Atari 2600+ vs. Atari 7800+ – Which Should You Get?
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Atari 2600+ vs. Atari 7800+ – Which Should You Get?
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Re: Atari 2600+ vs. Atari 7800+ – Which Should You Get?
#2What Atari games are actually worth playing?
Re: Atari 2600+ vs. Atari 7800+ – Which Should You Get?
#3What Atari games are actually worth playing?
I think that's not far off the same as asking what 1890s films are worth watching. You could watch a couple for a bit of novelty and an idea of what technology was like but none of them are "good".
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#4miSTer all the way.
Re: Atari 2600+ vs. Atari 7800+ – Which Should You Get?
#5What Atari games are actually worth playing?
Yars' revenge is pretty good. I'm guessing these don't boot homebrew, but synthcart allows you to play music.
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#6miSTer all the way.
miSTer is a technical marvel, but from all the YouTube videos I've seen it seems the gains from miSTer over the latest emulators is not noticeable.
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#7> Speaking of game loading, it is surprisingly slow. You plug in a cartridge and turn on the 7800+, which takes a moment, and then there is a “Loading game” screen that takes 15 to 20 seconds to actually load the game.
This would have been nearly instantaneous on the original console. You could hit reset and be back at the title screen basically before you'd leaned back from pushing the button.
It is very funny that as computers have become more powerful, we've lost the incentive (and probably the skills, outside of the demoscene) to make things run fast and close to the bone.
Also, I think "disappointing joypad" is faithful to the Atari experience, having used those spongy suckers for many hours in the early 90s.
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#8I prefer my original 800XL with FujiNet... I love that thing.
Re: Atari 2600+ vs. Atari 7800+ – Which Should You Get?
#9What Atari games are actually worth playing?
I have a soft spot for 400/800/XL/XE versions of PAC-MAN and Donkey Kong. They are both pretty close to the arcade originals.
Re: Atari 2600+ vs. Atari 7800+ – Which Should You Get?
#10The title is wrong, it's about the recent Atari 2600+ and 7800+, not the original models.