When I started collecting arcade games, a friend of mine contacted me saying his friend was getting divorced and had a couple arcade games in their basement and wanted them gone. The bad news was they didn't work. The good news were they were free to anyone that would yank them out of her basement. I asked for pics, one was Asteroids and the other was Stargate. I ran over and got them. One fuse and two RAM chips later, Stargate was up and working again. I was a happy boy. A free Stargate in great shape. I still haven't fixed Asteroids. :(
I also sucked at this and Defender arcade versions back in the day… but I still played them. I liked the gameplay, sound effects, and graphics. Awesome!
I love all of your videos. Thank you for taking the time to make them. I also love how you started talking about hanging out on the strip and eating at McDonald’s and Hardee’s. And honking at the girls.
I loved the artwork on this box. The programmers got the look and feel of the arcade game with this one. As much as I love Defender for the 2600 this one felt more like a closer translation of this arcade game. Really good video and the ramblings just add more background color to your experience. Love this!
Talking about the old days would definitely be a great ramblin video 👍 My first car was an 89 Pontiac firebird. It had the 305, more than plenty for a 16yo kid like me lol. I always had the car loaded with buddies, which was great because it got stuck all the time in the winter 🤣
Oh boy I was so bad at Stargate and Defender out in the arcades too... but still the game looked fantastic and when Defender came out for the Atari 2600 I got it as soon as I could and loved it. I could play it far longer at home, but still wasn't super great at it, but hey at least I wasn't losing quarters at high rates ! And I knew because they were so different that I wasn't really "practising"...
Nice to see that Atari learned their lesson - after many of their top programmers left to form Activision - and gave credit to their games' designers on the box from that point on. They even credit the audio guy!
Probably the best Arcade to 2600 conversion game for back then. Absolutely loved playing this, had second joystick under my toe for quick button press action when i needed it. Would love to see what the custom made joystick looked like.
Stargate, probably the hardest video game ever. People who mastered this game were looked at with respect. It was hard as shit to last anytime at all especially the coin operated version where seemingly the difficulty could be adjusted to make it completely unplayable for all but the game savants who could somehow cope with all the chaos.
Really good version on the Atari 2600. Definitely Defender and Stargate were my favourite Arcade games of all time. Would of been pleased buying this at the time of release.
Kaybee's after the video game crash was a glorious thing...I remember one Kaybee's that had a table at the front of the store filled with Atari games at the $5 price point that they were just trying to get rid of. You could buy four or five games for the same amount of money that you'd spend on just one game a couple of years before. This gave you a chance to buy some games that you didn't know much about because--if the game sucked--it was only $5. I found some good "diamonds in the rough" that way (games I hadn't heard of before, but picked up on a lark and ended up really enjoying, such as Turmoil).
I recall that as well, happened when I was not really into video gaming (was into my car and chasing skirts :P) so I missed out on a lot of them. Otherwise, I would have loaded up :P
Really impressive getting so much game out of the hardware. But the at to play is two-player co-op. The pilot steers and shoots. The navigator watches the radar screen, tells the pilot what to do, and operates the second joystick.
Great job i think we had the same youth i hung up my video games and it was all about my car and hanging out in 84 i was 17 years old oh i have a sealed Defender 2 also i guess no one bought it anyway good work on this!
I remember playing this game with my brother. We would take turns being the main controller guy and the special weapons guy. It actually worked out pretty good. It's a shame that the original engineers didn't envision that having more than one button on the controller would be quite advantageous (and not that much more expensive to manufacture either). As someone from Atari once said, "We had a failure of imagination". When Atari made their 8 bit computers later on they (and Commodore too) followed that same pattern and only put one button on their controller. Sigh.
It's funny that when Defender was shown at an industry convention before its release, "Rally X" was voted to be the most likely to succeed because everyone felt Defender was just too damn hard. Not only did Rally X fall by the wayside and Defender become one of the most successful arcade games ever, but Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar decided that Defender wasn't hard _ENOUGH_ and upped the ante big time with Stargate. Those same guys also created the legendary Robotron, not exactly the world's easiest game either!
Stargate really was a fantastic port... Too bad the video game crash happened around that time. Programmers were really getting a handle on what they could do with the games at that period after 1982.. from Ms. Pacman. To lasergate Pitfall 2 HERO... I could keep going.
