Comments on: OMFG “Adventure” comes to the iPhone! And it’s FREE!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:54:36 +0000

From my 25 year memory: The dot is in the main castle, the one that is not illuminated. It’s in a the part of the maze — a square room, I suppose you could say — that is inaccessible except if you use that thing that looks like two brackets that lets you go through walls. It’s in one of the corners of the room, so you have to feel around the walls till you bump into it.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:41:32 +0000

Given the hardware limitations 30+ years ago (128 bytes of ram, 4k rom carts & a 1.19mHz cpu), the Atari programmers did some remarkable things. Some games were complete failures (i.e. the afore mentioned E.T.) but many are still classics because of their great game play & despite the now primitive graphics. How primitive will today’s hot titles look in 2038? Yes, son, back in my day you had to sit in front of a computer, watch a flat screen,and use a keyboard & mouse. Daddy, what’s a ‘puter?

By: Carlitos

Carlitos — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:53:17 +0000

@kelly: two characters for you. ET!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:54:03 +0000

Did you find the invisible dot on Level 3?

By: kelly

kelly — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:04:54 +0000

Too funny! Yes, I too was the proud owner of an Atari 2600. It was a Christmas present during my 7th grade year in school. Still one of the greatest Christmas presents ever! Why Peter spent time on this particular game I do not know. I think Missile Command, Joust, even Space Invaders would have been a more worthy port, but perhaps there is no licensing issue on a game of this, urhmmm, caliber.

By: widgetboy

widgetboy — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:01:34 +0000

bring on yar’s revenge!