Making an Atari game

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classicgamer5
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Making an Atari game

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I know REPO Man wanted to start a game development group, but I think making an Atari game would be awesome. Its an actual cart that you can put into your 2600 and play. I found an Instructable on it http://www.instructables.com/id/SAZYBHWFS8O2SYW/. Has anyone here ever made or tried to make one? Is anyone interested?
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Re: Making an Atari game

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A bit too archaic for me. . . An nes game would be better.
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Re: Making an Atari game

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Jrecee wrote:A bit too archaic for me. . . An nes game would be better.
an NES is a better idea
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Re: Making an Atari game

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classicgamer5 wrote:I know REPO Man wanted to start a game development group, but I think making an Atari game would be awesome. Its an actual cart that you can put into your 2600 and play. I found an Instructable on it http://www.instructables.com/id/SAZYBHWFS8O2SYW/. Has anyone here ever made or tried to make one? Is anyone interested?
The advantage of Atari VCS development is that you can actually write a game in a day, and there are a couple of very easy design tools to let you do this.

An NES is really quite a bit more complicated than a VCS.

The downside of VCS programming is that there is no frame buffer.
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