why in the world would you make the protagonist of a game, the villain, the monster?

 

Doesn't that slightly dimish the scare factor?

 

At least in Halloween when Michael pops out at some unexpected moment, it can be a little scary (kinda).

 

But, there I am controlling a cute little Super Deformed Leatherface with one goal, kill the little pixelated women who let loose the cutest darn screams on the 2600.

 

All the while avoiding obstacles like cow heads and wheelchairs (WTF?!)

 

So you go on this little massacre and kill as many of these little women as you can (turning them into little blobs od pixel mulch) until you run outr of gas.

 

That's how the thing ends, you run out of gas.

 

Again...

 

WTF!?!

 

TCM was released to theaters in 1974. Who was sitting around the Wizard Video office almost 10 years later going..."You know what we really need to do? We need to make the game everyone has been asking for...Texas Chainsaw Massacre!"

 

"uh sir, shouldn't we do something a bit more recent, like Halloween or something?"

 

"Screw it will do them both. But, uh spend more time on Halloween would ya, I'm thinking it will cost more to get that license."

 

Plus, in 1983, they had to know it would be hard to even get these into stores, so why make them at all?

 

Video games can be violent.

 

No, TCM proves Video Games can be stupid.

 

-Ray

Edited September 9, 2006 by pocketmego

[thomasholzer]

My ex-wife loves TCM on 2600

Edited September 9, 2006 by thomasholzer

[ATARIPITBULL]

When Atari was big, we kids would sometimes here strange rumors about the existence of X-Rated Atari games and even games based on horror movies. But, no one ever seemed to be able to confirm or deny such things. Usually the story went...

 

"My uncle so and so had this killer game on his Atari, you had to make this cowboy do it with some indian woman..."

 

But, of course later in life I discoverdd these rumors to be disturbingly true.

 

And, thanks to the miracle of modern technology I can actually play some of these MYTHs from my childhood, mostly by way of emulation. Not that I'd actually pay money to play a Mystique game these days on my actual Atari.

 

But, I would by the two horror film games, namely Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Even though TCM is not nealry as playable as Halloween.

 

In fact from what I've seen TCM SUCKS.

 

Why in the world would you make the protagonist of a game, the villain, the monster?

 

Doesn't that slightly dimish the scare factor?

 

At least in Halloween when Michael pops out at some unexpected moment, it can be a little scary (kinda).

 

But, there I am controlling a cute little Super Deformed Leatherface with one goal, kill the little pixelated women who let loose the cutest darn screams on the 2600.

 

All the while avoiding obstacles like cow heads and wheelchairs (WTF?!)

 

So you go on this little massacre and kill as many of these little women as you can (turning them into little blobs od pixel mulch) until you run outr of gas.

 

That's how the thing ends, you run out of gas.

 

Again...

 

WTF!?!

 

TCM was released to theaters in 1984. Who was sitting around the Wizard Video office almost 10 years later going..."You know what we really need to do? We need to make the game everyone has been asking for...Texas Chainsaw Massacre!"

 

"uh sir, shouldn't we do something a bit more recent, like Halloween or something?"

 

"Screw it will do them both. But, uh spend more time on Halloween would ya, I'm thinking it will cost more to get that license."

 

Plus, in 1983, they had to know it would be hard to even get these into stores, so why make them at all?

 

Video games can be violent.

 

No, TCM proves Video Games can be stupid.

 

-Ray

 

Your going to find out that about 95% of all the rare Atari 2600 games BLOW, its only the fact that they are rare that people spend the big bucks to buy them.

 

[Lord Thag]

Your going to find out that about 95% of all the rare Atari 2600 games BLOW, its only the fact that they are rare that people spend the big bucks to buy them.

 

Very true, unfortunately. There are a few good ones though. I've never played TCM or Halloween, but I plan on picking up the carts one day as they are not ridiculously rare. Occasionally, you do luck out on a rare game. I found Xenophobe and Motorodeo very fun when I got 'em.

[jboypacman]

I played Texas Chainsaw Massacre.Its a just bad game,plani and simple.Now,Halloween i thought was well done and real captured the feel of the movie.If i ran across them would i pick them up?Heck,yeah.Even if TCM is a pile its still a game i dont have and its a rare one.Makes for a cool conversation picece too when people come over to see your games and such.

[pocketmego]

I played Texas Chainsaw Massacre.Its a just bad game,plani and simple.Now,Halloween i thought was well done and real captured the feel of the movie.If i ran across them would i pick them up?Heck,yeah.Even if TCM is a pile its still a game i dont have and its a rare one.Makes for a cool conversation picece too when people come over to see your games and such.

