Minigun Miner (Atari 2600) released!

Hi everyone!

Today I'm happy to share with you a small game I created for the Retro Platform Jam #6 : Minigun Miner

It's a unique digging game for the Atari 2600 home console. Using a minigun, dig holes to collect buried treasures (coins, diamonds, rubies, etc.). But be careful to never touch the ground, or you'll explode! Thankfully, each time you fire your minigun, the recoil will send you flying in the air.

How to Play

- Hold Fire to shoot to fly up and dig holes. Move the joystick while holding the fire button to aim in any direction.

- Move joystick Left and Right while Fire button is released to move left and right.

- There are items to collect (earn points), and enemies to avoid (loose game) :

Looking for challenge?

My personal record is 42 points. Can you beat my high-score?

About

It's a small game that I created in a very short time frame. This is loosely inspired by an earlier Jam game (for modern PCs) with the same title I published here two years ago. At first I wanted to try make a kind of "port", but it ended up being quite different gameplay-wise, hopefully delivering a much better experience :).

Any feedback is welcome, as I think I'll keep working on this game in the future. I had several ideas that I couldn't add before the end of the Jam, and the game didn't receive the usual beta-testing / balancing / fine-tuning phase I do with all my projects.

Attached with this post, you'll find the ROMs of the game in NTSC format (use this one if you can), in PAL format, and even in SECAM format. You can use the ROM with your favorite Atari 2600 emulator (I used Stella) and FlashCart to play it on real hardware. It's an 8K ROM with SuperChip for extra RAM (used for the destructible terrain).

You can also find the game page on the Retro Platform Jam #6 (there are several other cool new games for old hardware, from the Atari 2600 to Windows 98 PC!)

Thanks for your support, and I hope you'll enjoy it!