Best Platform for Scrollers?

[Mike 01Hawk]

SNES?

 

GBA?

[Lord Helmet]

I would go with the SNES

[cyberfluxor]

I like the SNES and Saturn for scrollers, though you'll need to import to get a huge selection out of the Saturn

[Alison DeMeyer]

Atari XL and Amiga

Edited August 17, 2007 by Alison DeMeyer

[+remowilliams]

Neo Geo

[vdub_bobby]

What the heck is a scroller? Any game that scrolls?

[Mike 01Hawk]

What the heck is a scroller? Any game that scrolls?

 

One that is scrolling either horizontally or vertically, (Life Force anyone? ). But you can't go back to previous areas, like Zelda.

 

I'd say a true scroller should be 2D using sprites, not polygons/3D.

Edited August 17, 2007 by Mike 01Hawk

[vdub_bobby]

Using the term "scroller" to describe a 2D, sprite-based, single-direction scrolling game is a little silly. And too broad to really discuss anyway, since that encompasses everything from Life Force to Super Mario Brothers to Contra to Jungle Hunt to Double Dragon to Kid Icarus to Metal Slug to Galaga.

 

Now if you want to talk about 2D scrolling shooters, or 2D scrolling platformers, or isometric scrolling beat-em-ups, sure, that's a discussion.