Classic Game Room HD - MAZE CRAZE for Atari 2600 review

Classic Multiplayer!!

I fuckin' LOVE Maze Craze used to sit around with 3 friends and we'd all take turns trying to kill each other, good times, good times.

The beginning music... why does it sound like AVGN's first episode of "Board James"?

I still love this game. 2-player games are the best and sadly have been replaced by shitty FPS.

Maze Craze is one of the most fun old-school 2600 games. Worth its weight in gold. Love this game.

Game has a ton of variations. The blocks can be the cops...or the robbers. When cops, they can stun or "arrest". There's even one stage option where false walls can be placed by players.

What's best about the game is that EVERY game session uses a new maze. More powerful computers of that day could take 5 minutes creating a random block maze. That game...2-5 seconds.

I'd love to see this game modernized. Never happen, though. Modern 3-D ruins the chase feel.

Well youve got me wrong there, I love playing classics, it's just when you get below the level of the nes that it starts becoming less enjoyable for me in general. I do appreciate a lot of games down to that level of graphics though :)

Sometimes that's true for me too, but I think part of that has to do with the evolution of games in general. At the time, arcady action was pretty much what people wanted, a toy to blow things up with. Now I think game design in general is a lot more sophisticated. There was also a period of time after the old Atari days where things got really innovative, but I think the crash and changing consumer mood sort of deadened what could have been a big explosion in weird creativity.

Well I just bought little big planet and have to disagree after reading that. It is amazingly innovative with infinite replayability and cute graphics which really take you into the world, you should try it before smacking the modern industry of games :)

How am I smacking it? When I say leave room for the other guys, I think the bigger competition can handle it.