The Atari 2600 Games I Loved | Friday Night Arcade
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Aaron takes a trip down memory lane with some of his favorite Atari 2600 titles from his youth. Or as we used to call them back in the day... "Atari games." Atari 2600 games were simple given the limitations of the hardware, but when they were done properly it made for a truly memorable and fantastic gaming experience that transcends generations.
From Aaron: "I still have the Atari 2600 that my parents had in the house when I was a kid growing up. Technically that thing is older than me. My parents passed it down to me and somehow this thing still works! They don't make them like they used to. For me as a little kid the simple joystick and single button controller was all you needed for great night of gaming. Before Nintendo, Sega and all the rest... for me there was always the Atari 2600. Or as I like to call it, The Atari."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[0:42] - Enduro
[2:38] - Chopper Command
[3:56] - River Raid
[5:16] - Space Invaders
[8:17] - Combat
[10:03] - Starmaster
[11:36] - Robot Tank
[12:39] - Cosmic Ark
[14:45] - Asteroids
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If you enjoyed this but didn't see your favorite Atari 2600 game mentioned here, odds are I covered it in one of my other more recent Atari videos. Here's a playlist with all of my Atari 2600 episodes and thanks for watching! ruclips.net/p/PLdGtTWqCEvuJCOriBVUUtmrYY8mht1Ll5
Love to get my hands on a copy of the Astroids lp.
Ended up doing a standalone video on that LP ... it's... it's something lol... ruclips.net/video/12xpc-zONAg/видео.html
The goal of the game is to collect two of every species on each planet you visit. The goal of Noah's ark was to pick up two of every species before The Great Flood. Hence the name, "Cosmic Ark."
Interesting fact regarding Space Invaders... The idea of the aliens speeding up as they were fewer of them was actually not planned. This was actually a byproduct of the computer limitations at the time ... with all the aliens on the screen, the computer ran slower .. As there were less of them, the computer could run faster. Though it was a mistake at first, they quickly realized it was much more fun this way.
Defender and Adventure were two more of my favorites.
The Atari 2600 is a masterpiece and in my opinion it is forgotten way too often in this day and age.
Whoever done the cart artwork was amazing.
My imagination as a 7 year old went into overdrive. The art was what the game was supposed to be. It didn't matter what the graphics looked like because i had the final realisation.
I really wish i kept the boxes, but i still have my console and games.
You'll love The Art Of Atari book if you haven't seen it yet. Amazing!
I kept the packages as long as I could, but didn't use them so tossed them on a move. I lost a few instruction manuals, unfortunately, which I did want to keep.
I do think it was necessary to put the screen shot on the back, which Atari finally did in 1983, but too late. You could see in the ads in comic books how primitive the Atari 2600 ports looked compared to others.
I actually made my Atari freak out. It's as close as I can say to beating asteroids. When I was a kid, I played it long enough to over run the score. It took over 4 hrs. Was well worth it though.
I still have my very first Atari from the 2600 got it for Christmas back in the late 1970s
They're worth a few grand now if it's still in the box. The Japanese love them.
Enduro is an Activision masterpiece!
Great video. The 2600 doesn't get enough coverage on RUclips, in my opinion.
Thank you. Yes, I agree - would like to see more 2600 love on the RUclips. I might have to help remedy that.
I've been streaming it on Twitch, forget RUclips.
Iv'e done a couple of Atari 2600 videos but nobody seems to want to watch em any how.
At least AVGN, aka James Rolfe (sometimes with Mike Matei) and Mark from Classic Game Room did made Atari 2600 famous on RUclips.
Still have mine in my game room along with my Colecovision. I usually will get into a mood to have an Atari night every now and then. My 12 year old gets bored quick, but will play along. The cool thing for me is grabbing games I did not own or play back in the day.
I asked my cousin's son who was about that age if he wanted to see the games I played (on RUclips) when I was his age.
"No."
This from a kid _watching_ other people play games.
