With them complaining about the graphics, please remember: the system has 128 bytes of RAM. Not gigabytes, not megabytes, not even *kilobytes.* Just 128 *bytes.* The fact there are any graphics at all is a miraculous feat of software engineering 😂
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I miss playing my old Atari. Talk about nostalgic. Loved these games as a kid growing up in the 80s. Still play video games but Atari and these games will always hold a special place in my heart.
Missed so many of the more epic games. Ex: Frogger, SeaQuest, Donkey Kong, River Raid, Enduro, Joust, Pac-man, Q*bert, Asteroids, Centipede, the E.T. one, Dig Dug..... Those are the ones we played most. For those who played those, which was your favorite game? I was champ at SeaQuest
Yeah, that would be a fun episode! 15 seconds per game, so with 3 pairs, each gets 5 seconds to play. If a single player game then 2.5 seconds per game for each individual.
I awoke one night back in the day to go to the washroom. I heard the furious rattling of light plastic in bursts, so i peeked out into the living room on the way to the bathroom. Turns out my father had been watching us play "Decathlon" all evening and was going ham on the controller. The very next morning, I noticed a disc of flesh had blistered up and torn off of the palm of his hand. Is asked him about it but he immediately and gruffly dismissed it.😅
Pitfall was hard game. When it came out, there was an offer where if you scored a certain amount of points, and you took a picture of the screen and sent it to Activision, they would send you a Pitfall patch to iron onto your shirt. I got the required amount of points one morning and woke up my poor dad so he could take a picture. I think I still have the patch somewhere.
9:36 I cannot believe that no one figured out that you need to take them out on one side so they have to travel farther in order to go down a level. Seem like the very basics to me but of course I did waste many MANY hours of my childhood on this game. Clear from the sides as well and the bottom!!
Beat me to it!! It was nowhere near as good.. Resolution for one and the fact it has the Taito corp at the bottom.. I had the 2600 version when I was young and the aliens were massive lol
The appearance of the arcade-style Space Invaders over the actual Atari version leads me to assume they're playing one of the 'Atari Flashback' consoles, which might also explain some of the control lag/jank issues they seem to be having.
Fun fact the first versions of Space invaders were not programed to make the aliens speed up as the game progressed. The starting field of enemies was so massive it overloaded the processor slowing the game down. As you thinned the numbers it could run faster due to having less to track. Later releases on more powerful systems added code to cause the speed change because it was a popular feature.
Almost. The game always only moves one invader per frame, which is indeed because the hardware can't move all of them at once. As a result, the final invader can move 55 times faster than when a level starts. Faithful ports just needed to stick to the one-at-a-time logic rather than deliberately change the speed. The version they play here doesn't seem very authentic though! It's neither the Atari 2600 version or the arcade game, although it does seem pretty close to the arcade game.
They couldn't figure out Space Invaders? They would have cried if they tried Missile Command. The key to Breakout is to cut a path to the top row so the ball bounces around and knocks out the blocks.
I remember playing Pong back in 1972 on an arcade machine. I was 8 at the time. I am now 60 and still playing games. I had my first consol in 1978, which was called Grandstand. I always dreamed of having the Atari, as it was so cool at the time. The best games ever, in my opinion, are modern games which have great stories to them. Open World rocks my world too. However, I play all sorts of stuff. My Steam library has 1690 games. :O
Pong was a game console with controllers connected with long cords to the console before the Atari console came out. We got them both as they came out in the mid to late 70’s. We loved them! I can remember my friends and us getting cramps in our palms and fingers. We called it Atari Hand 😁
I see none of them figured out the REAL pro-strat for Space Invaders: Because the alien fleet moves down a row when its outermost units hit the edge of the screen, eliminating the outermost columns first (decreasing the width of the fleet as a whole) increases how far the ships must travel before moving down a row, and thus slows their advance.
From what I remember there were two strategies, eliminate the side rows and the bottom rows. One of them figured out the second strategy, and it did quite well. You have to play a lot more to get into the mechanisms.
The space invaders shown was not the 1980s Atari 2600 version. It looked like an emulation of the arcade version. The aliens on the Atari home console version were all the same colour and not as detailed and the sounds were totally different. I must have played it thousands of times back in the day.
