I remember getting this when I was young and getting blown away by the escalators. 36 years later, I'm still blown away by the escalators. Something you never see in video games.
This brings back good childhood memories! It was a very fun game & was extremely challenging. Time runs out and obstacles get faster and faster! What's most frustrating is looking down at the little slow moving dot running away while time elapses.
i just watched this entire video and loved every minute of it. Good thing is that this fulfills my nostalgic demand and stops me from buying any of the new re-releases of game consoles.
because Atari was pretty restrictive, as Activision gave their developers enough time to polish their games, and allowed the developers to use larger roms for their games. Activision was made up of former Atari game devs that got fed up with Atari. so they blew Atari away with making quality games,
it kind of amazes me now that people would pay some much for money for simple, easy games, you can finish it only a few minutes. Technically I didn't pay for these games, my parents didn't because I didn't get an allowance, or have any other way to make my own money.
It's good to know you use the secret technique of jumping to knee the criminal in the back of his head when you catch him. Classic video game police brutality.
It took so little to make us kids happy at that time, we've been playing that for days and weeks. My mom once dropped by watching us and asked why does he have to take a poop all the time while he was just ducking :)
hilarious. When we were 6 or 8 years old, we played this all the time and purposely made him duck down and made the farting sound. This was our favorite games.
I love how he runs like he's wearing a paper suit and then after running a mile can only calmly wait in silence as the escalator lifts him because he doesn't have the ability to jump up the escalator.
My older sister got a 2600 when we were kids. This one was my favourite game. So today I've decided to play it again after all these years (emulated, unfortunately I don't keep the console) and I was surprised, it's still really funny!
22:38 Little bit of a cheat on the game's part when you are inches from him on the 3rd floor and when you get to the last screen on the right he has somehow moved down to the 2nd floor *even though the escalator only goes up!* Otherwise, one of the most playable games on the 2600, though a bit repetitive.
I used to love jumping headfirst into the airplane when I was a kid. and made fart noises when he ducked. This game provided hours of enjoyment, HOURS!
ZPB Studios I bought it today! Since I played this in a clone system, I didn't know the name. I put the disc in and there it is. It brought me to tears!
Activision programmers were so clever. Their version of a climbing gaming game aka Donkey Kong but a cop instead of a plumber or carpenter, escalators and elevators instead of ladders. Jumping balls and shopping carts instead of barrels. Always wished they had tackled a maze game aka Pacman and see what they would have come up with.
The first game and first console in my life. Police is chasing a thief in shopping mall. Never remember the game's title until recently.....Sweet childhood memories in the mid-1980's:-)
Strange how at 3:00 & 6:15 when the crook enters the elevator screen as you are going from the 2nd to 3rd floor, the elevator is delayed until he exits. I always wondered as a kid if he would turn around or keep going toward the roof....and now I know.
It's a workaround due to the hardware limitations of the 2600. The CPU directly drives the display, and it's really hard to draw 3 full-detailed objects on the same horizontal area at once, and impossible to do so if those objects can be at any location horizontally unless you make the objects flicker (which requires additional programming). They obviously chose to take the easy way out and simply make the elevator wait. IIRC there was something in the manual that provided an in-character reason why this was the case.
@@gatorhand interesting. I thought that it was made on purpose to make the gameplay more difficult, because if you have the correct timing you could catch the thief as soon you leave the elevator
I remember that there was a game that was exactly same as this except it was futuristic and you were controlling robot (and chasing robot). I cant remember the name. Basically reskined version.
If you get a maximum score (all score digits turn into hats) and the next time you gain points (not counting when you catch the criminal and points are added) the game just ends.
This used to be my mom's favorite game when I was a kid. Mine was bowling. My dads was pitfall. My sisters was Q-Bert. Family was ping pong and donkey kong
I haven't heard of Keystone Kapers until I saw it from a Ultimate Video Game Quiz Challenge: Atari, which is on Flash. I also heard that Garry Kitchen who made Donkey Kong programmed this games. I thought that I'm gonna try it, and I did. This game is great and it plays kind of like Donkey Kong but side-scrolling platforms. I had fun with playing it, and there are other versions of it which is neat though. It's hard but not too frustrating unfair hard like Donkey Kong Arcade.
