There's some decent stuff in this list, but it's crazy how the 16bit true color mode basically unleashed an area of horribly looking games: When you remove all the constraints, you ended up with people mixing together jpeg picture backgrounds, scanned characters, explosions ripped from movies, zero consistency, it's all a giant mush of horrible colors and approximate gameplay. Generally speaking, the sound is much improved over the ST, but gameplay wise, most of these games are only shadows of what existed on the ST, possibly because all the time was spent trying to get the machine to actually display things at an acceptable speed so there was no more time to work on playability maybe?
@freedom_aint_free3 жыл бұрын
You've just described the whole human experience! And it just more true by the day: absolute creative freedom is also absolute lostness. Creativity is built upon the sequence of was have been created before, when you start with a white sheet of paper, well you get just that - you can draw everything and it's totally empty and gives you no clue to where start.
@albertabramson31572 жыл бұрын
We saw that on the SNES, also, where game developers suddenly had to jump from 52 colors per screen and 3-color sprites to 32,768 colors, never sure which mode to go with. The Jaguar, despite its 64-bit Blitter chip, 64-bit Object Processor, and 64-bit data bus, ended up with games that looked like the best 16-bit games out there. Why? Because the hardware bugs and difficulty programming these new chips meant that most programmers just fell back on the good ol', trusty 68000.
@ncot_tech2 жыл бұрын
Yeah all the title screens and things look a bit MS Paint or PowerPoint slideshow. There's something about that flat dithered art style that just looks odd. Like they're trying to make things look realistic and "not 8bit" but the screen resolution is so low it doesn't work. The 90s were so fun, nobody had a clue what was going on 😆
@michaelsundell56312 жыл бұрын
The Falcon arrived very late, and the market was very tiny. The cost of upgrading the graphics to look better on the Falcon was just too high. :(
@DbugII2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelsundell5631 If the 256 colors mode has been like on PC, with one byte = one pixel, insted of 8 bit plans, that would have made the porting of games much easier... and as a bonus, that would have helped with the performance and memory usage as well since the 256 colors mode takes half the size of the 16 bit graphics mode. That would not have saved the machine, but that would probably have provided with some extra games.
@ncot_tech2 жыл бұрын
Some of these games were clearly tech demos trying to show off how large sprites could be. And if that version of Canon Fodder was really a Falcon version, it was a really lazy port from the ST. As an ST owner who only ever read about the Falcon in magazines I was expecting more.
@atari-staffroom3 жыл бұрын
Just awesome. I used to love Llamazap back in the daya when I had a Falcon. I also seem to remember a defender clone called Spice which was quite fun. Great video.
@quakecon20092 жыл бұрын
It actually looked pretty powerful in the right hands. Its a shame so many wonderful consoles, computers and companies are no more. Still, it was sure nice to have lived through the evolution and actually been there for all of them in the glory days. That was the ultimate gaming expereince.
@daishi5571 Жыл бұрын
Technically speaking (at least on paper) the Falcon was far superior to the Amiga A1200 (and maybe the A4000 030) however I have never seen anything that leveraged those capabilities. But to make it seem even worse, the A1200 has a much better software catalogue. There was a another system that suffered a similar fate, the Acorn Archimedes.
@svendaennart Жыл бұрын
It´s really depressing that Falcon and Archimedes haven´t been as succesfull as they deserved. But the Amiga series did quite well. Also because It got another chance under Escom and now as Mini Amiga version. Btw. I still use Lightwave3d, which was Amiga Software back in the days.
@xXTheoLinuxXx Жыл бұрын
True back in the day I owned an Atari 1040STE (with 4mb memory) and an Amiga 500, and I wanted to upgrade one of the machines and most likely it would be the Atari, because of the Falcon hardware but in no time there was more AGA software available so I bought an Amiga 1200.
@Miesiu2 жыл бұрын
*Does exist the Falcon030 version of **02:00** Cannon Fodder ?* This looks like the standard Atari ST or maybe STe version.
@spazmofonika7 ай бұрын
Does anyone know author of the music for Asteroidia 11:00 ? she's brilliant!!!
@sigurdurf4 ай бұрын
This is the fantastic "Space Debris" by Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen.
