Time to play - "Best and Worst"

Namco
=====

Best: System 1 hardware, the pinnacle of 8 bit game engineering. 4 x 6809 CPU's,
24bit color, multi-layer scrolling playfields, huge graphics memory, more
sprites than make sense. No one made anything else close.

Worst: System 1 hardware, WTF are you doing putting THAT MUCH EFFORT into
an 8bit system where one 68000 could do everything and more.


- James


--
------------------------------
JrokLand http://www.jrok.com
------------------------------
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

Williams
=======

Made the best cabs and games. Made the worst bezels. they always need
replacing/upgrading unless they stayed in a good enviroment.

good thread scott. this will give me something to think about when i
head back to work in a few

ronald
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

Wells Gardner
==========
Best: wells k7000 raster chassis for its simple and easy to work with
design.
Worst: wells first tri sync digital d9200 for its early high failure
rate and common convergence issues.

Taito:
Best: Made some of the best games out there!
Worst: Made some of the worst games out there!

Chad.
www.arcadecup.com
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

Atari:

Best: Best side art out of anybody.

Worst: did they really do much or anything bad.. Maybe to many custom
parts that are hard to get.

Dave
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

Atari
=========
Made the best manauls. In fact, they produced the all-time best technical
manuals for any field I can think of. A first-class job. Excellent
schematics, too!

Atari created the best original-concept games, including _Missile Command_,
_Centipede_, _Star Wars_, and many others.



Sega
========
Made some manuals that were okay in the early days, but as games got more
complicated they abandoned this. _Thunder Blade_ came on a gigantic
motherboard and if anything went wrong with it, you had no choice but to
send it back to Sega. Not much help.


Bally/Midway
==========
Their manuals were quite good. But they hit some potholes with the hardware
for _Tron_ and _Spy Hunter_. They also came out with far too many games
that simply weren't any fun to play.
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

This one gave me a google chuckle.

Scott C.

jrok wrote:
> Namco
> =====
>
> Best: System 1 hardware, the pinnacle of 8 bit game engineering. 4 x 6809 CPU's,
> 24bit color, multi-layer scrolling playfields, huge graphics memory, more
> sprites than make sense. No one made anything else close.
>
> Worst: System 1 hardware, WTF are you doing putting THAT MUCH EFFORT into
> an 8bit system where one 68000 could do everything and more.
>
>
> - James
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

>>Atari...made the worst cabinets to resist water.

You need more Gottliebs. They puff when you breathe next to them.

tim (NH)

"Scott Caldwell" <lscottcaldwell RemoveThis @excite.com> wrote in message
news:jmrDg.6477$1f6.6288@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
> The rules of "Best and Worst" are easy.... just name a vendor
> and think of something they did the "best" (compared to the
> rest of the video game industry) and something they did the
> "worst" (again, compared to the rest of the video game industry).
>
> Electrohome
> ===========
> Made the best raster monitors (G07, of course) and made the
> worst vector monitors (G08).
>
> Atari
> =====
> Made the best power supplies (AR/ARII/ARIII) and made the
> worst cabinets to resist water.
>
>
> Come on, everyone play!
>
> Scott C.
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

Maybe the worst business decisions?
Shred wrote:
> Atari:
>
> Best: Best side art out of anybody.
>
> Worst: did they really do much or anything bad.. Maybe to many custom
> parts that are hard to get.
>
> Dave
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

Stern:
Best: Berzerk cool idea for a game and one of the first that
taunted you. Frenzy was pretty good also.
Worst: Stupid board design, what were they thinking putting the
battery on top of the board set so it could leak acid all over the
boardset and destroy them!

Midway:
Best: Timber, Tapper, and several other original ideas for games.
Also the fact you can use the same wiring harness from several
different games (Tapper,Tron,Timber,Kickman) on one of the other games
with just a few wires needing to be rearranged.
Worst: Kickman....What were they thinking? Omega Race board design
--> acid damage! Any game with "Mortal" in the title!

Williams:
Best: Great concepts and games every game except Make Trax!
Worst: Make Trax.

~ Jon

Scott Caldwell wrote:
> The rules of "Best and Worst" are easy.... just name a vendor
> and think of something they did the "best" (compared to the
> rest of the video game industry) and something they did the
> "worst" (again, compared to the rest of the video game industry).
>
> Electrohome
> ===========
> Made the best raster monitors (G07, of course) and made the
> worst vector monitors (G08).
>
> Atari
> =====
> Made the best power supplies (AR/ARII/ARIII) and made the
> worst cabinets to resist water.
>
>
> Come on, everyone play!
>
> Scott C.
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

On 14 Aug 2006 07:23:42 -0700, "Jon Edwards"
<jonedwardssr DeleteThis @charter.net> wrote:

>Williams:
> Best: Great concepts and games every game except Make Trax!
> Worst: Make Trax.
>
> ~ Jon

I'll see your Make Trax and raise you a Mystic Marathon...
Worst Williams game, ever!
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst" 

Tim O wrote:
> On 14 Aug 2006 07:23:42 -0700, "Jon Edwards"
> <jonedwardssr DeleteThis @charter.net> wrote:
>
> >Williams:
> > Best: Great concepts and games every game except Make Trax!
> > Worst: Make Trax.
> >
> > ~ Jon
>
> I'll see your Make Trax and raise you a Mystic Marathon...
> Worst Williams game, ever!

Sorry I never saw or played that game but I will take your word for it.
 >> Stay informed about: Time to play - "Best and Worst"