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6/28/2025, 5:46:45 AM
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Astrocade is the PS5 of the 70s. It grossly outperformed Atari 2600 in 1978, but Bally noped out of the home console market almost immediately after releasing the platform, so it got very few official licensed games. Thankfully it had several BASIC programming cartridges, so people who actually bought the console started to release homebrew games on cassettes pretty soon, with some user groups making it through the 80s. Unfortunately, no emulators support loading games from cassette tape. It also used a rotary joystick as its default controller, so replicating its controls in emulation can be tricky.
Astrocade is the PS5 of the 70s. It grossly outperformed Atari 2600 in 1978, but Bally noped out of the home console market almost immediately after releasing the platform, so it got very few official licensed games. Thankfully it had several BASIC programming cartridges, so people who actually bought the console started to release homebrew games on cassettes pretty soon, with some user groups making it through the 80s. Unfortunately, no emulators support loading games from cassette tape. It also used a rotary joystick as its default controller, so replicating its controls in emulation can be tricky.
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