Draconus Playthrough (Atari XL/XE)

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  • Опубликовано: 14 авг 2013
  • This is a playthrough for the 1988 Atari game "Draconus".
    From Draconus, developed by Cognito.
    Music for the outro:
    "I Want To Destroy Something Beautiful" - Josh Woodward (joshwoodward.com/)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Комментарии • 83

  • @sudacagamer
    @sudacagamer 2 года назад +13

    Zybex, Draconus and Henry`s House, possibly the most technically impressive atari games.

  • @martinsevera7276
    @martinsevera7276 9 месяцев назад +2

    The best game on Atari 800 XE. Amazing graphics, music, and game play. Got it as soon as it came out and at 5 years old it took me ages to complete it😂 looks so simple watching it now. Thanks for uploading it. Good memories

    • @JCsChannel
      @JCsChannel  9 месяцев назад

      Couldn't agree more, this was a classic.

  • @digimikeh
    @digimikeh Год назад +4

    i think Draconus, Nnja Commando and Zybex shared the same base frameworks for developing ..

    • @tommyeastwood4393
      @tommyeastwood4393 Год назад +1

      Same ppl behind the prpject, same atari st used in the creation process.

    • @zbyseklipka406
      @zbyseklipka406 2 месяца назад

      and Mountain Bike Racer
      ruclips.net/video/9WIPivVuQhU/видео.html

  • @arekkosiarski5431
    @arekkosiarski5431 8 лет назад +20

    Draconus is the best game on C64 and Atari XL/XE

  • @lordplatanos8189
    @lordplatanos8189 7 лет назад +16

    Uno de los mejores juegos que he jugado en ATARI con el antiguo disco flexible de los 80.
    Particularmente para mi fue el primer juego de terror, porque el personaje termina con la cabeza explotando; el primer fatalaty de la historia de los juegos.

    • @supermasterPIK
      @supermasterPIK 6 лет назад +1

      para esa epoca eso era lo maximo.

    • @ernestopoblete
      @ernestopoblete 5 лет назад +1

      era bienisimo junto con captain comando y zibex, creo que era la misma gente que lo producia tenian una grafica similar

    • @alexandervalle525
      @alexandervalle525 5 лет назад +2

      Esa es una buena observacion.....el primer gore de los videojuegos....antes de barbarian....

    • @ryucy18
      @ryucy18 3 года назад +1

      🤤 amo este juego, la intro la tengo como tono de llamada en mi cel. 😍 fue uno de los primeros juegos de mi infancia.

    • @JugandoDeNuevo
      @JugandoDeNuevo 2 года назад +3

      Totalmente de acuerdo. El "primer fatalaty de la historia de los juegos" de Atari. Me hubiera gustado mencionar eso en mi video de Draconus :P. La muerte del protagonista era muy "sanguinaria" para aquellos años. Si te fijas, no sólo le explota la cabeza, si no mas bien toda la mitad del cuerpo 😱. Eso fue impactante para muchos que éramos niños en aquel entonces.

  • @panschop
    @panschop 3 года назад +5

    I remember when I was a kid, playing this game at night. So creepy.

    • @zbyseklipka406
      @zbyseklipka406 2 месяца назад

      Yeah, that atmosphere in dark caves

  • @garbixxx1
    @garbixxx1 Год назад +1

    just longer periods when this amazing music appears

  • @Adam_Lyskawa
    @Adam_Lyskawa Год назад +1

    I watched it for the "game over music" at the end. Game over tunes are the best. Adam Gilmore, Rob Hubbard, Chris Huelsbeck, music of my childhood, the best ever, still as cool when I listen to it 30 years later. As time didn't exist.

  • @tomaskoptik2021
    @tomaskoptik2021 2 года назад +1

    One of the best games on Atari with a reasonable difficulty level. Finished it several times back then.

  • @Nikku4211
    @Nikku4211 5 лет назад +3

    My left ear really enjoyed that.

  • @JCsChannel
    @JCsChannel  11 лет назад +2

    I don't know really, I just recorded it without commentary, and then decided it would be cool to post it that way...

