I've been watching your videos lately and wanted to say that I really appreciate how natural and articulate you are when it comes to describing these games and how you feel about them. The footage and narration also lines up great and is super informative. Thanks for making these!
Lol, in the 2600 version of Rampage Ralph's name has an exclamation point, like the programmers were touting the fact that you could play him on the Atari and not the NES.
I had a lot of the Nintendo games for Atari, well, Donkey Kong, DK Jr., and Mario Bros. I think Mario Bros. was a silver label game and my copy of DKJ was a red lable, but I think that was a re-release from the Coleco version. By the way, it did have three levels for DKJ (omitting the one with the spring board and the dive-bomning bird) - the DK cart did only have the two stages. They were all kind of rough but I played them all - I mean, it's what I had, right? Man, when that NES came out I was blown away!
More apt comparison between versions on both Atari 2600 and 5200... or even 7800. Considering that Atari themselves used the upgraded Pac-Man on 5200 to sell the new system.
A few more games that were on both Atari & Nes : California games, Commando, Spy Hunter, Galaga, Ghostbusters, Gyruss you could also include super hero games such as Spiderman superman and sports games but they are not really the same games.
i discovered klax on midway classics for the og xbox got addicted to playing that one . loved that midway classics mostly because of the hours of commentary from the game designers,about the history of the games. wish i could find a robo tron cabinet. cha ching baby ,my lid would flip.
If you haven't heard about it definitely look into getting a Retron 77 it lets you play Atari 2600 cartridges. Check out your local thrift shops or whatever before buying any games online though I've been lucky so far and I've been able to pick up some cartridges for a buck.
I bought one too so I could play Ms Pac-Man with my mom but it didn’t have it, so we didn’t like it and we just left it in the storage. And I was also very disappointed that Space Invaders and Frogger aren’t really the Atari version of the game, it just looks like the arcade version, way to break the experience Atari
@@nintega_64 That isn't their fault. Atari doesn't own the rights to any of those games. Also, the Flashback consoles aren't even made by Atari. They are made by AtGames with licensing permission from Atari.
Donkey Kong (as well as Jr and many other arcade ports) were made for the 2600 by Coleco, not Nintendo, as you stated. Nintendo was exclusively an arcade manufacturer at the time.
While I never played most of these games on the 2600 or NES, I think the 2600 did a good job in most of them. Even Rampage. I mean, even had the helicopters flying in the background. That's attention to detail! Which yes the buildings lacked, but I am sure it was as fun.
Soy hunter and Super sprint appeared on both and if you count famicom there is also galaxian, space invaders, and pooyan. Also crazy climber appeared on both I believe
Those are some that i could think about. Some of these were released as homebrews on the 2600. Ghostbusters, Galaxian, Galaga, Mappy, Pooyan, Space Invaders, California Games, Road Runner, Track & Field, Boulder Dash
JohnRiggs Yeah it seems a lot of his videos seems to stick on to a lot of people for a long and I think it's due to the fact of how much time and effort he puts into his videos.
@@JohnRiggs I got my NES Christmas of 1987. Present from my brother. I was 20 and still playing a lot of Atari, ColecoVision, Odyssey2 and Intellivision. :)
I love that Atari had the audacity in their advertising to act as if they could compete head-to-head with the NES, even claiming superiority, as in "who wants to play with a robot?"
Your channel is quickly becoming a favourite of mine to tune in to, so much great content Riggs. Unless I missed it - how about a 5200 vs NES or 7800 vs NES?
Yes!!! love u for doing this vid bro!!! Nes Atari carts are my absolute fav!!!! So fun to try to find, play & collect or resale for the store & watch people go "wait,..what? This games on Atari too?!?!?"...... hahaha...love it!!!!!
Sigflup here, the limitations of the 2600 are actually pretty interesting and colors how much you appreciate some games on it. There was no frame buffer and no sprites. You literally drew the raster beam as it went down the screen
Forgot Track & Field, Othello, Ghostbusters, Summer Games, Winter Games, California Games, and Q*bert. Technically you can say Golf and Ice Hockey as well but if a TH-cam video is much longer than 12 minutes, I might not watch it.
