atari – Spaghetti Code Arcade

August 24, 2023

Recently I finished Reading video game of the year

By Jason Minor Jordon Minor. And in the book he has a page about The Atari video game E.T. And not because it was a good game.

So It made me remember that I had E.T. for the Atari. I believe I got it as a birthday present. I have no idea why I did not get the receipt and return it to the store like everyone else probably did.

I do remember playing the game and falling into the caves or holes in the ground and spending a lot of time floating up and out.

Today I decided to look up gameplay walkthrough videos of the game and I was surprised that people had actually made them. And I was surprised that there were people out there how had beat the game. I never came close to completing the game.

And another thing that surprised me is that It only takes a few minutes to collect all the things you need to collect. Yeah it does not look like its much fun.

June 11, 2019June 11, 2019

Real sports baseball Atari 2600

I was just thinking that baseball for the Atari 2600 was one of the games I played a lot for that console. Then I thought don’t I say that about all the games I played on the console.

I remember playing the game. i don’t remember how good I was at the game. I was probably not very good. I don’t know a lot about the game.

How many levels were there? Could I beat the game? I don’t even know if I made it though a complete game.

I thought it was more realistic than either real sports football or basketball. That’s all I can think of to write about the game right now.

June 9, 2019June 9, 2019

Space Invaders, Atari 2600

I played space invaders on the Atari 2600. I played the game but, I was not good. The best I could do was maybe on a good day make it to the second level of the game. I have no idea how many levels the game has. I don’t even remember the highest score I got. It was probably not very high.

I probably hit more of the 3 objects that are still than any of the moving space invaders. Maybe I could have practiced more. It probably would not have helped.

To me it did not matter that the graphics were not that realistic. I liked the sound of the space invaders moving on their march toward the ground.

June 8, 2019June 8, 2019

Volleyball Atari 2600

I played Real sports volleyball on the Atari 2600. It was probably the game I played the most on the console. I don’t remember how good I was at it. All I remember is that I had fun playing the game.

I don’t know anything about the game. By that I mean I don’t know how many games a person needed to win to beat the game or even if I could have beaten the game. I do remember that there you could choose two or four players per side. I like two players per side.

I liked the sound that the game made when I hit the ball with a player. It was so fun to play.

June 7, 2019June 8, 2019

Football: Atari 2600

I played football on Atari 2600 a lot. I think the game was a on 8. You would not confuse the football you see on TV with Atari football. I was good at playing the game because you did not have to have any skill to beat the computer.

I never thought about it before but, how many game did you have to win to beat the game. Could you beat the game? Was there a season of 16 games? I am not even sure if I played through a whole game.

So many questions. I have no answers.

June 6, 2019June 6, 2019

BasketBall: Atari 2600

Today I am going to write about Atari 2600 basketball. I always want to write more about the games but, I can’t think of anything. I will do my best that is all I can asked my myself, probably.

I thought about Atari 2600 basketball. The ball that the players dribble remind me of a sugar cube. I remember playing the game. I just don’t remember if I was good at playing the game. I probably was not good at playing the game.

For the Atari 2600 games I had the no sports games looked better than the sports games.

That is all I have to write about Atari basketball for now.

May 26, 2019May 27, 2019

The first game console I ever had was an

Atari 2600. I don’t remember when I got it, or why I got it. All I remember is that my parents bought it. I don’t remember playing it often but, I did play games on the console often.

Let me see if I can remember the games we had. We had battle zone, Frogger, pacMan, pit fall, E.T., football, basketball, space invaders, volleyball. As I remember it I got E.T and pitfall as birthday gifts. That is all the games I can remember right now.

The only Atari 2600 hundred video games I remember being good at were football, basketball, volleyball. I just remembered that we also had baseball. I think I was good at the sports games because they were not hard to play.

I don’t remember thinking about how to get better at the games. I played them and that was it. I did not say to myself I am not good at pacMan or space invaders so how am I going to get better. I played the games and never thought about them much when I was not playing them.