Videogame Review, Homerun for the Atari 2600 Gaming Console (w/ “Brand New” Atari 2600 Jr. Console)
Do you like PONG? If you do, you will “love” this baseball parody! It’s not really baseball. Instead, it’s a game with the name Homerun. Homerun is about a particular movement of baseball with original, unique rules you only find on the Atari 2600 gaming console. It’s a very, very old “baseball” game. But it’s fun! Keep in mind that baseball in real life can be so… boring. It gets boring because “baseball in real life” takes a long time to finish and does not have a quick spark of interest. You need to watch baseball in real life for hours, and hours, and hours, and hours; and, depending on the baseball teams, you can have a boring experience for a whole week! That has been the case for me! Homerun is different. It’s a very, very short game with immediate results and the competition involves original rules of play you can only get for TV, electricity, and video games. PONG was very much like a carefree road to sports. When you go back to PONG and don’t go back to the future of modern video games for a while, you can see why PONG was so appealing. I don’t consider it a “game” by modern standards. Homerun does draw interesting lines on what we can expect from sports and what we can expect from video games. Maybe baseball fans who enjoy long visits to a real baseball stadium would find Homerun difficulty to handle. Throws, tackles, pitching, batting, and erratic moves spell things very quickly for the baseball parody. Atari did not think Homerun was really that unreal. But, in today’s standards, for my experience, not only is Homerun outrageous and ridiculous to even point out for terms of nature and reality, but, Homerun exceeds reality and nature to present us with a glamorous abstraction of unique stick figures and exaggerating geometry. Swinging with a bat is exciting and fair to sudden bursts of energy with a gold joystick. I’m still using my gold Atari 2600 joystick. So far, so good. More difficulty options would’ve been nice. Homerun will begin with a flash and end with a flash; and, for some strange reason, my “brand new” Atari 2600 Jr. console appears to have increasing/decreasing radio frequency interference over the years depending on where I put the gaming console and how I place TV and radio frequency wire. It doesn’t exactly help that Tehachapi, California is close to an airport that’s practically a space station. “Spacing” done by astronauts in my area does have impact on my gaming. Gaming and spacing are getting more and more related. Sure, normal people don’t go “spacing” on the moon or on another planet, but normal people can play video games that still have something of “wire” and “frequency” that have connection to a partial amount of our universe. I can hear pops and cracks on the TV. But, ironically, the radio signals and radio noise make Homerun really neat and nostalgic with old-fashioned entertainment. Also, there has been greater radio signals interference from moving to my condo. My Nintendo Wii U is still located at my dad’s house. As you can imagine, from hearing about my condo, my gaming habit can get tight with the limited space. But what really has the most impact are 2 things: increasing-decreasing radio signals, and, the impossible situation of ever having VR (virtual reality) gameplay at my house. From a historical perspective, Homerun is suggestive of 3D lines and shapes, although, in reality, there’s no “natural”/“real” 3D vision. When there was 3D in “old” video games, the “3D” was from a technical perspective of engineering, not from exact realism of nature. We can get fictional 3D games. And, for Homerun, we do get a powerful expression and original sports gameplay that we will not find much of from the Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, or Playstation Whatever.
https://www.deviantart.com/gameuniverso/art/Review-of-Homerun-Atari-2600-Game-915537665
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