Newly Discovered Atari Tarzan Prototype - Hands On!

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The Video Game History Foundation recently discovered this unreleased Atari 2600 Tarzan game from 1983 and have made it available for everyone to enjoy. So let's see what it's all about!
Relevant Links:
VGHF Article: gamehistory.or...
Download Link: archive.org/de...
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro & Story
03:36 Gameplay
15:21 Closing Thoughts

[@keyboard_g]

There are clips of the Colecovision version on youtube. It looks much better. You can tell that this is a close approximation though. Impressive for the 2600.

[@intel386DX]

I also can not believe how good the music is, the sounds as well. 😊

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

The sound is incredible

[@monolalia]

Guessing the black block on the left is due to the CPU time being needed to animate the swinging vines…

[@datassetteuser356]

Sounds pretty amazing, looks nice - seems like this would have been a great game back in the day. Glad it got preserved.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Fantastic stuff. In the interest of science I dropped the resolution to 144p and the sky looks fantastic.
This is intriguing! I guess you had to rescue your monkey pal from the treehouse?
The music is a banger too!

[@intel386DX]

I love those gradients on atari games 😊. The crocodiles are tooken from Pitfall right?

[@thepirategamerboy12]

The audio is genuinely quite nice considering it's the 2600.

[@debesciak84]

Hi Rees.
Nice one. I've seen this being uncovered and released. Good to see a video on it and this motivated me to actually play it myself a bit. My colour palette is slightly different, I have played it on original A2600 PAL, is it then NTSC version of the game?
Many thanks
Edit:
I forgot to add, that Atari released this game but in XL/XE version, looks very similar etc. Title : Tarzan of the Apes
Edit 2:
Found PAL on Atari Age :)

[@ThisWeekinRetro]

AaaaaAAAAaaaaaaAaaaaaaaaaah

[@chrisandrea4963]

Radar Lock 16kb has ending. No ending here?

[@MarcKloos]

Bit like Pitfall! ?

[@wimwiddershins]

Mmm, stun lock.

[@10MARC]

It looks quite difficult, almost to the point of frustration. Those type of Atari games always turned me off.
Gorgeous graphics and audio. I bet it would have been more balanced before it shipped.

[@vampirefrog4277]

There is no way this isn't a modern day game marketed as an "undiscovered gem" it has too many modern day tropes like the health bar

[@TheRealCheesemaker]

I wish Rees would've picked up on that too, this is scetchy.

[@neakmenter]

th-cam.com/video/ggRky4LOXM0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hfe88xz6Uq6EcZcV video posted 13 years ago of the colecovision version. There's a health bar. And it's much easier to see what the aim of the game is - yep it's freeing your simian pals from cages...

[@ReesRambles]

I suppose the best way to tell would be to compare with the Colecovision version released in 1983. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with it, I guess I'll have to do some digging.

[@MrBuzzy]

I also am sceptical, what is going on here

[@roadkill_52]

There are other Atari games with health bars: Fantastic Voyage, Xenophobe, Double Dragon

[@videostash413]

3:36 skip the pointless intro lads

[@ReesRambles]

Did you miss the chapter markers?

[@10MARC]

Many of us subscribe to Rees for his insights and commentary and find just gameplay videos a bit droll. To each his own, though.