any atari 2600 gamers?

I have been in the legacy section of the forums and rarely see anyone disscuse the 2600...is this era of legacy gaming dead?? I sure hope not I love the 2600!

I have been in the legacy section of the forums and rarely see anyone disscuse the 2600...is this era of legacy gaming dead?? I sure hope not I love the 2600!

soapman72

[QUOTE="soapman72"]

I have been in the legacy section of the forums and rarely see anyone disscuse the 2600...is this era of legacy gaming dead?? I sure hope not I love the 2600!

Another48hours

[QUOTE="Another48hours"][QUOTE="soapman72"]

I have been in the legacy section of the forums and rarely see anyone disscuse the 2600...is this era of legacy gaming dead?? I sure hope not I love the 2600!

soapman72

I had a 7800 when it came out, so I think I had a few 2600 games.Allicrombie

[QUOTE="Allicrombie"]I had a 7800 when it came out, so I think I had a few 2600 games.Another48hours

[QUOTE="Another48hours"][QUOTE="Allicrombie"]I had a 7800 when it came out, so I think I had a few 2600 games.soapman72

[QUOTE="Another48hours"][QUOTE="Allicrombie"]I had a 7800 when it came out, so I think I had a few 2600 games.soapman72

Anyway Atari, Coleco, and Intellivision (2 of whih released consoles this gen if you didn't know.) had some great games.

Montezumas revenge, hard to top this platformer:

Colecovision had Turbo:

Man god times, although I believe what really made Atari so long lasting (longest lasting console and the console that had the longest official game releases) is mostly because of all the original games, and when somebody would "Clone" a game it would actually be a totally different game.

Sad that eventually it didn;t matter which console you played on you could play the others games and vice-versa.

So Soapguy what games do you like to talk about since we are now discussing retro gaming>

I grew up on Atari. The first game I ever saw was pacman back around 1981. I don't remember the names of the systems. I use to play pitfall mario bros. centipied combat I even played E.T.

The NESkilled Atari and I never looked back. I generally don't like playing anything older then the SNES.

I grew up on Atari. The first game I ever saw was pacman back around 1981. I don't remember the names of the systems. I use to play pitfall mario bros. centipied combat I even played E.T.

The NESkilled Atari and I never looked back. I generally don't like playing anything older then the SNES.

jdc6305

i love my 2600 the thing is people just dont really find a resaon to talk about it

i love my 2600 the thing is people just dont really find a resaon to talk about it

Jessey-Stone

Not Old Enough? HA! I remember seeing my first coin-op "PONG", for cryin-out-loud. Had a 2600 and played the piss out of it, owned "PacMan" and "ET", "Custer's Revenge", found the first easter egg of all time in "Adventure" without any help (the net didn't exist)... Great game system. I own the DS collections of all those games now, and I love playing them still.

:)

I wasn't around when the 2600 came out, but I do have a lot of respect for it and that era of gaming in general. I currently own an Atari 7800 -- so I can play 2600 and 7800 games. I love popping in Berzerk (2600) or Asteroids (7800) for a quick play from time to time. And nothing beats two-player Atari Pong. Pole Position for the 7800 is another good game.

Not Old Enough? HA! I remember seeing my first coin-op "PONG", for cryin-out-loud. Had a 2600 and played the piss out of it, owned "PacMan" and "ET", "Custer's Revenge", found the first easter egg of all time in "Adventure" without any help (the net didn't exist)... Great game system. I own the DS collections of all those games now, and I love playing them still.

:)

MonkeySpot

I wasn't around when the 2600 came out, but I do have a lot of respect for it and that era of gaming in general. I currently own an Atari 7800 -- so I can play 2600 and 7800 games. I love popping in Berzerk (2600) or Asteroids (7800) for a quick play from time to time. And nothing beats two-player Atari Pong. Pole Position for the 7800 is another good game.

amari24

My older sister had an Atari 2600 before we got our NES when I was a kid, but it just didn't hold my attention the way the NES did. I own one now, as well. And I do go back and play it from time to time just to see how video games began and how far we've come. The graphics and sounds for so many games are so primitive, but then at the other end of the spectrum were games that pushed that ancient machine in ways that actually managed to impress you a little. I hated that stiff as heck joystick, though. Whenever I play my Atari 2600, I use Sega Genesis controllers, which are perfectly compatible with joystick-use games without needing any modification of any kind.

