>mogs the NES in terms of playabilityHow'd they do it?
man/vr/ has been really shitty this week
>>12499846ur not helping
>>12499840>simple, fun-to-play games that never overstay their welcome or waste your timegee, i wonder how
I find very few pre-NES/SMS consoles or games fun to play, personally. And that's with a 2600 being my first console as a kid. Mind you, I haven't played every single game within the Atari series' library, so there may be some gems I don't know about. The only older console I still own and am actually fond of is the Vectrex. Didn't grow up with one, but I just really like vector graphic and novelty of them.
All jokes aside, Atari was never good. There's a reason no sort of Atari nostalgia sprung up the same way that NES stuff did decades after its release.
>>12499869Atari's core demographic (Boomers and Gen X) never had a nostalgic phase like Millennials did.That doesn't mean Atari was never good. They were immensely popular for a reason. Sort of like how Nintendo is extremely popular among Zoomers despite not having any nostalgia for when video games were actually good, let alone Nintendo.
>>12499846It's the trannie mod doing this, don't you dare to warn me again or ban me if you see this, you abusive jackass, we do NOTHING wrong, it's you who is shitting up the website with your fake low effort garbage.
>>12499885>Atari's core demographic (Boomers and Gen X) never had a nostalgic phase like Millennials did.Because their childhoods sucked.>They were immensely popular for a reason.Because they were one of the only options available.
>>12499869I mean, it didn't stop them from trying to sell Atari lookalikes over the years. I think it persists mostly for its aesthetic more than anything. Fake wood veneer. Big joystick controller. They always mention the amount if games they have instead of any notable tiles, barring the ones advertising Pac-Man of all things. They include the 7800 version nowadays, so it's not a complete scam.
>>12499887Boomers and Gen X both grew up in the most economically prosperous time for the United States. Their childhoods were great.You should brush up on your video game history, because there were far more options than just Atari in the arcade and at home. Atari were just one of the best at the time.
>>12499867Vectrex aged better than any other console. I grew up with the 6th gen and Vetrex looks futuristic to me.
>>12499846>this week
>>12499893>Atari were just one of the best at the time.That's not saying much at all. The instant actually good games from Japan starting getting released stateside via Nintendo it was over for Atari.
>>12499898Oh, you're just a weeaboo. I see.
>>12499898this is what nips were putting out four years after the 2600 hit the market, btw
>>12499905At the same time, Nintendo was still producing home pong clones. They didn't even program their arcade killer app Donkey Kong. Ikegami did.
>>12499840Holy shit the board shitter became so entrenched in being retarded he wrapped back around to being based.
>>12499936it's painful how hard you try to sound like you belong
>>12499936Unironically. Nintendo fellators wish their team had the legacy Atari has.
>>12499867>>12499894Vectrex is the best 8-bit console in existence unironically. Smooth 60 fps graphics, 60 fps animations, analog controls, don't need a TV... It's everything a console should be.
>>12499948i'm butthurt that the vectrex version of cube quest never materialized beyond a proof of concept
>>12499840Berzerk and Wizard of Wor have better gunplay than any NES game I've ever played. Chunky graphics and super hoarse sound chip with super deep bass made 2600 such an awesome console. NES games are so fucking ugly and lame sounding.
>>12499940>Atari's legacyWood paneling... one button joystick... the list goes on...
>>12499964>Nintendo's legacy1 good arcade game they didn't even make... the disneyfication of video games as a medium... uh... i guess that's it.
>>12499979>doesn't even try to refute my pointCome on. I left out them single-handedly crashing the video game industry and everything for you.
>>12499982>no rebuttal
>>12499982>crashing the video game industryThis wasn't a thing outside of the home console market in the United States. Arcades were still profitable and overseas, video games were more popular than ever.
>>12499984Who has multiple buildings in various countries dedicated to their company and its intellectual properties? If Atari had their own it would be a crackshack with a big Atari 2600 joystick on the top lol.
>>12499986The myth that Nintendo miraculously saved the video game industry from Atari is unfounded historical revisionism. Is Nintendo the more successful company today? No shit.
>>12499991https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
>>12499993That proves nothing. Historical revisionists love to say that Atari ruined the industry by licensing shitty games while Nintendo grew to do the exact same shit less than a decade later.Even to say that the industry was dead or a fad is ridiculous when outside of America it was still thriving, even with horseshit like the Spectrum or the CassetteVision.Wicked bait, you have me effortposting now.
