[Coco] Re: speaking of Atari...

[Roger Taylor]

I remember a trick in Raiders of the Lost Ark that let you pull back on the 
joystick when you were somewhere like the 'digging screen' and you would 
warp to another part of the screen or something like that.  It was probably 
a bug.




At 10:31 PM 11/24/2004, you wrote:
>Greetings-
>
>I collect all the gaming nostolgia. The Atari 2600 is my biggest collection.
>(and favorite --- well CoCo is a close tie) :)
>
>Emulation and gadgets to play the games are cool but not nearly as
>'nostolgic' as owning the actual carts.
>
>Lot of people say Pitfall is really decent but I recommend getting Pitfall
>II. All the screens are different and its spread out like a real adventure
>game.
>
>Personal favorites are:
>Raiders of the Lost Ark
>Pitfall II
>Ms. PacMan
>Flash Gordon
>Tower Inferno
>Lady in Wading
>E.T. (yeah I actually liked it...kinda advanced for a kids game)
>Smurfs
>
>Thats to name a few off the top of my head.
>
>Some of the really bad ones were:
>Pacman (just really bad - even the K.C. Munchkin for Odyssey II was much
>better)
>Donkey Kong (2 screens ack)
>SSSnake (or a lot of the Data Age titles)
>early sports games (laugh)
>
>Erik
>
>"Charlie" <chazbeenhad at hotmail.com> wrote in
>message news:co1tmb$43j$1 at sea.gmane.org...
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> > "Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote in
> > message
>news:6.1.2.0.0.20041123223501.01f6d8e8 at pop.bayou.com...
> > > At 05:38 PM 11/23/2004, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > >From: "Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com>
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, but there's nothing quite like the original.  Now to round up some
> > old
> > > cartridges.
> >
> > Your right Roger. Nothing is quite like the original. The old sytle
>consoles
> > have a charm to them.
> > I think someone sells 2600 Multi-carts. There is probably a couple hundred
> > games on one of those carts.
> > I have one with dip switches for the 5200.
> >
> > Enjoy your Atari. :-) Try to grab some of the Imagic games like Demon
>Attack
> > and Dragon Fire.
> > Activision games are great too. Keystone Kapers, Pitfall2, and Kaboom if
>you
> > have a paddle controller.
> >
> > My wife is always complaining about how much room all my Atari stuff takes
> > in the basement.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Roger Taylor