@brianhedley51393 жыл бұрын
Given the Falcon had an 030 processor and was quite costly. It really didn't seem to get a great set of games. It's a shame as it could have been so much more. A bit disappointed
@goodfodder4 ай бұрын
with a 16bit data bus I believe
@robertnilsson706328 күн бұрын
@@goodfodder True. For "compatibility reasons." :(
@bellissimo4520 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow... some interesting stuff I never saw or heard of. The "Mode 7"-style game at 18:12 sure looks surprisingly slick...
@CFalcon0303 жыл бұрын
You showed a lot of ste games and a lot of incomplete/demo games. There are a few games, like offworld security that have been lost and that's sad. If you do a part two, there are are some really interesting ones you should look into. As for what was shown, x-moon would have been absolutely amazing, and k with its mode 7 emulation would have been very impressive. I really miss my falcon. When i bought it(new) it was in my mind a magic thing that had no limits. It's a testament to the quality of Atari software that the falcon was my main computer until the year 2000.
@IntoTheVerticalBlank3 жыл бұрын
Nice!Some absolutely awesome stuff in there. All of the STE upgraded games that now work on the Falcon because of 8bitchip's HD upgrades and testing can go in video #2.
@stevebarry81492 жыл бұрын
I had never heard of an Atari Falcon untill i came across this video
@svendaennart2 жыл бұрын
It was only for sale for a short time after the Mega STE and before the Atari Jaguar.
@JoanOrfila3 жыл бұрын
Great video! I didn't know there was an improved bubble bobble version with 32 bit techbologie, and it's for Falcon! It's better than the classic game. The same happens with Alien Blast, the ST game needed more action and fastness (and fun), and this is what we find in this version.
@Ohlukei3 жыл бұрын
The Reservoir Gods (Leon O'Reilly / Mr. Pink) made two of these: Double Bobble 2000 and a sequel: The Further Adventures.
@JohnnyWednesday Жыл бұрын
I thought the Falcon was famous for its DSP chip and Cannon Fodder sounds awwwful
@janhallholm90433 жыл бұрын
Great video about Atari Falcon games 👍👍👍👍
@mnxnm3 жыл бұрын
Cannon Fodder runs on stock 512kB ST, with the same graphics and sound. There is no need to use Falcon. Pinball Obsession also runs on stock STE, or Asteroidia and other. The description of the video is confusing, except for a few games these are standard ST / STE games.. 🤣
@oktawianc74562 жыл бұрын
I was very confused. As an Amiga player, wanna see Falcon games, and when i saw Cannon Fodder, better tell - hear... Horrible. So this is ST version. Can You give an example good Falcon game?
@mnxnm2 жыл бұрын
@@oktawianc7456 There is only few exclusive games for Falcon (like Racer 2 or Llama Zap), there are rather conversions or engines like ScummVM or Doom or so. Some STE/Mega STE games can benefit from faster CPU. I think Falcon is machine more for demoscene or tech-enthusiasts. It's a shame, I'm sure if the Atari didn't deal with Jaguar nonsense, Falcon could have been sold longer and there would definitely be a lot of games. At that time, everyone was waiting for the Jaguar :/
@TPau653 жыл бұрын
Finally a games compilation for the Falcon! Great job you've done there! 👌 With some (at least for me) surprising and unknown titles. I didn't knew that there's a really good Rayman clone for the Falcon! Duranik really destroyed his good looking Arkanoid clone Impulse with that horrible mouse control! There later projects (Native shooter demo on Jaguar, Sturmwind on Dreamcast and later PC, Switch, XB One) were much better and... well, different! 😃 Maybe you should put a title list (with timecode?) in the video description.
@svendaennart3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I thought it would be time to do one :D While doing the video I was amazed to see how much power the falcon has, and the sound/music quality is mindblowing! I just added timestamps into the description.
@craiggraham2638 Жыл бұрын
I've still got one of these in my garage. Only game in this vid I actually bought was Llamazap, but I really did love owning the machine - it's what I developed XaAES on. Fun times.
@Tossphate Жыл бұрын
The falcon is worth a lot of money now, better check it's ok in the garage
@andrejradulovic5666 Жыл бұрын
Would you sell it?
