Agree it wasn’t the best Atari game, but as a little kid it was fun competing for those flies in 2P. I can still picture when the night was over, the frogs jumping away, a fly bringing in the words “The End” and then listening to the crickets chirp.

Are two notes a jingle? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2QPBkDkFc

Legacy of the Wizard - NES aka Dragon Slayer IV Drasle Family - MSX

I made it a bulleted list and it looks better now, thank you.

Simon’s Quest is a C- game with an A+ soundtrack

Ocarina of Time. After the action and increasingly beautiful pixel art of the first four Zelda games, I found the 3D one boring and ugly.

Like those occasional illustrations in Alice in Wonderland or Narnia, game manuals provided a window into a world you couldn’t fully see (in the case of old consoles, due to low res or low poly graphics) and served as a jumping off point for so many children’s imaginations to fill in the rest of the details.

https://atariage.com/manual_page.php?SystemID=2600&SoftwareLabelID=128&ItemTypeID=MANUAL&currentPage=0