2600 games be all like

[Devsman]

Breakout
Super Breakout
Hyper Breakout

And they're all literally identical

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

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Spoken like someone who has never played very many Atari 2600 games.

I've played 101 of them. They came on one of those Flashback consoles. I guess it's up to you if that counts as not very many.

Also noticed this phenomenon with Yar's Revenge/Yar's Return and Swordquest.

Great. You've played 101 of them. I'm guessing for what, about 5-10 seconds each? Firing the game up and playing it for seconds, isn't playing it.

[Marius]

Didn't King of Fighters had like 100+ versions or so.

[Vox]

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Activision made some great Atari 2600 games, Keystone Cops, Megamania, River Raid, Pitfall, Pitfall 2, Spider Fighter, seaQuest, Enduro Racer.

Seaquest is a Good game.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

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Didn't King of Fighters had like 100+ versions or so.

It's had yearly release from 94 to 2003 with a few Dream match or ultimate versions rerelease.

The latest one is kof 15.

There are more if you count port like howling blood that had unique exclusives characters.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Counter-strike
Half-Life
Left 4 Dead

These are all the same game as well - literally.

[Marius]

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Didn't King of Fighters had like 100+ versions or so.

It's had yearly release from 94 to 2003 with a few Dream match or ultimate versions rerelease.

The latest one is kof 15.

There are more if you count port like howling blood that had unique exclusives characters.

Thank you! I remember seeing an arcade-cabinet with KOF. It had like 100 versions or so. Kof 98, kof 99, and all that and variants.

[Ulfrinn]

I've never been shy about my dislike for Atari 2600. Would it have been cool to have in 1979 or the very early 80's? Sure. But, I'm not living in the very early 80's and look at the games objectively. They're EXTREMELY basic. And that in itself isn't bad, the best one are all just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ looking, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sounding versions of arcade ports, which are equally as available to me right now as the 2600 ports. So why play 2600 breakout, if I could play arcade breakout? Or even better, one of the recent remakes with good music?

The hilarious part is the 5200 and 7800 use the same POS beep and boop sound chip as the 2600 while trying to compete with NES and SMS. Like ROFLMAO, Atari just stopped trying after the 2600.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

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I've never been shy about my dislike for Atari 2600. Would it have been cool to have in 1979 or the very early 80's? Sure. But, I'm not living in the very early 80's and look at the games objectively. They're EXTREMELY basic. And that in itself isn't bad, the best one are all just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ looking, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sounding versions of arcade ports, which are equally as available to me right now as the 2600 ports. So why play 2600 breakout, if I could play arcade breakout? Or even better, one of the recent remakes with good music?

The hilarious part is the 5200 and 7800 use the same POS beep and boop sound chip as the 2600 while trying to compete with NES and SMS. Like ROFLMAO, Atari just stopped trying after the 2600.

I'm guessing you weren't born in the '70s or '80s....

[Ulfrinn]

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I've never been shy about my dislike for Atari 2600. Would it have been cool to have in 1979 or the very early 80's? Sure. But, I'm not living in the very early 80's and look at the games objectively. They're EXTREMELY basic. And that in itself isn't bad, the best one are all just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ looking, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sounding versions of arcade ports, which are equally as available to me right now as the 2600 ports. So why play 2600 breakout, if I could play arcade breakout? Or even better, one of the recent remakes with good music?

The hilarious part is the 5200 and 7800 use the same POS beep and boop sound chip as the 2600 while trying to compete with NES and SMS. Like ROFLMAO, Atari just stopped trying after the 2600.

I'm guessing you weren't born in the '70s or '80s....

I was born in the 80's, that doesn't mean I have to be blinded by nostalgia.

[☎need4naiim☎]

I never had an Atari, let alone 2600. Earth was still good enough for me to play outside.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

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I'm guessing you weren't born in the '70s or '80s....

I was born in the 80's, that doesn't mean I have to be blinded by nostalgia.

lol ... I'm guessing well into the '80s at that. That means that you were playing on the NES. The 2600 came out in 1977. So of course you're going to think It was basic.

The 2600 was in no way competing competing with the NES or the Sega Master System. The NES came out in 1985 and the Sega Master system came out in 1986.

Blinded by nostalgia? You probably never touched the 2600 until way after the fact lol

Also stopped trying after the 2600? Yeah, Atari Lynx or Jaguar anyone?

[metamec]

It's possible my memory is faulty and I expected too much from the 2600, but I thought the arcade game covers were mostly crap. Pac-man, Defender, Asteroids, etc. I realise the system had its limitations, but it felt like Atari didn't really make much effort to replicate the look and feel of the originals. Like they did the bare minimal to knock stuff out based on the same concepts.

[Ganger]

The Atari 2600 had some of the great games ever made but it also suffered with some of the most rubbish games ever created by man.

And lets be fair to the system, it was one of the first gaming consoles to hit the market back in the late 70's.

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The hilarious part is the 5200 and 7800 use the same POS beep and boop sound chip as the 2600 while trying to compete with NES and SMS. Like ROFLMAO, Atari just stopped trying after the 2600.

I believe the people running Atari at the time weren't all tuned into the current scene. Like most western business at the time, they got complacent and didn't see the real threat coming out of japan and though people would simply keep buying the same old crap.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

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It's possible my memory is faulty and I expected too much from the 2600, but I thought the arcade game covers were mostly crap. Pac-man, Defender, Asteroids, etc. I realise the system had its limitations, but it felt like Atari didn't really make much effort to replicate the look and feel of the originals. Like they did the bare minimal to knock stuff out based on the same concepts.

Your memory is indeed faulty. You're also not taking inflation into consideration.

The Atari 2600 cost $199 in 1977. That's $1,014 in today's money.

[metamec]

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It's possible my memory is faulty and I expected too much from the 2600, but I thought the arcade game covers were mostly crap. Pac-man, Defender, Asteroids, etc. I realise the system had its limitations, but it felt like Atari didn't really make much effort to replicate the look and feel of the originals. It was like they did the bare minimal to knock something out based on the same concept.

I vaguely remember watching a story about the 2600 version of Pac-Man being flubbed purposefully.

I guess Atari had a license to print money at its peak. This guy I know once showed me photos of himself as a kid at the Atari Pacman championships. He did quite well and won some minor cash prize. There were thousands of kids at this massive arena... like the kind of crowd you'd expect at a Taylor Swift concert... and it was one of many such events. I could understand it more if it was about the Namco arcade version of Pacman... but the 2600 version? 🤔