chas10e Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 anyone else have one of these ( or both ? ) I just discovered there is a challenge for Combat for a single player http://www.atarimania.com/catalog-atari-atari-usa-_153_2.html page 4 http://www.atarimania.com/catalog-atari-atari-usa-co18262-rev-1_95_2.html page 24 You'll be flying high if you can defeat the Red Baron. Hit as many planes as possible during the allotted time. Play game number 15 with the difficulty switch on b Scourge of the skies score 34 Flying Phantom score 26 Blue Angel score 17 my first attempt was 22
Rowsdower70 Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 Hah! Achievements "For you - Rowsdower from the 70 - have been appointed Omnivisioner of the Game Grid." ~ Atari Adventure Square
greenween Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 I have the 2nd one. "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime."
chas10e Posted October 31, 2015 Author Report Posted October 31, 2015 How in the world did I not know this?? Thanks!
StormSurge Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 So cool!!! Are there scans of these anywhere?
chas10e Posted October 31, 2015 Author Report Posted October 31, 2015 So cool!!! Are there scans of these anywhere? I posted the links .... there was a person who compiled an archive of manual in *.pdf format .... his links went dead so I re-hosted them http://www.mediafire.com/download/dygap8ory04a1sy/Man-2600.part01.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download/61zy3bjmwd5k8cb/Man-2600.part02.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download/qloxroy95bznd0i/Man-2600.part03.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download/kah4vmc3ma27et4/Man-2600.part04.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download/o2ge0ew7jmsfofm/Man-2600.part05.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download/ocru12w19yn6lcs/Man-2600.part06.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download/1m8q54wp5d8kcto/Man-2600.part07.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download/34b1u74qw9iuh5d/Man-2600.part08.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download/8l49aj48g3az6h9/Man-2600.part09.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download/ohm8u4ufc96l3d5/Man-2600.part10.rar
greenween Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 Haha! Nice! "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime."
RickR Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 I have the blue one! Same here. Only one though. And I've never seen that green one. The log book that is...not green ween. (bad joke there. I'm not going to apologize)
Arenafoot Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 I have the blue log book too - have the green log book on my wish list. Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne
StormSurge Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 I posted the links .... there was a person who compiled an archive of manual in *.pdf format .... his links went dead so I re-hosted them Ah, yes, I'm an idiot. Thank you! So how were these distributed?
chas10e Posted October 31, 2015 Author Report Posted October 31, 2015 So how were these distributed? I only got mine recently & not even remotely sure where they have address labels on the back ... a Google search revealed this ... looks like a mail order thing with the warranty /survey card
AlamoAtari Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 I think the green one was the first edition. I wonder how many of them are left out there.
greenween Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 I do have the warranty/ survey card. Thought about mailing it in just for the hell of it! "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime."
nosweargamer Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 I do have the warranty/ survey card. Thought about mailing it in just for the hell of it! I have been tempted to mail in old offer cards just to see if I got any response. "Sorry Buddy. This address is to Al's Pizza & Subs now. Here's a coupon for $5 off your next order." The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube
RickR Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 I imagine a really really old guy, just sitting in an office. "Finally! I've been waiting for a response for 30 years!"
greenween Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 Haha! Exactly! "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime."
chas10e Posted November 1, 2015 Author Report Posted November 1, 2015 my 2'nd attempt was also 22 & my last one was 26 \o/ I had thought I was 1 point short for Flying Phantom missing last shot before clock ran out
chas10e Posted November 1, 2015 Author Report Posted November 1, 2015 I may have found a bug in the game (Combat: game 15 biplanes) with the sprite moving horizontally across the upper part of the screen with ONLY the wing tip showing ... it is NEAR impossible to hit also tried in Stella (really just to get the screen shot) EDIT: it is near impossible to hit .... first I tried with double planes & was able to hit them (but again it wasn't easy)
StormSurge Posted November 2, 2015 Report Posted November 2, 2015 I'll definitely be looking to add these to my collection. Ever since I became addicted to achievements, I've wondered what they would look like for my retro favorites. This is perfect.
RickR Posted November 2, 2015 Report Posted November 2, 2015 I may have found a bug in the game (Combat: game 15 biplanes) with the sprite moving horizontally across the upper part of the screen with ONLY the wing tip showing ... it is NEAR impossible to hit also tried in Stella (really just to get the screen shot) EDIT: it is near impossible to hit .... first I tried with double planes & was able to hit them (but again it wasn't easy) This was a known bug back in the day. I used to get a 1 point lead on my brother, then set up my plane like that. And use the speed up/down to make sure he would miss.
chas10e Posted November 2, 2015 Author Report Posted November 2, 2015 This was a known bug back in the day. I used to get a 1 point lead on my brother, then set up my plane like that. And use the speed up/down to make sure he would miss. yeah I was gonna ask if anyone did something like that ..... I generally liked the machine gun biplanes ( #'s 17 & 18 ) for tanks I would get one track along side the right hand wall moving up , turn 2 clicks to the left & move forward to warp to other side of screen to draw first blood
Arenafoot Posted December 14, 2015 Report Posted December 14, 2015 FYI - several of the Atari Log Books on eBay now: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=Atari+2600+log+book&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Atari+2600+log+book&_sacat=0 Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne
Atari 5200 Guy Posted December 15, 2015 Report Posted December 15, 2015 I tried that same game number but I'm not sure which switch I was suppose to put on "B". The plane was not "robot" controlled. Help?
chas10e Posted December 16, 2015 Author Report Posted December 16, 2015 I tried that same game number but I'm not sure which switch I was suppose to put on "B". The plane was not "robot" controlled. Help? Combat was the pack-in game for the original Atari, it didn't have any artificial intelligence built in the "robot plane" only changes direction after it has been shot ( normally a 2'nd player would control this and why I started this thread ) the difficulty switches operate the same side the controller is plugged into a=advanced (shorter shot distance) & b= beginner (long shot distance)
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