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Into the Vertical Blank is a great way to start the New Year.

The Donkey Kong you want on the 7800 is Donkey Kong PK. Absolute perfection: ruclips.net/video/FVksiALE6e0/видео.html

Thx for this informative introduction 👍

As a youngster, I spent many many hours playing this on my 1040.

Just recently learned about the existence of this game and am going to have to give it a try on my GSP. Seems highly ambitious for the 2600 and even more intriguing to me as someone with an irrational obsession with Dallas-based Atari game developer Apollo, Inc (Ed Salvo being an Apollo guy before developing Mountain King).

Lol! Dungeon Master does hold up even today. Gameplay was fun, exploratory and complex. That said, AI content, feeding new AI content = endlessly repeating "Best of XX system" videos all recommending the exact same games over and over and over again.

Congrats, I totally agree with the A.I. Dungeon Master is my personal favorite n°1 ST game. Happy Christmas !!!

Merry Christmas 🎅 Ho Ho

Epic tale, perfect watch for Christmas Eve, loved it thank you guys

Dungeon Master is the correct answer.

A brilliant and heartfelt tribute, not only to our beloved Atari but also to your parents. Funny how your experiences resembled my own and I’ll bet so many other’s too. Thanks for the memories. I sent a link to this to my best friend and we’ll both have a great time reminiscing. Happy Holidays and thanks again! Stay Atari!

Is part 4 in the making?

That's a great account of your childhood and that Xmas. Very interesting!! I was a little older, in '81 I bought a TRS-80 Color Computer with 4k RAM and a cassette deck. I was 18 y/o.

CompeNNNNNNNNNNNdium.

Northstar looks like it was ported directly from the CPC version into a high rez screen with better scrolling.

Nice one Jeff. This makes it very easy to get started.

Awesome and touching!

I think you and i are pretty close to contemporaries (bornin '70 myself). I don't understand why and how fun technology so eluded you. When i was 4 or 5 i lived, dirt poor, with my mom, but I got to see first gen pong clones, and those electric racecar toys when at other people's houses. Soon after, my life got very atypical, but I can't understand how or why it was so difficult to be at friends houses with moms and dads who weren't failed actors. I like, and just subscribed to your channel, but i gotta say...i don't get it!

On Christmas Eve "shopping" for Atari computer equipment, your dad demonstrated his acting chops, after all. Some stars shine bright or go nova, others are but a twinkle. They're all special.

This was awesome! kind of like a "Christmas Story" for Atari kids. thanks, for sharing... with all the craziness, stress and anxiety in the world today, your video brought me back, even for just an hour, to a much better time.

Remarkable! There is so much in this 8-Bit journey; I am overwhelmed. I had never the movie Westworld but I was intrigued seeing the poster on this channel, so I watched it this year. It was definitely lacking, especially in 2024, but I felt I needed to experience the movie. I will be watching this episode next Christmas as well.

My copy of Vanguard arrived today. It's a fun game.

Thank you, soooo much for caring and sharing!!! For I too, can relate in soooo many ways with my father (racing dirt bikes / doing brake jobs / and anything to save a buck or two / not to mention his infinity for collecting Case Knives and such) plus growing up in the same era. I was constantly threatened with the "skid row" theme of life and as it turns out, I am a very successful gamer/software developer/mucho money maker, and do not live in my mother's basement. And yes, I'm married with my awesome love of my life, who supports my crazy collection of video-games!!! Once again, thank you!!!

Thx for the video. We had very similar lives. My dad bought me my Atari 400 in '79. I worked on CRT's in electronics class in HS. My dream came true after that by joining USAF and working on the (then) new F-15E airplane. Really enjoyed you sharing that part of your life. 👍. Merry Xmas

So loved this!! Great way to frame and tell this story, and had me thinking of my own "origin story".... my guess is that everyone that watches this will be doing the same. Thank you for sharing.

great video, loved the story of how you two got your Atari 800, and how you never gave up on the dream. I myself bought a 400 in 1983 , two months before christmas, was brought to my house as a fun time to check it out . Once I played Star Raiders I knew I had to own this machine, I lucked out and the guy that owned it was looking to sell,. 400 dollars later, I owned a 400 ,tape drive, Star Raiders and Space Invaders. I later upgraded to 48 K ,a 1050 disk drive and the Action Programming cart, and created a game I named Midas Maze for analog magazine. issue 52. . I now program using the Godot Game engine. if not the for chance meeting with my 400 I would have never learned to program. so....thank you Atari, thank you Star Raiders, and thank you guys for this wonderful story, filled me with the same feeling I got back in 1983.,

What is your firmware version! My cartridge of donkey Kong 7800 has bottom garbled on screen.

I"m sorry, but Street Fighter 2 had no business being released for the ST... In a way it"s almost impressive that they squeezed a game that looks like SF2 onto the ST but it plays nothing like it. IK+, Barbarian and Panzer are all great though.

This rocks !