The atari came out the year o was born. Its 47 yrs old. My mom still has the original 1977 atari system, all the controllers and almost all.the games for it still. As kids we loved it but weren't allowed to play it all the time. It was something we were allowed to play and a reward. You have to be older to appreciate the atari games. You should do this again with the other generations. Gen x would crush the games.
We had to figure out these games ourselves with little to no instruction My favorites growing up were Kaboom! , Yars’Revenge, Donkey Kong Jr. M Series Baseball, Boxing, Space Invaders, Atlantis and Cosmic Ark
I remember being a librarian a few years ago and hooking up my Atari 2600 to the TV in the teen space. I had a few games that they liked and it was unanimous that the E.T. hame was the worst.
We had the Intellivison. I think my brother still has it. The controllers were strange with the disc but the graphics were a step up from Atari (not too much).
There was a game that came out called "FROGGER" which was really good,along the same lines about crossing the road, then "3D FROGGER" which you played on your computer which was so good.
@@cassie2559 Yeah, 3D Frogger is really good, it's not just a frog trying to cross a road, it's far more complicated than just trying to avoid cars and trucks etc.
My son would sometimes ask me if games today are mind-blowing to me, but seeing as I'm STILL a gamer and have been playing from the industry's infancy to now, it's graphically impressive, but not mind-blowing because I've seen the development.
My favorite atari game is maze craze. Just mazes, but some are races, some are invisible, some have bad guys to avoid like pac man. Super simple but super addicting! Still have my atari and games. Had to buy a special adapter to hook up to a TV made in the current century 😂😂😂
Me too ... also all the NINTENDO Game&Watch I owned at the time ; I will never sell them at any price, it's a part of my childhood... and will be in my legacy to my grandchilds !
@@PrinceJediMaster On any given screen in Atari Space Invaders, there are only 36 invaders laid out in a 6x6 grid. The sound is also completely different. What we're seeing here is the arcade version.
@@exile220ify It's not even the arcade version, it's a half-assed port of the arcade version. You can tell because it's missing the "ripple" effect of the invader formation as it moves across the screen.
I adored Pitfall! The sound effect when you swung over that pool full of crocs - the best! I would have preferred to see Frogger on here though instead of the other one. And Pac Man still one of the greatest.
They all made the same mistake with Space Invaders. You need to keep taking the right or left sides out so they have further to travel across the screen before they can drop a level, and occasionally trim the bottom row away. I once played it so the score clocked over back to all zeros again. It took a good chunk of the day and I had to lay down afterwards before I had a fit. I do not recommend it.
For Space Invaders trivia, I thought you would include that it was the game that invented "progressive difficulty", completely by accident. The programmer of the aliens didn't realize his code made them speed up each time more were destroyed, but they liked it so much they kept it in the game
I honestly love how when Sofia misses/fails she lets out a little yell! That’s kind of like me when I get frustrated I growl at the game I’m playing. So I feel a certain kinship with Sofia in that respect.
Space Invaders moved the whole width of the screen before approaching, so the best strategy was to work from one side and destroy the first or last column to slow them down.
I was blown away when my parents got me an Atari 2600 for Christmas. But I was even more blown away when I got a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k, now that had a lot of really cool games
Oh yea... so underrated it was Ataris best selling game that was never an arcade game, made many top 100 lists of retro games and got a reboot in 2011... definitely underrated.
About the graphics. Televisions back then had a lower resolution and so those graphics in some games actually looked far better than on todays high definition televisions. There are emulators made to play vintage games on modern television to simulate the original low resolution screen view.
I was a teen when we got this game system. The funniest thing in the world was watching my dad play, rage quitting and throwing the controller at the tv,😅
I'm trying to remember my favorite Atari games. Adventure, Megamania, Demon Attack, Tutankham, Warlords, Seaquest and Defender come to mind. Asteroids was an early favorite but I later lost interest in it and I'm not sure if that's because other games surpassed it or I just wore it out. Megamania was probably my favorite game overall, but it came late in the console's life, when they could do more complicated games. Pitfall and Super Breakout were good choices.
