Subject: [stella] re: old message From: p.cavina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Piero Cavina) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 19:07:39 +0100 |
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.
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