Comments on: [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: Matt K.

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:22:59 +0000

I forgot to say, that almost anything that can be done with a modern PC could be done with most of the retro systems I own… Retro Power!

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: Matt K.

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:19:38 +0000

I didn't have any game systems myself (I was about 6 at the time) but Grandma had a C64 and my uncle had a colecovision… (I preferred the c64, although family legend says I was afraid of playing video games for fear of what happened to the game characters when I lost…) I now have several 80s computers… C64 C128, Atari 1040STE, Amiga 1000, IBM XT, and an original Nintendo too… Not to mention a MacSE, a 7200 Mac, and several newer PCs…)

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: Moondog

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:20:49 +0000

I recall playing Frogger on the 2600, however I also remember I had a Frogger clone for the C-64 that ran left-to-right opposed to bottom to top. It was written in Basic, so you could change the speed and size of the moving objects.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: Zoyous

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:16:52 +0000

Arimack, the ends of the logs are shown on the right side in the coin-op.

I also noticed that the only versions that have retained the original 5 lane highway are the two "weaker" systems, the 2600 and the Vic-20. All of the other versions seem to have reduced this to 4 lanes.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: Arimack

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:55:55 +0000

I had the TI994A at the time. Had to go to friends house to see a Atari 2600, 800 or a Commodore 64. But we often ended up comparing different versions of each game. Generally the commodore won out.
Anyone else notice that the logs ends are on different sides of the logs depending on which system is shown. I wonder if this had to do with hardware/software limitations or just poor coordination among the different developers. Which way did they go on the arcade version? Can't remember myself.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: Benj Edwards

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:07:29 +0000

I also have scans for both Q-bert and Popeye in this style, but I like Frogger best of those three, so I chose that one.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: Dementropy

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:37:01 +0000

To Adam Vandeberg:

http://tinyurl.com/novqbm

I can't imagine one for Popeye. I'm not saying it doesn't exist; just that I can't fathom companies had such an excess of money as to waste it on such an effort.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: Chuckles

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:24:36 +0000

I had an Atari 2600 and an Apple IIe (with 80-column card) back then. A few years later, there was the addition of the Atari 5200 and a Data General PC clone.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: moi

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:55:50 +0000

I owned Atari VCS and Oric 1 (lol)

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Multi-Platform Mania by: XCALIBR8

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:14:52 +0000

… sorry to double post…

… I understand that in today's economic climate pc gaming is pretty dried out. I really miss the days of old being able to get my favorite games on my Atari 800, Intellivision, or Atari 2600. I loved sizing up the games and determining my favorite version of a game. This is something we still do with consoles but I miss the computer options of the old days.