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'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!
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?"
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!!!!!
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.
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
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.
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.
i liked the Atari but geeze , NES just does it all better. A fair comparison would be 5200/7800. maybe Intellivision (for color) or Colecovision ? the SMS vs NES has been done a billion times over, but it's kinda inevitable ?
Yeah, I was shocked when I saw YT videos and bought some Atari 2600 collections. I loved the games at the time, but they are just god awful nowadays. I felt ripped off when I saw how the Intellivision and Colecovision systems were clearly superior. Atari could have reigned supreme if they had gotten off their lazy arse and introduced the 5200 a year or two earlier and made it compatible with the 2600. That and focus more on games with longer experiences for the home instead of just arcade-like games. The NES was the clear winner in that department.
@@StoneWT It was usually Intellivision and Colecovision who would respectively release their titles on other consoles and whether it was intentional and/or limitations of other hardware, their consoles version always looked better ( I don't recall many Intellivision games going to Colecovision however). They both had 2600 adapters as well, inviting those users to migrate. Who knows what they were thinking back then. The 5200 could have definitely been released earlier than it was (1982), as it pretty much had Atari 400/800 computer parts underneath (and yet wasn't compatible them either); the VCS came out in 1977 while the 800 showed up in 1979. I'm guessing Intellivsion (which came out in 1979) didn't make a huge dent into the 2600s market share. I do know that at the time their console and home computer branches were separate entities and console licenses didn't transfer to computers and vice versa (for example at the time Coleco had the Nintendo license for console ports of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior, while AtariSoft held the computer license for those). I chalk it up to console makers not knowing how long they should support a console/platform before phasing it out, not quite realizing the importance of exclusives or IPs (some did, Coleco never ported it's games to the similarly powerful 5200), and other lessons that we take for granted nowadays, a lot of uncharted territory back then.
Funny back in the day I had several games on the 2600 that I bought when I finally got my NES, even though I played them often when I had my 2600 I hardly touched them on the NES. I got my NES back when games like Castlevania 3 was popular, so Donkey Kong wasn't as fun anymore.
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.
@@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 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.
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, but this is apples to oranges...compare these to the ATARI 7800...THEN we have a fair fight. I loved my Atari 7800...and 5200...and 2600 adaptor for Colecovision.
The NES moved things along ' leaps and bounds '............no one (or at least, very few people) are downloading 2600 emulators to replay/enjoy classics from their childhood like they/we are for the NES etc.....or maybe thats just me. The 2600 was something you put up with because it was there.....the NES is.......well, its the NES.
when i had an atari, there was a port of the original donkey kong on it, i always thought that the person u are trying to rescue at the top was a mouse....yup, the graphics were that bad.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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!)
Donkey Kong JR for the 2600 actually has 3 screens. But it still sucks because it gives no points for jumping over enemies and no fruit to drop on enemies. I hate the Atari 2600 Donkey Kong as well. If Coleco had added just one more screen on Donkey Kong, I would've been happier.
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It's funny to look at this and all, but to ridicule and make fun of the 'Graphics' is just a Why? The NES was at least a generation after the Atari 2600. Of course the graphics are going to be better. It would be like saying lets looks at the NES graphics compared to the SNES. A better comparative would have been the Coleco or Commodore 64 vs the NES. I just gave you a future episode. Your Welcome ;)
The name of the clip is maybe a little bit missleading.... Technically these titles are not "NES Games". These Games are clearly Arcade Games - ported for both consoles.
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.
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.
I first played that pac-man on Atari at my uncles house. I enjoyed it even if I thought it was weird. Odd they use the sound effects for that in a lot of tv shows. Atari DK was worse though imho.
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!
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.
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 it's unfair to compare the NES to the atari 2600. A more fair comparison would be the atari 7800. There are some very good ports on that system. Joust, Ms. Pac man, and Xenophobe just to name a few. Some, in my opinion, are better than their NES counterparts.
NES Donkey Kong is terrible. The timing for jumps was way off. The 2600 version was unplayable. From what I can tell, the NES version of Donkey Kong Jr. and Mario Brothers are good.
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
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.
