Atari Paddle TV Game Confirmed, Capcom, EA Next

Thanks to IGN Gear for its article confirming the forthcoming Atari 2600 Paddle TV game from Jakks - the news story explains: "Like the Atari TV Games joystick released two years ago... gamers simply plug it directly into the television to experience the old-school games", and indicates the game line-up for the 1 or 2-player versions will include "Breakout, Canyon Bomber, Casino, Circus Atari, Demons to Diamonds, Night Driver, Steeplechase, Street Racer, Super Breakout, Warlords, Warlords Arcade, Video Olympics, Arcade Pong and Pong." We've previously covered announcements of many other licensed TV games from Jakks (Midway, Namco, Activision), but haven't mentioned a forthcoming Capcom TV game "including 1942, Ghosts 'N Goblins, Mega Man, Gun Smoke and Side Arms" - the official Jakks TV Games site also has 'EA Sports' listed as an (unelaborated on) game choice.

Comments

right on!

[Tumbleweed]

Warlords was a lotta fun - a multiplayer breakout, very cool.

The problem here is that once you collect all these joysticks, then you've got a big collection of joysticks to hook & unhook, depending on which games you want to play. They should figure out a way around that, like have one joystick, with, I dunno, a cartridge system or something.

Oh, wait...

Let's wait until we can play it ourselves

[lightspawn]

If similar products are any indication, they'll find a way to make the games subtly different in ways that will completely destroy gameplay (different timing, quirks, uncomfortable controllers, huge reset buttons you can't help but press every once in a while).

Is the concept nice? Sure. Is the execution any good? Can't tell yet.

So you'll excuse me if my nipples don't explode with delight just yet.

And here's a thought: Buy a used VCS2600! They're not exactly rare (by virtue of being very popular back in the day, and not being very easy to destroy).

Re:Nice and all

[miyako]

I'm not really sure how nintendo's license contracts go, but could they really do anything to prevent other companies from releasing their SNES games onto something like this?
I really think that once one company takes the plunge, other companies will follow because I think this could make good money. I also do not think that this would really conflict with nintendo's GBA ports too heavily, because while there is an overlap, the best games to play on the road might not always be the same games one would want to play at home.
Of course I could be slightly bias because I love RPGs but I hate playing RPGs on a handheld system. The text is often too small for one, and also if I'm going to be playing at home I would much rather be playing on the comsole/computer (of course I guess that is what the GBA player for GC is for, I really need to pick one of these up, anyone had any good/bad experiences with them?)

Re:Nice and all

[BTWR]

Capcom may own the code for Street Fighter, but Nintendo owns the code for the "OS" that it's played on, so any emulator of an SNES game would automatically have to use some sort of Nintendo copyright. As you smartly saw, the GBA ports are now a very profitable source of SNES games, so such a system (where games sell for $2 instead of $29.99 carts) will not, and should not, happen for a while.

Can Capcom go an re-write it's SNES Street Fighter game for another handheld OS? Sure. But will it? Probably not...

Re:awww. they need an activision one

[exick]

The fact that Kaboom is not on the list makes the whole thing worthless.

Re:Where is Kaboom!?

[Saige]

Because it was an Activision game, and not made by Atari as the other games on the set are. It's a completely different company, and as Activision is busy continuing to make collections containing their Atari 2600 games available now and then, it's not likely they'd have been able to get it without at least significant royalties.