Am curious myself! :) I have been considering getting an Atari Flashback 4 and possibly a 2 and have a 60 inch 3D plasma screen so am wondering how games like Tempest etc would come off.
Tempest was originally done in color vector graphics so looked absolutely amazingly cool in the arcade. I'm sure the legacy version on the Flashback is different though. It would be an excellent game for 3D. The TV itself is active 3D but also has a mode where it will take 2D content and create a pseudo 3D appearance so am just wondering if it might render some games nicely? I agree! Space Invaders, or any game for that matter, on a 78 inch screen would be quite something to see! Actually this brings up another point I'm curious about. My screen is a wide screen (as are pretty much all TVs now) and the older Atari games I'm sure were for full screen viewing so I wonder how they would render in a wide screen format?… It would be pretty funny-looking if all the invaders were in a little clump in the center of the screen! lol! Any ideas Thomas or others?… Thanks, Cara :) --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On May 22, 2014, at 1:23 AM, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: Hi Tom. Wow! I bet original space invaders on a 78 inch projector was cool. I currently have my snes, Pc and gamecube plugged into a 42 inch flatscreen, which is pretty awsome after years of playing on standard sized tv screens, but I'm still jealous! :D. Back when we had the atari 2600 we were on a 15 inch tv, so no, I don't imagine the invaders were very clear. I also however do wonder if there was a different version of space invaders. The one we had on the Atari 2600 had the invaders in rows and columns, but if I remember rightly the invaders were yellow, and the shields between you and them were orange while your gun was green. it also had a two player option with one green gun and one purple gun. I have played a version with red invaders and blue shields on one of those multi game consoles that have hundreds of games on one machine and you just plug into the tv. I suppose though just like Packman and several other games at the time, there were various different versions of space invaders around and it's entirely possible that the first one I played wasn't the original. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