My favorite Atari 2600 games are Dig Dug, Mario Bros., Phoenix, Super Breakout, and Defender. With Missile Command being my all-time favorite.

im a poser atari nerd..

this is my game room collection on my xbox 360

atari 2600:
Adventure
Barnstorming
Breakout
Circus Atari
Combat
Dolphin
Fishing derby
Freeway
Frostbite
H.E.R.O
Haunted House
Kaboom
Keystone Kapers
Maze Craze
Miniature golf
Oink
Outlaw
Pitfall
Plaque Attack
Pressure Cooker
Stampede
Surround
Yars Revenge

Arcade:
Asteroids
Centipede
Food Fight
Missle Command
Super Breakout
Super Cobra
Tutankham
Video Hustler
Warlords

i am sad we never got Pong(arcade version) and pac man for the 2600(my fav version)

I can acknowledge that the 2600 was a very important player in the history of video games, however it was way before my time and I just never was able to get into it years after it was originally released. The furtherest back I can game if the NES, and even that is pushing it bit for me.

I really like Asteroids, Centipede, Adventure, and Pitfall

but I could care less about the other Spaceship Zoom Pew games.

I'm also under 23 though lol.

I love the NES and SNES though, but designers were able to get more backgrounds other than black by then.

If atari had more color (I know there are a lot of games with color...just not as many as black background games) and if I am more willing to explore then maybe...just maybe.

I do have that Atari collection GBA game where it had like...80 Atari 2600 games or something like that on one GBA cartdridge.

For only having 4 KBs of data to work with though I'm pretty impressed with a lot of the games tbh...Impressed I am but I just don't like them.

First ever game I played was Boxing on the 2600. Followed by Superman and Soccer. I'm sure I played many more games on the console than those but I can't recall their names at the moment.

DS versions? Beh, go get that Atari Console they just released in 2011, .Another48hours

Yeah but the DS games are PORTABLE.

:)

I can acknowledge that the 2600 was a very important player in the history of video games, however it was way before my time and I just never was able to get into it years after it was originally released. The furtherest back I can game if the NES, and even that is pushing it bit for me.

Shenmue_Jehuty

I can't go that back, the max back I go to is SNES/Genesis era, which is the one I started gaming with, anything before that usually doesn't appeal to me.Dudersaper

[QUOTE="Dudersaper"]I can't go that back, the max back I go to is SNES/Genesis era, which is the one I started gaming with, anything before that usually doesn't appeal to me.rilpas

But for those people who can't go back that far you can always go to the 7800 which came out after the NES.

Plus you can have open-wprld adventure/Rpg games like Midnight Mutants:

[QUOTE="rilpas"][QUOTE="Dudersaper"]I can't go that back, the max back I go to is SNES/Genesis era, which is the one I started gaming with, anything before that usually doesn't appeal to me.Another48hours

But for those people who can't go back that far you can always go to the 7800 which came out after the NES.

Plus you can have open-wprld adventure/Rpg games like Midnight Mutants:

I know, the Atari 2600 was out of my time, I'm only mentioning the games I've actually played, I love the Atari 2600 :P

[QUOTE="Another48hours"]

[QUOTE="rilpas"] maybe you're just playing the wrong games :P some of my recommendations: Adventure Pitfal Pitfal 2 Keystone Kapers River Raid Ms. Pacman Pacman Jr. Solaris dig Dug Yar's revenge Donkey Kong Frogger Mario Brothersrilpas

But for those people who can't go back that far you can always go to the 7800 which came out after the NES.

Plus you can have open-wprld adventure/Rpg games like Midnight Mutants:

I know, the Atari 2600 was out of my time, I'm only mentioning the games I've actually played, I love the Atari 2600 :P

Why does Legacy platforms say Emerald Warrior is the last one that posted but this is the last visible post?

Another48hours

Because GameSpot is a technical mess and no one who works for this site give a toss. I've had talks with the mods and the tech page and everyone BUT Jody Robinson about it, and essentially they point to their parent company and say that they have no power to fix anything about the forums. Personally I just think they're lazy, dopish buck-passers around here who're afraid of making waves and getting fired from their sit-around-get-paid-for-doing NOTHING jobs, in the interest of making things better. This site didn't used to be such a technical joke, but it has fallen WAY off in the last two years.

:evil:

[QUOTE="Another48hours"]

Why does Legacy platforms say Emerald Warrior is the last one that posted but this is the last visible post?

