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I had a 7800 as a kid - it was weird playing 5 year old arcade releases but they were pretty decent. Much better than the previous generation of consoles. It w

I had a 7800 as a kid - it was weird playing 5 year old arcade releases but they were pretty decent. Much better than the previous generation of consoles. It was a weird point in video games - my parents of course go into the video game/arcade fad, and now the same games were on the home consoles. So we liked the same games and we could actually compete a little bit. The NES gave us things like Super Mario Brothers which was a totally new thing. Nobody wanted to play arcade ports anymore, but Atari kept pushing. I'm sure it was internal politics at play. My parents didn't like the NES controller and they were getting older so they never played anything on the NES except Tetris and the like. Eventually the arcade ports made their way to the NES, and they were really, really good. Ms Pac-man was a little weird because of the level size and sprite size, but Galaga and Donkey Kong were perfect. But by this point we had Zelda and Tecmo Bowl and everything else, we didn't have to live in the past anymore.

goosedragons 4y ago
You might already know this but the main reason the 7800 had so many old at the time arcade games is because it was originally scheduled for a 1984 release. Most of the lineup was developed and ready with the 1984 release in mind. Then the US video game crash happened and Atari shelved the whole thing games included. The Famicom had a similarly arcade port heavy library in it's early days but over time games got more sophisticated especially as new mapper chips became available allowing for new features like vertical and horizontal scrolling. With the NES being released several years later we got to skip a lot of the more basic titles while still getting some of the older good ones like Donkey Kong.