Flag Capture was one of the eleven Atari 2600 titles that were part of the second wave of games released in 1978. It can best be compared to a very early and primitive Minesweeper. One or two players must attempt to discover which tile a flag is hidden under. Players are given clues such as directional arrows which indicate the flags location, or numeric tiles which indicate the flag's distance. Players must also watch out for bombs which explode if revealed.
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Another "banger with another person, pretty dire on your own"-like. The 2600 probably has a lot of these... There's a big grid of squares and one of them has a flag that two players compete to find. You can actually use the joystick to move around as a cursor to select which square you want to search (take THAT, a game of concentration! I knew you could make a cursor in 1978!), and if it's the flag, you win! If it's not, it's either a directional hint pointing you where it could be, a number hint telling you how far away it is, or a bomb that sends you back to the starting point (owned). It's more classic dumb simple fun that the Atari is good at, and there's definitely enough randomness involved for there to be fun shenanigans like guessing completely right on the first try or being misled to hit a bomb that you were SURE was the flag. The game gives the options for each player to either take turns guessing or have both players go at the same time for a chaotic free-for-all. You can also toggle having the flag MOVE every turn, with options to have it loop around the edges of the screen or bounce off of them to make things harder to find. For the solitary gamers out there though, all you get is a simple time attack where you have 75 seconds to collect as many flags as you can, with no real goal to aim for other than whatever your previous high score was. At least it's something? Definitely worth busting out when it's Atari night for sure.
Flag Capture 1978 | Atari 2600
emulador pc
1-interacción: 6.3
2-mundo/apartado artístico: 6.6
3-concepto: 7
4-puesta en escena: 6.5
5-narración: -
6-sonido/apartado sonoro: 5.6
7-jugabilidad: 6
8-historia: -
9-duración/ritmo: 6
10-impacto: 6.7
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39.1/60pts
65 promedio
emulador pc
1-interacción: 6.3
2-mundo/apartado artístico: 6.6
3-concepto: 7
4-puesta en escena: 6.5
5-narración: -
6-sonido/apartado sonoro: 5.6
7-jugabilidad: 6
8-historia: -
9-duración/ritmo: 6
10-impacto: 6.7
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39.1/60pts
65 promedio
A very primitive two player Minesweeper prototype.
Eu não sei porque eu tenho vívida a memória de jogar isso quanto criança, tanto quanto eu tenho de jogar River Raid. Eu só lembro de clicar em quadrados e achar legal, vai entender o porquê.
Flag Capture is Minesweeper before Minesweeper except everybody hated it. You have a grid of squares and have to find the flag behind them without triggering a bomb, you do this by using the numerical and directional clues the game occasionally gives you. It was notable to reviewers at the time for having bad graphics and terrible sound which, hah, I mean okay I guess they had to draw the line somewhere. Reviewers back then must have had a hard time padding out what they had to say about these games too, solidarity with them from 40 years in the future.