Atariboy2600 Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 Vangaurd was on both Atari 2600 and 5200 and its kills me that this game had never came out on the 7800 and I had been dreaming this game and many other to be on the 7800 and many moons ago I made up some mockup label and game sprites. I love this game so much I even have both games new unopened and my original childhood games these the photo I took of them. I dont know anything about programming but why not use the 5200 code and just beef up the graphics but I dont know. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 I always liked Vanguard as well. I got a 2600 used from a friend back in the early-mid 80s - I traded him a box of pirated Apple 2 floppies for his 2600 setup - and Vanguard was one of the handful of games I got with it. I played it so much on my little black and white TV. I dig the 5200 version as well. Porting games from one console to another is not insignificant. I'm sure you could take *some* of the code over, but there would be a lot of rewriting from scratch. Add it to the big pile of "games we'd love to see." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
power Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 (edited) this definitely came out on the 8 bits. awesome game. what i'm saying is, get an XEGS or similar and profit. Edited November 7, 2018 by power 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlidellMan Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 If you do decide to port it to the 7800, maybe a dual joystick option would be on the table. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy2600 Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 BTW is it me or In the starting music they played the theme from Star Trek The Motion Picture and once you pick up the energy pod it will play a tune of from Flash Gordon Hawkmen Battle Theme. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 So where's the SNK copyright? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 BTW is it me or In the starting music they played the theme from Star Trek The Motion Picture and once you pick up the energy pod it will play a tune of from Flash Gordon Hawkmen Battle Theme. It's not you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy2600 Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 So where's the SNK copyright? As far as I know: Wiki: Atari, Inc. released ports of Vanguard for the Atari 2600 in 1982 and the Atari 5200 in 1983. The Atari 2600 version was programmed by Dave Payne.[6] SNK was originally founded in 1973 as "Shin Nihon Kikaku" and reorganized in 1978 as a stock company under the name of "Shin Nihon Kikaku Corporation".[2] When Eikichi Kawasaki noticed the rapid growth that was occurring in the coin-operated video game market, he expanded Shin Nihon Kikaku to include the development and marketing of stand-alone coin-op games. The first two known titles released were Ozma Wars (1979), a vertically scrolling space shooter and Safari Rally (1980), a maze game. Game quality improved over time, most notably with Vanguard (1981), a side-scrolling space shooter that many consider the precursor to modern classics such as Gradius and R-Type. SNK licensed the game to Centuri for distribution in North America, who ultimately started manufacturing and distributing the game itself when profits exceeded expectations.[18] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy2600 Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 So where's the SNK copyright? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy2600 Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 I also took both the 2600 and 5200 sprites and just recolor to match the arcade look but still having there 2600 and 5200 shapes and sizes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 In my eyes, the enemies shown in the first post's "fake" screenshot actually look better (closer to the arcade) than the recolored 2600 / 5200 sprites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Warlord Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 This was one of my favorite arcade titles on the 2600. This is one of many titles that should have come to the 7800 too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.E.R.O. Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 I loved Vanguard so much it was the name of the first rock band I had in high school. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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