@krzysztofwaleska Жыл бұрын
Few games was also available for PC, on DOS. Here they look so much better than I remember. A lot of presented games are running also on basic configuration of ST/STE.
@josecarloschaver2431 Жыл бұрын
Is this real hardware or emulation? I was trying to emulate this with hatari but I'm stuck, all I could do was load some st games but some games on video were on multiple files and I coudn't, I read something about putting an hdd image to install the games there... I didn't have any micropc like this one, played a clone atari 2600 and then Nes...
@svendaennart Жыл бұрын
Yes, the falcon games are emulated with Hatari. You can switch to falcon mode (choose also correct cpu. mhz and fpu) and it should work. You also can select a folder as HDD in your Hard Disk Options if you use the hatari tos or original tos later than 1.4 if I remember correct.
@josecarloschaver2431 Жыл бұрын
@@svendaennart I should say that the main problem is that I can't find a site with original roms...I just found one site with games, but seems to be homebrew...does someone know where can I download the full romset? Thanks
@AtariLegend3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. Great stuff on the Falcon. Great to see Alien Blast at 50fps! Too bad the Falcon only version of Obsession never saw the light of day. Anyway, great selection.
@AtariCrypt3 жыл бұрын
You need a Mega STe mate ;)
@AtariLegend3 жыл бұрын
@@AtariCrypt good point, does the 16mghz really help? I guess you are right...I know the programmers specifically made it run at 50fps on the Falcon...
@AtariCrypt3 жыл бұрын
@@AtariLegend yeah it does mate. You know best about the falcon but I can only compare with my STe and Mega STe… much better on me MSTE 😉
@michaelsundell5631 Жыл бұрын
We only had one Falcon computer, and the Atari market at this point was dying. :(
@AtariLegend Жыл бұрын
@@michaelsundell5631 I would love to contact you for a possible email interview, if you would have a little time. I was able to talk to some of your former colleges in the past, but would love to talk about obsessions and UDS and share some of those memories and more. Should you be interested, is there any way I can contact you, Michael? Or could you PM me perhaps using the Atari Legend facebook account or Twitter account (if you are a member)? I don't want to push, I am just a big fan ;)
@sfurta Жыл бұрын
Atari Falcon sells for around €2700. From time to time I have that strange kind of itch in my stomach to press the "buy" button to halt that itch. But when I browse YT to check games to install first, my itch is halted too...with 2700 still in my wallet.
@cesaru36193 ай бұрын
LOL yeah a snes was better in sound graphics and quality of games... this crap is worth $100 at most.
@buffalodebill19769 ай бұрын
Cannon Fodder and Alien Blast look intiguing to me, but as for the rest.. I cannot say this for sure, as I never had a Falcon, but I feel like I played variations of some of these games on my 800XL a/o on the Mega ST2. Also, some of the games didn't necessarilly require this platform as such - Asteroidia, Double Bobble, Impulse, BeGEMeD, Shanghai, Slippery Sam etc.. And some games just look terrible - Ultimate Arena and Downfall come to my mind here. From what I have read and heard, the Falcon was a fairly good platform with lots of potential, despite being bottlenecked by its data bus limited to 16-bit width only, while the Motorola 68030 CPU was a 32-bit device. I'd say it was designed like that due to cost consdierations. In the end however, it came down to the lack of really good SW (useful apps, good games), that could show the true power of the Falcon. Just watch some newer "fan-made" games a/o demos and you get the idea 🙂
@dondom4154 Жыл бұрын
Falcon was so much more capable than this. Most of these games look like 80's era. 😬
@johnhunt17254 ай бұрын
If this thing could have come out in 1987 it might have had a chance. By 1992, every non-PC platform was obsolete, so the Falcon was dead before it even hit the market.
@tangreen72673 жыл бұрын
Looks like falcon treading into 3D0 territory, graphics wise.
@doctorsocrates441310 ай бұрын
pity atari didn't release the falcon earlier...true rival to the amiga range.
@d_vibe-swe3 жыл бұрын
A lot of Amiga music. Didn't the Atari scene have any musicians?
@svendaennart3 жыл бұрын
A lot? Because of the Amegas Soundtrack? Oh come on...
