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cessnaace

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I bought my copy of Mappy earlier this month, and I find myself unable to stop playing it for any appreciable length of time. John W. Champeau and his team at Champ Games have really done an excellent job at porting this arcade game to the 2600.

John W. Champeau has done a marvelous job with the Coding and Design work. The Music and Sound Effects, by Mike Haas, are standouts as well. Darrell Spice, Jr. provided the Music driver. Not wishing to leave anyone out, Thomas Jentzsch worked on optimizing the code. Nathan Strum did a marvelous job designing the label, manual, and box artwork.

I will be expanding my collection of Atari 2600 games by Champ Games. I already own Conquest of Mars and Super Cobra Arcade, but still need to add Lady Bug and Scramble (both are in my Wishlist). I will certainly be purchasing their Wizard of War Arcade when it releases. If I'm not mistaken there was another Mappy arcade game called Hopping Mappy. If we're lucky we will get a port of that some day.

Now don't get the wrong idea and think that I don't buy homebrews made by other designers/coders. I most certainly do. Currently I have 6 orders being processed here at Atari Age (for the 2600 and 7800), and 2 being processed at Packrat Video Games. I went there to buy a copy of Astronomer for the 2600, which I did, but also bought a copy of Explosive Diarrhea, also for the 2600.

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I'm glad you're enjoying Mappy! I hope to get a chance to play it someday soon lol... I usually don't get to enjoy my own games until long after they're done and I've given myself enough time to recuperate. ;)

 

Wizard of Wor Arcade is coming along nicely and we hope to have it released by the end of Spring if all the pieces come together (Dave Dries is doing an amazing job on the manual/label/box, Mike Haas is finishing up a couple sounds, Nathan is helping refine the graphics, Nathan Tolbert is finalizing his design on the multi-tap (needed for 2 player with voice), and of course I'm working on polishing up the game by adding a few more bells and whistles.

 

There will be another Champ Games release soon also. Thomas and I spent a couple weeks polishing up Avalanche!, a 4K game that I started way back in 2007. TJ was able to find a bunch of ROM and had many good suggestions so the game is really solid now. I'll be coordinating with Al to have a label contest soon.

 

Finally, once WoW is finished, I'll turn my focus back to finishing Zoo Keeper. The target date is October 20th 2019 (Portland Retro Gaming Expo), but I'll know more once I get farther along in development. It's a pretty complicated game - almost like 3 games in one! :D

 

Thanks again for the support!

 

John

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cessnaace

I'm glad you're enjoying Mappy! I hope to get a chance to play it someday soon lol... I usually don't get to enjoy my own games until long after they're done and I've given myself enough time to recuperate. ;)

 

Wizard of Wor Arcade is coming along nicely and we hope to have it released by the end of Spring if all the pieces come together (Dave Dries is doing an amazing job on the manual/label/box, Mike Haas is finishing up a couple sounds, Nathan is helping refine the graphics, Nathan Tolbert is finalizing his design on the multi-tap (needed for 2 player with voice), and of course I'm working on polishing up the game by adding a few more bells and whistles.

 

There will be another Champ Games release soon also. Thomas and I spent a couple weeks polishing up Avalanche!, a 4K game that I started way back in 2007. TJ was able to find a bunch of ROM and had many good suggestions so the game is really solid now. I'll be coordinating with Al to have a label contest soon.

 

Finally, once WoW is finished, I'll turn my focus back to finishing Zoo Keeper. The target date is October 20th 2019 (Portland Retro Gaming Expo), but I'll know more once I get farther along in development. It's a pretty complicated game - almost like 3 games in one! :D

 

Thanks again for the support!

 

John

WOW, great to hear from you John!

 

I have a ton of suggestions for games to port to the 2600, mostly arcade games, but that can wait until you aren't so busy.

 

Mark

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