 

I enjoy playing Halloween. i think it holds upa lot better in terms of fell and theme than even later horror games do liker the Friday the 13th game on the NES. Halloween feels like the movie. That movie was much newer than TCM though and I have a strange feeling that development for the TCM game went like this...

 

"What do you remember about that movie?"

 

"Well there was a guy with a chainsaw that killed people, he lived in an old farmhouse with bones everywhere, there was a truck. There were girls in it, oh and I know there was a wheelchair in it somewhere"

 

"OK, make a game using all that stuff."

 

"Er, well its been 9 years since I saw the thing, I don't remember much else."

 

"It doesn't matter, no one else will remember either."

 

-Ray

[JacobZu7zu7]

 

I enjoy playing Halloween. i think it holds up a lot better in terms of feel and theme than even later horror games do liker the Friday the 13th game on the NES. Halloween feels like the movie. That movie was much newer than TCM though and I have a strange feeling that development for the TCM game went like this...

 

 

 

I disagree. Halloween for 2600 was fun and an okay game in its own right.

BUT It's not like the movie.

Michael Myers, didn't swing his knife over and over.

Nor did he 'EVER' cutt anyones head off. Laurie didn't have blond hair and a skirt??

Is this a tennis game?

The object in this game is to take kids to a safe room, away from danger.

It's a cool idea, but there's no outdoors, for the kids to go, lol. No closet.

But the music is dead on. Also there's a nice Pumpkin overhead. Overall, this was a good adaption.

BUT!

I felt that Friday the 13th was the best horror movie game ever! It had it all. Errie music, challenges,

camp counselors, Jasons' mothers head!, The hockey mask..an array of weapons. Only thing missing

is the Camp Crystal Lake sign. As adaptions go, this one really captured the movie feel to me.

Just look at the title screen.

To say this doesn't hold up to the Fri 13th films is BLASPHEMY!

 

- Texas Chainsaw , had the morbid feeling right, in comparison to the film.

game was only mediocre though. I guess there isn't much you can do for it.

It's really not a bad game. There was a wheelchair in the movie, and a chainsaw.

It's creative that the game ends when Leatherface runs outta gas. heh.

Edited September 10, 2006 by JacobZu7zu7

[pocketmego]

 

I enjoy playing Halloween. i think it holds up a lot better in terms of feel and theme than even later horror games do liker the Friday the 13th game on the NES. Halloween feels like the movie. That movie was much newer than TCM though and I have a strange feeling that development for the TCM game went like this...

 

 

 

I disagree. Halloween for 2600 was fun and an okay game in its own right.

BUT It's not like the movie.

Michael Myers, didn't swing his knife over and over.

Nor did he 'EVER' cutt anyones head off. Laurie didn't have blond hair and a skirt??

Is this a tennis game?

The object in this game is to take kids to a safe room, away from danger.

It's a cool idea, but there's no outdoors, for the kids to go, lol. No closet.

But the music is dead on. Also there's a nice Pumpkin overhead. Overall, this was a good adaption.

BUT!

I felt that Friday the 13th was the best horror movie game ever! It had it all. Errie music, challenges,

camp counselors, Jasons' mothers head!, The hockey mask..an array of weapons. Only thing missing

is the Camp Crystal Lake sign. As adaptions go, this one really captured the movie feel to me.

Just look at the title screen.

To say this doesn't hold up to the Fri 13th films is BLASPHEMY!

 

- Texas Chainsaw , had the morbid feeling right, in comparison to the film.

game was only mediocre though. I guess there isn't much you can do for it.

It's really not a bad game. There was a wheelchair in the movie, and a chainsaw.

It's creative that the game ends when Leatherface runs outta gas. heh.

 

 

And then the dreaded ass kick.

 

 

OK, I might have to run through F13 on the NES again, because I'm not feeling it.

 

-Ray

[jpfalcon2003]

Halloween is great. Graphics are decent with decent gameplay. TCM just straight up sucks. Period.

[Ite]

I would really like to try them both out (Halloween and TCM) with Halloween coming around the corner would be great to ebay these.

 

[BrianC]

Oddly enough, I actually have the manual for Halloween, but not the game. I found the manual at a yard sale with a bunch of 2600 games in official Atari made cases. All these positive comments on it make me want to play it.

[+Psionic]

I felt that Friday the 13th was the best horror movie game ever! It had it all. Errie music, challenges,

camp counselors, Jasons' mothers head!, The hockey mask..an array of weapons. Only thing missing

is the Camp Crystal Lake sign. As adaptions go, this one really captured the movie feel to me.

Just look at the title screen.

To say this doesn't hold up to the Fri 13th films is BLASPHEMY!

