+therealbountybob Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I'm thinking of digging out the old Atari 800 and was wondering if there are any other 4 player games that have all 4 players on screen at once Here's what I have: Asteroids Dandy Castle Crisis Warlords Killa Cycle Junkyard Racing Mule (when trading at least!) Worms (sort of) Think these are: EMI Soccer Gamma Soccer Atari Hockey Atari Basketball Fandal's Astro4Road (but I cannot get it to run properly on my 130XE - anyone played this on real hardware?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 2, 2010 Author Share Posted January 2, 2010 Found another one 'Super Asteroids'. 'Astro4 Road does' work ok, it must have been 'Asteraxis 2K' that I couldn't get to run properly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Return of Heracles and Ali Baba both use all four joysticks. Technically all players can be on the same screen at the same time. Its turn based, but might fit the bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepax Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 If I'm not mistaken all multijoy-PATCHED games were originally for 4 players and Atari 400/800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Hello Pepax, guys But not all of the games Pepax mentions are patches. Some are specifically written for the Multijoy interface. And Ice Hockey was never finished because of a nasty bug. greetings Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten Günther Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Fandal's Space Arena also uses four paddles. The controls are a little too sensitive for my taste though. Thorsten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepax Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 But not all of the games Pepax mentions are patches. Some are specifically written for the Multijoy interface. And Ice Hockey was never finished because of a nasty bug. Mathy Yes I know. That's why I emphasized the word "patched". :-) The search function on Fandal's site returns exact matches only, not the entries with multijoy and patched in the description, so searching for multijoy patch gave me too few results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming (I'll send the full list to that Atari FAQ guys). I had people round (non Atari gamers) and the ones that seemed to get their attention were Astro4 Road, Dandy and by far the two most popular were Castle Crisis and Killa Cycle Astro4 Road has the option to turn multi-joy off (to work on an 800 as 4 player), do any other m-joy games have this feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepax Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Astro4 Road has the option to turn multi-joy off (to work on an 800 as 4 player), do any other m-joy games have this feature? Look at Fandal's site. Astro4 Road and Shot'em All say "supports multijoy". The others say "requires multijoy". I'd trust the descriptions. You can also check with the authors: FlorianD, Raster, Mad Butscher and Schmutzpuppe IMHO it would be nice to play Multris on an 800 if it were supported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 Astro4 Road has the option to turn multi-joy off (to work on an 800 as 4 player), do any other m-joy games have this feature? Look at Fandal's site. Astro4 Road and Shot'em All say "supports multijoy". The others say "requires multijoy". I'd trust the descriptions. You can also check with the authors: FlorianD, Raster, Mad Butscher and Schmutzpuppe IMHO it would be nice to play Multris on an 800 if it were supported. The only one that says Supports multijoy is Astro4 Road Yes Multris on the 800 would be awesome - I'm sure fandal has a zillion other requests for atari projects so I'll not mention it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepax Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 The only one that says Supports multijoy is Astro4 Road Dunno if it actually works on a 400/800 but Shot'em All also claims to support multijoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 (edited) Well, here is a 90k disk-image with a few PD programs that support 4 players simultanously. Besides, there is no Atari Hockey, guess you mean EMI Hockey (originally on cart.)... -Andreas Koch. Edited January 6, 2010 by CharlieChaplin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 Well, here is a 90k disk-image with a few PD programs that support 4 players simultanously. Besides, there is no Atari Hockey, guess you mean EMI Hockey (originally on cart.)... -Andreas Koch. Thanks for this Oops I meant Gamma Hockey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 I found a couple more 4 player simultaneous games: Silicon Warrior and Floyd of the Jungle I can only find the 1983 version of Floyd (the original was 1982) on atarimania as an ATX file, can someone post an ATR/XEX of this please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8isa1 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Here's Floyd of the Jungle. It requires BASIC. floyd.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 Here's Floyd of the Jungle. It requires BASIC. floyd.zip Thanks a8 but it is the improved 1983 version (machine code) that I'm after Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8isa1 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Here's Floyd of the Jungle. It requires BASIC. floyd.zip Thanks a8 but it is the improved 1983 version (machine code) that I'm after oops. not paying attention (sadly a chronic issue with me). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Found another one GEM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury Markowitz Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Survivor by Synapse. It might have been the first one. Not the most interesting game though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Could you theoretically make an 8-player game with all 4 controller ports using paddles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Could you theoretically make an 8-player game with all 4 controller ports using paddles? Yes Atari's Super Breakout is 8 player! p.s. Found another 4 player sim - Page 6 Magazine Issue 39 Mouse Party link here You need to press Select and Start together to put it into 4 player mode - it defaults to 2 players. Not tried this one yet! I've emailed the 8-Bit FAQ people to update their list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Could you theoretically make an 8-player game with all 4 controller ports using paddles? Or, for the completely insane: Connect four multijoy16`s to an Atari 400 or 800 for up to 4x 16 = 64 players. The only thing required then is a game for 64 players via four multijoy`s - how about Tron ?!? Hmm, regarding A8 joystick buttons, could a paddle value be used for a joystick button ?!? If so, doing something completely insane again, one could put up to 256 joystick buttons (paddle values from -127 to + 127 and the original joystick button) on a joystick. That would be enough buttons for any game I guess... -Andreas Koch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Could you theoretically make an 8-player game with all 4 controller ports using paddles? Or, for the completely insane: Connect four multijoy16`s to an Atari 400 or 800 for up to 4x 16 = 64 players. The only thing required then is a game for 64 players via four multijoy`s - how about Tron ?!? Hmm, regarding A8 joystick buttons, could a paddle value be used for a joystick button ?!? If so, doing something completely insane again, one could put up to 256 joystick buttons (paddle values from -127 to + 127 and the original joystick button) on a joystick. That would be enough buttons for any game I guess... -Andreas Koch. Well, the paddle values "only" go from 0 to 228, and it seems that many machines have trouble keeping a steady reading at one value. Realistically though, 114 buttons could be done per paddle input. I would say that is plenty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kchris73 Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 I always liked Roadblock: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-roadblock_4392.html Its simplicity made it easier to simultaneously find multiple players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten Günther Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 (edited) Astrowarriors by Apogee exists in a four-player simultaneous version (patched by Fandal). Sadly, no 400/800 4-player version seems to exist or I am too stupid to find out how to change the number of players. EDIT: I was - just pressing "p" changes the number from 2 to 3 or 4! BTW: this is a highly recommended multi-player game! Thorsten Edited February 13, 2011 by Thorsten Günther Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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