Defender was my all time favorite 2600 game, sure the 5200 and 7800 versions were more arcade accurate the 2600 version, even today, is still a lot of fun to play. The 8k homebrew of Pacman is truely astounding, considering the limitations of the 2600, it looks and plays very similar to the arcade version with opening and intermission screens between levels. Atari carts of 8k were possible during the life of the 2600 as the dual banking cartridges existed near the end. It shows how good Pacman on the 2600 could actually be if Atari took there time on it.
@SoulChimera I've had my Steam Deck since March 5th and it is by far the best device for games up to PS2 and some light PS3. I do have a bit of a love hate relationship with Emulation Station but hoping it will get better and support more systems. Ideally the Aya Neo with 2tb storage and running Big Box as a front end would be ideal, but with the going price it's probably best to wait for the RDNA 2 version due out at the end of this year.
@X68000 I have both RG350M and RG351P and find the dpads to be quite good and I'll even say that I like them better than the Steam Deck, but the Steam Deck isn't bad, it's just not exceptional like the rest of the system. Some reviewers have mentioned the Steam Deck screen is lacking, but honestly, as expected, it's still miles ahead of the 1st generation Switch screen, obviously the Switch OLED is the best.
@cylemmulo Cheap and pocketable is definitely Retro Pocket 2+ and not so cheap but still pocketable is Odin. For the Steam Deck when I take if out if the house, I'll just put it in my small backpack which is a very normal European thing to carry here anyways. Good luck on your Deck, shipping was painfully slow by truck with an almost 2 full day stop over in a warehouse in Essen, Germany before it reached me in Barcelona 5 days later.
@cylemmulo. I have 2 Anbernic products and would have been interested in this but I got an early Steam Deck 512gb that just came in today and it's miles above what Anbernic produces except the dpad on Steam Deck is worse than Anbernic but perfectly acceptable. I would say the Steam Deck is a competitor, even at the $399 point it's just really that good and I'm very happy with it and looking forward for the weekend to see what it can really do.
Mega Lo Mania was an all time favorite game of mine for the Amiga 500 where the in game speech was quite impressive at the time and actually added to the game play. Nice to know the history.
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Re: Best Atari 2600 And 7800 Games Of All Time
Defender was my all time favorite 2600 game, sure the 5200 and 7800 versions were more arcade accurate the 2600 version, even today, is still a lot of fun to play.
The 8k homebrew of Pacman is truely astounding, considering the limitations of the 2600, it looks and plays very similar to the arcade version with opening and intermission screens between levels. Atari carts of 8k were possible during the life of the 2600 as the dual banking cartridges existed near the end. It shows how good Pacman on the 2600 could actually be if Atari took there time on it.
Re: Review: Anbernic RG503 - Now Packing OLED Goodness, But Is That Enough?
@SoulChimera I've had my Steam Deck since March 5th and it is by far the best device for games up to PS2 and some light PS3. I do have a bit of a love hate relationship with Emulation Station but hoping it will get better and support more systems.
Ideally the Aya Neo with 2tb storage and running Big Box as a front end would be ideal, but with the going price it's probably best to wait for the RDNA 2 version due out at the end of this year.
Re: Hardware: Anbernic RG552 - A Big-Screen Upgrade To The Popular RG351
@X68000 I have both RG350M and RG351P and find the dpads to be quite good and I'll even say that I like them better than the Steam Deck, but the Steam Deck isn't bad, it's just not exceptional like the rest of the system.
Some reviewers have mentioned the Steam Deck screen is lacking, but honestly, as expected, it's still miles ahead of the 1st generation Switch screen, obviously the Switch OLED is the best.
Re: Hardware: Anbernic RG552 - A Big-Screen Upgrade To The Popular RG351
@cylemmulo Cheap and pocketable is definitely Retro Pocket 2+ and not so cheap but still pocketable is Odin. For the Steam Deck when I take if out if the house, I'll just put it in my small backpack which is a very normal European thing to carry here anyways.
Good luck on your Deck, shipping was painfully slow by truck with an almost 2 full day stop over in a warehouse in Essen, Germany before it reached me in Barcelona 5 days later.
Re: Hardware: Anbernic RG552 - A Big-Screen Upgrade To The Popular RG351
@cylemmulo. I have 2 Anbernic products and would have been interested in this but I got an early Steam Deck 512gb that just came in today and it's miles above what Anbernic produces except the dpad on Steam Deck is worse than Anbernic but perfectly acceptable.
I would say the Steam Deck is a competitor, even at the $399 point it's just really that good and I'm very happy with it and looking forward for the weekend to see what it can really do.
Re: Best Of 2019: The Man Who Lost Tetris
Mega Lo Mania was an all time favorite game of mine for the Amiga 500 where the in game speech was quite impressive at the time and actually added to the game play. Nice to know the history.