At 11:52 AM 6/5/2001 -0400, you
wrote:
What we want to do is make a nice
multi-cart with the original Atari 2600 feel but in hand-held form.
Here is some games that have been suggested already (feel free to mention
these carts in your lists as well):
I'm a little confused here. Is this an emulation or porting
project?
Most likely this will be a porting to GBA but with using an emulator to
make it easier to port. I know, that is a broad statement.
What most likely will be done is a GBA VCS emulator will be made and
taylored to the games we use.
*
Dodge'Em
* Journey Escape
* BMX Airmaster
* Qb
Be careful with 3rd party titles. Journey Escape is Data Age.
I do not think Infogrames has the rights to this, not to mention the
whole licensing issue of the rock band.
Some people are listing Activision and Imagic titles as well, and that
would not really be economical for Infogrames since it would involve
licensing from Activision.
I don't know which rights Infogrames inherited with the Hasbro
Interactive purchase. Hasbro themselves could have claimed
ownership of a lot of 3rd party tites through their acquisition of other
board game companies like Parker Brothers and Avalon
Hill.
Suggesting 3rd party games is not out of the question. I asked that
and Infogrames mentioned that they might have some pull. The
hardest problem might be the Activision games. I hear they are
stiff when it comes with classic games and rights.
Andrew
Davie has shown interest in this project and has allowed us to use Qb as
an Easter-Egg option, which makes us very estatic to have one of the best
games for the Atari 2600 made in the last few years (and even the past
decade).
If new games are to be considered, I wouldn't ignore Oystron. For
my money that's the best of the hobby games.
One of the reasons I picked Qb is because I know Andrew and he was really
kewl with me. I have never played Oystron, and I am not sure how
the creator would feel on the usage without me asking him.
Mainly
we need a list of games that would be fun and worthy of the GBA. If
everyone can come up of a list of 25-50 games, we can then see which are
the best choices overall and then go from there. You don't have to
come up with 25-50 choices, you can go as high or as low as you want in
your list. We are just trying to be as impartial as possible and
see what everyone likes.
Whatever you do, DON'T do swordquest. Most people hate those
games.
I am doing this on based to popularity and quality. I would love to
have classic games that everyone still love and some that are so
addictive like BMX Airmaster.
If the theme of the title is games
that are often overlooked, I'd include:
Haunted House (rather than Adventure)
Radar Lock (flicker might not look good on LCD, though)
Save Mary (unreleased titles would be a good idea, I think, although some
paperwork shuffling would be necessary to determine what to do with the
contractors [AXLON])
Yeah, I would love to have unreleased games that people for years have
never seen. Blast from the past stuff! Maybe they can be
easter-eggs too?
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