Pac-Man (Atari 5200) (How To Beat Home Video Games 3)
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Taken from the video: How To Beat Home Video Games - Vol. 3 Arcade Quality for The Home (Vestron, 1982)
The Atari 5200 is a first class game machine. Well designed, powerful memory, high resolution graphix, built-in sound synthesizer, combination joystick, paddle, 4 fire buttons, and 12 character keypad all in the palm of your hand. What more could a gamer want!!! Exceot maybe... Pac-Man 
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I used to have an Atari 5200 and the thing about Pac-Man is once you reach the 5th key and eat an energizer the ghosts turn blue and stay blue until you eat them or clear board. So you can just start board, eat energizer and clear the board everytime with no worries about the ghosts. It makes the game super easy.
Wow
This was the first video I ever watched on RUclips in 2007.
Holy fuck. I’m old.
The 5200 is underrated. When it's fully functional, of course.
My friend had this next door and we would play this after school. I remember how cool star raiders looked on this and pac man looked as close to the original as i've seen on a console. MAME is the best thing ever now to play all these golden age games.
"What more could a gamer want?"
A controller that doesn't fucking break.
Hey, that's why you buy a Wico Command Control or build an adapter! I've done both, and they're both excellent alternatives.
This is the same version thats on the Atari 400, its such a good game to play as long as you have a Genesis controller
this video was very entertaining. I just loved the narrator. He was dead serious about what he said because it was 20 years ago, but little did he know how much video games would evolve til our time. What more could a gamer want indeed...
i watched this video when i was about 10 years old, im 22 gonna be 23 this year, thats so crazy!! pac man on the 5200 is a decent port!
no, it's just old as fuck. it was a brilliant console. in fact, i have one, and i'm 19. still good stuff.
At the time, it was fantastic.
and still is.
I still got MY 5200.
5200 Pac-man is essentially identical to the 400/800 version, but with added cut-scenes. In fact, the cut-scene version was later ported back to the 400/800.
Hardly surprising- the 5200 is internally almost identical to the 400/800. But for some stupid (and probably deliberate) reason, Atari moved enough of the register/memory locations around (and changed the cart socket) that software wasn't directly compatible.
What more could a gamer want?! How about a joystick that actually F*CKING SELF CENTERS ITSELF?!?!?!
Nah, that would be pushing it a little too far don't you think? :-D
DoReMiForever Unbelievable...
DrEggnikPlaysMinecraft It's Probably modded or refurbished or he's joking.
+TheGuyWithTheBratzDollz Barely.
The 5200 was based on the 400/800 computers, so it was very definitely capable of better graphics and sound than the 2600.
Wow, what a night and day differecne from the 2600 version.
The 5200 had great specs for the time it was a cut down Atari 8bit computer but it had horrible controllers that were prone to breakage.
i think FOR THAT TIME it was high resolution graphics! This video footage looks like it was taken from the 80s!
It was
This video is 17 years old and I still come back to it, and the rest of the series, quite regularly. I still find it amusing that, when describing the second cutscene, he says that an invisible foot steps on the ghost and hold him in place, when it is clear that his "ghost robe" got stuck on a piece of gum on the floor.
I am liking this as many times as i would feel like. I am a RETRO FANATIC!! 👾👾
This looks like a pretty good port of Pac-Man.
Cuz it is....
I've been looking for that walkthrough for 23 years.
Your wait is over my friend
Tell the truth. "We skipped over board 4" because you died twice on it.
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first home video game console.
I remember it was the first console to allow for game pause :P
I remember going to my canadian friend's house, he let me play his pacman, then proceeds to pull out milk crates full of playboy, hustler and other xxx magazines asking me to check out the woman in them.
I remember I wasnt interested in them, he got mad and told me to turn off the game to look at 21+ yr old women of varying builds and hair
what an eye opener for a 14 yr old :P
Great story
They told me that 5200 didn't look hardly any better than the 2600. Well, this looks AMAZINGLY better than the 2600. Sounds amazingly like the actual game as well.
Always funny to see how awesome people thought those consoles were technologically :) The controller is pretty cool though.
This is pure brilliance! I don't know if it's intended to be funny, but It's halarious! I'm in tears of laughter right now... *goes to watch more*
me and my cousin(RIP Vorry) used to create our own patterns but on the arcade consoles. Wow. I had the 5200 back in 86. Sniff sniff.
Green?! Inky is cyan. CYAN!!!!!!
This has good graphics for the time. IF ONLY THE CONTROLLER WOULD WORK!
This was the same version used on the Atari computer cartriges as well
@Cobrasaturn360 Except for the bugs the 5200 had ofcourse, but it was a first class gaming system
This game is fast and sounds great !
