@powerslave0606 Dunkin / TimHortons /$tarBucks toast to you. Thank you for the A5200 love. In 1982, I begged & pleaded with my guardian for a ColecoVision system. I had one successful attempt at connecting the ColecoVision to our TV. The brand new system (or was it a store return ? ) would no longer connect to our TV. My guardian decided to promptly return it & get something different. I used the store credit for the cheaper A5200. I was happy but controllers would die within months of regular play.
Thank you!! That’s something I have been making at Retrogameboyz.com - I’m so happy Mike liked it - I am huge fan of his and AVGN and when he reached out to me to buy one I nearly fell off my chair. Stay well!
@@retrogameboyz So it's a digital arcade stick, with knobs to adjust the amount of analog movement? Most 5200 games don't really need analog control, but once he gets to Star Wars and Buck Rogers it seems to be a problem.
@@cbarger2327 Hi Chris - it is used to adjust the centering of the vertical and horizontal. Correct games that need true Analog control will not work right.
according to Wikipedia for Cloak and Dagger: "The film shows an Atari 5200 version of the game, but the cartridge props are actually other 5200 games with a Cloak & Dagger label stuck on them and the screenshots are of arcade version. A 5200 port was planned, but not completed." so technically you didn't get scammed, you wound up with an actual prop from the movie.
Rescue on Fractalus was my favorite 5200 game growing up. It's worth spending more time on... includes the first jump scare I can recall in a game. The pilot you killed are people you're actually supposed to stop to pickup. They run to your ship, knock on the door, and you open it to allow them to enter. Sometimes it is an alien though (the jump scare) and you have to be quick to press a button to zap them. If nothing else, look up the video of that. It's not a simple game, so the number pad is required, look up "rescue on fractalus overlay".
Yeah, it's the contacts that are the problem on the 5200 controller. They oxidize quickly only ways to fix them is to constantly clean them, replace the contacts with gold plated ones or like you did, place something over them.
That Trakball is one of my favorite controllers of all time. The subject of this episode was something I've wanted to see since the AVGN episode! Glad you shined some light on the 5200.
The film shows an Atari 5200 version of the game, but the cartridge props are actually other 5200 games with a Cloak & Dagger label stuck on them and the screenshots are of arcade version. A 5200 port was planned, but not completed.
Atariage has all the manuals available online. Pengo, if you run out of blocks, press the button while facing the wall. It'll freeze anything next to it. Then you can run over the enemies to kill them. Dreadnaught factor has a whole strategic element noted in the manual. You can use the trak ball on space invaders
The main problem with the 5200's controllers was the way Atari implemented "analog" controls. They are not like the analog controllers of today, its best to think of them as 2 sets of paddles - one set for up and down movement, and one set for left to right movement. Back in those days, the closest thing we had to modern analog controls, believe it or not, was the Odyssey 2. But most games were only programmed for direct 8-way movement. Not a "hall effect" as it was then known. But the O2 has the feel of a modern analog stick.
Fun fact, Blueprint was made by Rare before Rare existed. The people who formed Rare originally made arcade games for other companies without taking credit themselves, the games they had made were unknown for ages until people found their names in the arcade ROM of Blueprint and others
@Ben DC4L IIRC in an old interview it was stated that they made 12 arcade games, there's a lot of speculation on these games but I think they're only sure about Blueprint, Dingo, Saturn and Grasspin.
The Cloak and Dagger was made for the actual movie, and dont think it was completed or made for the 5200, Alex Rosenberg worked on the game with the author and said someone slapped the label on a random cart for the film
The 5200 broke my heart as a kid, I got my mother to buy one replacement controller for it but money was tight back then and it ended up sadly unusable. I loved Centipede and Pole Position with that analog controller while it lasted.
I have had my 5200 since it came out. It still works perfectly minus the controller of course. I would love to have one of those custom controllers just so I could play Montezuma's Revenge on my system again.
