I remember leaving it on for days to work on high scores. Since it pauses after each level for as long as you want, you can easily take breaks and come at it fresh again. 😀 If you haven't already I hope you will subscribe and check out much more of our GenX-inspired content!
I used to scour Odd Lots, the smaller format precursor to Big Lots in the mid 80s, for Intellivision and 2600 carts and accessories after the Crash. Could load up on a lot of stuff for cheap
I laugh when I hear the NES or SNES wasn't powerful enough for certain game types since pretty much every modern game type was at least attempted on the 2600. First person games like Crypts of Chaos, Tunnel Runner & Excape from the Mind master were precursors to the FPSs of today. Yes they used enhancement chips but to be fair many NES & SNES games did also. The 2600 also had first person flight, tank & driving games; Star Raiders, Star Ward Arcade, Battle zone, night driver, Endro, etc. Early platformers like Pitfall are clearly precursors to Mario & the like. Adventure, Pitfall 2, ET, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc all laid the blueprints for games like Zelda & even open world games of today. Dragonstomper is an RPG game that is the grandaddy of Dragon Warrior & Final Fantasy. For as primitive & underpowered as the Atari 2600 was it did everything.
@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 Fuckin’ Dragonstomper. Never before or since have I been terrified of a pixelated monkey. That game and Fantastic Voyage dominated my childhood imagination in ways games today barely bump.
@@GenXGrownUp @GenXGrownUp Oh, the usual stuff. Centipede, Asteroids,Missile Command Frogger, Space Invaders. I can't find the Atari 2600 I had as a kid, so I got one of those handheld Ataris, and also downloaded the Atari collection on my Nintendo Switch. I really wish I could find my original Atari though! I also really find those weird Atari games like the Kool Aid Man game and the Journey band game to be really interesting and funny. I'm more from the Nintendo era though.But still love Atari.
Brings me back memories of playing this on a B/W TV as a kid. The comic book actually helps you expand your imagination so you know what are those squares in the screen. Good times good times.
They had several games with comic books, some featuring space explorers. Perhaps it was to set up the ill-conceived Swordquest series and contests. Fireworld is considered by some who played it to be the worst Atari game. If you could advance in that game it gave you page numbers to look up code words in the comic; then if you got them all you had to pick some of them to send in. Then if you qualified, because there were more "winners" than expected, you had to write an essay saying why you thought the game was the greatest of all time to be chosen to go to the tournament.
Loved Yars Revenge. As a big fan of the game and a recent fan of your channel, i had to watch this vid. I did see another interesting thing on this game in someone else’s video recently, and he showed how the safe zone where you are unable to shoot but also unable to be killed is actually code from the game. The area shows 7 columns (out of 8) which is binary addressing/commands Its crazy to think that Howard Scott Warshaw did so awesome of a game with so little resources
YARS REVENGE really brings me back. I liked the feeling of munching away at that shield. Strangely enough I'm back into Atari now but haven't picked it up yet. Been to my game store numerous times and always pass it over for something else. I did like the game, so next time I'm in there I really should grab it. My collection cant be complete without it!
It's one I still enjoy playing today. I haven't tried for a high score/point run in decades, but even just playing for a few minutes puts me in a warm, nostalgic headspace. 😊
Just found your channel tonight. Was talking with my cousin about the good ole days, including Yars' Revenge. This video definitely scratched the itch and I will be checking out your other videos. Thanks for all the time and work you do for these gems.
Glad you enjoyed it! This is the place for remembering the best childhood ever! We also do a weekly audio show celebrating this same stuff: genxgrownup.com/pod
Great video, well done. I remember playing Yars' Revenge in a department store, when it was first released, was a great game back then. I remember to store assistant was very friendly too, I was a young boy back then 😀👍
Currently reading Howard Scott Warshaw's book on his time at Atari. Superb read. Amazing what could be done with relatively low specifications. Oh and great channel. By most measures I am home here, being born in 1980, the widely accepted this is the final birth year of being Gen X.
Yep, it's true after scoring one million points one night, the game reset and thus marked the last time I ever played - it was a deflating moment to be sure, but still vividly and affectionately remember Yars Revenge!
Getting the Easter egg/initials stopped my game as I was going to increase my high score and I haven't been back. I don't like this HSW guy; maybe he should have gone to another company.
