Combat Gets Playfield Redesign Competition

Thanks to AtariAge for its competition in which entrants can design playfields for a remake of Combat for the Atari 2600. The competition info points out: "Ask anyone what games they played on their Atari 2600 when they were younger, and invariably Combat will be included among the titles listed... The original version of Combat supports many game variations, but few unique playfields." Therefore, retro programmer Zach Matley "...has created a new [unofficial] version of Combat, dubbed Combat Redux, that allows for 28 unique playfields.", and winners of the competition will get their maps included an Atari 2600 cartridge version of the remake.

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This could kill Al

[Kris_J]

There are already over 100 entries (I've sent something like 11) and since the only way to get a screenshot is to power each one up in an emulator the guys running the compo were already in a lot of trouble before it was posted on Slashdot.

That said, I recommend that everyone give it a go. The (Windows only?) editor makes it trivially easy to design a playfield. I did a couple based on some well known Game of Life patterns, I'm sure some /.ers can come up with something even geekier.

Re:2600 nostalgia

[digitalgiblet]

You Intellivision owning bastard! Or was it Collecovision? ;-)

We had Atari, but I lusted after Intellivision and Colleco. (Coleco?). My cousin had both. They had far better graphics, but we had a greater quantity of games (most of which were crap).

My favorite 2600 game was Adventure. Several months ago there was an article on /. about some dude who re-created Adventure in shockwave. I was SHOCKED to find that I still remember the mazes and could navigate them with no hesitation. Damn. I can't remember 3 things I learned in high school, but I guess those mazes are with me forever...