I have been amazed for many years how Poland became the center of the Atari universe. Why is this so? Is it because Jack Tramiel's family came from Poland? I've often wondered if there was some truth to that. In any case, I am very thankful that there are so many dedicated Atarians there who support our beloved 8-bit home computers. Keep the flame alive as long as possible!
I think it might be related with some good business decisions. During communism it was in general difficult to buy foreign electronic devices but Atari computers were easily available in the chain of shops called Pewex when you could buy them by paying in dollars (it's for sure not our national currency). Of course they were very expensive but at least having money you could easily buy them. It could have some impact on the situation although it doesn't explain all. And for sure it has influence on Atari world in the next years until now in Poland... Sometimes good grain gives good fruits...
@ITGuyinaction oh my god, thank you for answering this! I always wanted to know why and how Atari even existed during communist Poland, especially considering, well, it was the Cold War and western products generally weren't available in the Eastern Bloc! And yet somehow Atari was available back then. This always confuse me, but you helped answer the question. Thanks!!❤
@@ITGuyinaction At the time my dad gave me the option for a C64 with floppy drive, but instead I chose a 600XL with 1030 data cassette. I bought a tape copy of frogger for $5 from a friend at school and that was all I played for probably 6 months. I was a blind Atari fan, for there were tons of C64 owners I could have gotten games from back in the day here in Canada.
20:48 - I got to this point in video! My wife found this for me. Great choices of games. I am in NTSC land, but I own PAL equipment to play all the latest greatest releases!
Please have a look on the video description. You will find useful links. Concerning PAL/NTSC some games are capable to work in both versions. If not, you can always use Atari emulator on PC. Video about one of them is on my small channel. Thanks for visiting! 😀
The Atari modern games scene has been pushing the hardware more than the C64 homebrew scene I think. Time Pilot, Bosconian, Space Harrier are all brilliant. Most of the new C64 games you have to buy aren't really better than the best already from 1983-1991. No modern shoot em up for C64 comes even close to Enforcer by Manfred Trenz of Rainbow Arts. I hope somebody does Elite and Skyfox for the Atari soon, 2 really nice games from the mid 80s. I really wish I could find somebody to help out with Rescue on Fractalus II I have been designing.
🤔🤔🤔🤔 Difficult to say... I know the most Polish homebrew productions for Atari. Although even for C64 you can find some good titles developped in the last years. I hope that more people will add more comments here as it would be so much interesting to learn more opinions. I hope also that you will visit my small channel more often. 😀 P.S. Btw, you have also interesting videos on yours!
@@ecernosoft3096 Exactly, the C64 homebrew community has settled on 1984 quality coding and graphics and none of the musicians can rival the best composers of the 80s either. I honestly don't see the point buying new 21st century C64 games when the old ones are free and better technically.
Great video! I'm pissed off at the RUclips algorithm though. I've been searching for and watching Atari related videos for years, and today is the first day I've come across your content. I'm very jealous of the Atari scene in Poland. I live in the US, and here in the birth place of Atari, hardware, software and books are hard to come by. I've recently started dabbling in assembly language programming on the Atari, so who knows, maybe I'll have a game to share a few years from now 😀 P.S. I'm a tough guy 😛
👍🎥💥 Thank you for nice words! I hope that you will visit my small channel from time to time as Atari will always be close to my heart! ❤Being interested in assembly programming for Atari, please be my guest and have a look on the two additional videos here: the one about Polish utilities for Atari as it contains also software for assembler geeks and the one about AI and Atari. I hope you will enjoy them! Currently I'm preparing the second part of this second video but not sure when it will be released. Concerning yt algorithm that's really pity as my channel is in practice not at all promoted by the algorithm. Sometimes I put some links on some forums etc. and then I get visits. From yt I get almost nothing (very small number of views) but at least it's good that at least sometimes it proposes my videos as in your case. Best greetings!
Hey, same here, just popped up on my page but have searched many times in past for something like this. Its quite something to see what people in later years have managed to developed since the days when I used to play. Good channel. I believe the more watched the channel, the more it will be shared. Maybe the creator hasn't pushed it out there enough.
@@donny121able I think that yt algorithm doesn't trust too much the creators. Adding keywords, description etc. doesn't help in putting video high in searching results. Only after enough high number of views and enough high number of links, the video becomes "more visible". Thus I hope the channel will become more popular with time as current results doesn't motivate me too much. Interesting how many good and promising channels stopped to be developed because of a bit strange yr algorithms assumptions... Still big thank you for your support! 😺👍🕹
Wll see if other Atari channels will take a look and share, don't think they will see it as competition as your unique to them and I'd imagine they're decent people.
@@donny121able That would be nice. I have two channels. One in Polish and one in English. When it comes about Polish version it was recommended many times on other Polish retro and games channels, usually on the Community tab. However when it comes about English version, I haven't noticed any recommendation on any channel. I'm wondering if it's because of my not enough good English or because of other reasons?
Great to hear that! By the way, you are native speaker, aren't you? Then it's even nicer to hear that my English is not so bad although when creating this small channel I had many doubts if should do this.