Man John just keeps putting out these great videos consistently. Thank you John I was a fan of you in metal Jesus when you talked about my favorite handhelds the Gameboy and now I’m a fan of your channel. Keep up the great work!
I really loved this mr Riggs! I had no idea some of these were on the 2600, I remember dig dug fondly as a young kid. Along with Enduro racer, river raid and combat it was one of my absolute favorites!
Mario Brothers was one of my top 10 all time 2600 games. The physics of the ice blobs and frozen platforms is always omitted from videos like yours and that " Immortal" guy ( why is he immortal???) The levels with the Ice blobs were awesome!
A lot of people say the Atari 2600 version of Pac Man was trash, which, yeah, it's a pretty shabby looking port... but I think it's the most Atari 2600-ish game there is. The simple look and more simple game design, the sounds, it reeks of that true essence of Atari gaming. I freakin' love it.
Cool showcase of games, Sir Riggs. I never owned an Atari but recognize some of the games from the C64 and IBM DOS days of gaming. Along those lines as a curiosity you should check out the DOS 3D reimagining of Pac-Man called 3-Demon. It was actually an awesome primitive game (and a little creepy to seven year old me!)
Nuntendo licensed the cinsole rights to Coleco, and the home computer rights to Atari, to be precise. So Atari wrote the 400/800 vesions of Donkey Kong, Donkey.Kong Junior and Mario Bros.
I remember when my dad went to buy our Atari. It was an upgrade to the Coleco and Intellivision, which I had been playing. And when I got home with my mom, my dad, a man who never played a video game in his life before or since, was sitting there on the floor playing Pole Position for like two hours straight, refusing to give up the controller.
Awesome Video! I have just about all of these games except for the Burger Time for Atari. Love your channel Brother! I also live in the Seattle area so hope to bump into you one day and Metal Jesus and the rest of the Northwest Crew! A++++++=
The Tengen version of Pacman was identical to the Namco one, as far as I could tell. Tengen released a superior version of Ms Pacman for the NES. Too back you didn't feature that one.
Iraijus one has to bear in mind that the two consoles are a generation apart from each other. Also the Atari VCS/2600 was a fairly early second generation home video game console. Thus it's not likely to compare/contrast all that favorably to the third generation Nintendo NES, but it's games were mostly good for their time.
is the screenshot in the gray frame from princess tomato in the salad kingdom? asking for a friend. i've personally never rented that game.....not even once....
Klax was indeed the last game released in Europe. Space Invaders was on the Famicom only. I think it was because they thought it was too old to release for the NES.
True story: Rampage on 2600 was actually released AFTER the NES port. And yes, Klax was indeed the last officially licensed game released for the 2600, and yeah, it was PAL exclusive.
You got Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-man, but forgot Jr. Pac-Man Defender II on Atari (Also called Stargate) is very good with a second controller, as you have smart bombs, warp, and invincibility mapped to the fire, up and down buttons of the second joystick. Lots of people made their own 3 button foot pedal for this. I personally made my own arcade joystick with the 3 buttons added in.
@johnriggs at 3:31 you said "According to lore" but the video seems to be cut off, what was according to the lore? IN any case, this video was great thanks for putting together the comparison
I forgot to edit that part out. I was just going to say that if Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country was the original Donkey Kong, then that makes Donkey Kong Jr. the DK we have now.
@@JohnRiggs haha that is true. I'm wondering why Mario made a career change from dealing with hammers and "Donkeys" to plumbing and" Koopas"? hahaI notice you have a lot of video game art, do you make it yourself or did you buy it from somewhere?
I remember these games! The Nes did such a good job at really making those 2600 games pop. If I remember it right, the Nes version of Mrs. Pac Man is the only one other than the 2600 to feature everything on one screen. The Master System version might have better "graphics" (subjective) it did not look as good or arcade correct as the Nes. is the only
There’s a DK hack for the 2600 that turns the barrels into gingerbread men and Pauline into a Christmas gift..... fireballs are replaced by holiday gifts as well.....it’s quite fun!
