The arcade game is Space Panic, released in 1980 and considered the first platform game. There's also 1981s Apple Panic for Atari and other platforms based on that arcade game.
I'm not sure about there being an arcade Panic. But there were a lot of Panic-style clones on virtually every platform. There was even the source code for one bundled on my disk for the programming language PL65, which was only available by mail order in magazines like Page 6 and Atari User. It's now one of the rarer Atari items out there. I amassed quite a collection of cassettes as well but left them at a friend's house years ago and never went back for them.
Yeah, had bomb fusion and amaurote. The latter was one of my faves. I actually completed it once, a task of many hours. As I recall there were a large number of districts to clear. Memories of bomb fusion are less clear.
Amaurote is a superb game! I did well in it. Very addictive with terrific gfx and audio. The new version is 128k and much faster gameplay. Love these videos 👍 Starquake is one of my fave games ever
What an absolute treat! Thank you! The Atari 8-bit (800 in my case) was my first computer love so see these games (many of which I'd never heard of) was great. I'm pretty sure Panik! is based on Space Panic from Universal, and Action Biker was the only one I did have as a kid, but being in the U.S. I had no idea it was in any way connected to a snack food mascot.
I can't get over how cheap these games were. When I was a kid the only thing we really had was the Nes and Master System. The Master System games were always a bit cheaper and if you got a My Card game (game on the Sega Cards) they were typically $25 to $30 bucks. The Sega carts were roughly $35 to $50 and Nes games were anywhere from $44 to $55. Although the most expensive cart was Phantasy Star at...I want to say $85 to $100. When I moved to the Genesis in 1989 games increased to $55-$65. It wasn't until late 1990 that the price started to set at $49.99. Most Snes games were the same at $49.99 unless it was a JRPG like Final Fantasy III (FF VI) and that was $69.99. I remember that one specifically as my mother threw a conniption fit as she was buying it for me. "In my day we got an orange and were happy about it!" If I hadn't been born with a severe medical disability I wouldn't have gotten the games I did as a kid and I cleaned house regularly.
Cheapness was the one advantage of cassette games, I'd walk to the local newsagent with my dad each Sunday morning and buy a new game, it was my favourite time of the week! Sure there was a lot of shovelware but I picked up some really good games for less than £3! 👍😎 But on reflection, the NES / Master System definitely had great games.. There's just no way my pocket money back then could pay for them! It would've taken me six months to save for one $50 game! 🤔
The tradeoff was that you had to wait 5-10 minutes or more for the dang cassettes to load--if they loaded at all. Also, in the 1980s the British pound was much stronger against the US dollar than it is today, so that £1.99 cassette was more like $5-6 USD, comparatively speaking. Also, only budget titles were that cheap. I think there were also a lot of big-budget cassette titles, like those of Ultimate Play the Game, that went for as much as £20.
My games library essentially consists of whatever my local newsagents had in stock hence why there are so many obscure and budget games, but I agree that Starquake is one of the better ones 👍😎
The arcade game is Space Panic, released in 1980 and considered the first platform game. There's also 1981s Apple Panic for Atari and other platforms based on that arcade game.
Thanks.. I didn't know that 👍😎
@@RetroTechHQ also Space Panic on Colecovision
@@randalgelking7329 This version on the Coleco some think is better than the arcade original.
I almost lost it at the monkey GIF on 0:31! So funny!
👍😂
I'm not sure about there being an arcade Panic. But there were a lot of Panic-style clones on virtually every platform. There was even the source code for one bundled on my disk for the programming language PL65, which was only available by mail order in magazines like Page 6 and Atari User. It's now one of the rarer Atari items out there. I amassed quite a collection of cassettes as well but left them at a friend's house years ago and never went back for them.
Yeah, had bomb fusion and amaurote. The latter was one of my faves. I actually completed it once, a task of many hours. As I recall there were a large number of districts to clear. Memories of bomb fusion are less clear.
The Monkey King is based on a 16th century Chinese novel "Journey to the West"
Ah ok.. I didn't know that 👍😎
Amaurote is a superb game! I did well in it. Very addictive with terrific gfx and audio.
The new version is 128k and much faster gameplay.
Love these videos 👍
Starquake is one of my fave games ever
Panic is Space Panic. There already is an A8 version called Apple Panic. Great job on the video, I can't wait for #3!
Thanks.. I'm new to TH-cam and am figuring things out as I go so I appreciate the encouragement 👍😎
I had the non-Colin version of Action Biker, I liked it. Also had Kikstart, Last V8, Vegas Poker, & a few other MasterTronics
What.. there was a non Colin version?
What an absolute treat! Thank you! The Atari 8-bit (800 in my case) was my first computer love so see these games (many of which I'd never heard of) was great. I'm pretty sure Panik! is based on Space Panic from Universal, and Action Biker was the only one I did have as a kid, but being in the U.S. I had no idea it was in any way connected to a snack food mascot.
Glad you enjoyed it 👍.. you were lucky in the States, you got games on disk, we had to wait for tapes to load 😎
Bridges? Bouncing bombs were used on dams
I can't get over how cheap these games were. When I was a kid the only thing we really had was the Nes and Master System. The Master System games were always a bit cheaper and if you got a My Card game (game on the Sega Cards) they were typically $25 to $30 bucks. The Sega carts were roughly $35 to $50 and Nes games were anywhere from $44 to $55. Although the most expensive cart was Phantasy Star at...I want to say $85 to $100. When I moved to the Genesis in 1989 games increased to $55-$65. It wasn't until late 1990 that the price started to set at $49.99. Most Snes games were the same at $49.99 unless it was a JRPG like Final Fantasy III (FF VI) and that was $69.99. I remember that one specifically as my mother threw a conniption fit as she was buying it for me. "In my day we got an orange and were happy about it!" If I hadn't been born with a severe medical disability I wouldn't have gotten the games I did as a kid and I cleaned house regularly.
Cheapness was the one advantage of cassette games, I'd walk to the local newsagent with my dad each Sunday morning and buy a new game, it was my favourite time of the week! Sure there was a lot of shovelware but I picked up some really good games for less than £3! 👍😎
But on reflection, the NES / Master System definitely had great games.. There's just no way my pocket money back then could pay for them! It would've taken me six months to save for one $50 game! 🤔
The tradeoff was that you had to wait 5-10 minutes or more for the dang cassettes to load--if they loaded at all. Also, in the 1980s the British pound was much stronger against the US dollar than it is today, so that £1.99 cassette was more like $5-6 USD, comparatively speaking. Also, only budget titles were that cheap. I think there were also a lot of big-budget cassette titles, like those of Ultimate Play the Game, that went for as much as £20.
Starquake I loved. The others I have never seen, but they occurred very late in the Atari 8-bit’s lifespan.
My games library essentially consists of whatever my local newsagents had in stock hence why there are so many obscure and budget games, but I agree that Starquake is one of the better ones 👍😎
Panik is inspired by the coin op "Space Panic"
I had a seizure on Xmas day due to action biker cos when you die the screen really flashes. True story
Blimey.. that's awful! 🤨