Lord Helmet Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 From time to time just for fun I like comparing the inferior 8 bit versions of games to their 5200 counterparts...examples would be Dig Dug, Centipede, Qix... Has anyone ever converted these to the 5200? It would be so much easier just to put them on my SD cart than to drag out my 400 computer just to play them. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah98 Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Isn't Dig Dug the same on both systems? I know Qix and Centipede are better on 5200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Isn't Dig Dug the same on both systems? I know Qix and Centipede are better on 5200. No, the original 8bit Dig Dug is a lot less fun compared to the 5200 version. Slow and hard to control, and you can't even blow up the enemy 'ghosts' as they travel thru dirt- you must wait until they reincorporate, which ruins the gameplay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted April 24, 2017 Author Share Posted April 24, 2017 I just find it cool that there are multiple versions for what amounts to the same system. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Isn't Dig Dug the same on both systems? I know Qix and Centipede are better on 5200. Can confirm that the Dig Dug cart my friend had was the same as the 5200, but there was a version released a year prior that was different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Were there multiple versions of Pac-man? I seem to recall one with a green maze on the 8-bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Can confirm that the Dig Dug cart my friend had was the same as the 5200, but there was a version released a year prior that was different. Confirmed - Atari released a dog of a Dig Dug version that was more colorful but terrible game play. It appears the 5200 version was quickly ported to the 800 and released as an update. Wonder if that was the first production 'update' that ever happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 The 5200 version was ported to the 800 and released by DataSoft, somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 The 5200 version was ported to the 800 and released by DataSoft, somehow. Hmmm, my friend had the 5200 version on 8-bit cart published by Atari. Not sure why Datasoft would have cross-published it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 There were multiple commercial variants of Dig Dug released for the A8. We discussed this about a year ago in another thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 There were multiple commercial variants of Dig Dug released for the A8. We discussed this about a year ago in another thread. Namco probably licensed a cassette tape version that skirted past Atari's nearly exclusive license. And the porting from the 5200 back to A8 was unauthorized by Glenn the 5200 Man, although the later Atari Corp UK division released his Centipede conversion on disk to A8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CZroe Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Namco probably licensed a cassette tape version that skirted past Atari's nearly exclusive license. And the porting from the 5200 back to A8 was unauthorized by Glenn the 5200 Man, although the later Atari Corp UK division released his Centipede conversion on disk to A8. I played two different versions on my Ultimate Atari Cart so it seems that two different versions existed as cartridges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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