A strange idea I had for a game

[Tadao]

Originally Posted by 90's Child

I had an interesting idea for a game that would be a tribute to the old atari games, and I was wondering what you would think about it. It would be called Age of Atari. Basically, if you remember, there was a rumor about the old Battlezone arcade game that you could actually reach that volcano in the distance that was part of the scenery, and there would be a castle on its rim that you could enter. Well, that's where I got the idea for this game from. It would be basically a tribute to all the old Atari games, both for the 1600 and the Arcades, done in a vector-graphics style (To add to that old-school, eerie feel), taking place in a world where aspects of all Atari's old games appeared, whether it be the bugs from Centipede and Millipede, the items, castles, dragons and bats from Advanture, the field and tanks from Battlezone (of course), the creatures from Tempest or the bricks; ball and paddle from Breakout, along with many other references, with bosses like the Centepede the duck-like dragons from Adventure, a literal Atari Jaguar, the Quootile from Yar's Revenge and more. It would be an adventure in a Zelda vein, with plenty of story and with some gameplay variety thrown in (Such as shooter stages).

Like a best of, but you have to adventure to unlock games?

[90's Child]

Originally Posted by Tadao

Like a best of, but you have to adventure to unlock games?

No, the idea is more like a Zelda-Type story-heavy adventure game based on the old Atari games, not so much based on unlocking games as it is just a self-contained adventure featuring the settings, characters (at least as much character as the moving forms upon the screen could have had back in those days) and creations of the first era of games as led by Atari. And yes, it would contain references to the Atari Jaguar, mostly taking a few lesser bosses from it, making fun of it, and it would have that Scotsman that shot fire out of his kilt as a minor recurring character. Because a scotsman shooting fire out of his crotch is funny. Anyone have any ideas for how they would elaborate on the idea?

And also, why do people keep accusing me of plagarism of this idea? Was there someone else who came up with it before me. If so, please tell me, as I'd like to see how their interpretation of it turned out.