Theres actually another version of Mario Bros that was released exclusively for Europe as far as I know called Mario Bros Classic that greatly improved the issues with slipperiness and let you change direction mid jump (something missing in the arcade version) It also added arcade cutscenes though it did remove the jingle on the titles screen (this version took a lot of the improvements from a famicom disk exclusive game called Return of the Mario Bros which interestingly also used cutscene but for advertisements). Also Nintendo apparently was so embarrassed by the nes version of Donkey Kong missing the cement or pie factory they later hacked the rom and added in the missing level and virtually released it on the 3ds and on special edition wiis as Donkey Kong Original Edition, I've heard this may have something to do with complicated legal issues regarding the arcade game distribution rights but I'm not entirely sure on that point.
Some of the games that were on both I enjoyed on the Atari so I skipped the NES versions of them and don't regret it. Two being Popeye and Defender. I have very fond memories of them. I actually might have had the world record of Defender because one day I was in a zone and didn't stop playing it because I wasn't dying so I went all the way to level 100 and I guess it just starts you back over to level 1 after 99. I gave up after getting there but my score was probably so high and back then there was no way to record it but I should of took a picture cause now no one would ever believe me. lol
Goodmorning John! Hope you and your wonderful family are safe and sound. your beard is looking fresh today my man!! I've myself grown a crazy mustache since I cant see normal ppl and thus cant be judged hahaahH
Karateka, Q-Bert, Superman...does that one count though? Pipe Drean, Gauntlet, Frontline, Ghostbusters, Galaga, Othello, Spyhunter...there are other titles as well but I think they are completely different games though. Ghostbusters and a few others I mentioned might actually fall into that category too.
I think this would have been so much better if you showed the arcade, then NES/Famicon, the version for the Atari 7800, and lastly the Atari 2600. What do you think?
I was hoping you would get to Q*bert, because that’s the one I can think of where the 2600 version plays a lot better. I hate having to press the button and direction to jump in the NES version
They actually made you press the button and direction to jump on the NES? 🤦♂️ The 2600 joystick was perfect for this game, just rotate the controller 45 degrees and you were set.
I do remember perfering it to ms pacman on atari 2600 because of the speed it went. MsPacman was so much slower. But back in the 80s we never expected arcade perfect. Honestly nes got closer, but still wasn't arcade perfect with new arcade games in the nes life.
Hey John, question for you. Have you ever made a color dreams repro cart. Curious if and /or how it would need to be rewired. Let me know thanks and keep up the great content. :)
I've been watching your videos lately and wanted to say that I really appreciate how natural and articulate you are when it comes to describing these games and how you feel about them. The footage and narration also lines up great and is super informative. Thanks for making these!
What about the Tengen version of Ms. Pac-Man for the nes. It was great !
Lol, in the 2600 version of Rampage Ralph's name has an exclamation point, like the programmers were touting the fact that you could play him on the Atari and not the NES.
I so loved Rampage on the 2600. I made it through the level cycle on one guy repeatedly back in the day.
I had a lot of the Nintendo games for Atari, well, Donkey Kong, DK Jr., and Mario Bros. I think Mario Bros. was a silver label game and my copy of DKJ was a red lable, but I think that was a re-release from the Coleco version. By the way, it did have three levels for DKJ (omitting the one with the spring board and the dive-bomning bird) - the DK cart did only have the two stages. They were all kind of rough but I played them all - I mean, it's what I had, right? Man, when that NES came out I was blown away!
More apt comparison between versions on both Atari 2600 and 5200... or even 7800. Considering that Atari themselves used the upgraded Pac-Man on 5200 to sell the new system.
A few more games that were on both Atari & Nes : California games, Commando, Spy Hunter, Galaga, Ghostbusters, Gyruss you could also include super hero games such as Spiderman superman and sports games but they are not really the same games.
galaga was not on 2600
demonsty - it was Galaxian wasn’t it?
demonsty Both Galaxian and Galaga are on the 2600. The latter was released in 2019 as "Galagon" and is very close to the arcade.
@@Colonel-Llama no way! i gotta see that. cool!
@@reagandow850 yeah
i discovered klax on midway classics for the og xbox got addicted to playing that one . loved that midway classics mostly because of the hours of commentary from the game designers,about the history of the games. wish i could find a robo tron cabinet. cha ching baby ,my lid would flip.
