@@dementedpurplechicken If you ask me the adjustment for inflation makes no sense; the currency is devaluing so don’t fool yourself into thinking games cost way more back then than what they are now.
These were “bargain bin” games that would have been sold at gas stations or anyplace they could find for 5 or 10 bucks at most. PAC-MAN and E.T. Were practically a masterpiece compared to these.
@@GTV-Japan Yeah even if I knew that, I don't believe I own a paddle controller. Though I would like to own one for games like Kaboom or Breakout. Just didn't even cross my mind when I made this video. Funny enough I even have the manual for this game and didn't even notice it in the manual.
Some of these games were repackaged by froggo games who might be the actual worst company because they didn’t even make any games, just resold old ones.
All three Mythicon games were programed by the same guy, Bruce De Graaf. Bill Bryner did the music. Mythicon was a budget brand. Their games listed for $7 or $8 each, a mere fraction of what other publishers charged. With the 2600 both the graphics and sound were produced by the TIA chip, which was included in the Atari 7800 for backwards compatibility. On Firefly the Difficulty switches aren't used. Toggle the Select switch for either Game 2 (Normal single player) or Game 4 (Expert single player). Game 1 is Practice Mode. As for Star Fox, they had begun work on Star Fox II when the company went under. According to the forums at AtariAge no code survives. There there are a series of emails from the programmer where he admits to being responsible for 3 of the 10 worst games for the 2600. As for Bugs, you control that game with a Paddle controller. The Joystick won't work.
Thanks for the awesome info! Yeah, I realized Bugs was a paddle game later.. at the time I just thought I was having issues with the game. That was my bad.
Great choices! It's easy to make a worst Atari 2600 games list because there were hundreds of bad games. I was a lucky little boy because my uncle would bring me games after he'd already played them, so I received 95% good games. But a couple of bad ones made their way to me. The worst I played during that era was Swordquest Earthworld. I believe what you say about those two companies, but the worst videogame developer (in the sense of one person) was Tod Frye. He made the Swordquest games, which were all unplayable, and he even managed to turn the best videogame in the world (Pac-Man) into a bad game. He never made a good game in his life. He was King Midas in reverse: everything he touched turned to garbage! If you ever make a best Atari 2600 games list, you should check out some great titles that few people know about: Polaris, Room Of Doom, Bumper Bash, Thunderground, Rabbit Transit, Off the Wall, Seawolf, Subterranea, Gravitar, Mines Of Minos, Dark Chambers. I've never seen a good best Atari games list because people only play the obvious games like Space Invaders, Yar's Revenge, Adventure, Frogger, Asteroids, Phoenix, Berzerk, Missile Command, and Jungle Hunt. Those are all masterpieces, but all the lists I've watched omit some great games in favor of a few bad and mediocre ones, such as Laser Blast (awful game), Demon Attack (a Phoenix clone without the boss battles), Pitfall and Pitfall 2 (mediocre games through and through), and Raiders of the Lost Ark (an unplayable mess).
Wow thanks for the awesome comment! Great idea btw, I'll totally do like a "underrated gems" type video for the 2600 and include those games if I can get my hands on them. Luckily most Atari games are fairly cheap so shouldn't be a problem. Even a video on Tod Frye wouldn't be a bad idea. Thanks again for watching!
I had an Atari 2600 and played a ton of games, but I never even heard of these games. It's probably due to how horrible these games are. I've played my share of bad games, but these are total ass.
I actually enjoyed fire fly, the smiley face indicates that you're playing on easy, the regular mode gives you 3 lives, and it actually has a scoreboard, it makes it actually a game.
I finished it as a kid in the 80's. I remember getting frustrated with it, and almost giving up. But since I had like 5 games, I kept trying. It's one of those titles that it really helps to study the manual closely.
You really weren't being fair to Mythicon. The score comes up when you use the game select before the game started. Also unlike SSSNake you can actually play the games. The Mythicon games also had background music which was very rare in Atari games. Also I will say I love the music in Fire Fly.
So for all the Mythicon games, you're just in "practice" mode, so that's why there's no score counter or life counter. If you switch to another difficulty it gives you lives and a score objective to work towards. Should do a little bit of research for that, all of that info was found in the manual and easily confirmed with other video footage and screenshots that it gives score and lives. Not saying the games aren't bad or don't deserve the spot on the list, but you shouldn't be reviewing on false info. Read the manual first, especially for older systems like the Atari as it had so much info and it could take forever to figure out things just trying to play with the switches and not knowing what they do. Edit: and in all of the Mythicon game's cases, they don't use the Difficulty switch, but the game select switch to adjust what you're playing on.
