After the breakout success of Space Invaders in 1978, Atari was no longer the hot game maker.
  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    3 months ago

    IIRC, Asteroids (and all Atari arcade games that used vector graphics) contained a proprietary vector graphics processor that was given a memory buffer full of drawing commands and would move the beam and draw, freeing the main CPU from having to do so.