I used to roll this game over once I learned the patterns. I did the same with Zaxxon, Spelunker, and several others. In Yar's Revenge, to be really good, you have to kill the killer Swastika only when it is in flight and not before being launched. The trick to Yar's is that the killer Swastika cannot go backward. If you racked up too high of a score and killed the flying Swastikas too fast the game would NISWSH or something like that. The "NISWCH" letters would appear at top of the screen and the game would lockup.
I used to play this game for hours. You could play, almost all, Atari 2600 games as long as you wanted. The games had no end. Got old after a while. I will say Yars Revenge was my favorite 2600 game.
I think I played this more than any other on the 2600. Absolutely loved it. I wish you'd talked about the Easter egg in the game. Those always fascinated me (Adventure had one too). Good review.
Dude, shoot the damn swirl! Use the cannon on the swirl! That's how you get the big points, and access the hidden Easter Egg. Doesn't everybody know this? Best game ever made for the Atari VCS. I think any updated version of Yars' Revenge would have to keep the same retro graphics. This game doesn't really need to change anything, in my view.
@RadioAAHS I always notice right away when commercials, tv shows or movies use old school videogame music/sound effects. It's really funny when they show kids playing videogames in tv shows or movies and they have xbox controllers but the sounds of their game is old 2600 sounds.
Ray Kassar was president of Atari after they gave Nolan Bushnel the boot. Also the galazy they're in is called the Rassak Galaxy (Ray Kassar's Surname backwards).
One of my favorites on the 2600 as well. Love this game. And it is nowhere near the world record. But my high score is over 600k points years ago. I would someday like to beat that score and maybe get to a million. The only bummer about this game is once it goes from the red, purple, gray and pink shield. It stays on the pink for the rest of the game. As far as I know, unless somebody has seen another color it has tuned to? All aside great game and holds up well even today.
I forgot all about my yars revenge comic book. I do remember my atari force comics though. And not the full size dc comics either, but the smaller ones for atari force members. The graphics in the yars revenge comic you showed totally brought me back.
@ankokugaiBOSS It's a reference to the game's Easter Egg. Here's how it goes: you shoot the swirl in midair with the cannon. That's how you get the big points and extra lives. When this happens, there's a black line on the screen during the explosion. If you run your Yar on that line, and hold the fire button, and stay on the bottom half of the screen, the game abruptly ends. You get a cryptic message - HSWWSH. In other words, Howard Scott Warshaw.
My second divorce, the last straw, was due to a video game and the Beatles. When the drill sergeant "my x-wife" asked what I wanted for Christmas I told her I wanted either the new Beatle's Anthology Albums or a Sega video game console. Her reply, and the last straw, was "You don't need those." I thought "What the Hell, it's my Christmas to so why can't I get what I really will be happy with?" And, who in the hell does she think she is, telling me what I do or don't need? So a couple of months later I hooked up with a Cherokee Indian girl with long black hair that hung all the way to her knees and an a$$ that could snap a man's neck. I told the drill sergeant about it and that did the trick. No more drill sergeant.
I was just watching Explorers ( the movie with river phoenix and ethan hawk 1985) and the part where they go to the drive in theatre the sound fx in the movie at the drive in is Yars Revenge! Check it out on youtube explorers part 6.
the huge colored block in the middle of the screen acts like a shield. if you go in it, the missile cant hit you, but you cant attack while your in the shield.
Granted, I was wrong about Space Invaders. But Berzerk's arcade version was still superior to the Atari port, and it was before that 81-91 time span. I also disagree that Night Driver was better on the console. Despite the car not actually rendered by the software, the animation of the road's rails and the sound effects were superior on the arcade. Also, it's in bad taste to downvote a user's comment despite it not agreeing with your opinion.
I don't have neither the console or a phisical copy of the game, but I do have one of those console controller things where all you have to do is plug it into the TV and turn on the controller and game on, it's got some other games, but Yars Revenge is the most interesting.
