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Which Computer or games machine represented the ultimate in ‘Gaming Heaven’


carmel_andrews

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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

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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

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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.

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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. ;)

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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.

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