🎲 Who will read what I am typing on the keyboard at the beginning of the video? What do River Raid games at the beginning and at the end have in common? Where does the BASIC program that appears in the video come from? ✒️ Please write many comments! I want to know your opinions! Additionally the more comments, the more RUclips promotes the channel! Thank you!
I’ve gotta try to play River Raid for 8-bit on my Atari VCS 800 the way I used to play it on my Atari 800 - perhaps ironically in “PC Mode” with Batocera. Thanks for reminding me it looks and even plays a good bit better on the 8-bits than the 2600, ‘cause the 2600 version was pretty great - it was foundational in creating Activision, after all! If only we knew, then, what we know, now... While I’m at it, I gotta check out _Pitfall II_ on the VCS 800-if for no other reason than to check out that POKEY soundtrack (one of the first “serious soundtracks for video games,” if I remember right... ). Also, H.E.R.O., even though there’s that modern clone of it _on_ the VCS Store... I played most of my River Raid on the 2600, too, ‘cause I was kinda tired of it (blasphemy, I know... ), by the time I found my 800 copy of the game - ‘cause 800 cartridges (and other software) wasn’t just anywhere. Not even close. Only if you lived in a bigger city that had a Toys ‘R Us, in the early-‘80s US-or went to a decent-sized city of 300K-400K residents-you generally had to *order* software through (very small) mail order stores from the back pages of an Atari-focused or video games magazine - who would *then* place the order with Activision, etc., when you bought it, meaning a couple weeks, at least. You could get a few things from local Atari resellers, if you were lucky, but that was generally Atari(soft) games, only. Toys ‘R Us also always had a random selection of stuff-at least half of which was also for the C64 (which faced the same problems, getting games and etc. for it!) - on the flip side of one or more diskettes... Of course, there was always a lot of disk-based software to be found, if you knew crackers... who cracked the copy-protection and made crazy animated screens (akin to pimped-out MySpace pages) bragging about being the one who’d cracked the copy. Ads in exchange for free games... What will the video game industry think of, next? Thanks, again!
🍾 Thanks a lot for sharing those memories. Yeah Atari XL/XE had better version of games than 2600. Surprisingly, how similar are the memories and experiences even when living so far from each other on other continents. Thank you for visiting my small channel and I hope you will visit it from time to time thus please don't forget about subscription! 😀
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🎲 Who will read what I am typing on the keyboard at the beginning of the video? What do River Raid games at the beginning and at the end have in common? Where does the BASIC program that appears in the video come from? ✒️ Please write many comments! I want to know your opinions! Additionally the more comments, the more RUclips promotes the channel! Thank you!
River raid and Hero are among my favorite games of all time.
River raid was my first computer game I've ever played in my life! ♥♥♥
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I’ve gotta try to play River Raid for 8-bit on my Atari VCS 800 the way I used to play it on my Atari 800 - perhaps ironically in “PC Mode” with Batocera. Thanks for reminding me it looks and even plays a good bit better on the 8-bits than the 2600, ‘cause the 2600 version was pretty great - it was foundational in creating Activision, after all! If only we knew, then, what we know, now...
While I’m at it, I gotta check out _Pitfall II_ on the VCS 800-if for no other reason than to check out that POKEY soundtrack (one of the first “serious soundtracks for video games,” if I remember right... ). Also, H.E.R.O., even though there’s that modern clone of it _on_ the VCS Store...
I played most of my River Raid on the 2600, too, ‘cause I was kinda tired of it (blasphemy, I know... ), by the time I found my 800 copy of the game - ‘cause 800 cartridges (and other software) wasn’t just anywhere. Not even close. Only if you lived in a bigger city that had a Toys ‘R Us, in the early-‘80s US-or went to a decent-sized city of 300K-400K residents-you generally had to *order* software through (very small) mail order stores from the back pages of an Atari-focused or video games magazine - who would *then* place the order with Activision, etc., when you bought it, meaning a couple weeks, at least. You could get a few things from local Atari resellers, if you were lucky, but that was generally Atari(soft) games, only. Toys ‘R Us also always had a random selection of stuff-at least half of which was also for the C64 (which faced the same problems, getting games and etc. for it!) - on the flip side of one or more diskettes...
Of course, there was always a lot of disk-based software to be found, if you knew crackers... who cracked the copy-protection and made crazy animated screens (akin to pimped-out MySpace pages) bragging about being the one who’d cracked the copy. Ads in exchange for free games... What will the video game industry think of, next? Thanks, again!
🍾 Thanks a lot for sharing those memories. Yeah Atari XL/XE had better version of games than 2600. Surprisingly, how similar are the memories and experiences even when living so far from each other on other continents. Thank you for visiting my small channel and I hope you will visit it from time to time thus please don't forget about subscription!
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