Is Frostbite small by Atari terms? How big is a normal 2600 game?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 5 October 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
Early games on 2k carts but most were on 4k carts unless there was some expensive bank switching going on
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 07:41 (three years ago) link
Chaos was such a great game :)
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 08:08 (three years ago) link
Chaos does look cool!
I guess most 2600 games are comparable size-wise but Frostbite surprised me how responsive the game mechanics were -- most 2600 games feel really sluggish.
Any suggestions for the 8bit/16bit era?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 9 October 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
1K ZX Chess for the ZX81.
1K ZX Chess's code takes up only 672 bytes in memory
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 9 October 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
I sorted all my NES emulations by size, and I think this is the coolest one near the bottom:
https://dustmop.itch.io/the-witnes
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 9 October 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Rhino Hero.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 9 October 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
But that’s a physical box, not megabytes.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 9 October 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
tetris gameboy is def my vote
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 10 October 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-_xK8GhMiQ
This little scorched earth type beauty was something me and friends battered the hell out of. I can't confirm the size, but judging by the few sprites and simple gameplay it ain't that big. But tons of fun.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Saturday, 10 October 2020 08:23 (three years ago) link
Commodore Amiga btw
Snake II for the Nokia 6310i (with a generous 30kb for OS and everything else) deserves a mention just for being so addictive
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Saturday, 10 October 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
this is only 96k! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBG-sKFaB0
― thomasintrouble, Saturday, 10 October 2020 11:51 (three years ago) link
xp yep big fan of tanx. "oooooh now he can't be too happy with that one!"
― neith moon (ledge), Saturday, 10 October 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
Not as small as some of these, but Cool Edit 96
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 10 October 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
I like this entry in this 13K js game competitionhttps://js13kgames.com/games/choch/index.html
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WanWeeklyBee-small.gif
I wonder what's the smallest game in the current era that was pressed onto physical media.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
apparently sekiro was notably small in filesize, but no idea what would actually be the smallest
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
there's often limited edition physical media runs of small indie games so Kero Blaster at 20mb is very likely the winner on PS4 https://limitedrungames.com/products/limited-run-130-kero-blaster-ps4
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link