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H.E.R.O. (Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation) for the Atari 2600. Classic action-puzzler published by Activision in 1984. A technical marvel for the Atari 2600 due to its depth, varied mechanics, and engaging gameplay loop. Was called also a 'hidden gem', which is funny because it was everywhere, second only to... show more

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Richard Langford (who else?) remade the ZX Spectrum version for Windows, and it looks good

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Luís Carlos Zardovor 2 Monaten

Way better than Pitfall IMHO...

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It ends! Which is surprising for Atari 2600. At 1 million points, the game ends, with exclamation marks on the score. And the word PRO appears after level 20.

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Activision, Imajic and Atari themselves were kind of the only devs on the 2600 making great stuff. This game's impressive as hell, basically a proto-Pitfall II

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I think technically one of the best 2600 game is Pitfall 2. It has a hardware accelerated cartridge. H.E.R.O, Pitfall and River Raid all of them from Activision!

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Absolutely! Pitfall 2 blew my mind. He can swim! He can grab a ride in a balloon! It was a blast for a kid back then.

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Pitfall II on the Atari 2600 bypassed the console's limits by putting a custom coprocessor called the DPC (Display Processor Chip) directly inside the game cartridge. This hardware addition provided two extra sound channels, a music sequencer, and bitmap graphics streaming!

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Retroslayervor 2 Monaten

If I only had a dollar for every time I’ve blown myself up! 🧨 💥

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Dante retro dev 💾vor 2 Monaten

Yup.😅 And this guy too:

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Retroslayervor 2 Monaten

Haha for real! I get multiple bombs going and it’s just a disaster waiting to happen.

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One of my favorite game ever ❤️

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CMDR FOSDYKE/Lizzy Colbertvor 2 Monaten

The good old days!🥰

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CarlosGamesvor 2 Monaten

Lo jugaba en en una consola Atari de mi primo, tardes completas de entretención.

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TwoCatsYellingvor 2 Monaten

Fun game! I had a really bad habit of walking into those killer walls, though.

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Andrej Kvasnicavor 2 Monaten

H.E.R.O. and River Raid - what a combo! Played it for hours on my Atari 800XL and Atari 130XE machines as well as on @batocera_linux on @Raspberry_Pi.

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I played this on MSX

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I also played the MSX version later. H.E.R.O., Pitfall 2 and River Raid were the Activision Atari 2600 games that I remember the MSX versions (they are good).

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so many hours!

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Milanvor 2 Monaten

Wow..😃, I remember playing HERO on Atari 800xl. What a game!

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🤩

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H.E.R.O. really was punching above the 2600's weight, that lava-cave descent still holds up

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Wow. I never even knew about this. I could have really used this back in the day as a break from that horrible port of Pac-Man, or ET, or Tennis...

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It's utterly amazing that they fully implemented this one on the 2600! I first played the Colecovision version.

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Those damned levels where you hit the light entering and had to steer to the exit only by the light of your lazer... Great memories.

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This really reminds me of Spelunker. Funny enough, Spelunker actually came first!

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