for a minute there I thought this was actually something from the 1980s. Part of me is still screaming on the inside kill it with fire and trying to figure out which of the signs of the apocalypse this falls under. I can't believe you went as far as doing box art and even a little graphics picture of the game. Me personally I would've preferred a adult game where the object is to score with one of the ponies but that's just me.

With all the fan bases out there, never rule out any possible releases. Especially with the 2600 stuff. Indie makers could so easily have produced limited supply titles that go unheard of by the main stream. Even in my collection, there is this one game that an old friend got from his teacher from way back in Jr. High days. Dang if I know the name to it. Just on a board with no shell.

you guys are reminding me of an episode of Magnus xlr where they found a cartridge at a yard sale and no record of the game existing. They plugged it into a Atari and the cartridge turned out to be some alien evil AI supercomputer that a advanced race of people had trapped on a Atari cartridge i believe was the story.

That story holds as much water as that one episode of StarGate, where the whole crew is stuck a billion miles away and can only open the portal for a millionth of a second. So, they compress ten zillion gigabytes of collected data into a 0 and a 1 in order to get it transmitted through the 0.000001'th of a second worth of portal time.

-Then again-, it really depends on what time period this story was written at. After all, whole movies were based on creating AI's by striking a robot with lightning and turning an IBM clone into a highly intelligent AI...by pouring water on to the CPU and it's mother board. Because, once upon a time, (Hollywood) people really did believe that by typing 'hack CIA' on an Apple IIe was all it took to gain access to highly confidential computer files.

the Russians thout air Wolf was a real thing and from what I understand were developing prototypes similar to it I've even heard rumors they made a functioning one. the jump jet from G.I. Joe that was used by COBRA the Russians were also interested in it and as I understand it eventually made a functioning similar aircraft thinking it was something the Americans had lol where the wings tilt backwards and the plane takes off straight up.the movie you're referring to it was a bottle of champagne spilled onto a IBM clone. Weird science the early 80s movie a Barbie doll connected to a computer with a few wires some porno magazines scanned in with a print scanner some lightning and you have a wish granting nymphomaniac electric genie with a thing for nerdy guys. I seen each of the movies you referenced admittedly I've only seen parts of wargames but remember enough of it to know what you're saying about the CIA lol.the cartoon with the joke about the AI on a Atari cartridge was supposedly done by an alien race it was a cartoon from about five or six years ago back called Magnus xlr the cartoon was pretty popular but was canceled if I remember correctly due to a studio having budget problems not so much the popularity of the cartoon it was one of the last cartoons done with a really decent art style for that whole cot and paste generation of cartoons really talk off it had a lot of FEMA's voice actors doing different episodes of super villains, Dawn Dela wheeze did an episode or two before he died and his son was the main character in the series voicing the pilot of the robot. In fact I think it was his last job before he died was the voice one of the villains on the show or the voice of the pilot's son where he was in an episode.man the crap they poll on shows like Stargate and they expect people won't realize the math doesn't work.

In most respects, Airwolf wasn't so far fetched. Heli blades for lift and a jet for massive forward momentum. Granted, I can't be sure just how stable such a pairing would be in real life. A lot of the other tech was just advanced computers for the day. An advanced database that tried to match known shapes to sensor readings. A thick layer of armor. There was mention of full video recording for every mission. Back then, that was theoretical sci-fi. Today...YouTube. Even the hidden AI terrorist is no longer science fiction. (More like a potential time bomb in all our near futures. What a mind blower.) So...Airwolf was pretty believable for then cutting edge potential. After all, a plane that is so stealth to radar that it comes up like a sparrow seems far more like fantasy. Or planes that almost fly themselves and snipe select targets with minimal detection.

Heh...Weird Science. That movie starts becoming a lot more believable if you view it while thinking that this pedo-genie came from an alternate dimension and that all the computer and tech stuff was mostly building the blueprints and doing little else. Like building a character in half the games made, today. (Want that face smooth or bearded? Thin, fat or bulging chest?)

