I posted about this before but no one really responded.
I have two copies of "Asteroids". This problem occurs with both cartridges in both my regular Atari 2600 and my Atari 2600 Jr. The TV is an Envision Flat panel from a few years ago.
The problem is that the screen jumps up and down by a couple of centimeters in time with the flickering of the asteroids, shots, and ships. It makes the game almost unplayable (and very siezuer inducing). The cartridges have both been cleaned properly and are spotless. I don't have this problem with any of the other 100+ games in my collection. Do any of you have any idea as to what's going on? I know a lot of you are a LOT more tech savvy than I am when it comes to these things.
*Edit* I just discovered another very interesting issue with the "Asteroids" cartridges. I decided to try to switch the TV mode from Color to B/W and it doesn't work. Everything just stays in color. So I thought my switch was broken. Until I started plugging games in and trying the switch. The switch switches perfectly between black/white and color in all my other games.
This is a strange issue. What's going on here?
I have two copies of "Asteroids". This problem occurs with both cartridges in both my regular Atari 2600 and my Atari 2600 Jr. The TV is an Envision Flat panel from a few years ago.
The problem is that the screen jumps up and down by a couple of centimeters in time with the flickering of the asteroids, shots, and ships. It makes the game almost unplayable (and very siezuer inducing). The cartridges have both been cleaned properly and are spotless. I don't have this problem with any of the other 100+ games in my collection. Do any of you have any idea as to what's going on? I know a lot of you are a LOT more tech savvy than I am when it comes to these things.
*Edit* I just discovered another very interesting issue with the "Asteroids" cartridges. I decided to try to switch the TV mode from Color to B/W and it doesn't work. Everything just stays in color. So I thought my switch was broken. Until I started plugging games in and trying the switch. The switch switches perfectly between black/white and color in all my other games.
This is a strange issue. What's going on here?