godzillajoe Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) Have we done this already? I probably started it myself a while back. Messing around with my CC2 and adding an ARCADE subfolder. Here's what I have. Probably missed some homebrews that aren't in the AA Rarity Guide. Air-Sea Battle (Anti-Aircraft) Amidar Anteater (unreleased proto) Asteroids Basketball Battlezone Berzerk Blueprint Breakout Buck Rogers: Planet Of Zoom Bump 'n' Jump Burgertime Canyon Bomber Carnival Centipede Chetiry (homebrew) (Tetris) Circus Atari (Circus) Colony 7 (homebrew) Combat (Tank) Commando Congo Bongo Crazy Ballon (homebrew) Crazy Climber Crossbow Crystal Castles Defender Dig Dug Dodge 'em (Head On) Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Jr. Dragster (Drag Race) Edtris (homebrew) (Tetris) Elevator Action (proto) Espial Frogger Front Line Funky Fish (proto) Galaxian Gorf Gravitar Gunfight (homebrew) (Gun Fight) Gyruss Human Cannonball (Cannonball?) Ikari Warriors Indy 500 (Indy 800) Ixion (proto) Joust Jr. Pac-Man Jungle Hunt Kangaroo Klax (proto) Kung Fu Master Ladybug (homebrew) Lock 'n' Chase Looping (proto) Mario Bros. Millipede Missile Command Moon Patrol Mouse Trap Mr. Do! Mr. Do's Castle Ms. Pac-Man Night Driver Omega Race Outlaw (Gun Fight) Pac-Man Pengo Phantom II (homebrew) Phoenix Pleiades Pole Position Pooyan Popeye Q*bert Q*bert's Qubes Rampage! Reactor Road Runner Roc 'n' Rope Sinistar (proto) Sky Diver Sky Skipper Solar Fox Space Invaders Space War (Space Wars) Sprintmaster Spy Hunter Star Fire (homebrew) Star Ship (Starship 1) Star Trek: Strategic Operation Simulator Star Wars: The Arcade Game Stargate Steeplechase Strategy X Stunt Cycle (proto) Sub Scan Tac Scan Tapper Tempest (proto) Tetris 26 (homebrew) Time Pilot Track and Field Turbo (proto) Tutankham Universal Chaos (Targ) Up 'n' Down Vanguard Vault Assault (homebrew) (Space Zap) Venture Video Olympics (Pong) Wizard Of Wor Xenophobe Xevious (proto) Zaxxon Edited October 7, 2014 by godzillajoe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Star Castle (2x), Juno First, Sea Wolf... And also some very early games like Surround Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) I threw this together several years ago, but it hasn't been updated in some time (itself based on a previous list Snider-Man posted here). I'm sure it's incomplete, but I did tack on some homebrews. For commercial games, I only included those that had a direct arcade counterpart with the same name. Not other games based on arcade games but not marketed as ports of them. Some examples: Arcade version: 2600 version: Sprint 2 (Atari/Kee Games) Indy 500 (Atari) Drag Race (Atari) Dragster (Activision) Circus (Exidy) Circus Atari (Atari) Space Wars (Cinematronics) Space War (Atari) Deep Scan (Sega) Sub/Scan (Sega) And so on. Even though games of this sort are pretty obviously based on certain arcade games, this can get pretty fuzzy if you start including stuff like Activision's Megamania being based on Sega's Astro Blaster. Also not included are games with titles similar to arcade games, but having nothing to do with them (Gauntlet, Krull, Tron Deadly Discs, etc.). Prototypes and homebrews are listed separately at the end. Activision Commando Activision Double Dragon Activision Kung-Fu Master Activision Rampage! Atari Asteroids Atari Basketball Atari Battlezone Atari Berzerk Atari Breakout Atari Canyon Bomber Atari Centipede Atari Crazy Climber Atari Crossbow Atari Crystal Castles Atari Defender Atari Defender II (AKA Stargate) Atari Dig Dug Atari Galaxian Atari Gravitar Atari Ikari Warriors Atari Joust Atari Jr. Pac-Man Atari Jungle Hunt Atari Kangaroo Atari Klax Atari Mario Bros Atari Millipede Atari Missile Command Atari Moon Patrol Atari Ms. Pac-Man Atari Night Driver Atari Outlaw Atari Pac-Man Atari Pengo Atari Phoenix Atari Pole Position Atari Road Runner Atari Sky Diver Atari Space Invaders Atari Stargate Atari Super Breakout Atari Track and Field Atari Vanguard Atari Warlords Atari Xenophobe CBS Electronics Blue Print CBS Electronics Gorf CBS Electronics Omega Race CBS Electronics Solar Fox CBS Electronics Wizard of Wor Coleco Carnival Coleco Donkey Kong Coleco Donkey Kong Jr. Coleco Front Line Coleco Mouse Trap Coleco Mr. Do! Coleco Roc'N Rope Coleco Time Pilot Coleco Venture Coleco Zaxxon Konami Pooyan Konami Strategy X M-Network Bump 'N' Jump M-Network Burger Time M-Network Lock 'N' Chase Parker Brothers Amidar Parker Brothers Frogger Parker Brothers Gyruss Parker Brothers Mr. Do!'s Castle Parker Brothers Popeye Parker Brothers Q*Bert Parker Brothers Q*bert's Qubes Parker Brothers Reactor Parker Brothers Sky Skipper Parker Brothers Star Wars Arcade Game Parker Brothers Super Cobra Parker Brothers Tutankham Sears Steeplechase Sega Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom Sega Congo Bongo Sega Spy Hunter Sega Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator Sega Tac/Scan Sega Tapper Sega Up'n Down Starpath Frogger (The