Atari 2600's ADVENTURE returns with a facelift!

Well hells bells... the new version will have music!

Awesome! Downloading now, but WTF the game is 64 megs?!?!

Maybe I should do that Yar's Revenge project I was thinking about.

god i loved this game...

Adventure was one of my favorite 2600 games. Did anyone else ever find the dot, that allowed you to see the name of the guy who created Adventure? I cannot remember specifics as it was a while ago.

I completely remember the dot. It was one of the few Easter Eggs that I actually found on my own.

Get the bridge, take the bridge to that rectagular room location in that maze, push up against the upper left corner, and grab the dot. Take it back to the lower right screen directly under the yellow castle. Go thru the solid line. Jackpot.

I just pulled that out of my 11 year old conciousness.

Chris Allen, Thank you for remembering the details, and explaining them to me.

By the way, if anyone wants to play the original you can find it here: http://www.2600online.com/index.html

Shit, I remember this!

Thanks for the link to the original, I had this, a tank game and pong on that thing. It was amazing. Flashback!

The time is right for a Yar's Revenge remake.

And also: EA's Mail Order Monsters. If they'd remake Mail Order Monsters, I'd let EA fuck my sister.

Awesome!

I'm actually thinking about this. However, I did notice there was a sequel to it that I've never played.



http://www.flipsiderunner.com/7800/flashback2r.html

There's also Adventure 2 and Return to Haunted House.

oh GOD yes. I can't wait to try this when I get home from work tonight.

I actually still have a working Atari 2600 with about 50 games, and 'Adventure' is one of them. I still have a working copy of 'Yar's Revenge', too.

that star trek game is pretty fun..and the superman game was always shit

If 'Kaboom' is on there, you'll be addicted.

Oh god I've spent many of hours on that game when I was younger. What was the game where you are a guy in a cave, you have like a helicopter backpack and you have to drop off dynamite?

I think that was 'Spelunker'.

that seems to be for the nes, its a 2600 game where you have to save people and such..blah..the name is on the tip of my tongue.

H.e.r.o. ?

HERO was awesome. So was Superman, whoever said it was shit. I spent a ridiculous amount of time putting that bridge back together and getting everybody to jail.

'Spiderman' was much better than 'Superman'.

Avoid 'E.T.' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. Both are fairly worthless games.

Pitfall 2 was my 2600 obsession. I eventually beat that fucking thing. In my memory, it took months. In reality, it was probably a week at most.

I remember an unhealthy amount of those games from that link though. Jesus.

Did anyone else here own a Colecovision? I had one with the 2600 adapter. It was actually a pretty great system.

I have heard of ET being the "worst game ever made". Personally, when I was a kid, it was one my, and my friends, favorite Atari games and I had a shit load of games. Partially cause I was a fan of the movie(but not my favorite by any means), and also because it actually had a story and you could beat the game. It was one of the first games I can remember where a game had a beginning and an end, not just endless levels where you are trying to beat your high score.

Plus, if you lost, they actually show ET die, which when you are a kid, is kind of fucked up. When the game ended, they literally show his dead grey corpse just laying there with Elliot pacing around the house with depressing music playing.

I would actually reccomend E.T. if you have an Atari and are looking for an interesting game that very loosely follows the story of the movie. If I had to pick between Adventure and E.T. I would pick E.T. any day. I played Adventure, on the 2600 recently(we have it hooked up at our family place in WI) and beat it in 5 minutes. Definitely doesn't hold up today, or to the nostalgia surrounding it. Not saying E.T. does, but it definitely is more interesting graphically and gameplay-wise.

Maybe people didn't like E.T. because it was actually sort of challenging for it's time, but it definitely is not the worst game ever.

A friend of mine had the Colecovision, but we rarely played it. The controllers for it (and the Intellivision) sucked, frankly.

I had Colecovision games that worked on the 2600, like Smurf which was actually kind of a cool game for it's time, but only a few.

I had a collecovision and it was a great system. Had the best graphics pre-NES and was miles ahead of the Intellivision. The Intellivision is the one that had that horrible "disc" controller that you had to push down on.

The Coleco one wasn't the most ergonomic but at least it was a joystick. I also had the "sports" controller which had a joystick, a keypad and and extra buttons with a handle that would "hide" your selections (useful for baseball).

Of course one of my favorite Coleco controllers was the steering wheel, very useful for playing things like the Dukes of Hazzard.

Judas Booth, The Intellivision controllers are great, and I never had a problem using them, as I played everything from my favorites Sea Battle, Advanced D&D Cloudy Mountain, Treasure Of Tarmin, Astrosmash, Space Battle (it was supposed to be an adaption of Battlestar Galactica, and the game was made before they asked for permission to adapt the show for the Intellivision, and Mattel released it as Space Battle instead.) Night Stalker, Armor Battle, NFL Football, Pitfall, or Atlantis. I thought the disc controller was the easiest to use, and it was great to have a keypad, for the more complex games. I had both The Intellivision and the Atari 2600, and I definitely prefered Intellivision.

Thanks for this link. Now I'm obsessing over doing an updated Yar's Revenge of my own. Trying to see if I can do the "field" effect with particles. The challenge is to figure out how much I want to update and how much of the original to keep (like the Yar sprite).

Cool thing is that this game has a good backstory (well good by game standards back then):
http://www.atariage.com/comics/comic...?MagazineID=48

NP. If you manage to update Yar's Revenge I will so be all over it.

I've got a ton of more work to do, but I'm playing with the effect for the "neutral zone" and this is what I have so far. Sort of this animated field in the middle.



I'm thinking of something more similar to the original but updated, but this might do for now. The thing I can't decide is the Yar sprite. I have an idea of how to update it (from drawing from the cover and comic book) but I kind of like the original pixelated one.

For the Qotile, I'm going to use particle effects see if I can pull off making it look more like an energy barrier than a wall of bricks.

Oh the background is temporary, probably too distracting and I rather build one from scratch.