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Atari 2600 Amidar Review

Parker Brothers made some excellent arcade adaptations for the Atari 2600, but Amidar just isn't one of them. Credit must be given where it is due, of course. The Atari 2600's design makes a game like Amidar very difficult to implement, and Parker Brothers came up with some very clever compromises to make it work. What they forgot to include was the challenge, and the fun. The game plays at a crawl, the characters have no animation, the music and the bonus rounds are missing, the Tracers never go on the offensive, and the differences between odd and even levels are only in the graphics.

Atari 2600 programmer Thomas Jentzsch made a hack called Amidar DS that puts some of the fun back into the game, if only by increasing the speed to something closer to the original. That version can provide some decent entertainment, but Parker Brothers' original is best left alone.

Grade: D+.