Yeah, the paddle controller on a zero-lag CRT offers an incredible experience that no modern hardware does. Super Breakout's progressive mode is still amazing

Yeah, the paddle controller on a zero-lag CRT offers an incredible experience that no modern hardware does. Super Breakout's progressive mode is still amazing today. Kaboom is the other big one, also Video Olympics in the higher speed modes. There are rotary controllers to work with Mame but they're a pale imitation of the real thing. For sports, there's one surprisingly good (American) football game on the 2600: Super Challenge Football. You invent your own play calls every down by instructing each player individually. It's quite unknown, as it's only playable 2-player (no computer AI), and came out late in the system's life as a port from an Intellivision game. There's also a Super Challenge Baseball, also 2P only. Both games use weird control schemes that you'd never figure out without the manual, but do a decent enough job of controlling the sport with only one button.