Halo for the Atari 2600

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/166916-halo-for-the-2600-released-at-cge-download-the-game-here/page__p__2062835?s=a5165d8cc259a84b8f2479227957adb9#entry2062835

by nirmal • 16 years ago

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petercooper• 16 years ago

Found some way down that page.. a link to a Flash based emulator running the ROM: http://www.codemystics.com/halo2600/

gwern• 16 years ago

Seems like basically a 2D _Contra_ clone with _Halo_ graphics.

(Are the controls listed anywhere?)

komoku• 16 years ago

Arrow keys => move

Z key => shoot

Magnum Pistol is located upward from the starting position.

phaedrus• 16 years ago

A few posts down from the link, the author of the game describes how he came about writing it. It's a great window into the game creator's process of working, and a very good read.

_delirium• 16 years ago

FWIW, the guy who made this (Ed Fries) was the VP at Microsoft who oversaw game publishing for the original Xbox product cycle, which I assume explains the choice of Halo. He was one of the VPs who worked up from the technical ranks, not a pure business guy, but I still wouldn't have expected him to be writing asm. Pretty impressive.

mattew• 16 years ago

I hope they decide to sell cartridges for this. My original 2600 is still working after all these years, although it gets more challenging every year to hook it up to the TV as the connectors lag further and further behind. Anyone makeing a game/tv switch for hdmi? :)

forinti• 16 years ago

Do checkout Thrust for the 2600: http://www.atarihq.com/reviews/2600/thrust.html

It's the only 2600 game that I know that has physics and that's why I think it's the best.

nirmal• 16 years ago

To play the rom on your own machine try Stella. http://stella.sourceforge.net/

Also as part of a class dedicated to the Atari 2600 I made these games: http://nirmalpatel.com/hacks/atari.html

Let me know why you think.

palish• 16 years ago

It's around this time that I discovered the existence of what I call "Magic Land". I was working on a bug with the boss encounter and accidentally found myself completely outside the 64 room map. I was wandering through memory that was never intended to be interpreted as part of the map but the code was doing the best it could to interpret what was being thrown at it. Strange, misshapen monsters attacked me in even stranger ways as I wandered through this bizarre land that I had unintentionally created. I left a bug or two in the final game to allow others to find and explore this strange landscape as I did.

I really want to see a youtube video of this.

paines• 16 years ago

Off Topic: The ZX Specturm (also an 8 Bit machine like the Atart 2600) is still very popular and the community has made some great mods, e.g. the divIDE (an extension to hook up IDE devices). Also the community still does games and tools for it. Lately someone made an ethernet hack, and you can even twitter from the specccy. Amazing stuff. BR

Halo for the Atari 2600

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