Favorite Atari 2600 game?

http://www.atariage.com/2600/history.html

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If my memory still works that's what it was called. There was also a pinball game that was pretty good.

Space Invaders and Berzerk.

You're joking, right?

...for the absolute WORST port of ANY arcade game to a home console, EVER.

Horrible. Simply horrible.... let me see if I can phoneticize (coined a word, oh my) the sounds, let's see....

BEEEE-DAAAW-BEEEE-DERRR
GON GON GON GON GON GON

lol.....

only two I remember... and they gave me alot of pleasure...back then. I have an atari now but it just sits in my closet in a case. I hope to gain some dough in the future through selling that, my NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64, Dreamcast, Saturn, Nomad... ah christ... I'm a dork :(

I'll purchase 'em whenever you want to sell them! I'm a collector, and I like the consoles used - gives em character.

I also recall a cheesy adventure game called "Adventure" :) Classic.

It was a tank simulation with some pretty good graphics for its time.

One of THE original RPG's. Classic dragon-slaying fun :thumbsup:

Also a game called Vanguard that I remember having near NES quality graphics (which was pretty darn good at the time).

Ahh, Atari... Those were the days.

:)

if fact I still have it with a ton of other games that I have packed into a box along with the console. They decorate a corner of one of our closets now.

Although Pitfall II, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and a goodly number of the Activision titles are still some of my favorite games of all times.

And don't knock the 2600 Pac-man. It was horribly done, but it was one of my sons favorite games when he was 3-4 (he's ten now).

The first game that they came out with.

It was repackaged with a bunch of other similarly themed games for the 2600 under the title of "Video Olympics".

Still great fun, though. ;>)

They came out with 3 games at first and Pong was one of them.

The quote from the article:

"In the early 1970’s, video arcade games gained commercial success for the first time. The American public was introduced to Pong, Tank, and other interactive video games which populated amusement parks, bars, and arcades."

Pong and Tank were the titles from the stand-alone arcade versions. When Pong and Tank were "ported" over to the 2600 console they became Video Olympics and Combat, respectively. I don't know why Atari didn't keep the names uniform between the arcade and 2600 versions, but there it is.

I've been an Atari addict since 1978 and a collector since 1997. I know of which I speak.

I lived through it also and I remember winning games over several guys that I played the games with and they would freak out.

or my dad had it, that is. It was great.

I had almost all of the old 8-bitters. Started with a 400, then an 800, 1200, 65xe, 130xe.

Can't comment on 2600 games (never owned one), but still one of my all time favorites on the 800 was the classic M.U.L.E.

Hammies!

My friends and I spent HOURS playing that game in the eighties and we loved it. I always play a green flapper.

I was fortunate enough to be able to pass on my feelings to the creator of the game, Dan Bunten, before he passed away via an email a few years back. He was classy enough to email me back and thank me for the kind words.

The Ultima series was really great, too. Ultima's II and III were great. I spent way too many hours on that as a kid.

I was a blue human - always!

I don't care to count how many hours we spent on that game. My boss and I both had 800s and 4 joysticks, so at least 2 nights a week after work (second shift...got off at 11pm)we'd gather up a few co-workers and a case of beer and head to his house or mine for an all-night MULE session. Was time to quit when we saw the sun come up. Wow...what good memories.

Very cool you got to correspond with Dan(i) Bunten. I got hooked on Ozark Softscape's other title of the time..."Seven Cities of Gold"

The first adventure type game I can remember was one of Epyx' "Hellfire Warrior" series...quite some time before Ultima. I got into Ultima on the Atari ST (as well as all those great Psygnosis games, most notably "Lemmings").

Now I play dabble occasionally in EQ (after spending 2 1/2 years playing a 'toon to 58th) and DAoC. But I'd still love to own MULE "up to date" for the PC.

Hammies!

loved it.

Go Google the program "Stella".

Yup. An Atari 2600 emulator. WHEEEEE!!

Only playable with the Arcaidia/Starpath Supercharger. Some other great ones were "Escape From The Mindmaster" and "Communist Mutants From Outer Space". Back then it was gaming heaven.:freak:

Jay

It really took the whole genre in a new direction.

and a silly little game called Frogs and Flies.

Combat. The game it came with.

With two (or three) duck-like dragons, an annoying bat, several color-coordinated keys and castles, a magnet, a magic bridge, an arrow that's supposed to be a sword, some dark & creepy caves, a flashing chalice--oh yes, and that invisible dot that revealed Warren Robinett's easter egg--no other Atari 2600 game ever achieved what Adventure did, giving such a real "place" and, after a while, a feeling that it was a place we knew just like a familiar neighborhood.

Adventure was fun, though.

There was also another one, butr I can't remember what it was called. It had a character named Winky in it, and he was on a quest for a magic apple.

No, no drug use there. None at all.

That 1-bit sound rendition of "Don't Stop Believin'" makes me cry every time I hear it.

:bounce:

I liked the jets

I cannot tell you how much time my friends and I wasted on playing (and defeating) this game. I could have had a girlfriend and lost my virginity; but no, why do that when ADVENTURE lay in wait?

And to find the invisible "dot" easter egg, what an achievement that was.

I have the games on CD-ROM--great for when I need a break from studying!

Jeebus Crispy, Hypnotoad. Don't you recognize a chance for ribald word play when you see one? ;-)

That way enemy rays followed you was NASTY!

River Raid, Megamania, Frostbite, Kaboom, Ms. Pac Man (nicely adapted, much unlike her male counterpart)