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Atari 2600 games are more playable, fun, immersive, and inspirational than any games for IOS and most modern console games. If you have a few pixels to animate
by grandalf 11y ago
Atari 2600 games are more playable, fun, immersive, and inspirational than any games for IOS and most modern console games.
If you have a few pixels to animate and want to build something fun, you think about what makes a game fun.. When you have HD video, textures, etc., you think about implementation details.
- protonfish 11y agoTell that to E.T.
- Retric 11y agoHaving actually played E.T. it's arguably better than 'Tiny Wings' which is often thought of as a 'great' mobile game. I mean really, you can play Tiny Wings with one finger and your eyes closed.
- fzzzy 11y agoE.T. isn't really a bad game. Confusing and strange, but not nearly as bad as people like to claim it is.
- TuringTest 11y agoActually E.T. was all right, after you read the manual and fixed the few release bugs [http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/ http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/]
- mrspeaker 11y agoI dunno... I'm a huge Atari 2600 fan - I have my prized heavy sixer, and have even made my own "game" (https://github.com/mrspeaker/plops https://github.com/mrspeaker/plops) in 6502 assembler... but if I'm honest, 95% of Atari 2600 games are terrible. Unplayable. Because no one really knew what a "video game" was or could be, they tried EVERYTHING to see what would stick. Some things stuck, and formed the basis of good game design fundamentals today. Most things did not stick. The games that remain truly fun to this day (for me) are two-players-at-once games, where the challenge is beating your friend.