@razorslice17 But if it weren't for the 2600, then we wouldn't have the great gaming industry we have today.
Fortunately, all the Atari 5200 games were ripped to disk on the Atari 8-bit computers, so we didn't miss out on any of the games. The system had a very solid library; the only problem, naturally, were those analog controllers.
look that little tv atari on a gameboy sized screen
God if only I had that SWEET TV he's got :/
I love how he even gives advice on how to watch the "cartoon show". ;P
That Aunt B hair of his...such a stud.
I bet he was tearing it up in the 80's....
I was one of the lucky few that never had any problems with the Controllers and loved them , to me the controllers worked for all the games I had and one my all time Favs for the Atari 5200 was H.E.R.O , man I love that game .....lol .....
oh my god, the graphics are too much for me, soooooo real. I thought the ghosts where gonna jump right out at me! wow!
the controllers for 5200 were very prone to malfunction, though.
Haha omg lol! I want this high resolution console with that awsome control and cool games xD
I had the first home system, pong, then got a 2600. I then got a Colecovision....it lasted about 1 day past the warranty and died.......
It did, but that really had more to do with the video game crash of 83/84 than the console itself. The 5200 was pretty decent for the time it came out. The controller was a bit over-complicated and tended to break, but that was about the only real problem with the system itself. It was also criticized for not being backwards-compatible, while other non-Atari systems released adapters to play 2600 games. It could have been a success if it was handled better and came out earlier or later.
this game looks amazing! graphic looks way better than any games today on ps2 or x360!
I remember I wanted this on the Intellivision so bad I had trouble sleeping some nights. I also wanted a version that I could use the apple pattern on.
All I had was the 2600 version that a friend gave to me. It sucked so bad that it was given to me a few hours after it was released and the friend no longer wanted it.
Nice!
Hoques, the Colecovision came out -after- the 5200, so who ripped off who?
5200>Colecovision (in theory)
@sygo7g You bet! There was a certain magic about going to the mall with a fresh pocket of quarters and a rainy afternoon. I hat to say it, but some of my best moments was skipping CCD class and heading over to the local penny candy store to buy candy & play Jungle Hunt!
Loved Jungle Hunt
His pattern on the first board is setting you up to fail. "you need a tricky maneuver to escape the pink and red ones."
I still have mine, and yes, the controller doesnt work very well, I still dont know what the number pad is for...
Back in the 80's, if you had a systems that played arcade games like the coin-op versions, you were "king of the road" on your block. The object of home consoles back then was to have a home version of games you'd want to play at a local arcade. Video games are so different now, and arcades like those in the 80's generation hardly exist anymore.
lol. Gotta love the 5200 detractors, probably just now playing on daddy's GameCube.
awesome now all I need is a controller that works
Thanks! this helped me a lot on my plug it in and play
Love this analogic sounds :)
Oooo...MAME cabinet! Sweet! I just use an X-Arcade Dual Tank Stick w/trackball for MAME & my PC is hooked up to a 37" LCD TV. But um, yea. Atari800Win+ has netplay, along with 7-8 other retro gaming emulators. I can tell you all you need to get start & it's not very hard. I've done a bit of MAME & NES online, but as for, Atari 2600, 5200/PC & Intellivision, only 1 time each. Online retro gaming is really fun though. So if you're interested, let's stay in touch & try to set something up.
What more could a gamer want?
How about a controller that doesn't break after only 30 minutes of game play.
"Stop and assess your situation just before eating your last power pill"
You sound like my kind of people. I didn't even know about online play with that emulator, but I'm in the process of building a MAME cabinet in my basement.
actually it's the best selling game just because it comes bundled
My 5200's controls worked ok until the fire buttons stopped working and I never figured out what the keypad was for.
oh memories, the 1st pacman I played when little child
And made in America!
The 5200 was so cool at the time. Pity it didn't sell well at the time...
Now the Atari 7800... hubba hubba!
If I recall correctly, the 5200 version of Pac-Man was featured in an episode of "Knight Rider".
Who's watching in 2017 my dudes
Excellent, so much better than the 2600 version ! This time it's much like the arcade, except sounds and graphics are a very little different due to the limits of the A5200.
This is a classic in itself aside from the arcade.
If the 2600 sucks so bad, why did the system outsell, and outlast 5200, and 7800?? Better look at the facts before you say something sucks.
Dad1972hthorn yes, 2600 Pac Man sucks but there were a lot of good games on 2600. It did outsell both 5200 and 7800 by a lot and was discontinued at the same time as the 7800 which launched NINE YEARS later. As for Pac Man like games, Ms Pac-Man on the 2600 was pretty good.
