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0:00 Intro
1:56 Pong
2:31 Quadratank
3:03 Breakout
3:38 Neo Breakout
4:34 Sprint 8
5:39 Firetruck
6:22 Super Breakout
6:53 Lunar Lander
7:51 VCTR-SCTR
8:35 Touch Me
9:06 Asteroids
9:55 Missile Command
10:58 Asteroids Deluxe
11:19 Warlords
12:28 Centipede
13:03 Tempest
14:09 Maze Invaders
14:57 Space Duel
15:33 Gravitar
16:36 Millipede
17:24 Liberator
18:06 Quantum
18:38 Akka Arrh
19:39 Black Widow
20:28 Food Fight
21:23 Crystal Castles
22:36 Major Havoc
23:44 Cloak & Dagger
24:59 I, Robot
25:49 Combat
26:48 Air-Sea Battle
27:15 Surround
27:45 Outlaw
28:12 Canyon Bomber
28:53 3D Tic-Tac-Toe
29:22 Adventure
30:15 Dodge ‘Em
30:58 Missile Command
31:37 Warlords
32:07 Asteroids
33:04 Breakout
33:34 Super Breakout
33:53 Combat 2
34:25 Haunted House
35:35 Yar’s Revenge
36:45 Yar’s Revenge Enhanced
37:26 Haunted Houses
38:16 Demons to Diamonds
38:50 Basic Math
39:11 Realsports Baseball
39:41 Realsports Volleyball
40:09 Realsports Football
40:52 Swordquest: Earthworld
41:55 Super Breakout 5200
42:27 Missile Command 5200
42:53 Star Raiders 5200
43:45 Centipede
44:10 : Fireworld
45:03 Quadrun
45:57 Realsports Soccer
46:33 Realsports Tennis
47:23 Realsports Basketball
48:13 Miner 2049er
49:32 Saboteur
51:06 Gravitar 2600
52:00 Swordquest: Waterworld
53:02 Swordquest: Airworld
54:53 Millipede 2600
55:26 Millipede 5200
55:49 Crystal Castles 2600
56:36 Bounty Bob Strikes Back 5200
57:40 Asteroids 7800
58:07 Centipede 7800
58:27 Solaris
59:03 Realsports Boxing
59:33 Secret Quest
1:00:27 Dark Chambers 7800
1:01:02 Dark Chambers 2600
1:01:45 Star Raiders
1:02:02 Caverns of Mars
1:02:53 Miner 2049er 800
1:03:29 Bounty Bob Strikes Back 800
1:03:45 Foodfight XEGS
1:04:20 Yoomp! XEGS
1:05:33 Ninja Golf
1:06:45 Basketbrawl
1:07:28 Fatal Run 2600
1:08:23 Fatal Run 7800
1:09:27 Scrapyard Dog 7800
1:10:31 Scrapyard Dog Lynx
1:11:09 Turbo Sub
1:12:18 Basketbrawl Lynx
1:13:10 Cybermorph
1:14:38 Trevor Mcfur in the Crescent Galaxy
1:16:17 Evolution: Dino Dudes
1:17:28 Malibu Bikini Volleyball
1:18:58 Tempest 2000
1:19:54 Club Drive
1:20:43 Super Asteroids & Missile Command
1:21:51 Ruiner Pinball
1:23:07 Missile Command 3D
1:24:13 Atari Karts
1:25:32 Fight For Life
1:26:32 Race 500
1:26:19 Final Thoughts and Final Score
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Major Havoc is an incredible game that was way ahead of its time - but it has to be played with the original horizontal roller (or at least a trackball). The platform levels involve gravity and momentum and rolling the controller back in forth to make mid-air / mid-jump corrections is very important. It actually plays really well on the Arcade 1up Tempest and Centipede cabinets.
I wish I had grabbed one of those arcade 1 up consoles with the spinner.... to late now 🫠
Solaris. THAT brings back memories. My parents got me a 2600 and Solaris for my 9th birthday. My dad and I put a TON of time into that game. I remember it being especially hot that summer. If it was too hot for us to play basketball and we weren't at the river swimming, we were playing Solaris. Great, GREAT time.
It's flipping incredible! I finally picked up a physical copy of it recently.
nice video but i have a few things to point out
1. dark chambers was actually finished before gauntlet
2. you can play as girls in malibu bikini volleyball but you need to change an option in the settings. why the girls weren't the main characters by default boggles my mind.
Knowing Dark Chambers came out before gauntlet is really interesting!
There shouldn't even be any dudes in Malibu Bikini Volleyball... 😅
I enjoyed this video. Very fair. A lot of other reviews i've seen are either blinded by nostalgia or are clearly too young to get much joy out of this collection.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your kind words. I tried to be as objective as possible 😁
Best review of the collection, a lot went into this one. Great video as always!
Thanks so much! I hope some people got some good information from it!
I play this on a street fighter arcade stick and for the trackball/roller controlled games it makes it wonderful to control by turning down the sensitivity in controls>joystick controls.
That's a good idea. I have several arcade sticks. I'll give them a shot!
Good time to check out the Humble Bundle .. $20 includes Atari 50th Celebration + around 10 of their "recharged" series, remakes of classics like Centipede, Breakout and others.
I am super interested in the recharged series... but it's like the 5th time they've done that idea. There is an Atari recharged on the Sony PSP 🤣
$20 is a steal for sure
Tempest 2000 was my favorite Jaguar game back in the day, and now, it may be my favorite videogame of all time. Seriously. If I could only have one game, that would probably be it.
