NFG

I had such grand dreams for AtariLabs originally. I was never able to make the site even come close to the vague visions of intense experimentation I imagined a golden age Atari-backed research lab to produce. That's why I let it go fallow; I wasn't living up to the name. It's been a bit of a bitter failure for me, despite the mostly positive feedback it generated. What was there has been preserved, all pages besides the main index should now be resolving fine, maintaining old links and google searches and things. Some of the content didn't suck, but I think the NFG Games stuff is, if not better suited, better quality.

Are you the filthy spammer to whom I refer? It was never available to anyone but me, Network Solutions had it in a limbo state until my grace period expired. At best you could have been on a waiting list. Or, no doubt, offer the bastards at NetSol a few dollars and they'd accidently shorten the grace period. Besides, you'd have squandered it on a site with no Mutrons.

Atarilabs.com has been under my control for a very long time. It's been lying fallow for a year or more, so when it expired I wasn't going to renew it. Then I thought of some filthy spammer's LiveGirlsCasinoSearchWholesalePS2sNowNowNow site taking its place, and I decided to renew it after all. It now redirects to nfg.2y.net 'cause that's where I focus most of the stuff that would have gone to Atarilabs.

The X68000 version of Strider, like Ghouls n Ghosts, is more or less a pixel perfect port of the arcade. Capcom handled it in-house, so it figures they had access to all the original sprite data. There seem to be fewer colours used in the X68 version of the game, (PSPro counts about 80 vs 90 in the arcade) and the colours are noticably muted, tho that's possibly an effect of the emulator (the same effect was noted on GnG). Here's a few direct comparison shots for you. Sorry they're so huge. You can probably figure out they're in order: Arcade, X68 + Genesis. [edit] Putting the 3 together made a mess of the whole page, so I put the genny ones last. They're pretty obviously inferior.