Any 7800 fans here?

[8bitdude]

What are your guys top 10 7800 games?

And what games do you guys believe are better on the 7800 then the Nes?

I thinking about getting one now to finish off my 8 bit system collection. I already have a SMS and a Nes.

[digitalpress]

This might help:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1681

I can't say I prefer ANY 7800 game over its NES counterpart, but there are a few 7800 exclusives that I truly enjoy, particularly Midnight Mutants and Ninja Golf. And of course, all the 2600 goodness that comes with the system by default.

[7th lutz]

Any order for top 10
Commando
Ball Blazer
Mario Bros.
Pac-man Collection( games in collection are Pac-man, Ms. Pac-man,Puck Man,Hangly Man,Ultra Pac-Man,Random Mazes, Ms. Pac-Attack, Ms. Random Mazes
Beefdrop-homebrew version of Burgertime
Food Fight
Dig Dug
Centipede
Joust
Tower toppler

My top 10 could change by the end Janaury. I am planning to buy some new 7800 Homebrew games, so it change as result. You can get Homebrew games like Pac-man Collection from the Atari age store. Here is the link to the 7800 section of the store: http://www.atariage.com/store/index....cPath=23_90_96

Games better then the nes are Tower Toppler, Beef Drop, Xenophobe, Commando and Rampage.

[ubersaurus]

This might help:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1681

I can't say I prefer ANY 7800 game over its NES counterpart, but there are a few 7800 exclusives that I truly enjoy, particularly Midnight Mutants and Ninja Golf. And of course, all the 2600 goodness that comes with the system by default.

I don't know about you, but I feel that there are a few 7800 games that are done better on that platform than the NES.

Offhand, I can think of Ballblazer, Joust, Ikari Warriors, Commando, Rampage, and Tower Toppler. There's a number more that are pretty comparable-Mario Bros, Xevious, Donkey Kong Junior, Ms. Pac-Man...

The NES rocked the 7800's ass on Donkey Kong, Galaga, and a few other multiplatform releases, but there are some that I definitely prefer on Atari's machine.

If I had to give a list of my top 7800 games, it'd look something like this:
Scrapyard Dog
Ballblazer
Robotron 2084
Beef Drop
Commando
Ikari Warriors
Midnight Mutants
Food Fight
Ninja Golf
Ace of Aces

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

10. Food Fight
9. Food Fight
8. Food Fight
7. Food Fight
6. Food Fight
5. Food Fight
4. Choplifter
3. Karateka
2. Ninja Golf
1. Food Fight

[swlovinist]

The 7800 did one thing right...sprites. The 7800 did some games right. The NES it was not and in most side by side comparasions(minus Ms. Pac Man/Pac Man Collection) I would go with the Nes version. Here are my Top 10

1. Pac Man Collection
2. Robotron 2084
3. Food Fight
4. Ninja Golf
5. Centipede
6. Midnight Mutants
7. Beef Drop
8. Dig Dug
9. Asteroids
10. Xenophope

[tom]

Never liked the 7800, never liked the NES, SMS all the way for me.

[Aswald]

Joust. This was the reason I purchased a 7800 in 1988. To be honest, had the ColecoVision version (1983) been completed and released, then I never would've gotten a 7800.

Desert Falcon, Dig Dug, Tower Toppler, Pole Position 2, Food Fight, Xevious, Robotron: 2084, Ms. Pac-Man, and the like, were all good.

As far as "Top 10 Games"...wouldn't that be a good percentage of them all?

[ssjlance]

All I really liked on it was Robotron 2048, and various other arcade ports. Although Donkey Kong gave the NES quite a run.

[xaer0knight]

i just recently started looking at the 7800 because i saw Dark Chambers and Commando.. But hey I was 6 yrs old playing Astroids with my father before school in 88

1. Astroids
2. Pole Position
3. Joust

also i like Dark Chambers but if it had music and better sound, I Would play it more

[8bitdude]

I got to say I enjoy choplifter better on the 7800 then the choplifter on the Nes.

7800 has very good gameplay and no slowdown

[guitargary75]

1. Ace of Aces
2. Food Fight
3. Ballblazer
4. Robotron 2084
5. Beef Drop
6. Commando
7. Ikari Warriors
8. Midnight Mutants
9. Asteroids
10. Ninja Golf

[Steve W]

1. Midnight Mutants - how could you not love a game that stars Al Lewis (Grampa Munster)? The game's like an advanced form of the classic 2600 game Adventure, except that MM's viewpoint is isometric. And you get to kill zombies and giant bosses like a full screen sized skull that shoots eyeballs at you. Classic.
2. Ninja Golf - You really can't go wrong with a premise like this one. You are a ninja that has to prove his worth by battling bad guys across nine golf courses, and fighting a dragon for the right to putt. Awesome.
3. Fatal Run - This one's always been a personal favorite of mine. Drive from town to town, dropping off medical supplies and upgrade your car to keep yourself alive until you reach the next town. I always liked the ending, with the launching space shuttle.
4. Ballblazer - Essentially it's air hockey from the viewpoint of your paddle, but with loads of sci-fi trappings that you'd expect from Lucasfilm Games.
5. Alien Brigade - An Operation Wolf-type game, with mutating creatures and interesting locations, like an underwater level. It's better with the XE Lightgun, but it's still pretty playable without it.
6. Scrapyard Dog - A nice little platformer which gets pretty tough by the end. The one thing I don't like about it, though, is that the final boss battle is essentially one of those sliding tile puzzles. I've always hated those things, and I never managed to solve the puzzle before the dog gets sawed in half.
7. Crossbow - Classic arcade game that works pretty well on the 7800. Have a good, working light gun. Both of my XE Lightguns don't function anymore, so I don't get to play this one as much. It can be played with a joystick, but this one needs the gun.
8. Basketbrawl - Another one that most aren't going to agree with. A two-on-two game with no real rules. There's power-ups to pick up, a guy off the sidelines who randomly throws knives at you, and you can beat the hell out of the other team and score over and over while they're unconscious.
9. Dark Chambers - Ancestor of Dandy Dungeons for the Atari 8-bit computers, but instead of it's sibling Gauntlet's need to suck quarters out of your pockets by chucking a million enemies at you, Dark Chambers takes a more relaxed approach to it's gameplay. It's no Gauntlet, but it's still pretty good on it's own.
10. Desert Falcon - A good little overhead isometric view game, where you fly a falcon over the Egyptian desert, picking up heiroglyphs to activate special abilities, and winging your way to the Great Sphinx for a boss battle. Pretty nice little game that also got ported to the 2600 and XE. The 2600 version makes me wonder why Coleco made such a crappy port of Zaxxon, when this game shows you that a decent port could have been done.

[8bitdude]

7800 fan base will just get larger and larger

Especially with the new hombrew games coming