Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 I don't think anyone has ported Midge Ure to 8-bit systems yet' date='...[/quote']Almost right. if_i_was.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Hee! Go Thomas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 I don't think anyone has ported Midge Ure to 8-bit systems yet' date='...[/quote']Almost right. What is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 I'd still like to see Turbo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybergoth Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Hi there! I don't think anyone has ported Midge Ure to 8-bit systems yet' date='...[/quote']Almost right. What is it? What is your question exactly? I had a little trouble downloading it, as it came without an ending - if you mean that. Just added ".zip" at the end and I was able to unpack it. Greetings, Manuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Hi there! I don't think anyone has ported Midge Ure to 8-bit systems yet' date='...[/quote']Almost right. What is it? What is your question exactly? I had a little trouble downloading it' date=' as it came without an ending - if you mean that. Just added ".zip" at the end and I was able to unpack it. Greetings, Manuel[/quote'] I was referring to that .bin .bin attachment that Thomas posted .. (the .zip came through fine for me...) First of all what's Midge Ure? A game? 2nd.. what's that bin (which was the original question).. it plays some nice wavy lines and buzzes out a tune. Hence my question... what is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybergoth Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Hi there! First of all what's Midge Ure? A game? 2nd.. what's that bin (which was the original question).. it plays some nice wavy lines and buzzes out a tune. Hence my question... what is it? Midge Ure replaced John Foxx as the singer of Ultravox back in the 80's. You hear him on most more popular Ultravox songs like "Vienna" or "Hymn". He later started a solo career, one of his most popular songs back then was "If I was". It was very quiet around him for almost a decade then, but he had a massive comeback some 2-3 year ago with the song "Breathe". Greetings, Manuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 I'd still like to see Turbo! Meh, we've already seen Turbo. I'd like to see Mattel Electronic Football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Porting endorsements: I don't care if I've said these already! Super Pac Man Grobda Improved DK Super Pac Man Gaplus Frenzy DK3 Super Pac Man Satans hollow? ...and Super Pac Man to finish it off Why do I get the feeling you want to see Super Pac-Man ported? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nateo Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 Taito's Zookeeper would have been totally do-able on the 2600 -- seemingly. Oh man, that is the one game I'd like to see ported to the VCS more than anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 I would like to see Time Pilot and Bruce Lee although Bruce Lee would probably require a lot of memory added to the cartridge to get it to work on the 2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I would like to see Time Pilot But there is a 2600 Time Pilot already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I'd like to see... Tetris (I didn't like Edtris) There exists another tetris clone called Cubis (Eckhard Stolberg). This is officially released due to copyright reasons, so must search a bit. And IIRC there are at least two versions (4K and 6K SC). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybergoth Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Hi there! There exists another tetris clone called Cubis (Eckhard Stolberg). And... Z-Blocks (?) Greetings, Manuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 And... Z-Blocks (?) I only know the "review" at AGH. Never saw a cart or binary. Does anybody know better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Taito's Zookeeper would have been totally do-able on the 2600 -- seemingly. Oh man, that is the one game I'd like to see ported to the VCS more than anything else. wasnt 2600 zookeeper in the works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 wasnt 2600 zookeeper in the works? God, I hope not. It would have been a flicker-fest. Any level beyond the first couple has well over a dozen animals roaming all over the screen. Even the 7800 would be taxed to pull it off. About the only things the 2600 could do somewhat playably would be the sliding-platform and "rescue your girlfriend" levels... but those are just bonus levels and not what Zookeeper is all about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 lesse what i can dredge up... (from ol aa news page,) 2600 & 7800 : More Prototypes? April 23, 2001 Posted by Alex Forums | Submit News It seems that the Digital Press guys have turned up some more Atari prototypes. Word has it that they showed off Elevator Action for the 2600 and Pitfighter for the 7800 at the recent PhillyClassic event. There's even word of a 2600 Zookeeper prototype, but that's just a rumor at this point. That's all we know for now, we'll post more news as it becomes available! seems it had a product designation too... Atari CX26121 NR Zookeeper (from here, http://www.xocolatl.com/carts/at2600.html) mentioned here, someone trying to get screenshots of the 2600 version?? http://www.retrocomputing.org/faq.html (under the strange email Q) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cootster Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 And I'm being serious here, not putting any hyper-modern games on the list except one, which I think could be pulled off after a fashion. This list also centers on gameplay. All of these games would actually be good on the 2600 if done right. 