I'm too young for comic books with video games, but I do -love- a well done instruction manual. I also liked RPGs since FF1 and they all came with maps, inventory tables, and usually a mini players guide as part of the manual.
i look at the atari as a neo geo of it's time.they are both arcade home consoles wich had games that played just like the arcade.they both had comics or manuals that told a story and had great art work.and they are both highly collectibles.
this is one of those games on the 8-in-1 things you plug into your tv... i used to play this until the batteries died... then i would buy more and play it... i could never die in this game :D
@Stalla101 people thought it was bad cus the game didnt spoon feed them what to do and it wasnt just a shooting game like many of them were....you had to traverse areas and collect peices...it was a bad game cus it was glitchy....but the concept of it and what you have to do, i found to be quite cool
I guess Atari came up with the name Yar from a guy that worked at Atari. His name was Ray and Yar is just Ray backwards. I read that somewhere a long time ago.
people say you cant play atari games for more than 30 sec but my dad used to stay up all night playing pac man, ms pacman, space invaders, and breakout
I remember the n64 Turok had a comic book. I wish the new Turok stuck with the mystical time traveling indian stroy instead of the uninspired bald space marine on a dinosaur planet crap. It would be nice if it didnt suck also.
Oh this game was also one of the easter egg games. You blew up the base without shooting a shot and a code came up you mailed in. Btw why is there always a bash on the ET game, if ya fall in a pit and float out, just make sure your up left ect and not just up, left right or down... Ahh the days
@animefanclay Gotta tell anyone that is slightly interested in the 80's game crash, it wasn't Howard Scott Warshaw's fault that E.T. game was blamed for this, it actually comes down to a certain Mr Speilberg. Speilberg supposedly was so impressed Howard's 'Raiders of the lost Ark' that he commissioned him to make E.T. But, instead of ten months development time for R.O.T.L.A. he was given five weeks. Imagine if Mr Speilberg had given him 10 months. So whose fault was the 80's crash?.
great review as always i was just wondering if u have played the new space invaders it prety much what you are talking about with taking something old and updateing it on the platfors if u like that then u may also like pacman chamoion ship edition or price of persia on the 360 arcade
Not quite. NeoGeo AES hardware was the exact same taken from the arcade machines, and the carts were huge because they were the arcade ROM boards. Those games weren't ports, they were the actual games (hence the huge prices for games and system). Atari games (while great) were only ports because the 2600 (while still great) was a weaker system than an arcade machine, and they had inferior graphics, sound, and less content (like Ms. Pac Man, Space Invaders, Tapper, BurgerTime and Donkey Kong).
@spinamajig there is no swastika in yars revenge. it doesnt look anything like a swastika. but it does look like the weapon in the sci fi movie, KRULL.
This game WAS ported to both the Gameboy Color (not good) and the GameBoy Advance (much BETTER). The GBA version also includes Pong and Asteroids on the same cart.. My ONLY issue with the GBA version is the scoring is a little different from the 2600 original and that the missile - even in the "kiddie" game - (game option 0) is MORE aggressive than on the 2600.
When I used to play this game back in the day, I used to adjust the difficulty to "B" so that I can destroy that missle. After awhile, that cruising missle would be very annoying. If you destroyed the missle while the Quotile was changing into the swirl, the missle wouldn't appear until the swirl turned back into the Quotile. Another fact, if you destroyed the swirl in mid-air be careful of the location of where you do your victory dance (note the seam). Otherwise your game will crash!
@gamesDAMNED hey...thanks a lot! I remember that happening many years ago and as a kid me and my friends were all wondering what the hell that cryptic message was and why the game ended! My dude...you've solved a 20 year mystery for us. LOL
@Rimsa Can't forget activision's part in it. They became the first 3rd party developers and then soon after, hundreds of other companies got into the action creating hundreds of terrible games. Third parties are technically a good thing, but not when there are hundreds of cheap knock-off games that suck
Hey right on you reviewed one of the 4 games I own for my 2600! I was going to review that game you bunghole! Nah man I am just kidding. Besides, I do not have the cool comic book. This was a great review. I am glad you decided to do a more serious review of it. Rock on!
@Stalla101 That's because that's the "in" thing to do...to hate on ET. If you think ET is one of the worst games the Atari had to offer...you clearly didn't play many Atari games.
One the greatest games ever made.Fucking amazing,best 2600 game by far,this is one game that's makes the limitations of the console its major advantage from the sounds,it's style,so simplistic but not. atmospheric and addictive.the next was kurushi on the PS1
I had all the shit that went along with this. Even a seperate story book that came with a audio tape! Though I'm not sure where that went. Awesome review. I love going to the Classic Game Room to get a substantial Atari Fix. Thanks man.
I'm pretty sure that's a Tektronix 4010 storage-tube terminal. I used to use them at NCAR back in the 80s. It displayed text and monochrome vector graphics. "Storage tube" meant that the video screen itself was capable of physically retaining the image of what was written to it as long as you liked. There was no need for the electronics to actively refresh the image from stored memory, as long as it was stationary--back when this thing was made, in the 1970s, that was a significant advantage. It didn't scroll--you had to press a button to erase the screen, with a flash of light.