@d_vibe-swe3 жыл бұрын
@@svendaennart No. I heard plenty of Amiga tunes. 4ch with two channels panned to the right and two channels to the left. And also there was more than the Amegas soundtrack that was a famous amiga tune. I just meant that the falcon had better sound capabilities..
@MrDriverAndy Жыл бұрын
In Bets Of Rage music from JaguarXJj220.
@Waccoon Жыл бұрын
The mid to late 90's was an awful time period for games. Not only had all the fringe systems died off leaving only the PC compatibles, but we were on the cusp of transitioning to 3D, which was crude and ugly given the low resolutions. Before "brown and bloom" took over the market, we had "just brown" and almost all games were ugly, trying to shoehorn in Mode-7-style effects just to justify using the CPU power of the time. As far as PCs are concerned, I don't look back on those years fondly. Of course, the arcades were kicking it with games like Daytona USA. DSPs are awesome when you actually run them on a fast memory bus. 8)
@arifeldman6365 Жыл бұрын
Nice video! Sadly, I sold my Falcon030 to buy a PC clone in part because there were very few Falcon-specific programs. Too little, too late but nice machine to be sure.
@bitdigital8052 Жыл бұрын
Best game BEGEMED because of the music. Music makes the game
@_devik Жыл бұрын
there is a really nice quake project for the falcon, look it up.
@svendaennart Жыл бұрын
sure i will :D thanks!
@plasmaastronaut3 жыл бұрын
can't seem to find a 50Hz game on the ST or the Falcon; was it hardwired that all their games ran with 15Hz screen refresh? Nice sound though, definitely got the amiga beat.
@Ohlukei Жыл бұрын
Starball Flipper had 50 hz play 🙂
@paulstevens9409 Жыл бұрын
Very colourful graphics and the sound is stunning on a lot of these games
@WilsonBradleyTheOfficial3 жыл бұрын
Nice.. you can tell though , some of those are just ported and not using the hardware's best potential..
@sveneriksson44053 жыл бұрын
Pinball Obsession was fun. And Lost Blubb = demo..
@zbyniurumek32352 жыл бұрын
I have feeling some of them are to ST.
@paulstevens9409 Жыл бұрын
These games are beautiful, I would love to buy a falcon but they are mega money now. But cannon fodder...surely thats just a standard ST game, not even STE?
@willmatthews8783 жыл бұрын
I think the Falcon games show perfectly the evolutionary stage between something like the ST and something like the Jaguar. I find them fascinating. Good stuff! Also, is Willies Adventure a precursor to Rayman or a 'tribute'?
@svendaennart3 жыл бұрын
I agree. About Willies Adventure: I´m not sure but I think it´s an "hommage".
@lotekstyle3 жыл бұрын
It's only a preview... the authors did not finish the game yet.
@richardcavell2 жыл бұрын
This doesn’t make the Falcon look good. You have an ‘030, with a DSP chip, and most of these games look only reasonable by comparison with an NES!
@Catapumblamblam8 ай бұрын
A great computer that came out at least 4 or 5 years too late. Unfortunately, both Atari and Commodore did not understand the need to evolve their machines, considering them perfect. The Falcon could do much more than that, I installed Magic, the multitasking operating system on it and it managed to let me play Legend of Valor in a window!
@No1BRC2 жыл бұрын
They should have put a 060 into the Jaguar case and Atari would have lasted longer seeing that even Quake ran ok on it 😖
@tahrey13 күн бұрын
the 68060 didn't come out until 1994, you think they had a time machine? About the only other machines with an 030 in at the time were Unix workstations, the A4000 and a couple higher end Macs.
@cassiodios Жыл бұрын
Remember back the early 90s when I had the Amiga and heard the first rumors about the Falcon. I was such a bit-bitch ... 32bit, in my imagination the games must be at least double as good as on the Amiga! (Reason why I bought bit later the Jaguar :D ) Pity to see that the most games on this capable machine are just clones (Rayman, Alien Breed, Supercars, Pinball Dreams/Fantasies ...). Credits to the homebrew scene for keeping the system alive.
@HeadCrash24 Жыл бұрын
No way Racer 2 was released in the prime of the Falcon! It's a new game!
