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| Token:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2016, 01:53:17 am ---Atari kind of sucked.... --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2016, 01:53:17 am ---I've been thinking of getting an Atari again because the games can still be had for a song. --- End quote --- |
| pbj:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on January 29, 2016, 10:02:01 am ---When I was a kid, I thought that if a game's cartridge was shaped differently than the standard Atari 2600 ones, it was a higher end game. :lol --- End quote --- This was basically always true for every system. |
| Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Token on January 29, 2016, 03:23:52 pm --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2016, 01:53:17 am ---Atari kind of sucked.... --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2016, 01:53:17 am ---I've been thinking of getting an Atari again because the games can still be had for a song. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- I don't see your confusion. Atari as a whole kind of sucked... that doesn't mean there aren't good games to be had.... there are good games on the virtual boy. |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2016, 03:50:17 pm --- --- Quote from: Token on January 29, 2016, 03:23:52 pm --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2016, 01:53:17 am ---Atari kind of sucked.... --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2016, 01:53:17 am ---I've been thinking of getting an Atari again because the games can still be had for a song. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- I don't see your confusion. Atari as a whole kind of sucked... that doesn't mean there aren't good games to be had.... there are good games on the virtual boy. --- End quote --- Granted, I never owned or played on a Colecovision or Intellevision console BITD, so maybe I wasn't aware of it, but I never found the Atari to be lacking. There were plenty of games that played perfectly, and my 1981 awareness was just fine with the games available on the system. The graphics weren't the best, but the playability was there. Missile Command, Space Invaders, Defender, Asteroids, Vanguard and Moon Patrol were all very playable and enjoyable versions. |
| Howard_Casto:
Notice how all the games you mentioned had superior arcade versions? I've had this argument with sega fans before, if your console only had arcade ports then it doesn't have a good library because we now have access to the arcade versions. Shoot we didn't even have to wait until emulation.... Once the NES was released many of those titles were re-released on it and they were vastly superior ports. Like I said though, that doesn't mean there aren't good games on it. Just as a whole it's kind of skipable. I did like many of the activision games though... it's worth it just for them and I would like to get one while they are still relatively cheap. I think Pat and Ian said it best on their podcast last week when they were talking about the upcoming Atari vault for steam..... try to name 20 titles on Atari systems that were good and Atari actually has the rights to.... unless you are an Atari super-fan like the guys over at the Atari age forums, it's kind of hard. |
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