MiSTer FPGA - Basketbrawl [2 Player] / Atari 7800
0Had a chance to try some multiplayer games in the new Atari 7800 core recently, and the most fun we had was definitely in Basketbrawl. It's a pretty simple one- just plays like a hybrid basketball/beat 'em up game. If you take the opponent's health down during a game it will literally kill them on the court. I almost fell out of my chair laughing while the referee threw daggers at the opponents and killed them mid-game. Not so funny when it happens to you though..
This game is unique & silly. Odd that some of the best games on the Atari 7800 are genre-bending sports titles that include combat elements, like this and Ninja Golf.
When you start to get into further matches, its good to develop strategies like one player tying up the opponents with non-stop attacks while the other focuses on stealing the ball and scoring repeatedly. Just have to be careful about doing damage to your teammate, which can happen often in tight situations. Be sure to grab powerups when they appear as they will increase your stats, which will carry over into new matches if you avoid getting hit. As you progress into more difficult matches the referee gets tougher also, and starts throwing homing-daggers. Watch out for these as he starts chucking them constantly.
Basketbrawl is a surprisingly fun multiplayer game, that I doubt would be nearly as fun in single player. If you do want to try this single player though, you may want to try the Atari Lynx version instead, as it was developed a few years later and added some additional combat moves and characters to the game, though it unfortunately has a smaller view area due to the lower resolution of the Lynx.
Our new Atari 7800 core came out of the gate with extreme accuracy thanks to Kitrinx/Rysha, who also maintains the NES core and has brought it to the near-perfect state it's in today. Rysha is a dedicated and skilled dev, and has been a constant advocate for proper preservation. I've never met a person so excited about making old hardware obsolete, and we are lucky to have someone with this talent and drive working with the project so closely.
Note: I'm using 5x integer scaling in this video to fill the screen better. I've found that in pretty much every Atari 7800 game, 5x works very well.
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Atari 7800 core 04-17-2021 build - Basketbrawl
Filter: Gaussian_Sharp_04 // Gamma: 2.3 // Color Temp: Warm
Played using a 2x Hori Real Arcade Pro VX-SA arcade sticks, with 1ms USB polling.
Settings: 5x Integer Scaled to 1080p // HDMI to Datapath e1s capture card
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00:00 - Boot/Settings
00:23 - Title/Demo
01:13 - Gameplay [2 Player Co-op]
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