Tag: Atari 800

A different kind of pits… or something. I don’t know.

Part of this was filmed from the Antstream service while the other uses an emulator when I discovered that the Antstream version didn’t play as well.

Banging out another duology of racing games this week… and then no review on Friday because that’s when the bad news hit.

It’s the Mario Bros. Nintendo didn’t want you to know about… because it’s not on a Nintendo system and they’d rather you just buy their version instead… fair enough, I suppose.

This is the XE version, which differs from the old 5200 version. It’s also the better version of the two, though considering it’s made years later, that’s probably rather obvious.

A bit of a delay in this one because I forgot to upload the video this morning before I left and I didn’t bring a laptop. Oops. Anyway, it’s another Atari 50 mine and on top of that, it’s mostly recycled bits from a prior review… which helps because said review helped in filling some gaps for this one.

Amazingly, the one Namco game added to the Atari 8-Bit pile of Atari 50 somehow eluded coverage ’round these parts since… well, the last time I touched these fucking things, so… let’s rectify that and go home.

On the one hand, it’s better…
On the other hand, though… how much better is it, really?

You would think that a game ported over to more powerful hardware would provide a more accurate conversion of an arcade classic that the technologically inferior Atari VCS… but alas…

WordPress saw fit to remind me that today marks the 16th anniversary of my opening up a WordPress account… back when I considered using it as yet another side thing before it was briefly abandoned. Who would have thought the day would come when I would jump full bore onto this rocket ship of sorts? Still, a hell of a reminder.

Nothing thrills me more than playing another version of River Raid on another console… and I say that with absolute sincerity.

It’s about time that we started mining this Antstream service for potential video fodder and sure enough, if this had been developed in Montreal, the developers would be accused of not having French in their company name.

Fortunately, English Software is a UK outfit that nobody outside of the UK computer gaming scene from the 80s would have ever heard of. They’re safe for the moment.

Another dip into Antstream, you say? Will wonders ever cease? Of course, they will, but until then, we’ve got River Rescue, a game that makes me wish I were playing River Raid, instead. But the Xbox Game Pass has that and the stream there is kinda shit… even though it’s powered by Antstream, which generally runs okay at home… not so much off my phone, which doesn’t surprise me.