Astroids...the reflexes you needed on high skill level, egad! Rocks coming at you, ya shoot e'm and they'd become smaller and faster coming at ya 4 different ways.If ya got in trouble, only a nanosecond to decide if you try to jet away, shoot your way out with your lasers, or hyperspace, never knowing where on-screen you'd reappear (1/2 the time right in the middle of rocks coming at ya)
@@FlanylShirtman Oh I have no argument with that, I'm just saying I'm not shocked that they ended up playing this version. It's probably on that little system. Personally, I don't know why they couldn't get a real Atari and some carts, they're not that hard to find and not that expensive either.
I wish Joe had explained that this was all brand new to us, for us these graphics were good because there wasn't anything else out there that was better. It was a lot of fun, used to spend hours on it!
I remember getting this for christmas perhaps 1980 / 81. I mastered Space Invaders I could play it fo hours without loosing a life as I had the timing and pattern down pat. Had many games but some of my favorite titles I owned were , Space Invaders (of course). Tutankhamen, Defender, Asteroids, Joust, Battlezone to name a very few
I got an Atari 2600 back in 1981. Got a Colecovision in 1983, then a Sega Genesis in 1992. Since then I played games on PC. Never got an XBox or Playstation. It was fascinating watching as computer game graphics improved over time starting from games like Atari Adventure all the way to games like The Witcher 3. I have to say some of those old Atari 2600 games are still fun.
Nit: in 1977 Atari came out with the VCS (Video Computer System). It was rebranded as the Atari 2600 in 1982 with the release of the Atari 5200 "SuperSystem". I have a certain fondness for the VCS. It was my first (and only) game console, and I actually got a part time job demonstrating and selling these system in a large department store. When the Christmas season ended, I was stuck selling mostly clothes in the jeans department. Something that might not be obvious, but in the shooting games only allow you one shot at a time. You can't shoot again until the current shot shot hits something or leaves the playing field. This makes accurate shooting even more critical. Their Space Invaders strategy is wrong. Take out the outermost COLUMNS rather than rows so the phalanx has to travel further across the screen before dropping a row. It slows the advance. Take out the rows when they get closer. Don't try to hit the space ships, but do dodge what they throw at you. If you do hit a space ship, bonus, but working to hit them will distract you from what's important (the alien invaders themselves). Space Invaders was my favorite cartridge. I never played "pong" missiles in Combat. Either straight shots or guided missiles. I liked playing the airplane version of Combat as well...
There were many games in combat. And they kept with the pong theme. You should have included Yar's Revenge. It was one of (if not the first) games to have an Easter Egg. That one and Adventure.
My brother and I used to playa lot of Atari games growing up, including Space Invaders and Tank. Btw, there was a glitch in tank where if you go up into the upper left hand corner and turn the tank fast your tank will appear in the upper right hand corner. My brother used that as an ambush technique. Unfortunately it didn't work from right to left.
Several years back Mattel brought back their handheld football game from the 70s and I bought my brother one as a Christmas gift. It was so low tech his kids couldn't figure it out and he gleefully crushed them every single time. 😂
I remember a friend of my dad brought one of these back from Japan before it was released in the US. I played Brickout, and I remember being impressed that it was in color.
They needed to have played Adventure... The complete lack of music. Just the weird scroll the dragon chasing you the weird bizarre graphics, the intense stress level...lol😊
Teased us with a peek at Missile Command, one of my favourites on Atari 400, but they never got to play it sadly, I loved it. Back then as a kid, I also tried to write my own version of Missile Command, not realising how slow BASIC was, combined with not knowing how to work sprites, my invading alien spaceship ending up being only one pixel big! Being incredibly difficult to shoot down a one pixel spaceship with lasers, we would find ourselves frantically yelling "shoot the ba*tard!!!" - which is what I decided to name my terrible version of Missile Command. From that moment on, I decided to learn assembly language - the best way to get lightning fast speed. Oh, I also remember getting a really good version of Space Invaders on cassette tape with my Atari 400, which combined with the Atari Cassette player, cost a whopping NZD$1554.00 in the early eighties - my entire savings as a young fella. A good used car was way cheaper. Fun times!
