Best Atari 800 XL/XE games

Dexterm99

I have seen a best and worst list for 8bit but nothing specially for the 800 XL so I thought I would post this.

I loved this system even though the tape recorders were crap. I must have wasted days cleaning the heads on these things. Myself and a friend used to type the code from Page 6 and other magizines but could never get the games to work but still great fun :-)

My 10 favourite games on the 800 XL:

Fort Apocalypse
Bounty Bob Strikes Back
Rescue on Fractalus
Blue Max
Dig Dug
Great American Cross-Country Road Race
Bruce Lee
Decathlon
Dropzone
Caverns of Mars

Dr Bob

I started off on an 800xl (after playing around with one in mosney at their atari centre years ago I was able to ask my folks for one at xmas).
your list is pretty much similar to mine but

montezuma's revenge
bruce lee
Boulderdash
Zybex
Rescue on Fractalus
Rally speedway
Powerdown
Pole Position
Gauntlet
Spy Hunter

I eventually moved on to a C64 , as I just couldnt get 'modern' games for the
atari , but a year or two ago I bought a fully boxed xl.Theres a great addon you can get called an SIO2PC cable that lets you play disk images stored on a pc on the Atari, great stuff.
Oh yeah speaking of page 6 , have you seen www.page6.org ? theres a lot of scanned issues there...

Tom Dunne

Ah, fond memories.

Don't forget Ballblazer and Star Raiders (I and II).

luas_dublin wrote: »

Oh yeah speaking of page 6 , have you seen www.page6.org ? theres a lot of scanned issues there...

I'm on that website, since I had two articles in the original magazine.

Still have them upstairs somewhere.

Dexterm99

Luas,
Thanks for sharing that. They have even made the basic programs available!
I have heard of the SIO2PC cable and they should be pretty easy to make up.

Tom,
What issues are your articles in and what are the article names?

Tom Dunne

Dexterm99 wrote: »

Tom,
What issues are your articles in and what are the article names?

Actually, it is more correct to say they were two type in games, not technically articles.

The first one was called Amazing! (a maze game, as you might suspect ) and the second Castle Eayor (Enter At Your Own Risk, corny, I know ).

Amazing! was issue 37, I don't recall what issue the other one was in.


I was 15 years of age when I sent in the first one. To say I was chuffed was an understatement.


Edit: For the hell of it, I just googled Castle Eayor. And look what I stumbled across - an actual screen shot of the other game, Amazing! I can't believe it. I'm getting all nostalgic here.

Dexterm99

Fair play. It appears that you can download the game. I hope you are getting royalties?

BTW. did you work for Intel 10-15 years ago??

Tom Dunne

Dexterm99 wrote: »

Fair play. It appears that you can download the game. I hope you are getting royalties?

Royalties? Not at all. I got a cheque for £50 sterling and £75 respectively, no more. Then again, it was loads back then.

Dexterm99 wrote: »

BTW. did you work for Intel 10-15 years ago??

Yes, I did.

lionela

Just stumbled on the discussion Re. Atari games.

I have an Atari 800 computer with Tape deck, Disc Drive ,Paddles, Word Processer and all manuels etc, also some Page 6 Mags (packed away) Does anyone know if it is of value . It was my first computer and I loved it. I could even write simple programs in Basic. If ,Then ,Else ,peeks and pokes. Simple stuff.

Dexterm99

I would search Ebay as rare software and hardware could be worth a few quid. Like you I had a ton of stuff including different types of tape decks, unopened games and books. I had them for years hoping they would *mature*. I got rid of them six months ago because they were taking up too much space. They were not as rare as I had hoped :-(

Solidius

my top ten had to be..
1.Bruce Lee
2.The Goonies
3.Conan
4.Miner 2049'er
5.Rescue on Fractalus
6.Blue Max
7.Pole Position
8.Great American Cross-Country Road Race
9.International Karate
10.River raid

and am still playing this stuff on my PC,GPX2,Xbox..and anywhere I can hook them up and play..Emulation..pure brilliant invention

prixon

Tom Dunne wrote: »

I'm on that website, since I had two articles in the original magazine.

<nudge> I seem to remember you were going to send us a photo to add to your profile on page6.org ....

Paul R

Tom Dunne

prixon wrote: »

<nudge> I seem to remember you were going to send us a photo to add to your profile on page6.org ....

Paul R

Damn, how did you find me over here?

prixon

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