Retro Video Gamer

PatmanQC brings us the history of one of my favorite arcade games, Kangaroo!  Can mamma Kangaroo save her baby?

Thanks for sharing, is one of my favorite arcade games as well  :-)

Not a game I know anything about. Looks good though.


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Really Zap?  You never saw Kangaroo before? 

Never mate, at least I don’t remember it lol.


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Well, time to acquaint yourself with it!  ;)  Of the home versions, the 2600 version would have looked better with a black background.  That version does indeed exist as a hack.

Quote from: TrekMD on February 07, 2020, 03:47:06 AM
Well, time to acquaint yourself with it!  ;)  Of the home versions, the 2600 version would have looked better with a black background.  That version does indeed exist as a hack.

Original
(https://i.imgur.com/3qQAfJR.png)

Black Background
(https://i.imgur.com/zK1HVXK.png)

Wow, that looks so much better with the black background. I wonder why they didn't do this in the first place?

I know there was a time at Atari where they wanted to feature colors on the games and they added background colors to games just for that reason.  That's why Pac-Man has the blue background.  By the time Kangaroo was released, though, I don't think they were pushing for that anymore so it is anyone's guess as to why they chose a blue background.  The game certainly looks much better with the black background, which is the background color of the arcade original.

You can get the hack here:  Kangaroo Black? - hack request (https://atariage.com/forums/topic/75092-kangaroo-black-hack-request/)

Quote from: TrekMD on February 07, 2020, 13:21:04 PM
I know there was a time at Atari where they wanted to feature colors on the games and they added background colors to games just for that reason.  That's why Pac-Man has the blue background.  By the time Kangaroo was released, though, I don't think they were pushing for that anymore so it is anyone's guess as to why they chose a blue background.  The game certainly looks much better with the black background, which is the background color of the arcade original.

You can get the hack here:  Kangaroo Black? - hack request (https://atariage.com/forums/topic/75092-kangaroo-black-hack-request/)

I never knew that about Atari wanting more colors in their games . I never noticed the bbackground color of Pac-Man until you just mentioned this  LOL   I just assumed there is a problem with putting a black background into the game for some reason

Oh no, Atari wanted to show colors.  Remember not everyone had color TV's, so it was a big deal having colors.  They wanted to showcase the system's ability to display many colors.  :)