>>12499995>Historical revisionists love to say that Atari ruined the industry by licensing shitty games while Nintendo grew to do the exact same shit less than a decade later.Funny, I don't see any pages about Nintendo burying 700,000+ cartridges in a landfill.
>>12500000Nintendo wasn't acquired by an external company and forced to liquidate their assets, were they?
>>12500000Good GET. Ataritards in shambles.
>>12500001No because they didn't make a crap ton of really bad games and sink the industry with them, quite the opposite actually.
>>12500002wasted get. nintoddlers will seethe for eternity no matter what
>>12500004>sink the industry with themThe industry never sank. It never went away. Did you read the wiki articles you linked?
>>12500007>It never went away.It was reborn in North America, by Nintendo of course.
>>12499846>>12499851Stop complaining and contribute.>>12499840Its because you just get straight into the action. Also only 1 button, 1 joystick to move, really simple for the boomers.
>>12500008The Famicom didn't even take off in Japan until late 1986.Same for the NES but until 1987. You act like the NES was this sweeping sensation, but it took years for people to adopt it.
>>12500013>but it took years for people to adopt it.Almost sounds like Atari did some damage or something.
>>12500014Yeah dude, it was all Atari's fault. And you know who came in to save us? Nintendo!!! Shigeru Miyamoto's tasty cum was the glue that held video games together forever!!!
>>12499964I'll bite.>The first console the majority of people knew about or used>The main option many people used for playing arcade games at home>Used as a launchpad for pioneering technology like online storefronts and wireless controllers >Despite the crash it managed to find new life as a budget console in the mid 80s to early 90s>The console design and sounds from its games have been used to represent videos in other media since the 80s
>>12500004Blatantly false. Sales forecasts for 1983 already indicated a slump in revenue compared to 1981 and 1982 but somehow each company fucked up in their own weird ways. The whole "Atari killed gaming and Nintendo saved it" is an extremely gross simplification of what actually happened.
>>12500027>The whole "Atari killed gaming and Nintendo saved it" is an extremely gross simplification of what actually happened.This is what actual revisionism looks like, not a good attempt mind you.
>>12500031Then prove Atari killed video games and Nintendo saved it.
>>12500034https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983Get an AI to summarize it if you don't want to read.
>>12500037The video game "crash" of 1983 wasn't a global phenomenon. It didn't even effect arcades in America.Wrong answer.
>>12500031Atari's main downfall was overproducing E.T. cartridges under the belief it would move consoles (it didn't) and that was one of the biggest contributions to their catastrophic loss. Mattel was made aware of the '83 forecast and was advised to restructure Intellivision to save money. They did the opposite and hired more employees for that branch and continued work on their 16-bit console prototype. Coleco seems to have played it smart, but they sunk too much money into the ADAM computer and when it turned out units had catastrophic defects it all crumbled under everything.
>>12500039>The video game "crash" of 1983 wasn't a global phenomenon. It didn't even effect arcades in America.This in no way disputes that it happened or the effects of it. Woman tier argumentation.
>>12500042>OH MY GOD ATARI PAUSED MAKING CONSOLES FOR A FEW YEARS THIS IS A TOTAL CRASHMeanwhile Mattel still sold Intellivisions and Coleco still sold ColecoVisions. Atari paused production on their 7800, but still made computers. You act like the fucking world stopped over ET being a shitty game, but it didn't.
>>12500045>You act like the fucking world stopped over ET being a shitty game, but it didn't.No, but all three of those companies just so happened to stop making consoles (or in the case of Atari, consoles anyone bought anyway). Weird how that happens for no reason.
>>12500048Mattell was making Intellivisions into the late '80s. Atari didn't cease production on the 2600 until 1992. Coleco went out of business because their ADAM computer failed in 1988. Nothing to do with video games.
>>12500050Companies manufacturing their old junk for cheap like that is sad, like when Sega did it with the Genesis 3 after the Saturn flopped in America. It's depressing.
>>12500051>Sega did it with the Genesis 3That was Majesco, you fucking moron.
>>12500053Yes, I know. Believe it or not that was still licensed by Sega.
>>12500054you say that like it's some kind of gotcha. as if holy Nintendo hasn't licensed worse lmfao
>>12500057>as if holy Nintendo hasn't licensed worse lmfaoIf we're going down the depressing licensed crap rabbithole, Atari wins by landslide. How many times have they released some dirt cheap junk that looks vaguely like a 2600?
