Classic Atari 2600 Title 'Adventure' Is Being Revived As A Metroidvania

They did the same thing with Yars last year or the year before. People realize people will play a revival that isn't a metroidvania, right...???

More portable metroidvanias to the god of portable metroidvanias.😻 And quite probably the kind of game (either this or a still top-down journey comparable to Zelda) Adventure would have been if the hardware so allowed.

But does it have Duck Dragons?

I felt more excited than I should about that title, but the video killed the hype for me. Not interested in how it's looking

I'm More than a Pixel on the screen! 🟨

cool, another metroid style game that hasnt a thing to do with Castlevania!

Its a shame they didn't do a top down view, would feel spiritually closer to Adventure and not be 'yet another Metroidvania'

Such a missed opportunity. Adventures gameplay was a very early version of what Zelda became. With the most minimalist graphics you collected keys and items to find your way forward and defeat a Dragon. Why are they making it into a metroidvania. This should be like LOZ:Link to the past imo

Yes I do welcome another Metroidvania especially one based on an older retro title however I would had to say them sprites are way too tiny. If I'm playing this on a couch I would had a hard time seeing the main protagonist.

@DwaynesGames Exactly, if the dragons look real is it really Atari 2600 Adventure?

@intergalacticNikolai Maybe a kart racer would be better.

The thumbnail used for the video had me expecting a first person remake of the original with some embellishments. Kind of a Baby's first oblivion sort of thing, I would be interested in that. What the trailer showed... will require more convincing to get me to spend money on this game.

If we can't call it a sequel or remake then we need to start normalizing calling things "the Xenoblade X to (game) instead.

Also, this was originally a Kickstarter called Towers of Samsara that failed. Good for Illex for getting it made, but any references to the original search action game will probably feel tacked on.

Wonder if Wade will day and date the physical, or delay it some months like Breakout and Power Rangers

@intergalacticNikolai I get it, but I would argue that the original Adventure already had a lot of prehistoric Metroidvania DNA in it, so in this case, it seems like a natural progression.

Makes sense. Adventure is basically a proto-Metroidvania in its structure.

Never played the original. I like the color palette, but not enthused with the pixel graphics. Depends on how it plays.

UH how does this look like Adventure - like at all?

I loved Adventure - it was something I played every day when I came home from school - as the NES was coming out, I was still playing Adventure.

Why play so much?
b/c of the replay ability - based on where things started out, what I had to do was different (and then there was always that blasted bat!)

The variety was very different at the time (and to some degree remains uncommon today - we do have some games you can play in whatever order you want, but not many where you have to play it in a certain order - but that order is different when you replay and could be randomly modified beyond that).

This game - looks like a pixel based metroidvania.
Great!?
...but this game is NOT Adventure - it's not Adventure at all.

I went from excited to super disappointed in the course of 60 seconds of the trailer.

I'm excited.
It helps that I love Metroidvania's and no, I haven't got sick of them.
Keep em coming

It's not actually anything to do with it though, nor an Atari game. The game already existed and Atari felt that it fitted their vibe.

I'm with those that went from super excited, to super not interested at all. Looks lame. I feel the cheap pixel art is lazy. I love pixel art, but to me, this is just a lazy cash grab. Doing a pixelart remake of the original would have been amazing. That was one of my favorite games as a kid, and I was so young that the dragons actually scared me when they opened their mouths haha.

@DwaynesGames "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!"

What I'd love to see is them remake the Swordquest games. Even if they don't do a contest this time around, I'd love for them to remake the game, making sure to integrate the story from the tie-in comic book, and finishing the story as originally intended (since the fourth game was never released). And with gaming technology being more advanced today compared to the early 1980s, they could have the entire story's plotline in one game instead of four. I think that is the one set of games from Atari that I think is the most deserving of a revisit.

@DwaynesGames It better so i can scream "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!"

Caning the Switch 2? Dear lord what did it do to you? I guess that's some Brit slang for you but to us Americans it only recalls that kid in Singapore that was caned in the 90s.

I'm not Digital Foundry at all, but is that 15 FPS maybe?

