atari2600land's Blog

I remember fondly playing with Microvision back in the day. Bowling was a favorite. Sadly I never had one myself. I briefly looked into getting one off eBay. I for one would love to see it on Microvision for another reason. I think at one point we decided the original Frogger had been ported more than any other game, seems fitting it would also get a Microvision port!!

Frogger would be an interesting port. Have you done up sketches of what it would look like as 16x16x1ish graphics?

 

Note: since the microcontroller drives the speaker directly, you aren't restricted to simple beeps. Music, digitized sound effects, and even speech are possible (although you might need some off-chip storage). Or you could use a separate chip even.

 

Hmm... I wonder what Skeleton would look like in 16x16...

I have some ideas as well as a sketch on this site: http://www.atari2600land.com/microvision/plan.html

I think if you're going to go to this much trouble to making a MicroVision game, you should replace the cartridge overlay with a custom one. Print it out on a plastic transparency and you can use the overlay to denote where the homes are, as well as have both traffic and river sections with see-thru areas showing blue for the water, green for the grass, etc.

 

Also consider saving precious screen real estate by only displaying the score after the frog makes it home or croaks.

I don't know how I would do that. The overlays are made of clear plastic and I don't know if I could get rid of the old ones, as they seem permanently attached to the cartridge. Also, I'm going to change the score like you suggested.