I didn't even think to try and switch the difficulty to B. Yeah, should have done that first. Hopefully the video was good regardless, but yeah that was my bad.
@@KaptainKlassic It's not the difficulty switch, it's the Select button, which changes the game variation. There's five game variations: one human with a smiley face (the practice mode), one human, two humans (two-player alternating game), one human with a circle (hard mode), and two players with a circle between them. All three games have the same five game variations in the same order. I find all three of them to be awful anyway.
@@zazelby Oh ok yeah I definitely was unaware of that. Hopefully the video was enjoyable regardless. I'll admit to my mistakes here, just glad that we can all agree the games suck lol.
Bugs uses a paddle, not a joystick. It's a pretty mediocre game with some super frustrating enemies but it's not a complete broken unplayable mess like you made it out to be. Always check the manual before playing a 2600 game lol
Bugs is a Paddle game, that's why you was not able to move it. I don't think it's fair to put it on the list since you don't even played it (I agree with the other choices tho)
Oh my gosh these are terrible! How much would these have sold for at new retail prices?
In the 70s and 80s, Atari games were usually between $20 and $40, which adjusted for inflation is around $150 today
@@dementedpurplechicken Wow, imagine paying $150 for Firefly XD
@@dementedpurplechicken If you ask me the adjustment for inflation makes no sense; the currency is devaluing so don’t fool yourself into thinking games cost way more back then than what they are now.
These were “bargain bin” games that would have been sold at gas stations or anyplace they could find for 5 or 10 bucks at most. PAC-MAN and E.T. Were practically a masterpiece compared to these.
Bugs uses paddle controllers.
Ah that's where I went wrong. Makes sense now that i think about it. Dumb on my part. Still not a good game lol
Funny how some games are like that. The paddles were only included with the 2600 for a short time. I never even had them
@@GTV-Japan Yeah even if I knew that, I don't believe I own a paddle controller. Though I would like to own one for games like Kaboom or Breakout. Just didn't even cross my mind when I made this video. Funny enough I even have the manual for this game and didn't even notice it in the manual.
Used to love playing bugs. The music was creepy and anxiety inducing. Could never beat that pink anvil thingie though.
Some of these games were repackaged by froggo games who might be the actual worst company because they didn’t even make any games, just resold old ones.
That's a good point. Yeah the version of Karate I have was rereleased by Froggo. Horrible company for that.
@@KaptainKlassic I never saw a froggo game sell for over 99 cents way back when.
@@GTV-Japan I understand why. lol I picked this up for about 5 bucks.
Firefly makes ET look like a masterpiece
All three Mythicon games were programed by the same guy, Bruce De Graaf. Bill Bryner did the music. Mythicon was a budget brand. Their games listed for $7 or $8 each, a mere fraction of what other publishers charged. With the 2600 both the graphics and sound were produced by the TIA chip, which was included in the Atari 7800 for backwards compatibility. On Firefly the Difficulty switches aren't used. Toggle the Select switch for either Game 2 (Normal single player) or Game 4 (Expert single player). Game 1 is Practice Mode. As for Star Fox, they had begun work on Star Fox II when the company went under. According to the forums at AtariAge no code survives. There there are a series of emails from the programmer where he admits to being responsible for 3 of the 10 worst games for the 2600. As for Bugs, you control that game with a Paddle controller. The Joystick won't work.
Thanks for the awesome info! Yeah, I realized Bugs was a paddle game later.. at the time I just thought I was having issues with the game. That was my bad.
Great choices! It's easy to make a worst Atari 2600 games list because there were hundreds of bad games. I was a lucky little boy because my uncle would bring me games after he'd already played them, so I received 95% good games. But a couple of bad ones made their way to me. The worst I played during that era was Swordquest Earthworld. I believe what you say about those two companies, but the worst videogame developer (in the sense of one person) was Tod Frye. He made the Swordquest games, which were all unplayable, and he even managed to turn the best videogame in the world (Pac-Man) into a bad game. He never made a good game in his life. He was King Midas in reverse: everything he touched turned to garbage!
If you ever make a best Atari 2600 games list, you should check out some great titles that few people know about: Polaris, Room Of Doom, Bumper Bash, Thunderground, Rabbit Transit, Off the Wall, Seawolf, Subterranea, Gravitar, Mines Of Minos, Dark Chambers. I've never seen a good best Atari games list because people only play the obvious games like Space Invaders, Yar's Revenge, Adventure, Frogger, Asteroids, Phoenix, Berzerk, Missile Command, and Jungle Hunt. Those are all masterpieces, but all the lists I've watched omit some great games in favor of a few bad and mediocre ones, such as Laser Blast (awful game), Demon Attack (a Phoenix clone without the boss battles), Pitfall and Pitfall 2 (mediocre games through and through), and Raiders of the Lost Ark (an unplayable mess).