I traded a Colecovision, with an A/V mod, for one of these back in 2007. Fortunately, it came with two wico joysticks along with their y-cables so you could hook it up to the 5200. Still not satisfied with the controller situation, I made a masterplay clone that lets you use 2600/sega controllers on the system and all was well then. Haven't really played it in years, but its really just an Atari 400 with a sh*tty controller. Oh, and they changed it enough so you couldn't use Atari 400 cartridges on it.
Atari 5200 is basicly atari home computer dressed as a console,so if you like the games on 5200, get yourself a 800xl, there is literally a ton of cool games for it, and new games are released even today.
On the paddles - Deoxit electrical cleaner once or twice a year will keep the potentiometers in good shape. Deoxit coats the metal and doesn't evaporate. I've also had good results with the less expensive CRC products (available at Napa auto supply places) - the basic electrical cleaner (091843) and then apply the Power Lube (0918484).
I ordered 2 gold contact controllers from Best Electronics, they have worked flawlessly for the last 6 yrs now. Cost me about $100 for the pair, well worth it. You gotta send in 2 old broken ones as cores so they can rebuild those for the next person, since their stock is depleted. Bradley Koda runs an awesome company and replies with his personal email promptly. Great dude to deal with.
Atari 5200 released in 1982, fully playable in 2020 due to shit controllers. Amazing, especially when you think about all the tech we have now a days, and it took all that time to get a controller to work on this beast.
Get one of the Atari 8 bit computers. The Atari 5200 is basically just one of those computers that was cut down slightly. The games are literally identical between the two. Actually, the 8 bit line is better because they made them longer, so there's a lot more advanced games available. You could get games either on floppy or cartridge depending on when they were made. Pretty much all the games that made it to the Atari 5200 are available on cartridges for the computers (although of a different shape). The Atari XEGS is a version of the computers in a console format made in the late 80s, but it'll still take other addons like floppy drives and the like. You can either easily mod or (depending on the model) get S-Video out of them really easily. The Atari 8 bit computers don't have any of the problems (controllers) of the 5200. They just use the classic Atari style (2600) joysticks and paddles which are easier to replace.
Mountain King is amazing! Considering it came out the same year as Intellevision's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, a game I consider to be the Genesis of all Dungeon crawlers. This game has far better graphics and sound! The spider cocooning you and coming back to eat you is one of the most gruesome video game deaths I've ever seen
Jungle King became Jungle Hunt when the Tarzan rights holders objected to the player's Tarzan sprite and sound fx of the Tarzan yell used without premission. Welcome to Useless Trival for the day. lol.
After a few different attempts at cheap and lazy replacements to the linear potentiometers of the Atari paddles (its all but impossible to find drop-in replacements due to the original shaft length (lol!) so you pretty much have to settle on new old stock or roll your own), I have come to the conclusion (for the time being) that the very best way to repair the paddles is to simply *USE* them. The paddles become twitchy because the carbon dust that is created from scraping the contacts gets all over the insides unevenly after being tossed around in boxes for years or moved around your room and left on their sides. The paths that the (brass?) contacts create also become uneven after being left in one place and digging into the softer carbon. So, then when you use them again after some time in that state, the contacts *jump* over all those past resting spots, and the paddles skip all over the damn place. And, because its a dead-simple analog system, there's no debounce designed into the circuit (that I'm aware of) like there is on a keyboard, so you see all of that feedback on the screen and in your play. If you give a paddle a good 200-300 cycles, you will start to notice the twitchiness reduced, because you are redistributing the carbon dust and making the carbon paths more even/more uniform, leading to silky-smooth performance. That's also probably why why electronic contact cleaner works well as a temporary fix...it wrangles all the carbon dust, redistributes it, and then off-gasses. So, sure, after 30 years of disuse, give the insides a good cleaning....but after that, use them faithfully and regularly, and they will continue to perform well! In my case, I have hours of Astroblast as my preferred preventative paddle maintenance.
When you get to the 7800, please promise me you'll spend some real quality time with Midnight Mutants. It guest stars Grandpa Munster, but it's so much more than that.
