Love Cowboy

Nothing ironic about it... the game was produced during the 7800 era

This. Part of the reason the pre-crash Activision titles looked so phenomenal are because none of them were licensed properties... each game was designed specifically for the 2600, keeping in mind what the system did well, and what it didn't. Licensed games had to do certain things, regardless of how well the system could actually do them... and so that's what we ended up with in the later, licensed Activision games.

Yes this is true. In some games it works well as a feature, like the right switch changing weapons in Star Voyager Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

So I too had never played Star Strike on the 2600 before seeing this thread, so I busted out the Harmony cart and gave it a whirl... and now I've beaten it. It looks like there are 8 silos instead of the 5 in the Intellivision version, and it also adds some (meteors?) coming at you between waves of enemy spaceships... on the other hand, your bombs are much faster falling than in the Intellivision version, so once you get the timing difference down it's actually easier to hit the silos. Definitely a fun game, and for a 2600 port of an Intellivision game I think it actually does it justice... possibly even an improvement control-wise

LOL Wizard of Wor is a good one. Second player controller for one player games?? Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

Wow. I just assumed this guy had to be a troll. Never occurred to me that anyone who didn't grow up with a 2600 would have no idea about the game reset button being the standard start button for the console. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

How is it greed? These consoles are being sold at a loss already... and the pack-in games were never free... in the earlier days, there was always the option available to by the system without a pack-in game, and it was always considerably cheaper. It made more sense to include a pack-in game in the early days, because the industry was in its infancy and buying a console was a large amount of customer's first exposure to the medium, so they wouldn't necessarily have a good idea of what game to get with the console anyway. Nowadays, there's no need for that.

I'm almost ashamed to admit I never really bothered learning how to play Superman properly until earlier this year, despite owning the game as a child. Needless to say, this year I now finally enjoy the game.

Since the Twin Cities and Milwaukee are fairly close to one another, my guess is this was a local publication somewhere in that area, not a national publication. Note where the OP says he has a copy of the same ad, which does have St. Louis, along with Kansas City

Huh. Ok then never mind. I'm not sure why I thought DD was a red label Atari release. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

Of course, the quality control in the Tramiel-era means it could still be a PAL cartridge in that NTSC sealed box... but I guess if you don't plan on opening it who cares?

IIRC, that is common to heavy sixers

Draconian is the only homebrew I own, so I can speak only to it... but WOW is it good.

I've never played Astroblast on the 2600, but Astrosmash on Intellivision could have negative scores IIRC, so I would suspect Astroblast is the same Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

I had that old catalog when I was a kid, but never actually bought the game until 1988, so I was none the wiser.... I never knew it was 2 words until I came across this site!

Slightly off-topic, but have you or anyone else here played the PS2 remake of Defender of the Crown?

IMO Codebreaker is easily the best of the keypad-only games by far

This right here is exactly why I don't have a current gen system and hardly ever play games on my PS3. Current-gen and last-gen games just don't jive with responsible adult life. If I only have an hour at a time to play, and the first real gameplay is about that far in, I'll never even get into a game

Nope, sure can't. Game goes on indefinitely until you finally beat it

Sweet. The difficulty really ramps up on that one as you get close to patch level, huh? Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

well... this is true, and I do find myself being a lot better at most 2600 games than I was in childhood... but 25-5 seems excessive. You don't suppose it's possible they increased the difficulty at some point in production do you? Back then I played Home Run on an Atari Corp gray-box cart I picked up new in the late '80s. The version I just picked up is an old text label.

Ok I just played my first game of Home Run in about 30 years and I beat the computer 25-5. I feel like I remember it being difficult back in the day. What is you guys' experience? Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

Ok I just played my first game of Home Run in about 30 years and I beat the computer 25-5. I feel like I remember it being difficult back in the day. What is you guys' experience? Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

Clearly I'm the only one here that plays Robot Tank lolol

Hm... no one else has posted the only Activision game I'm that good at yet: good ol' Robot Tank!