C64 Direct-to-TV.

Post by **C64GLeN** » 29/04/2004 - 11:18

Like wow!

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfis ... 5&lp=nl_en

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » 29/04/2004 - 11:56

Just sports titles ? and no sign of Daley Thompson Decathlon !!! ...

Wheres Katarkis, Delta, Outrun, IO, Cybernoid, Wizball, Stormlord .... etc etc etc

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 29/04/2004 - 12:04

1) What makes you think they won't do different versions of the stick with different types of games? Anyway, it's _Epyx_ sports games. In a tidy nice Kempston! Doesn't that make YOU excited??

> Katarkis
Licencing problems

> Delta
Trying to licence it

> Outrun
Licencing problems

> IO
Licencing problems

> Cybernoid
Licencing problems

> Wizball
Licencing problems

> Stormlord
Licencing problems

I thought we all knew the world isn't even remotely easy when you try and do something properly...

Chris

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » 29/04/2004 - 12:21

How true.... Im just not big on sports games is all, im into racing, shooting and fighting. I hope they do find a way to release those games (even katarkis, althought it was banned for being an r-type rip, it still rocked, think ive still got it somewhere on casette lol).

Kepmston is nice tho - glad they didnt go the way of the Konix (hand injury time), or Quickshot 2 (With ultra fast mega power turbo nutter blasting button) lol ....

Hey - heres an idea.... shove a USB port in there for a pc hook up and let us put .d64 roms of our own in

- ahh if only.

dan gillgrass · Post by **dan gillgrass** » 29/04/2004 - 14:21

Matrix wrote:Just sports titles ? and no sign of Daley Thompson Decathlon !!! ...

Maybe they wanted for the stick to remain in one piece after an hours play

Makke · Post by **Makke** » 29/04/2004 - 16:52

Matrix wrote:and no sign of Daley Thompson Decathlon !!! ...

Screw that! Activision's Decathlon is da sheeeeeaaaat, ya'll!

tomsk · Post by **tomsk** » 03/05/2004 - 11:18

Yeah this is very exciting - even if they just release the sports genre.
However, the product needs a bit of careful thought before they release it onto the market.
Take the Atari version. 10 games of which only half were playable - not down to the quality of game, but the control method. Why put breakout, circus atari, pong (all paddle control games) onto the damn thing ? Unplayable !
Now the C64 used to use a lot of keyboard as well as joystick controls. What happens with games that used the space bar or other key presses for actions with-in the game ? Will they build on an extra button for such things ? And I don't even want to think how they'll handle high score tables!!!

This could be really special - and good value with 30 games. I agree, I'd prefer more action based games (shoot em ups, racers, etc) but as Chris mentioned licensing issues could/will get in the way.

Fingers crossed.............and yes Makke, Activision Decathalon was the real deal !

Tomsk

tony.rc · Post by **tony.rc** » 04/05/2004 - 3:41

How will they do 2 players for games like "Wizball"?

30 games is not even a drop in the ocean when it comes to volume of C64 games out there!

Not to mention the ugly joystick, I prefer my TAC2 thanks!

Post by **LMan** » 04/05/2004 - 6:25

The kewl thing about it is that they made new c64 hardware... <img src="http://www.smiley-channel.de/grafiken/s ... /mix10.gif">

I'd love to see a shock proof c64 for outdoor gaming use, with a HD / USB interface, so you can load your favourite stuff on it. And an integrated pull-out keyboard. Yay. That would be cool.

CraigG · Post by **CraigG** » 04/05/2004 - 8:24

Chris Abbott wrote:1) What makes you think they won't do different versions of the stick with different types of games? Anyway, it's _Epyx_ sports games. In a tidy nice Kempston! Doesn't that make YOU excited??

Myself? Mildly. However, if this stick is Epyx-only, I don't see it doing that well. The lack of variety will kill it. Ironically, I think what I said on Lemon may well turn out to be false: this stick *does* sort of look like it's aiming at the fan boys. If that's the case, I sincerely hope to see the Minter C64 TV stick thingamy, with all of his groovy games. Now, THAT I'd buy.

Makke · Post by **Makke** » 04/05/2004 - 11:20

I'm definitly getting one of those.

Things I'd like to add to it would be a serial port, so you can change games in it, and hook more than one of them in at ones and play two player.

I didn't read the whole text about it through, so it might say something about it there that I've missed...