MonkeySpot

Because GameSpot is a technical mess and no one who works for this site give a toss. I've had talks with the mods and the tech page and everyone BUT Jody Robinson about it, and essentially they point to their parent company and say that they have no power to fix anything about the forums. Personally I just think they're lazy, dopish buck-passers around here who're afraid of making waves and getting fired from their sit-around-get-paid-for-doing NOTHING jobs, in the interest of making things better. This site didn't used to be such a technical joke, but it has fallen WAY off in the last two years.

:evil:

[QUOTE="MonkeySpot"]

[QUOTE="Another48hours"]

Why does Legacy platforms say Emerald Warrior is the last one that posted but this is the last visible post?

Another48hours

Because GameSpot is a technical mess and no one who works for this site give a toss. I've had talks with the mods and the tech page and everyone BUT Jody Robinson about it, and essentially they point to their parent company and say that they have no power to fix anything about the forums. Personally I just think they're lazy, dopish buck-passers around here who're afraid of making waves and getting fired from their sit-around-get-paid-for-doing NOTHING jobs, in the interest of making things better. This site didn't used to be such a technical joke, but it has fallen WAY off in the last two years.

:evil:

technology, its fantastic

[QUOTE="Another48hours"][QUOTE="MonkeySpot"]

Because GameSpot is a technical mess and no one who works for this site give a toss. I've had talks with the mods and the tech page and everyone BUT Jody Robinson about it, and essentially they point to their parent company and say that they have no power to fix anything about the forums. Personally I just think they're lazy, dopish buck-passers around here who're afraid of making waves and getting fired from their sit-around-get-paid-for-doing NOTHING jobs, in the interest of making things better. This site didn't used to be such a technical joke, but it has fallen WAY off in the last two years.

:evil:

Darkman2007

technology, its fantastic

All true. And essentially, no one at Gamespot cares, which is a real shame. You would think that they'd tell their owners about it, and say "Hey, we're losing respect out there", but they're content with inserting their thumbs up their butts and sitting down hard on 'em. I have some love for the writers and reviewers, but Jody Robinson is the Community Manager, you would think she could get her ass out of a chair, make a few calls to the head office, and work on making what she's in charge of function properly.

Buuuut...

... SO! About those Atari 2600 games...

I have no trouble going back to playing them because I was a teenager when it came out, but i can see kids or younger folks' aversion to them. To quote GTA Vice City commercials -

"The big green dot chases the little orange dot!"

(kids in background) "Aaaawe-some!"

:lol:

All true. And essentially, no one at Gamespot cares, which is a real shame. You would think that they'd tell their owners about it, and say "Hey, we're losing respect out there", but they're content with inserting their thumbs up their butts and sitting down hard on 'em. I have some love for the writers and reviewers, but Jody Robinson is the Community Manager, you would think she could get her ass out of a chair, make a few calls to the head office, and work on making what she's in charge of function properly.

Buuuut...

... SO! About those Atari 2600 games...

I have no trouble going back to playing them because I was a teenager when it came out, but i can see kids or younger folks' aversion to them. To quote GTA Vice City commercials -

"The big green dot chases the little orange dot!"

(kids in background) "Aaaawe-some!"

:lol:

MonkeySpot

Degenatron! :P

It was my bad, not Gamespot's. I deleted my post, because I posted something moronic, and realized what I did.

It was my bad, not Gamespot's. I deleted my post, because I posted something moronic, and realized what I did.

Emerald_Warrior

B-buh-buh-but I post moronic stuff all the time...

... Good Gawd, I've totally been avoiding my civic responsabilities!

:shock:

I tell ya what - If they would fix the hyperlink function, I would cut them some slack. not being able to link for discussion, when talking about things which require proof, or a link to other pertinent information, is important to be able to do. I don't know if people were abusing it, or if it takes a lot of server space, or what... But the fact remains that they just turn their hairy palms upward and say "Sorry, out of my hands".

I think some of my favorite 2600 games were definitely the 3rd party stuff, like Activision, Apollo, and iMagic games... I miss the port of "Venture"... Anyone remember that game?

All true. And essentially, no one at Gamespot cares, which is a real shame. You would think that they'd tell their owners about it, and say "Hey, we're losing respect out there", but they're content with inserting their thumbs up their butts and sitting down hard on 'em. I have some love for the writers and reviewers, but Jody Robinson is the Community Manager, you would think she could get her ass out of a chair, make a few calls to the head office, and work on making what she's in charge of function properly.

Buuuut...

... SO! About those Atari 2600 games...

I have no trouble going back to playing them because I was a teenager when it came out, but i can see kids or younger folks' aversion to them. To quote GTA Vice City commercials -

"The big green dot chases the little orange dot!"

