Everything new is old: Atari 2600 Mega Man
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 2:12pm by Sean
Thought your collection of old school NES Mega Man cartridges was hardcore? Try this on for size: Mega Man for the the Atari 2600. Avalible for download at Atari Age’s Forums, this short but neat demo was created by David Galloway for iam8bit in 2007 and has only recently released to the public.
The demo only has one level consisting of four vertically scrolling screens, and a boss – but it’s pretty cool. A full sized Megaman game in this style would have been awesome in Atari’s golden years – it’s almost too bad there are no plans to make a full game out of this. Hit the jump for a playthrough video and peek at Elecman.
[via Joystiq]
July 8th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Hey what a great thing for the Virtual Console…2600 remakes of classic modern games..I’ll bite…
July 9th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Love it, but if it took him 32k to do this one level, it would have been impossible during “Atari’s golden years” to do a full game when most games were 4-8k during that time.
Then again, there were Atari games that sold pretty well that had about as much gameplay as just the first screen of this.
Kind of sad that the Atari development lists have been replaced by idiotic forum software so that I had to hear about this on a Nintendo site.