Yes it's also the best game for that system. It's a action adventure game and it's very fun. The cartridge alone is too expensive for me. This was back when I had a Atari 7800. Also forget buying mean 18 for the Atari 7800 it's hundreds of dollars
So it's your fault James took a giant internet crap on the 5200? ^_^ I kid but that episode actually motivated me to get a 5200. I came across a company called Champ that actually made a keypad module you plug a regular joystick into for the Colecovision bitd which would have been great for 5200 too. So at least somebody was thinking about how the keypad was getting in the way of the joystick.
Actually with paddles if you clean out the powder sludge that forms with wear you can get them back to working order for a while. Spray won't get rid of the sludge, you have to swab it out.
Actually I never owned a 7800 controller. I bought a special wire to hook in the controller port to use Sega controllers😅. I really enjoyed the 7800 to bad it wasn't more popular
I love the skate or die 2 theme in the background in the beginning that game was my favorite as a kid I use to love watching the logo change colors it was amazing haha
Rescue on fractalis-you have to save the pilots. I think you land. There’s even Some surprises when you do. George Lucas suggested something that I won’t spoil but it’s said this was the first game to really scare people. They were going to make a version for 7800 but sadly never did.
I just 100% completed AVGN Adventures I & II Deluxe today... now it's time to tune in and watch Mike get frustrated at games as much as I was trying to collect all of the Nerd letters lol... Now we need an AVGN Adventure III...
I played the hell out of the 5200 my uncle gave to us (Along with over 50 games), but man those controllers, ugh. I loved Miner 2049er, Space Dungeon, Montezuma's Revenge, and The Dreadnaught Factor though.
Hmm odd on Moonpatrol, it is just the secondary fire button on the 5200. I remember mostly playing it on the C64 but the timing was iffier on the jumnps.
9:12 Street Fighter 2010 soundtrack :), You should definitely stream that one, amazing game, very difficult, especially at the end, character controls are very well made, has plenty of moves for an NES game, takes time to get used too. Overall very underrated game, quite a gem...
One of my reasons wanted to go to my cousins as a kid, was to play their Atari 2600 and then to play the nes when they got one. Me and my brother final saved up for a NES in grade 5.
this was my families first console back in the1980s used to play the shit out of star raiders. fondly remember plugging it back in in the days of nes and snes, I have always been a retro gamer haha!
When I was a kid my brother and I were given the choice between the 5200 or a Colecovision. We choose a Colecovision. Thank God for that. The fact that it could play 2600 games was just the icing on the cake. The Coleco's controllers weren't amazing but they actually worked. And the Trackball was better. Just played River Raid on it the other week. The 5200 had a few interesting games like Rescue On Fractalis but otherwise it's a piece of garbage. Even now that I'm older and can get one it's just not a system worth having. After Atari changed hands from Bushnell to Warner to the Tramil's it was just a constant downhill slide into irrelevance.
Awesome Mike. Glad you were finally able to do a Atari 5200 stream. I found a company that has been around for many years, that sells brand new improved parts for restoring the original 5200 controllers. Off the top of my head I can't remember the website. But they are out in California. They already sold me a refurbished motherboard for my 4 port 5200 and it works fantastic. Anyway when I get to it, I am going to get the new improved boards and buttons for a couple of my wonky controllers. They are supposed to last for many years with the newer and improved parts. When I remember the website I'll post it for you.
Great stream! I appreciate the intro explanation. I took in a bunch of shit to a local game store and they gave me a ton of credit recently. They said they had a mint complete in box 5200 I said I’ll take. Can’t wait to get it, and get an aftermarket controller and play these things. Just got a flash cart for my 2600 and a 7800 for the first time. Been on a little Atari kick!
The games that wouldnt work right in this video will actually play great that way. Some games need analog and some analog games need non self centering.
Hello Mike. Love the video. I also recommend bumper bash it used the paddle buttons for the flippers. It's a good pinball game, same thing with midnight magic.
Wonder if some of the 5200 games have bit rot due to being really old. Some Nes games I played crash when playing. Nice to see this console in action a victim of bad controls to many systems and then the video game crash of 1984.
