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

[John Mezzacappa]

Turbo et at.  This brings back some memories.

Who knows?  The Beef Drop April Fool's Day joke
eventually became a homebrew release. ;-D

--- Albert Yarusso <albert at atariage.com> wrote:

> 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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