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Message: [QUOTE="Isegrim, post: 290119, member: 569592"] In my country, everyday (except for February and March) is summer. I haven't played an Atari 2600 game for decades. Sadly, my most wanted games as a kid on the 2600 were arcade games and I was frequently disappointed by the 2600 ports. Donkey Kong and Pac Man in particular. Wizard of Wor was an ok port if it didn't flicker so much. There were still some games I loved. Superman and Adventure were my favorites. I remember when Superman 3 (Christopher Reeve) the movie came out, I wished my Atari 2600 game looked as good as that scene where the villains were shooting missiles at Superman through a videogame interface. Adventure was loved because my brothers and I were in the thick of Dungeons and Dragons fascination back then and it was one of the first games that dealt with the same themes. Many tears were spilled with Warlords (we had 4 paddles). My brothers, sister and uncle would play this a lot and my sister was usually the one who was eliminated first. And she...well as I said...many tears...:loldog The Atari 2600 games that came with comics were also much loved. Atari actually hired DC comics to produce those comics that came with the game and we ended up collecting the Atari Force comic series and not just the ones that came with the games. Phoenix and Centipede (my favorite comic) were a good read and it enhanced my liking the games even with their graphical shortcomings. Activision used to be one of our favorite game developers and they produced amazing 2600 games at the start, a far cry from the villain the gaming community regards today. I broke the high scores in several of their games (Laser Blast, Kaboom and Starmaster), high enough to send for a clothing patch. At the back of the manual in their 2600 games, Activision (when they were still cool) promises they'd send you a decorated cloth patch you can sew on your clothing recognizing your videogame mastery if you could send a photo of your high score. Sadly, since we lived so far from the U.S. and we as kids didn't have a camera, we couldn't send for any of it. Imagic was just...well...magical. In that era, the games looked and played so amazing (Demon Attack in particular), we were wondering if the cartridges were magical. Riddle of the Sphinx was my personal favorite Imagic game. [/QUOTE]

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