I used to play that game when I was a kid I play hours and hours on it never finished it by Joy playing it

Thanks for this, I started listening yesterday and am almost done. Like most Atari fans of the early 1980s, I learned of Swordquest from a Fall 1982 issue of Atari Age. I can't say I was too interested; the concept of a contest didn't really interest me and especially so after seeing screenshots of SwordQuest. I can't say I played any of the games back then, and when I try them today I have no clue what I'm doing. I knew there was issues with the prizes but had no idea that YEARS passed while people were waiting to hear from Atari on their submissions. Fascinating story.

I've lost count of how many times I've played IK+ Such a good game, especially with friends

had seconds out on my st back in the day. great nostalgia.

What’s with the heavy breathing lol

Street fighter 2. I wanted to play it on the falcon but no matter what I did it wouldn't work. I was very disappointed. Then it was patched by D-Bug, I was then undisappointed because it was a slow jerky mess. Still, back in the 90s? I might have played it a lot or I might have been terribly disappointed. I played Shinobi a lot and that was a slow jerky mess as well. Just not as much. I don't agree with the criticism on the graphics. They did excellent work in redrawing the graphics with the ST's limitations. Ultimate Arena: I always thought it was too easy in a sense. At the time I got a hold of it my brother already had a megadrive and/or playstation, so yeah, no comparison to mortal kombat. Still with the resources they had available, awesome work. At least it's better than Kasumi Ninja (but Aazhom Crypt on the falcon is better than that as well, so a very low bar).

This very first proper one-on-one fighting game is actually credited to the Cinematronics vector arcade game Warrior, which you never hear people mention. Instead they usually reference Karate Champ by Data East (not Tecmo!) or Yie Ar Kung Fu by Konami, which is very much the originator of the modern fighter as it featured things like different characters, varied fighting landscapes and special moves that included projectile attacks. I still maintain that IK+ is the best fighting game on the ST, it has everything. Panza Kickboxing is very impressive however, but takes a long time to master. No Exit is a horrendous game, I really slagged it off in Retro Gamer some years ago. Pit-Fighter is such a brave port with an amazing intro and some impressive scaling effects, but it plays far too slow. Still the Matt Furniss music is one of the very best tunes on the ST. Street Fighter II is about as good as it could be, it was by U.S. Gold though, not Ocean as you said in the video. I noticed you included a boxing game too, not the one I expected to see though, I thought you might include the ST port of Taito's Final Blow AKA James Buster Douglas Boxing on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. You could have also included Barbarian II, Human Killing Machine (although that is pretty awful), Street Fighter 1 (again pretty crap), Bangkok Knights, Karate King, Thai Boxing and best of all Thalion's superb Chambers of Shaolin, which rivals IK+ as the ST's best fighting game and is by far the biggest miss from this video! You should definitely do a follow-up with all of these and Final Blow, you could probably include wrestling games too like Ocean's WWF games or Epyx's excellent Championship Wrestling.

Ah, Barbarian ❤ The head plop plop plopping and the mini troll(?) kicking it while retrieving the fallen 😅 One of my favorites!

Couple of corrections, Pitfighter is an Atari Games arcade not Midway - although they later acquired Atari Games I believe, and it was US Gold who messed up Streetfighter 2, not Ocean, who might have done a better job. Personally I would take the original IK over most of the games here. I can't believe you missed off the Human Killing Machine... surely that is the greatest fighter ever.... or not. Pitfighter runs at higher framerates in 2p mode, as it appears it is the AI which is causing a lot of the slow down. I remember a two player demo on a One coverdisk that ran at twice the framerate, making it much more playable.

Ultimate Arena for me, but I might be alone in that one....? You're right, I need to work harder on AtariCrypt :o

I fondly recall trips to the arcade, playing classic games like Slap Fight and Flying Shark. Inspired by these experiences, I incorporated elements into my own game, Foundations Waste. I even added a cheat code to the Atari ST version, though the details have slipped my mind. To test the game, I loaded it onto an ST at a computer store and observed young players. Despite receiving feedback about the ship's size, I decided to keep it as is. Erroll Elliston

I remember the advertising for the Sword Quest series but never got any games back in the day. Glad to see the mainstream taking a look into this.

I thought it was 2 ships interconnected??

Back in the day I played and loved time bandit. It would be great if you could do another essentials episode on Tanglewood, another Michtron/Microdeal game on the sales list featured in this video.

What that😮

1 BASIC to everone !

I had an ST in Spring 1986, nice computer but not really worthy of the Atari logo for arcade games so until my PAL Amiga 1000 arrived in 87 I played more C64 games than ST games. Luckily Time Bandit was quite well coded, so even though the graphics are a bit tiny they look kinda cool and the 8 way scrolling is pretty good for the time.

Some people have told us that you CAN save the game while playing but we can't find any mention of this in the ST instructions. Is this a PC or Amiga feature =)

You keep criticizing it for not having a save... you can save! It has 6 save slots, if you go to the signpost in the middle of the map.

Hey! Please visit my RUclips channel with Atari 8-bit games. Regards :)

What is going on here? Why does this appear to be loading from an emulator?