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My 1st Atari 2600 game (Man Goes Down)


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#351 RevEng ONLINE  

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Posted Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:07 AM

The same rom on the same 7800 with a Harmony cart plays just fine.

I expect batari's 7800 compatibility fixes are in play here.

#352 Mayhem OFFLINE  

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Posted Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:34 AM

Never had an issue with it using CC2 either.

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Posted Sun Feb 7, 2010 1:17 PM

Any news on this project anyone would be willing to share? Not to be impatient, but I'm really looking forward to playing this one on cart.

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Posted Sun Feb 7, 2010 2:02 PM

Is this an adult video game?

#355 Lonely Mountain Hermit OFFLINE  

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Posted Sun Feb 7, 2010 3:27 PM

No.

#356 Devin OFFLINE  

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Posted Mon Feb 8, 2010 2:49 AM

In case anyone wants to take a look, Alex posted the latest binary on page #10:

View PostAlex H, on Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:29 PM, said:

Anyhow, the latest binary is here.

I hope he is doing well.

This is an incredible game - and some of the finest work ever done on the Atari. ... and given the difficulty of writing games, this is probably the finest game programming ever.

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Posted Mon Feb 8, 2010 9:54 AM

Agreed,

Just checked it, this game is brilliant.

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Posted Mon Feb 8, 2010 10:10 AM

Wow. Although I've been hearing about this game for a long while, I'd never played it until now. VERY impressive, and hope it gets completed. :)

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Posted Mon Feb 8, 2010 11:00 AM

It's pretty to look at and the platforms and objects are in different places every time you play. I hope it will be a good influence on others who make games.

#360 Lonely Mountain Hermit OFFLINE  

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Posted Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:23 PM

It's really the perfect Atari game. Simple, yet challenging and strangely hypnotic. I really hope Alex is doing ok.

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Posted Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:41 PM

One of my favorite Atari games of all time. GREAT to hear that Alex is alive and kicking somewhere! I was worried! Hooray!

- Tom

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Posted Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:40 PM

I found a harmless bug in the last posted version, which I will christen "the MGD extended remix bug"

Start a game with the fire button and a few seconds later hit the reset switch. The first few bars of the music will be from a random part of the song, different for both channels.

Clearly some variables aren't being initialized as the music routine expects if the game ends without a death.

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Posted Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:54 PM

Is the creator of this game still around and are there plans to make a finished cart version?

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Posted Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:10 PM

View PostAtariLeaf, on Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:54 PM, said:

Is the creator of this game still around and are there plans to make a finished cart version?
I have made multiple attempts to contact the author (electronically and otherwise) and unfortunately I have not heard from him. He took his forum offline some time ago and hasn't posted any news to his site since 2005. He hasn't logged into his AtariAge forum account since September 2007. If anyone else had communicated with him in the recent past, please let me know.

..Al

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Posted Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:50 PM

View PostRevEng, on Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:40 PM, said:

I found a harmless bug in the last posted version, which I will christen "the MGD extended remix bug"

Start a game with the fire button and a few seconds later hit the reset switch. The first few bars of the music will be from a random part of the song, different for both channels.

Clearly some variables aren't being initialized as the music routine expects if the game ends without a death.

Hee hee. You found that too. I think its nice feature...

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Posted Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:38 PM

View PostAlbert, on Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:10 PM, said:

View PostAtariLeaf, on Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:54 PM, said:

Is the creator of this game still around and are there plans to make a finished cart version?
I have made multiple attempts to contact the author (electronically and otherwise) and unfortunately I have not heard from him. He took his forum offline some time ago and hasn't posted any news to his site since 2005. He hasn't logged into his AtariAge forum account since September 2007. If anyone else had communicated with him in the recent past, please let me know.

..Al

That's too bad, this is an absolutely fantastic game. I would have loved to have seen a finished product in cart form. I'd consider it a must have homebrew. It's too bad. Thanks for the info Albert.

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Posted Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:40 PM

View PostAtariLeaf, on Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:38 PM, said:

That's too bad, this is an absolutely fantastic game. I would have loved to have seen a finished product in cart form. I'd consider it a must have homebrew.
Agreed on all accounts.

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It's too bad. Thanks for the info Albert.
I still hold out hope that Alex will contact me at some point. I hope he is doing well.

..Al

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Posted Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:04 PM

View PostDevin, on Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:50 PM, said:

Hee hee. You found that too. I think its nice feature...
Yup! I thought it was a kinda fun bug too. :)

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Posted Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:06 PM

View Postthegoldenband, on Mon Sep 4, 2006 10:44 PM, said:

If you have the bubble when you hit the black Abyss, then you just kind of drift along for a while, racking up points (and watching fruits flicker in and out of existence), until you suddenly hit a kind of glitchy section (gray with golden-yellow platforms) and your man is immediately forced off the top of the screen:

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I hope Alex's health allows him to finish this one (a brain hemorrhage?! Yikes!!), because it's a freaking great game -- I agree that it's easily in the top 5% of Atari 2600 games.

I was curious what there might be "after" the golden bars of death, so I tweaked a couple of bytes to make it survivable. It's posted in the Hacks forum, if anyone else is curious:

http://www.atariage....goes-down-hack/

--Will




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