30 Jun
2006
30 Jun
'06
5:52 a.m.
David Griffith wrote:
Many of these ripoffs were horridly bad, though
interesting examples of
beating on the thing until it works. For example, Donkey Kong running on
Galaxian hardware.
... and everyone knows that Galaxian was the best arcade ever invented :)
(sorry - many an hour was wasted as a kid playing that!)
I've never quite found a faithful modern version. Even with the proper ROMs
and MAME, it's not quite the same - I suspect because the display just lacks
that period fuzzyness; it all looks too crisp and clinical on modern hardware.