Shoot through some shields and destroy the ship in the middle. The game is a mix of Yars Revenge and Asteroids. It took thirty years until he was proven wrong. But this version is much better than the official port, with improved graphics and lots of new options.īack in the day, Atari's hotshot programmer Howard Scott Warshaw said porting Star Castle to the 2600 was impossible. With a name like that, you can guess what this game is all about. Once available as a purchasable cartridge until Nintendo ordered a cease and desist. This Homebrew version shows off that the 2600 was more than capable of re-creating the arcade version, all while coming in under 4k of memory.Īn 8k port also exists, bring it closer to the Arcade version.Ī reasonably faithful Super Mario Bros clone. Its also one of the ugliest due to Atari wanting to show off the color capabilities of the system. Atari rushed it out the door, thinking it would print them money due to the popularity of the Arcade original. The official port on the system is infamous for being one of the worst games on the system. Coleco was supposed to bring this game over to the 2600 back in the day and even appeared in their cataloge, it never happened. Warning: links to URL that requires installation of SecurySearchApp malware.Ī homebrew port of the arcade game. If you play this on offical hardware, it also supports the AtariVox for saving high-scores and voice samples by the enemy. One of the most visually impressive 2600 games. Homebrew port of the 1983 Konami arcade game. The game was actually released as a cartridge at the Classic Gaming Expo 2010. This is a fangame, but it has an almost-official pedigree: it was developed by Ed Fries, former vice-president of game publishing at Microsoft, also known as "the guy who convinced Bill Gates that they should make a console". but this fan-made port proves that the 2600 could get pretty close to the arcade version too. This hack brings it a bit closer to the arcade original, restoring the voice samples missing in the official port and tweaking the colors slightly to be more in line with the Arcade.įun fact: the original 2600 port of Donkey Kong was gimped because it was done by Coleco - who had a vested interest in making their own Colecovision look like a far more powerful machine. The homebrew and ROM hack list Box Artīerzerk is one of the best games on the 2600.
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