I think you can buy modded Atari Jaguar controllers for the 5200. Alot of these games are exactly the same as the versions for the XEGS and many of the others have been hacked to play on it
If you collect quick claw the lion, Rhonda pitfalls niece and the big diamond ring on 5200 pitfall 2 there's a very cool surprise. I liked pitfall 2,star raiders, star trek, qix, counter measure and megamania for 5200 all very good games. Definitely try the pitfall 2 recommendation I promise you won't be disappointed.
it's weird Atari didnt put composite atleast on the 5200 when the atari 8 bit computer it is based on has S-video. Also weird how it isnt compatible with the Atari 8-bit computer cartridges
i can make those paddles and mod other old joysicks, like that clicky bastard for the commodore computers. let me know if there are other things like that too. i can also build mod kits too. i just didn't think anyone would be interested in it! :)
5200 had true potential to bright. A lot of the games (despite they're ports from pc/arcade or not) seemed pretty funny and interesting to play for the era. But what a shame that only one stupid decision (low budget invested on the controllers) can make the whole difference.
![Noob To Max With DRAGON REWORK In Blox Fruits [FULL MOVIE]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LnBMOinoOvA/mqdefault.jpg)
00:12 Intro/Background
13:34 Frogger
22:21 Zone Ranger
26:01 James Bond
31:01 Moon Patrol
32:30 Pac-Man
39:00 Ms. Pac-Man
44:59 Pitfall!
49:14 Pitfall II: Lost Caverns
52:55 River Raid
57:51 Mario Bros.
01:01:37 The Dreadnaught Factor
01:06:06 Zenji
01:08:44 Zaxxon
01:12:48 Dig Dug
01:19:22 Jungle Hunt
01:29:21 Space Invaders
01:32:45 Kangaroo
01:40:46 Megamania
01:44:23 Super Pacman
01:47:30 Pengo
01:54:07 Star Wars Death Star Battle
02:01:10 Berzerk
02:05:56 Gorf
02:07:14 Star Trek
02:09:43 Miner 2049er
02:17:26 Gyruss
02:22:13 Vanguard
02:24:13 Super Cobra
02:26:57 Star Wars Arcade
02:29:05 Buck Rogers
02:32:05 Space Dungeon
02:34:33 Rescue on Fractalus
02:37:52 Pole Position
02:40:05 Choplifter
02:42:27 BluePrint
02:49:46 Mountain King
03:02:12 Popeye
03:04:00 Missile Command
03:06:12 Super Breakout
03:08:51 Centipede
03:12:37 Tempest
@powerslave0606 Dunkin / TimHortons /$tarBucks toast to you.
Thank you for the A5200 love.
In 1982, I begged & pleaded with my guardian for a ColecoVision system.
I had one successful attempt at connecting the ColecoVision to our TV. The brand new system (or was it a store return ? ) would no longer connect to our TV.
My guardian decided to promptly return it & get something different. I used the store credit for the cheaper A5200. I was happy but controllers would die within months of regular play.
Thanks hero
When James did the AVGN episode on the 5200 in 2007, the 5200 was as old as the PS1 is today.
Very smart comment!!!
Good god.
Oh you just stop right now with that crazy talk you.
@@timthegem really puts shit in perspective though haha
That hurts bro.
I was always felt empty that the avgn review never reviewed the 5200 games but only the system and controller. For sure needs to be revisited!!
That controller with the light up buttons you had made is LEGIT. Love the look.
Thank you!! That’s something I have been making at Retrogameboyz.com - I’m so happy Mike liked it - I am huge fan of his and AVGN and when he reached out to me to buy one I nearly fell off my chair. Stay well!
@@retrogameboyz So it's a digital arcade stick, with knobs to adjust the amount of analog movement? Most 5200 games don't really need analog control, but once he gets to Star Wars and Buck Rogers it seems to be a problem.
@@retrogameboyz great job!
@@cbarger2327 Hi Chris - it is used to adjust the centering of the vertical and horizontal. Correct games that need true Analog control will not work right.
@@Locomamonk Thank you!
according to Wikipedia for Cloak and Dagger: "The film shows an Atari 5200 version of the game, but the cartridge props are actually other 5200 games with a Cloak & Dagger label stuck on them and the screenshots are of arcade version. A 5200 port was planned, but not completed." so technically you didn't get scammed, you wound up with an actual prop from the movie.