I downloaded the app "Activision Anthology" because it had faithful renditions of Activision games, but I must say it didn't quiiiiite work; most of the games are a little too hard to play with the available control styles; I think Apple needs to make a joystick or a mouse for the app
Actually, there is an ending of sorts. Like most early Activision games, it'll stop when you reach one million points. At one million the score changes into a string of hats (like the ones representing your extra lives, but a different color) - pick up another item and the game stops right there!
![Atari 2600 Longplay [004] Pitfall!](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/l_lJ-ONcMEs/mqdefault.jpg)
I remember this as if it were yesterday. Happier times in a much simpler age - nostagia at its finest. Thank you for sharing this.
This was my favorite game during my childhood !!!....Nostalgia !!!!
and Frostbite.
I loved this game.
This game has so much atmosphere. It makes me feel like I am in a mall.
One of my favorite Atari 2600 games I had as a kid.
Awesome game. The difficulty really ramps up with the ultra fast planes. Makes you paranoid every time you step into a new screen!
Love this game.
looks like a good game. I never got to play it
My childhood returns with this game. I love it.
Used to love this game. Great sound effects, great graphics for the 2600, and great play.
I remember getting this when I was young and getting blown away by the escalators. 36 years later, I'm still blown away by the escalators. Something you never see in video games.
Earthbound comes to mind
World War Z New York
This brings back good childhood memories! It was a very fun game & was extremely challenging. Time runs out and obstacles get faster and faster! What's most frustrating is looking down at the little slow moving dot running away while time elapses.
When you caught him you had to jump up like you see here, massive style points.
I'm 38 years old and I've never met a single person that didn't jump in Keystone Kapers
The Golden Day's of Activision.
I had totally forgotten this game.
Them graphics, them amazeballs sfx! I used to love this game when i was a kid lol.
I like how the game gradually gets more challenging. Too many modern games actually get easier as they go on after you power your character up.
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tons of modern games gradually get more challenging. most of them do.
0:35 police officer picking up bribes and bung money, quite realisic game play.
i just watched this entire video and loved every minute of it. Good thing is that this fulfills my nostalgic demand and stops me from buying any of the new re-releases of game consoles.
@PineKushDude Or, a used PS2 and any or all of the more than
a dozen retro game compilations.
I had this on a 32-in-one cartridge, probably my favourite game on there. Didn't know it was called Keystone Kapers until now, though.
Always amazed me how 3rd party games, especially Activision's, were so much better than the Atari games.
because Atari was pretty restrictive, as Activision gave their developers enough time to polish their games, and allowed the developers to use larger roms for their games. Activision was made up of former Atari game devs that got fed up with Atari. so they blew Atari away with making quality games,
it kind of amazes me now that people would pay some much for money for simple, easy games, you can finish it only a few minutes. Technically I didn't pay for these games, my parents didn't because I didn't get an allowance, or have any other way to make my own money.
@@thesnare100 wow cool story bro
What about Laser Blast? Dragster?
Activision also credited the creators. They were like EC Comics allowing credits for the artists and writers.
Great video, never played this one. In some ways...it has that old school Pitfall! feel.
Oh god I remember playing this... The frustrations :)))
I was addicted to this when I was like 6 years old. Had it on the Colecovision; that version's graphics were a bit more detailed, IIRC.
Ni me acordaba ya de su nombre. Que gran juego y que buenos momentos pasé con él.
This looks like one of the finer games on the 2600
siIvermate its great!
It was my favorite!
The finer things keep shining through
Usually anything from Activision was a decent game for Atari
It's good to know you use the secret technique of jumping to knee the criminal in the back of his head when you catch him. Classic video game police brutality.
You don't have to do that. You are just saving time by jumping on Harry.
😂 this comment
I believe this move is universal.
@@sha11235 he's joking :) everyone does it ;)
Poignant
02:02 I love how he's running a thousand miles per hour through the whole game yet always stops dead in his tracks going up the escalator lol
First game I ever played, all the way back in 1996.
It took so little to make us kids happy at that time, we've been playing that for days and weeks. My mom once dropped by watching us and asked why does he have to take a poop all the time while he was just ducking :)
hilarious. When we were 6 or 8 years old, we played this all the time and purposely made him duck down and made the farting sound. This was our favorite games.
