COMMERCIAL Atari XE - Compared to NES (1987)

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[kaiBiggins]

Mmm the good old days =)

[weegeeDS]

so wait.... a keyboard is better than a robot?

[Tamanozke]

Okay. Anyone who grew up around this time, I want to ask you something.

Was the framerate in Flight Simulator 2 really acceptable at the time?

[DwightKSchrute3]

Well yes a keyboard is better then Robb cause Robb Sucks. Watch AVGN!!!! With a keyboard and basic you can code your own video games. Lol

[7megahertz]

@Tamanozke I played Flight Sim II on my Commodore 64 back in 1985 and the frame rate was comparable. Thing is, it was a flight sim not an cockpit view arcade game so the puny 8-bit cpu was overtaxed with calculations (landscape, weather, plane controls, etc) and hence the game was so slowwww (though you didn't realize it back then and were simply amazed at the concept of a flight sim). You guys today are honestly so jaded and spoiled. A lot of guys shit their pants over FS2 back then

[slugnbozo]

@wyatt8740 I'm not sure what you're trying to say then. I doubt any 8 bit computer or console could have had a better frame rate on a full flight simulation. I'm happy to be corrected that there was a better flight simulation out there if you know of one.

[wyatt8740]

@slugnbozo ok, im not saying that. I NEVER said rad racer had a map. Im saying framerate was terrible and e whole system sucked. MY OPINION DOES NOT MATTER. IM NOT TRYING 2 TROLL

[DickLodge68]

@slugnbozo Well, the sad thing is that you have a great deal of computer history there and it's virtually worthless! Oh don't get rid of them...bust 'em out now and then and have some fun! The very first computer game I played was in about first grade so 1973/74? It was a field trip to the Lawrence Livermore Lab. Huge "mainframes" in a room full of typewriters! I chose football. Just a text game like Zork but everything printed out on the typewriters! Gone a long way, baby!

[slugnbozo]

@DickLodge68 Tell me about it! Something else computers of that era all included in ROM.... a touch of magic ;-) I have a working Apple IIc, TI994/A and Atari XEGS all packed away under the house. I can't bare to part with them, even though they're just taking up space.

[Beltzer0072]

@MyTeamsBettah Well it was still cool back then to have a robot with a game console and he makes a useful holder for your beer during gaming sessions

[MyTeamsBettah]

@ZeldaMario24 If you think that, you never owned R.O.B. - It was slow and loud. I had both. NES just had better games.

[MyTeamsBettah]

@Beltzer0072 ROB sucked. I put his slow, noisy ass back in the box and used both controllers simultaneously. The games for NES were undoubtedly better.

[MyTeamsBettah]

@weegeeDS The Nintendo robot (ROB) sucked. It was loud, slow, and if it wasn't directed at the screen just right, it would crap out and screw up your game. The graphics, however, were better than on the XE.