@Corsa15DT2 жыл бұрын
Ultimate Arena is a Mortal Combat clone, but its done so poorly. But then again its not a Falcon game, but STe
@lesnuitssanskimwilde798610 ай бұрын
Falcon was doomed from the start for several reasons. I'll just talk about one. In the early 90s, games size were getting bigger and bigger, sometimes needing more than 4 discs. It was really a chore to use when you had just one disc drive. Obviously the answer was to get a hard drive but they were very expensive. ST/amiga sold very well when they were around 500/600 dollars (or 1000 DM, 400 pounds). If you had to buy the falcon (or the amiga 1200)+ a harddrive+ maybe a monitor, why not spend a little more and buy the most promising, versatile and upgradable computer, the PC?
@GORF_EMPIRE Жыл бұрын
Not one title here impresses me one bit. Good thing the Falcon was never pushed as a games computer.
@macosm7818 Жыл бұрын
Some games actually look better than those designed for the bare Amiga 1200. 2D games for Amiga requiring at least 68030 and 8MB were practically nonexistent, and they could have looked much better.
@skeggjoldgunnr3167 Жыл бұрын
How many dev teams were adept at coding marketable games on the Motorola 68K at the time? ALL OF THEM. Why did Atari have a hard time getting any games on the Falcon? I guess crack was a more costly hobby at that time.
@sebastiensebastien9042 Жыл бұрын
c'est dommage qu'atari n'est pas pu développer cette machine à temps, elle aurait écrasé, l'amiga 1200, la megadrive et la super Nintendo, sans parler de Microsoft, une bien belle machine qui n'a pas eu sa chance.
@valcrist74288 ай бұрын
Good hardware but the games seems to be substandard clones. Uninspiring and seems forced.. What a horrible games collection..
@lurkerrekrul3 жыл бұрын
Racer 2 - The game engine looks nice, but the single sprite for each opponent car kind of kills it. They look like cardboard cutouts. Willie's Adventure - Rayman clone? Alien Blast - Alien Breed with easier to kill aliens that sound like donkeys? Pinball Obsession - Can't say I like the color choices that much. It looks like the graphics were just converted from the originals without cleaning them up. Asteroidia - I really like the music in this version. I looked at a video of the original version and it just had a music loop of a few seconds that quickly gets annoying. This one is really nice. Let's Play Shanghai - Next to Tetris, this must be one of the most ported game ideas ever. You have to look hard to find a system that doesn't have at least one version of this game. Rave - Looks like a clone of Hewson's Eliminator.
@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes Жыл бұрын
Well if all the Falcon could do was ST games no wonder it tanked.
@daishi5571 Жыл бұрын
I'm of the opinion that Atari and Commodore killed each other to some degree. I think that if one of them hadn't came out, the other would have thrived cutting a much larger portion of the market. Maybe targeting the lousy Mac would have given them a market for the future.
@MisterSplendyАй бұрын
Nice games but only a few are "wow".To be fair, these games are mostly homebrews, so I understand their limited graphics.
@tahrey13 күн бұрын
sooooo did the comment i put a fair bit of time and thought into just get deleted without any notice for some reason, or did youtube simply vaporise it because youtubes gonna youtube? i'd be nice to know before i try to recreate it. Was trying to bring a bit of balance and realism to the general hater-ness on display here, as someone who was actually around and paying attention at the time, and has the ability to spend ten seconds checking things in a search engine now and then
@tahrey13 күн бұрын
OK so there's definitely something in what I wrote that's getting eaten by the data vampires. Looks like it's there but as soon as I refresh the page it vanishes. Maybe I can do one paragraph at a time as separate comments and see what happens? Now I've done the work of using Cheat Engine to extract 95% of what I wrote from the live memory of Svchost because windows clipboard is also inexplicably playing up... Remains of intro: "...bearing in mind the base model Falcon launched for half the price that the 520ST had done in 1985, _without_ adjusting for inflation, and you didn't have to buy a separate disk drive alongside it either... the top model got you 14MB and an 80MB internal hard drive and was still cheaper, unadjusted, than the Amiga was at its own 1986 launch. So IDK where the idea of it being an expensive machine comes from. The PC we bought instead, in 1994 as Atari was crumbling to ash, cost a good bit more besides. Maybe these don't all show it off to its full potential but only a scant few seem worthy of scorn, not the whole bunch, and some seem more worth celebrating. In fact let's go title by title just quick, seeing as there's not too many of them (its main problem really was a dearth of development... and very few game programmers would have had any experience with the 68030 and 56001, rather than the plain 68000."
