Game looks really cool. I have a lot of nostalgia for the arcade game, I remember playing it with my dad, and the 2600 with my neighbor friend as a kid.
Like you, I played the original to death. The robot shots are kind of musical, and these bots would just blindly decide to walk into the walls. I remember setting up a game with no Otto, where I'd get behind a barrier with one robot left. The lone bot would slowly approach the barrier, shooting. I noticed the robots were programmed so they could only move if not firing a shot, so when a bot was close enough to the barrier, with me right there on the other side, they'd be shooting nearly constantly. Watch the bot's rear foot, and you'd see it twitch. The bot keeps trying to move closer but was getting cut off as it was time to fire another shot. So if the bot is really close, he can't really move, just shoot.
If the voice element was available bitd, kids would’ve cranked their T.V. volume all the way up! I can only imagine the ‘robot voice’, echoing all over the neighborhood, during the summer! Unfortunately, Atari cracked the 2600 voice kernel a bit too late!
@@thestreamer3513 Pitfall II contains a chip for the music and other stuff (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall_II:_Lost_Caverns). The emulator that the 'Atari 2600+' actually runs on is very capable of emulating said chip (I've been playing Pitfall II for ages on Stella), but it may have been disabled because of copyright issues. What baffles me is the added speech synthesis in this Berzerk version. I'd be surprised if it works on real, vintage, hardware. Wonder if anybody tried... Anyway, that the killer app doesn't work on this "hardware" (to me it's more of a vehicle for Stella) is a deal breaker and I think Atari might have made that a bit more clear. They are honest about the fact that a small number of games don't work on the 2600+, but Pitfall II is the ultimate game for it. Since most Atari fans know that it runs Stella, and fans know Stella is an immaculate piece of software, some of us boomers might be disappointed. Enjoy your Atari and thanks for the video! :)