This is why ATARI was always superior to Commodore. Faster CPU. More colors. More voices. More expandability. More RAM. Easier to program (I learned the Atari 5200/8bit in just a week.) CHEAPER (Before you say it, you had the option of the 16K machines when the 64K machines were the top and then the 64K machines when the 128K machines were the top!) And finally...... 3 years EARLIER.
Thanks for this post. I believe it's a bit more complicated that it looks like. For example the question is if we should compare Atari 400/800 or Atari 800XL with Commodore 64... Concerning programming do you mean BASIC or assembler? Assembler was probably similar in both cases. When it comes about BASIC, true that Atari had slightly better one. When you have 20-25 min, please have a look on my video about comparison Atari 800XL with Commodore 64. Concluding thanks for visiting my small channel. Good to see you here!
😀👍 Thank you for nice words. We should also say big thank you to the authors of these games. I hope you will visit my small channel from time to time and that you will subscribe it. I don't publish videos too often but I'm doing my best to make them interesting.
There's something about Atari 8-bit games that are super fun. Here's some history on those machines (and the famous computer that followed them): ruclips.net/video/WUQ1mcyYbdk/видео.html "I'm a tough guy". Heh. Not really :)
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✒ Please write many comments! I want to know your opinions! Additionally the more comments, the more RUclips promotes the channel! Thank you!
I would have never thought that Atari would still be so popular in Poland! Very cool.
😉👊 Ineed! Please be my guest and have a look on other videos about Polish software for Atari!
I have been amazed for many years how Poland became the center of the Atari universe. Why is this so? Is it because Jack Tramiel's family came from Poland? I've often wondered if there was some truth to that. In any case, I am very thankful that there are so many dedicated Atarians there who support our beloved 8-bit home computers. Keep the flame alive as long as possible!
I think it might be related with some good business decisions. During communism it was in general difficult to buy foreign electronic devices but Atari computers were easily available in the chain of shops called Pewex when you could buy them by paying in dollars (it's for sure not our national currency). Of course they were very expensive but at least having money you could easily buy them. It could have some impact on the situation although it doesn't explain all. And for sure it has influence on Atari world in the next years until now in Poland... Sometimes good grain gives good fruits...
@ITGuyinaction oh my god, thank you for answering this! I always wanted to know why and how Atari even existed during communist Poland, especially considering, well, it was the Cold War and western products generally weren't available in the Eastern Bloc! And yet somehow Atari was available back then. This always confuse me, but you helped answer the question. Thanks!!❤
@@nickfifteen 🤔🤔🤔 There were some export limitations but they didn't concern all electronic equipment... Thanks for visiting my small channel! 😀🙏
Some outstanding looking games here, these games are so much higher quality. I still play Atari 8 bit occasionaly.
Cool video 👍
😀👍🍻 Thank you for nice words! What about playing in those games then?
Yoomp! is on "Atari 50". Well deserved :)
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My first girlfriend, metaphorically, was my first Atari VCS in 1982. My first true love was my Atari 600xl in 1983.
💪😎🔥🔥🔥 I've never had 600xl...
@@ITGuyinaction At the time my dad gave me the option for a C64 with floppy drive, but instead I chose a 600XL with 1030 data cassette. I bought a tape copy of frogger for $5 from a friend at school and that was all I played for probably 6 months. I was a blind Atari fan, for there were tons of C64 owners I could have gotten games from back in the day here in Canada.
@@ridiculous_gaming I understand that. I also liked (and probably I still like) to be against the main wave.
Szacun! Gierki robią wrażenie. Jestem pod wrażeniem ludzi którzy teraz to pisza
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Great collection of Atari 8bit games. Thanks for posting.
Did you know them?
@@ITGuyinaction Yes. I know all of them.
@@RichardCyberPunk Wow! ❤
Great video - enjoyed watching and have played some of the games
Great! Which ones do you like the most?
20:48 - I got to this point in video! My wife found this for me. Great choices of games. I am in NTSC land, but I own PAL equipment to play all the latest greatest releases!
Please have a look on the video description. You will find useful links. Concerning PAL/NTSC some games are capable to work in both versions. If not, you can always use Atari emulator on PC. Video about one of them is on my small channel. Thanks for visiting! 😀
ATARI - FOREVER !!!
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The Atari modern games scene has been pushing the hardware more than the C64 homebrew scene I think. Time Pilot, Bosconian, Space Harrier are all brilliant. Most of the new C64 games you have to buy aren't really better than the best already from 1983-1991. No modern shoot em up for C64 comes even close to Enforcer by Manfred Trenz of Rainbow Arts. I hope somebody does Elite and Skyfox for the Atari soon, 2 really nice games from the mid 80s. I really wish I could find somebody to help out with Rescue on Fractalus II I have been designing.
🤔🤔🤔🤔 Difficult to say... I know the most Polish homebrew productions for Atari. Although even for C64 you can find some good titles developped in the last years. I hope that more people will add more comments here as it would be so much interesting to learn more opinions. I hope also that you will visit my small channel more often. 😀 P.S. Btw, you have also interesting videos on yours!
