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Curling (Atari 5200)
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About the game
Curling is the winter sport where two teams slide heavy stones down a sheet of ice toward a target, and this game puts the whole thing on the Atari 5200. You choose the length of the game, from one to ten ends, and the type of match: one against one on a single controller, two or four controllers, two against two, four against four, or you against the computer. There is even a computer-against-computer mode that plays itself.
Each side has a handful of stones to throw. The thrower aims with the joystick, with scales on the ice to help judge the line, and picks how much the stone curls; the rest of the team sweeps, a quick up-and-down wiggle of the stick that carries the stone further and straighter. You can dress your team too: left- or right-handed, hairstyle and hair colour, jacket and pants.
The screen shows the sheet in two halves, the throwing end and the target, with a scoreboard between them and the stones waiting at the bottom. The game follows the rules, from the guard rule to the order of throwing, and tells you whose turn it is at the top.
Playing it here
This is a homebrew game made for the Atari 5200: a new game by an independent developer, not a commercial release. The author's download calls the game "RealSports Curling", but "RealSports" is an old name of a third party, so we changed the title shown on the game's screens to plain "Curling" (the licence allows it, and our patch is hosted next to the game); nothing else in the game changes. It runs in our build of the a5200 emulator, with a free replacement for the console's system ROM (the AltirraOS), so nothing from Atari is needed.
Click Play. Every menu is answered with the number keys on the top row of the keyboard or the number pad: first the length of the game (1 to 9, and 0 for ten), then the match type (6 is you against the computer), then 1 for the default team and 1 for the default team of the other side, and 1 again if you want to throw first. On a phone or tablet the 123 button opens the keypad on screen.
Controls
| Key | Controller | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 1 - 9, 0 | keypad | answer the menus |
| Up / down arrows | joystick | aim, curl and sweep |
| Z or Space | fire | throw |
| - / = | * / # keys | menus; # shows the licence on the title screen |
| P | Pause key | pause |
| Backspace | Reset | back to the title |
| F2 / F4 | — | save / load the emulator state |
A gamepad works too: its stick is the 5200's analogue joystick, A is fire. A second gamepad is the second controller.
Credits and licence
The game was written by Ryan Witmer (Average Software), copyright 2018, and is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. The ROM served here is built from the author's own source download, with our title patch applied; we host the download, the patch, the licence text and the build script next to it.
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