The Atari 2600 was my first system growing up and is still my favorite. Here are some of my favorite games in addition to the ones you listed in your video: Missile Command, Centipede, Megamania, Beamrider, Pitfall, Kaboom, Frogger, Berzerk, Demon Attack, Yars Revenge, Ms. Pacman, Warlords, Dodge "Em, Adventure, Super Breakout, Pong and Outlaw.
Enduro looks fantastic for the 2600 holy hell.
Terribly underappreciated game. Hard to believe it's on the 2600.
Groundbreaking game, best driving game on the system
Yes, there was a time when the word "Activision" made people happy instead of sad.
yeah.............
I just looked at their first 4 releases: Boxing, Fishing Derby, checkers and Dragster. From those, who'd have thought their next games would be really good.
@@sandal_thong8631 I loved Dragster. Blowing the engine was fun
I'm very thankful that I got into gaming early enough to enjoy the Atari era. The annual Portland Retro Gaming Expo last month was full of Atari and early Activision alums like David Crane and Howard Scott Warshaw. Getting to tell these guys in person how their games were part of my fondest childhood memories from 35 years ago was a fantastic experience. And yes, mine is still a permanent part of my entertainment setup. It's got Nolan Bushnell's autograph right on the woodgrain. ;)
I feel so bad that I keep missing this and I've lived here for years...
I come down from Seattle every year. Wouldn't miss it for anything.
Whoa... that's incredible. Thank you for sharing. That would have been so cool to shoot the breeze with those legends, even for a few minutes. That's fantastic.
High five !
Nice selection of games. I think I played every one of these with the exception of Cosmic Ark and possibly Robot Tank
Love all these! Let's not forget Adventure! The. First console RPG per se! Definitely the first game with an Easter egg!
I played it through all options then made my own ending where I had to get everything in the starting castle including the chalice. What was the Easter egg?
Warren Robinett sneaking his name into the game. Had do do certain things to unlock hidden room. ruclips.net/video/YS-HYWRdb2g/видео.html
Few games I enjoyed playing were Demon Attack Kaboom Megamania Hanted House Yar's Revenge Jungle Hunt
Frogs and Flies is a real gem as well, and one I loved growing up. It even has day-to-night transitions like Enduro!
Randy Miller III Frogs and Flies is great for 2 player
Atari 2600 was the first system I ever played that my childhood best friend showed me. Once I played it I was hooked. I loved it do much that my very first system I owned was the 7800. The 7800 played both 2600 and 7800 cartridges. Pitfall 2, Jungle Hunt, food fight, were my jam back in the day. Thank you Aaron for this trip down memory lane. You have, once again, done the 2600 justice.
Awesome! I want to get into the 7800 at some point - we never had that one, but I know there are some interesting titles for it.
In the early 80's, when I was really small, I remember my mom leaving the house and coming back with a big box. It was the 2600, and at 3 years old, I didn't understand what it was, but I clearly remember how happy she was. I quickly learned to navigate the worlds of Defender, Yars Revenge, Wizards of Wor (I THINK that was the title), Space Invaders, and a few others. I consider it a solid foundation for my lifelong love of gaming.
Yes Wizards of Wor was awesome.
That's awesome - I love to hear stories like this, thank you for sharing. It's funny how those early primitive (but special) games would go on to be the building blocks of how we play games today. And the emotional attachment to those sights and sounds will always be there. Plus just the memories of playing those games with family that maybe have sense passed on... that's a thing for me anyway.
I think it was Wizard of WOR, I had it, was great
StormyLaura Oh man I forgot about defender. And Missile Command.
Yes, the choice to get an atari made way more sense than buying diapers
You forgot to include the super satisfying story about WHY the Space Invaders speed up as you pick them off. It wasn't because the developers thought of his as a means to increase difficulty. It's because the speed of the aliens was limited by the hilariously weak processing power of the hardware. As you removed sprites from the screen, the processor was able to animate the fewer remaining sprites faster, and did so automatically. When the developers saw this unintended effect, they decided to leave it in.
I had no idea about this... that's fantastic lol.
I doubt it
Talk about going down memory lane,ahh fond memories of playing till the sun came up.Kaboom ,circus , skiing,empire strikes back,starmaster were just some of my favs,so many to name.Awesome video thanks.
