To Compare Or Not To Compare – That’s The Question – Comparing Centipede(s) On C64

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TJ’s original video in which he compares Galaxians on the Atari 800 and ZX Spectrum

TJ’s original video in which he addresses the comments on his comparison of Galaxians on the Atari 800 and the ZXSpectrum (Next)

So some might say it is unfair to compare Galaxians on the Speccy Next with the version on the Atari 800 as the Speccy is so much newer. Yet when the game was written for the Spectrum and the Atari 800 both machines were more or less contemporaries of each other.

So can you or may you compare videogames across different systems? Well yeah, of course you can compare videogames. I have been comparing video games ever since I first started playing games. The games that were available in the arcade often had homeports that sometimes had very little in common with the original due to hardware limitations of the home systems. But the gameplay and experience can be quite similar and sometimes the game on the home system was even more of a technical achievement than the original arcade-game due to the fact that home based hardware often was quite different and less powerful compared to the tailored arcade hardware.

The Atari ST and the Amiga have always been compared, the games on it as well. PC and console games are routinely being compared, multi platform games have always been compared and the differences and similarities can be quite interesting. Even more so if you take into account the sometimes vastly different contexts (hardware, software, development software-wise).

The Atari 7800 actually has a homebrew of the Odyssey 2 KCMunchkin game on it. How’s that for comparing a 4 bit machine to an 8 bit machine 🙂

And then there’s emulation; running a piece of software that was written for machine A on machine B and it looking and feeling and functioning as if it was on machine A. it’s wonderful to see how certain software can imitate the original hardware or software context of another system to such a degree that this recreated environment makes it possible for software to run on a vastly different system and often very different hardware. Comparing functionality, gameplay is something that you can always do – it of course very much depends on the definitions of people commenting on the comparison being made whether or not they ‘agree’ with such a comparison or not. Some will have flexible views, others will have very narrow and possibly even strict definitions or ‘rules’ they go by. I say all there’s more roads to Rome than one. And there’s always an alternative angel and alternative views. Embracing those different points of views is what makes life interesting, if we all were always agreeing with one another it’d be quite boring or we might not have any real reason to communicate or debate at all.

So all is good. 🤔😄😎 and I compare the heck out of all different C64 versions of Centipide I could find at the end of this video 00:08:44.

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