| The Ghost of RubangB said: I was repeating myself because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you missed my last post, since you stopped responding. You claimed Pitfall introduced item collecting to platformers. It didn't. That was part of your argument that the Atari had better platforming than Nintendo, and did it first, which was what I was taking issue with, since it was wrong. I was just talking about Donkey Kong and Pitfall earlier, but if you really think the whole 2600 library had better platforming than the NES library, you've gotta be kidding me. Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mega Man 2 blow away any platformer on any Atari system. |
I wasn't just talking about platforming. I was talking about as a whole the 2600 had a much better and more well rounded game lineup than the NES.
Platforming Pitfall I and II rate up their with anything on NES
Adventure -- Games like Adventure, Dragon Stomper, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET ( a true gem of a game for its time that has been unfairly maligned over the years) were all there before Zelda.
Shoot 'Em Ups / Arcade Conversions -- With games like River Raid, Megalomania, Defender, Phaser Patrol, Battlezone, Robot Tank, Berzerk, Crazy Climber, Joust, Space Invaders, Frogger, QBert, Pac-Man, Ms. Pacman, Jungle Hunt, Star Raiders, Kangaroo, Vanguard, Phoenix, Centipede and on and on the 2600 wins easily.
Racers -- 2600 wins easily
Sports -- although the 2600 sports games were often dissed because of the graphical superiority of the Intellivision games, what was on the 2600 holds its own with the best sports games on NES.
The 2600 was simply a better console between 1976 and 1984 than the NES ever was.
Heavens to Murgatoids.
