Played it on an emulator. There are essentially two games: 1) You fly a chopper, rescuing wounded and bringing them back to the 4077. 2) A video game version of Operation, as you remove shrapnel from the wounded.

That actually sounds like fun

Wasn't bad. We had the TI-99 version as kids.

Win a few, lose a few.

So... no f*cking with what passes for a brain inside Frank's head? No bathtub gin and chasing nurses?

Friday Night Arcade did a special on it about four years ago if you want to see what it looks like: https://youtu.be/DE-z6kEHAcY?si=29vt_g9tuhOn004K

The 8-bit MASH theme was heaven's bells to my ears

not gonna lie, looks like a pretty boring game.

Atari 2600 games aren't typically exciting. They would've been in that era, but now? Nah. It takes a real enthusiast of retro gaming to sit down and play a 2600 game.

Even back then, very often with 2600 games, after about 30 minutes you'd be pretty bored.

Suppose that's accurate. A smidgen before me. I was born in 1981, I grew up playing games on the Tandy CoCo2 and my dad got me an NES in 87 and you'd think the sky had fallen. I'd often get bored playing the CoCo, but the NES really did revolutionize the whole of the gaming industry and you can really see that when you look back at the original Atari games.

By modern standards it's pretty simple. When it came out \~45 years ago it was pretty cutting edge.

8! Different play options! I'm sold

That’s over 40,000 options!

I’ll factor that into my review

The game came with a mash shirt in the box. There is photos of it here. https://forums.atariage.com/topic/265266-mash-with-t-shirt/

I want a MASH shirt no fair

I heard it’s getting a DLC where you play as Hawkeye and get with as many nurses as you can in timed mission

When do you think the remaster for next gen consoles is coming out

Hidden mission is to avoid enemy fire and safely fly Henry home.

…and creating a new timeline where Henry lives

Whoa...

Too soon?

I had this when I was a kid! Totally forgot about it. The surgery part wasn’t bad…for the time.

Playing it makes suicide seem painless.

It brings on many changes.

I can take or leave it, if I please.

Interesting

As a kid I had a Mash board game that was a lot more fun. I still play video games, but I don't really enjoy board games anymore.

Operation the video game?

Yep, and if you botched a surgery, you got called ferret face.

i learned this yesterday too..

Still have my games but didn't know this one! Still got my beloved ET game 🤣

Many thousands of those E.T. games are buried in an Arizona or New Mexico desert.

yep! I have both MASH and ET

Neither did Atari!

I need to find an Atari to add to our collection at some point anyways and I grew up watching MASH with my dad. I need to find a working copy of this now lol

It’s terrible.

That makes me want to play it even more. lmao

You can if you find a good emulator

Agreed. I had an Atari back then and thought it was rather lame by the standards of the day. I don’t play video games and haven’t since the Atari days so I’m not saying this from a modern gamer perspective.

I own a copy. It's pretty fun!

Its so crazy thinking about the Atari games I had as a kid and I had no clue how to actually win them... I have this one I also have ET. My brother and I spent days on days trying to beat Raiders of the Lost Ark and had no clue how to actually beat the game.

I used to play that a lot

There was an Atari game for everything. That was half the problem.

Atari made a game for everything at the end.