RSS Bot Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 Karate Master isn't dead, but it has been on hold for quite some time. I've run dry on motivation on this large project... just having a hard time finding direction for polish, now that the proof-of-concept is done. There is a lot of work to do before it's at a final state. But I still like poking around with the 2600. So I'm starting a new secondary project, which hopefully should cater to my short attention span by providing a wide range of simultaneous outlets for coding. Based on this forum thread, now presenting... AtariLAN Party! a collection of 7 mini-games on a 16k cartridge. All the games are played with 4-8 players over a dumb cable plugged into Joystick Port 2 on each console. There's a wide range of applications for such a cable but I think as a real selling point, the first title should offer a lot of small games with wide appeal. Many are unashamed clones of top hits from the "Top 100 2600 games" thread, but now sporting more than 2 players. The complete list looks something like this (names and games subject to change): Pong (8 players! paddles for all, and probably a special power-up on button press) Combat (4 players, joysticks / Indy500 controllers ???) Boat Race (4 players, Indy500 clone using joystick / Indy500 controllers ???) "Base Defense" (4 players, joystick... like Rampart, a co-operative base defense game) "Multiventure" (4 players, joystick... multi-screen co-operative dungeon crawl) Battlezone or Flight Sim (4 players, joystick, first-person competitive shooter) Tetris (4 players, joystick) Wish me luck! http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?app=blog&blogid=238&showentry=6585 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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