Needed: Atari Flashback 2.0 Fairfax Frogger Hack
I now know want, desire, need, and it has a name: Atari Flashback 2.0 I’m in line for one of the first models when they ship in late August and once I have one, I’ll be looking for the hack most needed, Fairfax Frogger
Based on the Fairfax Frogger drinking game, where you stand on either side of Route 7 and drink every time a pedestrian makes it across another lane of traffic alive, guzzling two beers if they make it across in one dash, like this guy apparently did, it would be a hit among the DC commuter crowd. Better yet, make the frog a cyclist, and we can see how well those who hate bicycle couriers fare.
Me, I’ll just be smiling ear to ear, playing Defender to save DC from getting nuked.
An early version of Activision’s Freeway (an arguably weak clone of Frogger) used a human figure who became a red streak when struck by a car…and the Flashback 2, which I’m also looking forward to, is designed to be hacked:
http://www.atarimuseum.com/fb2hacks/index.htm
So, it should be pretty easy to wire in a ROM of Bloody Human Freeway (the official Activision title)…for added impact, tweak the ROM to give it a nice “Fairfax Frogger” title screen, and it’d make a great gift for your favorite pedestrian-loathing county board member or VDOT planner.
Actually, now that I check, the AtariAge page about Bloody Human Freeway has a story that may seem familiar:
http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareID=4034
Joe-cool! They’ve already come out with a cartridge hack, a way to convert your Flashback into an old-school cartridge accepting model.