Agreed!
I don't see any 3D on C64....... but on Atari 8bit it's EVERYWHERE.
@@ecernosoft3096 Exactly, the C64 homebrew community has settled on 1984 quality coding and graphics and none of the musicians can rival the best composers of the 80s either. I honestly don't see the point buying new 21st century C64 games when the old ones are free and better technically.
Totally. This port in particular set the bar very very high: ruclips.net/video/RhzitD2pecw/видео.html
Great video!
I'm pissed off at the RUclips algorithm though. I've been searching for and watching Atari related videos for years, and today is the first day I've come across your content.
I'm very jealous of the Atari scene in Poland. I live in the US, and here in the birth place of Atari, hardware, software and books are hard to come by.
I've recently started dabbling in assembly language programming on the Atari, so who knows, maybe I'll have a game to share a few years from now 😀
P.S. I'm a tough guy 😛
👍🎥💥 Thank you for nice words! I hope that you will visit my small channel from time to time as Atari will always be close to my heart! ❤Being interested in assembly programming for Atari, please be my guest and have a look on the two additional videos here: the one about Polish utilities for Atari as it contains also software for assembler geeks and the one about AI and Atari. I hope you will enjoy them! Currently I'm preparing the second part of this second video but not sure when it will be released. Concerning yt algorithm that's really pity as my channel is in practice not at all promoted by the algorithm. Sometimes I put some links on some forums etc. and then I get visits. From yt I get almost nothing (very small number of views) but at least it's good that at least sometimes it proposes my videos as in your case. Best greetings!
Hey, same here, just popped up on my page but have searched many times in past for something like this.
Its quite something to see what people in later years have managed to developed since the days when I used to play.
Good channel.
I believe the more watched the channel, the more it will be shared. Maybe the creator hasn't pushed it out there enough.
@@donny121able I think that yt algorithm doesn't trust too much the creators. Adding keywords, description etc. doesn't help in putting video high in searching results. Only after enough high number of views and enough high number of links, the video becomes "more visible". Thus I hope the channel will become more popular with time as current results doesn't motivate me too much. Interesting how many good and promising channels stopped to be developed because of a bit strange yr algorithms assumptions... Still big thank you for your support! 😺👍🕹
Wll see if other Atari channels will take a look and share, don't think they will see it as competition as your unique to them and I'd imagine they're decent people.
@@donny121able That would be nice. I have two channels. One in Polish and one in English. When it comes about Polish version it was recommended many times on other Polish retro and games channels, usually on the Community tab. However when it comes about English version, I haven't noticed any recommendation on any channel. I'm wondering if it's because of my not enough good English or because of other reasons?
I like the music as much as the games
👍 👍 👍 Happy to hear that! This video is already a bit old and many new and good games were developed lately... Time to prepare a second one?
Great narrative, very easy to listen to. Impressive games!
Great to hear that! By the way, you are native speaker, aren't you? Then it's even nicer to hear that my English is not so bad although when creating this small channel I had many doubts if should do this.
Fajny kanał, a zasubskrybuje :)
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cool games, there were a couple of them I didn't know, thanks.
Thus you know how you will spend the nearest weekend, am I right? 🤪
This is why ATARI was always superior to Commodore.
Faster CPU.
More colors.
More voices.
More expandability.
More RAM.
Easier to program (I learned the Atari 5200/8bit in just a week.)
CHEAPER (Before you say it, you had the option of the 16K machines when the 64K machines were the top and then the 64K machines when the 128K machines were the top!)
And finally...... 3 years EARLIER.
Thanks for this post. I believe it's a bit more complicated that it looks like. For example the question is if we should compare Atari 400/800 or Atari 800XL with Commodore 64... Concerning programming do you mean BASIC or assembler? Assembler was probably similar in both cases. When it comes about BASIC, true that Atari had slightly better one. When you have 20-25 min, please have a look on my video about comparison Atari 800XL with Commodore 64. Concluding thanks for visiting my small channel. Good to see you here!
Great video!
Great to hear that! 💙
Excellent games, great variety and high quality choice.
😀👍 Thank you for nice words. We should also say big thank you to the authors of these games. I hope you will visit my small channel from time to time and that you will subscribe it. I don't publish videos too often but I'm doing my best to make them interesting.
Wow. I wish these games had been available back when I had my 800xl and 130xe.the Games look very good
👍 Me too! Probably there are many reasons that they were not available... Pity!
@@ITGuyinaction I always new in my heart that the 800xl was way better than the c64. In the right hands the games looked and sounded amazing
@@snorkelthump 😉
Yoomp! is an amazing game
Definitely yes! 😜
Dzięki za wideo. Może mnie wreszcie zmotywuje do naprawy pamięci w mojej wiekowej 65 XE
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I'm a tough guy! 😄
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There's something about Atari 8-bit games that are super fun.
Here's some history on those machines (and the famous computer that followed them):
ruclips.net/video/WUQ1mcyYbdk/видео.html
"I'm a tough guy". Heh. Not really :)
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Hahaha. That is so amazing
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music at 13:49 is banging
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