Games That Push the Limits of the Atari 8-Bit Family

I like the guys video's (watched all the push to the limits video's bar the speccy one) and although I found them entertaining a few of them actually showed you games that didn't really push the machines too much. Most Atari shown one's were pretty accurate but there are other games that I would have shown instead. The main choice Star Raiders is indeed a hardworking little cart but the programmers maths was one thing he admitted he was weak at in an interview and ideed the programmer of the Altirra emulator actually hacked the maths code to almost rid Star Raiders of slowdown when there were a few explosions on the screen. This in itself says that as good as Star Raider IS it wasn't pushing the hardware as much as many thought.

Rescue on Fractulas for me would have been a better choice than either of the Way OUT games. The CEL graphics system which looks 3D but isn't was used to amazing effect but that little game is a real CPU hog...Great work on it..