Vangaurd Need To Be Ported.

[Atariboy2600]

Vangaurd was on both Atari 2600 and 5200 and its kills me that this game had never came out on the 7800 and I had been dreaming this game and many other to be on the 7800 and many moons ago I made up some mockup label and game sprites.

 

I love this game so much I even have both games new unopened and my original childhood games these the photo I took of them.

 

I dont know anything about programming but why not use the 5200 code and just beef up the graphics but I dont know.

[BydoEmpire]

I always liked Vanguard as well. I got a 2600 used from a friend back in the early-mid 80s - I traded him a box of pirated Apple 2 floppies for his 2600 setup - and Vanguard was one of the handful of games I got with it. I played it so much on my little black and white TV. I dig the 5200 version as well.

 

Porting games from one console to another is not insignificant. I'm sure you could take *some* of the code over, but there would be a lot of rewriting from scratch. Add it to the big pile of "games we'd love to see."

[power]

this definitely came out on the 8 bits. awesome game. what i'm saying is, get an XEGS or similar and profit.

 

Edited November 7, 2018 by power

[SlidellMan]

If you do decide to port it to the 7800, maybe a dual joystick option would be on the table.

[Atariboy2600]

BTW is it me or In the starting music they played the theme from Star Trek The Motion Picture and once you pick up the energy pod it will play a tune of from Flash Gordon Hawkmen Battle Theme.

[Bakasama]

So where's the SNK copyright?

[The Usotsuki]

BTW is it me or In the starting music they played the theme from Star Trek The Motion Picture and once you pick up the energy pod it will play a tune of from Flash Gordon Hawkmen Battle Theme.

It's not you.

[Atariboy2600]

So where's the SNK copyright?

 

As far as I know:

 

Wiki:

Atari, Inc. released ports of Vanguard for the Atari 2600 in 1982 and the Atari 5200 in 1983. The Atari 2600 version was programmed by Dave Payne.^[6]

SNK was originally founded in 1973 as "Shin Nihon Kikaku" and reorganized in 1978 as a stock company under the name of "Shin Nihon Kikaku Corporation".^[2] When Eikichi Kawasaki noticed the rapid growth that was occurring in the coin-operated video game market, he expanded Shin Nihon Kikaku to include the development and marketing of stand-alone coin-op games.

The first two known titles released were Ozma Wars (1979), a vertically scrolling space shooter and Safari Rally (1980), a maze game. Game quality improved over time, most notably with Vanguard (1981), a side-scrolling space shooter that many consider the precursor to modern classics such as Gradius and R-Type. SNK licensed the game to Centuri for distribution in North America, who ultimately started manufacturing and distributing the game itself when profits exceeded expectations.^[18]

[Atariboy2600]

So where's the SNK copyright?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuri

[Atariboy2600]

I also took both the 2600 and 5200 sprites and just recolor to match the arcade look but still having there 2600 and 5200 shapes and sizes.

[Kurt_Woloch]

In my eyes, the enemies shown in the first post's "fake" screenshot actually look better (closer to the arcade) than the recolored 2600 / 5200 sprites.

[+Atari_Warlord]

This was one of my favorite arcade titles on the 2600. This is one of many titles that should have come to the 7800 too.

[H.E.R.O.]

I loved Vanguard so much it was the name of the first rock band I had in high school.