[Coco] Demaking Computer Games

Bruce W. Calkins brucewcalkins at charter.net
Tue Feb 25 12:38:58 EST 2014


20 years ago I was telling my son that game logic and game graphics were not 
related.

In other words a game that made you think did not need fancy graphics.

He never did solve Robot Odyssey, but was quite far along with Myst.

Bruce W.


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----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Steve Ostrom"

>
> I just read a fun article in the most recent (March 2014) issue of The 
> Smithsonian Magazine.  It explained that a remake of a game is taking an 
> older game and making it play even better on the newer hardware available. 
> But "demaking" a game puts that into reverse.  They mentioned that the 
> game Halo, one of the most popular series of games of the past few years, 
> was recently rewritten for the Atari 2600, and is called Halo 2600.  One 
> reviewer called it "probably the best video game ever crammed into a 
> meager 4KB of memory".
>
> Hmmm...   The Coco3 and Assassin's Creed or Starcraft II ???
>
> --- Steve O ---




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