Game Room was the FIRST classical video diversion examination uncover upon the Internet in 1999. Returning in 2008 with brand new episodes, Classic Game Room breaks out the examination of the colonnade pound strike SPY HUNTER, right away done in to the blurb by GM as well as Pontiac which you call the “Pontiac Spy Hunter Commercial” profitable reverence to the Mach 5 character of the Spy Hunter-mobile. Spy Hunter is retro video gaming during the finest, though does the Atari chronicle live up to the coin-op appurtenance in the arcades? You expostulate the James Bond kind …
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Funny that this version has a few more features than the later version for the Atari 8-Bit
yeah.. you can compare the 2600 directly to the arcade which will be a comparison that the 2600 will always lose… however given the 2600 limitations this has to be an amazing port… easily one of the top 5 conversions. In the latter years the programmers sure figured out some amazing tricks.
The NES version of Spy Hunter is wonderful.
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I don’t know my trivia much when it comes to arcade games, so many thanks for enlightening me.
The spy hunter theme is actually the Peter Gunn theme. Also this one is slower than the new one and the original arcade because it is less sophisticated.
Spy Hunter theme! One of the less sung classic game tunes. I had a version of the game on PS2 & GBA, and both had the same sweet music, although I think it was more fast-paced, which matched the speedy driving action better.
It certainly looks a lot like in River Raid. However this doesn’t really say anything, as on the 2600 there propably were only so many ways to do roads/rivers like that anyway.
Umm, you’re a little wrong about Speed Racer. Trixie was Speed’s GF. She didn’t hide in the trunk of the Mach 5. She was always either in the audience or with the Pit Crew. Those who hid in the trunk of the Mach 5 were Speed’s obnoxious little brother Spridle and his chimp partner, Chim Chim.
I didn’t even know that Spy Hunter came out on the 2600. Interesting point about the dual controllers as the C64 version had exactly the same feature – you could use the first joystick for driving and firing and then your second stick for dumping oil slicks and cloudbursts.
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Oh, yes the plastic tray, it would hold both controlers right next to each other. basicly you could achive the same effect with popsickle sticks and duct tape…
Speed Racer came out in the late 60’s as an anime in Japan. So yeah I would say yeah that predates Nolan Bushnell by a few years. Although Peter Gunn does predate Speed Racer. That series came out in the late 50’s. However I doubt the the film noire detective Peter Gunn ever engaged in a James Bond type car chase.
The 5200 was my fave, but only if played with a CX40 stick lol. Then again the Nes did have Super Spy hunter which was class
I think the one on the NES was the best home console version.
Pretty impressive for the 2600…it has just about every feature – enemy cars, weapons, boat stage, even the helicopter! Do you know how big (how many Kbytes) this game was? Did it use a technique similar to River Raid to generate the road?
As much of an Atari veteran I’d like to think of myself… I simply had NO idea this was ever ported to the 2600.
I own the cartridge for the Atari 400 computer – a great port might I add.
long live Atari anyways.
Spridle and Chim Chim, not trixie and chim chim, bro…
When I heard you mention 2600 Spy Hunter in a previous video, I could hardly believe you were serious. It looks better than I imagined, I’m actually impressed with how this came out.
The most primitive version I ever played was on my Apple II, but this one takes the cake. At least the Apple has 2 buttons.
The Peter Gunn theme!!!
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