2600 Pleiades

[jpfalcon2003]

I got this game recently. I do like it, but it feels unfinished. I was expecting more from this one, especially being a sequel to the popular Phoenix. The sound is very unique and diffferent I must say. Was there supposed to be more work still needed on this game?

[Lord Helmet]

I have never played the arcade version, so I couldn't tell you if something was missing. I do enjoy the 2600 version though.

[Albert]

I got this game recently. I do like it, but it feels unfinished. I was expecting more from this one, especially being a sequel to the popular Phoenix. The sound is very unique and diffferent I must say. Was there supposed to be more work still needed on this game?

These games(Pleaides, Funky Fish and Cat Trax) were found as prototypes and while they appear to be more or less complete, it's possible that some additional work was going to be done on them. But they do appear to be complete, so I doubt they would have been changed significantly, if at all.

 

..Al

[Foxsolo2000]

Its again a case of a lost gem rediscovererd and shared with the rest of the gaming public. Unlike most prototypes it plays and feels like a finished game and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it as an addition to any gaming library

[ATARIPITBULL]

I am going to be adding those 3 to my collection in just a bit, but I never knew that Pleiades was supposed to be a sequel to Phoenix? I always thought that Pleiades was just a cheap rip off of Phoenix.

 

[Albert]

According to KLOV, "Pleiads" (as it's spelled in the game) was the sequel to Phoenix. I played both games a fair bit in the arcade, and enjoyed Phoenix quite a bit more. I actually owned a Phoenix upright at one point.

 

Killer List of Video Games: Pleiads

 

..Al

[Tempest]

I did a review of the game some time ago. It's complete.

 

http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/p...es/pleiades.htm

 

Tempest

[Thomas Jentzsch]

According to KLOV, "Pleiads" (as it's spelled in the game) was the sequel to Phoenix.

Why is the 2600 version spelled "Pleiades" then?

[elviticus]

I like the game quite a bit.... I got those 3 a couple years back, and I think Pleiades is the best of the bunch. Since playing the original on the Tecmo pack for X-box, I can say it's not too much like the original, but still fun.

[Albert]

According to KLOV, "Pleiads" (as it's spelled in the game) was the sequel to Phoenix.

Why is the 2600 version spelled "Pleiades" then?

Not sure.. It's spelled "Pleiades" on the marquee for the arcade game (which KLOV claims was a mistake), but the 2600 version has it spelled "Pleiades" on the title screen. Maybe they didn't have enough room for the "E" on the title screen in the arcade game?

 

..Al

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Maybe they didn't have enough room for the "E" on the title screen in the arcade game?

Maybe the word had to fit into the 26 horizontal blocks raster. But then they could have made the E, L and S one block smaller, which would have given them just enough space for the missing 2nd E:

##  #  ## #  #  ##  ##  ##
# # #  #  # # # # # #  # 
##  #  ## # ### # # ##  # 
#   #  #  # # # # # #	#
#   ## ## # # # ##  ## ##

BTW: The service manuals also always call the game "Pleiades".

[A.J. Franzman]

Pleiades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pleiades (with the second "e") is the correct spelling; KLOV is wrong.

 

The original source of the name is of course the Greek Mythology of the "Seven Sisters" and the star cluster which inspired the myth and is named for them. I'm guessing the arcade game was named for the stars since it seems to have nothing to do with the mythology or any of the other alternatives on Wikipedia's disambiguation page.

Edited October 31, 2006 by A.J. Franzman

[Albert]

Pleiades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pleiades (with the "e") is the correct spelling; KLOV is wrong.

 

The original source of the name is of course the Greek Mythology of the "Seven Sisters" and the star cluster which inspired the myth and is named for them. I'm guessing the arcade game was named for the stars since it seems to have nothing to do with the mythology or any of the other alternatives on Wikipedia's disambiguation page.

That's cool, thanks for doing additional digging on this.

 

..Al

[supercat]

Not sure.. It's spelled "Pleiades" on the marquee for the arcade game (which KLOV claims was a mistake), but the 2600 version has it spelled "Pleiades" on the title screen. Maybe they didn't have enough room for the "E" on the title screen in the arcade game?

 

Exacltly. The name without the "E" makes no sense. Even when I was a kid, I thought the "PLEAIDS" spelling was dumb.

Edited October 31, 2006 by supercat

[+Nathan Strum]

Actually, the whole misspelling of Pleiades goes even further than that...

[Albert]

Actually, the whole misspelling of Pleiades goes even further than that...

LOL, that Japanese marquee is funny.

 

..Al

[A.J. Franzman]

Didja notice that the URL for that macmame.net page has yet another misspelling of it?

[+Nathan Strum]

That was intentional.

[MegaManFan]

And comical.

[liveinabin]

Though it is a prototype, it's easily as playable as it's coin-op parent.

Just be careful where you have your difficulty switch set. One of the switch puts the game into some test mode where you're basically invincible, not a lot of challenge there.

Can't remember which position the switch should be in, though I should do because I wrote the manual - Doh!

[Student Driver]

This reminds me of how I thought the name "Tutankham" was ridiculous when I was a kid. I always heard the explanation that "Tutankhamen" was just too unwieldy of a name, but having lived through the "king Tut" mania in the 1970s, I found the excuse to be a bit lacking...

[Godzilla]

I reviewed the game for Atari Age. I also own an original upright arcade cab.

 

http://www.atariage.com/store/index.php?ma...p;reviews_id=76

 

I really don't feel that the game is finished, but that's just me :-)