King Atari Posted November 26, 2001 Share Posted November 26, 2001 If it was released earlier in the 2600's life, it would have surely been a hit, but since that's not the case, how successful was it? It's a pretty good game, and very advanced for the 2600, but since it was released in 1988, it was obviously overshadowed by Nintendo. Anybody have an idea of how well it sold or how popular it was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted November 26, 2001 Author Share Posted November 26, 2001 Yes, but as we discussed in another post, O'Shea's bought a load of games, "Dark Chambers" was one of them, so I'd figure that 2 is helped by that. I mean how well did it sell initially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genki Posted November 27, 2001 Share Posted November 27, 2001 Well... if you have ever played the 7800 version of Dark Chambers, you would notice a lot of similiarity with Gauntlet. From what I heard, Gauntlet was actually based on Dark Chamber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted November 27, 2001 Share Posted November 27, 2001 Actually both are based on an old APX game called Dandy. I think Atari was sued by the guy who wrote it after he saw Gauntlet but he lost because the APX agreement gave Atari the right to use the idea or something to that effect. Anyone know the whole story? Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted November 27, 2001 Author Share Posted November 27, 2001 quoteif you have ever played the 7800 version of Dark Chambers, you would notice a lot of similiarity with Gauntlet. I've been looking for that one, but it's become apparent that my thrift shops don't have 7800 games (I saw a "Centipede" once, but didn't have a 7800 back then...). quote Actually both are based on an old APX game called Dandy What's an APX? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted November 27, 2001 Share Posted November 27, 2001 APX was the Atari Program eXchange. Basically you wrote programs for the Atari 400/800 using Basic or Assembler (or ocasionally Forth) and sent them into APX which was a owned by Atari. APX would choose the best programs and publish them on disk or tape (I have a few) and the programmer would get royalties. It was a great was for small time programmers (the first homebrew programmers) to get their programs out and make a few bucks at the same time. Many famous programs like Caverns of Mars, Eastern Front, and Dandy started out as APX games. Of course they also had utilities and programming tools too. It was a great little system while it lasted... Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted November 28, 2001 Author Share Posted November 28, 2001 That sounds pretty cool, I still haven't gotten a 400/800, I've been looking though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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