In Europe, you used to play this game? Where are you from?
Seyed Shaho Ahmadi Hamburg, Germany.
It's a shopping mall!!! For my entire life I've been told it's a prison!!!
+WooSung Choi A prison for those who work there maybe, lol.
I could see why, with the carts and such.
that got all philosophical all of a sudden
@@jw1731 or maybe not I presume
one of my favorite 2600 games
Hours upon hours of playing this. I had to laugh because I always jumped onto the escalator as well!
Probably my favorite Atari 2600 game
surely belongs to the 5 best games ever made for the atari 2600
alongwith pitfall, enduro, river raid and pacman
@@chetia666 pacman? Are you nuts? Scratch pacman and change it to adventure.
@@effyiew7318 if you like nuts eat me then i wont scratch pacman
ET.... Don't forget that classic. It caused the crash which gave us the NES.
Hero and Moon Patrol too
whoaaa cool memories, i bought this game very young at toys r us.I was supposed to get the game pitfall but got this game instead
I love how he runs like he's wearing a paper suit and then after running a mile can only calmly wait in silence as the escalator lifts him because he doesn't have the ability to jump up the escalator.
Add a little bit of pepper spray, a tazer, mall security, shoppers and a shotgun and we have an idea for PS2 version.
My older sister got a 2600 when we were kids. This one was my favourite game. So today I've decided to play it again after all these years (emulated, unfortunately I don't keep the console) and I was surprised, it's still really funny!
Ah yes, 1980s Activision! Way long before Call of Duty...
I vaguely remember this glorious old thing too.
That copper can go!
22:38 Little bit of a cheat on the game's part when you are inches from him on the 3rd floor and when you get to the last screen on the right he has somehow moved down to the 2nd floor *even though the escalator only goes up!* Otherwise, one of the most playable games on the 2600, though a bit repetitive.
Favorite Atari game ever
Nossa Véio..eu já tinha perdido no início...o jogo vai ficando cada vez mais difícil...e saudade...
I used to love jumping headfirst into the airplane when I was a kid. and made fart noises when he ducked. This game provided hours of enjoyment, HOURS!
Speedy weedy deedy... the running sound is ridiculous.
Um jogo muito bom..parabéns por chegar até essa pontuação...muito difícil...👍
my 1st videogame ever. was so fun.
One of my favorite games
Man, I would totally get the Activision Anthology for this, Pitfall 1 and II, River Raid, Pressure Cooker and Kaboom!.
ZPB Studios I bought it today! Since I played this in a clone system, I didn't know the name. I put the disc in and there it is. It brought me to tears!
OMG this is very nostalgic...
Activision programmers were so clever. Their version of a climbing gaming game aka Donkey Kong but a cop instead of a plumber or carpenter, escalators and elevators instead of ladders. Jumping balls and shopping carts instead of barrels. Always wished they had tackled a maze game aka Pacman and see what they would have come up with.
Jogo fantástico, jogo Atari até hj, novembro de 2023, 49 anos, quem joga tbm? 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Activision on Atari is the king of sunsets.
I like how he just chills with his hand in his pocket when riding the escalators.
Amazing game not on any of the new Atari Flashback console’s for some reason?
That was one of the most played games on my Atari more than two decades ago !
Played KK on the Atari 5200 circa 1984-1987!
The first game and first console in my life. Police is chasing a thief in shopping mall. Never remember the game's title until recently.....Sweet childhood memories in the mid-1980's:-)
Who keeps throwing the shopping carts
I remember playing this game as a kid. Fun times. Though I was hoping the music would be on.
Strange how at 3:00 & 6:15 when the crook enters the elevator screen as you are going from the 2nd to 3rd floor, the elevator is delayed until he exits. I always wondered as a kid if he would turn around or keep going toward the roof....and now I know.
It's a workaround due to the hardware limitations of the 2600. The CPU directly drives the display, and it's really hard to draw 3 full-detailed objects on the same horizontal area at once, and impossible to do so if those objects can be at any location horizontally unless you make the objects flicker (which requires additional programming). They obviously chose to take the easy way out and simply make the elevator wait. IIRC there was something in the manual that provided an in-character reason why this was the case.
