/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7116238
The darkness that constitutes the majority of screen space allows for a lot of imagination and is generally comfy, yes.

Centipede, Crystal Castles, Ballblazer (7800), Kaboom!, Video Olympics. Don't bother with the 5200, just play the Atari 8-bit computer stuff instead — the 5200 is just an A8 with no RAM and shit controllers.

>>7116238
>What are some of your go-tos?
Demon Attack is a good 'n.
As is Crystal Castles.

>>7116238
commando on 7800

>>7116238
Can't help you much with 2600 but I've been over the 5200 and 7800 libraries. Working on the Atari 8-bit computer library. IMO Atari's next-best system besides the 2600.

>>7116238
Yars' Revenge and Haunted House but you gotta read the manual

>>7116238
Enduro, the best racing game on 2600. Has cool creative visual effects simulating weather and time of day changes.

I've always preferred the look and feel of berzerk on the 2600

>>7116353
I am amused by the fact that in this port you can avoid getting shot by letting lasers pass through the hole in your neck.

>>7116361
oh shit and that wasn't in the arcade version?

To quote the Angry Video Game Nerd, there’s just nothing quite like the buzz from an Atari on a CRT, with just you and the game on a dark night. I believe he said that in the 5200 episode.

>>7116364
I only just now realized that the arcade version also has a hole between the body and the head. Never tried to dogde shots that way in the arcade.

>>7116375
I think I may have done it at some point but I'm not 100 % sure

>>7116238
I always love the graphics of Cosmic ark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtcYpymijv8

>>7116425
Good taste. Yes, it has a certain something with its graphics.

>>7116238
Always sad seeing someone disintegrate into mental illness.

frogger on the 5200

I like to keep a small CRT and an old system like this hooked up next to my desktop.

>>7116238
defender
activision titles

frogger, yars revenge

multiplayer is the most fun though

Preety much almost all activision games are worth playing, H.E.R.O. is the best in my opinion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn8Nn69dkcM

>>7117882
Also check out the atari 5200, the enhanced version to comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrvRjheg04Q

>>7116282
>the 5200 is just an A8 with no RAM and shit controllers.
This is one of the most accurate things ever said on this godforsaken shithole of a board.

FUUUUUUUCKK OFFF

Atari is garbage, all the games you mentioned are shitty versions of arcade games. There are literally millions of 70s kids that were crushed inside by how bad Atari games were Atari consoles were complete moneygrab bullshit. Don't talk shit about things you have no idea about.

>>7116238
There were a surprising number of games that just felt right. Even today, RealSports Baseball is an easy measuring stick to judge other newer baseball games from. You could play the thing immediately without ever playing it before, and the controls are just kinda obvious and just work as expected.

>>7116425
amazing game.

>>7119553
underage retard detected


the atari sold millions of units via word of mouth advertising & would have been unable to do so if it was "garbage "

there is a ton of shitware
but the gems are unparalleled even on modern day systems (analog controllers)

not the best system
but it has some godtier titles
to deny this is a fool's errand

>>7120751
Why do you even bother responding to impotent zoomer bait? The fact that this thread even exists is punishment enough for that weird little kid. He desperately wants to have been born in what he thinks was the "golden age" of gaming, but gets shut down every time he comes here to larp like he was. That's where the angry shitposting and weak bait is coming from.

>>7116238
Air-Sea Battle
but only with another person

Frostbite is really fun game. Maze Craze as well, even better with two players.

Eyy thanks for the reccs guys

>>7116238
Aquaventure is really good and not well enough known. It's a pro-type game that was made in the 80s but not released until the 2010s. If it had came out during the console's early life it would have been remembered as a classic.

>>7122503
Great game, like an undersea Defender.

river raid

>>7116443
>>>/v/

>>7116370
That's the perfect quote to sums up

Even though the games are so simple and the graphics so primitive, it has a charm that will never be matched. The objects and characters just barely represent what they're supposed to be, but that's the whole beauty of it; that you have to use your imagination. The sound effects? Just awesome. And the lack of music just enhances the mood. It's that special kind of atmosphere when it's in the middle of the night, and you're sittin' in the glow of your TV with the sound of crickets

long shot, but: any 2600 devs here who can give me the rundown on sprite flickering and how to avoid it? any resources would be great

wow, this is such a slick homebrew game. kind of like a cross between Berzerk and Centipede

>>7124213
here's another fun one. all the 2600 roms are free on the atariage website btw (including the newer homebrew stuff)

Atari 8-bit computer game list. Mostly sourced by scouring the Atarimania website. https://pastebin.com/vfWxserz

>>7117293
good taste

My favorite is Adventure

>>7116238
I can't get into 2600 games. Coleco is the "earliest" home console I can get into.
Meanwhile arcade games from like 1978 on are fun.