@tahrey13 күн бұрын
2/? Llamazap - I always thought that was a Jaguar game? Seems to run smooth to me (what else do you expect from Minter?) and the graphics are minimum Amiga level, more A1200 or VGA (and would have demanded a fast 386 PC at a minimum probably). Would have been entirely at home on the SNES (but the resolution would have been lower), the Megadrive would have struggled. Might have worked as a MegaCD or 32X game? Racer 2 - Seems unfinished, even to the extent of the title screen not having the right name on it. But the title and menu graphics are better than VGA quality and the actual gameplay rendering would have seemed pretty good on an SNES (you'd need to do fancy Mode 7 tricks to get the rolling hills, the sprites are bigger, and both sprites and backgrounds are higher colour than the SNES), plus it runs smooth. Megadrive would have had no chance, nor the A500. A1200 questionable. Shame that it feels like a beta dev build, with the dodgy opponent sprites etc.
@tahrey13 күн бұрын
3/? Cannon Fodder - I wasn't aware of an official Falcon version, good chance it's a homebrew, either re-porting the Amiga version or adding smooth scrolling and such to the ST one (which was infamously flip-screen, amongst other crimes). The colour flashing when loading is further evidence for that as it's characteristic of pirate disks, and you'd have to break the copy protection to pull off such a stunt. It's not pushing the limits of the machine, but then it never did that on a lot of the machines it was ported to in the first place, as a 1993 game. Typical PC would have breezed it, along with any contemporary console. But, it's a Sensible Software game, it's not about eye popping visuals, they go in for tons of detail by using tiny cutesy sprites (and certainly CF along with Megalomania and Sensible Soccer, using the same graphical conceit, turned up on the Megadrive), and at least it runs smooth. Compare with Worms which came out in, what, '95, '96? Lemmings 2?
@tahrey13 күн бұрын
4/? Beats of Rage - Are you taking the piss here? This is Saturn quality, early Playstation, maybe early 90s arcade or a PC game with really well made VGA graphics that you don't clock as being 256-colour unless you look really close. 16-bit colour, huge sprites, good sound, and it all moves about as fluid as any contemporary might have (the choppy scrolling feels more like a capture framerate mismatch... the machine could do that in hardware after all, you have to change one or two 16-bit registers). Imagine the machine being demoed with this back in '93... Willie's Adventure - That's (a clone of) Rayman, my guy. That's a Playstation game. Didn't even come out until 1995. Show me the 16-bit version you have which even exists, let alone looks as good. Again, looks like high colour or really good 256-colour graphics, everything's moving at solid 50/60Hz, the music is CD quality (none of the Amiga lowpass filter or 8-bit noise, and probably more than 4 channels), sprites clearly have more than 15 colours, etc.
@tahrey13 күн бұрын
5/? Alien Blast - this one is a bit of a let down, as it looks like an attempt at an STe version of Alien Breed (there never was a plain ST one AFAIK), and doesn't quite match up to the Amiga graphics. But it is at least competent enough at the level it's shooting for? Like it runs smooth, the sound is alright, the graphics aren't outright crap, the gameplay is there etc. Just a shame they didn't attempt to bring in the original graphics (as it was probably made after a point where Team17 would have cared, especially as they never made any Atari games). And it's not like the CD32 didn't get the occasional duffer that was just an A500 disk image slapped on a CD with some token music.
@tofik5939 Жыл бұрын
👍👍
@neocortexlab2 жыл бұрын
So powerfull chip set and so dull games...
@artfulife50453 жыл бұрын
Never heard of the Falcon and I'm 42.........🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
@svendaennart3 жыл бұрын
The Falcon was the last Homecomputer by Atari before they started with the Jaguar Console. After the ST, there was the STE, Mega STE, TT and then the Atari Falcon.
@tazanteflight8670 Жыл бұрын
Every one of these games is a clone of some other game
@bitdigital8052 Жыл бұрын
I saw a Rayman clone lol
@IsaacKuo3 жыл бұрын
Weird seeing a Llamasoft game with decent pixel art. I mean ... contrast with Llamatron!