@@gatorhand interesting. I thought that it was made on purpose to make the gameplay more difficult, because if you have the correct timing you could catch the thief as soon you leave the elevator
I used to love this game. I was never this good at it though, the fast planes were too scary. Good video.
Great memories .
I feel so privlige to witness the technology progress through all of these years weather in games,mobiles and computers
That rage quit at the end. I hated when you just barely missed the elevator!
I used to play this game and Frost Bite 🤓👌🤗😁
My parents talked about this game all the time but they didn't remember the name, I finally found it!!!
Wow, I had forgotten about this game. Couldn't remember the name, just that I played it when I was little.
I remember that there was a game that was exactly same as this except it was futuristic and you were controlling robot (and chasing robot). I cant remember the name. Basically reskined version.
Hi, the name of the game was "Wachroboter Jagt Jupy", also known as "Hey! Stop!"
Me gustaba jugar a este juego en mi Atari 2600,pero no sabia como se llamaba,gracias por ponerle el nombre👍👌👏🙂🏆🥇.
this game never end's
Not supposed to.
If you get a maximum score (all score digits turn into hats) and the next time you gain points (not counting when you catch the criminal and points are added) the game just ends.
Yeap, I always used to jump on the criminals back to catch him 👍.
I did the same thing when I played this game jump catch em. And my folks still have a console and games.
Childhood memories.
I haven't seen this for 40+years. What a great game.
12:25 Wow!! What store is this? I want one of those MACH 10 Yellow remote-control prop-planes!
06:14 aaahhhhh, so that was the trick? I remember I could never get him on that stage!, never and never!!
I remember that this was the last Atari game I played when I was a kid. Afterwards, it was everything Nintendo.
Eu chegava dando voadora no bandidao. Meus pais davam risada quando eu jogava! Obrigado pela gameplay. 👍
So he got all the way to the end and then just ate it? Or is there no end to the game and he said fuck it.
one of my favourite atari games as a kid!!
love this game, it was one of my first.
the NES public domain rom is a pretty good version too.
I had played this years ago on Xbox 360, for Microsoft's Game Room
The stationary and moving obstacles are harder to avoid when they move faster and there's more of them. Especially those pesky planes
Brings back memories
This used to be my mom's favorite game when I was a kid. Mine was bowling. My dads was pitfall. My sisters was Q-Bert. Family was ping pong and donkey kong
+Luana Cardoso never heard of any of them, except of course pitfall.
I just gotta say that I find that the police officer really looks like a English police officer, it's really English themed
He is like Hardy in Hardy and laurel old cartoon 😁
Loved this game!!!
One of the few fun atari games.
5:00 salto el balón en el aire como lo hizo?
What are those black damn thing shining?
I haven't heard of Keystone Kapers until I saw it from a Ultimate Video Game Quiz Challenge: Atari, which is on Flash. I also heard that Garry Kitchen who made Donkey Kong programmed this games. I thought that I'm gonna try it, and I did. This game is great and it plays kind of like Donkey Kong but side-scrolling platforms. I had fun with playing it, and there are other versions of it which is neat though. It's hard but not too frustrating unfair hard like Donkey Kong Arcade.
Thanks for the video! 👍 Thank you.
Did anyone ever just run into the thief to catch him instead of jumping up to kick him in the back of the head? Me neither
My favorite game when I was real little classic
I remember that game well. I played it for many hours. Absolutely fantastic what it was able to get out of 1.19 MHz
CPU Speed and 128 bytes Memory.
One time i did over 100000 points. Most difficult i found were the red beachbals. Never found a good tactic for them.
Alex xxx momentum and a well timed jump
Oh I loved this game :o
Ahhh, memories :)
I downloaded the app "Activision Anthology" because it had faithful renditions of Activision games, but I must say it didn't quiiiiite work; most of the games are a little too hard to play with the available control styles; I think Apple needs to make a joystick or a mouse for the app
Mi primer juego jugado en el 84❤😍
That's pretty cool for an Atari game.
Actually, there is an ending of sorts. Like most early Activision games, it'll stop when you reach one million points. At one million the score changes into a string of hats (like the ones representing your extra lives, but a different color) - pick up another item and the game stops right there!
Não tem fim?