Yup, this is probably the coolest idea ever.
Your goal is to make a game(preferrably a crappy one) that should look like and play like an old atari game.
For reference, heres one awesome example:
E.T
Yup, ET. For atari... probably the worst game ever made. This is what kind of game youre trying to make, lol.
Guess we need some rules(or guidelines) then.
½. Make it any game genre you want
1. Make a game lolol
2. It must look and feel atari
3. Theres no resolution rule, just choose whatever you prefer, but it must look atari like, like big blocky pixels and such
4. No must, but please make it as crappy as possible
5. Please use atari-like sound effects, if you need some ive got a bunch of them i could upload x)
Now this is not a compo or anything, but all the cool people will make an atari game. D; So if you wanna be cool, then DO IT O:
ET is not a bad game, it just lost Atari a lot of money because they thought it would sell a lot more than it did.
There are much worse games than ET believe me.
The fun/agony with making Atari 2600 games is getting the machine to do things that is was not supposed to (like everything), that goes out the window when you're using MMF2.
The fun/agony with making Atari 2600 games is getting the machine to do things that is was not supposed to (like everything), that goes out the window when you're using MMF2.
The 2600 has no framebuffer. You have to draw the screen yourself line by line EVERY FRAME 50/60 times a second. Then you have to shoehorn in the game logic between each frame.
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YEAH! That's my favorite Atari game ever, I love that one. I also really liked Solaris and one I can't remember the name of but you were an Egyptian falcon and could collect 3 heiroglyphics in different orders to get cool powers.
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they programmers also had to redraw objects many times because it only supported a few objects at once, (2 i think) so space invaders required extremely complex programming to get running.
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hahaha
what are you sorry for? The whole game is like a joke lol
