Whats your gaming system

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Originally Posted by Dude111

I dont like the graphics as much on 5200 or 7800.... I think 2600 has the best Graphics

All thru my years I have played

Atari 2600 and 7800

I liked the 5200 because it used an analog joystick even though it was poorly implemented mechanically and it used multiple buttons. Something that far as I know wouldn't be seen again until the Nintendo 64 at least far as an analog joystick was concerned.

From what I understand from a YouTube video I watched, the 7800 could have been better than the NES if Atari had just installed more RAM as I believe it had better sound capability and also better video capability that was bottlenecked by the amount of RAM.

Originally Posted by Dude111

being able to play arcade games (Early 80s) on my mame emulator......

I had MAME on my XP computer and when I was able to recover the main drive I found that MAME worked on my Windows 10 PC as well.

I rarely play it though.

What I'd love to do is find a vector monitor, a vector generator and get vector MAME up and running so that I can play the vector arcade games.

Thing is the vector arcade games and the Vectrex had 3D graphics long before any console, raster arcade game and computer would be powerful enough for 3D graphics.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by Tube Radio

I liked the 5200 because it used an analog joystick even though it was poorly implemented mechanically

The Wico aftermarket joysticks for the Atari 5200 were an amazing improvement on the Atari originals. They have mechanical devices in them to switch between self-centering spring-return mode, and fully relaxed analog mode, not the half-return, easily broken rubber membranes on the Atari-built ones.

One 5200 cartridge that took good advantage of the analog joysticks was RealSports Baseball, in which you could "swing" your bat different ways (including bunting) by choosing the motion of the joystick. That cartridge was also very cool for including voice sounds in about the same era as when the Mattel Intellivision required an outboard adapter to achieve that.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Tube Radio

I liked the 5200 because it used an analog joystick even though it was poorly implemented mechanically and it used multiple buttons.

Hmmm didnt all 3 Atari versions use analogue joysticks?? (They were the best)

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The 2600 and 7800 used regular joysticks.