I liked the imagination behind the game design, but within a couple days I started getting bored with it. I went back to it a few times occasionally just to relive something or re-experience the imagination, but I didn't consider it notable. I think I played Asteroids the most, if only to try to squeeze some thrill out of it.
This was my favorite game. Not very many people that I've asked remember it. Pitfall was good too. You were crushing it BTW. Great video. Thank you for the memories!
Not entirely a mistake. You say "it was not until circa 1981 that arcade games surpassed the Atari in power." But you also did not mention that the Atari 2600 still had software support and games released roughly a decade after 1981, albiet in the shadow of Nintendo and Sega. Also, graphics were not the only thing I mentioned. Berzerk in the arcade (1980) was superior to the console port in sound and content. Same goes for Missile Command and Warlords. Space Invaders (1978) was in color.
Great game and great review, enjoyable to see stuff like this without all the trying too hard to be funny crass humour which spoils many other people's vids.
I'm all for programmers getting credit and adding Easter eggs in games, but WTF was he thinking? An Easter egg that's triggered by a common occurrence in the game which ends your game instantly? For years, I thought my copy of the game was defective because this would happen almost every time I played it! He should have made it so that you could continue by pressing the button. Any respect I had for Warshaw for creating a good game, goes right out he window with such an asshat design decision.
I am curious to know about this. I have played the game for more hours than I can count. And never knew about it ending right away when you did something. What exactly is it?
Well, the time has finally come. Atari released a modern remake - Yars: Recharged - which retains the core gameplay of the original and is available on all major consoles and PC.
in atari games,when you play past a certain score,you get an ectra life just like the arcade.where as on the nes version of the same game,you didn't. sorry for the confusion.
+daveheel All that happens is you move the character past the disco wall in the way, because you can't shoot past it. Once you are on the right side of that disco wall, you are able to shoot the red blocks that surround the enemy. Once you destroy enough of the red blocks, the enemy will be exposed. You can't shoot it, but after a short time, a dash on the left side of the screen appear, giving a "bleeping" noice that let's you know it's there. The dash scrolls down the left side of the screen, and once it's in place, you press the button, which sends the dash horizontally across the screen at the enemy. ... Pretty simple, right. Yeah, you probably are looking at this and either saying, "Yeah, I don't care," or "Oh yeah, that game." :D
The bassy static background hum is badass.
@u r definitely not music lol
I used to roll this game over once I learned the patterns. I did the same with Zaxxon, Spelunker, and several others. In Yar's Revenge, to be really good, you have to kill the killer Swastika only when it is in flight and not before being launched. The trick to Yar's is that the killer Swastika cannot go backward. If you racked up too high of a score and killed the flying Swastikas too fast the game would NISWSH or something like that. The "NISWCH" letters would appear at top of the screen and the game would lockup.
I used to play this game for hours. You could play, almost all, Atari 2600 games as long as you wanted. The games had no end. Got old after a while. I will say Yars Revenge was my favorite 2600 game.
I think I played this more than any other on the 2600. Absolutely loved it. I wish you'd talked about the Easter egg in the game. Those always fascinated me (Adventure had one too). Good review.
Dude, shoot the damn swirl! Use the cannon on the swirl! That's how you get the big points, and access the hidden Easter Egg. Doesn't everybody know this? Best game ever made for the Atari VCS. I think any updated version of Yars' Revenge would have to keep the same retro graphics. This game doesn't really need to change anything, in my view.
@RadioAAHS I always notice right away when commercials, tv shows or movies use old school videogame music/sound effects. It's really funny when they show kids playing videogames in tv shows or movies and they have xbox controllers but the sounds of their game is old 2600 sounds.
I am watching Classic Game Room review Yaar's Revenge while playing Yaar's revenge on the Game Room on my Xbox 360
Ray Kassar was president of Atari after they gave Nolan Bushnel the boot.
Also the galazy they're in is called the Rassak Galaxy (Ray Kassar's Surname backwards).
i picked this game up for my atari recently and hands down its addicting and fun!
One of my favorites on the 2600 as well. Love this game. And it is nowhere near the world record. But my high score is over 600k points years ago. I would someday like to beat that score and maybe get to a million. The only bummer about this game is once it goes from the red, purple, gray and pink shield. It stays on the pink for the rest of the game. As far as I know, unless somebody has seen another color it has tuned to? All aside great game and holds up well even today.
