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[save2600]

Underball, on Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:47 PM, said:

So essentially, the NES blows.

I agree.

I just snorted a little beer through my nose on that one. Thanks for the sting!


And Gorf's right, between NES's flicker fest and drab ass colors, I'd rather pass - thanks! Just wish the 7800 had its share of some of those NES titles though.

Edited by save2600, Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:10 PM.

[Lord Thag]

If we add a whistle to Groovybee's next game, it should summon Chuck Norris. Just sayin'

[Jifremok]

Raiders of the Lost Ark had a whistle...

[Atari Joe]

Raiders of the Lost Ark wasnt on 7800. And Raiders of the Lost Ark blows.

[S1500]

NES had better RPGs for their console. As for the 7800 RPG offerings they had, uh, um. Yeah...

RPGs and Atari consoles. Could not be further apart from each other.

[Jifremok]

Atari Joe, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:13 PM, said:

Raiders of the Lost Ark wasnt on 7800. And Raiders of the Lost Ark blows.

Atari 7800 was backwards-compatible as the 2600, therefore the 7800 blew just as hard as the 2600. The NES just blew harder, that's all.

[Atari Joe]

S1500, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:15 PM, said:

NES had better RPGs for their console. As for the 7800 RPG offerings they had, uh, um. Yeah...

RPGs and Atari consoles. Could not be further apart from each other.

This will change.

[S1500]

Atari Joe, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:30 PM, said:

S1500, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:15 PM, said:

NES had better RPGs for their console. As for the 7800 RPG offerings they had, uh, um. Yeah...

RPGs and Atari consoles. Could not be further apart from each other.

This will change.

It's a little late for that, I think. Isn't E3 over?

[remowilliams]

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First you get the whistles, then you get the money, then you get the POWA - then you get the women!

[HammR25]

I thought Nintendo won because MIA was never released. If it had been released Chuck Norris would have roundhouse kicked the NES into oblivion.

[Cebus Capucinis]

S1500, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:32 PM, said:

Atari Joe, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:30 PM, said:

S1500, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:15 PM, said:

NES had better RPGs for their console. As for the 7800 RPG offerings they had, uh, um. Yeah...

RPGs and Atari consoles. Could not be further apart from each other.

This will change.

It's a little late for that, I think. Isn't E3 over?

You haven't seen much of what GroovyBee has been up to lately, have you?

[mbd30]

save2600, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:08 PM, said:

Underball, on Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:47 PM, said:

So essentially, the NES blows.

I agree.

I just snorted a little beer through my nose on that one. Thanks for the sting!


And Gorf's right, between NES's flicker fest and drab ass colors, I'd rather pass - thanks! Just wish the 7800 had its share of some of those NES titles though.

If flicker bothers you that much then you might want to re-think your username.

[Lord Thag]

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NES had better RPGs for their console. As for the 7800 RPG offerings they had, uh, um. Yeah...

Yeah, but the 7800 had rpgs with DEMONIC OPTOMETRISTS that turned into flaming ram skulls. Yeah. Shove that where the sun don't shine Link.

The 7800 don't need whistles. It's got Ninjas, Chuck Norris, Grandpa Munster, and, uh, that bird with hieroglyphs and such. It was just too awesome, and all teh kiddies hypnotized by the whistles just couldn't realize this.

[Atari Joe]

Lord Thag, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:54 PM, said:

Yeah, but the 7800 had rpgs with DEMONIC OPTOMETRISTS that turned into flaming ram skulls.

Refresh my memory, which 7800 game was that??

[mbd30]

Atari Joe, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:22 PM, said:

Lord Thag, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:54 PM, said:

Yeah, but the 7800 had rpgs with DEMONIC OPTOMETRISTS that turned into flaming ram skulls.

Refresh my memory, which 7800 game was that??

I'm guessing "Midnight Mutants".

[Atari Joe]

Yeah I was thinking Midnight Mutants too.. but I've played through that game a few times and I don't remember an optometrist. Maybe I thought she was a teacher or something.

[mbd30]

Atari Joe, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:37 PM, said:

Yeah I was thinking Midnight Mutants too.. but I've played through that game a few times and I don't remember an optometrist.

But do you remember flaming ram skulls?

(I've never played it.)

[Atari Joe]

Yeah come to think of it there are flaming ram skulls. Kinda some effed up shiz for an Atari game when you think about it.

But I don't remember any optometrists allowed to run loose without supervision. As far as I understand they have their own schools that they have to go to.

[Lord Thag]

If your read the weird little text blurbs that pop up, the game tells you that the first boss, the flaming ram skull you get to in the farm thing on the left of the map, was actually an 'evil optometrist' that was in cohoots with Dr Evil, the game's main baddie. Some kind of experiment tuned him into the flaming ram skull.

Always thought that was another classic (and awesome) case of Atari's utter weirdness. I mean, who makes a game with demonic optometrists, plastic pumpkins, and grandpa munster, really?

Ya gotta love Atari

[Corby]

Hat trick??

[Gorf]

The 7800 has one thing the NES dont...MARIA. Enough said.

[supercat]

Gorf, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:09 AM, said:

The 7800 is techinically superior in just about every way.

The NES offered a "real" resolution that was more than half again that of the 7800 (the 7800 can kludge a 320x200 screen, but motion and transparency are determined on a 160-pixel basis). It also offered better native sound capabilities. While the 7800 does offer a few advantages, the NES is a technically superior platform in many ways.

[Atari Joe]

No.

[mbd30]

supercat, on Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:25 PM, said:

Gorf, on Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:09 AM, said:

The 7800 is techinically superior in just about every way.

The NES offered a "real" resolution that was more than half again that of the 7800 (the 7800 can kludge a 320x200 screen, but motion and transparency are determined on a 160-pixel basis). It also offered better native sound capabilities. While the 7800 does offer a few advantages, the NES is a technically superior platform in many ways.

My 7800 sure didn't seem superior to me back at the time. I was playing "Ms. Pac-Man" and "Dig Dug" when the NES had games like "Super Mario Bros.", "Metroid", "Contra" and "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out". All I wanted was a NES. Not that the 7800's anemic library was necessarily a result of hardware inferiority, but still...


It would be interesting to see if someone could homebrew a "Contra" or SMB style game on the 7800 that would put NES to shame. I know that some graphically impressive shmups have been recently released for it.

[Mili]

I agree! It's the games that made it hard for people to see the 7800 for what it was worth. If we could come out with a whole new set of games, it might bring the system back into light and cause an upsurge of fans.