Alternate dimension/sky soul also works in the case of Johnny 5, though the movie barely wants to go past a sentence or two to suggest that potential to avoid being religiously preachy.

Wargames is surprisingly deep. It may even hold more value today then it did, back in the '80s. And, on that one, the designer purposefully build in that back door, destroying the credibility of their cyber defenses.

And, technically, we could probably put an AI into an Atari 2600 cart, today. Not with the tech it originally had, of course. But, just think about it. Look how small Raspberry Pi's are. I've heard one can emulate a PS2. And these micro-SD Cards hold a ton of space. Those carts had lots of space to waste. So, while I have no idea how much space a true 'thinking' AI needs, there is potential to stash one inside of an Atari 2600 shell.

Granted, that isn't installing an AI into an Atari 2600 game. It's simply stuffing the micro hardware inside x cubic inches of physical space that happens to be nearly 40 year old Earth plastic. And probably just rigging the Atari to be an RF pass through shell.

Speaking of gullibility with computers and Airwolf, I vaguely recall this one scene where some woman had to do something. She was hacking something and it was so obviously being done in DOS Basic. Anyone who knew computers could just point and laugh at it. Or another scene from a different show. The computer was suppose to display print out of data and it was written with the most basic commands of BASIC. What's sad is that if they had used the command RUN, it would have worked. Yet, they went with LIST.

In other words...

10 CLS
20 PRINT "Mr. X."
30 PRINT "2121 Lame Plot Street."
40 PRINT "Anywhere, Fake Town, USA."

...was as easy to read as possible.

I last Ira member seen a PlayStation two raspberry pie didn't think it was a big thing heard about those a while back. Last Ira call they had PlayStation one and PlayStation two on raspberry pie mod units. You can get a Xbox one on eBay hacked and modified so that it has somehow crammed into it the entire collection of PlayStation one or PlayStation two or Xbox The original I'm guessing they're using some sort of raspberry pie set up with the casing of a original Xbox there are several for sale on eBay TurboGrafx 16 Sega Genesis and all the others Sega systems the games are available on raspberry pie units. From what I understand the Russians built a working version of air Wolf basically it was a jet assisted helicopter I don't think they've bothered with all the fancy computer doodads. There have been a few air wolflike choppers at air shows that were jet assisted apparently it became more commonplace in the late 90s the Apache or Tomahawk helicopter used by the Americans if I were member correctly there are a series of jet assisted model as an example.

It's more the amazing thing that a super budget computer in such a tiny package can handle X-Box or PS2, more then anything.

I can show you the ads on eBay where people are claiming to be selling a moderate Xboxwhich has the entire library of Xbox games or ps2 games loaded into it I don't know how or exactly what they did quite a few of them have sold on eBay like I said I figure it's a raspberry pie in a Xbox casing

Probably.

i am a ass!personally anything involving model pony I would rather see it be in a sexl nature or comedic nature.a videogame in my opinion should either be a pony character decked out with. Overpowered guns ;) Duke Nukem style or a game where the objective is something sexual involving characters from the model pony cartoon but that's me. I suppose in reality if they did one it'd be something like throwing cupcakes at a Dragon that is kind of the 1980s Atari logic there were several games where you threw food at the enemy because they didn't want to make the game too violent. Has anybody ever noticed for Nintendo about 50% of the video games were clones of super Mario , one out of every three Nintendo games is a clone of super Mario all they do was change a few things like colors and vague appearance of the sprites this carried through with games like the blues Brothers couple of Bugs Bunny games and a Robocop game to name a few that I remember it just got to the point that almost every Nintendo game I was seeing what like a another platform knockoff of Mario. I suspect if they had done a mineable pony game for Nintendo they would've found a way to make it a platform game similar to Mario that really makes a lot of sense a pony climbing up ladders and jumping from platform to platform of waiting monsters that are supposed to be dragons and look like little turtles and mushrooms.

