View Single Post
Old 10 November 2021, 15:28   #59
indigolemon
Bit Copying Bard
 
indigolemon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Kelty, Fife, Scotland
Age: 41
Posts: 1,293
Quote:
Originally Posted by grond View Post
Yeah, I would try to persuade the C=64 kids (and myself) that the better basic of the 264 series and the 121 colours actually meant anything (and let's not forget the other two killer features, the built-in hex editor and the reset button). Without sprites and a proper sound chip, the 264s weren't a good machine for gaming. No basic could compensate for that.
Between that, and the 'lowest common denominator' target meaning most games were aimed at the 16k the C16 provided, it did get a little short changed.

More recent games have proved it was a fairly capable platform, even despite the shortcomings:
[ Show youtube player ]
indigolemon is offline  
 
Page generated in 0.04490 seconds with 11 queries