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XAYAX - Bang! (ATARI VCS 2600 demo)

MEGA - Museum of Electronic Games & Art · demo · Watch on YouTube

Demoscene & retrocomputing

What it is

Bang! is an Atari 2600 demo by XAYAX that won first place at the Revision 2014 oldschool demo competition. It fits into a 32k ROM using F8SC bankswitching.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Commenters hold it up as proof that 2600 programming is alive in the demoscene and as one of the most impressive demos ever made on the hardware.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “2600 programming is alive in the demo scene. This was just created in 2014 and is completely insane”

    Astonishing 2600 demo made in 2014

    apaprocki, 2014-10 · Strong recommendation · in “Dirty Assembly Tricks in NES Assembly (2013)”

  2. “this is one of the most impressive demos I've ever seen”

    One of the most impressive demos, beyond baseline 2600 games

    unimpressive, 2016-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Jailbreak firmware turns cheap digital walkie-talkie into DMR scanning receiver”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: atari 2600, demoscene, retro hardware, bankswitching, revision 2014

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