At 07:59 PM 6/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
Welcome, Christopher, and thanks
for bringing us good news. Anything that keeps the Atari 2600 games
in the public eye keeps interest up, which is good for us enthusiasts and
might also increase support for homebrew projects.
With some ideas that we have, we are hoping to have add-ons for adding
game extensions to the cart. So maybe with licensing, we can allow
the best homebrews be part of this. This is not cut in stone, this
is just a maybe.
A lot of good games have been
mentioned so far. I'd like to add a few suggestions of my
own...
I'd bet a number of GBA owners would enjoy sitting down for a quick solo
card game to pass a short time. There aren't many card games for
the 2600, but I think Activision's Bridge might be good to include.
Board games might also work, so Backgammon, Othello, Video Checkers, and
Video Chess could be considered (though all four would probably be
overkill).
Who wouldn't like a nice Chess or Checkers game while waiting?
Heck, those are good choices and they are noted and placed with the rest
of the suggestions.
I also think including a lot of the
later-era Atari games would be good since they weren't as widespread as
the earlier ones. This includes Solaris, Desert Falcon, Jr. Pac-Man
(Namco hasn't included it in a Museum, so far as I know), Road Runner,
and Secret Quest.
Pac-Man Jr. might fall under the 'heavy hitters' so that is out, but your
suggestions are noted.
Including some of the
limited-edition games from Atari Age might also attract some people:
Crazy Climber, Quadrun, Video Cube, etc.
Video Cube is so 3dish and kewl that I thought about having that
one. You know after all the suggestions are listed, I will have to
replay all of these games and make decisions... All that fun.
:>
Outside of Atari's own products,
going with well-received but rare arcade adaptations might work
well. Q*bert's Qubes comes to mind, particularly because I don't
think any home versions of that came out since the first one.
If it's possible, adding a save battery so you could save a game in
progress, like some emulators allow, would be very useful. This
would let you play the longer adventure games, like the Swordquest
series, without having to commit a large stretch of
time.
People are torn with Swordquest. Some are for and some are
against. I was reading that Pac-Man and Swordquest were help to the
fall of Atari in 83-84. That would be kinda dismal to have
them.
I plan to have Game Saves. The part of a portable system is having
to leave for something, like School... Especially during a game of
Chess.
Here's a fond wish: have somebody
complete the 2600 Tempest and put it in the collection. Having a
marquee game like Tempest would attract buyers, particularly because it
was never finished.
If someone would like to finish it, I will play it...
How about Combat 2?
Thanks for listening to
us!
I have always loved and embraced the Atari community. My spark for
the Atari re-ignited with Qb and I would personally like to thank Andrew
Davie for showing me the Atari still rocks and it deserves the
best.
I also want to thank you guys, you should applaud yourselves for being
there and serving in behalf of the Atari community! Keep those
ideas and suggestions coming.
Later Days,
Christopher A.
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