Uploaded September 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Here is 30 minutes of playing High Score Screen Burn Slow Burn, a new homebrew game for the Atari 2600.
This is a very strange game, if you can call it a game, that is oddly addicting and mesmerizing. It's "odd" in the same way that "Desert Bus" was odd, even though the gameplay here is not quite straight forward, even if it is actually a game! lol
What you are seeing in this video is the cursor moving on it's own throughout the rooms. This will go on literally FOREVER until you turn your system off. In some rooms you will see an object. When the cursor runs into that object, you score points.
You can press the button on the Atari 2600 controller to change the shape of the object and you can move that object around. You get different points based on which object you choose and you get a higher point value object added after you hit 100 points.
You can keep pressing the button even when an object is not in the room and if you LISTEN to the sounds, you can pre-choose the object for the next time one shows up in a room.
The rooms are completely random as is the movement of the cursor.
That is the game! And it's strangely enjoyable!
You can download the ROM and get more information about it here from the games author:
atariage.com/forums/topic/273124-high-score-screen-burn-slow-burn-experimental-game-beta
Here is 30 minutes of playing High Score Screen Burn Slow Burn, a new homebrew game for the Atari 2600.
This is a very strange game, if you can call it a game, that is oddly addicting and mesmerizing. It's "odd" in the same way that "Desert Bus" was odd, even though the gameplay here is not quite straight forward, even if it is actually a game! lol
What you are seeing in this video is the cursor moving on it's own throughout the rooms. This will go on literally FOREVER until you turn your system off. In some rooms you will see an object. When the cursor runs into that object, you score points.
You can press the button on the Atari 2600 controller to change the shape of the object and you can move that object around. You get different points based on which object you choose and you get a higher point value object added after you hit 100 points.
You can keep pressing the button even when an object is not in the room and if you LISTEN to the sounds, you can pre-choose the object for the next time one shows up in a room.
The rooms are completely random as is the movement of the cursor.
That is the game! And it's strangely enjoyable!
You can download the ROM and get more information about it here from the games author:
atariage.com/forums/topic/273124-high-score-screen-burn-slow-burn-experimental-game-beta