  • @Miesiu
    @Miesiu 5 лет назад +2

    Nice setup of colours.

  • @ragensi
    @ragensi 8 лет назад +10

    Cool game! It has a very eerie atmosphere.
    Is this played with the one button atari joystick? How do get your character to perform so many different moves?

    • @JCsChannel
      @JCsChannel  8 лет назад +6

      Yeah, it's played with the one button joystick. Basically you have the standard movement directions, but if you're pressing the button, you punch, or breathe fire, or use a spell.

    • @alexandervalle525
      @alexandervalle525 5 лет назад

      Yes, just only with one button.

  • @danboid
    @danboid 4 года назад +1

    Shapeshifting reptiles? I was unaware of all that when I had Draconus on my C64. Was it influenced by V or...

  • @buffalodebill7986
    @buffalodebill7986 3 года назад +1

    I never managed to finish this game, but having seen this video (albeit with a certain delay LOL) I think I'll give it a try again (using an emulator, already). Thumbs up :-)

  • @b213videoz
    @b213videoz 4 года назад +5

    This is how "Shadow of the beast" would have looked like on Atari 8 bit

  • @majs85
    @majs85 6 месяцев назад +1

    Why any of the projectiles from boss or preboss encounter didnt do any dmg?

    • @JCsChannel
      @JCsChannel  6 месяцев назад

      You need to be closer for them to do damage.

  • @sinver147
    @sinver147 2 месяца назад

    5:53 is the point where I accidentally found a cheat, well more of a bug really. If you stood on the slab, it didn’t metamorphosis until you were nearly dead, you then had infinite energy.

  • @mati804
    @mati804 10 лет назад +1

    Will you make gameplay from Atari game "Kernaw"?

    • @JCsChannel
      @JCsChannel  10 лет назад

      Let me look in to it, I'm not familiar with that game.

    • @mati804
      @mati804 5 лет назад

      @@JCsChannel So what with "Kernaw"?

  • @patt0x
    @patt0x 5 лет назад +3

    This was my very favorite game in Atari. Metroid was just a perfected copy of this great game

    • @GenMaster
      @GenMaster 5 лет назад

      blimey, indeed!

    • @alexandervalle525
      @alexandervalle525 5 лет назад

      Yes, certainly.

    • @sebastianriffo5388
      @sebastianriffo5388 4 года назад +6

      Draconus is a great game, but Metroid was launched in 1986, two years before than Draconus.

    • @IHATEDRIVING2
      @IHATEDRIVING2 2 года назад

      @@sebastianriffo5388 Yeah thats true, maybe many of us get confused becase most of us moved from atari 800 to the NES,which was a completly new experience about playing videogames at home and that make us think that all Atari games where older than all NES games. When really there are many Atari games that where released after the first NES game.
      By the way there are many guys who think the first Metroid was Super Metroid and dont have any idea about the two previus ones on NES and Gameboy. And Supermetroid with Castlevania Symphony of the Nigh create what we call "metroidvania" games. When really there are 2 Metroids games before and Castlevania 2 Simon Quest which are older with that concept. But they wherent that great and didnt have enough fanbase as those 2 newer games. Instead were very frustrating games to play

  • @fuurson
    @fuurson 3 года назад

    dayum I never played this - I remember my first ,,pegasus'' lol

    • @JCsChannel
      @JCsChannel  3 года назад +1

      This one was one of the best Atari games. Pushed it to the limit.

    • @fuurson
      @fuurson 3 года назад

      @@JCsChannel dope stuff. I remember i played contra as a kid ; D good times!

  • @anneschmitt8461
    @anneschmitt8461 2 года назад

    I remeber you could use 16 colours of your choice from 256, or use one colour in 16 shades... Poor that my assembler editor does not work anymore... I would like to show somes games I wrote back in the 80s here on youtube - but don´t know how to film them properly. That colourfullnes makes the charme in games like this - seems quite similar to the game antiriad!

  • @timm_3r
    @timm_3r 3 года назад

    Spirits Abyss feels inspired by this game.

