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Posted on 09-05-10 01:23:15 AM (last edited by paulguy at 09-04-10 10:28 PM)

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Yeah, I like Berzerk. It's pretty fun and has decent gameplay compared to the majority of the games at the time.

Enduro is pretty decent too, as an early racing game. I even made a loose clone of it, once.

Pitfall series. Pitfall 1 is a pretty good platformer, having multiple screens and challenges but certainly can get boring after a bit. Pitfall 2 is pretty cool for being a rather deep platformer for the day, but it has a few issues. I always had a hard time getting the guy to jump the way I wanted. I probably like the first one better just because I found it more playable. It also has a neat little tune that changes based on how well you're doing. Probably or one of the very earliest to do that, and probably the only game to do that on the Atari 2600.

That's all I can recall for now, I haven't played many Atari games in a while.

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Posted on 09-05-10 01:26:35 AM

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I used to love Berzerk, Missile Command, Defender (yes, Defender), and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on our old 2600. Also River Raid, but we didn't have it. My uncle did, though.

I even kind of liked 2600 Pac-Man

Not 2600 E.T., though.

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Posted on 09-05-10 01:51:21 AM

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I didn't mind E.T. after I figured out just what the hell was going on. Not that it still doesn't suck horribly, but it kind of made it into my "sucks less" category.

I hate falling into the pits. Oh my God, do I hate it still for that.

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Posted on 09-05-10 02:16:47 AM

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As probably guessed, the two Turrican games are amongst my favorites, as well as Wings of Death and Lethal Xcess. Leavin' Teramis is pretty fun too, and part of it's... kinda become a personal meme between a few people.

...Alright, so those are Atari ST games. Still an Atari system.

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Posted on 09-05-10 10:03:59 AM

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Yars Revenge is an awesome game.

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Posted on 09-05-10 01:06:47 PM

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Yars Revenge, Turmoil (basically linear Tempest), Berzerk, Ms. Pac-Man...

However, I knew the ColecoVision better than the Atari 2600, and had Donkey Kong and Turbo, among other games, for it =P

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Posted on 09-05-10 05:41:21 PM

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I actualyl got a 2600 for my birthday, but I've yet to actually play with it, because I can't get it to work.

I'm thinking that it's some strange connection issue I can't quite solve in the front room TV, so once I actually GET AROUND TO IT, I'll try seeing what hooking up the system to my bedroom TV does.

Once I clear up the 5 other systems I have on my desk, that is. Seriously, my desk is pretty crowded and every little electronic thing has to compete for space. Case in point: My N64 is on top of my Playstation, and there are wires all over the front of my VCR.

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Posted on 09-06-10 01:49:04 AM

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I've only dabbled with various 2600 games but I played River Raid quite a bit.

Mainly because one of my aunts had a 2600 in her house with River Raid plugged in.

And I could never find where the other games were hiding. If there were other games.

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Posted on 09-06-10 09:40:04 AM

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Superfrog and Cannon Fodder were awesome

I still have those somewhere...

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Posted on 09-12-10 02:12:27 AM

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Yar's Revenge! Geez, how could I forget that one? That's embarrassing, damn.

I remember fun times with an obscure game called Squeeze Box as well. And Turmoil! Turmoil is a fucking awesome game as well.

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Posted on 09-12-10 09:13:12 AM

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I like games that fry in amazing ways.

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Posted on 09-12-10 03:35:56 PM

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Pitfall 2 is good for that.

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Posted on 09-12-10 06:38:20 PM

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Originally posted by Xkeeper
I like games that fry in amazing ways.

Does anyone know why games fry? Like, what's happening in the system to make it fry?

Too bad I can't try it on emulators, AFAIK.

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Posted on 09-12-10 06:58:59 PM

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I know one emulator does it, but I can't remember for the life of me what it was. It was one of the better-end Atari emus that I downloaded on Zophar one time, if that narrows it down.

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Posted on 09-12-10 09:20:52 PM

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Stella does. Forget what button, but you can check the config menu.

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Posted on 09-12-10 10:56:21 PM

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I don't know much about the Atari, what are you guys talking about? Frying the system?

The only Atari games I ever got into was Pitfall and some game where you're like underwater and exploring caves.. or maybe you were in space.

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Posted on 09-12-10 11:43:44 PM

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Frying can be done by holding the power or reset switch in the middle (forgot which) and it can alter the gameplay. Stella emulates this by pseudorandomly changing bytes in the emulated RAM, AFAIK =P

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Posted on 09-13-10 03:28:45 AM

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The only Atari games I ever got into was Pitfall and some game where you're like underwater and exploring caves.. or maybe you were in space.

Probably a horrid guess on my part, but... H.E.R.O.? That's a good game actually.

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Posted on 09-16-10 02:04:12 AM

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H.E.R.O. isn't bad either. I actually found a ROM of it recently for the Sega Master System. I had no idea it was ported to that until I downloaded it.

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