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Post by VectorX on Jun 20, 2012 0:41:54 GMT -5
Holy crap, just seeing the one of nine screens on the video game critic review of DK II looks good enough as it is, but along with them really fitting into the Kong theme and such...wow! And I've never even had an Intellivison!
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Post by TrekMD on Jun 20, 2012 8:09:50 GMT -5
Oh yes, it is amazing what was done with this update to Donkey Kong for the Intellivision. It makes me want to buy an Intellivision JUST for this game! There are actually two versions: the original Donkey Kong and an expanded version (the one on the review). I wish someone made an attempt at improving the 2600 version of Donkey Kong.
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Post by VectorX on Jun 20, 2012 8:24:24 GMT -5
^No kidding on the latter!! I'd buy that version!
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Post by TrekMD on Jun 20, 2012 8:25:57 GMT -5
^No kidding on the latter!! I'd buy that version! I think you and a ton of folks who do retrogaming would buy it!
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Post by VectorX on Jun 20, 2012 8:59:04 GMT -5
If that were to come out now and I had the money for it then it'd be my very first 2600 homebrew! ;D
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Post by TrekMD on Jun 20, 2012 10:06:50 GMT -5
If that were to come out now and I had the money for it then it'd be my very first 2600 homebrew! ;D You don't have any 2600 homebrews? There are some superb ones! You should check out Medieval Mayhem at least. It is a superb update of Warlords.
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Post by VectorX on Jun 20, 2012 11:07:32 GMT -5
No, with money being tight for the most part, I've just been doing Vectrex, since many carts have multiple games on them, hence spreading what little money I can spare will extend it quite a bit further. But then, I was able to get two Sega Genesis games for free in the last month too through friends, so that was lucky Whatever works!
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Post by TrekMD on Jun 20, 2012 14:07:03 GMT -5
Well, several of the 2600 homebrews are available as free BIN files that you can run using Stella or even on a Harmony cart. No reason to miss on all of those fun homebrews if you can try them out for free. If you ever wondered if Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man could look close to arcade on the 2600, you should check out the free BINs. You are going to be impressed.
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Post by VectorX on Jun 20, 2012 15:22:19 GMT -5
Thanks, I didn't think about that I've got Stella, at least.
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Post by TrekMD on Jun 20, 2012 15:47:42 GMT -5
Make sure you get the latest version (3.7.1) so you can play any of the homebrews.
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Post by gamezone on Jun 20, 2012 18:38:46 GMT -5
I think I have been ruined by the original Intellivision version of Donkey Kong but this one does sound a lot better.
Been playing Thin Ice on the Intellivision since it was supposed to have an Olympic tie-in so many years ago. Yeah it is more of a winter theme but it is a fun game.
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Post by VectorX on Jun 20, 2012 19:42:07 GMT -5
What's Thin Ice about? I'd heard of it but never played it.
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Post by gamezone on Jun 21, 2012 2:30:52 GMT -5
Your penguin who is out to sink other penguins on the ice. You carve out squares kinda like Qix in reverse. All the while avoiding a seal and polar bear.
It has been in the high 90's and drought conditions so any relief from the weather is kinda nice to play about.
Supposedly it had were you could be a wolf instead which was to be the Winter Games Mascot but i have never been able to get the code to work. I read once that they took it out of the released version.
The Intellivision didn't seem like it had a lot of arcade releases but what they did have was pretty good.
BurgerTime, Centipede, Dig Dug with the hidden Tron game that used the hot dogs from BurgerTime, Donkey Kong really was not that bad - it was playable, Frogger, Loco-Motion is a train puzzle game, MouseTrap, Pac-Man has a small screen but has the intermissions, Q*Bert, Turbo an underrated title which the VideoGame Critic just did an excellent review of the game, Venture.
Games I do not have are Defender, DK Junior, LadyBug, Popeye, Pole Position and I am sure I am forgetting some.
Most were done by Atarisoft, Coleco and Parker Bros. So in retrospect there were more arcade conversions than I thought. Which Thin Ice was to my limited knowledge not based on any actual arcade game but should have been.
3:30 in the morning and gz is writing a book here!
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Post by TrekMD on Jun 21, 2012 8:03:52 GMT -5
Atarisoft actually did a nice job porting arcade games to other consoles and several times did an even better job than they did for their own consoles.
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Post by gamezone on Jun 21, 2012 10:30:22 GMT -5
That is so true. I was impressed with Centipede on the Intellivision and have Defender on the Colecovision.
Those two even on different systems turned out really well.
I have the INTV version of Pac-Man so no Atari logo at the begining but that is a great port.
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