>>12499840>How'd they do it?They didn't
>>12499840both suck
>>12499885>>12499887Generations are just marketing memes they don't really "exist."
>>12499893Boomers maybe but Gen X?>grew up in the 70sAre you Squidding me?
>>12499840gameplay first mentality
it's because the 2600 doesn't translate to emulation properly, only the actual console+CRT TV will let you "get" it
do Atarifags really?good thing they're a dying breed
>>12499885>(Boomers and Gen X) never had a nostalgic phase like Millennials did.This. We got to enjoy all the games as they were released. We never had to wear a mario shirt to show strangers on the internet our youtube induced nostalgia for things we were told would make us look quirky and interesting and so nerdy lol xd. Kiddos simply can't comprehend that people actually enjoy playing with toys because they're fun. So sad.
>>12500568>our youtube induced nostalgiaI'm a young millennial myself (1992), and YouTube didn't even exist until I was already 13. I think zoomers would the first "Grew up watching games instead of playing them" generation.
>>12500004>sink the industry with themExcept it didn't you retarded nigger-faggot niggertard, what low effort zoomer schlop gop-shit youtube crap have you been watching exactly? PC game sales were booming in North America when the this supposed "sinking" occurred, you fucking troglodyte.
>>12499982>ATARI KILLED THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY>well, actually, it was just in the US, and only related to consoles, where arcades and computers were completely 100% unaffected and booming larger than ever before, and consoles weren't actually killed at all, they were still selling millions of them, it just saw a reduction in sales>BUT IT TOTALLY KILLED THE INDUSTRYKill yourself tranny Nintoddler.
>>12499869Arcades were just plain better. If they were nostalgic for anything, then it would be a Mrs Pac-Man or Dig-Dug arcade cabinets with classic art on the sides.
>>12499867That's funny, because I grew up with the NES and I find very few of its games actually still hold up, while going back through Atari's catalogue, I find the games far more fun to play. Probably because I'm older now and sitting down for 30 to 50 minutes to play a video game is more appealing to me than sitting for 3 hours grinding my head against a brick wall trying to beat bullshit difficulty video games that were deliberately fraudulently made harder to extend their playtime.
>>12500896>>12500910Grandpa's about to fall off his rocker in anger here. Going from one copy of a text adventure game in 1983 to five in 1984 isn't exactly a booming PC game industry.
>>12499885>>12500915Those generations are nostalgic for 80s music and Back to the Future merchandise. Not games.
>>12500918Funny, since in that article your retarded ass linked to, it even repeated my statements, nigger-nuckled kike-dog.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983#Computer_game_growth>With waning console interests in the United States, the computer game market was able to gain a strong foothold in 1983 and beyondNow suck my cock till it jizzes down your throat, aaaaa-thank you very little.
>>12500918Man, this text adventure sure is hard to read.
>>12500921The fact that the microscopic PC game industry was able to overtake the console market is a sign of the damage Atari did.
>>12500925Damn, I beat you so bad you're moving the goalposts now.
>>12499869>>12500920I think you are just really far removed from it. The time for Atari nostalgia was like 2002-2006. there were a shitload of small plug and play Atari consoles, mini consoles, mini arcades, and game/company specific plug and plays back then. Every electronic store had that aisle endcap of plug and play Atari crap.
>>12500937You lost me at>badass famicom RPG's
>>12500951nta but beating Starship Hector might be more hardcore. RPGs were always kind of seen as casual gaming in Japan for normies.
>>12500958people get a misconception about Japan in that way since most are rank casuals who only play baseball, golf, and RPG slop and the shmup and fighting game people are a minority
>>12500958The overhead view DQ type of RPGs yes, there were of course the much more hardcore first person perspective ones like Bard's Tale and Deep Dungeon.
>>12499846We don’t have any real mods.
>>12499985Even in the US, computer games were still extremely popular. Hell, the Commodore 64 sold almost as much in the US as the Atari 2600 did.
the Atari 2600 is unique for its zero input lag. the controller input and game logic are processed in one frame instead of alternating frames like on later consoles.
>>12499840Berzerk was probably better than any game ever released in the NES.
>>12503357>nigger I have two white kidsDo theys/thems know who theys/thems fathers are?>your oneitislol
>>12501726This. Berzerk is a masterpiece and the Atari port is outstanding.