2:35:04, Rescue on Fractalus looks awesome. Never seen anything like that.
Pitfall 2 on 5200 has a console exclusive whole second cave system with a cool ending, after the first cave system.
Rescue on Fractalus was my favorite 5200 game growing up. It's worth spending more time on... includes the first jump scare I can recall in a game. The pilot you killed are people you're actually supposed to stop to pickup. They run to your ship, knock on the door, and you open it to allow them to enter. Sometimes it is an alien though (the jump scare) and you have to be quick to press a button to zap them. If nothing else, look up the video of that. It's not a simple game, so the number pad is required, look up "rescue on fractalus overlay".
I just use the original controller. I refurbish them myself using a little bit of foil tape for the button contacts. Works so far.
Yeah, it's the contacts that are the problem on the 5200 controller. They oxidize quickly only ways to fix them is to constantly clean them, replace the contacts with gold plated ones or like you did, place something over them.
That Trakball is one of my favorite controllers of all time. The subject of this episode was something I've wanted to see since the AVGN episode! Glad you shined some light on the 5200.
The film shows an Atari 5200 version of the game, but the cartridge props are actually other 5200 games with a Cloak & Dagger label stuck on them and the screenshots are of arcade version. A 5200 port was planned, but not completed.
Thank you for sharing your history with the 5200 console from college. I personally always liked the avgn 5200 episode it’s one of my favourites.
Atariage has all the manuals available online.
Pengo, if you run out of blocks, press the button while facing the wall. It'll freeze anything next to it. Then you can run over the enemies to kill them.
Dreadnaught factor has a whole strategic element noted in the manual.
You can use the trak ball on space invaders
The main problem with the 5200's controllers was the way Atari implemented "analog" controls. They are not like the analog controllers of today, its best to think of them as 2 sets of paddles - one set for up and down movement, and one set for left to right movement. Back in those days, the closest thing we had to modern analog controls, believe it or not, was the Odyssey 2. But most games were only programmed for direct 8-way movement. Not a "hall effect" as it was then known. But the O2 has the feel of a modern analog stick.
Thank you for the extended documentary about the controller.
Fun fact, Blueprint was made by Rare before Rare existed. The people who formed Rare originally made arcade games for other companies without taking credit themselves, the games they had made were unknown for ages until people found their names in the arcade ROM of Blueprint and others
@Ben DC4L IIRC in an old interview it was stated that they made 12 arcade games, there's a lot of speculation on these games but I think they're only sure about Blueprint, Dingo, Saturn and Grasspin.
The Cloak and Dagger was made for the actual movie, and dont think it was completed or made for the 5200, Alex Rosenberg worked on the game with the author and said someone slapped the label on a random cart for the film
Atari should release a 5200 classic mini console (with working controllers).
The 5200 broke my heart as a kid, I got my mother to buy one replacement controller for it but money was tight back then and it ended up sadly unusable. I loved Centipede and Pole Position with that analog controller while it lasted.
I have had my 5200 since it came out. It still works perfectly minus the controller of course. I would love to have one of those custom controllers just so I could play Montezuma's Revenge on my system again.
Damn, that's a nice custom controller.
LMAO imagine getting James Bond for Christmas as a kid in the 80s..
I got tiger
Can anyone provide a link to the NES music playlist on the begining of the video? Many tks in advance.
I know a songs from the games faxanadu & wizards & warriors played
I traded a Colecovision, with an A/V mod, for one of these back in 2007. Fortunately, it came with two wico joysticks along with their y-cables so you could hook it up to the 5200. Still not satisfied with the controller situation, I made a masterplay clone that lets you use 2600/sega controllers on the system and all was well then.
Haven't really played it in years, but its really just an Atari 400 with a sh*tty controller. Oh, and they changed it enough so you couldn't use Atari 400 cartridges on it.
What is that version of startropics dungeon music around 10:00. Its so good!
Atari 5200 is basicly atari home computer dressed as a console,so if you like the games on 5200, get yourself a 800xl, there is literally a ton of cool games for it, and new games are released even today.
