![]() At first I thought I was seeing something impossible, and I was really keen to hear how they had managed it. And that’s exactly why I’m excited about buying a copy of this when it’s ready for release. ![]() If it’s fun, if it’s polished, it’s a good game. The only thing that matters is the experience you have when you play the game. It doesn’t matter what technology is inside of it, or how amazing, complicated, or messy the engineering is. So, first things first, from a gamer’s standpoint, the only thing that truly matters is the game experience itself. I have a copy of Scramble and am really looking forward to playing Galaga and Zookeeper (another favorite classic arcade game) when they’re ready. I want to thank them for that, and for creating such great games for the Atari 2600 in 2019, and keeping the system alive more than 40 years after it launched. No one was particularly brutal toward me, but the creators behind the project were a bit nicer than their fans, and engaged with me and we had an interesting conversation on the philosophy of homebrew, and how their technology works. But I think it came off the wrong way and more than one person jumped on me for saying something negative about what is otherwise an exciting project for fans of the Atari and of Galaga. My response to this was disappointment, and I said as much. And they were nice enough to answer: they build a cartridge with an ARM CPU in it, and it augments the Atari’s built-in hardware, and this is how they’re able to create games that are vastly superior to what should normally be possible with the 2600 console alone. It simply shouldn’t be possible on an Atari VCS, which only has 5 hardware sprites plus backgrounds, and nowhere near enough CPU or memory to handle all the complex movement that is required to accurately re-create a Galaga experience. As a game developer, I’m impressed with the effort and execution it takes to get a game looking and playing this good on such limited hardware. Why arguing about Link’s gender is dumb, and why it’s importantĪs a Galaga fan, I really want a copy.“Null Room” hidden in Superman (Atari, 1979).video games, programming, the internet, and stuff
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