Atari : Games that defined Atari 800XL and 130XE

[@mechamania]

Wow. Two years later, I’m seeing this, again. I hadn’t noticed that, in the doobley doo, it says that the Atari 8-bit line was strong, in the _”early 80’s,_ which is sacrilege, because the 8-bit line-first released with the first separate sound and video chips, in ALL OF home computers *in 1979* ... - the Atari 800XL and XE 130 were memory-stacked versions of the 1979 Atari 800 (which can still run almost anything those later versions did, but with max 48k and the large install base, even the 1979 versions played nearly all the games, which were made to take advantage of that larger install base... So, from the maxed 800 on (minus the 600XL, which, like the original 400, at 16k, couldn’t load (much) from the disk (magnetic media; optical is “disc”) drive _were strong well into the _*_late ‘80s!_* Folks started transitioning to ST’s and Amigas, for 16-bit games, etc., in the mid-‘80s, but that was hardly _en masse_ and didn’t just happen, right away. See what the Commodore 64 (1982) can do, with Super Mario Bros. that was home-brewed, somewhat recently, along with all the Capcom (e.g., Commando) and other big devs’ games on this list, which were early NES (1985) games, because the play is as good (including the secret areas of Commando (shown) that don’t appear in the arcade or other versions, besides the Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and NES). Given Nintendo’s rep, now, for meh graphics, it might not seem that a _six year-old system_ was nearly as capable as the console that brought us out of the “Video Game Crash of 1983” (which was much less commonly known, _at the time,_ than about which it’s known, today)-the NES-there were still TONS of great Atari 8-bit games (and Commodore 64 ones that often came on the other side of a disk, with the Atari 8-bit version... ), through 1983, and long, thereafter, ‘cause the systems were nearly as capable, that much later, and so Atari 8-bits remained strong-and well-supported-for nearly a full decade. There’s a reason that the Commodore 64 was-and always will be-THE _biggest-selling single computer model, ever._ That was in part because Atari didn’t allow for 64K (which hurt perception vs. the 64) until the 800XL, and there were three waves of Atari 8-bit computers that were _far more different, on the outside, than inside_ and were also sold with multiple models, per modern décor refresh, for a total of SEVEN different Atari 8-bit models (OG 400 & 800; 600XL, 800XL, 1200XL; 65XE & 130XE), which is not even to count the “Easter Egg” looking Atari XEGS console (for which you could buy a keyboard and other peripherals, to make (yet another model) full Atari 8-bit computer. So, that’s an EIGHTH computer model, across which the Atari 8-bit line was spread with the same major architecture (but, somehow, the Commodore 64c gets counted in the “Commodore 64” numbers...)... and nobody cares about the Commodore 128. They were only ever used as larger memory C64s-not as 128s, with that OS-because it’s “backward compatible... “ GREAT LIST OF GAMES (AND FOOTAGE), BY THE WAY!!!

[@gamedoutgamer]

Great list thank you. Will soon get a SIO2PC to play these!

[@riverdealer]

needs sound

[@mechamania]

Alternate Reality was incredible. My friend "pirated" that game by using two other 5.25 floppies, scratching the surfaces, so they wouldn't work, and moved the labels from the original set of discs to the scratched ones. I thought that was brilliant! Excellent theme song, too. I was they'd finished that series... Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and DK Jr. are still the best versions of the games on Atari 8-bit computers -- for non-handheld/"console (XEGS) -- and I think they're best, overall, because those games are so much better, as games played with friends, on the couch (if not in an arcade cabinet). The 3DS has what are pretty much the arcade versions, in the eShop, and I think Nintendo missed a great opportunity to make them in 3D, like the DK Country 3D games. No idea why Nintendo was _so goddamned stingy_ with the second fucking screen, in every other home version of the original Donkey Kong. Even the damned NES game is missing it. I loved my Atari 800 and XL, but the non-XL was actually better, because it had a much better picture, with the outputs. The XL only had a meh RF output, and who really misses that 16k of RAM, on the XL? No game took advantage of that extra RAM, about which I know -- and yeah, they could've, using compact cassettes or floppies. Imagine loading a 64k game from cassette! LOL. You'd keep that machine turned on, for DAYS. The C64 and Atari 800 were awesome -- and for games, they were much better, earlier in their life cycles, than PCs, and they were _always_ better than Apple IIs. The IIgs wasn't really a "II," although it was backward compatible -- and only a few games ever came out for that model. Although it was awesome and actually a bit better than the Amiga 500, for it's time (considering inflation, etc,), the price difference between Amigas and STs, versus the IIgs was actually greater than between comparable spec Macs and PCs, today.

[@newkfromrotterdam]

its like a google images slideshow

[@shubhamsingla2120]

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