Its become a fad to rip games like E.T. or the original Atari 2600 Pacman but back in the day everyone would crowd around the TV to play Pacman. So many movies use the sound effects from the original Pacman.
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.
What about the Tengen version of Ms. Pac-Man for the nes. It was great !
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!
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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!!!!!
YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME, Q*BERT! @#$*!
!@#?@!! How could I. I feel terrible.
@@JohnRiggs lol
Qbert was on both for sure 👍
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.
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😅😅
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.
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.
i liked the Atari but geeze , NES just does it all better.
A fair comparison would be 5200/7800.
maybe Intellivision (for color) or Colecovision ?
the SMS vs NES has been done a billion times over, but it's kinda inevitable ?
Yeah, I was shocked when I saw YT videos and bought some Atari 2600 collections. I loved the games at the time, but they are just god awful nowadays. I felt ripped off when I saw how the Intellivision and Colecovision systems were clearly superior. Atari could have reigned supreme if they had gotten off their lazy arse and introduced the 5200 a year or two earlier and made it compatible with the 2600. That and focus more on games with longer experiences for the home instead of just arcade-like games. The NES was the clear winner in that department.
@@StoneWT It was usually Intellivision and Colecovision who would respectively release their titles on other consoles and whether it was intentional and/or limitations of other hardware, their consoles version always looked better ( I don't recall many Intellivision games going to Colecovision however). They both had 2600 adapters as well, inviting those users to migrate.
Who knows what they were thinking back then. The 5200 could have definitely been released earlier than it was (1982), as it pretty much had Atari 400/800 computer parts underneath (and yet wasn't compatible them either); the VCS came out in 1977 while the 800 showed up in 1979. I'm guessing Intellivsion (which came out in 1979) didn't make a huge dent into the 2600s market share. I do know that at the time their console and home computer branches were separate entities and console licenses didn't transfer to computers and vice versa (for example at the time Coleco had the Nintendo license for console ports of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior, while AtariSoft held the computer license for those).
I chalk it up to console makers not knowing how long they should support a console/platform before phasing it out, not quite realizing the importance of exclusives or IPs (some did, Coleco never ported it's games to the similarly powerful 5200), and other lessons that we take for granted nowadays, a lot of uncharted territory back then.
I so loved Rampage on the 2600. I made it through the level cycle on one guy repeatedly back in the day.
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.
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.
Omission of Tengen Ms PAC Man. Better port of the arcade on NES.
Funny back in the day I had several games on the 2600 that I bought when I finally got my NES, even though I played them often when I had my 2600 I hardly touched them on the NES. I got my NES back when games like Castlevania 3 was popular, so Donkey Kong wasn't as fun anymore.
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.
I liked the Atari Donkey Kong game, though I thought the barrels were huge cookies.
I only played the MS-DOS version of Mario Bros.
I love these games!!
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. ;-)
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.
please make more of these. dont forget commando
3:31 Yeah I guess according to lore... what? You spliced it there and we have an unfinished thought.
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. :)
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.
Popeye for the 2600 had all 3 stages. DK Jr had 3 out of 4.
I actually love the PAC MAN and Donkey Kong ports on Atari, but solely for the nostalgia.
same here.
Many Atari 7800 versions of games are superior than nes versions
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.
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!
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!
yes, but this is apples to oranges...compare these to the ATARI 7800...THEN we have a fair fight. I loved my Atari 7800...and 5200...and 2600 adaptor for Colecovision.
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.
The NES moved things along ' leaps and bounds '............no one (or at least, very few people) are downloading 2600 emulators to replay/enjoy classics from their childhood like they/we are for the NES etc.....or maybe thats just me. The 2600 was something you put up with because it was there.....the NES is.......well, its the NES.
"This is the NES version here"... Thanks! That version of was so close to the 2600 version I couldn't tell.
The Atari Popeye has all 3 atages
I was gonna say the same thing.
when i had an atari, there was a port of the original donkey kong on it, i always thought that the person u are trying to rescue at the top was a mouse....yup, the graphics were that bad.
Rami Al Ahmad - I though he was a gingerbread man.
