Re: [stella] Six-sprite slot machine?

Subject: Re: [stella] Six-sprite slot machine?
From: jeffgamer@xxxxxxxxxxxx (jeff rothkopf)
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 21:43:16 -0400 (EDT)
>Was there ever a 2600 slot machine game that used the six-sprite
>display routine?  If not, I'm tempted to go and write one even
>though it's nothing I would even want to play, just because it
>seems so perfectly suited to the hardware.  I'm guessing all
>the game companies had decided that there was no market for slot
>machine simulators by the time the six-sprite thing was invented.
>
>eric

Well, there WAS a slot machine emulation game made for the 2600 called,
appropriately enough, Slot Machine.  Not being a programmer (yet) and thus
not versed in the techs (yet), I'm not sure if it used the six-sprite
display routine, but it IS the closest you'll get to something that was
made for the Atari.

Jeff



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