Petra - The Video Game

[rexreed]

this was a really cool video game. When you got all the members to the concert the machine would play a tape loop of Seperate Ways. It sounded really good for an arcade. I still play it from time to time when the arcade expo in Houston is being held. The Atari Petra game was pretty cool too. It played a lot like the Journey game only instead of constantly looping the bass line from "Don't Stop Believin" it used the guitar riff from "Judas Kiss."

[bakersfieldpethead]

Hey those are cool, I like those.

[bakersfieldpethead]

yeah, what about Superman, I still can't figure that one out.

[rexreed]

Superman was a great adventure game for the day. You need to read the instructions though. E.T. was not nearly as unpopular in it's day as it is now. The web sure has exaggerated it's lame quotient. I remember the real Petra wallpaper game. Didn't it loop the guitar riff from 2 are better than 1 repeatedly? I seem to remember the collision detection was pretty abysmal too.

[bakersfieldpethead]

Yeah, they had a website where you could download all the 2600 games, I'll have to look for it again. I had quite a data base of old stuff. I still have a 2600 sitting here at the house, but I don't have any joysticks or games. I never had the chance to read the directions of the game, back then my family would buy the game and throw the box away.