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  • Raiders Of The Lost Ark – Atari 2600 | Little Bits of Gaming

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    The first ever officially licensed movie based game. Based on the movie of the same name, developed and published by Atari. Released in 1982. Designed by Howard Scott Warshaw, who for inspiration would walk around Atari’s offices wearing a Fedora hat and cracking a bullwhip.

    Source: Raiders Of The Lost Ark – Atari 2600 | Little Bits of Gaming

    I believe E.T. actually beat out Indiana Jones in terms of release date by a couple of months and had many of the same kinds of elements. However, E.T. also has a reputation as one of the worst games ever released on the Atari 2600.  To some extent, Raiders of the Lost Ark succeeded where E.T. failed but only to a limited degree. Raiders of the Lost Ark was not known as a great game either.


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  • Rampage (Atari 2600, Atari 7800)

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    Source: Rampage (Atari 2600, Atari 7800)

    Rampage was initially released as an arcade game in 1986. Shortly thereafter, numerous home ports followed including for the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, NES, PC, Amiga, Atari ST, and Atari Lynx among others. I don’t think the developers had any idea how far it would go.


    Atari 2600 version

    After the arcade game and the initial ports, it was quiet on the Rampage front for a long time until the first sequel, Rampage World Tour, came out more than a decade later in 1997. It was really more of a remake than a sequel. Shortly afterwards it was ported to the Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, PlayStation and Windows. In addition, around the same time, the original arcade game started being released in various collections. There have been several more sequels since and a movie based on the game is forthcoming in 2018 starring Dwayne Johnson.


    Atari 7800 version

    As far as the original ports, the Atari 2600 and 7800 versions (ad above) were not the best. The game play isn’t bad (if you like the arcade game anyway) but the graphics are subpar even given the limitations of those systems. The Sega Master System and NES versions were quite a bit better than the Atari 7800 version (pictured above) graphically and there really isn’t a technical reason for this. Most likely less time and money were devoted to the Atari 7800 port. The Atari 2600 is of course a much more technically limited system.





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