Official) Tigervision Espial Tigervision Polaris Tigervision River Patrol Tigervision Springer Prototypes: Atari Elevator Action Atari Elk Attack (working title for Electric Yo-Yo) Atari Millipede (GCC version) Atari Sinistar Atari Stunt Cycle Atari Tempest Atari Xevious Coleco Turbo M-Network Anteater M-Network Loco-Motion UA Limited Funky Fish UA Limited Pleiades Homebrews: Manuel Rotschkar Colony 7 Manuel Rotschkar Crazy Balloon Manuel Rotschkar GunFight Chris Walton Juno First John Champeau Lady Bug Darrell Spice Medieval Mayhem (based on the arcade version of Warlords) Dennis Debro Pac-Man 4K David Weavil Phantom II Manuel Rotschkar Seawolf Darrell Spice Space Rocks (Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe) D. Scott Williamson Star Castle Manuel Rotschkar Starfire Cases could also be made for Chetiry (and other Tetris clones) and Boulder Dash since there were arcade versions of those games as well. But those were less ports of the arcade versions, than of the console/home computer versions. Edited October 7, 2014 by Nathan Strum 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 The Atari Times has a nice Arcade to 2600 list. It has nice comparative screenshots and even includes homebrews and prototypes. A to H I to R S to Z It is from 2007 though, so newer homebrews like Space Rocks aren't in it. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) And also some very early games like Surround What was the arcade version again? There was a nagging doubt in the back of my mind as I passed by it, but I wasn't sure Edited October 7, 2014 by godzillajoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesbroslash Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 What was the arcade version again? There was a nagging doubt in the back of my mind as I passed by it, but I wasn't sure http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7160 Technically Surround is just a copycat port, but it's still effectively the same game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 The Atari Times has a nice Arcade to 2600 list. It has nice comparative screenshots and even includes homebrews and prototypes. A to H I to R S to Z It is from 2007 though, so newer homebrews like Space Rocks aren't in it. Crap, I really need to update those pages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Warlords was the home version first, arcade version later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Crap, I really need to update those pages! Maybe do some crowdsourcing and have people post screenshots in this topic with what's missing? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesbroslash Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) Warlords was the home version first, arcade version later I'm just curious, but did Atari think the home version was so good that they put it in a cab, or was the release of the arcade cab delayed to be released after the 2600 version? I'm not sure if there would even be much of an interesting reason behind the decision, but the whole "reverse arcade port" thing seems a bit odd to me, so I'm just wondering. Edited October 7, 2014 by Nesbroslash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 Warlords was the home version first, arcade version later That's why I didn't include it it in my list above but would include medieval mayhem. a port of an arcade port of a home game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I'm just curious, but did Atari think the home version was so good that they put it in a cab, or was the release of the arcade cab delayed to be released after the 2600 version? I'm not sure if there would even be much of an interesting reason behind the decision, but the whole "reverse arcade port" thing seems a bit odd to me, so I'm just wondering. Don't know. From A conversation with Carla Meninsky: After Dodge Em, I went straight to Warlords which was on the list as Kings in the Corner break-out game. I would like to set the record straight here - I did the 2600 game before the coin-op game even existed! I think that was the first time a coin-op game derived from the console game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Maybe do some crowdsourcing and have people post screenshots in this topic with what's missing? Kind of like this ancient thread.. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/17112-fun-with-arcade-vs-2600-screen-shots/ Could obviously probably use a reboot/update. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 Why can't I edit my initial post? Wanted to add the games I missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 You can only edit posts for an hour. If you subscribe you get 30 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timdu Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I also have this list on my web site from our FAQ about arcade ports for the Atari 2600: VCS arcade ports (or arcade influences) Check it out @: http://www.2600connection.com/faq/faq_arcade_ports.