Champ Games Robotron: 2084 Demo for Atari 2600

[Gianna]

Have you guys seen this? Champ Games is showing off another amazing arcade port for Atari 2600. They made Robotron: 2084 for the 2600, it looks really nice and flicker free! Check it out:

 

 

[Gianna]

Here's the playable demo ⬇️

robotron_20200516_demo1_NTSC.bin

[RickR]

It's incredible, isn't it?

I always like to imagine what it would have been like if a game like this had been released in the early 80's.  It would have been mind-blowing.  And it is now too.  

 

[DegasElite]

Thanks, Gianna, for putting this up. I think that it looks pretty good. It sounds a lot like the A7800 version, which I own. Interesting port. :O)

Edited May 18, 2020 by DegasElite

[TrekMD]

Another impossible title makes it to the 2600!

[DegasElite]

It might have been impossible then in the 1980s, but with current technology I can see it now. Interesting stuff. :O)

Edited May 18, 2020 by DegasElite

[DegasElite]

Actually, Yars' Revenge was a port of the arcade game Star Castle, which could not have been done on the A2600 in the 1980s. It was still great, but Star Castle was finished as a homebrew years later for the A2600. Star Castle A2600 is also great. I like the action and graphics, and the sound is spectacular, too.

[Justin]

This looks nearly as good as the Atari 7800 version, Champ Games has done a tremendous job 🙌

[GRay Defender]

Looks great doesn't it?  I have just posted by gameplay video of the demo, using the Edladdin Super Twin 78.

[Atari 5200 Guy]

Umm...how...is...this...possible?!?  It shouldn't be doing that.  The 2600?  The system that gave us a crummy Pac-Man, a blocky Centipede, is pulling this off?  How?  OK.  We need to borrow Doc Brown's DeLorean and travel back in time to about 1980 and let Champ Games show the Atari programmers how it's done.  Period.  No ands, ifs, or buts.  Very impressive!

The things homebrewers are doing these days with these Atari machines is impressive.  I'd love to get my hands on the revised 5200 Pac-Man. That one looks and sounds a lot better than the one the 5200 officially received.  But to see Robotron on the 2600...that couldn't have been an easy task.  I wonder if someone were to tackle it if those games like Moon Patrol and Centipede we did get could be redone to look/sound more like the arcades?