Little trivia: Space Invaders had to be reprogrammed recently. It was not originally designed to get faster as you progressed through the level. It got faster because the computer was drawing fewer enemies. Modern computers are fast to the point that the change in drawing enemies was non-existent. So, to maintain the feel of the original, it was reprogrammed.
With them complaining about the graphics, please remember: the system has 128 bytes of RAM. Not gigabytes, not megabytes, not even *kilobytes.* Just 128 *bytes.* The fact there are any graphics at all is a miraculous feat of software engineering 😂
Exactly this kids have no idea about the struggle of dial up connection, rotatory phone and xp brilliance
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Holy shit
That is another thing: technology constantly advances
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I’m 56 years old, and I felt like I was watching my parents trying to play my video games. These kids play the Atari like old people… >>>bowl!
56 also
I miss playing my old Atari. Talk about nostalgic. Loved these games as a kid growing up in the 80s. Still play video games but Atari and these games will always hold a special place in my heart.
Missed so many of the more epic games. Ex: Frogger, SeaQuest, Donkey Kong, River Raid, Enduro, Joust, Pac-man, Q*bert, Asteroids, Centipede, the E.T. one, Dig Dug.....
Those are the ones we played most.
For those who played those, which was your favorite game?
I was champ at SeaQuest
Yeah, that would be a fun episode! 15 seconds per game, so with 3 pairs, each gets 5 seconds to play. If a single player game then 2.5 seconds per game for each individual.
SeaQuest was my JAM, also a fan of Pole Position and of course Pac-Man is a forever classic
River Raid would be boss.
I awoke one night back in the day to go to the washroom. I heard the furious rattling of light plastic in bursts, so i peeked out into the living room on the way to the bathroom.
Turns out my father had been watching us play "Decathlon" all evening and was going ham on the controller.
The very next morning, I noticed a disc of flesh had blistered up and torn off of the palm of his hand.
Is asked him about it but he immediately and gruffly dismissed it.😅
He didn't want to talk about him going ham on his joystick.
Pitfall was hard game. When it came out, there was an offer where if you scored a certain amount of points, and you took a picture of the screen and sent it to Activision, they would send you a Pitfall patch to iron onto your shirt. I got the required amount of points one morning and woke up my poor dad so he could take a picture. I think I still have the patch somewhere.
9:36 I cannot believe that no one figured out that you need to take them out on one side so they have to travel farther in order to go down a level. Seem like the very basics to me but of course I did waste many MANY hours of my childhood on this game. Clear from the sides as well and the bottom!!
They clearly got minimal play time. Guarantee you didnt sit down and have yer strategy locked down first play
None of them can figure out to clear a side instead of the middle thus extending the march distance of the invaders and extending their time to shoot
Came here to say just that
If they thought Space Invaders was stressful, have them try Missile Command.
Or Defender!
Combat ruled, it was like 20 different games in one ...its still one of my favorites
That version of Space Invaders was the Arcade version not the 2600.
Beat me to it!! It was nowhere near as good.. Resolution for one and the fact it has the Taito corp at the bottom..
I had the 2600 version when I was young and the aliens were massive lol
Yup... I mean, if you are going to have them do the 2600 versions, DO THEM!
We didnt have great graphics back then but it was hard as hell
Actually surprised by how much they liked most of these, was thinking they would hate them more cause of how old and simple they were.
The appearance of the arcade-style Space Invaders over the actual Atari version leads me to assume they're playing one of the 'Atari Flashback' consoles, which might also explain some of the control lag/jank issues they seem to be having.
Looks like it. You can see the tiny console in front of them
Fun fact the first versions of Space invaders were not programed to make the aliens speed up as the game progressed. The starting field of enemies was so massive it overloaded the processor slowing the game down. As you thinned the numbers it could run faster due to having less to track.
Later releases on more powerful systems added code to cause the speed change because it was a popular feature.
Lol, that‘s a great one.. thank you for sharing…
Almost. The game always only moves one invader per frame, which is indeed because the hardware can't move all of them at once. As a result, the final invader can move 55 times faster than when a level starts. Faithful ports just needed to stick to the one-at-a-time logic rather than deliberately change the speed.
The version they play here doesn't seem very authentic though! It's neither the Atari 2600 version or the arcade game, although it does seem pretty close to the arcade game.
