| O-D-C said: such simple title Adventure Combat is their like RPG Sport Flying as game titles too? |
yeah actually there are more complex titles on the 2600, Secret Quest is a simpler Zelda style game, complete with pass words,
Dragon Stomper is a simple rpg,
Radar Lock is an un-official port of after burner
somewhat faithful translations of double dragon,International Track & field, Ikari Warriors, Xenophobe and Rampage, all of which more or less retain the original gameplay and actually contain co-op modes
it also has somewhat faithful ports of commando and kung fu master
Solaris is actually a rather sophisticated space flying title, with a massive over world map
Fatal Run is pretty complicated as well, kind of like a more road blasters
and the later real sports line of sports games are fairly robust, as is pete rose baseball
and some really complex prototypes like Save Mary (a weird tetris type game, fun though)
all of these are pretty impressive for a system intended to be scrapped by 1980 and came packed with a whopping 128 bytes of ram and an amazing 1.2 mhz processor with a super cool 13bit address bus (mos6507, a scaled back 6502) not to mention it only had 2 sprites, 2 missiles and a ball for hardware graphic effects
Plus those wacky homebrewers actually have a working demo of megaman, that's right megaman, running, check it out at atariage.com for a heaping helping of awesome
plus tetris has been on the 2600 forever
Anyway, I likes me 2600 a whole lot, games like space invaders, pitfall 1+2, Pacmanjr, ms. pacman, track & field, moon patrol and millipede all rock hard, I've got around 200 atari 2600 games and a whole load of hardware varients and cool controllers
the 7800 and 5200 are nice as well, but man their controllers are both so aweful, fortunately wico commands, and euro pads can replace the original controllers, robotron on the 7800 is fantastic with 2 2600 sticks incased in a lego container
I HAVE A DOUBLE DRAGON CAB IN MY KITCHEN!!!!!!
NOW A PUNISHER CAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!
