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Choplifter! (Atari 7800)
The 7800 got the same style of Choplifter that the 5200 and 8-bits received…only on steroids. The graphics have been beefed up. The joystick controls could have used more attention but are effective and work. Trying to land on the landing pad can be a bit of a pain as the helicopter tends to lag at responding to joystick movement.
Source: Choplifter | Atari Antics
The only version of Choplifter I can remember playing was on the Commodore 64. It looks like the Atari 7800 has more colors and more detail in general. To be fair though, i think the Commodore 64 version was released very early in the Commodore 64’s life and was pretty much a straight port of the original Apple 2 version. It was reasonably fun to play though.
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Rampage (Atari 2600, Atari 7800)
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 versionAfter 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 versionAs 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.
