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530: Atari Archive and the 2600 Launch

Retronauts

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The History of Gunfight

There's a lot more heritage for this game than you might expect. David Crane didn't really... He was okay with how gunfight came or outlaw rather came out, but it wasn't how he wanted to make games. All combat mode should be just be set default to bouncy tanks and then we'd be good. Good old tank pog. My favorite was a Mesquite shoot, which is from 81. But the default mode on that is awful. If you go messing with the different game types on there, it gets kind of playable.

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