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7490017 No.7490017 [Reply] [Original]

Games do age. The Atari 2600 sucks.

>> No.7490032

>>7490017
OP is a faggot. He sucks dicks.

>> No.7490034
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7490034

I disagree

>> No.7490037

>>7490017
Yes to the first statement, no to the second.

>> No.7490038

It sucked back then too.

>> No.7490042

>>7490017
>posting one of the worst games on the system
exquisite bait

>> No.7490068

>>7490017
Dayum, purple guy packin' some shmeat

>> No.7490115

Games obviously age, the only people who think they don't are full blown retards who think a game like Goldeneye could be released exactly as it was on the N64, with the same graphics, controls, and framerate, and still be as critically acclaimed and beloved as it was, and actual autists who don't understand human speech.
Hell the simple lack of/non use of a second analog stick for camera control in 3D games is a huge indication of games ageing.

>> No.7490118

today's standards are lower so games age by becoming better

>> No.7490147

>>7490017
Children do age. Some day you'll be old enough for 4chan. Who knows if you'll still be retarded with shit tastes by then.

>> No.7490158
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7490158

>>7490017
Atari 2600's primitive art not only provided new aesthetic forms, it also offered a deeper and more complex emotional and spiritual model that the electronic artists employed to critique the modernization of Western society while forging new opportunities for people to connect with their inner nature, and with each other via the second controller.

>> No.7490195

>>7490017
OP here. Disregard that, I suck cocks.

>> No.7490356

>>7490115
dumbo take

>> No.7490369

>>7490356
good rebuttal

>> No.7490421

>>7490017
Arcade rooms was where the fun was at. The Atari 2600 was just the methadone video game addicts took while they waited for the real thing next day.

>> No.7490612

>>7490421
This. I have very fond memories of arcade games from 1980-83 and go back and play them frequently. I seldom touch Atari games from the same era even though I played them as a kid. Even in its golden age we knew it was lacking.

>> No.7490658

>>7490421
dangerously factual. zoomers will never know this feeling.

>> No.7490661

>>7490017
atari 2600 was a great machine.. for the time. maybe you're just a useless faggot that's easily filtered by games made for children?

>> No.7490682

>>7490421
I'm a borderline zoomer and I've been playing 2600 games as of the past few years, some of them are very great despite the fact that the system was mostly factory farmed shitty-decent ports of arcade games, here's a small list of my favorites

Defender (good port)
Millipede(I literally like this version more than the arcade version)
Montezuma's Revenge(has its own levels so very worth it in its own right)
Pitfall and Pitfall II
Kaboom
Various modern homebrews, such as Draconian and Galagon, the system is more interesting as an active homebrew machine than it is for playing the original games

>> No.7490782

you dont have to like early video games. but they are the reason why we have great games today. and for the time they were a lot of fun. the real focus was on gameplay and not "immersion" or hours until you beat it. they were pick up and play, the purest form of gaming. finally, if youre able to look at the true stand outs of any era, you will be able to have some fun with the classics if youre not a smoothbrain who plays mmos and other modern games that have to hold your hand and require you to press A whenever you see someone.

>> No.7490789

>>7490017
>games do age
That doesn't look any different now than it does when it was originally released. So why, pray tell, do you believe it has aged?

>> No.7490925

>>7490789
Because people unironically enjoyed it back then, however nobody enjoys Atari 2600 shit today.

>> No.7490929

>>7490925
>nobody enjoys Atari 2600 shit today
I do

>> No.7490930

>>7490017
No one would pay $60 for this game today. If games don't age, then why is no one buying it? Checkmate.

>> No.7490951

>>7490017
You have to look at the bigger picture. Atari 2600 was the affordable pleb blox. Compare it to arcade games and computer games from the late 70s (Apple II). The truth is it's for poor people and they pretend it's awesome because it's all they had (see: ZX Spectrum)

>> No.7490954

>>7490789
Every time one of you ESL idiots says something like this all is does is highlight how illiterate you are and ignorant of the breadth of meaning words in English have. I'd feel bad for you if it weren't mostly that you just like being uneducated because you probably find learning to be a horrible chore.

>> No.7490962

>>7490954
What foreign language do you speak? None? Just as I thought.

Pwn3d!

>> No.7490992
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7490992

>>7490962
I speak English, French and some German. But I was raised in English and understand how the word aged is used in a context such as this. It is common, basic usage for anyone actually familiar with the language.

>> No.7490996

>>7490954
I only speak English, you faggot. How many ESL retards use the phraes "pray tell"?

>> No.7491012

>>7490017
Atari 2600 games sucking does not imply games age.
Atari Pac Man sucks, original Pac Man doesn't, yet both are close to the same age. Does Pac Man hold some immeasurable inscrutable quality which makes it exempt from aging? No, good games are good and bad games are bad.
Go back to /v/ or reddit.

