Every Atari 2600 U.S. Games / Vidtec Game
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- This video features gameplay footage from all 15 games produced for the Atari 2600 by The Quaker Oats Company on both their U.S. Games and Vidtec labels.
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I really love Entombed for some reason. the randomly generated mazes keep me coming back for more even when i dont get that far
Some of my all time faves!!! Entombed, Name this Game, Sneak n Peak!! Space Jokey , Word zapper!!! These were all great
The biggest pain in the ass with "Entombed" is getting snagged on the corners when trying to maneuver the maze. Otherwise it's not a bad game. As an overall company I'd say that U.S. Games is closer to the top than the bottom as far as quality goes.
Yeah I agree, at least they made an effort to create something original.
@@TheLairdsLair I think I paid something like $2 for the cartridge from a "sale" barrel at a store. To be fair, considering how incredibly limited the system was and how difficult it was to program, I tip my hat to anyone who create any kind of reasonably complex game on it.
I have all but the first game. I hold the World Record on "Space Jockey" Game 1 emulated difficulty B/X (Novice/B) at Lvl Up Score (MarkMSH) AND High Score (Mark) with 453,955 points. It took me hours! On actual hardware my high is 264, 455 points (placing me 2nd) at High Score with the same difficulty. Both runs I got tired of playing and gave up with maximum lives.
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I actually liked hide and seek. You had to mute the TV so your opponent (who left your living room so you could hide) wouldn't figure your room by the song. Hilarious side note: you can actually hide under the couch!😂 The songs (though slughtly annoying and repetitive) were actually good
I played a lot of Commando Raid and Towering Inferno when I was a kid. They were among my favorites and I still play them both.
My little sister was 3 or 4 at the time Sneak 'n' Peek came out. My parents bought it for her and the two of us had a lot of fun playing it together. These days not so much!
Awesome videos on this channel.
I recently purchased Space Jockey as a loose cartridge for $3 at record store that happened to sell video games. I also got Word Zapper complete in the box for only $5! Both work excellently and are fun to play!
Let's not forget Johnson and Johnson made an Atari 2600 game. Tooth Protector. Also, why does Space Jockey's cover look worse than the graphics in the actual game?
We used to say "Space Jock Sweaty balls are guaranteed"..as kids lol
I loved Gopher as a kid, but its premise always seemed to be too violent for me, haha. I didn’t want to bash gophers in the head, Ack! But it’s very well executed with good gameplay and a rich sense of pacing and tension.
The only one I bought back when new was Space Jockey. Not a bad game plus I always liked the colors and graphics on it. Having gotten the rest since I have to say most of them are fairly good.
Some very original lookin games hear actully!
Gopher is really fun
U.S. Games could be found at our local grocery store. They were cheap $, and what we considered "bad" Atari games. Most of these games made me feel sick. They game concepts were knock-off's of games already knocked off several times - or at least it seemed that way.
Fast forward to today; I really like Raft Rider, Entombed, and Towering Inferno. The remaining U.S. Games, minus Space Jockey, are actually well made and quite fun! In 1983/84, in context with the time, they seemed awful.
Yeah, I think they are mostly good games actually, especially when compared to the likes of Apollo, Data Age and Mythicon who are also lumped in that same category. I am particularly fond of Commando Raid personally.
@@TheLairdsLair Commando Raid could've been really good, had the collision detection been better. It's too difficult to shoot the Paratrooper's. Also, I wish the paddle controller was utilized instead of the joystick. The game graphics are quite nice!
I wonder if they did buy back any games
If I remember reading about U.S. Games it was a subsidiaries of The Quaker Oats Company. Wow any company made games. I even remember The Kool Aid Man game and Chase The Chuck Wagon one too. Drugs were definitely,running rampant during this era.
I have about four or five US Games for my Atari 2600 VCS and I still regularly play about two or three of them. The US Games video games are not either the best or the worst ever made, but they did sort of range in both directions in their quality of play mechanics.
They certainly had some interesting ideas and more originality than most, even if it didn't always work out as a great game design.
@@TheLairdsLair That is so very true!
Pretty weird....I don't think we saw any of those games in the UK.
U.S. Games' titles were released by Carrere Video in Europe, but are pretty obscure - I have a couple.
Good stuff, K. They made some good 2600 games!
Picnic is an amazing game
Outside of space jockey I was never that crazy about US Games
I don't think I ever seen these in Canada. Never released apart from USA?
Yeah they were, released on the Carrere Video label in some regions.
What's the deal with that "name this game"? It can't have been marketed like that, could it?
It was an actual competition to name the game with a big prize. It was called Octopus in Europe, so perhaps that was the winning name!
@@TheLairdsLair Wow, they really needed the public's input to come up with a name like that? lol.
@@surnis9043 Good one 😂!
I grew up with the 2600 . And these are mostly just pre-video game crash which was when I was getting a weekly allowance for chores and had some birthday/Christmas money that I was decent at not blowing ( I noticed the sale tags on many) oddly I think I ever only saw Space Jockey ( good) Towering Inferno ( good, in a way) and Word Blaster ( a complete dud: atari 2600 sucked for anything remotely educational! I never saw the other titles, that I can remember.
Space Jockey was programmed by Garry Kitchen, who also did the 2600 port of Donkey Kong and was a key figure at Activision.
@@TheLairdsLair Garry Kitchen is a genius Atari programmer - his brothers are also! He's mentioned many times, during interviews, that Space Jockey isn't anything to write home about (my words).
@@d.vaughn8990 too bad the donkey Kong port was something to write home about . I had that POS like every other kid but not space jockey