On the paddles - Deoxit electrical cleaner once or twice a year will keep the potentiometers in good shape. Deoxit coats the metal and doesn't evaporate. I've also had good results with the less expensive CRC products (available at Napa auto supply places) - the basic electrical cleaner (091843) and then apply the Power Lube (0918484).
1:54:50 Boba Fett
Unless Greedo also has space armor.
I ordered 2 gold contact controllers from Best Electronics, they have worked flawlessly for the last 6 yrs now. Cost me about $100 for the pair, well worth it. You gotta send in 2 old broken ones as cores so they can rebuild those for the next person, since their stock is depleted. Bradley Koda runs an awesome company and replies with his personal email promptly. Great dude to deal with.
I did the gold contact rebuilds and they didn't work for me sadly.
Brad is a cool dude. I bought 2 European style Atari 7800 controllers to get rid of the painline Atari 7800 controllers. Very good service.
You should finish Pitfall 2. A door opens, and another quest is through the door....
If I get my hands on a "Cloak And Dagger" cartridge, could you beat the game for me? I have some data I need that's programmed in there.....thanks!
I'd love to see a nerd episode where he revisits the 5200
The neo Geo didn't get a pac-man port.
or virtual boy
Atari 5200 released in 1982, fully playable in 2020 due to shit controllers. Amazing, especially when you think about all the tech we have now a days, and it took all that time to get a controller to work on this beast.
Get one of the Atari 8 bit computers. The Atari 5200 is basically just one of those computers that was cut down slightly. The games are literally identical between the two. Actually, the 8 bit line is better because they made them longer, so there's a lot more advanced games available. You could get games either on floppy or cartridge depending on when they were made. Pretty much all the games that made it to the Atari 5200 are available on cartridges for the computers (although of a different shape). The Atari XEGS is a version of the computers in a console format made in the late 80s, but it'll still take other addons like floppy drives and the like. You can either easily mod or (depending on the model) get S-Video out of them really easily. The Atari 8 bit computers don't have any of the problems (controllers) of the 5200. They just use the classic Atari style (2600) joysticks and paddles which are easier to replace.
What are the names of the songs played during breaks like at 1:24:00?
At 7:12 for a split second Mike sounded just like Inspector Gadget, When he says "...When I..." LOL :)
Fun fact: you can use a Neo Geo AES controller on an Atari 5200
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@@mikematei that's right. They both have 15 pin plugs and the same layout.
@@mikematei So... follow-up upcoming?
Mountain King is amazing! Considering it came out the same year as Intellevision's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, a game I consider to be the Genesis of all Dungeon crawlers. This game has far better graphics and sound! The spider cocooning you and coming back to eat you is one of the most gruesome video game deaths I've ever seen
bruh that spider is terrifying
Jungle King became Jungle Hunt when the Tarzan rights holders objected to the player's Tarzan sprite and sound fx of the Tarzan yell used without premission. Welcome to Useless Trival for the day. lol.
That new Atari controller is beefy! Anyone seen the news about the Atari hotel in Vegas?
You have to be rich to own an collect the 5200. The controller was the death of this system. The the Arcade ports for the Atari 5200 look pretty good
After a few different attempts at cheap and lazy replacements to the linear potentiometers of the Atari paddles (its all but impossible to find drop-in replacements due to the original shaft length (lol!) so you pretty much have to settle on new old stock or roll your own), I have come to the conclusion (for the time being) that the very best way to repair the paddles is to simply *USE* them.
The paddles become twitchy because the carbon dust that is created from scraping the contacts gets all over the insides unevenly after being tossed around in boxes for years or moved around your room and left on their sides. The paths that the (brass?) contacts create also become uneven after being left in one place and digging into the softer carbon. So, then when you use them again after some time in that state, the contacts *jump* over all those past resting spots, and the paddles skip all over the damn place. And, because its a dead-simple analog system, there's no debounce designed into the circuit (that I'm aware of) like there is on a keyboard, so you see all of that feedback on the screen and in your play.
