How powerful was the Game.com?

[How powerful was the Game.com?]

**This thread was not inspired by Jackandsig's CreatiVision thread(I though of his after) but would not mine if he posted on this one **

Alot of people hate on the Game.com because "the only good games are the puzzle/trivia/board games" as the action games are slow and unplayable and although I like the system(out of all the Videogame consoles/handhelds ever made I only dislike the R-zone as I hate LCD games) I can agree.Now I have noticed that on the Game.com emulator(Gcom), the games are much better than on the actual console(not great but tolerable)as there is no slowdown or ghosting effect so that means that it's the Game.com's screen that makes it bad not the console's hardware.So I just wanted to know how powerful was the Game.com compared to the Gameboy color,was it much better or much worse as the unreleased Metal Gear Solid port looks better graphically than the Gameboy Color port.

 

Wait. If Game.com has better resolution than a gameboy color, why this screenshot is smaller than gbc?

[Animal Crossing on N64?]

Was Animal Crossing released on N64 in North America?

[It's weird how Colecovision had an adapter for playing Atari 2600 games]

If I could, I would release a new 2600 compatible right now with new games.

 

No one could stop me to do that.

[Is it fact that Nintendo Saved Gaming?]

10 pages and still no firm decision? Come on guys, I wanna know whether to build an NES shrine or not.

 

Well. Based on the result of the poll. Nintendo didn't saving gaming.

 

It would mean if Nintendo didn't release NES, we would stuck with 2600, Intellivision and ColecoVision.

Or maybe we would buy a computer if we want to play games.

[An Atari 2600 with a gamepad?!]

Or use a SMS gamepad like I did once, it's great for games where you move in eight directions.

 

And yes I remember hearing about the 2600 clone with 128 games sold to the Arabian market...

 

It would be a great start to buy an 2600 with 128 free games in cartridges.

[Top 5 lynx games]

- Stun Runner

 

- Steel Talons

 

- Lemmings

 

- Pinball Jam

 

- Batman returns

[Favorite 2600 game?]

I can't pick one game. Here my favorite games

 

- Demon Attack

 

- Ms. Pac- Man

 

- Dark Cavern

[Is it fact that Nintendo Saved Gaming?]

If Nintendo didn't save video games,, it surely introduced new features in video games like:

 

1 - Write passwords to reach a level : I don't remembered any consoles before Nintendo using passwords.

 

2 - Battery backup. Now you can save your games and play them later.

 

3 - Longer gameplay: you can't finish a game with only one sitting.

 

4 - The gamepads ... Much better than joysticks.

[An Atari 2600 with a gamepad?!]

I think the "game port" is just the cartridge port, nothing fancy about that

 

And those controllers were later shipped with 7800 units in Europe.

 

I have a bunch of them. And you can still get them from Best and elsewhere

 

At the end they were probably mixing and matching to get rid of inventory

 

Atari 7800 has gamepads too?

 

The last time I saw an 7800 in the stores were joysticks.

 

[An Atari 2600 with a gamepad?!]

I never thought Atari would release 2600 with a gamepad unstead a joystick.

 

 

And 128 games included and has a game port to play more games.

[What was YOUR very first computer?]

An IBM PCjr in 1986.

 

I played the Rogue, Thexder, Space Quest, Gauntlet, Mine Shaft, Robocop, Questron II, into the eagle's nest on the PCjr.

[The Atari 2600 and NES on top console lists.]

I have been through a couple of sites the last through days announcing the "top" consoles of all time. With most of them having the NES on the top but the reasons for it and the 2600 being 2nd or lower (in some sites last out of 50) that have me scratching my head.

 

On the 2600 side many say:

 

1. The Atari 2600 by itself(atari) took the industry to the brink of destruction. Some sites saying it drove a stake through the industry.
2. Acting like consoles in the present have quality control for games, and almost put the entirety of the blame on it, even saying that once Activision and etc came out, Atari was making noo good games for pretty much all the 80's.
3. Atari 2600 games are too simple and lack in depth imagination
4. Atari 2600 was not a world wide success

 

 

On the NES side many say:

 

1. Nintendo fixed the Industry that Atari had ruined.
2. Video games were completely dead until the NES released in 1985 and brought the industry back by 1986
3. SMB single-handedly changed the types of games we played and also inspired PC gaming somehow and games with scrolling
4. NES was the first left hand to move console
5. NES was the first to also become a computer
6. NES was the first to have lock-out options
7. NES single-handedly brought video game consoles back into existence, and without them there would be no consoles.
8. People were not still buying video games until the NES
9. The NES test launch was responsible for the new intellivisions, the Atari 7800, and for the Atari 2600 jr. As well as Coleco still supporting CV in 1085.
10. NES setting up the third-party game publisher system as we know it

 

 

NOW keep in mind. These are from tons of mainstream "gaming sites" that claim to know the history. All of these are on at least 5 of them so it's not like these are from some isolated site. This is what the average guy will read if he starts to try and get into the history of games.

 

The whole thread is about video games. Not computer games or arcade games.

 

In the video games market in 1987, I agree with this list.

 

There are shops where they rent Nintendo and Sega games and consoles.

 

I never saw renting Atari 2600 games.

[The Atari 2600 and NES on top console lists.]

 

1: Nintendo fixed the Industry that Atari had ruined.

We had this before, video games existed and flourished nicely on Arcades, Apple ][, A8 and C64, and IBM between 1982 and 1990

 

But you won't buy a computer just for playing games.

[Best VCS Pac-Man Variant]

Ms Pac-Man of course

 

Also Mouse Trap from Coleco.

[weird showing in Atari Age website]

I got this when reading blogs with comments.

 

 

That happens with Internet Explorer, Google chrome, Opera and Safari.

[Princess Rescue Now Available!]

LOL

 

Princess Rescue binary is still available.

 

I wonder why Nintendo didn't ask to remove the rom too.

[Rename VCS Pac-Man]

Lego-Man

Block-Man

[2ds hate?]

I first thought the 2ds looks like 3ds but without 3d option.

 

I don't like the 2ds design.

 

I don't own a 3ds anyway because modern video games/handhelds requiert update before playing.

[Alamogordo approves Atari excavation]

Could be possible that the site is dug without knowledge to everybody?

[Alamogordo approves Atari excavation]

I'm sure some guy with a smart phone or a news crew will get something on video before the official documentary is released.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm74NOaOL64

 

It's the same video I watched few days ago.

 

It doesn't bring anything news.

 

Fuel Industries lets the reporters entering the site and taking shots for the tv news.

 

I don't think they left everybody taking shots with smartphones.

 

Or it will ruin theiir documentaries.

[Alamogordo approves Atari excavation]

My big guess is you have to watch their shows to know what they have found.

[Name of a clown arcade]

Yes. It could be Kick or Kick Man.

 

I don't remember it's a trackball game with pac-man encluded. But it's a long time ago and I played it once time.

 

Thank you guys.

[Name of a clown arcade]

I'm looking for the name of the arcade machine.

 

 

 

It's about a clown collecting balloons before they reach the ground on the cycle.

 

The picture is not from the arcade. Just to show an idea I'm talking about.

[Alamogordo approves Atari excavation]

I don't really understand why they would want to do this. It's not like they are excavating dinosaur bones or ancient ruins, it's crushed multimedia from the 1980s. It just seems like a massive waste of money and resources.

 

They will make a documentary film and make money with it.

[Alamogordo approves Atari excavation]

I begin to wonder if any games they found wiould be buried elsewhere.

 

:D :P