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Boomer Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 On 10/7/2014 at 12:34 PM, high voltage said: Warlords was the home version first, arcade version later The home version was programmed before the arcade version, but the arcade version was released before the home version! I hope this sets the record straight. It's not unusual for people to get the facts confused about Warlord's development and release. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Living Room Arcade Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 (edited) I was working on this, too, and would like to share. I think we're up to around 150 home versions of arcade games on the Atari 2600. 2023-12-06 2600 Arcade List.xls Edited December 7, 2023 by Living Room Arcade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Living Room Arcade Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 (edited) @timdu shared his list on his website "2600 Connection." https://web.archive.org/web/20141011061747/http://www.2600connection.com/faq/faq_arcade_ports.html 2600 Connection Arcade List.pdf Edited December 8, 2023 by Living Room Arcade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Living Room Arcade Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 @godzillajoe @Nathan Strum @timdu @Gregory DG Are any of you guys still around? I might have a few Q's about some of these home arcade versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Less frequently, but I'm still around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Living Room Arcade Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 @Nathan Strum I don't want to disturb anyone. There are some home versions that I wonder if they're "arcade" or not. Like for example Atari Frog Pond and Mattel's Frog's and Flies. They strongly resemble the arcade Frogs by Gremlin 1978. https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7858 It's not critically important, I just was wondering which, exactly, of these many Atari 2600 games are actually "arcade." Because some games like Sky Diver I had no idea. I just found out recently it was an arcade game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 For Sky Diver, Atari produced both the arcade and 2600 versions. So it *could* be considered a home version of the arcade game. Whether or not Atari was trying to entice people to buy the 2600 version as an actual port of the arcade game is something I can't answer. I don't recall that being a selling point for the 2600 until Space Invaders. Then bringing home arcade games became the reason many people bought 2600s. I think a lot of early 2600 games were made simply because they *could* be made, and Atari already owned the trademarks from the arcade side. I bought Missile Command along with my 2600, because it was an arcade port. But at the time, I had no idea Combat was based on Tank. I don't think I'd ever seen a Tank cabinet. As for Frogs and Flies/Frog Pond, and other games clearly influenced by arcade titles, I think it's all subject to ones own interpretation whether it's "arcade" or not. How close is the gameplay? Is it a spot-on copy of the arcade game? Then it would at least fall into the "influenced by" category. But without an attribution stating that it was licensed from Gremlin, it's not official. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Living Room Arcade Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 (edited) On 10/7/2014 at 4:32 AM, Nathan Strum said: I threw this together several years ago, but it hasn't been updated in some time (itself based on a previous list Snider-Man posted here). I'm sure it's incomplete, but I did tack on some homebrews. For commercial games, I only included those that had a direct arcade counterpart with the same name. Not other games based on arcade games but not marketed as ports of them. Some examples: Arcade version: 2600 version: Sprint 2 (Atari/Kee Games) Indy 500 (Atari) Drag Race (Atari) Dragster (Activision) Circus (Exidy) Circus Atari (Atari) Space Wars (Cinematronics) Space War (Atari) Deep Scan (Sega) Sub/Scan (Sega) And so on. Even though games of this sort are pretty obviously based on certain arcade games, this can get pretty fuzzy if you start including stuff like Activision's Megamania being based on Sega's Astro Blaster. Also not included are games with titles similar to arcade games, but having nothing to do with them (Gauntlet, Krull, Tron Deadly Discs, etc.). Prototypes and homebrews are listed separately at the end. Activision Commando Activision Double Dragon Activision Kung-Fu Master Activision Rampage! Atari Asteroids Atari Basketball Atari Battlezone Atari Berzerk Atari Breakout Atari Canyon Bomber Atari Centipede Atari Crazy Climber Atari Crossbow Atari Crystal Castles Atari Defender Atari Defender II (AKA Stargate) Atari Dig Dug Atari Galaxian Atari Gravitar Atari Ikari Warriors Atari Joust Atari Jr. Pac-Man Atari