It's incredible! I just picked up Tempest 3000 on the Nuon. The same team made it and it's supposed to be even better
A couple of comments while I watch this. #1 - Crystal Castles was an awesome game, and did control a great deal with the trackball. Try to find an arcade version of it to get the proper feel of this classic game! #2. In Food Fight, its very important to end each level while still holding a piece of food, because it will carry over to the next level and its imperative to have since the chefs sometimes start very close to you. Take out the closest one and then go from one food pile to another like bases, keeping in mind that the fruit all have their own characteristics as weapons. The best are the bananas and the pies. While your standing on the group of fruits you can fire continuously, (until some of them run out) and then use them to stun the chefs before moving on to the next food pile and then eventually, the ice cream cone. Its a super fun game and was the first time that I ever saw an instant replay feature when you had a particularly eventful level., That was a touch that I always enjoyed about the game!
#3 Major Havoc was a pretty good arcade game too, I thinks its another question of a bad control conversion, because if I remember correctly it had a spinning wheel (like Tempest) which would explain why the platform section is so hard to control.
Thanks for putting such effort into this video, I'll let you know more of my feedback as I continue to watch it!
I appreciate the tips! I wish I had a bit more time with all of these games. I know there were strategies and techniques I was missing, but I did my best 😅
Using the analog stick for most of the games just doesn't work. They should have released a paddle controller along with the game
@@RNGGamerYT I agree completely! One of the things that made Atari's games so special, especially in the arcade, were the peripherals that was used which not only improved gameplay, but heightened the connection of the player to the theme of the game. For example, you can play Paperboy on a console with a d-pad, and its a fun game, but play it with the handlebars in the arcade and its a much better experience!
The paddle controllers were iconic, and a great interface. I wonder why no one has brought it back (including Atari with their new console)!
Its a shame that people will have a much more negative opinion about these games if its the first time that they are experiencing them, just because the controls are bad. And I agree with you, they are really bad on a lot of these conversions, making them unplayable.
The game changes from playing the actual game to the player just trying to stay alive because the controls are so unforgiving.
@SeanGrantstormpinball exactly!! Remember After Burner in the arcade? Put a 10 year old in that machine and ask them how they feel about it. Ask another how the feel after playing it in a web browser emulator on a keyboard...
I enjoyed the frank review of this game. Game Reviewers nowadays tend to drag on too long and worry about spoilers
I'm so glad! This was a long video, but I tried to move through every game quickly
1:00:30 It's the other way around. Dark Chambers is a 7800 and 2600 remake of a game called Dandy by John Palevich, which was released in 1983 for the Atari 8-bit Computer via the Atari Program Exchange mail-order program that allowed hobbiest programmers to develop and then market their own games.
Atari brazenly make a blatant copy of Dandy and slightly expanded upon it and called their new game Gauntlet, leading to a lawsuit by Palevich that Atari eventually decided to settle out of court because they would have lost. Dark Chambers was likely released to make amends to Palevich, the name changed merely as a marketing decision.
It's too bad though, because many people assume like you did, that Dark Chambers is a clone of Gauntlet when it's Gauntlet that is the clone.
Thanks for letting me know! I assumed gauntlet game first.
Still, I would rather play gauntlet 😅
I am half way through this video and have a lot to say. Funny thing is I just got done playing Dodge ‘Em on the 2600 Plus, a game I played as a kid and just bought. I LOVE it. Once you ge the patterns it’s really fun to get through it and to the levels with 2 opponent cars. It is just so fast paced and twitchy and rewards perfect timing. I think I actually “beat” it which I never did as a kid. I kept beating levels and finally the game just ended. I am sorta shocked at some of your conclusion on some of these games which I may comment on later. Appreciate the efforts as I am sure this was a lot of work.
Thanks so much for watching this video. I spent over 150 hours of gameplay (that's how much footage I recorded), it took about 4 hours to film the video, and about 40 hours to edit it. It was a monumental undertaking for me.
It's awesome that you got so good at dodge 'em. There are a lot of games in this collection that I wish I had more time to develop my skills.
@@RNGGamerYT Wow that’s some serious commitment thanks again. It really is a service for us retro gamers. It made me pull out Atari Anthology on Xbox to play Major Havoc, pretty cool. I don’t have Atari 50 yet but looks like a must own.
It was crazy with Dodge ‘Em as after about 10 minutes my muscle memory from 40 years ago kicked in and I actually remembered the patterns. Once you get a pattern that works the AI isn’t too smart but your timing has to be on and it’s easy to miss a lane change.
Atari 50 is a must play for sure!
Whenever one of these compilations comes out I'm always looking for Pitfall. That's the only Atari game that I have any particular memory of being fond of when I was a kid.
That cut at 0:43 was hilarious man. High quality sight-gag. The effort is appreciated!
Thanks for noticing that! I had to crawl under the table and everything!
It was refreshing to hear someone simply explain that you have to feather the throttle in Cybermorph to control it. Thank you!!
Its so irritating to hear people curse the game for controls they didnt bother feeling out.
Of course! I've never understood how someone wouldn't figure that out in about 5 seconds. Obviously, you can't just put the pedal to the floor and hope for the best😅
@@RNGGamerYT 😄 Exactly, well said!