Wow thanks for the awesome comment! Great idea btw, I'll totally do like a "underrated gems" type video for the 2600 and include those games if I can get my hands on them. Luckily most Atari games are fairly cheap so shouldn't be a problem. Even a video on Tod Frye wouldn't be a bad idea. Thanks again for watching!
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I actually expected you to mention Froggo. I guess Mythicon makes even Froggo look good.
I had an Atari 2600 and played a ton of games, but I never even heard of these games. It's probably due to how horrible these games are. I've played my share of bad games, but these are total ass.
Lol, totally. I never heard of these either until I recently stumbled upon them and realized how god awful they were. Thank you for watching!
In 1980 you played what you had.
I actually enjoyed fire fly, the smiley face indicates that you're playing on easy, the regular mode gives you 3 lives, and it actually has a scoreboard, it makes it actually a game.
Raiders of The Lost Ark was broken in the end. You literally could not finish it.
Yeah that's a good candidate for worst 2600 games for sure
I finished it as a kid in the 80's. I remember getting frustrated with it, and almost giving up. But since I had like 5 games, I kept trying.
It's one of those titles that it really helps to study the manual closely.
@@stephentg1 It's been so long now of course, but I gathered all the parts, waited for The Sun, then nothing.😭
This was a fun watch! I hope to see you take off :)
Hey thank you very much! I'm glad it was enjoyable.
the 3 faces fox, sorcerer and firefly
You really weren't being fair to Mythicon. The score comes up when you use the game select before the game started. Also unlike SSSNake you can actually play the games. The Mythicon games also had background music which was very rare in Atari games. Also I will say I love the music in Fire Fly.
So for all the Mythicon games, you're just in "practice" mode, so that's why there's no score counter or life counter. If you switch to another difficulty it gives you lives and a score objective to work towards.
Should do a little bit of research for that, all of that info was found in the manual and easily confirmed with other video footage and screenshots that it gives score and lives.
Not saying the games aren't bad or don't deserve the spot on the list, but you shouldn't be reviewing on false info. Read the manual first, especially for older systems like the Atari as it had so much info and it could take forever to figure out things just trying to play with the switches and not knowing what they do.
Edit: and in all of the Mythicon game's cases, they don't use the Difficulty switch, but the game select switch to adjust what you're playing on.
I didn't even think to try and switch the difficulty to B. Yeah, should have done that first. Hopefully the video was good regardless, but yeah that was my bad.
@@KaptainKlassic It's not the difficulty switch, it's the Select button, which changes the game variation. There's five game variations: one human with a smiley face (the practice mode), one human, two humans (two-player alternating game), one human with a circle (hard mode), and two players with a circle between them. All three games have the same five game variations in the same order.
I find all three of them to be awful anyway.
@@zazelby Oh ok yeah I definitely was unaware of that. Hopefully the video was enjoyable regardless. I'll admit to my mistakes here, just glad that we can all agree the games suck lol.
These are just aweful but there are some other more obscure ones like lord of the rings and attack of the beef steak tomatoes
Hey thank you for watching. I'll have to check out some of those other obscure ones.
IT uses the paddles that may be your problem...
Bugs uses a paddle, not a joystick. It's a pretty mediocre game with some super frustrating enemies but it's not a complete broken unplayable mess like you made it out to be. Always check the manual before playing a 2600 game lol
Yeah I realized afterwards that bugs uses a paddle and felt pretty dumb lol
@@KaptainKlassic No worries, happens to the best of us! It's still a pretty bad game, although the 2600 definitely has much worse!
@@Alex_Off-Beat yeah I appreciate you being nice about it. Thanks again for watching the video!
Bugs is a Paddle game, that's why you was not able to move it. I don't think it's fair to put it on the list since you don't even played it (I agree with the other choices tho)
That's true. I didn't realize it was a paddle game until after I made the video. I thought it was just a broken game.
ET is a good game
It is
Great video awful games thanks for the upload
Absolutely! Thanks for watching!
bugs ain't so bad. sssnake on the other hand.
Hope those crap games were only a dollar each. Hahaha!
I spent a little more than that lol oh well.
I feel like if you are gonna make this video you should at least know that Bugs require paddle controllers to play.
That was my mistake for sure. Don't worry, I already got a lot of crap for it by others in the comments.