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Yeah biggest selling game on the system shame as they got it right later with Ms Pacman and Pacman Jr for the masochists (great game but super hard).

That's a nice haul. I got quite a collection on the tail end of the system although I also remember paying some crazy high price for H.E.R.O. which fortunately turned out to be worth it

Thanks I love the enthusiasm. To make it easier I was sticking to games where the Atari is (in my opinion the best or equal best version of the game). Frogger on the Atari was fantastic both the Parker brothers version and the Starparth one but there are stronger versions of it on other platforms. I played the hell out of Defender but same is true there. I was tempted to put Asteroids in because although the arcade version is beautiful it was too hard for my liking. I wouldn't argue with anyone putting Super Breakout on their list. You should give Frostbite a go it's pretty awesome.

You might be thinking of Tomcat F-14 you start during the day and land at night.

Everyone has there own list on this sort of thing :P - what did I miss?

There must have been a strong "what am I doing with my life?" moment with who ever programmed that one :P

yes the sneaky invisible dot in the walled in room :D

Randomly I have two copies of Artillery duel :P It's good type of game for the Atari although the sound is a bit much. Indian Jones is one I am ashamed to say I haven't played it comes up a lot as a favourite.

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Thanks :D That's correct the large birds are both sprites joined together. They all stay at their own level so there is only two sprites per line. There is flicker when they dive to the player level because then there are then too many sprites.

Yeah we found the dot it back in the day. The flickering with less objects clued us into the fact it was there.

I haven't played Krull I'll give it a go.

Yeah I think Megamania would make a lot of peoples top list and the 2600 ports of Missle Command, Defender and Q Bert are excellent although I didn't have q-bert back in the day.

Thanks. Laser Gates is one I have only recently become aware of it looks awesome. Dragonfire and Megamania make a lot of peoples top list they are great games. Pressure Cooker is one I think more people should know about it was the first proper time management game as far as I can tell. I think Tapper beat it but it's a little simple Pressure Cooker really was the archetype for the whole genre.

@markrotondella4689 Laser Gates is great, people don't know it, but it has just 4 stages. I have written a guide for it (and Dragonfire too), you can check at gamefaqs. Atari is really curious, some games become impossible too fast, some we can finish (like Adventure and Megamania - yeah, I beat it), and some we can even play forever, lol. I can play Asteroids and Mouse Trap, for example, as long as I want, and will never lose, I need to give up. Oh, another cool games I have not seen been mentioned reading the comments, but If you don't know, you could try: Commando Raid and Megaforce. I'm also happy to see how you interact with all comments. Congratulations.

I loved Cosmic Ark; I played it all the time!

@@indiana2096 Yeah a lot of people love that game I have only really had a quick go at it.

It is the start tune from Frogger the actual tune is from a Japanese nursery rhyme Inu no Omawarisan.

Yeah that Atari Moonpatrol is fantastic I really like the animation of the tracks. I like the clean look of the Atari version but anyway you play it is a great choice.

Kaboom is one of those games that you need to go into a zen mental state to do well at I think.

True facts. :D

I make it easier I was picking games where the VCS had the best version of that game so while Missile Command is an amazing conversion on the Atari there are better versions. You could argue for Asteroids because it is so different to the arcade game it is kind of it's own thing and I do actually think it is more playable than the arcade version. But if I was just talking best games for the Atari they would definitely have to be be there.

Great games on the Atari - I played the hell out of Joust.

True facts :D

I must admit I haven't played Decathlon it looked too much like a joystick killer. It deserves way more credit than it gets I always assumed it was a rip off of Track and Field but it actually started that whole genre coming out a month before the arcade game.

Ha ha sorry I was going for games where Atari version was the best version. If I was being honest I would probably still put it in there because I played the hell out of it and barely ever played the arcade version because I sucked at it. It is an amazing conversion.

@@markrotondella4689 Oh, gotcha! Yeah, the arcade version had WAY too many buttons and was extremely difficult to play but sure looked cool. Ate plenty of quarters! Those small UFOs were deadly accurate assassins, too. Getting the version at home was like a dream come true but the $40 price tag almost killed me as a 13? year old! Eventually I could flip the score though 😄 Thanks for the great video!!

Thanks :D :D how Atari managed to go bankrupt making games that just took one person to write and they were charging $200 for in today's money. :P I think I paid 70 dollars for H.E.R.O. thank God it was amazing.

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haha fair enough I did have Adventure and Bezerk. Hard to argue about Haunted House it is iconic. I played the hell out of Missile Command so I don't disagree. Raiders would be a hard sell for modern eyes. I had a supercharger back in the day so I had a pretty good port of Frogger. Although the Parker brothers one is quite good too. Pac-Man was the biggest seller for the system. :/

Give them a go they are great games. Yeah Empire is pretty fantastic, I didn't put Defender because while the Atari version is pretty amazing there are better versions on other platforms.

@@markrotondella4689 I agree totally on Defender. The arcade version was the best!

@@jasonmiller3134 it started the unforgiving get good genre. I only ever played it if it was one of the nerfed versions where turning and thrusting were all controlled by the joystick.

Oh no! I promise if you learn the mechanics of it it is actually fun but I get that it is a hard sell now. You can play the Atari on any computer you don't need purpose built systems.

Nice you can actually get lower I've done 26 and I have seen 25 I'm not sure how it works it's such a basic device it might come down to room temp :P

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Yeah they both are fantastic... still are. :P

Donkey Kong is pretty impressive for the Atari.