Yes, I love how endless waves of zombies and wolves attack you, how Jason lives in a cave, and how the camp counselors are always taking vitamins to heal themselves, just like in the movie. Seriously...it's definitely closer to the movie than most of LJN's other efforts (Back To The Future), but it still sucks. At least Halloween is actually fun to play.

[JacobZu7zu7]

 

I enjoy playing Halloween. i think it holds up a lot better in terms of feel and theme than even later horror games do liker the Friday the 13th game on the NES. Halloween feels like the movie. That movie was much newer than TCM though and I have a strange feeling that development for the TCM game went like this...

 

 

 

I disagree. Halloween for 2600 was fun and an okay game in its own right.

BUT It's not like the movie.

Michael Myers, didn't swing his knife over and over.

Nor did he 'EVER' cutt anyones head off. Laurie didn't have blond hair and a skirt??

Is this a tennis game?

The object in this game is to take kids to a safe room, away from danger.

It's a cool idea, but there's no outdoors, for the kids to go, lol. No closet.

But the music is dead on. Also there's a nice Pumpkin overhead. Overall, this was a good adaption.

BUT!

I felt that Friday the 13th was the best horror movie game ever! It had it all. Errie music, challenges,

camp counselors, Jasons' mothers head!, The hockey mask..an array of weapons. Only thing missing

is the Camp Crystal Lake sign. As adaptions go, this one really captured the movie feel to me.

Just look at the title screen.

To say this doesn't hold up to the Fri 13th films is BLASPHEMY!

 

- Texas Chainsaw , had the morbid feeling right, in comparison to the film.

game was only mediocre though. I guess there isn't much you can do for it.

It's really not a bad game. There was a wheelchair in the movie, and a chainsaw.

It's creative that the game ends when Leatherface runs outta gas. heh.

 

 

And then the dreaded ass kick.

 

 

OK, I might have to run through F13 on the NES again, because I'm not feeling it.

 

-Ray

 

Sorry if I come down a little hard, but Fri 13th for NES.. Is my favorite for the system!

I must defend it's qualities. I bought the game when I was about 10. Only $9.99.

I was gonna get Roger Rabbit also, but they were sold out.

I was glad though, and my friends (neighbours) thought the Fri13th game was awesome.

They rented it before I even baught it though.

When I would play I would like be scared that I would run into Jason, and when I did.

It made me jump!! Try playing this with the lights off.

[pocketmego]

I felt that Friday the 13th was the best horror movie game ever! It had it all. Errie music, challenges,

camp counselors, Jasons' mothers head!, The hockey mask..an array of weapons. Only thing missing

is the Camp Crystal Lake sign. As adaptions go, this one really captured the movie feel to me.

Just look at the title screen.

To say this doesn't hold up to the Fri 13th films is BLASPHEMY!

Yes, I love how endless waves of zombies and wolves attack you, how Jason lives in a cave, and how the camp counselors are always taking vitamins to heal themselves, just like in the movie. Seriously...it's definitely closer to the movie than most of LJN's other efforts (Back To The Future), but it still sucks. At least Halloween is actually fun to play.

 

Yeah, sometimes they REALLY stretch to make the movie into a playable game.

 

-Ray

[JacobZu7zu7]

I felt that Friday the 13th was the best horror movie game ever! It had it all. Errie music, challenges,

camp counselors, Jasons' mothers head!, The hockey mask..an array of weapons. Only thing missing

is the Camp Crystal Lake sign. As adaptions go, this one really captured the movie feel to me.

Just look at the title screen.

To say this doesn't hold up to the Fri 13th films is BLASPHEMY!

Yes, I love how endless waves of zombies and wolves attack you, how Jason lives in a cave, and how the camp counselors are always taking vitamins to heal themselves, just like in the movie. Seriously...it's definitely closer to the movie than most of LJN's other efforts (Back To The Future), but it still sucks. At least Halloween is actually fun to play.

 

I think both Halloween , Fri13th are fun games.

Anyway, the topic isn't about funest adaption to the films.

If it was, I would still vote for the 13th game.

--

 

And... Jason doesn't live in the Cave in this game. That's where the mothers head is!

There's no specific home for him.

Jason attacks by using his fists, machette, ax.

In this game the mothers head attacks, great idea!...

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Ah, this game takes place at whole Camp! Plus you get a free map for the action.

Oh yes, the vitamins are the substitute for the movies "sex".

The waves of Zombies are easy to avoid, with a jump or a good knife,

Yeah that is an added element, not in the films.

The wolves are ''ONLY'' in the cave and forests.

But if there's no Zombie other villian, what else could be in your way?

Huge puddles of water everywhere? Or spikes?? MAYBE A bike gang like the 3D movie lol.

That wouldn't be very errie.