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Taito Men Talk Legendary Games
Edge Online has a piece talking with two of the men behind the classic games of Taito company, makers of Space Invaders and Bubble Bobble. From the article: "Q: How difficult was it to make the game back then? A: It was very a difficult process. The hardest part was the development of a microcomputer. Microcomputers were hardly used at that time in Japan, so we had to create one from scratch. I could almost say developing the microcomputer was harder than developing the game itself. These days, we have personal computers to rely on, but there was no programming environment back then. So I had to create everything by myself. I created a development device, wrote a part of the game that runs on it, and then created more devices along the way."
Shame because: A) the article (in online form) is only too short B) the three comments here so far are rubbish trolls Bubble Bobble is one of the finest arcade games of all time, simplistic yet with depth of play, graphically appealing (yes even to a grown man now almost 20 years on) and has a lot of staying power having been converted over more formats than say, er, Doom. Or Duke Nukem forever. And lets not even talk about Space Invaders, Rainbow Islands or Operation Wolf. Anyone else here want a sensible discussion about these stone cold classics?
I am really loving the release of all of these retro game collections.
I really hope to see more in the near future.
For years, if someone wanted to play some old skool games, they had to resort to emulation. But emulation comes with several of its own issues such as legality, stability, and availability of the roms. Plus you were usually limited to playing them on your PC instead of in front of your TV.
It is refreshing that we can now relive some of classic moments in gaming history using only our current gen console and a tv. The best part is it even comes at quite a bargain. (usually at less than a $1 per game).
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