Something so tight and elegant about the construction of games back then. Just look at the sprite sheets. Nothing wasted. I think it was Woz who said that an a

Something so tight and elegant about the construction of games back then. Just look at the sprite sheets. Nothing wasted. I think it was Woz who said that an advantage of the generation of programmers who grew up in the 8 bit era was that they could have a mental model of the entire machine, which allowed them to squeeze out every last drop of performance and do some mind blowing things with very limited power by today's standards.