What is your favorite 2600 Space Invaders type shooter?

[Tickled_Pink]

I just adored 2600 Galaxian. Played Galaxian recently on the DS and it wasn't the same somehow.

 

Quite liked Gorf as well, but it couldn't hold a candle to Galaxian.

[Big Player]

Beamrider is by far the best game of all listed. However, it isn't a Space Invaders style shooter.

 

The best Space Invaders style shooter for the 2600 is Nukey Shay's Space Invaders Deluxe 8k hack.

 

Try it out for yourself. The newest bin file is at the end of the thread.

 

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[rocky412]

Beamrider

[Technosis]

I voted for Communist Mutants From Space. What impressed me the most about this game was the ability to change game options on screen to tweak the difficulty level.

 

Demon Attack would be second, probably only because (and the designer acknowledged this) the difficulty peaks somewhat early. A great game nonetheless..........

 

Technosis

[vdub_bobby]

Beamrider is by far the best game of all listed. However, it isn't a Space Invaders style shooter.

Maybe. You're on rails, you shoot vertically. Depends on how strictly you want to define "SI-style".

[Red 5]

Megamania for me.

 

The variety is great.

[liveinabin]

Ooh, tricky. REAL close call between INV+ and Galaxian. Although INV, imho, plays better than the original Space Invaders arcade, I'll have to go for Galaxian because It's such a brilliant game. Namco took Taito's idea and refined it to perfection, and the 2600 version is stylish, colourful and well paced.

[Foxsolo2000]

A toss up between Phoenix and Gorf but I guess Phoenix had the slight edge

[AtticGamer]

Galaxian for the win.

[Mr. Postman]

Phoenix wins by a long shot, It's just such a darn good game.

[LYNXGUY]

I voted for GORF but GALAXIAN is a close second

[Wickeycolumbus]

Galaxian is the way to go!

[Wickeycolumbus]

phoenix is also good...

[Nukey Shay]

Space Invaders

 

 

Megamania (2600) is THE best, I still play this game at least once a week, its too bad the score is maxed out at 999,999 I would like to see how much higher I could go.

Hacked...also works on unmodded Superchargers:

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[Michael_]

Space Invaders. The 2600 is the best version of the game, in fact even better and a lot more fun than the arcade version.

[bloodreptile]

Space Invaders is the game that made the Atari 2600. Not surprisingly the basic concept (guy at bottom of screen shoots at descending enemies) was one of the more popular in arcades of the day and on the 2600.

 

What was your favorite game of this type?

 

This week's poll comes courtesy of sku_u.

 

Space cavern

[PressureCooker2600]

Phoenix

 

Even though I've had Demon Attack all my life, I've never really gotten around to playing it. I need too because the consensus is that it's better than Phoenix.

 

Also like Spider Fighter and Galaxian.

[Crabpeople]

(Demond attack) that game kicks so much ass!!!

[Crazy Climber]

(Demond attack) that game kicks so much ass!!!

Look out Demond is coming to get you and he is pissed!!!

[jboypacman]

Ok i had to go with Space Invaders it was the first arcade game and second 2600 game i ever played.

[supercat]

I voted for Galaxian because when I became re-interested in the 2600 (circa 1993), it's the first game that made me think I'd really "missed something" back in the day. If I may relate a story...

 

I was chatting with a guy at Radio Shack about the 2600. He mentioned that he didn't use his much, but he happened to mention that Galaxian was a great game. I couldn't believe that Galaxian could possibly be done well on the 2600--back in the day I'd imagined what it might look like (pretty feeble, with space invaders turning upside down to charge). Later, when I was getting re-interested in the 2600, I figured that Galaxian would have to use flicker to show an invader falling in front of a row of six aliens. There aren't enough player sprites to do otherwise.

 

Getting SEVEN aliens per line, plus a charging invader, without flicker, was something I never would have guessed to be possible.

[tremoloman2006]

I voted for Rob Kudla's Space Invaders Arcade hack. Gorf is awesome in the arcade but the 2600 version just doesn't cut it for me. I was a diehard Gorf fan - so much so that I went as a Gorf arcade cabinet Trick or Treating 2 years in a row.

 

Nope, still haven't gotten a life...

[Recycled]

Demon Attack!!!!!

 

I like the Odyssey 2 version as well.

[Recycled]

(Demond attack) that game kicks so much ass!!!

Look out Demond is coming to get you and he is pissed!!!

 

 

Demond Wilson?

 

Yea...he got pissed at Fred in many of those episodes.

[Rick Weis]

i was first going to vote space invaders, but changed my mind and picked hack for pepsi invaders/coke wins. i can play space invaders all night long, so it's not a challenge. but coke wins /pepsi invaders is a challenge in seeing how high of a score you can get. i wonder what's the highest score anyone's ever gotten on that game....

 

Rick