1: Universal's Lady Bug. Best Pac-clone ever, and the bonus system simply owns. Yes, I know there's a CV version, but did Atari make the ColecoVision? And since Coleco owned the rights, why didn't they . . . Oh, wait, Donkey Kong . . . Never mind, I'm thankful. 2: Bullfight by Taito(I think)? Very simple game, it's just your guy and the bull, absolutely freaking perfect for the 2600, it is so hard to believe that there was never even a proto . . . 3: Original Atari football with the X's and O's. Much cooler than the original crap football cart, and graphics aside, cooler that the insanely easy RS: Football. 4: Donkey Kong III: So, every other game in the series sucks harder than a stack of ETs. This one was really more like Centipede, which was done well on the 2600. 5: All Points Bulletin: It could be done, and somehow, every console ever made missed out on it (even if it was in the Tengen NES/Genesis catalog at one point, not even a proto exists ). 6: Galaga: Big obvious. And Galaxian hacks and the Taiwan River Raid hack that used the name do NOT count. 7: Space Invaders II: How did they miss it? Another big obvious, IMO. 8: Death Race 2000: Atari gave porn people a license to create games, and they did make Crossbow, another Exidy game, so why not? 9: The curling/shuffleboard game on bar multigames (various names), you have Slot Machine, Bowling, Trick Shot, so why not this? 10: Dance Dance Revolution: Imagine it with the Kids' Controller and the highly detailed (for the 2600) characters that were generally in those games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 You put together a great list. Ladybug may actually exist for the 2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 There is no Ladybug for the 2600. Coleco planned to make one, but it was never released, and I see no indication that any prototypes exist. The Intellivision Lives/Blue Sky Rangers site INCORRECTLY states that a 2600 version was released. This error was discussed in another thread many moons ago, when I pointed it out as evidence but was quickly "corrected." @Cootster: Regarding the "license" to make porn games: WRONG! There was NO licensing for third parties on the 2600... the concept didn't even exist back then, and there were no internal mechanisms in the game console to "lock out" unlicensed developers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cootster Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 Ladybug may actually exist for the 2600. Where? The same guy who hoards the only Turbo prototype? Or in Mexico, like the decent but seemingly unwritten about Benji game I found at the notorious Mountain Top Flea Market (if there is a Reef Store on Earth, it's in Attalla, Alabama every Sunday)? Or as a future HB? Well, that could happen. I'm learning the system specifically to make a couple of these, because they should exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cootster Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 Well, we should be thankful for the 2600's lack of licensing/lockouts . . . OK, so it gave us a LOT of pathetic excuses for games, but it also makes modern homebrews that can be played with a cart on a real system possible, and is this done for any other systems, or at least to anything approaching the variety and quality of games for our favorite? Come to think of it, most systems' official lifetime releases, except the Playstations and the original NES, don't either . . . How many SNES/Genesis games were there that weren't continuations of franchises or licensed crap? Not really that many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwilkson Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 8: Death Race 2000: Atari gave porn people a license to create games, and they did make Crossbow, another Exidy game, so why not? Death Race 2000 is being ported by Glenn Saunders. It has been under development as "Death Derby" for a couple of years now. It looks great. But 2600 games are *hard* to write, and Glenn's a busy guy. I finished my Evil Project From Hell, Glenn...now it's your turn!!!! -Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cootster Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 I'd gleefully give AA 50 Combats for that one. . . And another I thought of from reading an article on Room 34 . . . Turn It Around, using the Indy wheel . . . Someone post more of these. Everybody has to have one favorite classic machine that the 2600 somehow never got a version of. All of mine not only could exist, they should have (well, maybe not DDR). They'd have been far better games than say, E. T (which I like) or Chase the Chuckwagon or Word Zapper . . . So on, so forth . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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