Ah yes, Yar's revenge. It was so repetitive but so fun and good that I would spend full weekends on it.
I forgot all about my yars revenge comic book. I do remember my atari force comics though. And not the full size dc comics either, but the smaller ones for atari force members. The graphics in the yars revenge comic you showed totally brought me back.
@ankokugaiBOSS It's a reference to the game's Easter Egg. Here's how it goes: you shoot the swirl in midair with the cannon. That's how you get the big points and extra lives. When this happens, there's a black line on the screen during the explosion. If you run your Yar on that line, and hold the fire button, and stay on the bottom half of the screen, the game abruptly ends. You get a cryptic message - HSWWSH. In other words, Howard Scott Warshaw.
I'm so glad my Atari lot came with this packed in. I just got it three days ago and now play it more than my Genesis.
My second divorce, the last straw, was due to a video game and the Beatles. When the drill sergeant "my x-wife" asked what I wanted for Christmas I told her I wanted either the new Beatle's Anthology Albums or a Sega video game console. Her reply, and the last straw, was "You don't need those." I thought "What the Hell, it's my Christmas to so why can't I get what I really will be happy with?" And, who in the hell does she think she is, telling me what I do or don't need? So a couple of months later I hooked up with a Cherokee Indian girl with long black hair that hung all the way to her knees and an a$$ that could snap a man's neck. I told the drill sergeant about it and that did the trick. No more drill sergeant.
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Crikey
I was just watching Explorers ( the movie with river phoenix and ethan hawk 1985) and the part where they go to the drive in theatre the sound fx in the movie at the drive in is Yars Revenge! Check it out on youtube explorers part 6.
the huge colored block in the middle of the screen acts like a shield. if you go in it, the missile cant hit you, but you cant attack while your in the shield.
Old comment, but the Zorlon Cannon and the Swirl still could
Man you take me back to my childhood!
Granted, I was wrong about Space Invaders. But Berzerk's arcade version was still superior to the Atari port, and it was before that 81-91 time span. I also disagree that Night Driver was better on the console. Despite the car not actually rendered by the software, the animation of the road's rails and the sound effects were superior on the arcade.
Also, it's in bad taste to downvote a user's comment despite it not agreeing with your opinion.
1:05 I remember Metal Gear Solid 2 came with a manga inside the instruction booklet. That was in 2001; 20 years after Yar's Revenge was released.
There was a remake of this game recently, for the Commodore 64, called Jar's Revenge. Yup, people are still writing games for the C64. :)
Watching in 2023 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I don't have neither the console or a phisical copy of the game, but I do have one of those console controller things where all you have to do is plug it into the TV and turn on the controller and game on, it's got some other games, but Yars Revenge is the most interesting.
I'm too young for comic books with video games, but I do -love- a well done instruction manual. I also liked RPGs since FF1 and they all came with maps, inventory tables, and usually a mini players guide as part of the manual.
i look at the atari as a neo geo of it's time.they are both arcade home consoles wich had games that played just like the arcade.they both had comics or manuals that told a story and had great art work.and they are both highly collectibles.
this is one of those games on the 8-in-1 things you plug into your tv... i used to play this until the batteries died... then i would buy more and play it...
i could never die in this game :D
@Stalla101 people thought it was bad cus the game didnt spoon feed them what to do and it wasnt just a shooting game like many of them were....you had to traverse areas and collect peices...it was a bad game cus it was glitchy....but the concept of it and what you have to do, i found to be quite cool
I guess Atari came up with the name Yar from a guy that worked at Atari. His name was Ray and Yar is just Ray backwards. I read that somewhere a long time ago.
people say you cant play atari games for more than 30 sec but my dad used to stay up all night playing pac man, ms pacman, space invaders, and breakout
I play Atari games for hours...
what else besides that had a comic that came with it from then to now?.
I remember the n64 Turok had a comic book. I wish the new Turok stuck with the mystical time traveling indian stroy instead of the uninspired bald space marine on a dinosaur planet crap. It would be nice if it didnt suck also.
Oh this game was also one of the easter egg games. You blew up the base without shooting a shot and a code came up you mailed in.
Btw why is there always a bash on the ET game, if ya fall in a pit and float out, just make sure your up left ect and not just up, left right or down...
