legeek Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 Speaking of trippy playfields, it's too bad the original 8-bit Space Taxi never had a 2600 equivalent. Here here!!! le geek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Tails Prower Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 What about China Syndrome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooterb23 Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 Journey Escape was a perfectly normal game, avoiding fans, photgraphers, and barriers, and getting help from guys with crowns and little robots... I always thoght Q-Bert was odd, I mean a little oragne gonzo rip off jumping around on cubes, avoiding springs with teeth? And then swearing when he gets hit?? That's weird... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Tails Prower Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 And then swearing when he gets hit?? Thats not too strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonnenhexer Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 I always thoght Q-Bert was odd, I mean a little oragne gonzo rip off jumping around on cubes, avoiding springs with teeth? And then swearing when he gets hit?? That's weird... I love Q*Bert, as you can see from my avatar. It´s my favorite game. Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Tails Prower Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 I always thoght Q-Bert was odd, I mean a little oragne gonzo rip off jumping around on cubes, avoiding springs with teeth? And then swearing when he gets hit?? That's weird... I love Q*Bert, as you can see from my avatar. It´s my favorite game. Michael Who dosent love Q*bert? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonnenhexer Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 Dunno, but some people may not love this game. Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 So far in this thread I have seen Eggomania, Dishaster, and Kool-Aide Man mentioned as canadates for the weirdest game. I just thought I should point out that, weird as they are, these are three of my favorite 2600 titles. What does this say about me, I wonder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuckandCover Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 My vote would have to go to Amidar. I never could quite grasp the concept behind playing a gorilla being pursued by angry natives on one level, and then playing a paint roller being chased by rampaging pigs on the next. Pretty bizarre stuff. To boot, I remember the first time I heard the title of the game, I thought it would be some kind of space shooter, not...well, what it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROBERT Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 Hello fellow gamers: I always thought "Chase the ChuckWagon" was one of the weirder titles. Granted it was based on a TV commercial...but still. Robert T Mruczek Twin Galaxies - Editor and Chief referee Star Wars classic arcade champion (212) 366-3036 (work-day) rmruczek@doremus.com (work E-MAIL) ******************************* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted July 22, 2002 Share Posted July 22, 2002 That's the game I was thinking of -- Mangia, by Spectravision. It's not foreign, just incredibly rare. And what would you expect of a game where the object is to eat all the food your Italian mother gives you -- or feed it to the dog, or throw it out the window. Geez, they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for original game ideas, weren't they? mangia it's italian for 'eating' Osbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted July 22, 2002 Share Posted July 22, 2002 I always thoght Q-Bert was odd, I mean a little oragne gonzo rip off jumping around on cubes, avoiding springs with teeth? And then swearing when he gets hit?? That's weird... I love Q*Bert, as you can see from my avatar. It´s my favorite game. Michael Who dosent love Q*bert? love it, but difficult, once u pass the 50.000 points gets super hard osbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Tails Prower Posted July 22, 2002 Share Posted July 22, 2002 I also always thought that the concept for Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em was weird... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari2600Phreak Posted July 22, 2002 Share Posted July 22, 2002 It was a game in which you are a dot whose goal in life is to make rectangles without getting clobbered by a dancing, rotating Technicolor line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night Phantom Posted July 22, 2002 Share Posted July 22, 2002 It was a game in which you are a dot whose goal in life is to make rectangles without getting clobbered by a dancing, rotating Technicolor line. And the weirdest part is that Qix wasn’t made for the 2600, which might have something to do with its not being mentioned in a “weirdest Atari 2600 game concept” thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari2600Phreak Posted July 22, 2002 Share Posted July 22, 2002 And the weirdest part is that Qix wasn’t made for the 2600, which might have something to do with its not being mentioned in a “weirdest Atari 2600 game concept” thread. It wasn't made, but it was announced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiggerthehun Posted July 22, 2002 Share Posted July 22, 2002 My vote - tho' it's not a bad game - is for "Fast Eddie"... I don't get the "blue meanies on stilts - that, for your pleasure - will occasionally telescope upwards " - or the "catch the glowing objects of happiness" thing. "Squeeze Box" - unless it's some new form of capital punishment - is pretty darn weird too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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