GeekNights 061010 - Atari Game Reviews
Tonight on
GeekNights, we review a pile of Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 games, including Ice Hockey, Warlords, Slot Racer, Maze Craze, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Outlaw, Combat, Crystal Castles, Pitfall, Yar's Revenge, and more. In the news, Gillette's free razors aren't news, and the PS3 was available for preorder.
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It's a bummer, because I;ve never been more excited for a game release than Pac-Man. We were looking forward to that thing for months.
WTF, mate?
Someone should make a podcast that's nothing more than recordings of people from various places playing at the accents from various other places. Comedy gold.
I made it to the last castle but couldn't beat it; from what I remember it had four towers (with that dancing ghost) and a large open area where the trees could easily kill me. I bought a disk of Atari's classic games for the PC a few months ago so I could try again, but it'll never feel the same as playing it on our redesigned Atari 2600 when I was seven years old.
I fell asleep during my commute this morning so I don't know if you reviewed/mentioned Centipede/Millipede, only for the fact that my grandmother kicked every-one's a double-s in Millipede. Both of the above-mentioned games, as well as the 2600 version of Dig-Dug were the best games of my early youth.
(Jason votes for River Raid with a Sega Genesis gamepad.)
One question about the original Pitfall. Could you actually win the damn thing, or did you just keep running and walking into an infinity of crocodiles and scorpions?
Ah, youth.
Cheers,
Hank
I finally broke down and got an IPod. Now I want a DS Lite. I also want a Wii. It's safe to say that I wouldn't have thought twice about any of these if it weren't for Geek Nights.
Granted, he can blame the controller as usual. He has no excuse for Warlords, however, which uses the paddle, and where he lost spectacularly...