Ahh the days
@animefanclay Gotta tell anyone that is slightly interested in the 80's game crash, it wasn't Howard Scott Warshaw's fault that E.T. game was blamed for this, it actually comes down to a certain Mr Speilberg. Speilberg supposedly was so impressed Howard's 'Raiders of the lost Ark' that he commissioned him to make E.T. But, instead of ten months development time for R.O.T.L.A. he was given five weeks. Imagine if Mr Speilberg had given him 10 months. So whose fault was the 80's crash?.
In Starfox or lylatwars for the N64 you can fly out of the map and appear on the other site of the map (multiplayer mode)
great review as always i was just wondering if u have played the new space invaders it prety much what you are talking about with taking something old and updateing it on the platfors if u like that then u may also like pacman chamoion ship edition or price of persia on the 360 arcade
Not quite. NeoGeo AES hardware was the exact same taken from the arcade machines, and the carts were huge because they were the arcade ROM boards. Those games weren't ports, they were the actual games (hence the huge prices for games and system). Atari games (while great) were only ports because the 2600 (while still great) was a weaker system than an arcade machine, and they had inferior graphics, sound, and less content (like Ms. Pac Man, Space Invaders, Tapper, BurgerTime and Donkey Kong).
@spinamajig there is no swastika in yars revenge. it doesnt look anything like a swastika. but it does look like the weapon in the sci fi movie, KRULL.
This game WAS ported to both the Gameboy Color (not good) and the GameBoy Advance (much BETTER). The GBA version also includes Pong and Asteroids on the same cart..
My ONLY issue with the GBA version is the scoring is a little different from the 2600 original and that the missile - even in the "kiddie" game - (game option 0) is MORE aggressive than on the 2600.
I remember the comic book I got with my centipede game.
When I used to play this game back in the day, I used to adjust the difficulty to "B" so that I can destroy that missle. After awhile, that cruising missle would be very annoying. If you destroyed the missle while the Quotile was changing into the swirl, the missle wouldn't appear until the swirl turned back into the Quotile. Another fact, if you destroyed the swirl in mid-air be careful of the location of where you do your victory dance (note the seam). Otherwise your game will crash!
thats 2 power ups for wind squid now
I got an Atari. Compared to today's games, I find them pretty hard, but fun!
@gamesDAMNED hey...thanks a lot! I remember that happening many years ago and as a kid me and my friends were all wondering what the hell that cryptic message was and why the game ended! My dude...you've solved a 20 year mystery for us. LOL
what is the intro song for classic game room called?
shmoozii Flock of cowboys
I love this game
"Your Opponent would be pissed walking across the left side of the screen coming out the right and shooting you in the back" LMFAO!
@Rimsa Can't forget activision's part in it. They became the first 3rd party developers and then soon after, hundreds of other companies got into the action creating hundreds of terrible games. Third parties are technically a good thing, but not when there are hundreds of cheap knock-off games that suck
Hey right on you reviewed one of the 4 games I own for my 2600! I was going to review that game you bunghole! Nah man I am just kidding. Besides, I do not have the cool comic book. This was a great review. I am glad you decided to do a more serious review of it. Rock on!
i love yars
my favorite 2600 game ever
Is that weird line supposed to be there, or is it a glitch?
The Game Boy Advance game "Drill Dozer" came with a comic. :3
This game reminds me of the arcade classic Star Castle.
nice vid, just picked up atari and some games today and this is one of the games, think i am going to find that this is going to be very addictive
I played this on game room on XBLA very addictive.
@Stalla101 That's because that's the "in" thing to do...to hate on ET. If you think ET is one of the worst games the Atari had to offer...you clearly didn't play many Atari games.
just got this game today
I heard they just sold out at my local department store!
This was just on The Walking Dead
got a copy for a dollar sadly my dads old atari is of no longer use.
This is probably my favourite Atari 2600 game, followed by Pitfall.
Nice review.
One the greatest games ever made.Fucking amazing,best 2600 game by far,this is one game that's makes the limitations of the console its major advantage from the sounds,it's style,so simplistic but not. atmospheric and addictive.the next was kurushi on the PS1
I had all the shit that went along with this. Even a seperate story book that came with a audio tape! Though I'm not sure where that went. Awesome review. I love going to the Classic Game Room to get a substantial Atari Fix. Thanks man.
Been wondering, what is that cool looking old computer you have in some of these intros and in the background?