I do actually have the cart. :P

Battlezone not a great game!? How very dare you! ;) :P I like the speed of the Atari Phoenix over the arcade version but they are both fantastic games. I didn't have Raiders back in the day it is well loved. I must admit I haven't played it blasphemy I know. :/

Yeah Haunted House is definitely iconic I didn't have it back in the day and didn't spend enough time to learn it for this I think. You might notice it is in the title graphic but hard to argue it probably should have been in there. Defender is an amazing conversion that one snuck out because I was looking at game where the Atari was the best way to play the game. Honestly I probably still could have put it in because I have played Atari Defender for hours upon hours but barely never played it on any other platform. Mainly because I sucked at the original.

This is true. I always feel guilty of the first few before I remember how to play the game again. :P

Thanks for watching :D

Yeah the Atari's Moon Patrol was top notch.

We had what seems like a great deal of Atari games, but a fair number of the ones on your list I've never played. I have to say that I don't share the fondness for Combat that a lot of people seem to have. There just isn't a lot to it, and the action is very limited. Honestly the most interesting part was how it would randomly glitch and throw a tank to the other side of the screen. That made things briefly interesting.

I think I like Warlords more in retrospect (and maybe conceptually) than I did at the time (and maybe in practice). That's not to say I didn't like it back then, but we only played it a modest amount. It felt a bit limited, and it required 4 people to be really fun (or 3 at the very least). I think if there was just a little more to it, it might have appealed to me more. Still a cool game though, and like I said, it's one I probably have more fondness for now.

Pitfall is, of course, a classic. Berzerk was fun, but it wasn't something that engaged me as much my very favorite games. Some things I really liked that aren't on your list: • Demon Attack -- We didn't own Phoenix though, and perhaps I would've felt like you do if we had. • Seaquest -- Great action on this one. I remember playing it for hours on end. • Asteroids -- A relatively early favorite of mine. It didn't see as much play later on, but that was perhaps because I wore it out, playing it so much at a time I had few other games. • Megamania -- All those different levels with different action? I've always appreciated multi-stage space games, like Gorf, and it really scratched that itch. The only real shortcoming was that I couldn't sink into the groove of it the way I could some other games, partly because it got very challenging pretty quickly. • Tutankham -- Had a lot of fun playing this one. With its big maps, it had some of the questy/adventurey feel of Adventure.

Yeah I'm glad it's fondly remembered it really is a ground breaking game and a lot of things came together to make it work. You really can't take any element out (even the flickering) without damaging the game.

I think Combat was a great pack in game but once everyone was proficient at it I think you are right it loses a lot of it's appeal. The pong tank variation could still be fun but really the game is at it's best when the players aren't any good at it.

Yeah Defender was fantastic on the Atari and really had not business being able to run in any capacity on the hardware.

I kind of missed the boat on Yars revenge I didn't have it back in the day. I didn't have empire either but I played it quite a bit on friends systems.

Yeah Superman does deserve a mention it features quite a few innovations and firsts. Hard to argue about Defender and Asteroids both great ports that I played the hell out of.

Yeah the 2600's Missile Command is pretty stella hard to argue.

(or, to be precise, the ball has the playfield color, which again makes more sense than it having a specific player’s color)

Ah that makes sense. Thanks. :D

It would be one most people lists I think. I wanted to cheat and put it with Phoenix but didn't want to wimp out and not choose a side... although there isn't really a side you should love both of them. :P

Yeah Spider Fighter looks and plays great so fast. Keystone Capers is tops for a lot of people to and there weren't many platformers that were any good on the Atari. Must me something about Dr Mario my sister doesn't play video game but she used to play that one too death.

Fixed shooters like Space Invaders were really well represented on the Atari it is a genre that I miss we kind of threw the baby out with the bath water when we moved onto scrolling shooters. Yes they are visually more flash but I wish both continued on they were few and far between after the early 80s. I missed Galaxian on the Atari back in the day because I assumed it would be terrible but it is actually fantastic. Space Invaders has no business working on the Atari let alone Galaxian. They use the one player object to display up to 7 across the same row on the screen which means they are reallocating it mid scan line while duplexing it - absolutely nuts. Midways Gun Fight is also the first arcade game to use a CPU so the first commercial video game to actually be a proper computer game. All the games before it were discrete logic so basically computers that could only ever do one thing.

I’m not sure If I didn’t know about or forgot about Midnight Magic - I was visualizing Video Pinball until I looked it up. It is really impressive. Don’t get me started on the 2600 Battlezone - if it was a modern homebrew I would think it was a masterpiece let alone a 1983 game.

Pressure Cooker really deserves more love than it gets. As far as I can tell it is the first proper Task Management game way before it's time. Tapper might have come out before but I'm honestly not sure. Even if it did Pressure Cooker is a more complete version of concept.

I was hoping I would be introducing a few games even to people that had the Atari back in the day. To make it a little easier for myself I only listed game where I think the Atari is the best version of that game. Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, and Ms. Pac-Man are all amazing conversions and no doubt some of the best games on the system but I think there are better versions on other systems... You could argue Asteroids because it's a very different game on the Atari so kind of it's own thing and I think a bit more enjoyable.

@@markrotondella4689 Oh. Ok. I just remember playing those games for hours! I also wore out Circus Atari. Look at that one if you have never seen it.