Atari XYbots

[John Bennett]

[ukvac] Atari XYbots
Hi Folks

Theres a full size one of these in our local free ads.
Can anyone answer me the following question please.
1) Is it any good?
2) what's it worth?

Cheers

Chris

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DATA Imported from archives: originally posted by Toseland, Chris (chris.toseland@ntu.ac.uk)

 

[P-Man]

hi all..



I've been meaning to go back to newquay where I know there's one of these cheap, i would love one..



Medium res monitor if i remember rightly, digital rotary joysticks and a fire button, loads of speech, good 2 player.. Cabinet graphics kinda comic strip-like. It is the atari pedestal type of cabinet, like Vindicators/Hydra/etc..



All the action happens in one quarter of the screen, bottom left for blue player, bottom right for red player. above, you get a scanner, timer, status etc.



The actual game has you running round mazes shooting robots which fire back and/or follow you. I suppose you could call it kind of like Berserk but in first-person primitive sprite scaling 3D...





As long as the joysticks aren't knackered you're alright. Oh yeah, they commonly suffer from screen burn, as do most medium res atari games from the same period..





Hope it helped! I'd love one personally