The first game on System 1, designed by a 17 year old Mark Cerny who took the concept to Atari as part of a public competition they were running, landing himself a job with them in the process. Game Trivia : Marble Madness was the first game to feature true stereo sound. Gameplay : Use the trackball to steer your marble to the end of 6 increasingly difficult maze like courses before your time runs out. Magazine Reviews (external link) : C+VG Mar '85 Trackball Decoder : Used only on Marble Madness, some System 1 boards apparently may not have this.įlyers (external link) : Flyer ) Music / Audio effects : Hal Canon, Dennis HarperĬostumes & special effects : Susan G. Also, you can reach across a gap to whip certain cages instead of following paths and ladders to them.Īt the end of the bridge stage, whipping Willie lasso's her and brings her in for a kiss, giving you bonus points, while Short Round says "Knock it off!" On the cage stage, instead of clambering down short ladders, it is quicker to fall to the lower level. On levels which have pits of molten lava, whipping enemy guards until they fall in the lava will earn additional bonus points. Whipping all the gas cannisters in the mines stage gives a 'Pyro Bonus' and whipping every bone pile and snake in the altar stage also gives a bonus. Game Trivia : The first Atari System I game with speech.Ĭheats / Easter Eggs : At the difficulty select screen, whip all the hanging skeletons and both snakes to receive a 5,000 point 'Completion Bonus'. Gameplay : The first stage involves rescuing the slave children from their cages, followed by a minecart chase, then stealing a shankara stone from the sacrifice room, once this is done 3 times the game either ends (on Easy) or you have a rope bridge stage where you have to defeat Mola Ram (on Medium & Hard). Magazine Reviews (external link) : C+VG Dec '85 Notes : A prototype, if I were to take an educated guess I would say this ended up being Blasteroids.įlyers (external link) : Flyer 1 ) - Flyer 2 ) The original System 1 main boards and cartridges used a large number of 7400 series TTL chips, these early boards were later replaced by the functionally identical "System 1 LSI Main" and "LSI Cartridge" boards, which used LSI ASICs (for reduced manufacturing costs).Ĭartridge board : Contained the game ROMs, graphics shift registers, Slapstic copy protection chip, Yamaha YM2151 FM sound generator, a POKEY and (for some games) a TI TMS5220 LPC speech synthesis chip. Protection Chip : Slapstic 137412-1** - Slapstic F.A.Q.Ĭolours : 256 colours from a palette of 1024īoard composition : A Main Board and a Game Cartridge PCB. Sound CPU : MOS Technology M6502 1.789772 MHz * See the related collection page for other cards and recipes not included in this collection. Φ Please note that if cards are not currently available in one of the markets then the current collection cost will only reflect those that are, and thus may not be accurate. Security Cam + Loss Prevention + The Vault Million Dollar Diva + Elvis Impersonator + The Strip
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