I'm pretty sure that's a Tektronix 4010 storage-tube terminal. I used to use them at NCAR back in the 80s. It displayed text and monochrome vector graphics. "Storage tube" meant that the video screen itself was capable of physically retaining the image of what was written to it as long as you liked. There was no need for the electronics to actively refresh the image from stored memory, as long as it was stationary--back when this thing was made, in the 1970s, that was a significant advantage. It didn't scroll--you had to press a button to erase the screen, with a flash of light.
was playing this last night, got up to about 70,000
I liked the imagination behind the game design, but within a couple days I started getting bored with it. I went back to it a few times occasionally just to relive something or re-experience the imagination, but I didn't consider it notable. I think I played Asteroids the most, if only to try to squeeze some thrill out of it.
I could never get tired of this game. It is challenging fast paced and fun.
This was my favorite game. Not very many people that I've asked remember it.
Pitfall was good too.
You were crushing it BTW.
Great video. Thank you for the memories!
This is one of my favorite games of all time. Even today I have it on my cell phone/tablet lol.
The last comic book I remember coming with a game was Star Fox Adventures, but only in Japan.
Not entirely a mistake. You say "it was not until circa 1981 that arcade games surpassed the Atari in power." But you also did not mention that the Atari 2600 still had software support and games released roughly a decade after 1981, albiet in the shadow of Nintendo and Sega. Also, graphics were not the only thing I mentioned. Berzerk in the arcade (1980) was superior to the console port in sound and content. Same goes for Missile Command and Warlords. Space Invaders (1978) was in color.
Yea cool game I had that one. It was right up there with joust for me at the time.
Need a version for Vectrex!
The comic book wars you spoke of...genius ^_^
Great game and great review, enjoyable to see stuff like this without all the trying too hard to be funny crass humour which spoils many other people's vids.
I'm all for programmers getting credit and adding Easter eggs in games, but WTF was he thinking? An Easter egg that's triggered by a common occurrence in the game which ends your game instantly? For years, I thought my copy of the game was defective because this would happen almost every time I played it!
He should have made it so that you could continue by pressing the button. Any respect I had for Warshaw for creating a good game, goes right out he window with such an asshat design decision.
I am curious to know about this. I have played the game for more hours than I can count. And never knew about it ending right away when you did something. What exactly is it?
yeah i remember getting earth world and reading the comic till i found all the secrets
Oh my god! He can see into the future!
They accually made a comic book for Halo Wars. I got it with the Limited Collectors edition
We all need more CGR… EDF EDF EDF…
Should I try to find the original Classic Game Room, because what I've been doing is watching the videos how it's ordered by consoles on this channel.
Well, the time has finally come. Atari released a modern remake - Yars: Recharged - which retains the core gameplay of the original and is available on all major consoles and PC.
Which game type are you playing in this video?
A remake is in the works. See a trailer. It will SUCK.
Well you got your wish. Here in 2023 we have two remakes of Yar’s revenge, and you have to play the remake on Atari 50 collection.
wow! nice bargain for such a great game.
yars again??
did i miss somethin or have i just got some sorta future seeing.. ohh i get ya now,, hey the same guy also made indiana jones (lost ark)
He means most games, like Call Of Shit and Modern Vomit 3.
I got 4 Atari games for $6.00, Just like what Ian said "It's like buying candy
Your amazing at yars revenge!
great aphex twin-meets-amon tobin-style end tune!
Is that a CLOVER price tag? Amazing Game!
in atari games,when you play past a certain score,you get an ectra life just like the arcade.where as on the nes version of the same game,you didn't. sorry for the confusion.
Pirates love this game
@codyc67 try it on game mode 6. MUCH better than the other modes.
I think this is the best first-party game on Atari 2600.
different game types??? mine doesn't have any options apart from the normal game?!
looking at the screen, i have no idea what is going on in this game.
+daveheel All that happens is you move the character past the disco wall in the way, because you can't shoot past it. Once you are on the right side of that disco wall, you are able to shoot the red blocks that surround the enemy. Once you destroy enough of the red blocks, the enemy will be exposed. You can't shoot it, but after a short time, a dash on the left side of the screen appear, giving a "bleeping" noice that let's you know it's there. The dash scrolls down the left side of the screen, and once it's in place, you press the button, which sends the dash horizontally across the screen at the enemy. ... Pretty simple, right.
Yeah, you probably are looking at this and either saying, "Yeah, I don't care," or "Oh yeah, that game." :D
the former but thank you. lol
Balls of Steel edition of DNF came with a comic! :D
@Stalla101 nah, there is some worse:
Action 52 for SNES and Big Rigs for PC
Fuck yes Yar's Revenge!!! EPIC ATARI RIGHT HURR
I made a vector based remake of the game but it's for windows/linux. If you are interested search for TCKSOFT Vectors Revenge and you will find it :)