>> No.7491043

>>7490996
Well you make for one. As a native English speaker you should be deeply ashamed at how poorly you understand the only language you ever learned.

>> No.7491074

>>7491012
Pac Man for Atari was shit and everybody at the time knew it. I would say some arcade ports have "aged" now that you can play the real version on your computer. Ms Pac Man for 2600 was a good port, for an Atari game. NES Pac Man is pretty close to the arcade but it's a bit off, so who wants to play it now. They might have been the best way to play the games at home at the time, but now they're only worth looking at as a tech demo.

>> No.7491079

>>7490017
Warlords is fun, play that.

>> No.7491102
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7491102

"Games don't age" fags, dilate please.

>> No.7491187

>Gaming doesn't evolve! Everything still looks and plays like my rudimentary Atari garbage!

You guys are such retards.

>> No.7491207

the games didn't age, you just developed better taste

>> No.7491263

>>7490682
the 2600 is one case where the homebrew stuff manages to be superior to the commercial releases from back in the day.

>> No.7491351
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7491351

i still think this game is a masterpiece. still playing it.

>> No.7491362

The 2600 is fine. It's library is about what you'd expect from the first truly successful cartridge based console, the term "game design" literally didn't even exist yet, of course a lot of it wasn't good.

The same thing happened in Japan when the NES/Famicom launched, tons of companies that had no idea how to make video games just decided to try and make video games.

>> No.7491474

moon patrol is dope as hell. look at this shit! the smooth scrolling, the steady progression of difficulty. It's a real video game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSfWuN0sZqs

>> No.7491616

>>7490925
Plenty of people do. It's only the zoomiest of zoomies that can't

>>7490954
>ackshually
Every time one of you aspie children says something like this all is does is highlight how illiterate you are and ignorant of how much everyone is laughing at your butthurt

>> No.7491849

>>7490017
That just means it always sucked then. You're going to have to make a better argument than this.

>> No.7491890

>>7490017
>Games do age. The Atari 2600 sucks.
It was never good and almost killed gaming.
It wasn't until the NES games got soul.

>> No.7491932
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7491932

>>7491474
>bragging about an arcade port
They managed to scale the game down so it be playable on an Atari 2600? Great, but since you can just play the arcade version why would anybody play the Shitari port now?
>"We have Moon Patrol at home"
>your video: Moon Patrol at home
How many Atari "classics" are like this?

>> No.7491943

>>7491932
>They managed to scale the game down so it be playable on an Atari 2600? Great, but since you can just play the arcade version why would anybody play the Shitari port now?
demakes are quite popular

for instance, Halo 2600 is more soulful and therefore superior to the original hexbox game

>> No.7491951

>>7491849
>game isn't "fun" after you take away the WOW TECHNOLOGY factor
This is the real artificial fun

>> No.7491969
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7491969

you know how you spent most of your time retro gaming aimlessly browsing your ROM collection, picking a game at random, playing a couple minutes of it, getting bored and picking something else?

the 2600 is a system designed to be played exactly like that.

>> No.7491974

>>7491932

Most of the classic Atari games are Activision's, who did originals.

There's a few arcade ports that change just enough to not be outclassed by the games they're based off, like Battlezone.

>> No.7491990
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7491990

The simple answer is that Atari games were always shit (except Pitfall, ofc) and the butt of easy jokes. But buying an arcade cabinet to stick in your home was expensive.

>> No.7492012

>>7490017
>>7491990
This.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the brains of a lot of people in this world, apparently.

They think that because time moves forward and so does technology, that somehow kid's atari of years ago is the same as the ps5 of today. No it's not the same. It's not. It's not like some revolving threadmill. Even people with basic life competency skills (living independently, some even regrettably making money on youtube). They will be like "oh you collect NES games? Oh in a few years time they'll be the same as Atari game". No they won't, and no I don't have a big collection or interest in collecting NES games. It's not the same idiots.

You see this as well when we formed retro as meaning games of a certain time of technology before the modern style of games came along. And yet people think it HAS to be a treadmill. That the PS2 to today's 20 year old is the same as the NES to a 40 year old - no it's fucking completely different.

>> No.7492027

>>7491969
Damn the 2600 does that?
Impressive webm

>> No.7492045

>>7492012
that's true except Atari is great

>>7491969
>>7492027
silky smooth 60fps, no crap randomly popping up at the edge of the draw distance -- safe to say it's superior to any 5th gen racer

>> No.7492052

>>7492045
It's also running completely on the bare hardware with no cartridge enhancements (no banking, added RAM, etc).

>> No.7492056

>>7490996
>phraes

>> No.7492330

>>7492027
I had a fisherprice steering wheel that did that

>> No.7492373

>>7491943
>more soulful
You're a legit retard

>> No.7492401

>>7490017
And yet here you are, talking about something that sucks.
Wow, you suck.

>> No.7494149

>>7490017
Dayum, purple guy packin' some shmeat