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Yeah, I loved the Activision games the best too. I flipped both of these when I was like 10.
I had to send away for this patch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPpPWE_vNA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOjwjVbu8Yo
Shout out to Tapper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqku3pQGTw0
Im pretty sure I told part of this story before, but back when I was maybe 10, my brother's friend's father was a designer for some of the games you posted in this thread. I believe he also had a hand in that abortion of a Pac-Man game.
The father would give his son a blank cartridge (no label on it) and slap a sticker on it himself with the name of the game, and tell his son to share it with his friends (us) so that we could Beta test those games and tell him what we thought of them and what we would want to fix. We would have 20 kids in our house all waiting to try some game that wasnt going to be launched for months. Some games were awesome....others were total crap.
My parents still have our original Atari and some of those games all boxed up. Im going to have to see if I can get at them and find out what they kept.
Not nearly as cool, but I was talking to one speller's father at the National Spelling Bee. He is a game designer for Disney in Salt Lake City. (Indian guy, obv.) I asked him what games he did. "Oh some movie-related stuff like Toy Story and Finding Nemo." Any older stuff I might have heard of? "You like golf? I did this game when I was younger called LINKS."Quote:
Originally Posted by DRK Star
I fucking love Chip and Dale on NES and don't believe it gets enough respect. I liked the simultaneous 2 player action even though most of the time it turned into a fight where somebody gets picked up and thrown into a hole because they took an acorn they shouldn't have. First game besides Super Mario Brothers that I ever completed, sitting in a red bean bag chair and while I was playing my cat pissed in the unoccupied yellow bean bag chair and I just didn't do anything about it because that's mom work.Quote:
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Im guessing you know this, but the right person would pay you handsomely for some of those test games.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRK Star
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Have you played Atari today?
Now you can play the same shitty 8-bit video games on your smartphone.
I'm half interested in those 8 bit games. Maybe I'll give them a nibble.Quote:
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I always thought you were young, but if you remember that slogan from the early 80s, you are probably near my age.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheXFactor
i always liked tank battle. i believe this game came w/ the console. the 1-1 version w/ the bouncing bullets.
breakout was awesome as well. especially the iteration where you could direct the ball.
http://youtu.be/QCVFzsrVopI
Pitfall, Centipede, Vanguard, Donkey Kong Jr, Star Wars:the arcade game. Classic!
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The worst game on the Atari 2600 is either E.T. or Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was the most annoying video game ever.
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My neighbor had this:Quote:
Originally Posted by mulva
Activision Boxing was another fav of mine:
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simpdog: amazing graphics FTW. kids these days should play this not wow
Holy shit, it's full of stars..
No, seriously, go search on it NOW.
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It was called "combat"
I played alot of hockey.
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Originally Posted by sonatine
BAck in the day, a lot of you probably remember the story of Atari dumping a ton of the ET games and other shit in a desert landfill somewhere, just to get rid of the fucking things. http://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/28/bu...re-dumped.html
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Atari Parts Are Dumped
Published: September 28, 1983
"With the video game business gone sour, some manufacturers have been dumping their excess game cartridges on the market at depressed prices.
Now Atari Inc., the leading video game manufacturer, has taken dumping one step farther.
The company has dumped 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and other computer equipment at the city landfill in Alamogordo, N.M. Guards kept reporters and spectators away from the area yesterday as workers poured concrete over the dumped merchandise. An Atari spokesman said the equipment came from Atari's plant in El Paso, Tex., which used to make videogame cartridges but has now been converted to recycling scrap. Atari lost $310.5 million in the second quarter, largely because of a sharp drop in video game sales."
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Well, the games have been dug back up. http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/26/56...i-games-in-new
"Construction crews have uncovered copies of the Atari 2600 game at a landfill deep in the New Mexico desert, near the city of Alamogordo.
Back during the so-called video game crash of 1983, a struggling Atari was stuck with truckloads of the game and other unsold hardware. With little recourse and a crashing interest in video games in North America, the company decided to dump its excess merchandise into a landfill, according to reports at the time. The story was never confirmed, however, and it's carried on as a legendary tale from a time when video games were near worthless. It reportedly cost Atari millions to get the rights to produce a video game tie-in to the incredibly successful Steven Spielberg film, but the resulting E.T. game was a massive flop and it's considered one of the worst titles of all time.
Today's dig became a reality thanks to an upcoming documentary, produced by Microsoft's Xbox Entertainment Studios."
This is the original for the C64 before the series was renamed as Links. I played the fuck out of this back in the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by smithbk
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