They couldn't figure out Space Invaders? They would have cried if they tried Missile Command.
The key to Breakout is to cut a path to the top row so the ball bounces around and knocks out the blocks.
"i have played Space Invaders. on the arcade."
Jaden just gained 100 respect points in this first video i see with him.
I remember playing Pong back in 1972 on an arcade machine. I was 8 at the time.
I am now 60 and still playing games.
I had my first consol in 1978, which was called Grandstand. I always dreamed of having the Atari, as it was so cool at the time.
The best games ever, in my opinion, are modern games which have great stories to them. Open World rocks my world too. However, I play all sorts of stuff.
My Steam library has 1690 games. :O
I was Born 1988 and this games were retro for me. For this young people its super retro !
Fellow 80s baby here (83), and honestly I feel the same. As a kid, I didn’t even know the Atari existed, as my first console was the Sega Genesis.
That was NOT the Atari 2600 Space Invaders....
I was coming to say…
My first thought!
Yeah that's what I was going to say. What's going on?!
There needs to be a part two with Frogger, Pac Man, Galaga, Circus Atari, Donkey Kong, Robotron, and Centipede.
Im surprised they didn't include Asteroids
Pong was a game console with controllers connected with long cords to the console before the Atari console came out. We got them both as they came out in the mid to late 70’s. We loved them! I can remember my friends and us getting cramps in our palms and fingers. We called it Atari Hand 😁
The original Pong console had the controllers mounted in the console.
@@shawbros you’re right! I’m having trouble remembering if that’s what we got first or the one with the long cords now
Fun fact: A young Jack Black was in the Pitfall commercial.
The cool thing about Combat was how many variations there were.
I see none of them figured out the REAL pro-strat for Space Invaders: Because the alien fleet moves down a row when its outermost units hit the edge of the screen, eliminating the outermost columns first (decreasing the width of the fleet as a whole) increases how far the ships must travel before moving down a row, and thus slows their advance.
Yeah, as a decent player it’s aggravating to watch
From what I remember there were two strategies, eliminate the side rows and the bottom rows.
One of them figured out the second strategy, and it did quite well.
You have to play a lot more to get into the mechanisms.
The space invaders shown was not the 1980s Atari 2600 version. It looked like an emulation of the arcade version. The aliens on the Atari home console version were all the same colour and not as detailed and the sounds were totally different. I must have played it thousands of times back in the day.
Exactly Correct. The A2600 Invaders were VERY different designs. I know.... I destroyed MANY-MANY of them back in the day!
It looks like a revision of the arcade version to adjust for a horizontal screen.
The atari came out the year o was born. Its 47 yrs old. My mom still has the original 1977 atari system, all the controllers and almost all.the games for it still. As kids we loved it but weren't allowed to play it all the time. It was something we were allowed to play and a reward. You have to be older to appreciate the atari games. You should do this again with the other generations. Gen x would crush the games.
would you be kind to send me that atari you have?
We had to figure out these games ourselves with little to no instruction My favorites growing up were Kaboom! , Yars’Revenge, Donkey Kong Jr. M Series Baseball, Boxing, Space Invaders, Atlantis and Cosmic Ark
It's not a dial, It's a paddle. Night driver, casino, demons to diamonds, Kaboom
I remember being a librarian a few years ago and hooking up my Atari 2600 to the TV in the teen space. I had a few games that they liked and it was unanimous that the E.T. hame was the worst.
Yeah that game tanked
Now have them play a Mattel Intellivision. That thing has messed up controllers.
Those controllers sucked.
We had the Intellivison. I think my brother still has it. The controllers were strange with the disc but the graphics were a step up from Atari (not too much).
There was a game that came out called "FROGGER" which was really good,along the same lines about crossing the road, then "3D FROGGER" which you played on your computer which was so good.
I was wondering why they didn't show frogger
@@cassie2559 Yeah, 3D Frogger is really good, it's not just a frog trying to cross a road, it's far more complicated than just trying to avoid cars and trucks etc.
@@andrewmccormack4295 is that the one on ps4 I remember last playing a frogger game on there a few years ago.