Atari 2600 was my first home entertainment console too. My dad actually had it and what he did was he gave it to me to play. After all that, I visited some different thrift shops that still had the A 2600 cartridges. Even if I don't play it any more, I did download Stella emulator for Atari 2600 games. Very cool classic!
Awesome - thanks for sharing!! Love to hear stories like this.
Wow!!! Cosmic Ark!!! I completely forgot about that game. Thanks for the memories!!!!!!
I've now played several Imagic games and that's the best one, even though Demon Attack may have sold double and been the 11th best-selling Atari game (it had a good ad campaign and beat the release of Phoenix).
something about being allowed to stay up late as a kid in the 80's and playing those games at night in the dark with only the TV on.. Ive been playing through 2600, Intellivision and Colecovision game libraries lately, so much fun
My 2600 still works too. Great system. Great vid , these picks are gems
It's funny how XBoxes and PS3s are dying off but that old wood grain bastard still works. Thanks for sharing.
Space Invaders trick... we learned back then that if you held down reset while powering on, it let you fire two shots at a time.
First game out of the gate: ENDURO!! I absolutely adore that game. Easily a Top 5 2600 game.
Awesome! It really is just fantastic. Sounds are perfect.
My favorite go to games on the 2600 were always Yar’s Revenge, Kaboom, Pitfall, Combat, Warlords and Star Wars Empire Strikes Back.
The two actors in the commercial, are Chuck McCann and John Lawler. Chuck played in "Far Out Space Nuts" and voiced Sonny the Cukoo, in "Coco Puffs". Lawler was the headmaster, in the first season of "The Facts of Life".
Those Atari 2600 games sure brings back memories of when I began my lifelong love of gaming.
Early 80s friday nights was Pizza and Atari, miss those fun innocent days.
it sure was, our parents limited it use during the school week but Friday night It was game on. I used to wake up super early on Saturday morning , turn the sound down and play.
My parents would go out on friday nights , they would give us money for pizza. So my older brother would invite a friend ovet, and so would I . My brother was 3 years older and one of his friends would bring over albums. I was introduced to lots of new wave, punk, and heavy metal. I ended up loving heavy metal. But I sure do miss those long lost nights of having Atari Parties, listening to music, hanging out with friends, and eating greasy pizza
Robot Tank , Enduro, River Raid.....All brilliant happy memories ,
Many a rainy gloomy fall afternoon in the 80's I spent playing Asteroids.
Asteroids, Missile Command and Space Invaders are why Atari earned the market share over the Intellivision. They had better sports games (as did Odyssey 2) but couldn't get the licenses, I guess.
Thank you for taking us on this trip down memory lane.
I went through 5 Xboxes and only 1 Atari 2600 that probably still works today if I had it.
We had to get mine repaired a few months after the console read all the fire buttons as being pressed. I think I have 3 in the closet now, getting another one or two from grandparents who played some themselves.
Some of my favorites were:
1) Ms. Pac-Man
2)River Raid
3)E.T. Although it always enfuriated me
4)Enduro (the lights at night on the cars),
5)Bowling
6)Berzerker
7)Yar’s Revenge
8)Dig Dug
9)Centipede and Millipede
10) Football
11)Joust !!!
12) Raiders of the lost ark
13) Jungle Hunt
14) Missile Command
15) Asteroids
That's a mighty fine list...
I too liked E.T. I think it got a bad rap. It was hard as hell but I don't think I shouted any louder the first time I made it to the ship and ET went home.
Adventure, Combat, Berserk, Return of the Jedi, Seaquest, Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, Pole Position, Wizards of Wor and Defender were games I kept coming back to in my stepdad's collection, as a 5 year old. 2600 opened the door to video games for me, but it was his console. It wasn't til I turned 6 I got my first console: NES. Nice selections Aaron, a follow up vid would be cool.🤘🕹
Cool. Yeah, it was a similar deal with myself and my cousin. Both of our families had 2600s, but we each had a separate mix of games that we were typically trading back and forth to try.
@@FridayNightArcade Atari 7800 is basically upgraded 2600 in NES Vs. Master System era.
