Atari 7800 Thread

[TrekMD]

The first of several, apparently. 

[TL]

The first of several, apparently. 

Cool, but very dubious from a legal perspective though.

[TrekMD]

The first of several, apparently. 

Cool, but very dubious from a legal perspective though.

Yep, you could say that. 

[Gorf]

The game companies let them get away with it. A few treats of lawsuits would greatly change this behavior...at least drive it underground. Blatant thieving bastards. Exactly why I wont waste time on dead consoles with not real protection.

[TL]

[align=center:1qiopm9o]Let Me Show You: The Atari 7800[/align:1qiopm9o]

[Lorfarius]

Sold!  Now Desert Strike will have to go on hold 

[TL]

Sold!  Now Desert Strike will have to go on hold 

You just bought a 7800?

[Lorfarius]

No but I'm seriously looking at them now over on eBay.

[TL]

No but I'm seriously looking at them now over on eBay.

If you do get one I have a few spare here - Ballblazer, Super Huey and Xevious (all loose)

Like I said to you earlier, it's a great system and easy to get a complete collection for it without spending silly money.

It also has some of the best homebrews of any console. Definitely a very under rated console.

[Lorfarius]

How many games does it have?

[TL]

How many games does it have?

There are only 59 official releases! Pretty crazy for a console that outsold the Master System by 2:1 in North America!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_7800_games

[retromod]

During my todays verification of my new mod i recognized that a lot of my cartridges seems to be broken. They works fine in first run but fails after a while. For example centipede show screen noise at the bottom. Which changes during gameplay.
Ninja golf works fine too, until you reach the middle of the first level, then you will notice white lines at he bottom appearing randomly but steady at the same position. Finally it crashes in gameplay.
I have multiple ballblazer modules, sometimes they reach the demolevel, sometimes they alter the lucasgame screen and crashes. Seems due to pokey init. Weird as it happens randomly on different consoles. Also checked pal/ntsc version.

Several month ago i got a heavy sixer which vaporized their plastic components, for example the joystick ports simple broke if you tried to change the joysticks. Any plastic looked old seems the housings reached their lifespan and now vaporize if you hit them accidently.

[guest5175]

I've been getting my kids into the 7800 over the past week. They both ask me to play Midnight Mutants, they really like that for whatever reasons (part of it must be the bosses, they really seem to get a kick out of them). Also I finally managed to get to Hole 9 in Ninja Golf for the first time. It was only Normal difficulty, I guess previously I just didn't try hard enough. I was quite close to finishing it but lost my last life right as I was reaching the shoreline to fight the last dragon. Such a great game, among the "what ifs" I think it's a shame that Atari didn't use these two particular properties on either the Lynx or the Jaguar - Ninja Gold Jag or Midnight Mutants Jag could have been interesting experiences and if pulled off properly (AvP or BattleMorph quality, not Trevor McFur or Club Drivel quality  :48:

[TrekMD]

Ninja Gold sure is a unique game for the 7800.  I like your idea about a Jag version.  That would have been nifty to see an updated version and it would have been cool to also see that kind of connection between the systems.

[guest5175]

I certainly would have taken Ninja Golf 2000 or Jag or 64 or whatever they might have called it over Kasumi Ninja. But the siren song of 1-on-1 fighting games was just too powerful so I understand why they bothered with KN instead. Or maybe Kasumi Ninja Golf, hehe. Choose your character then compete! That also might have worked.

When it comes to the 7800 I know a lot of fans love how it has a lot of arcade ports but personally I like it for the non-arcade stuff. Playing the arcade games themselves is easier than ever and I don't think the reliance on arcade ports was crucial on the system like it was for the 2600. The NES proved that for the most part. I would have liked to have seen something like Star Raiders or Solaris on the system. I bet it could have pulled off something quite good in that regard.