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Don't forget that the 7800 was launched in '84 before being yanked from the shelves for various legal/rights reasons. It's pretty impressive for a game of that year, if you ask me.. Now, years later when Atari got all the BS figured out and they relaunched it, they could have certainly picked a better game.. or at least expanded on the cart and gave it a little more depth (a championship mode, perhaps)? Another thing to keep in mind that the NES wasn't the sensation in '86 that it would soon be, so Atari not packing in something else more noteworthy was a bit of a moot point considering most of the NES games at the time were the black-box titles, mostly arcade ports and simplistic exclusives (minus Zelda and SMB).Trev wrote:I'd have to go w/Pole Position II for the 7800. I mean, what was the point? How could they even hope to begin to compete w/the likes of Nintendo (and to a lesser extent, Sega) w/this moldy relic?
I know it ... but shouldn't that make it actually easier since there is less to choose from?Austin wrote: This question is hard by the way.. A lot of systems didn't launch with any pack-in game.
I figure it limits the nominees to the 8 & 16-bit generations w/early next gen sytems like 3DO & Jag rounding out the field. (oh, & Wii Sports)Austin wrote:Don't forget that the 7800 was launched in '84 before being yanked from the shelves for various legal/rights reasons. It's pretty impressive for a game of that year, if you ask me.. Now, years later when Atari got all the BS figured out and they relaunched it, they could have certainly picked a better game.. or at least expanded on the cart and gave it a little more depth (a championship mode, perhaps)? Another thing to keep in mind that the NES wasn't the sensation in '86 that it would soon be, so Atari not packing in something else more noteworthy was a bit of a moot point considering most of the NES games at the time were the black-box titles, mostly arcade ports and simplistic exclusives (minus Zelda and SMB).Trev wrote:I'd have to go w/Pole Position II for the 7800. I mean, what was the point? How could they even hope to begin to compete w/the likes of Nintendo (and to a lesser extent, Sega) w/this moldy relic?
Austin wrote:I agree on Keith Courage, btw. It's not a bad game, but a pack-in game should be great..
There is an understatement if I've ever heard one.Austin wrote:Cybermorph on the Jaguar was so-so.. Kind of like a Keith Courage if you ask me. It was kind of cool, but still lacking sorely in several spots.. It wasn't exactly a Mario World or anything like that.
I thought it had a combo disc that was bundled w/ at least 2 games. Can't remember exactly, but I think one of them was a fighter (mean streets?) that I seem to remember getting poor reviews.3DOKid wrote:Didn't the CD32 launch with no games, at all, available?
Hopefully this is accurate ... certainly better than my memory at any rate.At launch, the CD32 was bundled with two games, Diggers, a new game from Millennium Interactive, and Oscar from Flair Software. A later pack included the one-on-one fighting game Dangerous Streets, a move by Commodore that was met with derision by the press.
Yeah, pack-is were common up through the 3DO/Jag, but I don't remember any after that until the Wii.sneth wrote:Most of these systems didn't launch with pack-ins, but later bundles had games.
That was definitely the case with CD32.
Post 16bit era had almost no pack ins.
Wasn't Pac-Man packed into a 2600 bundle? That game was whack...
Other discs ... you mean like that Myst demo that wouldn't even let you leave the libraryAustin wrote:Just remembered another one.. Blue Lightning on the Jaguar CD. I guess the pain of that one was alleviated slightly though thanks to a handful of other discs included in the pack as well.
