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Post number 21103

oliver_crunk — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:53:49 -0800

atari adventure. for your friday afternoon pleasure (via suppose)

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:02:01 -0800

Holy smokes: I remembered the exact path through the maze from, like, 15 years ago. Freaky.

By: scottandrew

scottandrew — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:10:50 -0800

Shadowkeeper: same here. Thanks, Oliver.

By: twine42

twine42 — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:11:08 -0800

forced full screen != good. Why do people force things full screen when they know people will be browsing? [sorry, private rant...]

By: salmacis

salmacis — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:17:39 -0800

Er..how do you get past the portcullis at the start?

By: birdherder

birdherder — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:28:29 -0800

man that takes me back. now that is a video game where you have to use your imagination. instead of being a 3-d rendered character, you're just a green block. and your nemesis is a dragon that looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old. kids today have it to easy.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:33:26 -0800

salmacis - go down first.

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:39:06 -0800

and your nemesis is a dragon that looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old. I thought it was a duck... No, really!

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:42:37 -0800

"Get this freakin' duck away from me!" </Strong Bad>

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:44:40 -0800

Okay, Yorgle the Yellow and Rhindle the Red are in the game, but where the hell is Grindle? And where's the blue bridge which opens the way to that other dot in the hidden room? ...I need a social life.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:55:30 -0800

There are 2600 emulators on the web (stella is the one I use) and Adventrue has to be my second favorite game. The first? Yar's Revenge.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:06:16 -0800

Oh, curse you eyeballkid for posting that Yar's Revenge link. Bad enough that I spent an hour replaying Adventure (and ditto to the "went through the maze like it was yesterday" comment). Now I need to play Yar until my head explodes. :D

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:07:34 -0800

I'm not sure where, but you can, at least when I did a few years ago, download every single Atari 2600 game in one ZIP file. They take up about 10 MB on your computer. Including the emulator. Wow.

By: paladin

paladin — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:13:35 -0800

Oh, yeah, Yar's Revenge! I dunno, I had a certain affinity to that game. That was, I think, the only one where I could just play as long as I wanted and never die. It clicked with me, for some reason, like no other game since then has. Any game like that for you, anyone?

By: oliver_crunk

oliver_crunk — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:53:23 -0800

a little about adventure, for those who didn't follow the 'via' link. (like myself, after i took a second look)

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:07:22 -0800

I remember a weird game called Cosmic Ark that was made by Imagic for the 2600. You had to go down to a planet and pick up these life forms (or, you know, blips) and take them back to your ark, where you could presumably probe and humiliate them to your heart's content. That was a good one. I followed another link on Atariage to Swordquest: Earthworld, which I have odd flashbacks to even now. It's like some tragic unfinished low-res opera, intended to have four acts, but the composer snuffed it after Act III. I still hold to the maxim that every video game is just Combat in disguise, though. God, I loved Combat. You can take yer gawd dam EverQuest and stick it where the sun don't shine. Just gimme an invisible tank with bouncy bullets. Aw yeah.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:26:30 -0800

Hey kaf, did you ever find the bugs in Combat? My friends and I knew how to get that program to do a bunch of loopy things. We knew how to shoot both tanks across the screen in circles or to shoot through walls. I can't remember them all. Also, I remember Cosmic Ark, and I remember the silvery Imagic cartridges. Cool game.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:33:50 -0800

Eyeball, I am eternally jealous that you have properly installed the emulator. I tried to get MAME to work, with no success. I demand to know the secret! Let's settle this the Atari way: You get the big slow plane, and I get three really little fast planes!

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:19:03 -0800

tried to get MAME to work, with no success. I demand to know the secret! Butter.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:19:17 -0800

eyeballkid, what I remember about Cosmic Ark was that wonderful split-second when the sound stopped before you missed that last meteor and it blew up your ship. Probably one of the most annoying silence ever. Greatest Atari noise ever: the sound of Zots approaching. Dun dun dun dun DUN DUN DUN DUN .....

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:08:08 -0800

ah, I was also a big Yar's Revenge fan. I also like Asteroids. Anyone remember Journey Escape? now THAT was the surreal one. You had to get the band Journey past Love-Crazed Groupies, Sneaky Photographers, and Shifty-Eyed Promoters and into the Journey Escape Vehicle after a gig. Thanks to eBay, I now have that cartridge. And Fast Food/Burger Time. And Plaque Attack, which I believe was sponsored by the American Dental Association. I've heard of (but have never seen, nor played) porno Atari cartridges. That would be strange beyond words. Yup, I love my still-functional Atari 2600.

By: godidog

godidog — Sat, 26 Oct 2002 04:31:44 -0800

From the page ( my emphasis ):

"[Flash] has developed scripting capabilities similar to its sister program, Macromedia Director, **which is my native language**."

His English is pretty good then. <rant> Please be polite and label Flash links as such so people who cannot see them will know. The Web is built on open standards and proprietary Flash is not one of them. <rant> Off to download an Emulator so I can play too...

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Sat, 26 Oct 2002 06:22:40 -0800

And where's the blue bridge which opens the way to that other dot in the hidden room? Thanks for saving me some time there-- I just wanted to know if he'd put the developers' names in. I think the problem is that only the first level of difficulty is supported (and who's cabinet is that? Mine had the difficulty switches on the back where they were much more, well, difficult to use).

By: ae4rv

ae4rv — Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:01:26 -0800

With all due respect to those who do not like Flash, I think that this is exactly what Flash is for. If I had needed to master Java to write games for web pages, I probably would have never made any.

By: kindall

kindall — Sat, 26 Oct 2002 12:15:28 -0800

The Web is built on open standards and proprietary Flash is not one of them. This is a common misconception. In fact, Macromedia has published the file format, and several other programs besides Flash itself (including a competing program from archrival Adobe) can write Flash files.

By: Zulujines

Zulujines — Sat, 26 Oct 2002 15:22:58 -0800

I LOVED this game when I was a kid...I played it all the time. I can't imagine how it held my interest for so long, but somehow it did. Oh sweet nostalgia, how I long for my youth. Ahh, actually no, no not really.