the kind of game that just makes u think of other, similar but better games on the console

away down south in the land of traitors, battle tanks and bright blue blazers

this one was actually very cute and charming! jumping around is clumsy but not frustrating. the computer player is surprisingly well balanced, for some moments it felt like i was actually playing with another fallible human being. Using the sunset as the game timer is very clever, and the firefly buzzing in to announce game end was cute. This is indeed the best frog eat flies game on the atari 2600, frog pond can suck it

filing this under "bland unplayable ports of games that actually look sick as hell on their original platform" next to crystal castles

i bomba da canyon

controls kinda shit but i had fun with it for a bit

the game that walked so that Baldi could fly

video games cost the equivalent of like 100 dollars back then, imagine buying a glorified calculator for that much

apparently Taito didn't allow Atari to put the 2600 version on the Flashback consoles, so lucky me I got the arcade version

i got 224 points on my first go yippee
still, not even the best frog eat flies game on the atari 2600

1989

"we have crystal castles at home"
crystal castles at home:

breakout but worse. this is miserable on joystick (i do not have paddles)

surprisingly fun, controls pretty well for an atari game. Feels like a natural evolution of the OG Donkey Kong gameplay-wise.

waaayyy too slippery for me, probably plays better on the paddle controller thingy

i spent like 7 minutes aimlessly shooting at fish and dying before i realized u can swim down to the next screen, the game got a lot more fun after that