A very short film on a chip - an hommage to Ed Averett and the Videopac G7000

 


This item isn't a game but an animation, a very short film. My brothers and I grew up with the Videopac G7000 game console (Magnavox Odyssey2), and one of our favourite games was Gunfighter (Showdown in 2100 A.D.), by Ed Averett. The cowboy sprites are so funny animated, so I extracted them out of the ROM and used them to create this little film, again on a PIC12F508 that generates composite video. The frames are stored in the first 256-words page, together with a little picture sequencer. Because of so small storage I had to mirror and invert the sprites, ideal for a duel.


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