It's my 1st time watching one of your videos, and aside the very well made content, your giggleing makes me subscribe instantly. Brings a smile on my face every time, which is not an easy task ;)
This game was done well on so many levels and the way they honor the brand and the timeline of growing up with Atari has made this one of my favorite games to have played in 2023.
It's an incredible package! I hope Digital Eclipse continues to put out compilations like this
Thanks for reviewing all the games!!!!!!
You bet! I see you're a big fan of reviews 🤣
@ big fan of video games too! 😊
@RANDsreviews I'm glad to hear it!
Crystal Castles in the arcade with the trackball plays very quickly and smoothly.
That's good to know. Maybe if I got to play the arcade, I might actually like it
Man, Bounty Bob Strikes Back is a great game! I could see that you weren't aware you're able to control your jumps by pushing the button first, and then the stick after a pause inverse in length to the jump. Should make it a lot more easy and fun! Some of the later levels provided some really innovative mechanics.
Are you flipping serious!?! I spent hours with those games, researched online, and talked to several people. No one ever told me until just now.
@RNGGamerYT haha! Yeah dude, maybe you should try it again, you might like it. It used to be one of my favorite games on my Atari 800 way back when.
this is a very in depth review, thank you for all the effort going in depth about it all.
i am curious wrt to the paddle games though, i heard the dualshock controllers touchpad can be used as a stand in for it, is that true?
I'm glad you enjoyed the review!
This is the first I've heard of using the touch pad. But, I would imagine that it's the worst possible way to play as touch controls are rarely very accurate
@@RNGGamerYT i can imagine that, as i always found the playstation touch pad very slippery
for the xbox version the devs put out a 3d printed adapter to emulate a paddle controller, seems to work quite well.
but for other platforms, its a shame there isnt really a solution.
besides a third party putting out a quality paddle controller, but its likely too niche to consider....
@ukihashopper the Xbox attachment is intriguing! I wouldn't mind trying that out myself.
I wish a 3rd party would make one
I am digging Digital Eclipse especially the Tetris release.
They are killing it!!! I can't wait to see what they do next
I remember the imagix games were really good, atlantis, demon attack, cosmic ark. They had a unique style. Do these ever end up on a compilation of games that you can buy?
I have almost all the Imagic games! They are awesome with their foil labels.
I don't think they ever made a compilation of them, sadly.
A Great expansive review! I have the Atari Flashback series (on Xbox, it’s 3 separate disks). I think that’s a good compilation, and as always some stinkers or hard to play titles. A lot of the games are the same but as usual, there’s a few new ones here and new systems not on the Flashback series.
I'm so glad you enjoyed this review! It was more work than any other video on my channel.
The Flashback systems are really good. I have several of them as well. It's the same sort of thing... a mixed bag.
I feel like of Atari made a console with all of the great games, they'd never be able to sell another console
As a kid I always thought 2600 Asteroids was boring for the same reason you mentioned. But if you try variation 6, you will get much more unpredictable asteroid paths and it plays much more like the arcade.
I figured that out! But it had to get cut out of a video that was already too long
"Modal hellscape of a melody" - one of MANY laugh at loud moments. Great video!
Thanks so much! I don't get a ton of comments about my humor. I usually don't know if it's because people don't get the jokes... or if I'm just not funny 😅
@@RNGGamerYT I totally appreciate your sense of humor - new subscriber here
@BrianJonson thanks! I'm glad I could earn your sunscription
Great review video......alot of the early Atari games were products of heavy drug use....HAHA!!!
Great descriptions and reactions to these games....you had me lmao.😅
I'm currently working my way through this collection and liking it so far.......a great trip down memory lane.👍
Yeah, it was funny in the interviews on the compilation where they talk about the drug use. Half of the people are like, "Uh, I never saw anything like that." The other half were all, "yeah... I never saw anyone sober during my 3 years sleeping in the 3rd floor hallway of Atari HQ." LoL.
I'm glad you enjoyed the reactions. I tried to keep it somewhat professional... but my personality always takes over
Man, the 70s were a wild time.
You know they had to be inane!
They should have sold it on a bundle with a trackball controller ....but that would be too epic for Atari !
I would have loved this!
The "RealSports" carts for the 2600 were created to compete with the Mattel Intellivision sports games, which were graphically superior to Atari's earlier sports adaptations.
That's what I've learned! Thanks for putting it down in the comments
This video was Awesome! I also looked up game play video of a game I saw in your Playstation 4 collection video the 2nd one, it was called wargroove and I ordered it and it was cheap.I hope to play it after Fire Emblem Engage.
Thanks so much for watching the video! I'm really glad that you liked it.
Wargroove is supposed to be really good. I've not really heard anyone talk about it. I'm looking forward to playing it myself!
We need a video called Atari 50 vs UFO 50. I think its fair to compare those two
I want to play UFO50 so badly.... but I'm holding out for a physical copy.
Also, thank you so much for watching all of these videos. I really hope you're enjoying the content
"PC game…"??!!
Star Raiders was the "Killer App" for the Atari 800 Home Computer System. Sure you could do recipes, write letters, and use a spreadsheet (Visicalc was on the Atari), "but it can also play games!" And then they put in the Star Raiders cartridge.
This was based on a much older game called Star Trek, popular on mainframe and minicomputers. It was basically text-based, with the galactic map and warning messages printed out on the printer. I played it for the first time on an IBM System/34 minicomputer. It was quite interesting.
