PacManPlus Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 (edited) Oh wow, I feel stupid - my apologies to @PAC-MAN-RED - post fixed. Thank you! Edited September 27, 2022 by PacManPlus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender_2600 Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 (edited) 21 hours ago, The Usotsuki said: Arkanoid (arcade) 7 hours ago, GoldenWheels said: I'll second Arkanoid.....we have the availability of first party, good quality paddle/driving controllers, why not lean into that? Looks like you guys have missed the spectacular Arkanoid Port made by mksmith ... Edited September 27, 2022 by Defender_2600 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Trebor Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 So much talent and generous contributions... That DOH and copious amount of other graphical work - Spaceship, backdrops, etc., in Arkanoid, is definitely @Defender_2600. Amazing work, as always! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender_2600 Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 On 9/26/2022 at 11:23 PM, -^CrossBow^- said: Crystal Castles 17 hours ago, Dire 51 said: Crystal Castles Just to get an idea, here's a 7800 mockup I did some time ago... 15 hours ago, Jaden (JRH) said: Donkey Kong 3 (Nintendo/1983) - Kind of the ugly duckling of the original Donkey Kong trilogy, but I personally love it. This game was done dirty back then, and it deserved to be ported to a lot more systems. How can you go wrong with blasting bugs? Still just to get an idea, another my old 7800 mockup... 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Back Posted September 27, 2022 Author Share Posted September 27, 2022 4 hours ago, PacManPlus said: This is one on my list of games to do... Thanks to @PAC-MAN-RED I'm so happy that this is on your radar! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC-MAN-RED Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 5 hours ago, PacManPlus said: This is one on my list of games to do... Thanks to @PAC-MAN-RED This was the one I did back on June 12, 2013... so it's very close: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 (edited) On 9/26/2022 at 10:54 PM, Muddyfunster said: Bubble Bobble +1 (or more) I would also like to see Phoenix arcade and Preppie! from the Atari 8bit machines. Yes I know it is a frogger clone but I think it is a much better game. And maybe Miner 2049er or Bounty Bob Strikes back, or boulderdash or............................... Edited September 28, 2022 by mimo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JungleJet Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Zoo Keeper Sinistar Satan’s Hollow Mr Do! Moon Patrol Jungle King Reactor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 20 hours ago, PAC-MAN-RED said: This was the one I did back on June 12, 2013... so it's very close: That is badass! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 12 hours ago, mimo said: I would also like to see Phoenix arcade +1 for Phoenix. I like the 2600 version but we need a true Mothership level. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Since the general topic of games that we'd like to have on the 7800 has come up, there's a thought in that regard that I have had for a while. I'd like to see games on the 7800 that never had a home port, or that only had one in very limited ways. If it was unique to a specific platform (or only a couple) and / or only ever had a limited release in terms of number of copies, region, etc., it would be a good candidate for consideration. Baby Pac-Man is an excellent example of this. Having said that, I am by no means opposed to better-known games making it to the system. They absolutely should. I'm just saying that if there's a chance to do something unique and it looks like it would be an interesting (possibly even fun) project, why not go for it? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaden (JRH) Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 I wholeheartedly agree with your post, @x=usr(1536)! That's partially why I want to see Toypop on the 7800. Before it was a part of Namco Museum Vol. 1 on the PS1, the only home port it ever got was on the Sharp X1 in Japan. The original arcade game never even saw a western release. Hell, a lot of Namco's mid 80's catalog falls into that same boat, as a lot of those games were never released outside of Japan. And what home ports they got were very limited. So yeah, I think it would be great to see these games on 7800 just for people to have other options for playing them. I know that someone started a port of Motos a while back, and I would love to see that get finished one day. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo930 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 On 9/26/2022 at 3:58 PM, MrFish said: I think, before wishing for new games, I'd like to see some of the titles from the original library done to a higher standard. I'd start the list with the following. Donkey Kong Jr. Galaga Karateka Mario Bros. There is an excellent hack of Mario Bros. I think it's called Mario Bros Arcade. Also, I recall someone wrote an outstanding Mario Bros port for the 7800, But I haven't heard anything about it since. I don't know if the big N sent in their legal ninjas to beat the guy into submission or if I'm just out the loop so much I completely missed the release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo930 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I wanted arcade ports of the older games. The 7800 could do them justice in the way that the 2600 really couldn't. Pac Man, Asteroids, Berzerk, Scramble, Eagle, Pepper II, Nibbler, Mr Do!, Zoo Keeper, Burgertime, Stargate, Defender, Crush Roller, Donkey Kong 3, Centipede, Kangaroo, Arabian, Rock N Rope, Moon Patrol, missile command, Major Havoc, blasteroids, millipede, Lock N Chase, Venture Basically any early arcade game that could be done well and where there weren't a bunch of compromises made because of the lack of ability of the hardware. Some cannot be avoided, like the fact that almost all of the games were portrait instead of the TV's landscape format. I was always disappointed that you couldn't really have the arcade at home with the 2600, unless it was 70s games like breakout. Games like Mr Do! and Donkey Kong, 2 games I really liked were travesties on the 2600. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoyous Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 7 hours ago, christo930 said: Games like Mr Do! and Donkey Kong, 2 games I really liked were travesties on the 2600. I thought Donkey Kong for the 2600 was pretty good, especially considering the era (a time when games had to be made at pace in the commercial marketplace, rather than decades later with protracted homebrew development cycles). Of course, no doubt it could be done much closer to arcade-perfect on the 7800. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Trebor Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Games I wish had come out on the 7800...Here you go. Give or take some. There will always be *that game* or *this game* desired, but overall: -High quality original titles. -High quality ports not done previously on the console. -Better developed ports of some already released titles. -Sequels/Ports of previous released titles. -Games that utilize the system's potential. Genre specific: More *insert genre here* games... are being developed. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo930 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Trebor said: -Sequels/Ports of previous released titles. Yes. Sequels of arcade games like DKII on the Intellivision. I know it is a port of an unofficial ROM upgrade for Donkey Kong machines, but I still think it's a good example of an unofficial sequel to a popular arcade game. Diner (a Burgertime sequel) is another example from the Intellivision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 One thing I loved about some games on the 7800 was how they would take a traditionally 1 player at a time arcade game and add a two player simultaneous mode that could be competitive or cooperative. I was able to play more with my sisters with co-op, so they didn't feel like they were losing. Some games that I think would do well with the enhanced 2 player modes: 1. Any of the Pac-Man games 2. Space Shooters like Galaga / Galaxian / Space Invaders 3. Missile Command 4. Dig Dug Pretty much any game that doesn't have a scrolling screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 *** BREAKING NEWS *** If you don't own a 7800, you should! There's an amazing amount of work taking place within the 7800 community. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ryan Witmer Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 11 hours ago, christo930 said: Pac Man, Asteroids, Berzerk, Scramble, Eagle, Pepper II, Nibbler, Mr Do!, Zoo Keeper, Burgertime, Stargate, Defender, Crush Roller, Donkey Kong 3, Centipede, Kangaroo, Arabian, Rock N Rope, Moon Patrol, missile command, Major Havoc, blasteroids, millipede, Lock N Chase, Venture 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy the Atarian Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 The Arkanoid port looks fantastic - although I'm sure that Atari just wouldn't have liked to have seen that on their system back then given it crushed Super Breakout. One thing I think would've been great for the 7800 BITD, that would have been realistic, are more ports of 2600/5200 games, as the OP mentioned. I have played Gremlins and it is good fun, I imagine the 7800 would have done it better justice with the higher colors; Space Dungeon too, had the Tramiels released the Proline joystick coupler that they prototyped. One I'm surprised I rarely see mentioned is Star Raiders. That's the kind of game I would think could work pretty well in one of the 320 modes (or any 1st person space shooter for that matter) Others that I think the 7800 could do great justice and would've been in Atari's wheelhouse to do: -Solaris -Secret Quest -Combat -River Raid -Pitfall II -Adventure (although at this point, it'd be great to see Cafeman do Adventure III for the ProSystem ) -Yars' Revenge -Off The Wall -Enduro Perhaps Raiders of the Lost Ark or Temple of Doom could have made for a CastleVania style game given that it would've been easier for them to get that license than to get Konami on board (but otherwise, yeah, seeing a bunch of NES greats like CV, Metroid, Zelda, SMB, etc. on the system would have been awesome) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 There is one game that is missing on the 7800 that would be really cool also. Star Raiders Or at least something like it? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris1997XX Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 I know this is a Nintendo exclusive and all, but I think Metroid would be a perfect fit for the 7800. Black BGs, creepy and alien-like 8-bit music (Which could be replicated thanks to the POKEY) and kinda drab graphics. Maybe it can run in one of the 320 modes to include a mini-map on top of the screen 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIX Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 (edited) I'm all for arcade de-makes, but I would sure love to see a Metroid/Castlevania type of game on the 7800, it doesn't need to be a straight port either, dozens of Metroivania type of games have been created from 1986 till today. I for one wont have to be hard-pressed to work on such a game ! Edited October 2, 2022 by TIX 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris1997XX Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 1 hour ago, TIX said: I'm all for arcade de-makes, but I would sure love to see a Metroid/Castlevania type of game on the 7800, it doesn't need to be a straight port either, dozens of Metroivania type of games have been created from 1986 till today. I for one wont have to be hard-pressed to work on such a game ! Not exactly a Metroidvania, but...L'Abbaye Des Morts. It's on Commodore 64, so why not the 7800? I'd love to hear more rearrangements of the Euro-style music 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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