As a kid, I thought this game was related to the movie: "Krull" as the spinny thing looked like the "Glave" the magical bladed spinning weapon used in the movie. Lol
@@LastBastian If you want to have a look, FNA just published a video featuring it. If you stop by, please tell him I sent you! th-cam.com/video/N4oDiibKCPs/w-d-xo.html
There was a Yars' revenge reboot of sorts in 2011 for Xbox 360 and Windows. Also, as far as a pop culture cameo, in the episode of Miami Vice called "Milk Run," there is a shootout at an electronics store at the airport and one of the characters crashes through a display case and there are Yars' Revenge boxes scattered everywhere.
MEGO toys did a similar name reverse when they brought Microman over to the USA as "Micronauts". Their boss was an annoying entity to them, whose name was "Azrak". So, to spite him, they made the main enemy, "Baron Karza".
Some of these details are interesting to know. As I played Yars' Revenge it came to a point where I had suspected that Yars' Revenge game play was similar to Star Castle in that I had included that when I submitted that question to Atari Age, but they could not answer that question. There was a few occasions that I would get the HSW initials, but I thought that it was done by hitting the swirl in mid-air several times in succession? But I never noticed that line in the explosion before. But I did not know was that the Yars' Revenge explosion being a representation of the game's source code? What about the Neutral Zone? It looks kind of like the explosion. As you may know, at the Atari Age site has a few programmers which came out with a few who hacked Yar's Revenge to create new versions called "Yar's Defeat", a prequel to Yars' Revenge, in which you play the role of a member of the Qotile Continuum, in which the characters are reversed. "Yar Vs. Yar" in which this time it's against a Yar who has joined forces with the Qotile Continuum.
Yars Revenge was one of my three favorite Atari 2600 games! It's one of few original Atari games I owned as a kid I still have despite selling my 7800 & other games back in the early 2000s. I have no stmystem to play it on, but the cartridge has too many memories to give it up.
I think Raiders of the Lost Ark was worse than _E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial._ I was able to win E.T. as a twelve-year-old after learning how to get out of the pits, but didn't win the Indy game. Everything I did in Raiders was in the manual, and I didn't learn anything new on my own, playing it in the '80s or '90s. It turns out kids called Atari to get sent the walkthrough so they could beat it. Once walkthroughs were posted on the internet, I learned how to use the shovel to win, as well as to find the secret Yar. Then I learned that using the grenade to get into the sundial chamber cost you points, but there was no way to get a perfect score. I was able to win on my own three Scott Adams text adventures on the VIC-20, so I think it was the game, not me.
This is a couple years old, but I didn't know about the Yars' records. Picked them both up on ebay mid-video🤣 .. thanks for the heads up boss. Yars' is THE best atari game in my opinion.
Loved the video as always. Only thing bugging (oh look-unintentional irony) me is your shirt. Having worked in a print shop for 5 years i really want to stretch that ink and see if its properly cured Im betting not as it looks heavy and shiny. Let me know if it starts to crack after a few wash and dry's. Lol
Thanks, Mykle. I think when I shot this it was a few days after my birthday, and it was a brand new birthday t-shirt (probably had yet to go through the laundry). Since then it has been washed (naturally) and some of that shine has gone away, but still vibrant colors. I hope it lasts because I love the design.
At the beginning it says, “whether you discovered Yars Revenge in the 70s or 80s…”. How would one discover Yars Revenge in the 70’s if the game didn’t come out until 1982?
Some of that was definitely new to me, some was not, but all was super fun to look at here. Yars Revenge also appeared on The Walking Dead when Eugene had his own private lair at the Sanctuary with a harem of sluts and a 2600 to play. It’s funny how much soul & heart is in a program as simplistic as this one, yet we get brand new software in 2020 sometimes that are just turd regurgitation. Excellent work on this, sir.
I never watched WD, but it's starting to sound like a go-to for several film & TV productions. I always used to hear Donkey Kong for the VCS used as "game sound" in so many productions, but never spotted Yars' until now.
@@GenXGrownUp Yeah, lots of productions, regardless of WHAT game they were playing, had Namco sounds. Galaga, Pac-Man, Atari2600 Pac-Man... it annoyed the HELL out of me as a kid.
@@GenXGrownUp Did you? I watched number 10 again and I only hear you saying _the explosion_ came from the source code in this video. In a video years ago someone said the neutral zone came from the code, but don't remember them mentioning the explosion.
You position your Yar on the black line below the explosion as it closes to trigger the Easter Egg. 11. The safety zone in the middle of the screen uses the actual game code to display its patterns. Ray Kassar didn't think that should be done because "what if" someone could figure out the code from that?? 12. Yars' Revenge had a CGI commercial shown in movie theaters.