Atari added the P.O.V. graphics and animation that turned it into a videogame.
I was startled, when I started actually reading the instructions, to find it was really that old Star Trek game I had played so many years before.
If I had only one game, it would be Star Raiders.
That video screen in the middle of the display (except for that control ring) is an almost exact reproduction of the screen on my Atari 800. Yes, you did have to use the keyboard almost as much as the joystick.
Asteroids, Missile Command, and Breakout are some of my very favorite Atari games.
I know people are absolutely in love with Star Raiders... but it just isn't the game for me.
If you created my perfect space exploration sim... it would only be like a 5/10 game to me. I don't have any interest in piloting a space ship... or exploring space.
I think you were generous when assessing many of the VCS games - I grew up in the 70s & 80s and we had the Atari systems.
Rather swiftly, come the early to mid 1980s, it was clear the games were losing lustre; given the inception of affordable 8 bit home computers.
By the late 80s the VCS was dead, aside from within the hearts and minds diehard collectors and naysayers for all things new.
I love the collection for the memories and as a museum piece, I think it's amazing.
For the most part the games are a novelty, with exceptions of course.
I am not certain whether it is a matter of licensing, but i would have liked to see greater focus on the 400/800 XL/XE series.
There are piles of games I had on 800xl that really deserve a collection of their own.
We'll likely never see this happen though, so emulation is the better option.
Really?!? I had so many people telling me I was unfairly harsh!
There are a fair number of "novelty" games. But they were still worth trying out.
Thanks so much for watching that much for the video. I really appreciate it!
@@RNGGamerYT
Not at all - I would rate the majority of VCS titles (nowadays) a sub 5.
Many would barely scrape beyond a 3 imo
It's difficult, as I grew up with these and my 9 year old self would say 10 for all games.
Even Adventure which is a so-called classic, nowadays, with all that we have and take for granted in gaming, without rose tinted spectacles, is a bad game.
But these helped lay the groundwork for all that followed, so in that sense as "objects" they are worth inspecting.
The triumph of the collection is the care and dedication clearly poured into the presentation.
The Jeff Minter collection due out this year will be interesting from the same team & hopefully we'll see other additions down the line.
TH-cam highlighted your video, as I often watch retro reviews and have a keen interest in Atari, even the somewhat broken contemporary manifestation of the company.
Thanks for letting me know how you feel. It's always nice to hear a different perspective.
I'm glad youtube recommended my video to you. Hopefully, you had a good time watching it.
@@RNGGamerYT
Yep - enjoyed the breakdown - you inspired me to check out the collection again ☺
I got this on PS4 back in December, and I had a similar experience in that so many of these games were designed for a specific control panel that just doesn't translate to modern controllers. Playing a trackball or spinner game without that specific device just doesn't feel right. It's like the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection where a huge chunk of the games used LS30 rotary joysticks, but the turned them into twin stick shooters. Yeah, it's playable, and probably the best option available, but it's frankly just not the same experience. Maybe I wouldn't care if I it wasn't how I first played them, but I grew up with these games, and have more than 40 years of my hands learning a specific way these games feel.
That said, Vctor Sctor is awesome, and by far my favorite new game here. It feels both classic and new somehow, amd is a really satisfying game to keep trying for high score.
My 8 year old is usually my player 2 these days, and he doesn't have much taste for Atari 2600, Intellivision, etc. games. However, he had a great time with Outlaw, to the point where my wife saw us playing and wanted in. He wouldn't play it on my real 2600, because he hated everything else we played on it save Warlords, but had a blast here.
I really appreciate that someone finally decided that Jaguar games are worth putting on compilations. Analog control really felt pretty good on Cybermorph, and it had a Jaguar game I don't have a physical cart of in Atari Karts, so it was cool to finally play it. Everything felt a little faster to me than on my real Jaguar, but a lot of that felt really good overall, so I won't complain. I understand why they didn't have some of the great Jaguar games that other companies own, but I do feel like the console was given a pretty strong representation here.
Overall, even if you hadn't played a bunch of these in their day, you gave really fair assessments of them from a modern perspective, and I'd agree with most of them even having memories and nostaligia for most of them. This was well done.
Thank you for such a thorough comment. I'm glad you felt the same way as me for most of the games.
Emulation on the Jaguar is so difficult that I'm surprised they got it to work at all. I wouldn't be surprised if it did run a little faster than normal.
That's cool about your son playing Outlaw with you.
And, thanks for watching!
The control issue with Missile Command (Arcade) and Crystal Castles (Arcade) can sort of be rectified by lowering the sensitivity down to 2. It's still pretty hard to use, but easier to control.
I messed around with the controller sensitivity a fair amount. It definitely helped, but not enough, in my opinion. You really need that paddle controller 🤣
@@RNGGamerYT Of course, but did you also know 12 more games were added to Atari 50 in a free update last December? You should check them out!
@ajboomer1347 I saw that! I may go check them out
Funspot in New Hampshire has Black Widow. The twin sticks on the cabinet are really hard to move. Some of the fun was lost wresting with the controls, so play it before you buy it.
It's really cool that you got to play it! I probably wouldn't really buy it. But maybe I'll get the chance to try it out sometime!
Thanks for watching!
I know this may be weird but you have such great skin. It looks fantastic, I'm jealous.
Thank you so much! No one has ever told me that before
I have a physical copy of Waterworld! It came in a bundle I bought many years ago!
