@devlin It's in my 2600+ on this very desk as I type...
#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt it, though.
#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Defender" - #Atari2600
Much-maligned port of the Williams arcade classic, and it's easy to see why, although TBH I found it a lot more playable this time. That might be due in part to a nice, clear, stable image on my 2600+!
"Defender II" ("Stargate") surpassed this in every way and showed the system off much better. But this would still have been preferable to not having "Defender" at home at all, which was my situation in 1982.
#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Frogger" - #Intellivision & "Frogger II: Threedeep" - #Atari2600
Both original carts are new additions to my library, and in the latter case an entirely new game to me. I'm reassuringly still crap at the original, though. It got a very decent port to Atari and this INTV one is not bad either. Small black mark for the much-too-slow jingle 🎶 - would honestly have been better not to bother. But that's nit-picking; it's "Frogger", it's all good!
#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Space Invaders" - Super Famicom.
45 years of practice and I still think anything over 2000 points is a decent score. Some things really don't get old.
#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Super Cobra" - Gakken.
It's pretty though...
https://www.facebook.com/ihad1ofthose/photos/463451120685448
I've gone down in a hail of lead - again. But at least it looks like my partner got lucky...
#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Crime Patrol" on #Sega #MegaCD.
#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Astroblast / Astrosmash" - #Atari2600 and #Intellivision.
The original Intellivision version is graphically more interesting, but the Atari's paddle controllers make the game a lot easier to play. That - and the composite video mod that someone competent fit to this Atari being a LOT clearer than the one I bodged myself on the Intellivision - make this a flukey away win for Team Sunnyvale.
@N0ZB
Here you go!
Not easy to play with one hand, so #TurnsOutImStillCrapAt this one, too...
#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Pole Position" - #Vectrex
Actually, I'd never played it on Vectrex before; new platform, but familiar results!
I was a big fan of #Gauntlet in the arcade, but coming as late as 1987 meant this #ZXSpectrum port entirely passed me by at the time.
A shame, as it turns out it's pretty good. It would be an understatement to say that the Speccie's record with arcade ports was not exactly a litany of triumph, so this stands out as very playable and - crucially - RECOGNIZABLE analog of the original experience.
#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt it, though. "Blue Valkyrie... is about to die..."
Long Starbird