Parker Brothers Video Games

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I had three of the four games on this page, I'll leave it to your imagination which one I passed on.

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[Earth 2 Chris]

Is that a lightsaber or lightdagger? It has a point!

I had Frogger, that's it. I remember the comic ads for the Star Wars games.

Chris

[jwyblejr]

I had the Intellivision version of Empire Strikes Back.

[Spyweb007]

Parker Bros did Spider-Man and GI Joe also for the Atari if I remember correctly. Fun games.

[DavidCoppola]

I still have my Colecovision

[Bruce Banner]

Cool! Still have several Parker Bros. games for the Intellivision and ColecoVision, including Super Cobra, Frogger, Popeye and Tutankham.

[Godzilla]

They always had excellent art on their boxes.

[Mikey]

Parker Bros did Spider-Man

Was Spider-Man the one where the bombs blow you up if you swing past them ?

[palitoy]

Was Spider-Man the one where the bombs blow you up if you swing past them ?

Yeah i think it was.

[HardyGirl]

I have all 3 Star Wars games, Strawberry Shortcake, Frogger and Reactor.

[Werewolf]

Frogger was the best of those four. It was a very faithful port considering the limits of the hardware. Jedi Arena was the worst of the lot. It was a dull and ugly game. Empire was not bad. The best SW game for the 2600 is Star Wars the arcade game.

Strawberry Shortcake was a well done mix and match game for younger kids with pretty decent graphics.

[sprytel]

Yeah i think it was.

"...And you're running out of fluid!"

[huedell]

Dang, I obsessed over my Empire Strikes Back... I just had to have that "perfect game". There were a few others like that (Asteroids, Yars' Revenge, etc) but ESB and that tense "danger" I felt juggling the destruction of those AT-ATs as they neared the base still gives me video-game PTSD just thinking about it.

[MRP]

Of those I only owned the Empire Strikes Back game and played he hell out of it (often with my John Williams soundtrack playing on the record player to add more mood). I played the Frogger game (and Spidey and Q*Bert from Parker Brothers) when doing week long cartridge trades with schoolmates in junior high-we'd exchange game cartridges on a Friday and keep them through the following weekend before trading back. Allowed us to play far more games than we could afford.

-M