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| Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: saint on November 05, 2009, 06:03:02 pm ---The Youtube video did not look that good... --- End quote --- Nah, it'll never look 100% vector. But the fact that it's running off original game hardware is imprressive. Although the him haw is over the vector monitors themselves and I have yet to see one that wasn't repairable. :dunno (especially at the price of that little converter box) |
| saint:
Oh yes, I find the tech impressive. And I'd rather play that way than not at all when vector monitors are gone. |
| Ummon:
I think ya all missed this part. Then and now: --- Quote from: Ummon on November 20, 2008, 08:11:04 pm --- Think of it like the difference between Asteroids and Blasteroids. --- End quote --- Compare the two, and then imagine an analogous circumstance with Tempest. |
| taylormadelv:
--- Quote from: saint on November 05, 2009, 06:03:02 pm ---The Youtube video did not look that good... --- End quote --- That video doesn't look better than Tempest on Mame IMO. If you can find a very bright VGA CRT, the smoked glass on the Tempest cabinet makes it tought to tell the difference, unless you do a side by side. However, that widgit would save the trouble of maming a Tempest cabinet "back to life". |
| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Ummon on November 05, 2009, 07:18:53 pm ---I think ya all missed this part. Then and now: --- Quote from: Ummon on November 20, 2008, 08:11:04 pm --- Think of it like the difference between Asteroids and Blasteroids. --- End quote --- Compare the two, and then imagine an analogous circumstance with Tempest. --- End quote --- Not really. Tempest is Tempest. "Updating" the game doesn't change the fact you lose something integral to the allure of the original. Yeah, I get that Blasteroids is an update to Asteroids. But the point is, I walk up to the either machine and the collective experience is different. They are simply not the same, probably why the developers simply went with a different name instead of just calling it Asteroids 2 or something. Asteroids vs Blasteroids is like Old Coke vs New Coke. |
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