My son would sometimes ask me if games today are mind-blowing to me, but seeing as I'm STILL a gamer and have been playing from the industry's infancy to now, it's graphically impressive, but not mind-blowing because I've seen the development.
That none of them figured out to thin the SIDES in Space Invaders, so the traversals took longer, is kinda sad...
Well, that wasn’t them playing, as that is not the 2600 version
0:36 "how do I jump?"
🙄
There's ONE button....
You actually also have to learn coordination with the joystick, high jumping is easy, long jumping much less so.
She was on the ladder when she asked numbnuts. The button doesnt do anything when yer on the ladder
That's not the 2600 version of Space Invaders.
Ain’t that the girl from Student Injects IQ SERUM To Ace SCHOOL EXAMS I know her
My favorite atari game is maze craze. Just mazes, but some are races, some are invisible, some have bad guys to avoid like pac man. Super simple but super addicting! Still have my atari and games. Had to buy a special adapter to hook up to a TV made in the current century 😂😂😂
Had so many laughs playing this against another person. It was fun. We would be screaming.
I still have my Atari and games from then.
Me too ... also all the NINTENDO Game&Watch I owned at the time ; I will never sell them at any price, it's a part of my childhood... and will be in my legacy to my grandchilds !
@@gurkharo2408 The Atari is the only system I’ve ever owned. 🤣
That was definitely not the Atari Space Invaders
I was thinking the same thing. In the Atari 2600 version, when the aliens got to the shields, the shields vanished.
@@PrinceJediMaster On any given screen in Atari Space Invaders, there are only 36 invaders laid out in a 6x6 grid. The sound is also completely different. What we're seeing here is the arcade version.
@@exile220ify It's not even the arcade version, it's a half-assed port of the arcade version. You can tell because it's missing the "ripple" effect of the invader formation as it moves across the screen.
I adored Pitfall! The sound effect when you swung over that pool full of crocs - the best! I would have preferred to see Frogger on here though instead of the other one. And Pac Man still one of the greatest.
Sorry - THAT SPACE INVADERS is the ARCADE VERSION by TAITO and NOT the 2600 version -
Definitive... someone who grew up with it, immediately sees that .. because of the much higher resolution
Asteroids and Defender were among my favorites
What, no Frogger???
They all made the same mistake with Space Invaders. You need to keep taking the right or left sides out so they have further to travel across the screen before they can drop a level, and occasionally trim the bottom row away. I once played it so the score clocked over back to all zeros again. It took a good chunk of the day and I had to lay down afterwards before I had a fit. I do not recommend it.
I know, I almost started yelling at my screen.
seeing all these games reminded me of playing Centipede at Pizza Hut
No Pac-Man? Asteroids? 🤔🙄I got Atari the Christmas it came out ‼️
These games, all of them, predate both of those.
Wish they would have played Surround where the two players have to surround each other with the dots. This was the era when I grew up.
For Space Invaders trivia, I thought you would include that it was the game that invented "progressive difficulty", completely by accident. The programmer of the aliens didn't realize his code made them speed up each time more were destroyed, but they liked it so much they kept it in the game
I honestly love how when Sofia misses/fails she lets out a little yell! That’s kind of like me when I get frustrated I growl at the game I’m playing. So I feel a certain kinship with Sofia in that respect.
wish they used the official atari space invaders this must be one of the Flashback consoles.
Space Invaders moved the whole width of the screen before approaching, so the best strategy was to work from one side and destroy the first or last column to slow them down.
LoL, GenX here and I was practically yelling at my screen "the flanks! you have to target the flanks!!"
Kids who grew up on minecraft shouldn't be complaining about graphics.
Exactly, right? 😂
Assuming they gaf about Minecraft. Same kids also grew up w PS3s and 4s as their first systems.
@@DeathbySkullfxxxWii U for me 😊
OMG my anxiety levels are off the chart.....i played Pitfall for years
The Atari 2600 and its games weren't "dropped", they were released, because people didn't talk like absolute wankers back then
I was blown away when my parents got me an Atari 2600 for Christmas. But I was even more blown away when I got a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k, now that had a lot of really cool games
That was not the 2600 version of Space Invaders
Fav Atari - Yars' Revenge, Defender, River Raid, Enduro, Star Raiders, Berserk. Atari taught Eye - Hand coordination and pattern memorization
0:30 To be more precise: you have 20 minutes or 3 lives to traverse the 255 jungle scenes and collect 32 treasures.
that space invaders is NOT from the atari 2600. it looks like the arcade version
That's the real Space Invaders- not the Atari 2600 Space Invaders
That's what I was thinking.