You know what kind of game this theoretical Pony game should rip off? One of those smart phone endless runners. That would make sense. Every play through, the course is randomly generated with pre-determined course variables. Jumping's a must. A few pit falls and obstacles to get in the way. Run for points. In fact, I believe that home brews have proven the 2600 can work with the style.

by this time the Atari 2600 & the whole company was on a downhill spiral

By 1984? Sure. There was the whole American game crash thing. But, it is kind of shocking to think about just how long there were still legit games coming out for the 2600...a long time after '84. Like, I'm thinking there were official store based games, well into the 90's. It kind of became home brew fan based at some point, after that.

yaa i know

personally I don't know if the Atari 2600 even started out on anything Other than a downward spiral.it was basically the inventor of shovel ware lol. it was befor ljn;) and yet still managed to have thousands of bad games. Don't get me wrong there are a handful of 2600 games that I enjoy but the majority of them are really really really really really really bad. Depending what the game was it might actually have been fun. Has anybody ever seen Snoopy and the red Baron for the Atari 2600 ? The game is fun for about 10 min. it's basically a repetitive loop over and over nothing ever changes and the object of the game is a scoring system I'm scared to imagine what the game is probably worth that have given it's probably rare. It was one of those things you could pick up for two dollars back even in the early days.yaa the game sells for around $25 just looked it up. I'm scared to find out they made a PlayStation two version of Snoopy and the red Baron is that one of the signs of the apocalypse? I'm actually surprised there has not been any model pony games for one of the newer consoles there were a series of Viva piñata video games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation two so I figured there would have been something between the PlayStation one and PlayStation three of my Little pony.

Atari laid out the foundation for shovel ware. So true. They didn't dream up licensing rights and restrictions to help govern what could make it onto the platform, like Nintendo. But, I tend to think the console generally gets a pass on this fact, simply because it was on the leading edge of bringing games to reality. Besides, there was no space to work with. This was working with naked ground. The resources are highly regarded as....'you can't make a game run on this.' Why, today's unlock key files wouldn't fit inside a 2600 cart. Yet, they somehow got a partially functional AI that plays Chess to fit. (An advanced gaming session will give it a fatal stroke.)

In simple thinking, I wouldn't know how to make a decent game for this system, either. Let that guy who was apart of Halo figure out that challenge, instead. (Halo 2600.)

the Halo for the 2600 is if you want to be technical a retool of something similar to et;) they just basically alter the graphics to look like Halo the game closely resembles a couple of games such as et. From what I know there was a fan made Knight Rider game for the 2600 produced a few years ago as an example.god i remember some of the stuff that was done for the Atari none of the labels ever matched the games lol it was just one big blatant arcing campaign will take a videogame being made for something else and slap this label on it people won't know the difference. Some of the games for the Atari never even made any sense bears a Star Wars game I don't think anybody's ever figured it out lol its 2 what are supposed to be light sabers with a floating ball in the middle at shoots lightning I don't think anybody's actually ever managed to control it in a logical way other than just mash buttons. Why I always what make wisecracks about the Atari is there was just so much repackaging basically somebody would make a videogame somebody else would come along and change the colors and repackaged the game as something else and put it on the market it was very seldom use seen games that actually resembles what the label said there was a couple of Star Wars games which actually looked like Star Wars and and Star Wars music however there were other games that you just were left completely dumbfounded and confused as to how they were connected to whatever they were advertised for.

Believe I know which one of the Star Wars games you are referring to. A strange interpretation to that one scene about training with that floaty lightning ball. (If it has a name, I don't know it.) The game, if memory serves, used that paddle control. So, it shouldn't be a button masher. (I forget what the button even did.) Still very hard.

Never played the Halo 2600 game. Supplies were very limited and a pricey trophy to own. Only heard a few tidbits. Indeed, it used room mapping like E.T. 2600's were good at handling those. I think it was also an item hunting game. Not sure if there were any enemies to fight or not. I thought the guy had built it from the ground up as a programmer's challenge. (Any modern programmer should take the 2600 challenge to learn how to do games that don't need megabytes of space to do things in.) It's been awhile and what I remember about that project is definitely fading.