If you give a paddle a good 200-300 cycles, you will start to notice the twitchiness reduced, because you are redistributing the carbon dust and making the carbon paths more even/more uniform, leading to silky-smooth performance. That's also probably why why electronic contact cleaner works well as a temporary fix...it wrangles all the carbon dust, redistributes it, and then off-gasses.
So, sure, after 30 years of disuse, give the insides a good cleaning....but after that, use them faithfully and regularly, and they will continue to perform well! In my case, I have hours of Astroblast as my preferred preventative paddle maintenance.
When you get to the 7800, please promise me you'll spend some real quality time with Midnight Mutants. It guest stars Grandpa Munster, but it's so much more than that.
Is that the game that sells for twice as much as the console?
Yes it's also the best game for that system. It's a action adventure game and it's very fun. The cartridge alone is too expensive for me. This was back when I had a Atari 7800. Also forget buying mean 18 for the Atari 7800 it's hundreds of dollars
So it's your fault James took a giant internet crap on the 5200? ^_^ I kid but that episode actually motivated me to get a 5200.
I came across a company called Champ that actually made a keypad module you plug a regular joystick into for the Colecovision bitd which would have been great for 5200 too. So at least somebody was thinking about how the keypad was getting in the way of the joystick.
Strangely my 5200 controllers never had a problem They both lasted until I unfortunately broke my 5200 one drunk night in 2004.
Actually with paddles if you clean out the powder sludge that forms with wear you can get them back to working order for a while. Spray won't get rid of the sludge, you have to swab it out.
I wish James would revisit the 5200, as well as the 7800.
How are the 7800 controllers. Don’t remember having issues with them. Never played the 5200.
Actually I never owned a 7800 controller. I bought a special wire to hook in the controller port to use Sega controllers😅. I really enjoyed the 7800 to bad it wasn't more popular
Watching Mike play Dig Dug is the best few minutes, my personal favorite up to that point in the video
I love the skate or die 2 theme in the background in the beginning that game was my favorite as a kid I use to love watching the logo change colors it was amazing haha
When playing Frogger, does the end of the screen kill you, or does it loop around?
Ballblazer is also a good two player game
Mike , did you make that Star trek collage on the wall behind you?
Its a poster from the 70s
Have you guys journey to Mecca? Galloping Ghost in north Chicago ?
Paddle games were the best. My favourites being Super Breakout and Kaboom.
Rescue on fractalis-you have to save the pilots. I think you land. There’s even Some surprises when you do. George Lucas suggested something that I won’t spoil but it’s said this was the first game to really scare people. They were going to make a version for 7800 but sadly never did.
1:13:53-1:14:03 Shitpost potential there
I just 100% completed AVGN Adventures I & II Deluxe today... now it's time to tune in and watch Mike get frustrated at games as much as I was trying to collect all of the Nerd letters lol... Now we need an AVGN Adventure III...
Is there an Action 5200?
1:02:25 Didn't The Last Jedi start out like this.
I played the hell out of the 5200 my uncle gave to us (Along with over 50 games), but man those controllers, ugh. I loved Miner 2049er, Space Dungeon, Montezuma's Revenge, and The Dreadnaught Factor though.
Thanks for the cozy content Mike.
2:27:00 Needs trakball, no?
Hmm odd on Moonpatrol, it is just the secondary fire button on the 5200. I remember mostly playing it on the C64 but the timing was iffier on the jumnps.
9:12 Street Fighter 2010 soundtrack :), You should definitely stream that one, amazing game, very difficult, especially at the end, character controls are very well made, has plenty of moves for an NES game, takes time to get used too. Overall very underrated game, quite a gem...
One of my reasons wanted to go to my cousins as a kid, was to play their Atari 2600 and then to play the nes when they got one. Me and my brother final saved up for a NES in grade 5.
Awe Mike you didn’t play the Second Quest in Pittfall II Lost Caverns!! It’s on 5200 but not the VCS!
Where did you get that 5200 controller please tell us
he said. fan made it
It's truly amazing that the 5200 was that broken.
this was my families first console back in the1980s used to play the shit out of star raiders. fondly remember plugging it back in in the days of nes and snes, I have always been a retro gamer haha!
