Guide to playing arcade games on Windows Mobile
Posted by Chris Leckness on 05/15/07 in PocketPC, Software
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Arcade games… If you have ever read WikiPedia’s related article, you know it well enough arcade machines had the status as the forefront of new game releases and, by using the latest, sophisticated graphics and sound chips, used to present a far better gaming experience than any home computer or even home gaming console of that age for about 15 years - at least before 1995.
The golden age of arcade games was, as has been stated, probably before 1995. The arcade titles of that age were considerably better than anything achievable on a home computer or console. For example, consider the game Scramble. When it came out in 1981 as an arcade title, at the age of the Atari 2600 (home console) and the VIC-20 (home computer), naturally, neither of these home systems were able to provide at least something close to the gaming experience of the “real” arcade title. For example, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (which was only released a year later; the game even later: in 1982, Melbourne House’s “Penetrator” and in 1983, Bug-Byte’s “Cavern Fighter”) had much inferior ports, and this is true of almost every home systems of the early eighties.
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