Atari 2600

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Originally Posted by Bacon

So what's the story with Pac-man 2600 using dashes instead of dots?

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A single programmer programming a game by himself being ultra pressured to rush the game for the holidays, and the guy also spending a lot of time flashing his "I got money to do Pac-Man" bonus check.


It was a shity port. Quite possibily the first shitty port in the long history of shitty ports in the game industry.

I just bought a new set of paddles off ebay a few weeks ago and have been playing Circus Atari (see av) and Kaboom like mad. These games are still very fun, and you simply cannot recreate them without the analog potentiometer controlers on the 2600.

Warlords is also really fun if you can get 3 other people to look past the basic graphics and play it.


A lot of the still really great games for the 2600 like Outlaw, Freeway, Warlords, Combat, are only really great with human opponents. I remember when it was unhead of when a game didnt have a 2 player mode.

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Originally Posted by Omega Supreme

Megamania by Activision had me addicted worse than crack.

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YES X ELEVENTYBILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

yeah RotLA was really only beatable with two players. great little game.

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I could get to the last screen with all the nazis and the ark, but I could never get past it.

Did I like the 2600?

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/s...ad.php?t=39863

Yeah, I did.

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Originally Posted by Agent X

This, along with the "different yet still worthwhile" conversions, is what makes the 2600 more desirable in some collectors' eyes than the ColecoVision and the 5200. The CV and 5200 have some great arcade conversions for the time, but most of their games are now available in even better versions (C64, NES, SMS, 7800, Genesis, or emulated from the actual arcade games themselves), and neither system offers a sizeable library of desirable, original, "can't get 'em anywhere else" games that the 2600 did. This is also one of the main reasons why compilations of CV and 5200 games haven't appeared on modern systems.

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The 2600 does have more original games but I do think many of the CV arcade ports fall under the "different but worthwhile" category such as Donkey Kong Junior. I find the CV, NES and arcade versions all feel different and have their own appeal.

I also think the main reason we haven't seen a CV compilation is because is that they don't want to have to pay several companies for the popular games, like Nintendo for DK and Sega for Zaxxon. With a 2600 compilation they can include a large number of Atari games that aren't arcade ports or a bunch of Activision games.

I still maintain that Spider Fighter is the best shooter on the system.

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Originally Posted by Bacon

So what's the story with Pac-man 2600 using dashes instead of dots?

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They took grammar lessons from marwan.

My parents bought the family a 2600 back in 78. The system was selling for $250 back then. Yikes!

One game that really impressed me, was Mountain King. The cart featured a 4K RAM upgrade and had an impressive 3 channel music score to boot.

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Originally Posted by Bacon

So what's the story with Pac-man 2600 using dashes instead of dots?

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Lack of RAM was one of the problems. Ms. Pac-Man used a cartridge with added RAM, as did most of the later 2600 titles.

The 2600 was my first console when I was a weel little lad. Combat ruled, as well as pretty much every game Activision made (Pitfall, H.E.R.O., Atlantis, etc).

The crazy thing is that the pictures of the games above take up more space than the games themselves.