[ATARI 2600] Halo 2600

[Draco1962]

Following is a description of the game and it's creator Ed Fries:

Halo 2600 is a fan-made Halo game (created by Ed Fries, who goes beyond "fan" since he once worked as the VP of Game Publishing for Microsoft's Xbox division and was instrumental in bringing Bungie Studios into the Microsoft studio family) created and distributed on real Atari 2600 cartridges. This limited-edition, handmade creation was made available at the 2010 Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas.

In the game, Halo players control Master Chief in a non-scrolling exploration game with rooms to explore and a variety of enemies to shoot. The Chief faces a variety of enemies across 64 playfields, and must find hidden keys to unlock the game's force-fields in order to reach the final boss encounter. But first, he needs a weapon...

You can download the bin file from AtariAge or play online at CodeMystics.com .

I have also included what I could find of the Cart, Snap, and Title pics.

[Circo]

Looks almost just like the xbox version

[Draco1962]

Looks almost just like the xbox version

LOL! You are correct, if you squint really hard and subtract about 20K worth of polygons and sprites! The game play reminds me a bit of Beserk meets Adventure. While not a fanboy in the truest sense, I do appreciate the homage. I am probably going to purchase a copy of the cart if the fine folks at AtariAge make some more just so I can have another plastic something on a shelf to gather dust. My wife will be impressed (not)!

[ehuonder]

Be sure that this gets added to the GameEx databases! It's amazing that someone created some Atari 2600 cartridges in 2010 for a system released in 1977!

[Draco1962]

Be sure that this gets added to the GameEx databases! It's amazing that someone created some Atari 2600 cartridges in 2010 for a system released in 1977!

Actually, there are quite a few "homebrewers" for the older systems, wiriting for the 2600, 5200, etc. There are times I wish that I still had my old reliable Atari 800XL. It was limted but it was lots of fun.