If your only experience with Star Trek was the video games, you'd get the impression the Enterprise was some battle ship designed for war
When I was a kid my brother and I were given the choice between the 5200 or a Colecovision. We choose a Colecovision. Thank God for that. The fact that it could play 2600 games was just the icing on the cake. The Coleco's controllers weren't amazing but they actually worked. And the Trackball was better. Just played River Raid on it the other week.
The 5200 had a few interesting games like Rescue On Fractalis but otherwise it's a piece of garbage. Even now that I'm older and can get one it's just not a system worth having. After Atari changed hands from Bushnell to Warner to the Tramil's it was just a constant downhill slide into irrelevance.
1:54:54 that things operational!
Awesome Mike. Glad you were finally able to do a Atari 5200 stream. I found a company that has been around for many years, that sells brand new improved parts for restoring the original 5200 controllers. Off the top of my head I can't remember the website. But they are out in California. They already sold me a refurbished motherboard for my 4 port 5200 and it works fantastic. Anyway when I get to it, I am going to get the new improved boards and buttons for a couple of my wonky controllers. They are supposed to last for many years with the newer and improved parts. When I remember the website I'll post it for you.
Great stream! I appreciate the intro explanation. I took in a bunch of shit to a local game store and they gave me a ton of credit recently. They said they had a mint complete in box 5200 I said I’ll take. Can’t wait to get it, and get an aftermarket controller and play these things. Just got a flash cart for my 2600 and a 7800 for the first time. Been on a little Atari kick!
Try the Wico for the games that need non self centering analog. Flip the switches on the bottom and bam.. entirely different controller
The games that wouldnt work right in this video will actually play great that way. Some games need analog and some analog games need non self centering.
That Pitfall II still holds up. Great game
Hello Mike. Love the video. I also recommend bumper bash it used the paddle buttons for the flippers. It's a good pinball game, same thing with midnight magic.
Wonder if some of the 5200 games have bit rot due to being really old. Some Nes games I played crash when playing. Nice to see this console in action a victim of bad controls to many systems and then the video game crash of 1984.
Still have my Atari 2600 woody model from 1977
35:20 Mike, Colecovison also never had a version of Pac Man. Atarisoft created a prototype that was never released
Neither did the odyssey systems which their pad man clone Atari sued their butt off
OMG STOP SHOOTING THE FUEL
I think you can buy modded Atari Jaguar controllers for the 5200. Alot of these games are exactly the same as the versions for the XEGS and many of the others have been hacked to play on it
If you collect quick claw the lion, Rhonda pitfalls niece and the big diamond ring on 5200 pitfall 2 there's a very cool surprise. I liked pitfall 2,star raiders, star trek, qix, counter measure and megamania for 5200 all very good games. Definitely try the pitfall 2 recommendation I promise you won't be disappointed.
Does he say where he got that joystick from?
His pants 😉
a fan. he said it
it's weird Atari didnt put composite atleast on the 5200 when the atari 8 bit computer it is based on has S-video. Also weird how it isnt compatible with the Atari 8-bit computer cartridges
You need the manual and overlays for Countermeasure
i can make those paddles and mod other old joysicks, like that clicky bastard for the commodore computers. let me know if there are other things like that too. i can also build mod kits too. i just didn't think anyone would be interested in it! :)
Whuuaatt? No BEAMRIDER? Damn!
How lucky are we?? Another one! Thanks Mike
22:51, awesome graphics.
5200 had true potential to bright. A lot of the games (despite they're ports from pc/arcade or not) seemed pretty funny and interesting to play for the era. But what a shame that only one stupid decision (low budget invested on the controllers) can make the whole difference.
That's my criteria for a good 5200 game; 'Well it works.'😆
31:00 lmfao. Leroy Jenkins
7800 when? I have that one.
Who would have thought that the company that made Zone Ranger in 1984 would become a international juggernaut?
Got the right controller? "WORKS FUCKING BETTER."
I came here for the introstory alone
Love that nerdstuff
Nice video, Mike!