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How much Game Do You Get For 1k?

Posted by timothy on from the small-packages-good-things dept.

nafmo writes "In this day and age of quadruple-dvd games with amazingly big 3D worlds, one might think that the science of compact coding has been lost forever. Well, not so, ast the 2002 MiniGame competition proves. There are 62 games for 14 different vintage computer platforms, of which none take up more than 1024 bytes. The vote for this year's best minigame ends on 7th of October, so you'd better grab the votepack and start playing!"

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  1. Why vintage computers? by Kevin+Stevens · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think this would be alot more interesting if they used today's PC architecture, and stretched it to the limit with 1k. Maybe its just because I am too young to really know what Commodore 64 games looked like, so I dont have much of a basis to compare these games.

  2. Not really 1K games by ClosedSource · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They are only 1K games if you don't count calls to the OS or ROM BIOS. Back in the old Atari 2600 days 1K really was 1K since there was no code anywhere but in the game cartridge.