Sanjou Miretou Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I don't have an Atari 2600 console, but I have an emulator, and was wondering if anybody knew where to find the Incredible Hulk game ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snider-man Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 LOL. At this time, the only place you can find it is "in your dreams." To date, no protos of this game have surfaced, nor have any been rumored to exist. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 So how many of you almost made a mess in your pants when you saw the name of this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 So how many of you almost made a mess in your pants when you saw the name of this thread? * sheepishly raises hand* This game was rumored as a game from Parker Bros., but AFAIK no prototypes actually exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Oh yeah ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Ha Ha, my first thought on reading the thread title was: Hey, you're about a week late there. Nice timing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Crap I thought for sure this proto would be released in conjuction with the movie...ALA: TLOTR Yeah I got my hopes up when I saw the thread title. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanjou Miretou Posted June 27, 2003 Author Share Posted June 27, 2003 (alt+p) Incredible Hulk box scan and (alt+p) Incredible Hulk prototype screenshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 We've all seen the drawings. An actual game is not known to exist. There are rumors that the creator of the long-awaited "Knight Rider" 2600 project may be working on his own Hulk game as we speak, so let's hope for the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisjohn Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Early screenshots used in pre-release advertising are often completely faked. A scan from a magazine that proports to include a screenshot is not proof that a prototype was created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisjohn Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Here's those pictures in a better context: From http://www.tripoint.org/games/literature/c.../parker/pb.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Early screenshots used in pre-release advertising are often completely faked. A scan from a magazine that proports to include a screenshot is not proof that a prototype was created. IMO this "screenshot" is definitely a fake! I can see no way how to create so many different playfield colors in a row. This was already tough with my Turbo fake (3 colors/row -> 1 static and 2 changes) but here you would need 5 colors (~2 + 4 = ~6 changes!). So no "April Fool!" Hulk from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr. kwack Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I don't know, maybe I'm just optimistic when it comes to the "Long Lost" stuff, but we have seen LOTR, Ewok Adv., and the thrill a minute McDonalds show up from that catalog! I'm still waiting for James Bond: Octopussy to surface- that one at least had ads run for it! Didn't Digital Press stick up a bunch of pics of prototypes they found and were sitting on about a year ago? If I remember, there were all kinds of cart shells in there. Whatever became of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 octopussy was actually reviewed too, back in the day. so id say there is a solid chance it's real. iirc it was shown too. (at CES or smthn,) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Those screenshots look cool (and somewhat like Survival Run), but I seriously doubt something like that could be done on the 2600 and still manage to play well. But then, I'm neither a programmer nor a 2600 tech expert, so anything's possible. I will say it's too bad this was never released, would've made a great companion piece to Spider Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 If Parker had made a X-Man proto, how valuable would THAT be right now? Maybe Spider-Man wasn't a big seller. If it was they should have grabbed every marvel property they could, much like the movie studios are doing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 octopussy was actually reviewed too, back in the day. so id say there is a solid chance it's real. Who remembers Imagic's "Murder On The Orient Express" for the 2600? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Who remembers Imagic's "Murder On The Orient Express" for the 2600? Electronic Fun magazine published a phony game review in an April Fool issue. The game was called "Orient Express" for the 2600 by Imagin (clue to the hoax). The screenshot was MORE than impossible for a 2600 game or even a Colecovision game. The game concept was actually rather entertaining. The punchline: a competing magazine soon published a review of the phony game and thereby severaly embarassed themsleves. But game mags of today would never review a game thay hadn't played, right? Uh. . . right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 no "April Fool!" Hulk from me. I was just thinking how much it lookes like a tri-screen Turbo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 Who remembers Imagic's "Murder On The Orient Express" for the 2600? Electronic Fun magazine published a phony game review in an April Fool issue. The game was called "Orient Express" for the 2600 by Imagin (clue to the hoax). The punchline: a competing magazine soon published a review of the phony game and thereby severaly embarassed themsleves. Ding ding! That's 100 points to NovaXpress for getting not only the reference, and the implication (whyfor I posted it), but also correcting a couple details I screwed up! But game mags of today would never review a game thay hadn't played, right? Uh. . . right? For the most part, that's probably true, but... well... you never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xot Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 But game mags of today would never review a game thay hadn't played, right? Uh. . . right? For the most part, that's probably true, but... well... you never know. It wasn't long ago that EGM was lifting material straight of of Usenet and publishing it verbatim as their own. In particular I remember them using a Mortal Kombat II move list that deliberately had false moves added - EGM printed them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 Someone needs to dig up and post that Orient Express review without comment. You know it would briefly raise hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 octopussy was actually reviewed too, back in the day. so id say there is a solid chance it's real. iirc it was shown too. (at CES or smthn,) Octopussy was shown at CES. The Incredible Hulk wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhfreak Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 I would think that there IS a Hulk proto out there somewhere. Yes the screenshot is fake, but I venture to guess that whoever 'made' the screenshot for the catalog did indeed see a real proto. Look at the other 'screenshots' in the PB catalog. LOTR, McDonalds. These more or less looked just the way the actual protos did. Something must (or must have) existed...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 I would think that there IS a Hulk proto out there somewhere. Yes the screenshot is fake, but I venture to guess that whoever 'made' the screenshot for the catalog did indeed see a real proto. Look at the other 'screenshots' in the PB catalog. LOTR, McDonalds. These more or less looked just the way the actual protos did. Something must (or must have) existed...... The classic gaming era is filled with artist-rendered "screenshots" of games that we know never even made it to the development stage. Often the drawing would come first with the programmer trying to copy it. It's easy enough to draw up a fake game. With 70s/80s camera technology actual screenshots often looked bad in print so the paintings were very common. Now it may be of note that Parker Bros wasn't known for doing this. That may be telling us something. But one thing about LOTR and McDeath's is that anecdotal evidence of their existence was floating around long before the games surfaced. Everyone believes that Turbo by Coleco really exists because of testimony from those who've seen it. At this point, no one has claimed to have seen or known anything about a Hulk game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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