That's awesome! I've never even seen a copy in the wild
Best review of this compilation I've seen. They got away with Dark Chambers being a Gauntlet rip-off because it was based on Atari's arcade game Dandy. Which Guantlet then ripped off.
Thank you so much! I'll accept your comment since I worked so hard on this video.
I really appreciate you watching the video and commenting.
It's basically Tempest 2000 with some other stuff on there. I think you should just print out a Tempest 2000 cover replacement for it and pretend that's all that's on it.
Haha, that's a fine point. Luckily, I actually own tempest 2000 on the Jaguar to look pretty on the shelf 🤣
NEWS UPDATE: Remember when I asked if you tried the 12 new games from the 2023 Holiday free update? Well, there's just been some more news yesterday from Atari about 39 new games coming this October, which would equal the amount of games, you left uncovered, to 51!
Oh lord... maybe I'll give it a shot. I really despise DLC 😅
Did you try using the PS controller's touch pad with those paddles and trak ball games?
Yeah, it was the most imprecise to me. Did you like it?
@ the analog sticks are tricky to use on those games, and I thought that for the paddle games, the touchpad did work better.
That’s always been the problem with Atari’s compilations, the paddle and track ball analog controlling games never work on a modern controller.
The problem with compilations like these, is quite often they are just the arcade ROMS that have been emulated via either a version of MAME or an in-house developed emulator. The issue with that is directly emulating the arcade roms does not optimize the games for modern controllers. So games that relied on spinners or trackballs would not play well on modern gamepads.
You're right! But, this is the best they have ever been emulated on a compilation. If they had a trackball and spinner peripheral for the PS5, I would definitely have picked up a couple of them
This Monday, the programmer of E.T. will be on the Chronologically Gaming channel. Maybe we'll finally learn how that game actually works.... Gravitar's actually good on the real machine. I find the emulators seem to run it a bit fast. Tethering in Space Dual is actually a blast (my brother and I played that mode many times in the arcade). And Major Havoc is killer (works pretty good on a trackball). I agree that Millipede isn't as good as Centipede for sure. P.S. Ninja Golf is pure comedy (almost makes up for the weak gameplay).
Thanks so much for the wonderful comment!!! You know, I've looked up how to play E.T. a couple of times. It definitely helps. But, I always forget right afterwards 🤣
Howard Scott Warshsaw is an interesting guy. We were both guests at the Southeast Game Exchange, and i got to talk with him a bit
@@RNGGamerYT That's awesome that you got to meet and talk to him. The challenges those 2600 programmers were up against back in the day were immense. If you ever try Gravitar or Major Havoc again, here's a way to get really good game play out of them: Run the old MAME32 v.35 on a Pentium II or P III PC. 300 to 450 MHz is about right. For Havoc, try either an X-Arcade track ball or a good optical mouse. Unlike the newer emulator, that version of MAME has excellent vector beam and flicker options. A resolution of 1280x1024 on a 4x3 monitor works nicely. You won't be sorry! Havoc was 1983 and introduced stuff never seen in platformers prior to it. Note: That same config will properly play all the classic vector arcade games (unlike the PS4, PS5, and XB One emulators that botch the controls and timing).
@Nebulous6 I have the originals!! With the real hardware and controllers. I'll give them another shot
@@RNGGamerYT You have a real Major Havoc arcade cabinet? Man, those are hard to come by. My 'pet' cab at this point is the full-size 1982 TRON coin-op. I recently put a modern power supply into it.
So check into this as I haven’t tried it myself but you supposably can use the touch pad on the ps4/5 and touch screen (in handheld mode) on the switch for the paddle games. Probably make those games a lot more playable.
You can! But it doesn't really work super well, because everything gets so sticky 🤣
Try surround again with another person. My son “ugh why is it so blocky looking” and I had a blast especially with the speed up variation. He was so determined to beat me, “one more time” 😂
I bet it's WAY more fun with someone else 😄
You crazy man. Every game? Hahaha Awesome stuff buddy im watching now :)
Thanks for watching this video! It was so much work!
@@RNGGamerYT No problem buddy. And yeah i bet it was hahaha. Great stuff bud :)
I appreciate it
@@RNGGamerYT :D
I bought the Switch version. It's the perfect travel companion.
I bet that's a blast!
Well honestly the idea the articles and such would basically fizzle out is accurate. Atari was relevant for a while and even at the worse stuff and kind of just fizzled out and forgotten.
Yeah. I mean, it totally makes sense. I just hoped they would fill it out with something so it didn't feel like the whole package was unfinished
Raiden was another shoot em up on the Jaguar. Cybermorph is brilliant, a 10 out of 10 for the time, unfortunately very few understand it. They're pods btw, not crystals. They contain your comrades.
I'm a big fan of Raiden and have the Jaguar version, but I haven't had a chance to play it yet. Thanks for letting me know about the pods!
No Activision titles. I'll pass for now. They were such a huge part of many people's childhood.
Yeah, you have to pair this one up with one of the activision collections. Luckily, there's about a million of them 😅
i can hardly wait to afford this collectrion for the switch!
Haha! Is it expensive?!?
Technically, Atari's last arcade game was 1995's Area 51, which was a light gun shooter. Even Klax was released back in 1989.
As soon as I read your comment, I thought, "he's right!"
Then I looked it up. Both of those games were published by Atari. Sadly, they weren't the developers.
