[Coco] Interesting Atari 2600 homebrew to CoCo connection

[jeremy michea]

Ack. Nevermind, I misread. I thought you were talking about the version 
in this thread - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/224037-almost-there-;/

On 2014-04-16 2:37 PM, Bill Loguidice wrote:
> My first pass earlier at this message got rejected because I attached a
> snapshot of some of the ads in question, so here's the same message with
> the attachment removed...
>
> As many of you know, I'm a big-time collector of everything videogames and
> computers. As part of my insanity, I try to purchase as many interesting
> homebrew products as practical. Among those purchases are more than a fair
> share of the countless new Atari 2600 homebrew games being created on a
> seemingly weekly basis. One such game that I just purchased a few minutes
> ago, "KC Monster Maze!," which was inspired by the classic Odyssey2 games,
> "K.C. Munchkin!" and "K.C.'s Krazy Chase!," and is being sold on tape (and
> in ROM formats) for the Atari 2600's SuperCharger add-on, was developed by
> Tom Babich.
>
> Anyway, Tom included an email with the supplemental materials prior to the
> delivery of the physical item, and, wouldn't you know it, he was a
> programmer for the CoCo back in the day (forgive me if his name somehow
> rings a bell to others here - I'm bad with individual names). As the story
> in the PDF goes, which includes a reproduction of the ads: "In 1984 my
> Father and I released my first game on tape with our software company Saint
> John Gallery, which had been an art company. He drew the beautiful
> illustrations and the comic book text and also created artful displays for
> our booths at expos in the80’s :-) The flyer/ad is from The Rainbow, a
> colourful 80’s computer magasine for the CoCo and Dragon machines."
>
> In any case, I thought it was a neat bit of trivia to share. You can find
> the AtariAge posting about the game here:
> http://atariage.com/forums/topic/222606-kc-munchkin-monster-maze-atari-2600/?p=2938224
>
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