With most of the Atari games, everything just keeps getting faster until you lose.
That's how the coin-op arcade games were set up. I beat level one of Sinistar on Playstation and level two was impossible for me to beat. However some of the simple variants of Atari arcade ports allow you to play indefinitely as it doesn't get faster and you keep getting new lives. Still, that was a flaw in the business model for home games. On the other hand Atari made 3 adventure games in 1982: Earthworld, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. which allowed you to play for a long time, but they weren't that good.
I think the 3D visual effect in Enduro was done by compressing a top-down view to make it look like it was leading into the screen, with the top of the road being pinched off to make it look like it was leading into the background, and the space above the compressed image being decorated as a background that the road is leading into. To simulate the effect of the other cars getting closer, they get more detailed as they get closer to the bottom of the screen and to your car. After looking at the footage, it appears there are certain designated strips or layers where the cars become more detailed, with said layers becoming closer together and more frequent near the bottom of the screen. The faster you go, the faster the other cars go from layer to layer.
I'm not an expert though, I'm only guessing based on what it looks like is happening to me, so I could be completely wrong.
Interesting, I think that may be it. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you William!
Astroids on vinyl? Now THAT is awesome. :-P
I may have to do a video on that record at some point :D
Cosmic Ark offers beautiful box art and is a fantastic game. Also, when my dad bought me an Atari in 1982, it came with asteroids and combat...these were the only titles I had to play for literally 5 months...I got really good at asteroids.
River Raid and Pitfall 2
7:57 Oh I have always loved that death fart. I also remember comedian Hal Sparks mentioned that 2600 Space Invaders has a metal soundtrack. If you listen carefully, the sound of the aliens moving at beginning sounds like the first few notes from AC/DC's Back in Black. By the end when there's one alien left its thrash metal.
They now call Space Invaders the "killer app" for the Atari. Its license really made the Atari VCS/2600 by selling lots of consoles to play it when it came out in 1980, allowing Atari to dominate the market. One wonders what would have happened had Intellivision licensed that game?
I'm pretty sure that it was one of the initial games I got along with my console.
I like how old game covers/artwork stimulated imagination. A game could be simple but in your mind you had a story that kept you playing.
Oh man, I can remember my original lineup for the 2600. I had Mario Bros, Combat, Space Invaders, E.T., Superman, The Empire Strikes Back, Donkey Kong (which was the death of a joystick or two), Breakout, Asteroids, Smurf. At lest those are the ones I can distinctly remember and either have fond memories of, or cause me to curl into the fetal position and shudder uncontrollably. Anyway, as always, I love your channel and content, keep up the great work!
I grew up in a very poor family. My Mother somehow managed to buy us a 2600 using her tax return and money she saved for us to "get ahead" and I will always appreciate what she did. My Father (mom and dad weren't together) worked for NCR in Ithaca NY and was an electronic engineer in a relatively high position. He made this little doodad that I could put the ROM chips in and it had like 4 different toggle switches on it for a,b,c,d and combos of them and I was lucky enough to have every single 2600 game...most before they even came out commercially in the stores (sears lol). I was the envy of every kid in my area.
I love and miss you O.K.Johnson...Dad
Enduro, it made me feel good seeing that.
The Atari 2600 was my first video game console and is still one of my favorites. Some of my favorite 2600 titles include Demon Attack, Ms. Pac-Man, Vanguard, Solar Fox, Tron Deadly Discs, Lock n Chase, Bump n Jump, Video Olympics, Jungle Hunt, & Kaboom.
That's awesome - thanks for sharing. Some great titles on that list. I played a lot of Lock n Chase back in the day as well - forgot about that one!
@@FridayNightArcade Even though Pac-Man 2600 was bad, Pac-Man fever was so strong everybody wanted to play it or a knock-off like Lock n Chase, or Dark Cavern (the latter didn't have dots). A documentary I saw claimed Spielberg asked if they could just do the E.T. game like Pac-Man. Unfortunately, they made one or two million more Pac-Man carts than there were 2600s already sold! Thinking they were going to sell more on the strength of Pac-Man.