(kids in background) "Aaaawe-some!"

:lol:

MonkeySpot

You have 3D gameplay with Aztec Challegge, which has the pyramid come closer:

Beamrider 3D vector Graphics:

3D movment Congo Bongo:

I have already mentioned Montezumas Revnege 400 times.

Then there's this game whoo baby look at thus graphics (speaking from past):

This is a very hard game to find now and it is like the ultimate football game until madden comes out as almost all others play flat in comparison (Even with more buttons!):

There's also this first-person shooter I don't remember the name of (have to find the cart) where it't like a 2 gun FPS with vector lined enemies flying at you like you are in cyber space or something that thing was amazing to play and look at (Still is) although those unstable will have a seizure in 3 seconds after starting.

Also, I believe the 5200 had great games underated, just that some of them had the 2600 joystick in mind for them.

I suggest you guys try the abve games and more, heck you can donwload all 2600 roms in like 5 minutes.

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

It was my bad, not Gamespot's. I deleted my post, because I posted something moronic, and realized what I did.

MonkeySpot

B-buh-buh-but I post moronic stuff all the time...

... Good Gawd, I've totally been avoiding my civic responsabilities!

:shock:

I tell ya what - If they would fix the hyperlink function, I would cut them some slack. not being able to link for discussion, when talking about things which require proof, or a link to other pertinent information, is important to be able to do. I don't know if people were abusing it, or if it takes a lot of server space, or what... But the fact remains that they just turn their hairy palms upward and say "Sorry, out of my hands".

I think some of my favorite 2600 games were definitely the 3rd party stuff, like Activision, Apollo, and iMagic games... I miss the port of "Venture"... Anyone remember that game?

[QUOTE="MonkeySpot"]

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

It was my bad, not Gamespot's. I deleted my post, because I posted something moronic, and realized what I did.

Another48hours

B-buh-buh-but I post moronic stuff all the time...

... Good Gawd, I've totally been avoiding my civic responsabilities!

:shock:

I tell ya what - If they would fix the hyperlink function, I would cut them some slack. not being able to link for discussion, when talking about things which require proof, or a link to other pertinent information, is important to be able to do. I don't know if people were abusing it, or if it takes a lot of server space, or what... But the fact remains that they just turn their hairy palms upward and say "Sorry, out of my hands".

I think some of my favorite 2600 games were definitely the 3rd party stuff, like Activision, Apollo, and iMagic games... I miss the port of "Venture"... Anyone remember that game?

Definitely games I could play again and again, even in 2012. The thing I like about 2600 games is the play. They weren't all gems, but there were a substantial amount of games which had sublime play which didn't require photo-realistic graphics in order to be engrossing. Games like "Venture" were adventurous, and fun... "Demon Attack!" was an amazing "Space Invaders" clone... "Pitfall" needs no explanation... And games like "Montezuma's Revenge" were exemplary titles for level design and mechanics which still hold up amazingly well to this day.

:)

[QUOTE="Another48hours"][QUOTE="MonkeySpot"]

B-buh-buh-but I post moronic stuff all the time...

... Good Gawd, I've totally been avoiding my civic responsabilities!

:shock:

I tell ya what - If they would fix the hyperlink function, I would cut them some slack. not being able to link for discussion, when talking about things which require proof, or a link to other pertinent information, is important to be able to do. I don't know if people were abusing it, or if it takes a lot of server space, or what... But the fact remains that they just turn their hairy palms upward and say "Sorry, out of my hands".

I think some of my favorite 2600 games were definitely the 3rd party stuff, like Activision, Apollo, and iMagic games... I miss the port of "Venture"... Anyone remember that game?

MonkeySpot

Definitely games I could play again and again, even in 2012. The thing I like about 2600 games is the play. They weren't all gems, but there were a substantial amount of games which had sublime play which didn't require photo-realistic graphics in order to be engrossing. Games like "Venture" were adventurous, and fun... "Demon Attack!" was an amazing "Space Invaders" clone... "Pitfall" needs no explanation... And games like "Montezuma's Revenge" were exemplary titles for level design and mechanics which still hold up amazingly well to this day.

:)

Heck yes, some of my favourites were Moon Patrol,, Kangaroo, Pitfall and Jungle Hunt. Oh Kung Fu! California games was good too. I remember even managing to beat E.T. as a kid :lol: (man that game sucked obviously)

Oh and I forgot Joust! LOVED JOUST!