DracIsBack Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 TrekMD found this good interview that brings some bad news and also some good news. It appears that all those magazines which claimed GAUNTLET was being developed for the 7800 back in the day are wrong. :-( Straight from the horse's mouth http://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/index.php?topic=1816.msg21615#msg21615. The good news though, is that there's a 7800 DEFLEKTOR prototype out there. So one game lost, one game found. Maybe we'll get lucky and an electrocop prototype will surface. For fun, I attached an article from a while back talking about GAUNTLET 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 What system are they calling "The Sega" ? Master System I assume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Banking on Groovy's 'Dungeon' for the XM to fill the gap. Much like the original DK on the 7800 disappointed a little to a lot for most...Perry's Donkey Kong XM is more than making up for it. No Gauntlet (And it likely would have been lackluster if it did exist - especially without POKEY support), will be made up by Dungeon (Fingers crossed and rabbit's foot rubbed ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApolloBoy Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Just curious, why do you put game titles in all-caps? It's akin to screaming the game title in mid-conversation, but that's just me I guess. It's too bad Gauntlet doesn't exist at all though, hopefully having the XM out will rectify that situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 Just curious, why do you put game titles in all-caps? It's akin to screaming the game title in mid-conversation, but that's just me I guess. Habit. And I'm not the only one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarifever Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 (edited) Hide this Drac; hide it. Bury it. Don't promote it. The guy says he had a pee next to Jack. If the internet gets ahold of this by this time next week he will have had a pee on Jack. Then, a week later, Jack will have had a pee on him. I can already see it: "Man, the Tramiels were horrible. That main guy, what was his name? Nolan. Nolan Tramiel. Yeah, him. Some guy was making Gauntlet and Mission Impossible for the 7800 and Nolan had a pee on him. He was like 'stop making games for the 7800! We make computers now!' Then he flushed the 7800 down the toilet. Guy making that game? A guy who went on to make games like the Legend of Zelda for Nintendo. You might have heard of him: Super Mario." Edited February 4, 2013 by Atarifever 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarifever Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 (edited) Just curious, why do you put game titles in all-caps? It's akin to screaming the game title in mid-conversation, but that's just me I guess. I think it's time we moved past this. Caps should be emphasis and screaming should be an exclamation point (just one). It does away with all that rich text stuff entirely. No need for underlining, italics, or bolding. No need for mid-rant font changes. Simple, fast, and easy. Works in text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter feeds, everything. Rich text is a million years ago. I use it myself only so I don't have to answer to charges like these. Edited February 4, 2013 by Atarifever 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Habit. And I'm not the only one I recall seeing it a lot in older games/programming where you could not use quotes or/and it was the practice. Think Scott Adams text based adventure titles or some other 'two word command' text based games (Infocom). I believe they denoted all names or/and titles in uppercase letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Oberhäuser Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 What system are they calling "The Sega" ? Master System I assume? Yep, they speak of the Z80 chip and the Master System is a Z80 machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 I think it's time we moved past this. Caps should be emphasis and screaming should be an exclamation point (just one). It does away with all that rich text stuff entirely. No need for underlining, italics, or bolding. No need for mid-rant font changes. Simple, fast, and easy. Works in text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter feeds, everything. Rich text is a million years ago. I use it myself only so I don't have to answer to charges like these. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Movie message boards often use all-caps for titles, and I have to say it works pretty well on a visual level (better than italics, which doesn't stand out enough in certain fonts, or boldface, which stands out too much). It's different on the printed page, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stun Runner 87 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 I would love for Electrocop to surface someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Yep, they speak of the Z80 chip and the Master System is a Z80 machine. So is Game Boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 So is Game Boy. So that information was so important to add it justified the necromancy of thread that died 3 years ago? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 LameBoy FTW! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78001987 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 So that information was so important to add it justified the necromancy of thread that died 3 years ago? internet rule #22: never necrobump an ancient thread. Internet rule #23: never start another thread for a subject that already has an existing thread. Internet rule # 24: just don't post anything, ever. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 internet rule #22: never necrobump an ancient thread. Internet rule #23: never start another thread for a subject that already has an existing thread. Internet rule # 24: just don't post anything, ever. No wonder the robots rebelled. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 So that information was so important to add it justified the necromancy of thread that died 3 years ago? Sorry my mistake. I was browsing the forum and clicked a link in another current thread and didn't bother to check the date before posting. Carry on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lendorien Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Sorry my mistake. I was browsing the forum and clicked a link in another current thread and didn't bother to check the date before posting. Carry on... Meh. Who cares about the necrobumping? Necrobumps are fun because they sometimes revive old discussions or bring forward threads that people missed the last time. Don't sweat it. I had fun reading an article I missed last time. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yell0w_lantern Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 So, is there a Gauntlet-type game being developed? Dungeon Stalker is not much like it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 So, is there a Gauntlet-type game being developed? Dungeon Stalker is not much like it at all. Well, 2600 Dark Chambers was hacked to play more like Gauntlet. I imagine something similar could be done with the 7800 version. But then again, I'm no programmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 So, is there a Gauntlet-type game being developed? This has been dormant (at least publicly) for quite some time: Dungeon Stalker is not much like it at all. Dungeon Stalker is much like Night Stalker on the Intellivision with a touch of Wizard of Wor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Wow...looks awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Wow...looks awesome. It was one of the earliest xm games to be made. Sadly none of Marks 7800 work may never be finished. The first game completed after the XM was in the works was Super Circus Atari Age it was to detect Xm and allow pokey background music without having a pokey chip. The saddest of news I can see is Mr. 7800 Bob Decrescenzo is making a....ah ah...NES cough cough choke... game...Frenzy.. It looks great but being a die hard Atari 8 bit console/computer fan I almost broke my phone when I seen it.. Please do not make me buy an NES! Maybe Mario has him in a room making NES games as torture for years of Atari loyalty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDS Games Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Well, 2600 Dark Chambers was hacked to play more like Gauntlet. I imagine something similar could be done with the 7800 version. But then again, I'm no programmer. A huge factor in making that hack possible was the commented disassembly for the original game. I'm guessing there isn't one for the 7800. But even so, a simple graphics hack wouldn't be a bad start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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