I was browsing some early stella-list messages (thanks Matt!)...
From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
(Survival Island)
>So far I haven't managed to survive long enough to get to land. Those
>pea-shooter thingies take too many cheap shots.
You need to gain health points, please read carefully the manual :-)
(...)
>I dunno what it is about the 2600 that is so cool. Even with these PCI 1=
>28 bit gfx cards you just don't see animation as smooth and free of flick=
>er as you do with these 8-bit hardware-sprite systems. There is a look a=
>nd feel that you just can't get with PC games.
That's for sure. The 'smoothness' (does this word exist?) of most 2600
games is a feeling I can't describe. Intellivision and CoCo had more
complex graphics but the animation wasn't so fluid.
Ciao,
P.