The 2600 definitely had some mind boggling stuff. Like that (Element) World series of RPG's. Those were so hard, they held competitions with some serious prizes and barely had enough winners show up for the final showdowns. Or that Indiana Jones game. Where you had to bumble about a whole three (or was it two) world screens without a clue that some low res icon did this or that or you had to bomb one pixel to proceed. Heard somebody even managed to put a whole flight simulator onto the thing. 3D and used every control. (Like switching Player 1 difficulty from A to B to raise landing gear in depth.) The 2600 definitely defined it's era.

you're right again I'm referring to use the panels with the button on one side my whole point was even angry video game nerd couldn't figure that particular game out lol. It just didn't really seem to do anything. I don't think anybody's ever completed et I heard tell that the game was never actually finished.see ive played two or three different versions of the game you always end up never being able to find one piece of the phone.i don't know if even the angry video game nerd found all the pieces of the dam telephone. i played it on the 2600 and on the computer and I think on another Atari platform.it was just so mind numbingly horrible. 1 on 1 the basketball game with Larry Bird was a really good game. Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics and California games were actually pretty good and I played them a lot. Jost i loved that game where you ride ostrich and you basically had a little stick where you run around poking other guys on ostriches and collecting eggs ironically they did a much better version for Nintendo that I found about eight years ago it's a multiplatform game really simple but yet really fun. Ms. Pac-Man was ok too still can't understand how they managed to screw up Pac-Man from the arcade lol. I just remember there being so many bad games that made no sense. Spiderman actually wasn't that bad and I remember there being this stupid ninja kung fu game the controls just didn't seem to work right after you got to a certain point in the game basically make your character move you had to hold the controller in this crazy way which stopped working correctly after you got to a certain point in the game your character would either crowd and move or would run you get to a certain point in the game where either running or crouching just didn't work trying to her member the name of that game I never heard of anybody getting past that one point where you got killed no matter what you did and had to start back at the first level and always died in the exact same spot in the exact same way. It was one of those games that from what I understand if you did complete it the game merely Roberta back to the first level and nothing took place I'm sure you remember several video games like that where upon completing the game you merely go back to the very first level all over again is if you died games like that were why I almost stopped playing video games.

Thanks to YouTube, I have heard there is a way to beat E.T. Really easy way. 'Just keep running.'
Guess by holding the button down, you make E.T. run. He outruns all those pests that stop him and steel his junk. Guess as a kid, the act of running meant E.T. lost too much health, making it seem that running was an emergency move over the game making one.
As for that one Jedi game, I don't remember ever making any headway on it. Guess that may be why.
I've seen 2600 California Games, before. Can't believe they managed to port that much of the game at all. It's mind blowing.
I've heard that Pac-Man was botched on purpose, so as to not compete with the arcade. Same goes for Donkey Kong & Jr. Because Ms. Pac and Jr. Pac prove the 2600 could handle decent ports.

the Nintendo version of California games most admittedly is a lot better lol. it also has rollerskating which wasn't in the Atari version ironically rollerskating is advertised on the packaging and not in the game for the Atari version. If Ira member correctly there was a videogame a lot of people including myself thought was Knight Rider for the Atari and turned out to have nothing to do with the Knight Rider series which was a big disappointment lol. Turned out the game was called something like night driver or something stupid like that Nintendo had a Knight Rider game which I have let the box and I've never actually played. I'm guessing the game wasn't very good given it was made by ljn if Ira member correctly. Never seen Pac-Man Junior. Trying to imagine how running in ET would get you anywhere's the problem I always had was you never found the last piece of the phone before the game ran out of time

Oh...you're talking about the port of Night Driver.

That one was actually a super early port of an arcade. And, if you can believe this, the Atari one was an improvement. See, the arcade was nothing but a bunch of Pong paddles that drifted about on the screen. They had to paint the car onto the glass.

It was the 70s. They were making games without CPU's, after all.