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  2. Atari 2600 loaner cart auctioned off at So Cal Retro Gaming Expo last weekend.

    in Prototypes & Vaporware

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    I've run across this phenomenon many times in my podcast research, I wish I could remember all the titles offhand. I agree with Ballblazer's second point, that it may be related to the lawsuit. Which may be why there's some Activision titles as well. In the case of Frogger, they were supposed to put it out in 1987 but they didn't.

     

    Frogger: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-frogger_25805.html

     

    Cakewalk: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-cakewalk_27710.html

     

    Chopper Command: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-chopper-command_27919.html

     

    Cosmic Ark: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-cosmic-ark_27915.html

     

    You get the point. The caveat here is that these haven't been dumped. Rabbit Transit from Starpath has been though.

     

    http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-rabbit-transit_11876.html

     

    It's weird. :)

  7. Squad Challenge - Cosmic Ark (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    I've gotten about 600 points better on average, which is still less than 2000. I switched to real hardware, which is the way to go for me for this game. No idea if the 2600-daptor has lag, and maybe it's only noticeable in games like this. I did manage to rescue one squiggle on the 2nd screen ONCE, but that was all. I was using the 500 XJ, which doesn't do diagonal well, which I need to try out in those screens.

  8. Squad Challenge - Cosmic Ark (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    Dude, I hate the game NORMALLY, let alone the hard version. (I WILL participate, just haven't had the chance to play video games lately...) So I say, YES, it's OK to say you hate this game. :)  In all honesty, this is my least-favorite game on the 2600. I'm dead serious about that, too, with Kangaroo being a close second.

     

    The collision detection just absolutely sucks.

    SWORDQUEST FIREWORLD

  23. Venetian blinds? Has any played this

    in Prototypes & Vaporware

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    I think it was kind of a joke involved in a lawsuit. I forget who came up with Venetian blinds, maybe Bob Whitehead? It was used in many Atari games (Chess is the one that comes to mind first, perhaps the score in Space Invaders). When the 4 Activision guys left Atari, they were advised not to take anything with them, but the Venetian blinds technique ended up in some of their games (legs in Stampede is what I remember). This may have been after the lawsuit though, I don't think there were any examples before that. It's very subtle in Stampede. When Atari sued Activision, apparently this was going to be brought up, and David Crane made the Venetian blinds Activision demo as a joke because they hadn't actually stolen any trade secrets from Atari.

  24. Greetings from the city of this year's World Series champs!

    in Introduce Yourself!

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    Nice to meet you! I am also a music guy, I love the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Food Fight. I play those instruments you mentioned, albeit horribly.

     

    NJ pizza > Chicago pizza (though I do enjoy it, I used to walk all the way across the large mall in which I worked to go to the Chicago style pizza place). Jury's still out on hot dogs.

     

    Welcome to the forums, co-host of the Pie Factory Podcast that you didn't mention.  :rofl:

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