The Atari 2600 was way before my time but I have the Atari Flashback 9 I love collecting retro games and consoles
Still some great games on it.
Can that play carts and have hdmi and play 7800 games?
If you haven't heard about it definitely look into getting a Retron 77 it lets you play Atari 2600 cartridges. Check out your local thrift shops or whatever before buying any games online though I've been lucky so far and I've been able to pick up some cartridges for a buck.
I bought one too so I could play Ms Pac-Man with my mom but it didn’t have it, so we didn’t like it and we just left it in the storage. And I was also very disappointed that Space Invaders and Frogger aren’t really the Atari version of the game, it just looks like the arcade version, way to break the experience Atari
@@nintega_64 That isn't their fault. Atari doesn't own the rights to any of those games. Also, the Flashback consoles aren't even made by Atari. They are made by AtGames with licensing permission from Atari.
Donkey Kong (as well as Jr and many other arcade ports) were made for the 2600 by Coleco, not Nintendo, as you stated. Nintendo was exclusively an arcade manufacturer at the time.
Yep. Coleco had licensed games from Nintendo and Sega back then.
Awesome video. I'm both a big arcade fan as well as Atari and NES fan. Most of my NES games are actually arcade ports.
While I never played most of these games on the 2600 or NES, I think the 2600 did a good job in most of them. Even Rampage. I mean, even had the helicopters flying in the background. That's attention to detail! Which yes the buildings lacked, but I am sure it was as fun.
Soy hunter and Super sprint appeared on both and if you count famicom there is also galaxian, space invaders, and pooyan. Also crazy climber appeared on both I believe
oh, you're right! There was a Spy Hunter on Atari.
@@JohnRiggs omg i just realized i wrote soy hunter 🤣😂
Front line as well :)
@@atarileaf Soy Hunter sounds like a good game lol.."The lesser known Burger Time spin-off" lol😅😅
Those are some that i could think about. Some of these were released as homebrews on the 2600. Ghostbusters, Galaxian, Galaga, Mappy, Pooyan, Space Invaders, California Games, Road Runner, Track & Field, Boulder Dash
Oh man I tell you one thing we really needed our imagination to make most of these work. Thank GOD for the manuals...
humacao01 - but, that’s why we have good imagination bud todays kids. ;-)
I didnt know Kung Fu Master was on 2600.. That was my favorite game growing up, my only reason to tag along for laundry.
It is on both Atari 2600 & 7800.
Thank you I've never seen that gaming historian episode. Great video I've started watching your channel in the past few days.
It's one of his super old episodes (over 10 years old now!) but always stuck with me.
JohnRiggs Yeah it seems a lot of his videos seems to stick on to a lot of people for a long and I think it's due to the fact of how much time and effort he puts into his videos.
YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME, Q*BERT! @#$*!
!@#?@!! How could I. I feel terrible.
@@JohnRiggs lol
I love these kinds of comparison videos, and good to see Atari getting some attention.
I didnt' get an NES until 1989 so my Atari was all I had.
@@JohnRiggs I got my NES Christmas of 1987. Present from my brother. I was 20 and still playing a lot of Atari, ColecoVision, Odyssey2 and Intellivision. :)
Thanks John; this was exactly the video I was looking for. Been researching to eventually make my own homebrew.
Good thing you didn't mention Super Pitfall.
"This is the NES version here"... Thanks! That version of was so close to the 2600 version I couldn't tell.
I love that Atari had the audacity in their advertising to act as if they could compete head-to-head with the NES, even claiming superiority, as in "who wants to play with a robot?"
Everyone, of course!
Your channel is quickly becoming a favourite of mine to tune in to, so much great content Riggs. Unless I missed it - how about a 5200 vs NES or 7800 vs NES?
Thanks buddy!
Yes!!! love u for doing this vid bro!!! Nes Atari carts are my absolute fav!!!! So fun to try to find, play & collect or resale for the store & watch people go "wait,..what? This games on Atari too?!?!?"...... hahaha...love it!!!!!
