Atari 8 Bit games that really pushed the hardware?

[Mclaneinc]

 

Good old Star Raiders deserves to be on that Time list, I've seen it voted the same in many magazines. If any game sold a computer or console then Star Raiders ranks as being one of those games. Never played Henry's House much on either machine, it looked the part but I found it very difficult back when my reflexes were super sharp. I wonder how hard Rescue on Fractulas works the Atari, I seem to remember that the engine isn't actually 3D but draws cells and places them on top of eachother (or something like that). Whatever the story, fantastic game...

[Mclaneinc]

Would Altirra's profiler show how hard its working?

 

Never used it myself..

 

Just saw a Performance Analyzer and looked at that, er complex (for an old thicko)

 

Must read how to read the results..

Edited May 24, 2021 by Mclaneinc

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1 hour ago, Heaven/TQA said:

Most Activision 2600 ports use “kernel” racing beam tech.

I would have expected 2600 devs to use similar techniques on the 8-bit line

[eegad]

Just my own 2 cents worth,  but back in the day I was *completely* blown away when Alternate Reality the City came out,  and I am still impressed to this day.   As for newer entries,  I only came across AtariBlast last year,  but I find it to be simply amazing.... More like a Genesis game than anything that came before on Atari 8bit.... And even more impressive is that it runs on a 16k Atari 400.  How?!