All my games I have worked on since 1982

[J-Cell]

WOW!! Some great memories there. Thanks Patricia for all the good times

TMNT, T2 & Clayfighter are particular standouts

[GlennX]

Originally Posted by MarkFromBitmenStudios

Hehe, you have no idea what you are asking for. I have been developing games on those platforms in the 80ies too and it was very different from today. Endless lines of Assembler coding. My first game was on a machine where the 8-bit CPU could not even do integer multiplication nor division, you even had to code that one. The CPU had 1MHz (no, not GHz) which is really slow. Don't even think about OpenGL or anything like that, we had to directly program the hardware to even make simple things happen...

I learned to program basic and assembler on 8 bit machines but never got close to releasing anything back then. I was lucky enough to start actually working on games on the amiga where you could just about get away with writing a game mostly in C. I still wrote a hell of a lot of assembler for anything that touched the screen but haven't had to write a line of it since '99. With decent graphics hardware in everything and decent optimising compilers there really is almost no reason to use it at all anymore. Definitely a lost art.