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New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

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Re: New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

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Post by bruceb »

krapp wrote: post #39
bruceb wrote: post #37

With the exception of maybe asteroids and pong, pre 8bit NES games pretty much sucked. The control were to unresponsive. I think NES really was the dawn of video games with at least some depth to them.

Donkey Kong and Space Invaders had pre-NES cartridge incarnations as well, I remember them being enjoyable though I honestly don't remember what system I played them on. I know it wasn't Colecovision, either one of the Ataris or Intellivision. Though I'll agree about the controllers -- though personally I preferred the infamous disk on the Intellivision to even the Atari 2600 joystick so I'm probably biased towards t…

I actually was thinking of Space Invaders. True DK was enjoyable but it was still a game with basically one screen with a few different variations.

One can find at least a dozen games one would like to play on almost every generation but when it gets to pre NES there are but a few.

Re: New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

#42

Post by pyre »

krapp wrote: post #39
bruceb wrote: post #37

With the exception of maybe asteroids and pong, pre 8bit NES games pretty much sucked. The control were to unresponsive. I think NES really was the dawn of video games with at least some depth to them.

Donkey Kong and Space Invaders had pre-NES cartridge incarnations as well, I remember them being enjoyable though I honestly don't remember what system I played them on. I know it wasn't Colecovision, either one of the Ataris or Intellivision. Though I'll agree about the controllers -- though personally I preferred the infamous disk on the Intellivision to even the Atari 2600 joystick so I'm probably biased towards t…

  | the infamous disk on the Intellivision
There was an add-on where you could snap a joystick onto the controller (which looked more like a remote) and it would ride above the disk.

Re: New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

#43

Post by pyre »

bruceb wrote: post #41
krapp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Donkey Kong and Space Invaders had pre-NES cartridge incarnations as well, I remember them being enjoyable though I honestly don't remember what system I played them on. I know it wasn't Colecovision, either one of the Ataris or Intellivision. Though I'll agree about the controllers -- though personally I preferred the infamous disk on the Intellivision to even the Atari 2600 joystick so I'm probably biased towards t…

I actually was thinking of Space Invaders. True DK was enjoyable but it was still a game with basically one screen with a few different variations. One can find at least a dozen games one would like to play on almost every generation but when it gets to pre NES there are but a few.

I remember Burger Time being fun. As well as Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, and a game called Utopia, but I was a kid at the time. I may have to try and play them now to re-evaluate.

Re: New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

#44

Post by krapp »

pyre wrote: post #42
krapp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Donkey Kong and Space Invaders had pre-NES cartridge incarnations as well, I remember them being enjoyable though I honestly don't remember what system I played them on. I know it wasn't Colecovision, either one of the Ataris or Intellivision. Though I'll agree about the controllers -- though personally I preferred the infamous disk on the Intellivision to even the Atari 2600 joystick so I'm probably biased towards t…

| the infamous disk on the Intellivision There was an add-on where you could snap a joystick onto the controller (which looked more like a remote) and it would ride above the disk.

Huh.

Given how loose the disks were, I don't know if that would have been much of an improvement or not. Probably would've been, but not by much.

Re: New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

#45

Post by rbanffy »

bruceb wrote: post #37

With the exception of maybe asteroids and pong, pre 8bit NES games pretty much sucked. The control were to unresponsive. I think NES really was the dawn of video games with at least some depth to them.

Don't be unfair. There was much more to like in the 2600 than Asteroids and Space Invaders. My favorites included:

  - Galaxian
  - Enduro
  - Megamania
  - The Empire Strikes Back
  - Defender
  - Ms. Pac Man
  - Berserk
  - Battlezone and Robot Tank
  - Q*Bert
River Raid was already mentined elsewhere. It also forced you to stop at 1 million points.

Of course, the NES was a much better machine than the 2600. That, however, doesn't doom all 2600 games.

Re: New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

#46

Post by ciclista »

abruzzi wrote: post #31
acqq wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I know Alamogordo as the site of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)

Actually the test was closer Socorro and the small town of San Antonio, NM (birthplace of the Hilton dynasty.) It was on what is now White Sands Missile Range which is very close to Alamogordo, but there is a mountain range between the test site and Alamogordo. The blast was visible from San Antonio though. I would add that Alamogordo was the fictitious location of the giant ants in the film "Them!"

They open it once a year but you can see the site as you drive by. Very close to the outskirts Socorro, although WSMR is so large it covers both sides of the range if I'm not mistaken.

Re: New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

#47

Post by tokipin »

deadfall wrote: post #26
deadfall wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, yes, and yes.

Anybody else want to downvote this? Please feel free. Lulz

you've opened my eyes to a method of getting quick downvotes when i need them, like for when i try to keep my karma at 666 and some ignorant do-gooder thinks he's doing me a favor by upvoting one of my comments

Re: New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

#48

Post by raldi »

rapind wrote: post #20
raldi wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just use the voting arrow.

Just use the down arrow...

The situations are not analogous. My replying to him provides more information than a mere downvote would: it explains why I didn't like his comment.

His comment did not do that.

Re: New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

#50

Post by raldi »

rbanffy wrote: post #45
bruceb wrote: post #37

With the exception of maybe asteroids and pong, pre 8bit NES games pretty much sucked. The control were to unresponsive. I think NES really was the dawn of video games with at least some depth to them.

Don't be unfair. There was much more to like in the 2600 than Asteroids and Space Invaders. My favorites included: - Galaxian - Enduro - Megamania - The Empire Strikes Back - Defender - Ms. Pac Man - Berserk - Battlezone and Robot Tank - Q*Bert River Raid was already mentined elsewhere. It also forced you to stop at 1 million points. Of course, the NES was a much better machine than the 2600. That, however, doesn't d…

Also:

  - Pitfall
  - Adventure
  - Missile Command
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