@DwaynesGames I think they're more Wingaling Dragons now than Freakin' Duck Dragons.

@Pally356 How come we don't have SBCG4AP Re-Majesty'd for the Modern Consoles and PC?

@YoshiAngemon Good question. not sure who owns the rights to the game. Hopefully the Brothers Chaps can do something with it and bring it back.

Why is the main character so tiny? Like what is this, I'm old at least give me a chance to enjoy the game

GenXGrownUp had a good video about the game.
His vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP7UZst9hhA
He shared the background that it was previously a Kickstarter game called Tower of Samsara
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtC5bzuLy68

I spent some time with the demo. Does it look or act like Adventure? NOPE. Does it play like Adventure? Eh, this is where it gets murky. In a way, the original game was kind of the early forerunner of what we consider a Metroid game where you have to explore and backtrack, etc. Does it feel like Adventure? After the trailer, Gen X Grownup's vid and starting the demo, I would say HARD NO. After playing most of the demo? I'm still going to go with no, because there is isn't much that connects it to the nostalgia of the original. But, I can start to see why Atari wanted to "slap" the IP on the game. I disagree with it, but I can kinda ,sorta, but not fully, start to grasp their thinking. Is the game itself worth playing? Eh. I really didn't like how the controls work for the ledges. The jumping is too floaty, even for what I assume is trying to bring back how jumping was in the 2600 era. The combat didn't feel as tight as I thought it should. Too bad I played this almost right after playing the Absolum demo, which was everything you'd want in a SoR meets Hades game mashup. Super tight gameplay and an expansive combo system, etc.

Also, my nostalgic sense of the OG game has no technology in it. Data cube? sigh. I would rather have had some kind of labyrinth style 3/4 view game, that was maybe a very rouge-like-ish game to enhance replay value, but not that you had to keep killing yourself to progress.

This is not a Recharge version of the game, which I guess is more of what I was hoping for. They repurposed another game that couldn't make it's Kickstarter campaign. Is it even worth following the news cycle on this? No. Only if Atari takes in all the negative feedback from the demo and totally changes course would it be worth it. Otherwise, the demo did nothing new. I'd much rather go play the Absolum demo again.

In fact... I'd rather dream of what Dotemu and its stable of dev studios could have done with this IP instead of Atari.

This was the first game I ever played. It was a Xmas morning sometime around 81 and my uncle had just got an Atari 2600. I am pretty sure the game was built in or came on a cartridge with other games. But I may be misremembering that part. Either way, Adventure blew my mind and started my love affair with gaming

Looks pretty decent!!

Anyone else get major blasphemous “inspiration” from this?

@SoIDecidedTo This game is nothing to do with Adventure. It already existed but without a publisher and Atari liked it's looks

So will the credits be hidden as an Easter Egg?

@DwaynesGames SOMEBODY GET THIS FREAKIN' DUCK AWAY FROM ME!

Ahhh duck 🦆get it away from me

Looks cool. The visuals remind me of Hyper Light Drifter.

Shouldn't this be top down?

Like Yars, this is not Adventure.

If they could make remakes of the ones in Atari 50, this one is just another insert metroidvania type.

Why is it not top down or first person or actually reflecting on it.

No purchase.

I think Lunar Lander Beyond (not bought but seemed fair for what it was) looks better then these excuses for metroidvanias are for Yars/Adventure do.

I mean if you want why not another Trevor McFur or another Atari Karts or any other Lynx, Jaugar, 2600/7800 IPs even. Or something original?

Do these companies actually think that far outside the box. I'm not exactly a fan of this Infogrames Atari at all and never have been.

Other then Bubsy I may try out, I don't see Atari making anything that exciting really.

Renaming another game with Adventure is just dumb. This is Starfox Adventures like renaming for no reason and without the characterisation either.

I don't care what you name it. No purchase Atari. Other then Atari 50 or Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic (the others are garbage and RCT3 is ok but plays worse then Classic does with control scheme it's atrocious, get used to sure but RCT 1 and 2 Classic is way better) you haven't really provided a compelling mix of revivals and anything else published is fine but not my thing really anyway.