I didn't remember playing Enduro till I realized it had a different name in the Middle East market. I did remember that acceleration sound so I knew I had played that game. Just had a different name.
Enduro was amazing.
Just watching it here put a smile on my face.
And believe me - I once reached level 24. Yeah, I was that into it back in the day.
Same thing with River Raid - even my dad liked it.
My brother was rabid Hero fan.
And what about Frost Bite? Man, oh, man.
I was born well after the time of Atari 2600. By the time I was 6 or 7, everyone I knew had a Wii, the Nintendo DS was the cool new thing every kid wanted, and the N64 and Gamecube were considered old-school. I had a PS2 at one point, but I only had a few games for it, and since I didn't have a memory card I wasn't able to experience as much of those games. Now I'm 20, we're up to the PS4 and the video games look more real than some films, the Wii died and was resurrected as the Wii U only to die again a year later, we have a home console that's also a mobile one, Virtual Reality is actually a REAL THING, and the current gen Xbox... is cool and high-end but besides that doesn't really seem all that appealing... not much different from when I was growing up to be honest. It's amazing how far we've come, and looking back it might seem almost silly how comparably simplistic games used to be. But these simple pixels were the roots of everything we have today, and it's amazing how much they were able to accomplish despite the limitations of the time. These games' developers did the best with what they had to work with, and that's why these classics not only held the test of time, but also led to everything we have today.
You got it right. To me, it's just impressive to see how they did so much with so little. Sure, you can fire up your PS4 now and have ultrarealistic graphics, but it's to the point for me at least where we're just kinda desensitized to it. A lot of these games today don't even feel like games, it just feels like a guided movie with some occasional interaction. And now I sound like a cranky old man lol.
Star master was for me one of the top ten games for the system. Seemed to have something in common with games made for things like BBCb
Great channel. Really nice and chilled. Thanks
1. Indy 500
2. Kaboom!
3. Football
4. Air Sea Battle
5. Dodge 'Em
Sergio Galindo Football?
I was surprised to learn Indy 500 was part of the initial release of games with the system, including Surround and Air-Sea Battle. It seemed much fancier than Street Racer. It's too bad the steering controller was only with that game. It limited the chances for more games with that kind of controller, like Tempest or a sequel.
I remember playing two-player Dodge 'Em at the store, and was surprised when the other car moved when I got it home! I gave up on Dodge 'Em after I got the full score on difficulty B, which was the Logbook challenge. A few years ago I tried to learn the patterns to get full points on Left-A, and Right-A, as well as both on A. But I don't think I did both as "fast" and "different start" were too much with "2 enemies".
This post was awesome!!!! Brought back tons of great memories, TY!!!!!!
What's cool about riverraid is the missile guides with the turning jet
I remember trying to figure out Starmaster without using the instructions...just sat there shooting until the power ran out.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
Starmaster is in my top 5 2600 game list.
A Flashback to my childhood! Thank you!
Asteroids, I turned the score over 10 times, took me an hour and a half... Maybe 2..... long time ago.
chris keeley I remember the first time I turned the score over. I was so shocked that it went back to 0.
Same here, my best friend and I would stay up all night "flipping" the score, 1 game all night.
I don't think I was able to do that on the harder version for the Logbook challenge where you don't get extra ships, even when I tried a few years ago. The UFO and satellite would get me.
Yars Revenge was my deal. I loved that game well through my NES days and beyond.
Yes, many great memories playing these 2600 titles. I always sucked at chopper command so I gave it to a friend who somehow got so good at it. He could play it continuously for hours until the score was beyond what I believed was possible. Then the game would just freeze up and we thought that was the greatest achievement ever. Man, life was much simpler then.
Wizard of Wor Best 2600 game Check it out....
Lots of great choices in there!
If you have your space invaders cartridge plugged in you can turn the on switch (up) while at the same time turn the reset button (down)-it will give you rapid fire. 😝
Mike S nice
Oh crap! That's right! Great historical point!
I completely forgot playing these back in the early 80s, thanks.
