XAYAX - Bang! (ATARI VCS 2600 demo)

MEGA - Museum of Electronic Games & Art
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Bang! by XAYAX is a demoscene production for the Atari VCS 2600, a machine with extremely little memory and graphics hardware. It was shown by the Museum of Electronic Games & Art and made in 2014.

HN calls it one of the most impressive demos ever, and uses it as proof that the 2600 scene is alive and that modern hardware is wildly overpowered by comparison.

“this is one of the most impressive demos I've ever seen”
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#atari2600#demoscene#retrographics#constraints#xayax

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@unimpressive2016 · in “Jailbreak firmware turns cheap digital walkie-talkie into DMR scanning receiver”
On that note, this is one of the most impressive demos I've ever seen: ▶ this video (When you're familiar with what a baseline atari 2600 game looks like, this is just beyond the pale.)
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@apaprocki2014 · in “Dirty Assembly Tricks in NES Assembly (2013)”
2600 programming is alive in the demo scene. This was just created in 2014 and is completely insane: ▶ this video
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@bitwize2021 · in “Inventing the Atari 2600 (1983)”
The 2600 even has a thriving demoscene, with prods like this: ▶ this video
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@basementcat2019 · in “8bit Workshop”
After seeing demos like Bang!/XayaX [1] and Chiphead/Altair [2], it is pretty clear that the hardware that I work on is ridiculously overpowered. [1] ▶ this video [2] link
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