How did Joe not tell them who was in the commercial for pitfall?
I thought Yar's Revenge was underrated and would be interesting for them to try. Also, for great hand-eye, Kaboom!
Oh yea... so underrated it was Ataris best selling game that was never an arcade game, made many top 100 lists of retro games and got a reboot in 2011... definitely underrated.
About the graphics. Televisions back then had a lower resolution and so those graphics in some games actually looked far better than on todays high definition televisions. There are emulators made to play vintage games on modern television to simulate the original low resolution screen view.
Nice to see how much fun people still can have with these games.
Pong was life. That and the arcade room.
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I was a teen when we got this game system. The funniest thing in the world was watching my dad play, rage quitting and throwing the controller at the tv,😅
Without Raging I broke SO MANY CONTROLLERS that first Christmas!
Kaboom, tempest, defender, pacman, crazy climber, asteroids
I'm trying to remember my favorite Atari games. Adventure, Megamania, Demon Attack, Tutankham, Warlords, Seaquest and Defender come to mind. Asteroids was an early favorite but I later lost interest in it and I'm not sure if that's because other games surpassed it or I just wore it out. Megamania was probably my favorite game overall, but it came late in the console's life, when they could do more complicated games.
Pitfall and Super Breakout were good choices.
Astroids...the reflexes you needed on high skill level, egad! Rocks coming at you, ya shoot e'm and they'd become smaller and faster coming at ya 4 different ways.If ya got in trouble, only a nanosecond to decide if you try to jet away, shoot your way out with your lasers, or hyperspace, never knowing where on-screen you'd reappear (1/2 the time right in the middle of rocks coming at ya)
I was about 10 years old when the Atari came out, and 47 years later I'm still a gamer
Breakout. I would like to see them play Astroids.
Okay, that's NOT Atari 2600 Space Invaders.
It's not a real Atari 2600 they're playing on either.
@@majorramsey3k If they are playing on an emulator, then they could easily get the 2600 version.
@@FlanylShirtman Oh I have no argument with that, I'm just saying I'm not shocked that they ended up playing this version. It's probably on that little system. Personally, I don't know why they couldn't get a real Atari and some carts, they're not that hard to find and not that expensive either.
It's probably one of those Atari Flashback consoles. They had arcade versions of some games. Most Gen Z won't know the difference.
When I was in 2nd grade, I spent every day after school at my friend’s house playing Pitfall.
I wish Joe had explained that this was all brand new to us, for us these graphics were good because there wasn't anything else out there that was better. It was a lot of fun, used to spend hours on it!
My fave Atari game was from Activision. It was called 'Kaboom!'. Had to use the dial controller. I had the high score in the neighborhood. 😁
Kaboom is the shit
@@stephiek.3267 Yes! I loved Kaboom, and most people seem to have never heard of it!
I remember getting this for christmas perhaps 1980 / 81. I mastered Space Invaders I could play it fo hours without loosing a life as I had the timing and pattern down pat. Had many games but some of my favorite titles I owned were , Space Invaders (of course). Tutankhamen, Defender, Asteroids, Joust, Battlezone to name a very few
Combat was so much fun. There's a level where the tanks are invisible so no one knows where anyone is.
I got an Atari 2600 back in 1981. Got a Colecovision in 1983, then a Sega Genesis in 1992. Since then I played games on PC. Never got an XBox or Playstation. It was fascinating watching as computer game graphics improved over time starting from games like Atari Adventure all the way to games like The Witcher 3. I have to say some of those old Atari 2600 games are still fun.
They are all making the rookie mistake of shooting the inside aliens on Space Invaders.
yes. I like how the one guy left one on the outside ;)
@@user-rz2gw8jb4v I wanted to reach through the screen and grab his controller when I saw him do that :-)
They need to speed up their thumb to button action.
