Love Cowboy

I know this is off-topic, but as a huge Star Voyager fan I felt the need to chime in here... I think you're confusing challenge with punishment. Star Voyager would be too easy if the phasers didn't take so much energy. I like the strategic element of knowing when to switch to torpedoes to conserve energy, or the challenge of just trying to make it through the whole game with phasers. (yes, the torpedoes are stupid, but it's not THAT hard to hit the enemies with them. It's at least similar difficulty to hitting anything at all in Star Raiders)

Activision's Tennis and Ice Hockey, Realsports Volleyball and Realsports Soccer... at least those are the ones I've played that I thought were really good. Careful with that distinction, you could almost technically say that about any 2600 sports game

yeah I haven't quite figured out Dodge'em yet either.

While the consoles I've owned have always been the older VCS, I still refer to it as the 2600 as that is the most widely-recognized name for the system... best way to communicate effectively with others about the system.

If I'm remembering correctly, somewhere around '87 or '88 I actually bought (or rather my parents bought me) a grey-boxed Homerun cartridge, because I was really into baseball and we couldn't afford buying a then-current game system. I don't still have it though unfortunately

If the game doesn't support auto-fire natively, adding it with a turbo controller would constitute cheating for score purposes in my book. But other than that, I say you do you.