Old Classic Retro Gaming | Atari 800 Game: Reversi (1980 ArtSci, Inc.) @oldclassicgame | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
Reversi is a computer adaptation of the well-liked board game Othello, which is played by two players. With eight different skill levels available, the player can only compete against the computer. The objective is to capture and reverse the color of the computer's black pawns by flanking them (vertically, horizontally, or diagonally) in an attempt to fill the board with as many of your own color as you can.
Reversi is a computer adaptation of the well-liked board game Othello, which is played by two players. With eight different skill levels available, the player can only compete against the computer. The objective is to capture and reverse the color of the computer's black pawns by flanking them (vertically, horizontally, or diagonally) in an attempt to fill the board with as many of your own color as you can.
![Mattel Intellivision Game: Hard Hat [Prototype] (1979 Mattel Electronics)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IMMAxbyEyAA/hqdefault.jpg "Mattel Intellivision Game: Hard Hat [Prototype] (1979 Mattel Electronics)
A platform game where players control a construction worker whose job is to add windows to two separate buildings.
Each building consists of six floors that contains space for five windows per floor. The buildings themselves are separated by a crane holding a scaffolding. Players have to grab the sheets of glass from the scaffolding and place them on each floor one by one. However, there is a vandal located at street level who occasionally hurls a rock to break a sheet of glass that had been added to the building thus slowing down the construction workers job. If the player can get five windows across on a floor or six windows lined up vertically with one on each floor, the glass becomes unbreakable thus thwarting the vandals vandalism.
Since the scaffolding moves to each floor, players have to get to the higher floors of the building by climbing pipes. Once the player takes ten windows from the scaffolding, it goes back down to the street to get a refill of sheets of glass. During this time a cooler filled with soda will randomly appear on a floor which the player can scurry to in order to gain some bonus points before it disappears. The game ends when all the windows get added to the building and the player climbs to the top of the building to receive their final score.
There is also a two player mode where two players compete against each other to see who can put up all the windows for their building first. Players can slow down their opponents by smashing their windows with a hammer. The gameplay rules of the single player game apply in this mode too. The player who has the highest score at the end wins the match.
This game was planned to be released for the mattell intellivision console but was cancelled.")
![Atari 800 Game: Video Chess [Aka. Computer Chess] (1979 Atari)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KHnOQL7d6MU/hqdefault.jpg "Atari 800 Game: Video Chess [Aka. Computer Chess] (1979 Atari)
A top-down board game where move a piece, place the X on the board onto the piece to be moved then press the red button. Next, move the X to where you want the piece to go and press the button again. If the move is illegal, the 2600 will give a warning sound and not make the move.
To castle your king, the king and rook must not have been moved. You move your king two squares in the direction of the rook to castle with. The 2600 will then automatically move your rook around your king, completing the move. You cannot castle out of check and you cannot castle to the kings side if any squares between the king and rook are threatened.
Another maneuver is called en passant. This move is used to counteract the enemy pawns initial double move on a adjacent square. To carry out the en passant, you must advance your pawn to the fifth rank. Your opponent then has the option of moving his or her pawn one square (where it would be under attack) or two squares. If you opponent elects to move two squares, the en passant move allows you to take that pawn by diagonally moving your pawn to the square that was skipped over.
Note: Same as the Atari 2600 version but with more detailed graphics.")
