Rate my 2600 collection/what am I missing?

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Do you have Surround? It is such a simple, fun two-player game. My 13-year-old son and I play it whenever we break out the Atari.
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I do not. I will have to keep a look out.
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Surround can be fun with two players. In the early 80s, we saw it as a primitive version of the Tron lightcycle races. There's also a couple of "Video Graffiti" variations that let you leisurely decorate the screen. I don't condone it, but with those modes, one can write bad words and, for the truly wild, very blocky representations of private parts.
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Golgo 14 wrote: Sun May 18, 2025 2:28 am There's also a couple of "Video Graffiti" variations that let you leisurely decorate the screen. I don't condone it, but with those modes, one can write bad words and, for the truly wild, very blocky representations of private parts.

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Also, Tron came out in 1982, and I always assumed that games like Surround were the basis for the light cycles.

EDIT: Sears sold Surround as “Chase,” making it more likely that Surroubd was the basis for the light cycle sequence.
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