The sound hardware is also more comparable to the SG-1000 and Master System one (three square waves + one noise). Mainly because YouTube recommended me this video:Īnd yeah, it has scrolling (something pretty much missing from other 2nd gen systems), and while it only has eight sprites, bear in mind that (assuming the usual size) they covered the same area as 16×16 on a NES (which is limited to 8×8 or 8×16 sprites), so the situation wasn't as bad as it sounds. Get out of my head, I happened to be talking about the Intellivision yesterday. But some games allow you to use two controllers at once, allowing for twin stick style control. Some early games were developed oblivious to this.

The only issue with the controller is that it can't send the signal from a disc touch and keypad press at once. 8 - 16-bit d-pads only have 4 directions. The Intelliciaion has a true 16-directional disc. So multi-colored sprites are stacked layers of sprites, which reaches sprite caps quicker. All of these sprites are 2-color, which typically means 1 visible color. This is why Colecovision is known for flicker. The Intellivision only has 8 hardware sprites, but it can display them all on the same line, while the Colecovision can only display 4 sprites on a line. The Intellivision's sprite layer is more or less the sane resolution, but many games use the hardware supported stretching to make them appear larger and chunkier on screen. The Colecovison's only practical advantage over the Intellivision is the overall resolution. It has a built-in operating system which made it easy to develop 2600 quality games with better aesthetics and keep rom sizes low, but it also capped game potential to a fraction of what the hardware can really do. Intellivision was the first console with tiles, sprites and hardware scrolling.

But I'm sure theres tons of members here who grew up with these consoles and could share their stories and advise to newcomers interested in them. You can easily tell by my post that I did not grow up with these consoles, and they predate my existence by a decade.

But thats not the same solution for every console. Like you can use a Genesis controller on a 2600, and combined with an S-video mod, those problems are gone. I do know theres ways to get around this. Now I am a fan of playing games on original hardware, but this generation kinda makes that unappealing to do. So basically these were the consoles that existed before the revolutionary NES came into existence. Before the Explosion, the most complex animal was a jellyfish(aka pong consoles), but then after the explosion we started seeing crab relatives(aka Fairchild F) and octopus relatives(aka Intellivision).Īnother reason I've become fascinated with this generation, is I've learned theres so many other consoles in this generation besides the Atari 2600, and ones with better graphics and sound. These consoles were essentially the Cambrian Explosion of video games. I've recently became fascinated with this generation for the first time in my life.

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