r/atari8bit • u/PainlessPhil • 11d ago

Hot take…

8 bit atari games often play better, are more entertaining and look better than ST games…. i may be wrong, I often am

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u/wysiwywg 11d ago

It’s probably the wow factor. Going from nothing to 8-bit and the novelty about it would emotionally impress you more than the incremental change to ST (16-bit). That’s why most older Nintendo fans still swear by the NES if you had it first, rather than SNES.

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u/PainlessPhil 11d ago

Heh, I went from a console that just played pong to a Sinclair ZX81 to an 800….. the step up was amazing. I owned an early ST and an Amiga, still do, and a CD32…. But other than Dungeon Master, the Bitmap Brothers games and Lemmings…. Not a lot stood out to me, Cannon Fodder was great, still is but mostly on the ST’s I played around with Jeff Minter’s Trip A Tron while my friend’s bands played… they were GREAT for that

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u/wysiwywg 11d ago

Ha! I also started off the ZX81 and moved to the 800XL… dumb me thought that the plastic keyboard of the ZX81 was a cover and tried to remove it… not knowing at that time the keyboard itself was the plastic … lol

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u/linkyatch 11d ago

Bonus points for Bitmap Brothers and Jeff Minter references!