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Birthday Mania
''Birthday Mania'' is a 1984 shoot 'em up video game for the Atari 2600. Each copy was Build to order, made to order and displayed an in-game birthday message personalized with a name. ''Birthday Mania'' was developed independently and only advertised in local newspapers. With about ten sales, it is one of the Video game collecting#Rare games, rarest and poorest-selling commercial video games. In the Atari 2600 library, the personalization aspect is unique to ''Birthday Mania'' except for very few custom copies of ''Spacechase'' and ''Raiders of the Lost Ark (video game), Raiders of the Lost Ark''. Gameplay ''Birthday Mania'' starts with a birthday message including a name specified when the game was ordered, while the "Happy Birthday to You" melody plays. A hatted man, named "Mr. N. Ervous" in the manual, can be moved left or right along the bottom of the screen (he "nervously travels"). Candles fall downward from above; Mr. Ervous must blow them out by shooting gusts of wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976. The VCS was bundled with two joystick game controller, controllers, a conjoined pair of paddle (game controller), paddle controllers, and a game cartridgeinitially ''Combat (video game), Combat'' and later ''Pac-Man (Atari 2600 video game), Pac-Man''. Sears sold the system as the Tele-Games Video Arcade. Atari rebranded the VCS as the Atari 2600 in November 1982, alongside the release of the Atari 5200. Atari was successful at creating arcade video games, but their development cost and limited lifespan drove Chief executive officer, CEO Nolan Bushnell to seek a programmable home system. The first inexpensive microprocessors from MOS Technology in late 1975 made this feasible. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
