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In a retrospective review of Imagic games, IGN said Quick Step "is a brilliant, furious multiplayer game for a system not exactly known for aggressive two-player action games", putting it in their top five list of Imagic games for the Atari 2600. [6] Quick Step was considered a clone of Q*bert by many reviewers.
Taken from Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, this episode focuses on the Nerd's review of one of Atari's worst video games they ever made – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. Notes: Although basically a clip from the movie, this episode differs from it in that it featured actual footage from the game. In the movie, the game was ...
From retrospective reviews, Skyler Miller of Allgame found the game graphics average for an Atari 2600 game of the period, with weak animation. Miller concluded that if you could get over these elements, "you'll find a surprisingly complex game that will definitely give your problem-solving skills a workout." [1]
Outlaw would be his first commercial game he made for the Atari 2600. [7] The game began as a home console conversion of Midway's arcade game Gun Fight (1975), which itself was an officially licensed variation on the game Western Gun (1975) by Taito. [7] Crane said the game was influenced by Gun Fight, and liked the idea of making a game with ...
Viedogaming Illustrated described the game as "not so much fun as an exercise in stubborn, methodical perseverance". [6] The 1983 Book of Atari Software assessed the game as a C+ overall, praising the graphics and the sound but criticising the replayability of the game. [7] Retrospective reviewers have been less positive about Fire Fighter.
Krull is an Atari 2600 video game based on the 1983 science fantasy film Krull and published in 1983 by Atari, Inc. It was written by Dave Staugas who later ported Millipede to the 2600. [2] Gottlieb manufactured an arcade shooter of the same name in the same year, but it is unrelated to the Atari 2600 cartridge other than the Krull license.
A December 2000 review by Patrick Wong in Classic Gamer magazine panned the game, describing it as (together with Atari's Golf) "two of the worst games ever made". Wong criticised the "boring" graphics, the small number of fielders deployable in the game, and the unrealistic gameplay, and summed the game up by saying "Gamers looking for a real ...
These games were published by Atari, and many were also licensed to Sears, which released these games under its Tele-Games brand, often with different titles. [2] Sears's Tele-Games brand was unrelated to the company Telegames , which also produced cartridges for the Atari 2600 (mostly re-issues of M Network games.) [ 3 ]