Saw your channel through an ad while watching the gaming historian and it got me interested in this channel
Hey thanks for stopping by and checking out the channel.
Friday Night Arcade no problem
Tomcat or f14 flight simulator was the game I always go to first when i break out the 2600. Having said that river raid 1 and 2, pitfall, chopper command, commando, fishing derby, robot tank, battlezone, enduro and bump and jump are ones that always get into my console
WOW I thought I was the only Enduro fan in the whole world.
Enduro was my JAM!!!!
Some of my favorites were Decathalon, Pitfall, Dragster, Activision's Boxing, Haunted House, Adventure.... god the 2600 was so awesome!
I loved that dang Boxing game lol....
@@FridayNightArcade it looked like 2 boxing crabs. And the way the punches would make their face cave in was awesome.
On 2 player games me and my brother used to cheat against each other and pull each others joysticks out turn the power off. Good times
Fun fact: on Atari Space Invaders, you could hold down one of the switches (maybe select?) when you power-on and it would give you 2 shots at a time instead of 1.
Another great video. I always loved berserk felt like a single player combat in some regards
Nice, I'll have to check that one out. Someone supposedly did a ROMhack of Combat to add in some basic AI so you could play single player mode but I couldn't find a working version.
For those interested, the logbook challenge for Combat was to play 15b and hit the plane 17x for Pro, 26x for Master, and 34x for Wizard, before time is up. I later got Armor Ambush, but kids didn't want to play 2-player Atari any more.
Played Missile Command, Adventure, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Combat, Chopper Command, Warlords, joust, Berzerk, Defender, Centipede, Frogger, Joust, Dig Dug, Pole Position, and Pitfall the most :)
I’m 54 and played them originally when they weren’t vintage :)
Another great thing about Space Invaders was 2-player co-op
I loved the Atari 2600 but I was more of a Vectrex fan. I still have mine and it works perfectly. Boy these babies were built to last.
Nice vid. For me it was Yar's Revenge, Jungle Hunt, Ice Hockey, Skiing, RealSports Baseball, RealSports Football, RealSports Boxing, Star Raiders, Tron's Deadly Discs, Defender, Spider-Man, Defender, Defender 2 and Middle Command.
Mine were. River Raid,Atlantis,Yars Revenge,Indy 500,and Ms. Pacman. To name a few.
The late 70's and early 80's were a great time for that console......I''m glad you included at least one Imagic title.....I was always partial to the Activision and Imagic games (loved Demon Attack and Atlantis). Missile Command was another good Atari title.....You've got me all jazzed to go unbox my old one and hook it up to my last remaining CRT set and play some memories :-) Thumbs up!
Oh man, Cosmic Ark was my favourite on the 2600. My friend and I got so far that the lasers on the planet surface were almost like solid lines and we somehow got through the first level where the lasers are like this and got to a world where the little creatures on the surface looked a lot like Pacman ! Fantastic game though.
Oh and the sounds! During the mothership / asteroid stage, the sheer panic those sound fx gave you with the rising tone with each new asteroid you destroyed and that 'ping' when you knew one of those wavy asteroids was coming. How to give kids heart attacks.
I swear, I played all of these! I still play River Raid on a PS2 compilation. Still an awesome game.
With Space Invaders, if you held the reset button down while you turned the system on, you'd get a bunch of new game modes. This would do strange things with other games as well.
Some of the best video game sunsets
Yes!
I love the video. Great memories. My all time favorite.... E.T.
Dude, your "moving Christmas tree" description had me rolling!!! Thanks for your Atari videos. Keep up the good work!!!!
I miss the days when games came with the consoles.
I was surprised when I learned to save money they only included one controller in some consoles.
Robot Tank, that scrambled picture effect as you lose contact with your destroyed tank.
Hint in Space Invaders. They are a bug in the game that allows you to have double shots..when you insert the cartridge hold down reset while turning the power on..double shots and quicker scoring at your command. 😋
Terribly underrated channel......thank you:)
That's very kind of you to say - thank you.
