Atari Computers Appreciation - /vr/

Anonymous

6/21/2025, 5:51:35 PM No.11815062

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>never made a single bad machine.
>still lost.
regardless of Atari's competence in the computer market, their machines had SOUL.

what are your favorite games / machines?
strictly Atari computers only.

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Anonymous

6/21/2025, 5:55:48 PM No.11815067

Dungeon Master on Atari ST.
it literally pushed sales of the machine entirely on its own and for good reason, it got the design spot on and is the template for the entire genre.
https://youtu.be/tTspQjGM9UQ?feature=shared

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Anonymous

6/21/2025, 6:14:39 PM No.11815097

>>11815067
Good game, but Wizardry is the template for the entire genre

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Anonymous

6/21/2025, 6:46:32 PM No.11815165

>>11815097
Nta but Wizardry didn't have point and click objects manipulation gameplay. Dungeon Master is a proto immersive sim, just without actual 3D engine.

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Dave

6/21/2025, 7:03:06 PM No.11815189

>>11815165
>Dungeon Master is a proto immersive sim

Now they call immersive sin anything these days

Anonymous

6/21/2025, 7:12:02 PM No.11815219

>>11815062 (OP)
>>never made a single bad machine.
Atari 400 would like a word.

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Anonymous

6/21/2025, 7:30:39 PM No.11815259

>>11815219
huh? it was better than the 2600

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Anonymous

6/21/2025, 7:34:14 PM No.11815268

the 800XL is peak for me. I was a smug Commodore 64 fanboy until my friend got an 800XL and took great pleasure in showing me all the Lucasfilm games that mogged my C64 hard.

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Anonymous

6/21/2025, 7:36:08 PM No.11815274

>>11815259
No shit, 400 was supposed to be the next gaming console after 2600 until it mutated into a full computer.

Anonymous

6/21/2025, 7:41:34 PM No.11815291

What would be THE game to play on these systems, something worth setting an emulator up for? A best of the best game.

Wow me.

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Anonymous

6/21/2025, 7:46:31 PM No.11815301

>>11815291
not an easy question to answer. the machines cover from early 8-bit 16kb models to the 32bit Atari Falcon030.
each machine has its own "wow" games

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Anonymous

6/21/2025, 7:52:55 PM No.11815312

>>11815301
Is this thread about the "Atari Home Computers" (aka the 8-bit family) as the OP's image conveys, or the whole range of products carrying the Atari brand?

Anonymous

6/21/2025, 8:16:31 PM No.11815352

>>11815301
I'm talking the 8-bit machines, not any Atari generically.

Anonymous

6/21/2025, 8:19:03 PM No.11815356

>>11815062 (OP)
I'm an XE bro, despite the keyboards. 600XL is also qt af
>>11815268
>>11815291
ballblazer and rescue on fractalus are incredible

Anonymous

6/21/2025, 8:37:00 PM No.11815375

Star-Raiders-Dogfight-_2__thumb.jpg

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>>11815291
Star Raiders
Be sure to read the manual

Anonymous

6/21/2025, 9:44:41 PM No.11815495

>>11815291
If you can stomach vintage CRPGs, check out Alternate Reality: The City. Incredibly ambitious game, it was supposed to be a series of interconnected games where you could import characters to and from of, but only The City and one side game, The Dungeon, were finished.

Anonymous

6/21/2025, 11:51:56 PM No.11815691

Thanks for the recs, I've always wanted to check these machines out but had no idea what to play.

4rchive

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