Neo Sprint for the Atari VCS Opinion Video

[Cousin Vinnie]

Atari apparently wants feedback on their potentially funktastic top down racer that's exclusive for the Atari VCS. Well... I'm the man to offer some opinions fo' free.
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https://youtu.be/gdGrXNaKWg4 

[Flojomojo]

Seems like fun but one thing that’s hard for me with this type of game is focusing on the tiny cars, especially when they’re moving quickly. But the closer you zoom in, the less time you have to react to to obstacles. 

 

The glory days of that style is probably back when the arcade cabinet would have multiple steering wheels for local party fun. 

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36 minutes ago, Flojomojo said:

Seems like fun but one thing that’s hard for me with this type of game is focusing on the tiny cars, especially when they’re moving quickly. But the closer you zoom in, the less time you have to react to to obstacles. 

 

The glory days of that style is probably back when the arcade cabinet would have multiple steering wheels for local party fun. 

Is there a zoom option I missed?    The tiny cars are the biggest issue for me.   Especially when there's another car that looks like mine,   more than once I thought I was driving a computer controlled car, while my actual car was back there stuck in a 'ditch'

 

[Flojomojo]

No zoom option as far as I know. I’m just saying that if there were, it would compromise the gameplay. 

[roots.genoa]

2 hours ago, Flojomojo said:

The glory days of that style is probably back when the arcade cabinet would have multiple steering wheels for local party fun.

Yeah, even though people might find weird to use a steering wheel for a top down racing game, I think these games are hard to play with a d-pad, since movement is relative (pushing right turns the car to the right whatever its direction is).