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[Lucky Man]

Tempest, on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:55 PM, said:

And a few more that I've had backlogged since forever...

Solar Fox: http://www.atariprot...ox/solarfox.htm
Cakewalk: http://www.atariprot...lk/cakewalk.htm

Tempest

"Sadly Cakewalk is mired in the realm of mediocrity that seemed to plague the Atari 2600 library."



That's a pretty negative statement about the good 'ol 2600's games.


I beg to differ.

[Tempest]

Lucky Man, on Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:16 PM, said:

Tempest, on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:55 PM, said:

And a few more that I've had backlogged since forever...

Solar Fox: http://www.atariprot...ox/solarfox.htm
Cakewalk: http://www.atariprot...lk/cakewalk.htm

Tempest

"Sadly Cakewalk is mired in the realm of mediocrity that seemed to plague the Atari 2600 library."



That's a pretty negative statement about the good 'ol 2600's games.


I beg to differ.

On the whole, the 2600 had more mediocre games than good. That's the problem when you have a library as large as the 2600's.

Tempest

[Lucky Man]

Tempest, on Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:30 PM, said:

Lucky Man, on Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:16 PM, said:

Tempest, on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:55 PM, said:

And a few more that I've had backlogged since forever...

Solar Fox: http://www.atariprot...ox/solarfox.htm
Cakewalk: http://www.atariprot...lk/cakewalk.htm

Tempest

"Sadly Cakewalk is mired in the realm of mediocrity that seemed to plague the Atari 2600 library."



That's a pretty negative statement about the good 'ol 2600's games.


I beg to differ.

On the whole, the 2600 had more mediocre games than good. That's the problem when you have a library as large as the 2600's.

Tempest

Yeah, that's what you say.

[Big Player]

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The Atari 7800 version of Food Fight is a very good port. The graphics are bright and colorful, and the gameplay is pretty much exactly the same as its arcade counterpart (only losing the trackball).

Did some versions of the Food Fight arcade game have a trackball? The ones that I played all had joystick controls.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Big Player, on Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:35 PM, said:

Did some versions of the Food Fight arcade game have a trackball?

No. I don't know what he's referring to.

[Tempest]

PingvinBlueJeans, on Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:44 PM, said:

Big Player, on Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:35 PM, said:

Did some versions of the Food Fight arcade game have a trackball?

No. I don't know what he's referring to.

Apparently yes, or so I read. I've personally never seen one though.

Tempest

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Tempest, on Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:07 PM, said:

Apparently yes, or so I read. I've personally never seen one though.

Interesting.

Both arcade flyers released for the game show analog joystick control...
http://www.arcadefly...a...eodb&id=408
http://www.arcadefly...a...odb&id=4817

But a quick Google search yields a few references to trackball controls...
http://archive.games...rackball_a.shtm
http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Food_Fight

...GameSpy includes it in their list of "Top Ten Trackball Games" and the Wikipedia article mentions that the game originally had trackball controls (claim is not sourced). I dunno...until I see a picture or something from a concrete source, I'm inclined to think this is a rumor that people are running with based on someone thinking that they saw one with a trackball.

[Tempest]

You know I could have sworn I played it with a trackball once (and found it really hard), but that could just be my memory playing tricks on me. I should probably change my page until I'm 100% sure.

Tempest

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Tempest, on Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:45 PM, said:

You know I could have sworn I played it with a trackball once (and found it really hard), but that could just be my memory playing tricks on me. I should probably change my page until I'm 100% sure.

The way that segment of the Wikipedia article is worded makes it sound as if it was originally offered as a conversion kit for trackball machines (Centipede, etc.) but used joystick controls when sold in dedicated form (a ROM swap is mentioned). If that's the case, there should be two ROM sets floating around out there...one for each control method...no?