MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: DU: The Atari Collection 2

>Am I the only guy who found Digital Eclipse's emulated stuff kinda... bad, back in the day?
>Even before MAME, they just felt shoddy and halfassed. Nowadays they're much better, but
>back then...

Their Williams classics CD was actually well done imo and was a much better quality product compared to their Atari classics and Midway classics releases. The Williams games CD had a finished completed feel with cab models being presented in some pseudo well done arcade room setting. It's too bad that same effort was not put into the Atari and Midway releases.

Digital Eclipse somewhat knew their ideal niche customer market for the Atari and Midway CDs was really limited towards the 25 to 40 age range customers and they had to rush a product out ASAP before opportunity slipped by. They probably got their moneys worth in what little time they had to get some quickly made products out the door.

Haze's specific blog entry

https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2018/01/15/the-alternative-to-emulation/

does a great job explaining why companies, whether be Radica or Digital Eclipse, were considered to have made decent products that casual users (not hardcore emulation fans) could enjoy replaying favorite arcade game when some of the retro arcade game product were marketed from mid 1990s to early 2005 years.

Some of the companies knew the time frame for making money from the specific customer target was very limited for games that were made from late 1970s through 1980s era.