The 2600 version was a masterpiece compared to the Intellivison port. Loved my Intellivison, but that was a bad port.
At least Mario looks like himself. Not every port can make that claim.
Space invaders and galatic were also on both the nes & atari 2600, am glad i owned the nes as a kid.
You could pretty much say the same thing about *any* 2600 game...
They get the job done! 😁
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.
Two fantastic consoles and video game companies. Too bad Atari stopped making consoles.
Awesome vid. Never played a Atari and prob never will but it was cool to see the difference. Thx for the video.
DigDug on the 7800 was pretty good, I don't know if I had ever seen this version.
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.
Great vid, but 2600 DK Jr has three levels. 2600 Popeye has all three levels also.
Is there a single game here that is a NES game? Theyre all games that are on both systems, but not a single one is a NES game.
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
Great idea for a video!
Rare miss by leaving out Moon Patrol.
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 thought of a creating a video similar to this but I procrastinated lol
Still do it!
Both popeye and donkey Kong jr had 3 stages on the Atari not 2
Commando, Qbert, California games
Wasn’t Defender II called Stargate in the arcades? Did they change the name because of the movie?
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.
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
Commando got an Atari 2600 version
2600 Pacman that we got was NOT a prototype. I saw Todd Frye answer this question himself in a youtube video.
Oh? So what was his excuse then lol?
@@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism His excuse was he needed more ROM so he could reduce the flicker.
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
I owned digdug for the NES as a kid.
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!)
I remember the Atari Pac-man. It was kinda old by the time I got to it but I remember it was trash lol
Donkey Kong JR for the 2600 actually has 3 screens. But it still sucks because it gives no points for jumping over enemies and no fruit to drop on enemies. I hate the Atari 2600 Donkey Kong as well. If Coleco had added just one more screen on Donkey Kong, I would've been happier.
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Now's the time to experiment!!
Of you do a second round, maybe Q*Bert would be a possibility.
It's funny to look at this and all, but to ridicule and make fun of the 'Graphics' is just a Why? The NES was at least a generation after the Atari 2600. Of course the graphics are going to be better. It would be like saying lets looks at the NES graphics compared to the SNES.
A better comparative would have been the Coleco or Commodore 64 vs the NES. I just gave you a future episode. Your Welcome ;)
When your dad shows you video games.
Riggs. Eh...he gets the job done I suppose.
The name of the clip is maybe a little bit missleading....
Technically these titles are not "NES Games". These Games are clearly Arcade Games - ported for both consoles.
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.
Rigs rules!
Gost Busters
Galaxian
Space Invaders
Spay Hunter
Front Line
Road Runner (I am not sure if the NES version is similer, but Atari port looks fantastic)
I dont understand why china dont make atari 2600 console. They only make NES, SNES, Famicom and Genesis console. And gameboy too.
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.
I just discovered California Games on the Atari 2600; It stacks up pretty decent against the competition, if you ask me.
I first played that pac-man on Atari at my uncles house. I enjoyed it even if I thought it was weird. Odd they use the sound effects for that in a lot of tv shows. Atari DK was worse though imho.
The Atari 400 version of Donkey King is better than either the Atari 2600, or NES version.
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.
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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.
Wow, Rampage...who knew?
U missed Ghostbusters
Where the Atari version is surprisingly better (at least less aggravating) than the NES version.
Plus Tengen released Vindicators, which was Combat on the 2600
You didn't cheat on Dig-Dug! I rented it once for NES back in the day.
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 it's unfair to compare the NES to the atari 2600. A more fair comparison would be the atari 7800. There are some very good ports on that system. Joust, Ms. Pac man, and Xenophobe just to name a few. Some, in my opinion, are better than their NES counterparts.
NES Donkey Kong is terrible. The timing for jumps was way off. The 2600 version was unplayable. From what I can tell, the NES version of Donkey Kong Jr. and Mario Brothers are good.
I really likeed this one.
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
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.
Its become a fad to rip games like E.T. or the original Atari 2600 Pacman but back in the day everyone would crowd around the TV to play Pacman. So many movies use the sound effects from the original Pacman.