On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Chris Cracknell wrote:
> ... oh, wait a minute... yeah, I can think of one other thing. Last year
> a guy on RGVC was talking about how he'd take 5 carts as a kid and
> string them together into a game. He'd play breakout until he reached a
> certain score and pretend he was breaking out of a POW camp, then
> he'd play night driver and have to reach a certain distance before he
> ran out of gas and pretend he was driving a get away car to a rocket
> lauch pad. Then he'd play astroids and pretend he was trying to escape
> back to his home planet and trying to lose the enemies chasing him by
> flying through an astroid field. Then he'd play space invaders and
> pretend he made it back to his home planet and was defending it from
> the enemy. Then he'd play star raiders and pretend he was leading
> an attack on the enemy. (those may not be the exact games but it
> gives you an idea what he was doing. He'd have to reach a certain
> score before he'd move on to the next game)
>
> It would be fun to take some classic 2600 games and string them together
> into a Supercharger Multi-load story like that (probably modify the
> graphics too to provide more continuety)
All I can say is *YES*! That would be so cool!
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