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Today we’re unboxing the Complete in Box 1982 Gorf for the Atari 2600.. That's right... Straight from the Golden Age of the Arcades to your Atari 2600 console.. The home port omit the Galaxians stage because the Japanese developer Namco owns the rights to the franchise at the time of this home release.
This 1982 Atari 2600 Gorf CBS Video Game CIB with Complete Warranty Cards Set is Now For Sale at The Collectors Zone eBay Store - ebay.com/itm/365664539004
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What is Gorf?
Gorf is an arcade video game released in 1981 by Dave Nutting Associates. It is a fixed shooter with five distinct levels, the first of which is based on Space Invaders and another on Galaxian. The game makes use of synthesized speech for the Gorfian robot which taunts the player, powered by a speech chip. Gorf allows the player to buy two additional lives per quarter before starting the game, for a maximum of seven lives.
*** Fun Fact *** Along with Stratovox in 1980, Taskete in 1980, and Berzerk in 1980, Gorf in 1981 was also one of the earliest video games with speech synthesis in arcade games.
Gorf let's players take control of an unnamed starship from the Interstellar Space Force with a mission to prevent the Gorfian Empire from conquering Earth. The ship is capable of moving freely in all directions around the lower third of the screen under the control of a joystick. This was a departure from older vertically oriented linear shooters, including Space Invaders and Galaxian, which allowed only horizontal movement of the player's ship controlled by left and right buttons. At the time, the joystick input and two-dimensional movement were still unusual enough that contemporary video game guides noted them as distinctive features of Gorf.
Gorf was coded for the Commodore 64 by programmer Eric Cotton. In April 1982, Roklan Corporation announced it would release Gorf for various home computers. Roklan developed the port for the Atari 400 and 800 computers as well as the Atari 2600 port for CBS Video Games.
CBS Video Games distributed the ports for the Atari 2600. For the port for the ColecoVision console, Gorf went through 39 changed before being accepted. Coleco's product Evaulator, Jodi McIlroy, said that all these changes were relatively small as they were trying to make it just right before releasing it.
Gorf was released for the Atari 2600 in December 1982. In 1983, Coleco published a version of Gorf for the ColecoVision in May while CBS published a version for the Atari 5200 in October.
In late 1982, CBS Video Games announced plans to release Gorf for the Intellivision in early 1983. The game was ported also ported to the BBC Micro, and VIC-20 by multiple developers between 1982 and 1983.
Galaxian was the first game Bally had lost rights to and suggested that this was the reason why ports of the game had not included the Galaxians level.
The Commodore 64 port is the only one with synthesized speech via the Magic Voice Speech module.
You can find me on Instagram (thecollectorszone5150), Facebook (MasterCollectoroftheZone) and on The Geek and I Podcast YouTube Channel. The Geek and I Podcast is also on Apple, Spottily and other services that air Podcasts. Thank you for checking out The Collectors Zone.
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Today we’re unboxing the Complete in Box 1982 Gorf for the Atari 2600.. That's right... Straight from the Golden Age of the Arcades to your Atari 2600 console.. The home port omit the Galaxians stage because the Japanese developer Namco owns the rights to the franchise at the time of this home release.
This 1982 Atari 2600 Gorf CBS Video Game CIB with Complete Warranty Cards Set is Now For Sale at The Collectors Zone eBay Store - ebay.com/itm/365664539004
Get Your Pixel Fix Like It's 1986 - It's The Atari 7800+ Unboxing - youtu.be/rlUV7f59EjM
What is Gorf?
Gorf is an arcade video game released in 1981 by Dave Nutting Associates. It is a fixed shooter with five distinct levels, the first of which is based on Space Invaders and another on Galaxian. The game makes use of synthesized speech for the Gorfian robot which taunts the player, powered by a speech chip. Gorf allows the player to buy two additional lives per quarter before starting the game, for a maximum of seven lives.
*** Fun Fact *** Along with Stratovox in 1980, Taskete in 1980, and Berzerk in 1980, Gorf in 1981 was also one of the earliest video games with speech synthesis in arcade games.
Gorf let's players take control of an unnamed starship from the Interstellar Space Force with a mission to prevent the Gorfian Empire from conquering Earth. The ship is capable of moving freely in all directions around the lower third of the screen under the control of a joystick. This was a departure from older vertically oriented linear shooters, including Space Invaders and Galaxian, which allowed only horizontal movement of the player's ship controlled by left and right buttons. At the time, the joystick input and two-dimensional movement were still unusual enough that contemporary video game guides noted them as distinctive features of Gorf.
Gorf was coded for the Commodore 64 by programmer Eric Cotton. In April 1982, Roklan Corporation announced it would release Gorf for various home computers. Roklan developed the port for the Atari 400 and 800 computers as well as the Atari 2600 port for CBS Video Games.
CBS Video Games distributed the ports for the Atari 2600. For the port for the ColecoVision console, Gorf went through 39 changed before being accepted. Coleco's product Evaulator, Jodi McIlroy, said that all these changes were relatively small as they were trying to make it just right before releasing it.
Gorf was released for the Atari 2600 in December 1982. In 1983, Coleco published a version of Gorf for the ColecoVision in May while CBS published a version for the Atari 5200 in October.
In late 1982, CBS Video Games announced plans to release Gorf for the Intellivision in early 1983. The game was ported also ported to the BBC Micro, and VIC-20 by multiple developers between 1982 and 1983.
Galaxian was the first game Bally had lost rights to and suggested that this was the reason why ports of the game had not included the Galaxians level.
The Commodore 64 port is the only one with synthesized speech via the Magic Voice Speech module.
You can find me on Instagram (thecollectorszone5150), Facebook (MasterCollectoroftheZone) and on The Geek and I Podcast YouTube Channel. The Geek and I Podcast is also on Apple, Spottily and other services that air Podcasts. Thank you for checking out The Collectors Zone.
The Collectors Zone eBay Store - ebay.com/usr/the_collectors_zone
The Party Arcade '77 YouTube Channel - youtube.com/@ThePartyArcade77
The Collectors Zone YouTube Channel - youtube.com/c/thecollectorszone
The Collectors Zone Facebook Page - facebook.com/MasterCollectoroftheZone
The Geek and I Podcast Facebook Page - facebook.com/thegeekandipodcastwithJohnandJeff
The Geek and I Podcast YouTube Channel - youtube.com/channel/UCuem7-ek43GqUro1ZD8K1Ig
*** FYI *** MY VIDEO WAS MADE FOR PURE ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSE. THESE COPYRIGHTS BELONG TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNER.
NO copyright infringement and NO commercial benefits intended! Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use is in favor of fair use.
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