I got that factoid directly from the Atari 50 press information included in the game
ha ha. Great exploit you found in that Basketball game. I think Im going to go through a bunch of these and use this vid as a referrence to find all the singleplayer games I can KILL off on the compilation. Will definately credit you in those. Im about 1/2 way through this vid.
Haha! Thanks. Good luck with them!
Thanks for your honesty. Definitely won't buy it before it drops to 5 bucks. Had such high hopes for it, after the praise it has gotten
It's worth it! But not every game is a winner
Still, it's a fun experience
looking forward to watching this.
Thanks! I know it's a long video, but hopefully, it's really informative
104 Atari Games on this Collection yet majority of them are mediocre at best. That’s interesting. I’ll definitely pick it up if I see it for cheap although I’ll say that the cover art for Atari 50 on PS4/PS5 is fantastic. Either way Great Episode as always RNG Gamer.
Thanks so much for watching and commenting! There were some unreleased games on this collection that were pretty great. I think it's worth it just for them.
Great video review thanks, I agree with every review apart from Trevor McFur I used to love that game when it came out! 🤷
Haha! I can't get them ALL right 🤣
I'm glad you enjoyed the review!
@@RNGGamerYT Come on man only 1 point higher than the dreadful Basic Math lol 🤷 Give it another chance it's great fun! I love the laser beam power up smashing stuff up 😺 My Sister loved this game at the time and when she left home she got her own Jaguar just to play McFur 🐆😎
@PreciousBox27 haha! Trevor Mcfur is definitely not in the backlog 😅 Unless someone buys a gold star and forces me to play it, it's relegated to the shadow realm 😅
I find Ninja Golf to be a letdown as well. To me, the strength of the 7800 was its arcade ports. Look at the 7800 version of Joust! (Sadly not on Atari 50, as it is a Williams game.) So close to the arcade original you'll find yourself looking for the quarter slot!
I really need to grab a 7800 one of these days. I'd like to try joust on it
Are you gonna review the DLCs?
Not that it will make the game better, but in Trevor McFur you can increase the rate of fire by mashing the fire button (which can be cumbersome to many) faster than when holding the button.
Lol.... that almost makes it worse 😂
@@RNGGamerYT Exactly. Almost nobody wants to mash buttons like that.
Wish they should have one for Nintendo, all the Nintendo Games from the 80's
That wouldn't make them enough money! They have to package them all individually 🤣
Dark Chambers is NOT a clone of Gauntlet. Quite the opposite: Gauntlet (which was an Atari game as well) was developed off of Dark Chambers. EDIT: Sorry, Dark Chambers AND Gauntlet were both developed off of Dandy, an Atari computer game. Dark Chambers is essentially an updated Dandy, and Gauntlet (besides better graphics and voice synthesis) added the multiplayer aspect.
I learned this after the fact!!! Several people in the comments let me know 🤣
have to agree with most of your takes here. I played all these games orginally, and pretty much all the ones that used a paddle or spinner (all the Breakouts, TEMPEST) or a trackball are nearly unplayable on the Playstation (I have a PS4 but it must be identical). I mean there's a few that are tolerable, maybe. Centipede is okay I guess. All the joystick based games (or buttons, like Asteroids) are great, and that's a lot of arcade games, most 2600 and 400/800 games. The biggest standout of all though is the 5200 version of STAR RAIDERS. this thing plays better than the original with the "overclock" version. that and maybe YARS REVENGE which is the best 2600 game of all time, not even close.
Crystal Castles (arcade) is basically unplayable. it was BEAUTIFUL with the original trackball.
WHOA. Star Raiders is absolutely brilliant here. the controls aren't that bad... it was not a "PC" game unless you mean Atari 800 personal computer.. the 5200 was basically an atari 400 without a keyboard, so it was nearly a direct port, and it's a great version of it here. it even has an "overclocked" mode that eliminates some of the slowdown. seriously, give it another try. it was a "killer app" for the Atari 400/800 and a great classic game. one of the best in this compilation. right up there with Adventure and Yar's
Thanks for this wonderful comment! Yeah, the trackball and spinner games are a disaster. But, centipede and millipede play great.
I know I kind of pooped on Star Raiders, but I've tried it again and again over the years. And I just can't seem to figure it out.
I need someone to talk me through it
It is unplayable here. It's frustratingly difficult
Want to teach me how to play Star Raiders? Everyone seems to love it, but I've never been able yo figure it out
I don't have the PS5 version but I'd think you could use touch or gyro controls on the paddle games.
You can't!!! I tried everything... scoured the internet.... analog sticks are the best option. ... and i hate it 🤣
Checking this out now. Can tell you put alot of work into this one. Same thing with me. Nostalgia is fun but for me gameplay is king. I also prefer playing games through emulation with sharper visuals on a modern display, filters, etc. I only played games on my 13 inch CRT because thats what was available. Playing games through the RF switch on the Atari 2600 with all the static looked like shit to me back then. No interest in recreating that. Its all personal preferrence though. Theres no universal right answer.
I tend to stick with playing the games the way the developers intended. I never cared about visuals until I started capturing gameplay footage for the channel.
This video took a couple hundred hours to complete between playing the games, filming, and editing. I will never do it again unless some company sponsors me with a boatload of cash to do it.
