Post by extremewreck2000 on Jul 20, 2022 18:54:02 GMT
Here is something a bit interesting: there are actually SIX unidentified Atari 2600 games out there, 5 of which have been dumped while another hasn't. Atariprotos may consider investigating this, but I'm not sure on whether or not I would be willing to ask him that. Perhaps one of you guys could? I mean, he did check out another currently unidentified game on the system beforehand, so it's possible that he may cover at least one of these.
I'll start with the one that hasn't been dumped:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlyWPAzdx8A
This game was apparently found on an Atari-shell cartridge with no label on it. It's a single screen platformer of some kind. There's no collision detection between the sepia-colored player & the eggplant-head bat that flies around. It seems to take place in a void & you can shoot the green squares on top to make them disappear, though they'll eventually reappear a few seconds later. You can shoot left, right or up, but not down(which wouldn't make much sense anyway since it's just on one single plane). One person says it's Ghostbusters, but while the player character does look to be holding a proton pack, there already exists a Ghosbusters game on Atari 2600 & is even official. Another guy says it's Alien Ooze, but the person who has the cart it came on apparently looked into the ROM & said that it actually predates that game. I have no idea what year AO came out, but presumably it was around the 2010s(it was a limited edition version of a homebrew 2600 game called Ooze made for sale on a Facebook page) & this unidentified game seems to be from the early 1980s. Whatever the case may be, I hope the ROM gets shared soon if that person still has it!
Now here are the 5 that got dumped:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XDaKG6Wl08
Now this one seems to be a simple demo of flickering multicolored hair or helmets, seemingly of Roman style... or perhaps simply of Asterix style.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVDPfENoO3g
This one has a purple vertical trail & a ball as well as the number, "18987" on top, plus some AWESOME techno music, which is especially impressive!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUSdMvuJvQ4
Now here, we have a background that looks like a weird rainbow cave & 2 hearts with hands that you can move. Well, probably just floating hands they have, sort of like Rayman or Plok or Dynamite Headdy. The background can get warped when moving around, but it doesn't seem to actually be a glitch of some kind, more so a showcase as to what the 2600 can do.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib1n_Q_3Vhs
This one controls the same as the previous one, except you seem to control 2 faces with just rectangle eyes & nothing else on a plain black background with blue lines that don't warp when you're moving on them, though you seem to be able to move the faces faster than the hearts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSuIfxQuTA0
And then there's this one... I don't know how to describe it honestly, but I'll try my best: a bunch of blocks that move around while a box slowly morphs for whatever strange reason. The graphics seem to be glitching, but they could just be something implemented by the programmer as to not have the graphics processor go insane. There are also a bunch of tiny tan blocks at the right screen that don't do anything.
Well, that's about all of them. I wonder what you guys think of these. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts surrounding these mysterious Atari 2600 games & hopefully we can identify at least 1 of them & maybe even find out the backstory behind these games. Until then, cheers!
I'll start with the one that hasn't been dumped:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlyWPAzdx8A
This game was apparently found on an Atari-shell cartridge with no label on it. It's a single screen platformer of some kind. There's no collision detection between the sepia-colored player & the eggplant-head bat that flies around. It seems to take place in a void & you can shoot the green squares on top to make them disappear, though they'll eventually reappear a few seconds later. You can shoot left, right or up, but not down(which wouldn't make much sense anyway since it's just on one single plane). One person says it's Ghostbusters, but while the player character does look to be holding a proton pack, there already exists a Ghosbusters game on Atari 2600 & is even official. Another guy says it's Alien Ooze, but the person who has the cart it came on apparently looked into the ROM & said that it actually predates that game. I have no idea what year AO came out, but presumably it was around the 2010s(it was a limited edition version of a homebrew 2600 game called Ooze made for sale on a Facebook page) & this unidentified game seems to be from the early 1980s. Whatever the case may be, I hope the ROM gets shared soon if that person still has it!
Now here are the 5 that got dumped:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XDaKG6Wl08
Now this one seems to be a simple demo of flickering multicolored hair or helmets, seemingly of Roman style... or perhaps simply of Asterix style.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVDPfENoO3g
This one has a purple vertical trail & a ball as well as the number, "18987" on top, plus some AWESOME techno music, which is especially impressive!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUSdMvuJvQ4
Now here, we have a background that looks like a weird rainbow cave & 2 hearts with hands that you can move. Well, probably just floating hands they have, sort of like Rayman or Plok or Dynamite Headdy. The background can get warped when moving around, but it doesn't seem to actually be a glitch of some kind, more so a showcase as to what the 2600 can do.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib1n_Q_3Vhs
This one controls the same as the previous one, except you seem to control 2 faces with just rectangle eyes & nothing else on a plain black background with blue lines that don't warp when you're moving on them, though you seem to be able to move the faces faster than the hearts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSuIfxQuTA0
And then there's this one... I don't know how to describe it honestly, but I'll try my best: a bunch of blocks that move around while a box slowly morphs for whatever strange reason. The graphics seem to be glitching, but they could just be something implemented by the programmer as to not have the graphics processor go insane. There are also a bunch of tiny tan blocks at the right screen that don't do anything.
Well, that's about all of them. I wonder what you guys think of these. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts surrounding these mysterious Atari 2600 games & hopefully we can identify at least 1 of them & maybe even find out the backstory behind these games. Until then, cheers!
