I went to play a game of Super Breakout... popped the cartridge in and
selected over to game 7 (progressive) like I always do. As I was picking
up the paddle, I bumped the 2600 accidentally. Somehow, it appears that
I bumped the position of the side walls right one pixel each - at each
scanline of blocks, there's one pixel sticking out to the left of the
wall, and it looks as if there's a one-pixel gap between the rightmost
brick and the right side wall! I started playing anyway. When I select
to another game, the same behavior stays in place.
Wish I had a camera here. Didn't know you could move sprite positions by
bumping the Atari. (It's a post-ultra-heavy 6-switch deck.) Also gives
a little insight into how Super Breakout works - it positions the side
walls upon powerup and never again. Also, the ball was bouncing off
where the side walls should have been rather than where they were
displayed - it uses coordinates rather than collision registers for side
wall bounces.
Not that I have a point or anything, but this was pretty weird :)
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