Current Events > Was Solaris the most technically impressive game for the Atari 2600?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBg48Ivjiyc

Kind of incredible a game that looks like this was on the 2600. Only other game I can think of that comes close is maybe Yars Revenge?

Pitfall!

Solaris is impressive still. Yars Revenge is fun but not even close. ET is much more impressive than YR.

The graphical limitations on Atari 2600 were such that almost anything was impressive by Atari 2600 standards.

<_<

Different games had different focuses. Like, it LOOKS pretty but there's no music.

Check out the tunes on this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S08q8le7ajY

All I can say is going from Atari 2600 to when NES came out was mind blowing. Like sure there was some moderate improvement inbetween like with ColecoVision but it was a smaller difference.

Jumping to NES was jaw dropping and I swore it was like alien tech that wasn't possible. People laugh now and would make fun of that but seriously moving from Atari 2600 to NES was a leap I will never forget and in my life I have never had a generational change that impressed me as much.

archizzy posted...

All I can say is going from Atari 2600 to when NES came out was mind blowing. Like sure there was some moderate improvement inbetween like with ColecoVision but it was a smaller difference.

Jumping to NES was jaw dropping and I swore it was like alien tech that wasn't possible. People laugh now and would make fun of that but seriously moving from Atari 2600 to NES was a leap I will never forget and in my life I have never had a generational change that impressed me as much.

As someone who wasn't around, the Atari 5200 had some good graphics for its time. It's a shame about that controller. I wonder how the history books might've been rewritten if Atari had simply figured out the proper way to make a gaming controller with more than one button and a joystick.

AlphaWhelp posted...

Different games had different focuses. Like, it LOOKS pretty but there's no music.

Check out the tunes on this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S08q8le7ajY

Never knew this game had a 2600 port. Used to play the arcade version back in the day and really enjoyed it!

the indiana jones game was pretty impressive, even if it was kind of a mess. just the concept of having an inventory of tools, going to all these different places and using them, a far cry from Adventure

archizzy posted...

All I can say is going from Atari 2600 to when NES came out was mind blowing. Like sure there was some moderate improvement inbetween like with ColecoVision but it was a smaller difference.

Jumping to NES was jaw dropping and I swore it was like alien tech that wasn't possible. People laugh now and would make fun of that but seriously moving from Atari 2600 to NES was a leap I will never forget and in my life I have never had a generational change that impressed me as much.

Yeah it was a crazy leap. But I was also playing games on the Amiga 500 and the commodore 64 so it wasn't as big of a wow factor. Though my uncle had a sega master system and that blew my mind, cause it seemed to be a hug leap from the nes and it came out before it.

https://youtu.be/aB2Z0XFWDr8?si=D6O6PNXfyjKubr6D

viewmaster_pi posted...

the indiana jones game was pretty impressive, even if it was kind of a mess. just the concept of having an inventory of tools, going to all these different places and using them, a far cry from Adventure

It bugs me that they never retroactively made a Raiders of the Lost Ark game for NES.

They have Temple of Doom, two versions of The Last Crusade, and even Young Indiana Jones. But no Raiders.

It looks better than some NES games.