Maybe you didn't actually watch the video? At 4:10 I describe how to accomplish the Easter Egg. The game code in the explosion (and neutral zone) is at 8:30. I did not know about the CGI commercial, though. I'll have to look that up.
Both Freeway for the Atari VCS and Frogger at the arcade came out in 1981, but the latter showed up October in the U.S. and the former was released July, 1981.
Yar's was my favorite followed closely by Adventure. I knew about all the easter eggs, except about the initials. No Internet, lol I also found the easter egg in Adventure.... I used to stay up all night on the weekends to flip the score on Yars...lol
@@sandal_thong8631 When you stay on the black line in Yars and get the creator screen, you have to reset, but fliping the score doesn't. (Not sure about an emulated version...this was back playing on a 2600 with the original cart. :) )
@@stanleystriker7065 Thanks. I haven't been able to do all the logbook challenges, yet: Game 6, difficulty A. Pro: 100,000 (made it with 172,789) Master: 230,000 Wizard: 500,000
It is a cool package, the cartridge is sweet! That patch is massive! It is a little steep for what you get but at least it's overall a decent offering. I really like the speaker hats they offer, but for the money, to me, their not worth it. I'd buy the hat itself if it were available without the speaker.
Yars Revenge has always been my favorite Atari 2600 game! I pretty much knew how to play it off the bat. First played it not long after it's release in the early 80's. My high score is over 600k points. And it took me about 3 hours or so. Lol And yes I'm looking to find a cib copy for my collection. Also I am a Generation X kid born in the 70's!
If you try again, do so on game 6, difficulty A. The Atari logbook challenge was 100,000 then 230,000 then 500,000 for that variation. Someone here said if you get to a million the game crashes. Likewise if you hit the "mean streak." But another person said he could flip the score.
Believe it or not, this is true: the last time i played this game in the80ies i made with my first life without ever getting shot, without dieing , more than 1 000 000 points, so that the counting of all my points started again from zero. Took me about 45 minutes (+-) to play that with my first and only life,, as far as i remember, then i stopped and since that time i never played it again. I do not have that game anymore, but i bought it just today for my pc and i am very lucky to have it again. True story
I use to own the Yars Revenge back in the days Sadly no clue what ever happened to it or my system lol Would like to be able to get that Atari50 Seen it has Yars Revenge on that as well as a nice makeover version :D
Atari blue 1982 Logbook Challenge: Play game 6 with difficulty A. Pro (Honorable Scout): 100,000 Master (Yar Avenger): 230,000 Wizard (Yar General): 500,000 (The terms Pro, Master and Wizard came from the 1979 green logbook, before this game came out.) I am not a Yars' expert as I've only made Pro. My best is only 172,789. I tried to maximize points before it gets too hard by only hitting the Qotile in flight. Last time I stepped on the "mean streak" which caused the game to show initials and end my game. Very frustrating.
Freeway... ...the only activision game my family ever got was f@%^ing Freeway. No River Raid, no Keystone Kapers, certainly no Pitfall. Just Freeway... ...yep...
I was one who l ioved this game when I was a kid. I got my score over the one million mark. I just wish there was more than two main screens. However, looking back I can see why there wasn't.
@@GenXGrownUp Gen X o can't wait till i can get my 5200 Roc-umentary uploaded i finished the script now i just need to get audio recorded. I touched upon a lot of this, so many people blame the wrong people for the downfall of Atari i simply wanna set the record right . It was the suits that ruined Atari not the talent.
@@GenXGrownUp Very frustrating on my last attempt to improve my high score. This was a popular game, and all three of his sold over a million copies. But I don't think I like HSW very much or his games.
Thanks, Peter. Glad you enjoyed it! As for how to play Yars'? May I suggest the manual at Atari Age? atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=603
"Looks way...too simple" suggests that you haven't played it, or perhaps you didn't experience it the context of '82-'83. The basic premise is certainly quite simple by today's standards, but for the 2600, Yars' was a leap forward in visual presentation and fast-paced arcade-style gameplay.
Infinity Con Tallahassee is on our list of shows we enjoy attending, John. We were there last year and were all set to go this year until the apocalypse hit us. We definitely plan to be there again.
I'm not joking. Not everyone likes rap (or nerdcore whatever that is) and I don't see why anyone would think it's a good choice to accompany videos about 80s video games. Shame as I liked the video apart from that.
