carmel_andrews Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Computers Atari 400/800/Xl and XE series (incl. xegs) Atari ST/E/TT/Falcon and compatibles Commodore Pet/vic 20/c64 (incl. c64gs)/128, commodore 264 series and compatibles Amiga hardware (commodore and non commodore versions) Sinclair ZX range (spectrum and pre spectrum) Amstrad CPC and CPC+ MSX/MTX/Spectravideo/Sega computers Apple 8/16 bit (not Mac) Apple Mac (pre intel) TRS/Dragon series PC (pre x64 processors) Acorn (BBC and pre BBC 8bit) Acorn Risc systems Others (i.e tatung, research m/c’s, elan, Oric, camputers lynx, FM towns, Sharp etc etc) Games Machines Atari vcs/2600, 5200, 7800 Atari Lynx and Jaguar Commodore Max/Ultimax, CD32/CDTV Amstrad GX series Nintendo NES and variants Super Nintendo N64 Gameboy/Colour and SGB Sega MS/MS2 Sega MD/Genesis I&II and 32x and variants Sega gamegear and nomad Sega Saturn Sony Playstation NEC pc engine and variants and PC-FX NEC turbo express SNK neo geo and variants/ neo geo pocket Bandai/apple pippin/power player and Bandai wonderswan 3DO and vairiants Channel F/VES and variants RCA Studio and Studio II Magnavox/Philips odyssey/GX series Philips CDI Others Like it says on the tin, which computer or games machine represented the ultimate in gaming heaven, not just in pushing the boundaries or limits of hardware development/design and technology but also pushed the boundaries or limits of games development, design, technology etc I guess what I am looking for is an objective overview of the merits and otherwise of the popular and not so-popular computer/games machine hardware and the part that particular games machine or computer played in further developing hardware development, technology/design as well as games software development/technology/game types, genres and design etc What I am not looking for is the old BORING argument of ‘My one’s bigger/better then your one’, lets leave that to the relevant dead or alive posts/threads that exist elsewhere on AA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 SNES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Computers: Atari 800 bringing ease of use for color/sound Commodore 64 which had many push the limits of what an 8bit could achieve Amiga that ushered in the 'multimedia' craze Game Systems: Atari 2600 - established the console market Super Nintendo bringing in the platformer age Sony Playstation bringing in the 3D age My $0.02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I'm not sure the archimedes brings much to the table in terms of gaming on that machine to be honest, although the A3010 should be considered pretty important because the ARM250 was effectively the first ARM-based system-on-a-chip, which has evolved into the kind of platforms that most games are played on at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 (edited) Atari XE Megadrive, TGX-16 Dreamcast (SHENMUE 1+2), N64 (RidgeRacer64, Mario64) Edited October 26, 2012 by Poison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 1979-1981 Atari 8-bits.... then things got always divided into "different machines had different strengths"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Amiga500 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 (edited) Computers: Atari 800 bringing ease of use for color/sound Commodore 64 which had many push the limits of what an 8bit could achieve Amiga that ushered in the 'multimedia' craze Game Systems: Atari 2600 - established the console market Yes, I agree with this. Each was the ultimate in its time: the Atari 2600 from '79-'82, the Atari 8-bit from '83-'85, the C64 from '86-'87 and the Amiga from '88-'91. At least that was my experience in those years. (I know these aren't the years the machines were introduced, but that's when they were most popular (pricing, available software) - the C64 didn't get big in Canada until around '85-'86 after Atari 8-bit was "dead") Edit: ...and I'm not being biased - most of those years, I owned a TRS-80 CoCo 2 and it was not the ultimate. Edited October 26, 2012 by Mr.Amiga500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Comparing things from the mid 70s to the 90s is rather like apples, oranges (pears, and pineapples.) Some of those platforms advanced the bleeding edge of capability at the time of introduction, while others were immitators. I haven't owned everything on the list, but of those I know my picks for platfoms that expanded the belief of what was possible: Atari VCS, Atari 800, Amiga, N64. Today, my gaming laptop beats any of those without a bead of sweat If I had to pick one that was all around super it would be the Amiga. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 This one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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