With space invaders 2600 game you can in fact have double firing! before turning on the console, hold down the reset switch, then turn on the console while
still holding the reset switch down
Needless to say, Activision has always released the best games for the Atari VCS (AKA Atari 2600). On the Nintendo Entertainment System, however, that's another story...
Casey Decker you misspelled LJN LOL kidding
Space Invaders is my all time favourite for Atari 2600. Beyond growing up with the original wood grain system myself, I've played it on a PC emulator and also on a modded Wii, and I still have not lost the knack for being able to play until the score resets without losing a life (same goes for Asteroids). Think I even managed to reset the score TWICE before losing a life at least once.
Let me know if you know how to defeat invisible aliens. I still need to flip the score in that mode to beat the Logbook challenge.
@@sandal_thong8631 Can't say I've bothered to try the invisible ones quite as much.
@@Hawkeye26 It's a trick to guess where the last one is based on when it hits the edge and drops down and shoot it.
@@sandal_thong8631 Ohhhh, that makes sense...hmmm, it's early so I'm naturally very hesitant to think I could do that.
On the other hand, I know that I take great pride in being able to time the shot when I CAN see it, so...maybe I'd be better at it than I think? lol
@@Hawkeye26 I got my logbook out: Game #9, difficulty B. Lowest rank is 4500, next rank is 6700, and top rank is 9000 short of flipping it. The first time I placed (must be 1982-3 because I had a check mark and no date) I made 2nd rank with 7150, but haven't beat 9000. I think I need to hit 2 UFOs each wave, so I'd face less waves.
I played the hell out of my Atari in the early 80's. Some of my favorites were Robot Tank, Demon Attack, Pitfall 2, Empire Strikes Back, Solar Fox, and Turmoil. I tended to favor the third party games rather than the Atari brand games.
Yeah, they had good ads in comic books (showing the screen shot) and good ads on TV, especially Demon Attack. "Tough!"
Man, a few games on that list that I'd totally forgotten about! Robot tank and Cosmic ark are two of them. so many hours spent playing on the 2600 way back when.
I didn't have the 2600, but I had the Atari 1200XL. This Atari system had a keyboard, and you could equip it with a floppy disk drive, cassette reader, or a modem. I loved playing Defender, Star Raiders (Star Master equivalent), Pole Position, Donkey Kong, Caverns of Mars, and many others.
Using the floppy disk drive, you could play Microprose games like F-15 Strike Eagle, MIG Alley Ace, or early Electronic Arts games like Murder on the Zindernorf (a murder mystery game that took place on a Zeppelin in the 1930's). The cassette could upload games like Zaxxon, and S.C.R.A.M. which was nuclear power plant simulator.
Lots of great stuff.
"Space Invaders" If you held the reset button down as you turned the game on with the space Invaders cartage in. You'd get two shots off, every time you fired
If you enjoyed Enduro, I recommend giving Night Driver a test. It's a bit cruder than Enduro in the sound and graphics department, but I think it plays a tiny bit smoother. Also, since Night Driver uses the paddle instead of the joystick, I think it felt more like "driving."
I was surprised to find it on Wikipedia as the 12th highest-selling Atari cart. I didn't have it, but played the arcade version in a museum.
If you look at the cover of Boston 1978 album don't look back. and the cover of Space Invaders . Both cover's look very similar. And they came out of the same year 1978
Yes and compare the 1976 Boston debut album cover to the cover art of Cosmic Ark. It's the same space ship as Space Invaders but pictured the same as Cosmic Ark.
Excellent list, I pretty much played them all. :)
The ultimate brag was: "I flipped it".
I did that with a couple games. But then my thing was to try to do the Logbook challenge for all the ones I had, then ones I got at the thrift store 10-years later. But some games were just too tough: like invisible Space Invaders or UFOs and satellites taking you out in Asteroids with no extra lives.
I remember that most of the best Atari games weren't made by Atari. They were by Activision, Imagic, M-Network, Bally....
People complain the crash of 1983 was caused by third-party makers, but it was several carts made by Atari in 1982 that damaged their reputation, as well as some third-party games and other consoles that made the 2600 look bad.
Space invaders on 2600 is the best port, I still play this.