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback, Rob. The reality is, regardless of a style we choose there will always be someone who doesn't like it -- you can't please everyone, right? As for why it would accompany videos about the '70s & '80s (we cover much more than just video games, btw), rap was created and matured in the '70s & '80s just like children of Generation X. It's an integral part of the cultural fabric of GenX, even if you don't like it. 😀
@@robm8809 Considering Rap was born in the 80s I think it is completely appropriate. Honestly, I don't care if you appreciate it or not, but I will say that perhaps you should try creating some content yourself before you ask others to change what they've done. Beefy is a singular talent is his profession and I was very proud to hear his music on these videos. Oh, and before I forget, fuck you. :)
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Yay! Yars' Revenge is by far the most hypnotic game in my entire collection
I remember leaving it on for days to work on high scores. Since it pauses after each level for as long as you want, you can easily take breaks and come at it fresh again. 😀 If you haven't already I hope you will subscribe and check out much more of our GenX-inspired content!
I remember buying this game from a local discount store in the 80s I paid a $1 and turn out to be one of my best games thanks for the memory
Thanks for making my morning, Prince Davis. 😊 Every time I hear that I helped spark some nostalgia for a viewer, I'm happy!
I used to scour Odd Lots, the smaller format precursor to Big Lots in the mid 80s, for Intellivision and 2600 carts and accessories after the Crash.
Could load up on a lot of stuff for cheap
Sell it for 1 million dollars in 200 years.
Yars' Revenge also featured as a sound only cameo in the drive in movie scene in *The Explorers.*
Loved that film as a kid!
Yars' Revenge coming out of the woodwork! A Facebook commenter mentioned its appearance in Walking Dead, too. I hadn't seen that.
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Ahh that's mad! I didn't know that either!
Atari is so criminally under-appreciated for what it truly was. How any of those games work is miraculous because of how limited that console was.
By some maybe, but for anyone who has spent any time reading and learning about the console, it just gets more & more awesome!
I laugh when I hear the NES or SNES wasn't powerful enough for certain game types since pretty much every modern game type was at least attempted on the 2600. First person games like Crypts of Chaos, Tunnel Runner & Excape from the Mind master were precursors to the FPSs of today. Yes they used enhancement chips but to be fair many NES & SNES games did also.
The 2600 also had first person flight, tank & driving games; Star Raiders, Star Ward Arcade, Battle zone, night driver, Endro, etc.
Early platformers like Pitfall are clearly precursors to Mario & the like.
Adventure, Pitfall 2, ET, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc all laid the blueprints for games like Zelda & even open world games of today.
Dragonstomper is an RPG game that is the grandaddy of Dragon Warrior & Final Fantasy.
For as primitive & underpowered as the Atari 2600 was it did everything.
@@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145the most complex strategy game it had was chess.
@@1q34w probably. But it still had it.
@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 Fuckin’ Dragonstomper. Never before or since have I been terrified of a pixelated monkey. That game and Fantastic Voyage dominated my childhood imagination in ways games today barely bump.
It took me like a decade to understand how to play Yars Revenge, but now that I know how to play it, is my favorite Atari game!
Definitely one of my favorites! What are some of your others?
@@GenXGrownUp @GenXGrownUp Oh, the usual stuff. Centipede, Asteroids,Missile Command Frogger, Space Invaders. I can't find the Atari 2600 I had as a kid, so I got one of those handheld Ataris, and also downloaded the Atari collection on my Nintendo Switch. I really wish I could find my original Atari though! I also really find those weird Atari games like the Kool Aid Man game and the Journey band game to be really interesting and funny.
I'm more from the Nintendo era though.But still love Atari.
Bahaha it took me 10 mins to figure it out and I'm a 98 kid haha just picked it up an hour ago
I had the comic book! I loved Yar"s Revenge! It was very avante garde. I'll be 50 next week. Thanks so much for the memories!
Always one of my favorites and still is! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment, Bill.
The games sound effects were also in the 1985 movie Explorers during the drive in scene for cheesy sci-fi sound effects
Ah-ha! Good catch!
Good one👍
Brings me back memories of playing this on a B/W TV as a kid. The comic book actually helps you expand your imagination so you know what are those squares in the screen. Good times good times.
They had several games with comic books, some featuring space explorers. Perhaps it was to set up the ill-conceived Swordquest series and contests. Fireworld is considered by some who played it to be the worst Atari game. If you could advance in that game it gave you page numbers to look up code words in the comic; then if you got them all you had to pick some of them to send in. Then if you qualified, because there were more "winners" than expected, you had to write an essay saying why you thought the game was the greatest of all time to be chosen to go to the tournament.
