Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

[TaimuRadiu]

The NES was 1979 tech launched in 1983 in Japan and 1985 in the US. The Master System/SG-1000 Mark III was cutting-edge for 1984 and could do a lot graphically that the NES couldn't touch, even with custom chips.

If Nintendo didn't have the scummy, MS-like policies for third parties and they'd been able to develop for the Master System without losing their Nintendo licensing we could have seen some really killer stuff.

NES was better and had a better library. There's reasons why the Master System only took off amongst Europoors and favelaites. There's also a bunch of games that are on both the NES and the Master System, as well as the NES and 7800. I recommend the SNK 7800 ports much more above the NES ports.

 

[Baraka Obama]

The SG-1000 was basically a crummy ColecoVision clone; same video chip, Z80 CPU, and all the limitations that came with it. It was hotrodded into the more capable Mark III / Master System, but even that wasn’t exactly cutting edge compared to what Nintendo managed with the Famicom.

Meanwhile, despite a smaller palette, the Famicom/NES’s custom Ricoh PPU was incredibly advanced for its time. Devs squeezed amazing results from it thanks to clever hardware mappers, scanline interrupts, and tight hardware integration, features that weren’t really viable or widely used on Sega's 8-bit consoles.

 

[Calandrino]

It's really interesting in hindsight, because like yourself I think the 16-bit-era has aged better than the 32/64-bit era, but Miyamoto apparently thought N64 was going to age better than SNES and NES at the time.

3D games are a failed gimmick, they've had 30+ years in the mainstream and still haven't produced much in the way of results. Almost any 5th gen game is virtually unplayable now, with certain exceptions, like Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Volume 1.