Great video! That looks really nice on the 2600. I was wondering if Defender 2 was the same game as Stargate; I have Defender 2 on several collections, including Midway Arcade's Greatest Hits on the Sega Saturn, Midway Arcade Treasures 1 for PC (which I got with my X-Arcade Tankstick) and PS2, and Midway Arcade Origins for Xbox 360. All those versions, and I still can't play them worth a darn (just like in my arcade days) :)
OMG! My box has the same price tag on it! From Kay Bee Toys! And it is Stargate, not Defender II. This is such a well done port! I use a foot controller for the second joystick controls. Easier than trying to use two joysticks! LOL Did you know that Bob hacked this game into Defender Arcade?
one of my favourite games I had back in the day :) we lent it to a friend of my brother's at school, and the game got ruined a bit by his cordial bottle leaking in his bag :( the game still worked but the graphics were altered, a weird side effect for sure
For the 2600 it is impressive on a technical level, but despite the flicker, the original Defender does more for me on the 2600. Humans are roaming around bored around cities and not barren mountain ranges where hungry bears and eagles are more likely to take them. Though why bears and eagles are hanging around barren areas.. Maybe extraterrestrials put people there as bait. But why extraterrestrials would do all that...
I am the original owner for Stargate with completed in box and bought in January 1990. Interested. Your Stargate user manual printed in color. Mine is printed in monochrome or black and white.
put a smile on my face i think of mom and dad got me atari 2600 in 1980 at christmas it is all i asked for mom and dad worked all their lives hard work came with combat and mom and dad got one more game astoriods thanks willie🥲🎄🎁🕹
When I started collecting arcade games, a friend of mine contacted me saying his friend was getting divorced and had a couple arcade games in their basement and wanted them gone. The bad news was they didn't work. The good news were they were free to anyone that would yank them out of her basement. I asked for pics, one was Asteroids and the other was Stargate. I ran over and got them. One fuse and two RAM chips later, Stargate was up and working again. I was a happy boy. A free Stargate in great shape. I still haven't fixed Asteroids. :(
these old school games held it down for us KIDS in the 1980's, lol
I also sucked at this and Defender arcade versions back in the day… but I still played them. I liked the gameplay, sound effects, and graphics. Awesome!
This and Defender, great visuals and sound effects, designed to eat your quarters!!
Incredible conversion.
This looks amazing for the 2600. Very close to the arcade version. Much closer than Defender, IMO.
I love all of your videos. Thank you for taking the time to make them. I also love how you started talking about hanging out on the strip and eating at McDonald’s and Hardee’s. And honking at the girls.
I loved the artwork on this box. The programmers got the look and feel of the arcade game with this one. As much as I love Defender for the 2600 this one felt more like a closer translation of this arcade game. Really good video and the ramblings just add more background color to your experience. Love this!
The conversion is spellbindingly good. It surprised me back in the day.
Talking about the old days would definitely be a great ramblin video 👍 My first car was an 89 Pontiac firebird. It had the 305, more than plenty for a 16yo kid like me lol. I always had the car loaded with buddies, which was great because it got stuck all the time in the winter 🤣
Oh boy I was so bad at Stargate and Defender out in the arcades too... but still the game looked fantastic and when Defender came out for the Atari 2600 I got it as soon as I could and loved it. I could play it far longer at home, but still wasn't super great at it, but hey at least I wasn't losing quarters at high rates ! And I knew because they were so different that I wasn't really "practising"...
Nice to see that Atari learned their lesson - after many of their top programmers left to form Activision - and gave credit to their games' designers on the box from that point on. They even credit the audio guy!
Probably the best Arcade to 2600 conversion game for back then. Absolutely loved playing this, had second joystick under my toe for quick button press action when i needed it. Would love to see what the custom made joystick looked like.
Stargate, probably the hardest video game ever. People who mastered this game were looked at with respect. It was hard as shit to last anytime at all especially the coin operated version where seemingly the difficulty could be adjusted to make it completely unplayable for all but the game savants who could somehow cope with all the chaos.
Really good version on the Atari 2600.
Definitely Defender and Stargate were my favourite Arcade games of all time.
Would of been pleased buying this at the time of release.
