ianoid Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Announcing 3 previously unreleased (to my knowledge) games for Atari 2600 by UA, rounding out the sextuplet of games created by that company back in the day but never sold at retail. Details about the three new games at AtariProtos.com, or just experience them yourself. http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/r2dtank/r2dtank.htm http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/hobo/hobo.htm http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/spiders/spiders.htm Attached is the full set of six, with the three discovered games (Cat Trax, Funky Fish and Pleiades) being the same as previous. Cat Trax 4K.bin Funky Fish 8K.bin Hobo 8K.bin Pleiades 8K.bin R2D Tank 4K.bin Spiders 4K.bin 18 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 (edited) Many thanks for sharing these, Ianoid. Do you know if Spiders and R2D Tank came in retail boxes as well? Edited February 13 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifershalo Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 wonderful, so great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Thank-you for sharing these! Reading the review makes me think that Hobo was significantly "inspired" by Activision's Freeway and Keystone Kapers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 You are awesome man, thank you for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cjherr Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Thank you, sir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Thanks for posting these - I will try to check them out tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Living Room Arcade Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 @ianoid Thanks so much for releasing these! The write ups at Atariprotos.com are very thorough and helpful. Wow, two are home versions of arcade games! And Hobo is quite interesting with three different types of gameplay. All in all, quite a catch! Thanks again for releasing these! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Oh wow, awesome news! Thank you! I neither own nor have played it, but for some reason I've long been fascinated by Hobo for the Arcadia, so I'm particularly interested to see a 2600 version was planned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Living Room Arcade Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 (edited) I was just playing the three new games for a bit. Some comments. I recommend the Arcadia game manuals, they're pretty close to the Atari 2600 versions. R2D Tank - Manual.pdf Spiders - manual.pdf R2D Tank - Game 1: you vs. CPU. Game 2: Player 2 controls the enemy tank. Option 1: no fences. Option 2: 2 fences. Option 3: 4 fences. Doesn't matter what color the dots are. You need to get all dots regardless of their color. Spiders - Right difficulty A = normal (you have 3 rockets). Right difficulty B = infinite lives. Hold down Fire for auto-fire. Hobo - Game 1 - play all 3 levels in sequence, then repeat (but faster). Game 2-1 play cars forever. Game 2-2 play ladders forever. Game 2-3 play trains forever. Games 3-1, 3-2 and 3-3 are like Games 2-1, 2-2 and 2-3 but with infinite lives. Hobo, Spiders & R2D Tank: Color=play, B&W = pause, Fire button starts games. Additional Comments: Hobo has poor collision detection in the train hopping screens. What a shame. Everyone loves Frogger, we could have used a good Frogger clone. R2D Tank - The two player game looks like some serious fun! Dare I say it could become a classic? (A decent game vs. CPU, a TOTALLY AWESOME game with two players!) Edited February 14 by Living Room Arcade 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainBreakout Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 These are super neat! Anyone know the story of how these cartridges were made or found? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 OOH Awesome!!! Thanks for posting these! I must admit my weird-reading quick-brain (at first) thought there was now a game about Hobo Spiders! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Living Room Arcade Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 25 minutes ago, GoldLeader said: I must admit my weird-reading quick-brain (at first) thought there was now a game about Hobo Spiders! You know, EVERY TIME I look at the 2021 Homebrews list and see "Gorf Arcade," I think it says "Golf Arcade" and I get SO EXCITED! But nobody around here wants new golf games. Probably never happen. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+johnnywc Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 12 hours ago, Living Room Arcade said: You know, EVERY TIME I look at the 2021 Homebrews list and see "Gorf Arcade," I think it says "Golf Arcade" and I get SO EXCITED! But nobody around here wants new golf games. Probably never happen. Never say never. Champ Sports Golf has been talked about as a possible addition to the Champ Sports lineup (once we actually finish and release one ). 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Living Room Arcade Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 (edited) 10 minutes ago, johnnywc said: Never say never. Champ Sports Golf has been talked about as a possible addition to the Champ Sports lineup (once we actually finish and release one ). @johnnywc Holy crap! You are John Champeau of Champ Games, are you not? Wow, I'm a big fan of yours! Champ Sports Golf???! Really?? You guys have been talking about that?? OMG! Wow! Yes, please! I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE that!!! Edited February 14 by Living Room Arcade 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 That is an incredible find Ian, thank you for sharing as always!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 The Vectrex game Zantis was based on Spiders as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+johnnywc Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 4 hours ago, Living Room Arcade said: @johnnywc Holy crap! You are John Champeau of Champ Games, are you not? Wow, I'm a big fan of yours! Yup, the one and only! 4 hours ago, Living Room Arcade said: Champ Sports Golf???! Really?? You guys have been talking about that?? OMG! Wow! Yes, please! I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE that!!! Yes, @Nathan Strum and I have talked about possibly leveraging the 3D engine we developed for Turbo Arcade for a cool 3D golf game. Of course we have about a dozen other projects in the works so this will have to wait, but maybe someday! 🤞 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Crazy! Just when you thought every obscure prototype must have already been found... Spiders also got a handheld version by Entex: https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Entex/Spiders.htm 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umjammercammy Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Love Spiders, one of my favorite arcade games. Such a cool game. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeafAtariFromKansas Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 👉 Another 3 more prototype/unreleased roms to folder makes to 215 files right now. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 16 hours ago, johnnywc said: Yup, the one and only! Yes, @Nathan Strum and I have talked about possibly leveraging the 3D engine we developed for Turbo Arcade for a cool 3D golf game. Of course we have about a dozen other projects in the works so this will have to wait, but maybe someday! 🤞 I’m all for a 3D golf game, as long it comes after that nine inning game.😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorkbot Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 This ROM of Pleiades behaves differently than the ROM I already had in my collection. The title screen on this one wiggles up and down. (The rom I already had also doesn’t work correctly on my Analog Pocket…it plays the various screens totally out of order…I’m hoping this version doesn’t match that behavior). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Ian, where on earth did you find these? 😄 Incredible discovery! 20 hours ago, Nathan Strum said: Crazy! Just when you thought every obscure prototype must have already been found... Spiders also got a handheld version by Entex: https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Entex/Spiders.htm I knew about the Entex game but I never put it together that it was based on an arcade title. 🤦♂️ (For that matter, I don't know if I knew the Arcadia 2001 version was based on an arcade title!) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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