  • @MrLABEL56
    @MrLABEL56 2 года назад

    Культовая игра!

  • @ubiased23
    @ubiased23 2 года назад +1

    I wish there is a remake of this game on the atari 130xe or the Atari ST.

    • @elmoredneal5382
      @elmoredneal5382 Год назад +1

      Um... This is already running on an XE system 🤷‍♂️

    • @ubiased23
      @ubiased23 Год назад

      @Elmo Redneal that's not what I have meant, and let me clarify. This game is on the Atari 8 bit or the 64kb version. I am trying to say that I would like to see Draconus on the Atari 130xe to take full advantage of the 128kb. Maybe that will give Draconus a graphical and sound advantage.
      The game did not take full advantage of the Atari 130xe 128kb memory.

    • @zbyseklipka406
      @zbyseklipka406 2 месяца назад

      question is - can be even better than this version?

    • @zbyseklipka406
      @zbyseklipka406 2 месяца назад

      @@ubiased23 but same CPU, graphics and sound

    • @ubiased23
      @ubiased23 2 месяца назад +1

      @zbyseklipka406 There is extra memory, that means you can add more contents to the game.

  • @vadim.v.zaicev
    @vadim.v.zaicev 4 года назад

    Очень хорошая игра.

  • @artembasenko2762
    @artembasenko2762 3 года назад

    Привет юность. Мне было лет 13. ATARI 800

  • @soldeespana5382
    @soldeespana5382 Год назад

    Too much shortcuts

  • @alexandervalle525
    @alexandervalle525 5 лет назад

    Bt the music and action is better A8 than c64.

    • @3622Dave
      @3622Dave 3 месяца назад

      LOL it really isn't unless you like flickering sprites and blocky graphics. Have you actually seen the C64 version?

    • @alexandervalle525
      @alexandervalle525 3 месяца назад

      @@3622Dave I know the flickering enemies. I told to ypu about the game that is a little bit faster and the music that is better too for pokeys 4 channel although the 3 sid channel techology haha.

  • @B_S123
    @B_S123 6 лет назад

    I guess it's Serekos dragon who gave thumb down. Gayyyy! ;)

  • @vovanracer5924
    @vovanracer5924 3 года назад

    С бессмертием проти можно, веселеее

  • @IHATEDRIVING2
    @IHATEDRIVING2 4 года назад

    Was a good game, but I didnt liked Draconus 2, looked like a beta version of the first game

    • @JCsChannel
      @JCsChannel  4 года назад +1

      Well, Draconus 2 was just a hack of the original game.

    • @sudacagamer
      @sudacagamer 2 года назад

      same with montezuma

  • @steerpike66
    @steerpike66 6 лет назад +1

    Jesus how many time do you have to hit that stupid hopping bird thing with your miserable little 'pew pew' weapon to kill it?!

  • @vadim.v.zaicev
    @vadim.v.zaicev 4 года назад

    В этой игре бессмертие возможно. При переходе в "водный режим" должны убить.

  • @zbyseklipka406
    @zbyseklipka406 3 года назад

    Cheater! I finish in the dragon room before 30 years without trainer :)

  • @ubiased23
    @ubiased23 6 лет назад

    C64 version way better in regards of the animation.

    • @JCsChannel
      @JCsChannel  6 лет назад

      I saw the C64 version at a friend's house, but since I was so used to this one, it felt weird.

    • @alexandervalle525
      @alexandervalle525 5 лет назад

      Are you crazy???? maybe the color definition bit the action and music A8 is better far away from c64.

    • @elmariachi5133
      @elmariachi5133 4 года назад

      Yeah, the colors in the atari version are really way too boring. Using the same shades for all the playfield and enemies just never was acceptable to me, even in Amiga games like Lionheart this 'effect' just looks bad. Objects need some contrast, otherweise they just blend in with the background.

    • @ubiased23
      @ubiased23 3 года назад

      I wish that Atari made this game on the atari 130 xe in order to take a full advantage of the 128k. A remake of this game would be nice.