Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles

ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Circus Atari was fun, I don’t care what the GenZ ‘journalist’ says.

The 2600 was so underpowered that it couldn’t even hold a full game screen in memory. Developers had to draw the screen line by line, in real time, as it was being sent to the TV.

ugh, that’s how every console up through the 5th gen worked… It was only in the 6th gen we had an idea of a ‘frame buffer’

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