With most 2600 games, looking at the picture on the box is more fun that actually playing the game. But Warlords does have some play value. Basically a multi player version of Breakout, up to four players try to defend their castle while attacking the other players’. Each player occupies a castle in each corner of the screen. The castle is just a nested set of colored lines, but, hey, greatest graphics for the time. You catch a ball using the paddles and launch it at the other players’ walls, slowly breaking them up. When a player’s wall is breached, he is out. It is the only game I own that uses the double paddles, allowing for players. Definitely one of the better 2600 games.
Based on a mindless arcade classic which has been passed down in many forms throughout the decades, Warlords on the Atari 2600 proves worthy of its original. While, of course, a simpler and slimmed-down version of the ar... Read Full Review
Warlords is a hard game to classify..... Ok, maybe it's not. It's a mix of a Breakout or Arkanoid type game and.....something else, maybe a competetive shooter or RTS? Anyway, it was really very, very entertaining. Ev... Read Full Review
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