Sigflup here, the limitations of the 2600 are actually pretty interesting and colors how much you appreciate some games on it. There was no frame buffer and no sprites. You literally drew the raster beam as it went down the screen
Forgot Track & Field, Othello, Ghostbusters, Summer Games, Winter Games, California Games, and Q*bert. Technically you can say Golf and Ice Hockey as well but if a TH-cam video is much longer than 12 minutes, I might not watch it.
Man John just keeps putting out these great videos consistently. Thank you John I was a fan of you in metal Jesus when you talked about my favorite handhelds the Gameboy and now I’m a fan of your channel. Keep up the great work!
I need to do a 'game boy' video soon, too.
Looking forward to it👍
I really loved this mr Riggs! I had no idea some of these were on the 2600, I remember dig dug fondly as a young kid. Along with Enduro racer, river raid and combat it was one of my absolute favorites!
I would play Dig Dug and dive through all the dirt so it'd just be a blank screen.
Mario Brothers was one of my top 10 all time 2600 games. The physics of the ice blobs and frozen platforms is always omitted from videos like yours and that " Immortal" guy ( why is he immortal???) The levels with the Ice blobs were awesome!
Space invaders and galatic were also on both the nes & atari 2600, am glad i owned the nes as a kid.
5:53 That looks decent for 2600
9:49 Another decent one......a bit of ' limit pusher ' for the 2600 I would imagine. Could almost be a NES game.
Awesome vid. Never played a Atari and prob never will but it was cool to see the difference. Thx for the video.
A lot of people say the Atari 2600 version of Pac Man was trash, which, yeah, it's a pretty shabby looking port... but I think it's the most Atari 2600-ish game there is. The simple look and more simple game design, the sounds, it reeks of that true essence of Atari gaming. I freakin' love it.
Cool showcase of games, Sir Riggs. I never owned an Atari but recognize some of the games from the C64 and IBM DOS days of gaming.
Along those lines as a curiosity you should check out the DOS 3D reimagining of Pac-Man called 3-Demon. It was actually an awesome primitive game (and a little creepy to seven year old me!)
Everyone hates on the Atari 5200, but back in the day I loved having really good-looking renditions of Dig Dug, Pac-Man, Pengo, Jungle Hunt etc etc.
I just discovered your channel this morning, and I gotta say, this is the kinda content I am here for!
Thanks! And welcome!!
I love these games!!
This was a fun video. I hope you do another one. There are a few games for the Famicom you could mention. Galaxian, Crazy Climber, Front Line
Totally!
I grew up with the 2600 version of pac-man and didn't see the arcade or NES version for many years and it seemed unfamiliar and strange to me.
3:29 I was kinda curious here when you said according to lore but didn’t finish
John Holliday I have a feeling he was going to say that Donkey Kong Jr is the current DK according to lore.
@@replicant1027 Exactly that. Was going to mention that Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country was the original Donkey Kong which makes modern DK DKjr.
John Holliday - me too!
We also bought the 2600 in 1982, I was with my brother in the car and the 2600 was in my lap! it was like magic.. full joy and excitement!
Nintendo wasn't making games for Atari. Donkey Kong was a Colleco license and they produced the property.
Nuntendo licensed the cinsole rights to Coleco, and the home computer rights to Atari, to be precise. So Atari wrote the 400/800 vesions of Donkey Kong, Donkey.Kong Junior and Mario Bros.
I actually love the PAC MAN and Donkey Kong ports on Atari, but solely for the nostalgia.
same here.
Qbert was on both for sure 👍
I remember when my dad went to buy our Atari. It was an upgrade to the Coleco and Intellivision, which I had been playing. And when I got home with my mom, my dad, a man who never played a video game in his life before or since, was sitting there on the floor playing Pole Position for like two hours straight, refusing to give up the controller.
Awesome Video! I have just about all of these games except for the Burger Time for Atari. Love your channel Brother! I also live in the Seattle area so hope to bump into you one day and Metal Jesus and the rest of the Northwest Crew! A++++++=
No... 2600 DK Jr had 3 stages... it had the stage with the sparks.
for the Atari?! oh man, I gotta go back and play it again.
