If there's one thing about Outlaw, it's that the gunfighters were way larger than I had imagined them to be on screen. I've only faint memories of it - I don't have it in my collection of carts, and I have faint memories of it. But it's got a lot more to it than I remembered, which is quite a surprise. Maybe worth having on the rotation if I ever get to have a means to have a 2600 co-op session. Whenever this plague lets up.
The big blocky graphics make this 1978 game and therefore the system look bad by 1980. It probably should have been retired to make room for newer and better games they wanted to sell. Odyssey² had a 1979 game called Showdown in 2100 A.D. that had smaller gunfighters and a lot of little tree obstacles (including one for reloading), but not the game variations this game had.
Nice job, Pete. Back when Atari added an incredible number of fun variations to their games. The destroyable environments make this great. You can play Multi-player on Steam.
Atari Logbook Challenge: Play game 15 with difficulty on A, to hit it ten times in the time or less. Pro (Potshot) 49 ticks. Master (Hotshot) 40 ticks. Wizard (Crackshot) 32 ticks. I got this in the 1990s and improved my score until making Wizard with 29. I just saw a review of the Odyssey² game, Showdown in 2100 A.D. which compares favorably with smaller graphics, though this has more game variations. Was this a popular two-player game in the 1970s? I don't know. I imagine kids did like Combat, though that should have been updated by 1980. I would think Air-Sea Battle was a more popular two-player game than this (called Target Fun bundled for Sears Video Arcade), but Warlords may have been even more popular as it was one that sold over 1 million copies, and allowed up to 4 players with paddles. It was probably the last great multi-player game, as one-player games became the thing in 1982.
Walking through the line of stagecoaches to shoot the target should get you a commendation for original thinking!
If there's one thing about Outlaw, it's that the gunfighters were way larger than I had imagined them to be on screen. I've only faint memories of it - I don't have it in my collection of carts, and I have faint memories of it.
But it's got a lot more to it than I remembered, which is quite a surprise. Maybe worth having on the rotation if I ever get to have a means to have a 2600 co-op session. Whenever this plague lets up.
The big blocky graphics make this 1978 game and therefore the system look bad by 1980. It probably should have been retired to make room for newer and better games they wanted to sell. Odyssey² had a 1979 game called Showdown in 2100 A.D. that had smaller gunfighters and a lot of little tree obstacles (including one for reloading), but not the game variations this game had.
Cracking video....my wife had zero interest in playing video games with me sadly.
That's pretty common, sadly =)
Nice job, Pete. Back when Atari added an incredible number of fun variations to their games. The destroyable environments make this great. You can play Multi-player on Steam.
You can play online multiplayer on Switch too, actually... actually finding an opponent is the troublesome part!
Yes, I see. Every once in a while my bother and will get a game on.
Atari Logbook Challenge: Play game 15 with difficulty on A, to hit it ten times in the time or less.
Pro (Potshot) 49 ticks.
Master (Hotshot) 40 ticks.
Wizard (Crackshot) 32 ticks.
I got this in the 1990s and improved my score until making Wizard with 29. I just saw a review of the Odyssey² game, Showdown in 2100 A.D. which compares favorably with smaller graphics, though this has more game variations. Was this a popular two-player game in the 1970s? I don't know. I imagine kids did like Combat, though that should have been updated by 1980. I would think Air-Sea Battle was a more popular two-player game than this (called Target Fun bundled for Sears Video Arcade), but Warlords may have been even more popular as it was one that sold over 1 million copies, and allowed up to 4 players with paddles. It was probably the last great multi-player game, as one-player games became the thing in 1982.