https://indiegamerchick.com/2022/12/25/atari-50-the-games-they-couldnt-include-the-definitive-review-part-one/ Indie and Retro Gaming Reviews from the one and only IGC Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:57:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://indiegamerchick.com/2022/12/25/atari-50-the-games-they-couldnt-include-the-definitive-review-part-one/#comment-63150 Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:57:39 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=21779#comment-63150 […] From the director of Blaster Master and using a modified version of that game’s top-down engine (the same one also used in Fester’s Quest), Gremlins 2 is often cited as one of the best NES licensed games. I don’t know if I’d go that far. It took me under two hours to finish it with minimum cheating. What little rewinding I did was used to undo some frankly bullcrap jumping design. Gremlins 2’s main challenge is based around pits, spikes, and electric fences. God knows it’s not the combat. Oh, that’s in the game, but by time you reach the final stage, you’re tank-like. No, in Gremlins 2, you die via falling, frying, or electrocution. A great licensed NES game? Hell, this Gremlins isn’t as good as the Atari 5200 game that I looked at in Atari 50: The Games They Couldn’t Include. […]

]]> https://indiegamerchick.com/2022/12/25/atari-50-the-games-they-couldnt-include-the-definitive-review-part-one/#comment-63124 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 03:25:08 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=21779#comment-63124 […] got? Three. It got a couple home computer ports in 1988 and an Atari 2600 port that I covered in Atari 50: The Games They Couldn’t Include. After that? Nothing. Oh, plans were made. Like the sublime Atari 5200 port, which could have very […]

]]> https://indiegamerchick.com/2022/12/25/atari-50-the-games-they-couldnt-include-the-definitive-review-part-one/#comment-63051 Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:58:23 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=21779#comment-63051 […] 50: The Games They Couldn’t Include is quite the endeavor. Part One contained the first thirty games. My review for the infamous E.T. for the Atari 2600 got so bloated I moved it to its own post. Part […]

]]> https://indiegamerchick.com/2022/12/25/atari-50-the-games-they-couldnt-include-the-definitive-review-part-one/#comment-63047 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:10:10 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=21779#comment-63047 […] where nothing looks quite like it’s supposed to. But, Superman holds up to the test of time (see Part One of Atari 50: The Games They Couldn’t Include – Definitive Review for that r…). Barely, but barely counts, and I’d honestly love to play a remake of it that builds off […]

]]> https://indiegamerchick.com/2022/12/25/atari-50-the-games-they-couldnt-include-the-definitive-review-part-one/#comment-63032 Sun, 08 Jan 2023 08:05:39 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=21779#comment-63032 […] Atari. Thus, a lot of people think of this as an Atari game, and one that could have gone into my Games They Couldn’t Use feature. Indeed, you’ll be seeing Kangaroo for the Atari 2600 and 5200 in part two of that […]

]]> https://indiegamerchick.com/2022/12/25/atari-50-the-games-they-couldnt-include-the-definitive-review-part-one/#comment-63021 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 08:48:05 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=21779#comment-63021 […] I recently did my in-depth review of the infamous Atari 2600 disaster Pac-Man, I noted that without the chase being fun, maze chases don’t work. I then asked myself if […]

]]> https://indiegamerchick.com/2022/12/25/atari-50-the-games-they-couldnt-include-the-definitive-review-part-one/#comment-63019 Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:27:35 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=21779#comment-63019 […] it to the last person, and jump out the window again. It becomes less a game and more of a chore. Gremlins on Atari 5200 had the same “run out of action before you run out of objectives&#8221…, but at least there the gameplay was fun before the action ran out. Fire and Rescue is a game that […]

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