@bencollier37583 жыл бұрын
I noticed reuse of some of the sound effects!
@goodfodder4 ай бұрын
I can now understand why it failed, more 80s than 90s
@oldestgamer Жыл бұрын
There wasn't shown ONE game I would have played, if this is representative of the Falcon's game library, well, it's shite for sure. Where were the dungeon/RPG games, like Ultima, EOTB, the Breach series, Wing Commander, etc. These are just dumbed-down games that I would have never played! I wanted a Falcon when it came out, but by that time I had moved on to the Mega STe and then the Amiga, both having better games an more productivity. I have a Falcon now, haven't used it much as I am trying to get the TT running right (Frontier, anyone?). I know there were better games for the machine, like the Simarils games and others, good coders could have gotten a Doom-like, but I guess there were no top coders for this machine, too bad!
@svendaennart Жыл бұрын
I think there are 3 important reasons for the fact, that the Falcon has not that much games to offer. 1. The Falcon only was sold around 25.000-30.000 times. 2. Atari´s way to deal with software developers over the years made them loose interest to create software for Atari Computers more and more. 3. The Atari Jaguar came too fast and buried the Falcon. For the Jaguar there are indeed much more games with higher quality available. Anyway, I think the Falcon was/is an excellent Homecomputer. Would love to code some games for it :D
@atari10403 жыл бұрын
So basically no games or quality on 1040 STE level :/. It's a pity as with 10x the power of 8mhz 68K and faster graphics we could easily get way way better version of [Epic, Simulcra, Frontier, Robocop 3, Starglider]-like game with perhaps close to 60 fps... But then PC clones dominated world... Argh!@%#^&@
@Richardstevens123411 ай бұрын
What a load of 💩 games there was about 2 that looked good the rest where remakes
@ChristianCostaBatageloSC3 жыл бұрын
Wow. 90% of the games just sucks 😬
@svendaennart3 жыл бұрын
Let me guess, you had an Amiga back in the days, right?
@ChristianCostaBatageloSC3 жыл бұрын
Nope, I never had one. 😅 I just realized that the games are visibly amateurish or mere poorly made adaptations of titles from other platforms.
@youuuuuuuuuuutube Жыл бұрын
Is it me, or all those games are absolute garbage?
@robertnilsson706328 күн бұрын
Only "Beats of Rage" is a fair game.
@_devik Жыл бұрын
such a potential, so few games. A failure, even bigger than the A1200. All the programmers jumped to the pc wagon
@GustafStechmann3 жыл бұрын
two of these have stolen Amiga music :)
@cesaru36193 ай бұрын
1992: snes cost was $299 and had better games and graphics than an atari falcon computer that cost $1000+, RIP falcon nobody will miss you, LOL. Then atari made the jaguar to beat the snes and genesis, ROFLMAO.
@Elbas_Tardo2 жыл бұрын
Good machine, bad games. :(
@BDG40 Жыл бұрын
Honestly, this is disappointing. That machine would've deserved better.
@LuciRosseTV Жыл бұрын
really terrible stuff... the only decent one seems to be "Downfall" but it's a 2011 release!
@mariuszzygmunt16872 жыл бұрын
Grafika i animacja --- to samo co na AMIDZE 1200 , a czasami nawet i gorzej !!!!! Sorry taka prawda , Jestem z komputerami od lat 80-tych 1.zx-spectrum ,atari 800 itak dalej włanczajac w to konsole segi i nintendo jak i sony....... Tyle lat mineło ....... Ten komputer powinien sie pojawić w czasie gdzie debiutowała AMIGA 500 , Wtedy byłby czymś niesamowitym i pożądanym... Ps- spójrzcie na cannon foder ,Alien ,Pinbal Słabizna --- czy chodzby bijatyki ??? ANIMACJA ???? SZOK JAK NA KALKULATORZE....
@obvioustruth2 жыл бұрын
Poor! There were way better ATARI FALCON 030 games.
@Noweee Жыл бұрын
Lol
@ThierryZanzouri4 ай бұрын
I see bad copies of games at the time, no innovation or anything not seen on SNES or AMIGA 500 ! Lazy dev ! And what about the copy of rayman ??!!!! LOL