RetroRob

xD That's one of the low budget games distributed in Germany by a mail order company called Quelle! I think 'Strahlen der Teufelsvögel' is heavily borrowing from  Atlantis! See discussion with S.Baz below for reference to other such titles. Also check here for a comprehensive list of Quelle games: 

http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-2600-vcs-quelle_publisher_28_2_G.html

Great! ... Welcome to Highscore!  :-)

Hello, I am also here. :)

ok it's ready now  :)

Oh, ouch.  Unfortunately I can't change that.  Serious is the only one who can and I'm afraid he's too busy with other things right now.  I'll add a new track for it though, and he can just delete the unusable ones later.

Many thanks!  Unfortunately I don't know the gameplay difference between Dschungel Boy and Pitfall as I don't have either of the games. It was just an example of a clone game I knew. B.t.w. I believe it also goes by the name of Tomboy.

no worries at all!  there are a lot more complicated requests in there than these.  :)

It does make sense to add a clone game to the system if there are differences in gameplay, and not just colors or how your character looks or buildings look, etc.  I see Raumroboter is definitely different, so I added that.  I also added Super-Ferrari since has different colors and no fog level where you only see the cars' lights when you get near them, so that's significant enough.

I'm not sure of the differences with Dschungel Boy yet, so any insight on that is appreciated.

I don't have the ability to edit titles unless they were only added recently.  I can add that to the list of stuff to do but I'm not sure it will be priority enough to get done soon.  I think if you specify on your score page that it's the same game as say, Time Warp, users will understand.  A lot of us would probably know anyway  x)

Hi S.Baz, thanks for looking into this!

'Astro Attack/Time Warp' and 'Angriff der Luftflotten/M.A.D' appear to be exactly the same in deed! It is just the same game under a different name and I didn't notice this! Can their respective alternative names be added to the existing titles in order to avoid 'no votes' please?

However the other games are klons of their respective original games. In Germany in the 80ies there was a big warehouse company called Quelle that published loads of these titles. They simply produced games with very similiar gameplay to the respective originals and gave them a different name (e.g. Dschungel Boy/Pitfall, Super-Ferrari/Enduro, Raumroboter/Missile Command). Some of the titles are very close to the original (such as Super-Ferrari/Enduro) others differ more (Raumroboter/Missile Command). Now the main question:

Would they be regarded the same or equal to the originals?
In my view clearly no, as of the differences that are still in place. However more importantly as back then it probably went like: 'Oh, you got Pitfall! Great!' opposed to 'Oh, you got Dschungel Boy! Well, okay then!'  You see what I mean...

If the before said makes sense, then your question may be:  Is it then worthwhile to put these old hats on highscore.com?
I'd say, it depends! Surely they will not start a worldwide competion as they were probably only avaialble in Europe and even there they were probably not particularly popular! However maybe there is still some value in it for some fellow gamer may dig them out and play them again and also for reasons of curiosity and gaming history. So, maybe, but wouldn't be a problem, if not.

Now finally, I hope I haven't messed up your day by my requests.  If this becomes to complicated then better skip it! For my part I can say that I found it quite interesting to further look into the history of these games and I can imagine to look up similiar curiosties soon.

I hope this is helpful no matter the outcome!

Best wishes,
Rob

Thanks!

Welcome to highscore.com. Always good to see new Thumbs at the helm... Have fun, Play Hard, Set or Break some Records - Later Gamer!

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