I'm a millenial and my dad showing me this game was one of our most cherished memories. We would play for hours trying to get further and further.
I love this comment.
This is a great comment.
Loved Yars Revenge. As a big fan of the game and a recent fan of your channel, i had to watch this vid. I did see another interesting thing on this game in someone else’s video recently, and he showed how the safe zone where you are unable to shoot but also unable to be killed is actually code from the game. The area shows 7 columns (out of 8) which is binary addressing/commands
Its crazy to think that Howard Scott Warshaw did so awesome of a game with so little resources
YARS REVENGE really brings me back.
I liked the feeling of munching away at that shield.
Strangely enough I'm back into Atari now but haven't picked it up yet. Been to my game store numerous times and always pass it over for something else.
I did like the game, so next time I'm in there I really should grab it.
My collection cant be complete without it!
It's one I still enjoy playing today. I haven't tried for a high score/point run in decades, but even just playing for a few minutes puts me in a warm, nostalgic headspace. 😊
Just found your channel tonight. Was talking with my cousin about the good ole days, including Yars' Revenge. This video definitely scratched the itch and I will be checking out your other videos. Thanks for all the time and work you do for these gems.
Glad you enjoyed it! This is the place for remembering the best childhood ever!
We also do a weekly audio show celebrating this same stuff: genxgrownup.com/pod
Great video, well done. I remember playing Yars' Revenge in a department store, when it was first released, was a great game back then. I remember to store assistant was very friendly too, I was a young boy back then 😀👍
Thanks, Tux!
Once in a rare while, I manage to activate the Zorlon Canon and actually hit the target. Not often though. It's still fun to play. Great video!
Currently reading Howard Scott Warshaw's book on his time at Atari. Superb read. Amazing what could be done with relatively low specifications. Oh and great channel. By most measures I am home here, being born in 1980, the widely accepted this is the final birth year of being Gen X.
Awesome. Welcome!
Yep, it's true after scoring one million points one night, the game reset and thus marked the last time I ever played - it was a deflating moment to be sure, but still vividly and affectionately remember Yars Revenge!
Getting the Easter egg/initials stopped my game as I was going to increase my high score and I haven't been back. I don't like this HSW guy; maybe he should have gone to another company.
I had the Yar’s Revenge with the comic book. Awesome.
Very cool.
As a kid, I thought this game was related to the movie: "Krull" as the spinny thing looked like the "Glave" the magical bladed spinning weapon used in the movie. Lol
I can only imagine that your young mind was blown with the actual Krull game was later released!
@@GenXGrownUp think I missed that one. Haha...!
@@LastBastian If you want to have a look, FNA just published a video featuring it. If you stop by, please tell him I sent you!
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I got the game Krull for Atari 2600 and though it had multiple screens and followed the story, it was disappointing. I couldn't beat the second level.
Love me some Yars’ Revenge. Great video! Learned a few things.
Glad you enjoyed it!
There was a Yars' revenge reboot of sorts in 2011 for Xbox 360 and Windows. Also, as far as a pop culture cameo, in the episode of Miami Vice called "Milk Run," there is a shootout at an electronics store at the airport and one of the characters crashes through a display case and there are Yars' Revenge boxes scattered everywhere.
MEGO toys did a similar name reverse when they brought Microman over to the USA as "Micronauts". Their boss was an annoying entity to them, whose name was "Azrak". So, to spite him, they made the main enemy, "Baron Karza".
Now, there's a trivia nugget I'd never heard. Thanks!
Some of these details are interesting to know. As I played Yars' Revenge it came to a point where I had suspected that Yars' Revenge game play was similar to Star Castle in that I had included that when I submitted that question to Atari Age, but they could not answer that question. There was a few occasions that I would get the HSW initials, but I thought that it was done by hitting the swirl in mid-air several times in succession? But I never noticed that line in the explosion before. But I did not know was that the Yars' Revenge explosion being a representation of the game's source code? What about the Neutral Zone? It looks kind of like the explosion. As you may know, at the Atari Age site has a few programmers which came out with a few who hacked Yar's Revenge to create new versions called "Yar's Defeat", a prequel to Yars' Revenge, in which you play the role of a member of the Qotile Continuum, in which the characters are reversed. "Yar Vs. Yar" in which this time it's against a Yar who has joined forces with the Qotile Continuum.
