Is nobody going to talk about the fact that Atari re-entered the console market?

[mountaindewslave]

JRPGfan said:

Cloudman said:

Yeah, I can see the look does have some charm, especially to people who played the 2600. I wasn't born around that time, so I don't really know gaming then was like. I got my start on the NES.

Googled Atari 2600 games.... found this:

 

Its too dated for me.... I couldnt myself sit down and enjoy a game that looked like this anymore.

Graphics and gameplay look too simple.

and that's why the Atari 2600 is one generation too early to really have a massive following like, say, the NES or Master System. Particularly the NES. If you look at something like Galaga or Mario Bros on the NES, they've aged incredibly well because they have an art style that lends itself to simplicity but just enough detail that you generally know what you're looking at. Then furthermore something like the SNES has sort of a 'comic book' visual appearance to it so has aged even better (and debatably better than the generation that followed it with 64 bits)

This is a lot of people's problem with the 2600. There are a few really fun puzzle games on the system but there is a massive amoutn of shovelware (even compared to today's standards on like STEAM)