Galaga was the best Atari game 🕹️👾🎮
Galaga was NEVER an Atari 2600 game
Galaga was Namco, not Atari, and the only Atari console it was ever ported to was the Atari 7800.
"Stop getting faster... STOP GETTING FASTER !!".
Oh the memories
12:21 “I didn’t like it because I’m too competitive.” OMG! Angel’s becoming self aware!
Nit: in 1977 Atari came out with the VCS (Video Computer System). It was rebranded as the Atari 2600 in 1982 with the release of the Atari 5200 "SuperSystem".
I have a certain fondness for the VCS. It was my first (and only) game console, and I actually got a part time job demonstrating and selling these system in a large department store. When the Christmas season ended, I was stuck selling mostly clothes in the jeans department.
Something that might not be obvious, but in the shooting games only allow you one shot at a time. You can't shoot again until the current shot shot hits something or leaves the playing field. This makes accurate shooting even more critical.
Their Space Invaders strategy is wrong. Take out the outermost COLUMNS rather than rows so the phalanx has to travel further across the screen before dropping a row. It slows the advance. Take out the rows when they get closer. Don't try to hit the space ships, but do dodge what they throw at you. If you do hit a space ship, bonus, but working to hit them will distract you from what's important (the alien invaders themselves). Space Invaders was my favorite cartridge.
I never played "pong" missiles in Combat. Either straight shots or guided missiles. I liked playing the airplane version of Combat as well...
Teens play games as old as me (or older), that I haven't played most of... 🤣
you should have them play Custer's revenge on Atari. I heard that was a pretty good game.
Lol. Such a risky thing.
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that vid made me feel old
Combat was my jam when I was a kid. My cousin had the console and we would play this all the time when we would visit.
There were many games in combat. And they kept with the pong theme.
You should have included Yar's Revenge. It was one of (if not the first) games to have an Easter Egg. That one and Adventure.
3:56 Hey, those were groundbreaking graphics back then.
My brother and I used to playa lot of Atari games growing up, including Space Invaders and Tank. Btw, there was a glitch in tank where if you go up into the upper left hand corner and turn the tank fast your tank will appear in the upper right hand corner. My brother used that as an ambush technique. Unfortunately it didn't work from right to left.
I played Pitfall for hours! Loved that game
I hope you had a CRT for the display as there would be input lag on a flat screen.
The frustration you get from playing such simple games is actually a feature.
Several years back Mattel brought back their handheld football game from the 70s and I bought my brother one as a Christmas gift. It was so low tech his kids couldn't figure it out and he gleefully crushed them every single time. 😂
And doesn't even use an ACTUAL Atari 2600 for the video.....FAIL. 😂😂 you had one job
I remember a friend of my dad brought one of these back from Japan before it was released in the US. I played Brickout, and I remember being impressed that it was in color.
They needed to have played Adventure... The complete lack of music. Just the weird scroll the dragon chasing you the weird bizarre graphics, the intense stress level...lol😊
That "duck" dragon was something.
In 1982 the computers did not even have a mouse as a controller.
Teased us with a peek at Missile Command, one of my favourites on Atari 400, but they never got to play it sadly, I loved it. Back then as a kid, I also tried to write my own version of Missile Command, not realising how slow BASIC was, combined with not knowing how to work sprites, my invading alien spaceship ending up being only one pixel big! Being incredibly difficult to shoot down a one pixel spaceship with lasers, we would find ourselves frantically yelling "shoot the ba*tard!!!" - which is what I decided to name my terrible version of Missile Command. From that moment on, I decided to learn assembly language - the best way to get lightning fast speed. Oh, I also remember getting a really good version of Space Invaders on cassette tape with my Atari 400, which combined with the Atari Cassette player, cost a whopping NZD$1554.00 in the early eighties - my entire savings as a young fella. A good used car was way cheaper. Fun times!
Should have had them play E.T. We would have found out if they would give a game a negative score.
Little trivia: Space Invaders had to be reprogrammed recently. It was not originally designed to get faster as you progressed through the level. It got faster because the computer was drawing fewer enemies. Modern computers are fast to the point that the change in drawing enemies was non-existent. So, to maintain the feel of the original, it was reprogrammed.