>>7124097
I think a good first step would be for you to actually understand what sprite flickering is and what causes it. Not flaming, just saying.

You also need to understand that sprite flickering, particularly on a 2600, is practically a necessary evil. Owing to its design roots as a "pong machine" the 2600 gives you two player sprites, two missile sprites, and a ball sprite -- each a different pixel size. That's it.

If you want to do anything even remotely interesting on this machine you're going to have some sprite flicker.

>>7124717
sorry, what I really meant was how to reduce flickering as much as possible. e.g. how does ms. pacman have so much less flickering than the original pacman port?
>If you want to do anything even remotely interesting on this machine you're going to have some sprite flicker.
also i disagree. there are games like turmoil and riverraid that don't have any apparent flickering and are really fun

>>7124805
>e.g. how does ms. pacman have so much less flickering than the original pacman port?
Ok, so Pacman is only drawing one ghost, because it only has one ghost sprite. How do we have four ghosts? Each of our ghosts gets drawn in one frame out of every four. As you can imagine, this causes some pretty awful flickering. In Ms. Pacman we're actually tracking multiple sprites so each can be drawn every frame *unless* they're on the same scanline at the same time, at which point you get flicker as each is drawn on a single frame sequentially.

>also i disagree. there are games like turmoil and riverraid that don't have any apparent flickering and are really fun
Sure, but they're also not doing anything particularly interesting codewise in order to do sprite tricks. Not to discredit Carol Shaw at all, but she wasn't doing anything out of bounds with the 2600's hardware, at least not by the time she wrote River Raid. It just happened to be a really good game.

Solaris was pretty advanced for its time and fun for awhile but I think it's too hard to actually finish. Love the sound when you hit warp speed and jump between sectors.

All of these screen shots look like forms of punishment.

>>7124060
WAKE UP!

Open the windows, let some light in. Are any of you overdosing? Do you need medical attention?

1V1 ME IN WARLORDS U COWARDS

>>7125552
Doug Neubauer's masterpiece. He never did quite get Star Raiders out of his system, and this game was strongly suspected to be meant as a direct sequel to it. Instead, they asked him to rework it as a movie tie-in game for The Last Starfighter, but that ended up falling through and we got Solaris. (Funnily enough, another team was working on a Last Starfighter game for the Atari 8-bit computers, which ALSO fell through, and that game got rebranded as Star Raiders II -- which Doug had nothing to do with whatsoever.)

Then we come to find out just a couple of years ago that an actual Star Raiders sequel was in the works (again, by someone other than Doug) and THAT project got scrapped when Atari lost their fucking minds and started collapsing in on themselves around late 83 - early 84.

>>7125579
?

>>7116238
I like at least some sign of artistry in my games, when your sprites are 5x5 rectangles of a single color that's hard to do

>>7124973
thanks for taking time to explain.

>>7119553
>>7125579
>>7125684

> /vr/ - Retro Games

>>7125650
I love Star Raiders

unironically started emulating e.t., adventure, and empire strikes back a little while ago
it' oddly pleasing just playing these games

>>7116364
It is and the attract mode showcases it. Don't try it though, it's too risky to be worth it.

What's the best game that doesn't require the fire button to play? (besides Ms. Pacman)

What are some complete games with published source code that are 4k and below? I'm especially interested in 2k games like this homebrew one:
https://atariage.com/forums/topic/311006-midspace-2k-game/

>>7125552
>"pretty advanced for its time"
>meanwhile in 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730tmDmzeDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730tmDmzeDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730tmDmzeDE

>>7128828
>meanwhile in 1986
so, a decade after the 2600 was released?

>>7125552
>"pretty advanced for its time"
>meanwhile in 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730tmDmzeDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730tmDmzeDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730tmDmzeDE

>>7128836
we're talking about Solaris, released on an obsolete console in 1986

http://www.bjars.com/
lots of assembly resources and commented source code

>>7116238
The best thing about Atari 2600 games is that you can choose and play a game within seconds. Usually there's not even a title screen to waste your time, no it's right down to business because there wasn't space for more.

>>7116238
The 5200 is pretty comfy too because it still had the same sound chip and the same black background. As did the 7800.