Also found in the museum:
- All the characters in the Indiana Jones Atari 2600 game
- The thing at the end of Pitfall 2
- Everything in the Commdore 64 version of Double Dragon
- Q*bert
Also found in the museum:
| Jul 11, 11 | X-Com |
| Sep 8, 11 | Great Giana Sisters |
| Oct 31, 12 | Summer Games |
| Aug 9, 11 | Rainbow Islands |
| Aug 22, 11 | Superfrog |
So what if it was basically an overblown Breakout, Arkanoid was the killer app that sold me on the idea of using a mouse to control a game. Sure, you could play it well enough with a joystick but if you wanted total control you really needed to play it with a mouse.
Thanks to the simplicity of the game (I mean really, it was just a bat and ball game that you could make yourself in an afternoon) there wasn’t a bad home conversion. Even the Spectrum had a great version of Arkanoid! Chances are whatever you’re reading this on has a version of Arkanoid available for it. The DS had a neat one that came with a paddle you plugged into the GBA cartridge port – I thought it was funny we came so far along with technology that we went back to playing games with a paddle.
Anyway, it was the Amiga version that was the business back in the day. It looked just like the Arcade game, as long as you don’t mind a third of the screen being devoted to a bunch of logos and junk. But you got to play it with the mouse, and it felt glorious, and it made me mad I didn’t own an Amiga yet.
I never played this one, because it required a CD-ROM and oh man like I’ll ever need to buy a CD-ROM to play games all those CD-ROM games are stupid anyway.
Man they should bring out The Horde that game was awesome and it had Kirk Cameron in it.
| Oct 12, 11 | Magic Carpet |
| May 30, 12 | Dragon’s Lair |
| Nov 14, 12 | Z |
| Jul 18, 11 | Theme Park |
| Mar 14, 12 | Deja Vu |
This game seemed unnecessarily hard to me when it came out – it didn’t help that I was playing it on someone’s clunky Apple 2 with monochrome monitor and those weird joysticks that didn’t correct themselves. Still! People don’t understand how peanut butter and vegemite could be a good combination, so who am I to judge what turns out popular?
There was no Commodore 64 version, but they ported it to the Sharp X68000? What the hell?
October 2011 Edit: They DID make a Commodore 64 version! IT’S AWESOME!
| May 1, 13 | Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior |
| Jun 29, 11 | Robocod |
| Dec 19, 12 | Day Of The Tentacle |
| Feb 6, 13 | Green Beret |
| Aug 23, 11 | Bomb Jack |

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