Turbo 2600 port

[Unofficial Who]

Champ Games have just revealed they are creating a port of Turbo for the Atari 2600, a game that I was jealous of my Coleco owning friends enjoying.

 

https://champ.games/turbo-arcade

 

 

 

[Swainy]

I love Turbo, so much so that I finally bought the steering wheel for the Coleco version a few years back. It should work well with an Atari paddle.

 

 

[Unofficial Who]

Hopefully the 2600 port has that amazing ambulance that would wipe you out if you didn't pull to the shoulder.

 

edit, just realised is this the first game with jump cuts?

[amc]

I bought a Colecovision Flashback console and was hoping the little bugger had Turbo on it. Always fancied playing it but alas it's not one of the 61 games. I think I'll see if it's available on one of the probable myriad Colecovision compilations, if not I'll emulate it, or the arcade release. Probably better off that way as the Colceovision (and especially the Flashback version's) controller is nasty.

 

The wheel was always up there with the Vectrex in my mind as a kid. Crazy hardware to have in your home at the time and looked upon with hungry eyes.

 

Sega, yeah?

[Unofficial Who]

32 minutes ago, amc said:

I bought a Colecovision Flashback console and was hoping the little bugger had Turbo on it. Always fancied playing it but alas it's not one of the 61 games. I think I'll see if it's available on one of the probable myriad Colecovision compilations, if not I'll emulate it, or the arcade release. Probably better off that way as the Colceovision (and especially the Flashback version's) controller is nasty.

 

The wheel was always up there with the Vectrex in my mind as a kid. Crazy hardware to have in your home at the time and looked upon with hungry eyes.

 

Sega, yeah?

 

Yep, not Sega's finest hour though.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_(video_game)

 

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Turbo was designed and coded by Steve Hanawa. In an interview, Hanawa stated that despite its historical significance as a precedent-setting racing video game, he considers the process of creating it to have been his worst development experience at Sega. Development of Turbo required such a difficult and protracted schedule of coding and debugging that he was hospitalized for a month following its completion due to stress, exhaustion and a spontaneously collapsed lung.[7]