/vnt/ - Vidya & Tech

A 2600 was my first console (I'm not that old, my brother got into retro gaming early) and I have some pretty fond memories. He used to bring his friends over in high school and we'd hang out playing Video Olympics, Combat, Warlords, and Outlaw all night. Such a great console for multiplayer.

>>42
If only I had real life friends to play Warlords and Combat with :(

There is a recent release of old Atari games on modern platforms called Atari 50 : The anniversary celebration. I might get that and try playing some since I'm younger than Atari and old stuff like that is 404 here

I used to have Activision Anthology on Game Boy Advance, and it was possibly my most prized game for it. I love the way you could unlock virtual patches upon reaching a certain score. It gave you a definite goal to shoot for when trying to improve your skills at a given game.

I think it would be pretty near if the Atari 2600 MiSTer core would add an optional online leaderboard feature someday. It would be fun to try and compete with other people for scores like in the old days of arcade games. I think that and a score-saving feature would do a lot for these games.

The Atari 2600 really doesn't get enough respect. There were so many fun little games for it. I'd like to play on an actual console someday. I never had the chance to. My first console was an NES, and I've never owned a game system made before its time.
>>42
>>43
Multiplayer Warlords seems like it would be really fun.

>>136
>>136
I've always had a lot of respect for the 2600, even though I never had one myself, since the first "old" system I got was a 7800 like a decade ago (and later a coleco with the expansion module 1), so I used to collect VCS games.

First console I ever played on but I've never been able to identify the game. It was kind of like Adventure I think, but I remember the screen being primarily green and the characters being white and black knights fighting with swords. I could be misremembering it all though.

>>139
sounds like boxing

>>140
You know, that's a surprisingly good candidate. The biggest sticking point is that part of the memory was there being multiple screens and that I fled from an enemy back to the start screen, which would be more like Adventure, but it's entirely possible I made some sort of amalgamated memory.

After all, for the longest time I thought that Contra on the NES had a stage at the end where you control the helicopter after escaping the island, just because I saw my brother and his friend beat it once and then swap in Tiger-Heli right after.

>>138
I never spent much time with 7800 games (although I had one of those Flashback consoles at one point with 7800 games on it), but I remember seeing Mario Bros. for sale in a store once as a kid and thinking how weird it was that it existed or an Atari console.
>>139
I don't know enough to identify it. That's got me a bit curious now.
>>141
>Tiger-Heli
I bought that game on accident a while ago when I was in a game store because I confused it with Twin Cobra due to getting a CD of NES ROMs as a kid that had both of those on it. I don't have anything against Tiger-Heli necessarily, but it wasn't what I was after.

Would anyone here possibly be interested in one of those mechanical keyboard doodads that superficially looks like the 2600 as a homage to it? I ask because it is a very low production run.

>>41
I play Atari 2600 often, there's many interesting gems. My favorites with no particular order:

>Adventure
>Berserk
>Defender
>River Raid
>Demon Attack
>Joust
>Pitfall 1 and 2
>Battlezone
>Star Raiders
>Star Wars
>Megamania
>Friday 13th