July 17, 2019 7:21 pm
I wonder how many times they had to replace the 5200 controllers while making this tape?
True, they were. IIRC, the programmer for 2600 Pac-Man, Tod Frye, wanted to put the game on an 8 KB cartridge. Atari insisted he only work with 4 KB, so he had to make a lot of changes in order for Pac-Man to fit.
@MrJoshbumstead is that the key level?
I dunno... I don't think they released Countermeasure on the 2600! And the ColecoVision is overloaded with ports too. They were arcade ports, but ports nevertheless.
ApolloBoy; yeah, but although the 5200 came out in 1982, it was based on the 400/800 computer family which came out in 1979.
I STILL HAVE THIS GAME
@lustyhitter Yea it is & that's what I do too (clear maze). Aren't emulators awesome? I have emulators for nearly every classic/vintage consoles/PC ever made, & practically every game/ROM for them all. (over 60,000 total). Many emulators have Kaillera Client support, for free netplay/online gaming. Online I've played MAME, Commodore 64, NES & Intellivision, but I can't find anybody to play Atari 5200 (or 400/800). What emulator do you have? Atari800Win+? Wanna try playing online sometime?
"What more could a gamer want?"
A system smaller than the 5200
According to Wikipedia, the Colecovision was released in the USA in August 1982. The Atari 5200 was released in the USA November 1982. Besides, back then all companies ripped each other off. Even TV shows in the 80's..Webster was a rip-off of Different Strokes, Airwolf tried to be cool like the Original Kight Rider, etc.
A couple days ago my mom's client (she's a hair dresser) is like "You should get the kids an Atari" Hello it's 2009! lol
didn't the controller suck and not work at all or did AVGN just have that problem
Hey, at least we had TRANSLATOR XL to fix that. :D (Of course, the real elite had a rom toggle switch on the back of their 130XEs)
I wish there was an easy way to do the reverse and run XE games on the 5200. I've got an Atari 400, but it's like the Yugo of Atari computers... :P
That looks like the Atari 400 version but with the intermissions I have the Intellivision and Atari 400 version and in some ways Intellivision is better because it has the Intermissions but the Maze is truncated and you slow down taking corners to escape the ghosts which is the opposite of the Arcade and 400 version because taking corners is how you out run the ghosts temporarily.
That is supposed to be a nail that snags the Ghost's sheet
Does he get Naked in Intermission 3 like in the arcade
he was lucky that his controller didn't broke while playing :).
is this guy still alive? I wonder what he would have been like showing everyone how to beat mario or zelda games (with the exception of course of Donkey Kong)!
@razorslice17
FYI if it wasn't for the 2600 the NES, Genesis, SNES, Xbox, Playstation, Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 would never have existed, the 2600 didn't cause the VGI Crash, it was people creating pirated 2600s, System Changers, and baddly made 3rd Party games after Activision got the green light to make 3rd Party games for the 2600
The controllers were much better than the ones for the 2600 system...especially with multiple firing buttons. Not to mention, the term "backward compatible" wasn't even heard of back in the late 70's/early 80's. The 5200 systems games were supposed to be better than the 2600 games, and for the most part, they were. Other systems that were out included the Matell Intellivision, and soon, the ColecoVision. Intellivision competed against the 2600, while the ColecoVision was up against the 5200.
3636jae is right. The 2600 came out in 1977, the 5200 came out in 1982.
Oh man, imagine if the 2600 port was like that, just think how different the gaming industry would be today.
"Now you see that Pac-Man will always triumph... because monsters are dumb."
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!! CUT SCENES!!!!!!
- @ WobDawg509 -
Probably because they were going to go onto a review of that game and good moves to score points.
What more could a gamer want? Well, a console that fucking works!!
Is that person Scott Pilgrim?
The 5200 would have been a first class game machine if it had controllers that worked, and a game library that didn't consist of just re-released 2600 games
I never owned one but I know for one the controller didn't need all those key buttons making look more like a cell phone. Those the joy stick was innovative at the time.
So true. That game is nothing like the 2600 version, this version is a million times better. I think the 5200 had too many 2600 game remakes, but this one was definitely worth it even if you had the 2600 one.
amazing
Dude, I just bought mine from Wal-Mart for only $12.99!
My favorite section has to be Chapter 6.9 - "How to master Pac-Man while engaging in oral sex."
The part in chapter 12 about how to play around the huge green booger you accidentally sneezed onto the screen during the 4th intermission is pretty good too.
@sportygrrrrrrl11998
The controller isn't that bad. I have two that work and they work well as far as control is concerned. The button contacts were weak, but they can be easily fixed today with a rebuild kit or you can glue some tinfoil dots over the graphite ones inside the stick yourself.