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This game seems like it was
nearing release when it was killed off by the
Crash. While the game obviously isn't complete, it's
still quite playable and isn't the worst Atari sports
title I've ever seen. It's quite difficult to shoot the ball, and the
ball will vanish into thin air at times, so this game needed a little
more work, however its really not a bad game. One funny thing about
playing this game is the fact that the computer will actually insult you
while playing! Any schoolyard or street basketball player will tell you
the game is improved about 200% by talking smack to the other players.
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| While this game is pretty playable, the
one amazing thing is the number of easter eggs contained
within the game. The first (and most obvious) egg can be
performed by pressing the numbers on the keypad. The
tones that happen from the button presses are telephone
dialing tones, and apparently with the original cart,
these tones will actually dial a phone if it is put up
against the TV speaker. The other two eggs are both
performed from the demo. While the demo is playing, you
can press the "*" button to turn the word "Realsports" on
and off, and by pressing the "5" key, the following
message appears: "When Running Into the Tropical Entropy
Nightly, By Yourself, Project And Try Reaching Into
Circles Killed Because All Seems Strange." If you take
the first letter of each word in that nonsense sentance,
you get the sentance "Written by Patrick Bass." Yet
another way of the programmer getting around the Atari
rule of not putting their name into the game. |
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Apparently, there is another
version of this game floating around, dated 13 Oct 83 that
does not contain the easter eggs in this one. However, that version has
not been dumped at this time. It's a shame that the Crash killed off some
good games along with all the fluff and crap that it (thankfully) wiped
out. However, with this being pretty fun at this level of completion, who
knows how it would have played if he had a chance to finish it...
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