Yup.
please make more of these. dont forget commando
The Tengen version of Pacman was identical to the Namco one, as far as I could tell. Tengen released a superior version of Ms Pacman for the NES. Too back you didn't feature that one.
Namco owned Tengen and Atari Games at the time. For all intents and purposes, Tengen Pacman IS Namco Pacman.
Yeah that's how I played MS Pacman on the NES the Tengen version was so awesome.
Good video! Nice comparing the NES versions to the Atari 2600 versions of the games!
I really thought the Atari versions would be bad, but they seemed to be ok, actually. Just a lot blockier.
Iraija some played very well like Phoenix for example
Iraijus one has to bear in mind that the two consoles are a generation apart from each other. Also the Atari VCS/2600 was a fairly early second generation home video game console. Thus it's not likely to compare/contrast all that favorably to the third generation Nintendo NES, but it's games were mostly good for their time.
DigDug on the 7800 was pretty good, I don't know if I had ever seen this version.
I wish Wizard of Wor was ported to the NES. I loved the music on that game.
Hell yeah!
Wizard of Wor was fantastic!
Love the voice synthesis.
Now you mention it - strange that it was never ported to NES. Would have been a hit, and it could have been a very fine conversion.
2:46 I cannot stress just how much I love gingerbread kong
3:31 Yeah I guess according to lore... what? You spliced it there and we have an unfinished thought.
Omission of Tengen Ms PAC Man. Better port of the arcade on NES.
Great idea for a video!
Donkey kong on 2600 was fun. Did you try DK on the ti99 it looks and plays very good.
Dig Dug, Bump n Jump and Defender II on 2600 are pretty impressive visually
is the screenshot in the gray frame from princess tomato in the salad kingdom?
asking for a friend. i've personally never rented that game.....not even once....
Wasn’t Defender II called Stargate in the arcades? Did they change the name because of the movie?
Klax was indeed the last game released in Europe.
Space Invaders was on the Famicom only. I think it was because they thought it was too old to release for the NES.
True story: Rampage on 2600 was actually released AFTER the NES port. And yes, Klax was indeed the last officially licensed game released for the 2600, and yeah, it was PAL exclusive.
oh wow! good to know!
What about Acid drop and Save Marry? They are form 91 and 90 I think
intel386DX nah it was Klax
You got Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-man, but forgot Jr. Pac-Man
Defender II on Atari (Also called Stargate) is very good with a second controller, as you have smart bombs, warp, and invincibility mapped to the fire, up and down buttons of the second joystick. Lots of people made their own 3 button foot pedal for this. I personally made my own arcade joystick with the 3 buttons added in.
@johnriggs at 3:31 you said "According to lore" but the video seems to be cut off, what was according to the lore? IN any case, this video was great thanks for putting together the comparison
I forgot to edit that part out. I was just going to say that if Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country was the original Donkey Kong, then that makes Donkey Kong Jr. the DK we have now.
@@JohnRiggs haha that is true. I'm wondering why Mario made a career change from dealing with hammers and "Donkeys" to plumbing and" Koopas"? hahaI notice you have a lot of video game art, do you make it yourself or did you buy it from somewhere?
@@juangsantos Had to be the mushrooms... 😉
@@lazarushernandez5827 haha probably better than bananas
Thanks for the content, love these
I remember these games! The Nes did such a good job at really making those 2600 games pop. If I remember it right, the Nes version of Mrs. Pac Man is the only one other than the 2600 to feature everything on one screen. The Master System version might have better "graphics" (subjective) it did not look as good or arcade correct as the Nes.
is the only
as far as ive seen pacman has got released on most if not all systems. its a game that everyone likes to play
There’s a DK hack for the 2600 that turns the barrels into gingerbread men and Pauline into a Christmas gift..... fireballs are replaced by holiday gifts as well.....it’s quite fun!
Ha! I love it.
Theres actually another version of Mario Bros that was released exclusively for Europe as far as I know called Mario Bros Classic that greatly improved the issues with slipperiness and let you change direction mid jump (something missing in the arcade version) It also added arcade cutscenes though it did remove the jingle on the titles screen (this version took a lot of the improvements from a famicom disk exclusive game called Return of the Mario Bros which interestingly also used cutscene but for advertisements). Also Nintendo apparently was so embarrassed by the nes version of Donkey Kong missing the cement or pie factory they later hacked the rom and added in the missing level and virtually released it on the 3ds and on special edition wiis as Donkey Kong Original Edition, I've heard this may have something to do with complicated legal issues regarding the arcade game distribution rights but I'm not entirely sure on that point.