Kaybee's after the video game crash was a glorious thing...I remember one Kaybee's that had a table at the front of the store filled with Atari games at the $5 price point that they were just trying to get rid of. You could buy four or five games for the same amount of money that you'd spend on just one game a couple of years before. This gave you a chance to buy some games that you didn't know much about because--if the game sucked--it was only $5. I found some good "diamonds in the rough" that way (games I hadn't heard of before, but picked up on a lark and ended up really enjoying, such as Turmoil).
I recall that as well, happened when I was not really into video gaming (was into my car and chasing skirts :P) so I missed out on a lot of them. Otherwise, I would have loaded up :P
Really impressive getting so much game out of the hardware. But the at to play is two-player co-op. The pilot steers and shoots. The navigator watches the radar screen, tells the pilot what to do, and operates the second joystick.
Great job i think we had the same youth i hung up my video games and it was all about my car and hanging out in 84 i was 17 years old oh i have a sealed Defender 2 also i guess no one bought it anyway good work on this!
I remember playing this game with my brother. We would take turns being the main controller guy and the special weapons guy. It actually worked out pretty good. It's a shame that the original engineers didn't envision that having more than one button on the controller would be quite advantageous (and not that much more expensive to manufacture either). As someone from Atari once said, "We had a failure of imagination". When Atari made their 8 bit computers later on they (and Commodore too) followed that same pattern and only put one button on their controller. Sigh.
It's funny that when Defender was shown at an industry convention before its release, "Rally X" was voted to be the most likely to succeed because everyone felt Defender was just too damn hard. Not only did Rally X fall by the wayside and Defender become one of the most successful arcade games ever, but Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar decided that Defender wasn't hard _ENOUGH_ and upped the ante big time with Stargate. Those same guys also created the legendary Robotron, not exactly the world's easiest game either!
Stargate really was a fantastic port... Too bad the video game crash happened around that time. Programmers were really getting a handle on what they could do with the games at that period after 1982.. from Ms. Pacman. To lasergate Pitfall 2 HERO... I could keep going.
Great video! That looks really nice on the 2600. I was wondering if Defender 2 was the same game as Stargate; I have Defender 2 on several collections, including Midway Arcade's Greatest Hits on the Sega Saturn, Midway Arcade Treasures 1 for PC (which I got with my X-Arcade Tankstick) and PS2, and Midway Arcade Origins for Xbox 360. All those versions, and I still can't play them worth a darn (just like in my arcade days) :)
OMG! My box has the same price tag on it! From Kay Bee Toys! And it is Stargate, not Defender II. This is such a well done port! I use a foot controller for the second joystick controls. Easier than trying to use two joysticks! LOL Did you know that Bob hacked this game into Defender Arcade?
Stargate? I thought the sequel to Defender was just called Defender 2?
It was Stargate as that was the official Arcade cabinet's title, later re-releases of it on the 2600(red label)were called Defender 2.
one of my favourite games I had back in the day :) we lent it to a friend of my brother's at school, and the game got ruined a bit by his cordial bottle leaking in his bag :( the game still worked but the graphics were altered, a weird side effect for sure
Thanks i Play this game today thanks good RUclips channel
For the 2600 it is impressive on a technical level, but despite the flicker, the original Defender does more for me on the 2600. Humans are roaming around bored around cities and not barren mountain ranges where hungry bears and eagles are more likely to take them. Though why bears and eagles are hanging around barren areas..
Maybe extraterrestrials put people there as bait. But why extraterrestrials would do all that...
Probably one of the best arcade conversions for the 2600 (at that time). How do you do the 'inviso"?
I don't have that one. I should get it.
Anyone tried using a Sega Genesis controller for Stargate? It worked perfectly for other games.
12:44 terminal velocity hehe
good video good game
I am the original owner for Stargate with completed in box and bought in January 1990. Interested. Your Stargate user manual printed in color. Mine is printed in monochrome or black and white.
Atari Corp reissued games after 1986 with B&W mannys.
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What!?! No God mode!?!
Awesome game, but I stink at this game.
Most of these games are unplayable after a few minutes. They were made stupid hard on purpose to take all your quarters.
At first, I thought this game was based on the 'Stargate' movie.
put a smile on my face i think of mom and dad got me atari 2600 in 1980 at christmas it is all i asked for mom and dad worked all their lives hard work came with combat and mom and dad got one more game astoriods thanks willie🥲🎄🎁🕹