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Atarifever

Member Since 28 Oct 2004
OFFLINE Last Active Jul 18 2011 11:39 AM

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In Topic: 7800 HSC Game Poll Round 15

Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:25 PM

Pole Position. The most under-rated pack-in ever. It only takes flak because it was packed in against Super Mario Bros. I wouldn't want Super Mario Bros packed in with my competitors' console TODAY, let alone in the mid 80s. There are a handful of games better than SMB, and I only say that because I'm a Sega fan. :)

In Topic: 7800 HSC Season 3 Round 14 Food Fight

Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:20 PM

Try number One.
379,400.

In Topic: 7800 HSC Game Poll Round 14

Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:13 PM

View Postroadrunner, on Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:41 PM, said:

View PostGorfy, on Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:07 AM, said:

If people aren't too attached to the poll, one suggestion is to simply play each game, including the hombrews, in alphabetical order. Each game gets hit once and only once until the whole catalog of 7800's is exhausted :ponder:

That's not a bad idea. But some games don't keep score like Title Match Pro Wrestling.
And i'm not sure some of us want to play Tomcat or F-18. :ponder:
And for the most part i like to keep the same format the previous HSC Mod had.
In the Variety Pack we played this season, we played 4 games that weren't played before and 1 that wasn't played for at least 3 years.
Maybe in the next Variety Pack we'll play another batch of games that haven't been played yet or for a few years.
Yeah I really like the poll for most weeks and the variety pack for unpopular games during odd times of the year. As for having enough "Food Fight" that's like complaining that you're getting tired of having surf and turf once a week for dinner. I don't think I'd ever get there, and wouldn't mind trying to. :)

In Topic: 7800 HSC Season 3 Round 13 Desert Falcon

Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:05 AM

View PostMord, on Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:45 AM, said:

98,782 :)

Attachment DesertFalcon_00.png
AHA! Proof! You ARE a mechanical man from the future and not a regualr human being. You have overplayed your hand cyborg. I move that all Mord's scores be striken from the record, as robots from the future are clearly not allowed in the HSC as per section 14C of the rulebook.

In Topic: 7800 HSC Season 3 Round 13 Desert Falcon

Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:07 PM

I think very early on Atari should have made Desert Falcon the pack in with the 7800. My theory is that they wanted a pack in that looked better than anything they could do with the 2600, that was fairly deep, and thayt used both buttons o9n the new controllers. I think Desert Falcon fits that bill as well as PP2 does. I think it has two big advantages though.
1) It is an Atari property. This means that if you have an Atari system you can have this game, but if you don't you can't. It's not the best game in the world, but it is an Atari only game.
2) It is marketable. The enemy Sphinx and the Falcon can each appear on the system's promotional material. They could be as tied to the 7800 (or at least Atari) as Mario and the NES. Again, it isn't important that it isn't as good as Super Mario (few things are), just that seeing an ad with the Royal Falcon and the Howling Sphinx would mean Atari to people.

I think they missed an oportunity by tying their system to a race car owned by Namco. Theres not a lot of personality to another company's car (even if Atari was tied to PP by distribution rights in the arcade or whatever). The Royal Falcon could still be fighting the Howling Sphinx in Atari games today.

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