This site is intended to allow science fiction fans to get an impression of the true scale of their favorite science fiction spacecraft by being able to compare ships across genres, as well as being able to compare them with contemporary objects with which they are probably familiar. The scales are based on meter-to-pixel ratios so that they are accurate on any platform.

The spacecraft are presented in a variety of different scales on a massive piece of virtual graph paper. If you’re using Internet Explorer, you can even pick up the ships and move them around. Finally, you can back up that “The Enterprise D would totally kill the SDF-1!” claim with hard-hitting information graphics! You would still be wrong, even with Transwarp, but at least your argument would have some surface credibility :-)

I never had a 2600 myself, unfortunately, so it didn’t have quite the nostalgic shock value that I should have enjoyed. I’m an Apple II guy, and got into consoles pretty late in life.

Anyway, having never played Adventure before, I got down to figuring out that the dot was you, and that there was a magnet and key somehow involved. I must admit I quickly grew bored, as kids are wont to be these days.

On a tangential note, I was reminded me of what programmers back then went through to draw a dot on the screen (hint: there was no bitmapped graphics support). And check out these sad, sad hardware specs:

CPU: 6507 RAM: 128 Bytes, in VLSI ROM: 6K max Cpu Clock: 1.19 MHz Graphics Clock: 3.58 MHz Slot Config: Rom access only CPU Avail: less than 50%

The original programming guide is online. There are modern tools available, and a thriving community continues to push out titles. Awesome.

I’d kind of like to play Intellivision StarStrike again…will have to look into that.