How to tell if you made an ever popular system...

How can you tell that you made an ever popular system? Here's a few ways...

1.) The system still has a large following decades after it was discontinued.

2.) Games are still made for the system decades after it was discontinued.

3.) These games are not just hacks or remakes but, new and original games that are actually fun to play.

Below is a video I found today on AtariAge of a homebrew game with a Christmas theme called Stay Frosty 2. I'm actually quite impressed with what I can see of the game in this video. It looks more like an early NES release than just an old Atari 2600 game. I'm also quite impressed that someone got the Television Interface Adapter (aka the chip in the Atari 2600 that processed sound video output and reading controller inputs) to output music that actually does sound like various old Christmas songs. That chip's sound abilities are notoriously limited, even by the standards of its era.

Anyway, enough of me jabbering on about old technology. Look at the video for yourself.






- Lord Publius