May 14, 2004

Atari

Did you know that the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment system was released to the public in 1985? I never saw ads on TV for it until roughly '88.
One way or another, the predominant gaming console in America during the '80s was definately the Atari.
Now I've got an Emulator for it, along with roughly all of the games.

So what gaes were good? Honest, I wanna know where to begin :)

I've been playing a lot of Adventure. I couldn't find my way through the mazes as a kid and the Dragons gave me nightmares.
Quack.

Chris Merydith says he liked Pitfall II, espescially the "rad music". I can't get into it for some reason though. Maybe it's just too hard ;)

So what game should I try next?

Posted by jesse at May 14, 2004 02:31 AM
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Activision had some cool games back then: Pitfall, River Raid. I remember KaBoom was good. Asteroids, Missle Command, Frogger, Centipede, Defender, Breakout.

Posted by: monkeyinabox at May 14, 2004 01:26 PM

I used to play River Raid all the time, it was rad :)
As for defender, by far the best version of it I know of is TI-Defender for the TI. If the C64 had one I'll wager it was similar. TI-Defender was much much much cleaner and more like the arcade version than the Atari version was, which is rather odd :) The Atari Defender is kind of like the Atari Pacman ;)

Posted by: Jesse Thompson at May 15, 2004 12:40 PM