This video sat at like 500 views for months until here recently
Very nice. Yea it seems like a massive amount of work. I only do some simple editing, like editing deaths out of runs of games that have unlimited continues or adding voiceovers to the footage. My views are also real low and its more of a journal, so unless I was getting some kickback I probably wouldnt do it either. Can really appreciate what went into it though. Sometimes its worth trying it out and seeing what happens.
Right. Emulation through a PC definately makes capturing a hell of alot easier, so there's that benefit too. I dont think I really became obsessed with visuals until around the 7th console gen. At that point I needed to upgrade to a widescreen TV and that started a whole shitstorm, since LCD's really werent doing it for me.@@RNGGamerYT
@theconsolekiller7113 I am going to delve into your videos more when I go to work on Monday. I can listen to stuff a lot of the day.
It would be much easier on PC, for sure. I'm just a sucker for those physical games 😅
Appreciate that. Most of the commentary videos either have the word Review or Tutorial in the title. Things like Trying It Out Series or Playing With Sh!t are usually just brief videos of me trying out a game. I use those more as a referrence to see which games I tried, and why I may not have completed them. I sample alot of games before deciding which ones to try and complete. ive been trying to get new reviews out every Monday again at around 6pm EST.
I know how that is. Theres something about physical you can never replicate digitally. I made the transition back around 99 when I started embracing an emulation machine heavily and sold everything that was well emulated, at that time. By this point Im pretty conditioned to sell things that are well emulated, but you lose that physical connection.@@RNGGamerYT
You mentioned that the analog sticks are bad for the early arcade titles. Does the twist/paddle feature on the classic joystick work on these titles?
It doesn't have paddle controls... you just have to use the analog stick. It's a real disappointment. I would actually buy a spinner controller for the PS5 if they made one
@@RNGGamerYT I forgot you were reviewing it on the PS5. I was referring to the one on the Atari VCS. I'm guessing it would work for that.
@footiebloke I've heard the paddle controllers work pretty well on the VCS
Ninja Golf is a lot of fun. It doesn't deserve a 6 out of 10.
I could see giving it a higher score. It just didn't click with me like I thought it would
The Atari 2600 version of Warlords was also paddle controlled
It was! And it's incredibly fun in multi-player!
Stopped watching when he gave pong a 4, game is awesome, grew up on this games love it to this day still jam on it on and off got to send shout outs to river raid, tom cat f14, boxing and Pete Rose baseball .
Did you even watch the video? I said it's because the controls don't work on this compilation. NOT that the game is bad. Jeez... I freaking collect pong consoles.
Fun looking back at these games I played as a child but these games didn't hold my freinds and family's attention for very long even back in the 80s let alone today so I wouldn't play these games even if they were free.
They can be fun for a few minutes. Some of the updated takes on the old games are a lot of fun and you can put some serious time into them
And you do basicly what all spider's do. You shoot star's at bug's and try to collect as mush money as possible HAHAHA. I liked it buddy lol
Thanks so much for watching this! It was the hardest I ever worked on a video. I thought it turned out pretty well... obviously, the public didn't feel the same way 😅
@@RNGGamerYT No problem buddy and yeah i can tell hahaha. It did turn out well it's a fantastic watch i really enjoyed it :)
Its a great video man great job @@RNGGamerYT
Same vibes as UFO 50 50 minutes 50 review video which is on another there arcade collection game, just not that popular of a game so it didn't get many views but that's ok still a good video. Coming from the recent humble bundle btw
i was gutted to see the scores of the bounty bob games miner 2049er and strikes back the 800xl computer versions, i loved those as a kid, and would of been tempted just for those games alone , alot of the other games i do have on a rasberry pi
I just could not get into them. I know people have a fondness for them... hell, even I own physical copies of them
@@RNGGamerYT miner 2049er was my first ever game, on catridge for the 800xl, strikes back i had on cassettee, whish i kept the atari had over 300 games for that!! still got a commodore 64 and amiga 1200 in my mums loft, still have an N64 too, your collection is awesome!
@TanCoyer I'm glad you like the collection! I miss the stuff from my childhood, too!
Why do you care so much that someone else doesn’t enjoy the same games as you? I don’t understand this gamer mindset of “everyone should like the same games”. Why are you all like this? And why do you insult people for giving a game you like a 7/10?
1:01:45 What are you talking about? Star Raiders for the Atari 800/400 is not on Atari 50, even with the current DLC. Where are you getting this from?
The 5200 version is identical to the 400/800 version. It says so in the documentation
Major havoc is a great game but I think it has to be played on an actual machine with the correct controls
It really does!
Crazy that there is no Seaquest, River Raid and PitFall.
Those are all Activision games! Atari never made them... and kind of hated Activision 🤣
Activision games were the best-they made the best 2600 game ever: Pitfall 2!
@sci-fyguy7767 activision is definitely the top developer for the 2600!
@@RNGGamerYT Loved H.E.R.O. too! 🔥
@sci-fyguy7767 it's one of the best games on the system!
I really don’t think this guy should be reviewing games. Some information was accurate, however he really doesn’t understand much about retro games.
Lol.... have you seen my other videos?
