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I remember playing this on the spare B&W TV with no color. My father bought a new color TV and we got the old one for the Atari 2600 and it was like baller stat

I remember playing this on the spare B&W TV with no color. My father bought a new color TV and we got the old one for the Atari 2600 and it was like baller status.

DidYaWipe 2y ago
I had an Atari computer, and for years it was hooked up to a black-&-white TV. I got a job in a computer store and bought the legendary Commodore 1702 (which I still have). It was like looking at candy. I remember some games in particular (especially from Synapse) looking just brilliant.
- GladHatter 2y ago
  "Looking at candy" is such a good description of Synapse games on the 1702. I had Zaxxon, Necromancer, and Blue Max. Many Access Software titles were beautiful too (Beach Head, Raid Over Moscow,etc). Fun times!
  - DidYaWipe 2y ago
    Yeah, Necromancer! I blanked on the name, but that was the one I was thinking of. But the all-time winner in my book for artistic cleverness AND playability was Alley Cat.
dylan604 2y ago
I grew up with an Atari 2600 that was connected to a small color TV. Eventually, that same TV was used with the NES, but it wasn't until the NES that I learned that TV had a serious flaw. The bezel on the TV actually covered up part of the image so that I was unable to see the edges of some games. I learned this playing Metal Gear and was just utterly stuck. I wound up buying a magazine with hints for the game, and started comparing the screen grabs in the 'zine to what I could see. It wasn't until quite some time later that I asked someone and they told me about overscan/underscan. I took the TV to some repair place, and they opened it up and adjusted it (there was no switch to enable underscan). The things kids today will never have to endure /s
- everseason 2y ago
  Ha, I too had the pleasure of playing Metal Gear on an old CRT that had a similar bezel that covered the sides of the screen. I too had the pleasure of going crazy trying to figure out what to do. Good times.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    did you continue playing after realizing this? I realized that if I punched at the edges, the sound was different if there was a door. Then it was just a matter of finding which card would open the door.
    - everseason 2y ago
      It was my cousins' game so we were playing it at his house to start with. Eventually he came over to spend the night at my house and I had a different TV that we could see the edges of the screen.

I remember playing this on the spare B&W TV with no color. My father bought a new color TV and we got the old one for the Atari 2600 and it was like baller status.

DidYaWipe 2y ago

I had an Atari computer, and for years it was hooked up to a black-&-white TV. I got a job in a computer store and bought the legendary Commodore 1702 (which I still have). It was like looking at candy. I remember some games in particular (especially from Synapse) looking just brilliant.

GladHatter 2y ago
"Looking at candy" is such a good description of Synapse games on the 1702. I had Zaxxon, Necromancer, and Blue Max. Many Access Software titles were beautiful too (Beach Head, Raid Over Moscow,etc). Fun times!
- DidYaWipe 2y ago
  Yeah, Necromancer! I blanked on the name, but that was the one I was thinking of. But the all-time winner in my book for artistic cleverness AND playability was Alley Cat.

dylan604 2y ago

I grew up with an Atari 2600 that was connected to a small color TV. Eventually, that same TV was used with the NES, but it wasn't until the NES that I learned that TV had a serious flaw. The bezel on the TV actually covered up part of the image so that I was unable to see the edges of some games. I learned this playing Metal Gear and was just utterly stuck. I wound up buying a magazine with hints for the game, and started comparing the screen grabs in the 'zine to what I could see. It wasn't until quite some time later that I asked someone and they told me about overscan/underscan. I took the TV to some repair place, and they opened it up and adjusted it (there was no switch to enable underscan). The things kids today will never have to endure /s

everseason 2y ago
Ha, I too had the pleasure of playing Metal Gear on an old CRT that had a similar bezel that covered the sides of the screen. I too had the pleasure of going crazy trying to figure out what to do. Good times.
- dylan604 2y ago
  did you continue playing after realizing this? I realized that if I punched at the edges, the sound was different if there was a door. Then it was just a matter of finding which card would open the door.
  - everseason 2y ago
    It was my cousins' game so we were playing it at his house to start with. Eventually he came over to spend the night at my house and I had a different TV that we could see the edges of the screen.