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I played the hell out of this game at around 7 y/o. My father read the manual and helped me with it. I played it recently under emulation and was a little shock
by EvanAnderson 9mo ago
I played the hell out of this game at around 7 y/o. My father read the manual and helped me with it. I played it recently under emulation and was a little shocked that I remembered the entire game.
This documentation is very, very nice. I particularly like seeing how the scoring worked. It was always a mystery to me, playing the game, as to why my scores were so low. Escaping the prison room looks like it was the culprit. It would be interesting to go back and read the manual with knowledge of the game's internals.
- qingcharles 9mo agoHow much does the manual help? The game looks infuriatingly difficult, even by 2600 standards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Py3T5J3e0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Py3T5J3e0
- EvanAnderson 9mo agoThe manual helps a ton. It has out right spoilers in it (with decent spoiler warnings). I'd say, having had a chance to read the manual after seeing the scoring details laid out in this RE that the manual doesn't really divulge much in the way of how scoring works. The Yar easter egg is mentioned but I never figured out how to activate it. This is a pretty decent manual scan: https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Atari_2600/Manual/formated/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark_-_1982_-_Atari.pdf https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Atari_2600/Manual...