ZylonBane

Surprised there doesn't seem to be any mention around here of the Chiphead demo released at Silly Venture 2016 by Altair. It's a demake of Fairlight's Ziphead. Definitely one of the most impressive 2600 scene demos I've seen yet. And here it is live with audience reactions.

So uh... what's the cartridge that's even more ultimate than this one?

He kind of brought it on himself by deciding to call his primitive render tests "Road Rash pre-alpha".

Paperboy was an Atari System 2 game, which used a DEC T-11 microprocessor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_System

Voice synthesizer's what? "Software Automatic Mouth". http://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam

Test fuses???

Good. Having the NES Classic supply the International Space Station was a terrible idea.

As opposed to... analog download?

I don't know why you would be, since it's a legitimate use of the word. In the wake of the huge success of Dragon's Lair, every major arcade game maker was scrambling to create their own laserdisc games, in spite of the fact that they were actually pretty crap as games. More like 4-bit color. 2-bit would only be 4 colors total, and every scene clearly has more than that.

Arcade accurate but unique? WTF does that even mean?

No, that's not what it means at all. It means you can download and start cartridge images over the internet.

Two of those are arcade ports. Why would you ape the primitive 2600 versions instead of just making the best possible 8-bit version?

It's "Gray code", named after the inventor, Frank Gray. Not the color.

Put more skill points into reading comprehension. Jaguar gaming is very much a "beggars can't be choosers" landscape.

That's a ridiculous theory. People thought it was terrible because it was terrible. Low-poly untextured models, sluggish frame rate, clunky sword combat, confusing navigation, those damn snipers... ugh. I still finished it multiple times though. Because "good enough that I completed it" is a nonsense phrase. More like "paid enough for that I completed it".

If nothing else, a damning point against the XEGS was the single-button controller. For a game console released in 1987 that was ridiculous.

Backward compatibility, until the last couple console generations, was not the norm. It was the exception. Your criteria is invalid.

Anyone who voted for anything other than the XEGS is wrong. The 5200 and Jaguar, regardless of how successful they were, at least had an actual reason to exist as next-gen consoles. But the XEGS was just a let's-do-that-again of the 5200, repackaging nearly decade-old hardware for no reason other than the Tramiels trying to use up old 8-bit inventory. It even stupidly tried the old "a game system that can also become a computer!" gimmick, years after it had become abundantly obvious that nobody cared about that.

No, they don't. The raster effects and chunky pixels clearly give away 2600 graphics as 8-bit.

A Google search for "MINI REPRO FACTORY" returns exactly one result-- this thread.

Well... I guess you've successfully made a game immune to criticism since it's supposed to look like shit.

Downloads have always been digital. I "digitally" downloaded things on my 8-bit Atari.

I guess it's appropriate that this guy's username isn't "Playatari". Kinda shows where his priorities are. Spend your way to fandom, dude.

Are you sure it would be cheaper because it's cheaper? It might not be.

You see the little "Like This" button in the lower-right of every post? Just click that instead the next time you feel the urge to do that.