#ATARI VIDEO TENNIS CODE#
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And only 128 bytes of RAM (yes, bytes.) And the entire game code fitted within a 2KB ROM. No bitmap memory for the display, so everything has to be drawn by the CPU, line by line, with perfect timing. It's also kind of mind blowing to reflect how minimal the resources for the game were: 8-bit 1MHz CPU. I still frequently play it again, although it nearly always beats me (obviously many decades ago I was of rather younger and unsurprisingly much better at it!) The 'AI' was surprisingly challenging but adequately imperfect enough in that it felt like playing a human, a human really good at the game, and that was in the basic difficulty level, which it took some serious practice to be able to beat it, you had to really hammer away at it and work up your skills to be able to beat it on the higher difficulty levels.įor such a simple type of arcade tennis game, it never felt repetitive against the CPU, it always felt new and crazily it still does, it still holds up almost exactly 40 years later. It had a two player mode which was great fun, but what stood out most was player vs computer. The Atari 5200 is a video game console introduced in 1982 by Atari.

The game was designed by Activision co-founder Alan. With a price of 50, budget minded consumers loved it. Tennis is a tennissimulation video game developed for the Atari 2600 by Activision, and published in 1981. It was '3D' in an era when very few other games were. It was a video tennis clone simular to Pong. I soon became quite addicted to this fast paced tennis game. We weren't too sure how safe it was to run these 3rd party cartridges made by this unknown upstart of a company on our expensive little games console: we sought reassurance from the people in the shop that it really would be okay, and fortunately it was. I remember Dad driving us to a shop some distance away from home to buy an Activision Tennis cartridge not long after release for our Atari 2600.The old /r/patientgamers Essential Games List Please use flair to display what games you’re currently playing, not a punch line, username, tag, URL, or signature. New, mobile-friendly spoilers can be posted using the following formatting: Want to play online in a dead gaming community?

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