Sunday, November 06, 2005
Funny how the format a game is played on can affect how enjoyable it is.Now I've had the mame emulator on my computers for years, and copies of all my favourite 70s and 80s retro arcade games, and have always enjoyed them.
However, I've never been one to spend a lot of time playing them. 15 mins on each one was about the max.
So, this weekend I *bought* some retro games compilations from Amazon for my Game Boy Advance SP, the games being Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Missile Command, Super Breakout and Tempest by Atari, and After Burner, Outrun, Super Hang On and Space Harrier by Sega....
And do you know what?
I enjoyed them *much* more on the handheld format than I ever did on my pc, though not as much as playing them in the arcades (you can't beat the rush of playing a game that costs you per go, especially when you're low on change).
Also, it should be noted that the sprite scaling on the Sega games was vastly superior to any I've seen on any other conversion or emulation.
Out of the entire collection, there are only 2 duff games, and that's not really the fault of the games themselves, so much as them not being suited to handheld controllers. Missile Command is next to useless without a trackball, and Afterburner... I dunno what was up with that, I just couldn't point my plane at the targets.
2 more compilations are currently winging their way to me, including Galaxians, and one of my all time faves, the brutally difficult Defender. Expect even more to be ordered in the near future too.
I dunno what it is, but handheld retro gaming really pushes my buttons.
Labels: games
Steve 1:25 PM [+]
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