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Frankenstein’s Monster Atari Game!

First, my apologies if the site has looked all screwy and misaligned today...it wasn't coded correctly for certain browsers, like say, the browsers everyone uses. It may look like that for another day, but it'll be fixed tomorrow. Second, my head hurts. Third, there's a new article on the Halloween Countdown, taking us back to the days when the Atari 2600 was president of the world and could get away with giving us games like Frankenstein's Monster. As Player 1, your objective was to erect walls around the titular creature, using big rocks. Uh huh.

Posted by Matt on 09/18/2006. E-mail me!

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First!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL that is a terrible game.

Chestnuts roasted by Charlie S. @ 09/18/2006 8:45 PM

The ghost doesn’t look like a ghost, it looks like a cephalopod with a trail of blue slime.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/18/2006 8:55 PM

I see your point, but that just makes him cooler.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/18/2006 8:57 PM

Wow! A Frankenstein game for the 2600! I’ll have to see if I can find a copy in time for our halloween parties. Usually when the 2600 comes out at parties Winter Olympics is the drunken game of choice.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryle @ 09/18/2006 8:58 PM

That is the bossest 2600 boxart I have ever seen.

Anyone else notice the picture on the front page looks like franks about to suck his own, or maybe someone elses, uh, “thumb”

Fellatios.

Chestnuts roasted by Travis @ 09/18/2006 9:06 PM

Vid game heroes need to learn how to swim. Or at least make do with underwater bubbles like Sonic.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 09/18/2006 9:12 PM

Travis: Wow, your’re right, and that “thumb” is glowing with some mighty aura, presumably enhancing its suckability!

Chestnuts roasted by Ryle @ 09/18/2006 9:13 PM

Awesome Halloween Countdown so far, Matt. The Halloween spirit has definitely hit me early this year. Got my tickets to A Nightmare On Elm Street on Wednesday. Can’t wait. I never saw it on the big screen.

Have you seen this for the “2006 Scream Awards” on Spike? I attached the link. It’s for horror/fantasy/sci-fi/and comics. And no announcements of presenters or anything. And there’s fan voting, which never seems to turn out too well.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris Martin @ 09/18/2006 9:38 PM

Dam, no wonder the game crah happened…i forgot how hideous the games actually looked…its a wonder there was no class action suit brought against Atari for false advertising.

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 09/18/2006 9:40 PM

Another great article, Matt, though I never could wrap my head around the appeal of old Atari games…

Chestnuts roasted by Retro_Playback @ 09/18/2006 9:41 PM

ahhh frankenstein, such a great movie.The game looks like one of tose games where the game is so bad it’s good.

Chestnuts roasted by Mightystalfos @ 09/18/2006 9:46 PM

Great article. Bonus points awarded just for the box art.

P.S. It’s hard to believe that the X-E art contest ended a year ago. I still have those drawings.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 09/18/2006 9:48 PM

Awesome article. The Monsta Stomp…priceless. Seriously, I laughed out loud here at work. Everybody thinks I’m crazy anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by mudogramx @ 09/18/2006 10:01 PM

Ironically, I read about this game last night at an Atari site recommended by a girlfriend. (Click my name to see the site.) I remember very, very little about Atari, since the only one I ever saw was at my grandma’s house when I was about four years old, and this definately isn’t one of the ones I remember. I think it looks sort of cool, though, especially compared to some of the other games at that site!

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 09/18/2006 10:02 PM

Onw of the only times I’ve ever seen the guy properly called “Frankenstein’s Monster” instead of “Frankenstein.” No one really cares what Mary Shelley intended.

During my absence I saw the strangest thing come on TV….a Freddy movie where the premise was that he was trying to break into “reality.” So instead of Nancy, the tortured protagonist was actually Heather Langenkamp and producer Wes Craven appeared as himself as well, and so did Robert Englund (but only for the first half; then he disappeared when Freddy showed up, moo hoo ha ha ha).
According to Craven in the movie, the reason Freddy was able to break into the real world was because he was no longer effective at scaring people in the theater, and the fright was holding him inside the script pages, or something crazy like that. This was the ultimate fourth-wall movie. The guy was actually acknowledging here that the Nightmare franchise was losing steam, and he built a movie around THAT.

The movie also had a perfectly hilarious scene where Freddy’s tongue comes through the phone and licks Heather’s face on the other end, which I think Matt wrote about a long time ago.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 09/18/2006 10:08 PM

Haha, good old crappy Atari games. Have a happy Halloween!

Chestnuts roasted by Willem138 @ 09/18/2006 10:39 PM

I had to ask my boyfriend what a Kessel Run was… he practically laughed me out of the state!

Chestnuts roasted by broomstickjockey @ 09/18/2006 10:50 PM

Holy crap, I just got back from Wal-Mart (Who BTW has the worst Halloween selection available) where I was trying to find “Spooooky” stuff to spice up my desk for the holidays. Anyway as I was perusing the Isle a mother came around the corner with her brood in tow, as soon as he saw the halloween decorations he immediatly started screaming, like someone had just hit him with a hammer screaming, the worst part was the mother who obviously was very used to this, didn’t do anything she just kept dragging him deeper and deeper into the hall O’ death and blood.

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 09/18/2006 10:56 PM

Jester, I think you should draw out what you just wrote in crayon. I can picture it.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/18/2006 10:59 PM

Mars, that would be “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare”. Terrible title.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 09/18/2006 11:01 PM

I hear Frankenstein’s Monster is really packin’.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/18/2006 11:02 PM

I went to my local Target and they totally had Pitch Black in Icee form; needless to say, I got one, and drilled them for a bunch of subsequent free refills while nobody was looking. I have to admit, during the first couple drinks, I couldn’t help but have a dumb grin plastered across my face after every sip. It defintely got me in the Halloween “spirit.”

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 09/18/2006 11:14 PM

Matt, Yeah it was pretty rough, Had to cut my losses and ended up only buying a coupla cheap ass glowsticks.

Oh well, tommorrow i’m thinking of making my 45min trek to the nearest Target store. Thats place is friggin awesome when it comes to holidays.

AND ANOTHER THING……………..

Why the hell does Wal-Mart have 3 isles of Halloween follwed by 4 Isles of Christmas crap, it’s the most disturbing thing in the world to be staring at a bloody axe with a pentagram emblazoned on the side while hearing “Holly Jolly Christmas” blaring from a breakdancing reindeer!

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 09/18/2006 11:18 PM

hahahahaha that game is Donkey Kong with Halloween spirit.

i still refuse to believe that those are bats.

Chestnuts roasted by brian @ 09/18/2006 11:20 PM

hehehe…”erect”….hehehe…”titular”…hehehe

Chestnuts roasted by Roadblock @ 09/18/2006 11:35 PM

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