[stella] Blizzard's World of Warcraft for Atari VCS 2600

[Albert Yarusso]

There's a long thread about it here:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96298

Yes, the previous April Fool's joke was immediately brought up.  :)   
But there wasn't really any doubt as to its authenticity..

  ..Al

On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Pete Holland wrote:

> Oh, wow!  How tough was it to convince people that
> THAT one was legit?
>
>
> --- Albert Yarusso <albert at atariage.com> wrote:
>
>> The real Turbo prototype was later found.  :)
>>
>>  ..Al
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Pete Holland wrote:
>>
>>> Not bad.  Although I think this would have gone
>> over
>>> better if we hadn't been spoiled by the Doom 2600
>> bit.
>>> Or the very ambitious Turbo prototype.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Adam Thornton <adam at fsf.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Ruffin Bailey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How in the world did they get that fire effect
>> to
>>>> work?  That's pretty
>>>>> cool.  And the players move laterally incredibly
>>>> smoothly.  That's
>>>>> excellent programming.  No flicker either.  How
>>>> the heck are they
>>>>> doing that?!
>>>>>
>>>>> Wow.  WoW.
>>>>
>>>> One might even call the effect unbelievable.
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>
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