Love my Atari days but this package unfortunately is missing so much from the 2600 that I didn't get much from it. I would recommend it just in terms of the content and the interesting history you get but as you say, the analog control on games such as Breakout etc is dire. Worth getting cheap I would personally say but it's definitely not incredible
I would say that the term pixel perfect doesn't apply to Bounty Bob. Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy require literally for you to be on the the last pixel of a platform to make some of the jumps but Bounty Bob is way more lenient with around 3 or four pixels at the most on average and certainly no lined up one pixel jumps required
Don't tell me there are games tighter than Miner 2049er... lol
This collection is worth if for the documentary. The whole package made my top 10 games of the year list... but 6 out of the 10 worst games I played all year came off the compilation, too 🤣
@@RNGGamerYT you probably don't enjoy China Miner then. That game is something else
just the sheer content makes the package of course but had it seen some Activision and Imagic games in there then I'd very much rate it higher but of course they're not actually Atari. There is some really good stuff though so I'm being a little harsh really and it's not as easy I guess for the devs to include everything
thanks for video
@adroharv5140 you bet!
Love Dodge Em
I've heard that it's a lot more fun when playing with other people!!!
Can you help me I am looking for a game called defender and I can’t seem to find it on any platform. I’ve got PS5 and PS2. Are there any compilation games that this game would be on? Thanks for your help
You came to the right place! There is a perfect port of Defender on the William's Arcade Greatest Hits compilation for the PS1. It will play perfectly on your PS2... and should be really cheap.
Resogun is a modern reimagining of defender and can be found digitally on on the PS5 store!
Thanks for asking 😄
Defender was my shit!
@user-ip2cl1lo4b I wish it was on this compilation!
31:22 I wonder if that was for a frozen turkey or an alive one.
Lol... imagine trying to drive home with your angry living holiday turkey in the back seat while you're stuck in traffic
its the best game i ever played.. 5/10
Atari 50 is the best game you've ever played?!?
@@RNGGamerYT You wish! Twas a spoof of your reviews i.e. make the game sound reasonably good and then only end up with a 5 out of 10. kek.
My grading scale is linear. A 5/10 game isn't bad. It's neutral.
7/10 is good! Most games fall between a 5-7
A lot of the time, they are worth playing!
@@RNGGamerYT That's the best comment I've ever read.. 3/10
+2
Does it include the game Berzerk and Keystone Kapers ..???
It doesn't include either one. Those are both Activision games
@RNGGamerYT Berzerk was published by Atari, so it's a strange omission.
@leighbennett1961 I think the rights are owned by Activision
They need to put out a Road Rash
I don't think any of the Road Rash games have ever gotten a reprint
@@RNGGamerYTthey really should of add it to this gem !!!
@@RNGGamerYTI burned out my disk playing it all the time love that game
@Graceology101 they don't have the license to do it 😅
Dodge em is fun in multiplayer
I bet it's way better!!!
Where's Space Invaders?
That's an activision game! It wasn't made by atari! So it didn't make it into the compilation
@@RNGGamerYT it's the only 2600 game worth playing.
@Nickbaldeagle02 ... have you played kaboom?!? It's awesome
SUPER SYSTEM, WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The best!!!
@@RNGGamerYT THOSE TRUE ARCADE GRAPHICS, REALLY DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@FranklinWilson-ev9dq it was so lifelike... I'm surprised it didn't get confused with reality
@@RNGGamerYT THAT WAS IT MAIN, SELLING POINT!!!!!!!!!!! BRINGING THE ARCADE, TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THAT IDEA, WENT, GANGBUSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@FranklinWilson-ev9dq the marketing was flawless!
All these games are almost meaningless without Activision’s games HERO, Demon attack, river raid, pit fall……
Activision did rule the system!!! But there is still some fun and interesting stuff here
dude looks older than me and i bought an atari 2600 when it came out...
You shouldn't make a habit of going around insulting people you just met for no reason. People might start thinking that you're not a nice person
@@RNGGamerYT you shouldn't make a habit of taking things out of context. i was responding to the intro of your vid where you said people accused you of being too young to know... ok... first, i don't think being old is an insult. second, gen x so don't care...
@mmm-mmm sorry! It's been so long since I did this video, I can't even remember what I said 🤣
@@RNGGamerYT sarcasm/nuance is hard on the internet
@mmm-mmm you got that right!
He lost all credibility to me when he gave Star Raiders a 5. It's one of the best games ever, and the 5200 version is a direct port of the Atari 800/400 original (the 5200 was essentially an Atari 400 in a different case with garbage controllers). ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES EVER MADE! Fun fact: This game fit on an 8K ROM cartridge for the Atari 800/400.
I need to have someone sit down with me and explain how to actually play it. I've tried 4-5 times now
LOL Missile Command is not about cold war. 😉
Of course it is!!! You literally play as the united states anti nuclear missile command. 🤣
@@RNGGamerYT Think about it. Once the nukes fly it isn't a cold war.
@@basicforge you have a point!!!
Yes!!!
Thanks for the support!
Your biggest mistake with this game was purchasing the PS version. I wouldn't advise buying this on any console. However, I do highly recommend getting it for PC. Games like Breakout control terribly with controllers but they're perfectly playable with a mouse. I tried it with both Xbox and PS controllers and it's just awful. Mouse and keyboard, on the other hand, works absolutely fine.
Yeah, you're not wrong!
Kangaroo? Jungle Hunt? Berserk???? what a joke
None of those are atari games. They are made by activision
“Eh-heh-HEH-heh!”
Dude. Stop.
Sorry! It's just how I am
I wish they went all in on achivements. Have small tasks for every game to complete. Instead they are mainly focused on just a few.
I agree 100%. It was all about the modern remakes