Was Solaris the most technically impressive game for the Atari 2600?

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toadfan64
04/12/2024
10:49 PM
#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBg48Ivjiyc

Kind of incredible a game that looks like this was on the 2600. Only other game I can think of that comes close is maybe Yars Revenge?
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Robot2600
04/12/2024
10:51 PM
#2
Pitfall!

Solaris is impressive still. Yars Revenge is fun but not even close. ET is much more impressive than YR.
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FortuneCookie
04/12/2024
10:52 PM
#3
The graphical limitations on Atari 2600 were such that almost anything was impressive by Atari 2600 standards.

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AlphaWhelp
04/12/2024
11:11 PM
#4
Different games had different focuses. Like, it LOOKS pretty but there's no music.

Check out the tunes on this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S08q8le7ajY
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archizzy
04/12/2024
11:16 PM
#5
All I can say is going from Atari 2600 to when NES came out was mind blowing. Like sure there was some moderate improvement inbetween like with ColecoVision but it was a smaller difference.

Jumping to NES was jaw dropping and I swore it was like alien tech that wasn't possible. People laugh now and would make fun of that but seriously moving from Atari 2600 to NES was a leap I will never forget and in my life I have never had a generational change that impressed me as much.

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FortuneCookie
04/12/2024
11:35 PM
#6
archizzy posted...
All I can say is going from Atari 2600 to when NES came out was mind blowing. Like sure there was some moderate improvement inbetween like with ColecoVision but it was a smaller difference.

Jumping to NES was jaw dropping and I swore it was like alien tech that wasn't possible. People laugh now and would make fun of that but seriously moving from Atari 2600 to NES was a leap I will never forget and in my life I have never had a generational change that impressed me as much.

As someone who wasn't around, the Atari 5200 had some good graphics for its time. It's a shame about that controller. I wonder how the history books might've been rewritten if Atari had simply figured out the proper way to make a gaming controller with more than one button and a joystick.

toadfan64
04/13/2024
05:56 AM
#7
AlphaWhelp posted...
Different games had different focuses. Like, it LOOKS pretty but there's no music.

Check out the tunes on this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S08q8le7ajY
Never knew this game had a 2600 port. Used to play the arcade version back in the day and really enjoyed it!
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viewmaster_pi
04/13/2024
06:19 AM
#8
the indiana jones game was pretty impressive, even if it was kind of a mess. just the concept of having an inventory of tools, going to all these different places and using them, a far cry from Adventure
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Tora_Sami
04/13/2024
06:32 AM
#9
archizzy posted...
All I can say is going from Atari 2600 to when NES came out was mind blowing. Like sure there was some moderate improvement inbetween like with ColecoVision but it was a smaller difference.

Jumping to NES was jaw dropping and I swore it was like alien tech that wasn't possible. People laugh now and would make fun of that but seriously moving from Atari 2600 to NES was a leap I will never forget and in my life I have never had a generational change that impressed me as much.

Yeah it was a crazy leap. But I was also playing games on the Amiga 500 and the commodore 64 so it wasn't as big of a wow factor. Though my uncle had a sega master system and that blew my mind, cause it seemed to be a hug leap from the nes and it came out before it.
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Foppe
04/13/2024
06:40 AM
#10
https://youtu.be/aB2Z0XFWDr8?si=D6O6PNXfyjKubr6D
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FortuneCookie
04/13/2024
10:33 AM
#11
viewmaster_pi posted...
the indiana jones game was pretty impressive, even if it was kind of a mess. just the concept of having an inventory of tools, going to all these different places and using them, a far cry from Adventure

It bugs me that they never retroactively made a Raiders of the Lost Ark game for NES.

They have Temple of Doom, two versions of The Last Crusade, and even Young Indiana Jones. But no Raiders.
_____Cait
04/13/2024
10:38 AM
#12
It looks better than some NES games.
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