I used to play Defender II at work. Miss it.
How do you do the "abba" thing in Ikari warriors for 2600?
The Atari 7800 had these games as well. But actually didn't know there was a 2600 version of Popeye. That's awesome
@Yurt Dweller I'll definitely check it out
I had these on the 8-bit Atari (400/800 series), and they looked a lot more like the NES versions than the 2600 versions.
Some of the games that were on both I enjoyed on the Atari so I skipped the NES versions of them and don't regret it. Two being Popeye and Defender. I have very fond memories of them. I actually might have had the world record of Defender because one day I was in a zone and didn't stop playing it because I wasn't dying so I went all the way to level 100 and I guess it just starts you back over to level 1 after 99. I gave up after getting there but my score was probably so high and back then there was no way to record it but I should of took a picture cause now no one would ever believe me. lol
I know Commando was. I remember that being one of the games I bought with my allowance when KB Toys was clearing all the 2600 games for $5 each.
You didn't cheat on Dig-Dug! I rented it once for NES back in the day.
The Sea Hag does appear in the NES version of Popeye. She comes out after the first loop when the game begins to repeat.
Goodmorning John! Hope you and your wonderful family are safe and sound. your beard is looking fresh today my man!! I've myself grown a crazy mustache since I cant see normal ppl and thus cant be judged hahaahH
Now's the time to experiment!!
Me: Mom can we stop for pacman
Mom: We have pacman at home
Pacman at home: 1:01
Me at home:😭😭😭
Dig-Dug came out for the NES too. I remember renting it, and it was easy to master. I'm in the US.
It was never published for the NES. Perhaps it was the sequel, Dig Dug II: Trouble in Paradise?
Great vid, but 2600 DK Jr has three levels. 2600 Popeye has all three levels also.
Rare miss by leaving out Moon Patrol.
You could pretty much say the same thing about *any* 2600 game...
They get the job done! 😁
Karateka, Q-Bert, Superman...does that one count though? Pipe Drean, Gauntlet, Frontline, Ghostbusters, Galaga, Othello, Spyhunter...there are other titles as well but I think they are completely different games though. Ghostbusters and a few others I mentioned might actually fall into that category too.
Defender 2 was my second ever NES game. Lots of time spent playing it. Actually played it the other day :).
Two fantastic consoles and video game companies. Too bad Atari stopped making consoles.
I think this would have been so much better if you showed the arcade, then NES/Famicon, the version for the Atari 7800, and lastly the Atari 2600.
What do you think?
Great video thank you for this!
LOVE that princess tomato in the background
Defender 2 aka Stargate, and on the 2600 appeared with both names.
Yes and they got even title screens :)
I was hoping you would get to Q*bert, because that’s the one I can think of where the 2600 version plays a lot better. I hate having to press the button and direction to jump in the NES version
They actually made you press the button and direction to jump on the NES? 🤦♂️
The 2600 joystick was perfect for this game, just rotate the controller 45 degrees and you were set.
Commando got an Atari 2600 version
Atari pac-man was how I was first introduced to pac-man, loved it.
I do remember perfering it to ms pacman on atari 2600 because of the speed it went. MsPacman was so much slower. But back in the 80s we never expected arcade perfect. Honestly nes got closer, but still wasn't arcade perfect with new arcade games in the nes life.
Dig Dug on the 2600 is surprisingly entertaining.
Hey John, question for you. Have you ever made a color dreams repro cart. Curious if and /or how it would need to be rewired. Let me know thanks and keep up the great content. :)
Where did you get the Pac-Man cereal framed pic?
There's a vendor at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo who does wood art.
It is the nineties and there is apparently still time for the Atari 2600!
I bet your 2600 review will include the phrase “it gets the job done”
I just discovered California Games on the Atari 2600; It stacks up pretty decent against the competition, if you ask me.