Buyatari Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Somehow I never noticed this before. Atari 2600 Star Raiders Atari 2600 Solaris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerz Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Lol...I never realized that. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phreakindee Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Haha, me neither... wow, that's awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerz Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Somebody at Atari was a tad lazy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 The real question is did the artist get paid twice for his work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Yeah, I remember that from the old days. Wasn't Solaris originally going to be a sequel to Star Raiders? Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schitti Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 haha crazy also never noticed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2600Lives Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Wow, good find. Never noticed that before. Both games are damn good, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Yeah, I remember that from the old days. Wasn't Solaris originally going to be a sequel to Star Raiders? It is the followup to Star Raiders. Same Federation, same evil Zylons. But it didn't start that way. The program was originally going to be the 2600 port of "The Last Starfighter". When the licensing deal with Lorimar fell through (due to the planned arcade game being axed due to it's high pricetag), Atari was stuck with the 2600 and 8-bit ports of that game already in development. Both games were released as "official" sequel games to Star Raiders instead. The 2600 game has the distinction of being programmed by Doug Neubauer (who wrote the original Star Raiders game while the 8-bit computers were being developed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamingguy Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Simply amazing. I never even thought that Solaris and Star Raiders were the same picture! Congrat's on this find! Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 5 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Wow! Never noticed that either. That's pretty funny that most of us never made that connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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