Jungle Hunt Atari Kangaroo Atari Klax Atari Mario Bros Atari Millipede Atari Missile Command Atari Moon Patrol Atari Ms. Pac-Man Atari Night Driver Atari Outlaw Atari Pac-Man Atari Pengo Atari Phoenix Atari Pole Position Atari Road Runner Atari Sky Diver Atari Space Invaders Atari Stargate Atari Super Breakout Atari Track and Field Atari Vanguard Atari Warlords Atari Xenophobe CBS Electronics Blue Print CBS Electronics Gorf CBS Electronics Omega Race CBS Electronics Solar Fox CBS Electronics Wizard of Wor Coleco Carnival Coleco Donkey Kong Coleco Donkey Kong Jr. Coleco Front Line Coleco Mouse Trap Coleco Mr. Do! Coleco Roc'N Rope Coleco Time Pilot Coleco Venture Coleco Zaxxon Konami Pooyan Konami Strategy X M-Network Bump 'N' Jump M-Network Burger Time M-Network Lock 'N' Chase Parker Brothers Amidar Parker Brothers Frogger Parker Brothers Gyruss Parker Brothers Mr. Do!'s Castle Parker Brothers Popeye Parker Brothers Q*Bert Parker Brothers Q*bert's Qubes Parker Brothers Reactor Parker Brothers Sky Skipper Parker Brothers Star Wars Arcade Game Parker Brothers Super Cobra Parker Brothers Tutankham Sears Steeplechase Sega Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom Sega Congo Bongo Sega Spy Hunter Sega Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator Sega Tac/Scan Sega Tapper Sega Up'n Down Starpath Frogger (The Official) Tigervision Espial Tigervision Polaris Tigervision River Patrol Tigervision Springer Prototypes: Atari Elevator Action Atari Elk Attack (working title for Electric Yo-Yo) Atari Millipede (GCC version) Atari Sinistar Atari Stunt Cycle Atari Tempest Atari Xevious Coleco Turbo M-Network Anteater M-Network Loco-Motion UA Limited Funky Fish UA Limited Pleiades Homebrews: Manuel Rotschkar Colony 7 Manuel Rotschkar Crazy Balloon Manuel Rotschkar GunFight Chris Walton Juno First John Champeau Lady Bug Darrell Spice Medieval Mayhem (based on the arcade version of Warlords) Dennis Debro Pac-Man 4K David Weavil Phantom II Manuel Rotschkar Seawolf Darrell Spice Space Rocks (Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe) D. Scott Williamson Star Castle Manuel Rotschkar Starfire Cases could also be made for Chetiry (and other Tetris clones) and Boulder Dash since there were arcade versions of those games as well. But those were less ports of the arcade versions, than of the console/home computer versions. @Nathan Strum I'm looking at the list you posted nine years ago. Thank you for sharing it. I don't see anything on there that I think shouldn't be there. The breakdown by company and by type is very helpful. BTW, the ones that you name at the top (Indy 500, Dragster, Circus Atari, Space War and Sub/Scan), I do include on my own arcade list. I think I see what you mean about Megamania and Astro Blaster. Similar but different. I just made a new sub-folder in my Stella ROMS parent folder called "Similar to Arcade" and so far I have put Star Wars Ewok Adventure (prototype), Robot Tank and The Activision Decathlon in it. (To me, they resemble the Star Wars ROTJ, Battlezone and Track & Field arcade games.) I think there will be a lot of games "similar to arcade" for me to put into that folder as time goes by. Again, great list. Thanks very much for sharing it. Edited December 9, 2023 by Living Room Arcade 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Living Room Arcade Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 9 hours ago, Nathan Strum said: For Sky Diver, Atari produced both the arcade and 2600 versions. So it *could* be considered a home version of the arcade game. Whether or not Atari was trying to entice people to buy the 2600 version as an actual port of the arcade game is something I can't answer. I don't recall that being a selling point for the 2600 until Space Invaders. Then bringing home arcade games became the reason many people bought 2600s. I think a lot of early 2600 games were made simply because they *could* be made, and Atari already owned the trademarks from the arcade side. I bought Missile Command along with my 2600, because it was an arcade port. But at the time, I had no idea Combat was based on Tank. I don't think I'd ever seen a Tank cabinet. As for Frogs and Flies/Frog Pond, and other games clearly influenced by arcade titles, I think it's all subject to ones own interpretation whether it's "arcade" or not. How close is the gameplay? Is it a spot-on copy of the arcade game? Then it would at least fall into the "influenced by" category. But without an attribution stating that it was licensed from Gremlin, it's not official. On my list, I count Sky Diver as arcade. To me, it's exact or nearly exact. I'm still deciding about Frog Pond (prototype) and Frogs and Flies. I also just added the homebrew Hunchy which to me is the home arcade version of the Hunch Back arcade game. I guess it's all one's own subjective interpretations, as you were saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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