The neutral zone is the code of the game too. There is a video explaining this on yt.
Yars is Legendary- Awesome vid! Lots of super cool info!! Had no idea Yar was Ray’s name backwards. So cool!!
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching. 😁
This was nice to watch..
Thanks for posting
Thanks for the kind words, David. I assume you're a Yars' fan?
Jon that was really interesting. Alot I didn't know. Makes me want to play some Yar!
Some facts are new for me. Thanks for sharing. +1
Thanks for visiting!
@@GenXGrownUp Fortunately, I'll return. Thanks.
Yars Revenge was one of my three favorite Atari 2600 games! It's one of few original Atari games I owned as a kid I still have despite selling my 7800 & other games back in the early 2000s.
I have no stmystem to play it on, but the cartridge has too many memories to give it up.
Never let it go!
Lol.. I remember that easter egg when playing at 6yo... Had no Idea what it was.. I just tought it was a bug...
And since it actually ends the game, it makes sense that it must've been a bug, right?
Superb video
That matches up nicely with superb viewers like you! 😉 Thanks for watching.
HSW also did a very commendable job with Raiders of the Lost Ark for the VCS
No kidding. I played the living hell out Raiders on the VCS.
I think Raiders of the Lost Ark was worse than _E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial._ I was able to win E.T. as a twelve-year-old after learning how to get out of the pits, but didn't win the Indy game. Everything I did in Raiders was in the manual, and I didn't learn anything new on my own, playing it in the '80s or '90s. It turns out kids called Atari to get sent the walkthrough so they could beat it. Once walkthroughs were posted on the internet, I learned how to use the shovel to win, as well as to find the secret Yar. Then I learned that using the grenade to get into the sundial chamber cost you points, but there was no way to get a perfect score.
I was able to win on my own three Scott Adams text adventures on the VIC-20, so I think it was the game, not me.
I was born in the 70s amd enjoyed almost every ATARI/COLECO Games. This oneI still play it on my ANDROID devices 2021. It never gets old.......
Agreed! Thanks for watching, Armando.
Recharged. Super interesting video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The neutral zone shield is also the game code. I thought this was fairly old news but that might be me
This is a couple years old, but I didn't know about the Yars' records. Picked them both up on ebay mid-video🤣 .. thanks for the heads up boss. Yars' is THE best atari game in my opinion.
Man my son talking about the nostalgia of playing ds games got me thinking of this game lol I could wrap it
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching! 😊
Loved the video as always. Only thing bugging (oh look-unintentional irony) me is your shirt. Having worked in a print shop for 5 years i really want to stretch that ink and see if its properly cured
Im betting not as it looks heavy and shiny. Let me know if it starts to crack after a few wash and dry's. Lol
Thanks, Mykle. I think when I shot this it was a few days after my birthday, and it was a brand new birthday t-shirt (probably had yet to go through the laundry). Since then it has been washed (naturally) and some of that shine has gone away, but still vibrant colors. I hope it lasts because I love the design.
Accidentally finding that hidden Easter Egg was what typically ended my games. Never knew the meaning behind it or how exactly it happened.
At the beginning it says, “whether you discovered Yars Revenge in the 70s or 80s…”.
How would one discover Yars Revenge in the 70’s if the game didn’t come out until 1982?
Time travel.
Some of that was definitely new to me, some was not, but all was super fun to look at here. Yars Revenge also appeared on The Walking Dead when Eugene had his own private lair at the Sanctuary with a harem of sluts and a 2600 to play. It’s funny how much soul & heart is in a program as simplistic as this one, yet we get brand new software in 2020 sometimes that are just turd regurgitation. Excellent work on this, sir.
I never watched WD, but it's starting to sound like a go-to for several film & TV productions. I always used to hear Donkey Kong for the VCS used as "game sound" in so many productions, but never spotted Yars' until now.
@@GenXGrownUp I'm always hearing the gawdawful "Dooo-beee Doo-boo... bonk bonk bonk" of Atari's Pac-Man.
@@GenXGrownUp Yeah, lots of productions, regardless of WHAT game they were playing, had Namco sounds. Galaga, Pac-Man, Atari2600 Pac-Man... it annoyed the HELL out of me as a kid.
Oooo, I love your t-shirt!!
#10: Also the neutral zone is the source code visualized.
Heh. Are you providing transcription services? That's literally what I said in the video. 😬
@@GenXGrownUp Did you? I watched number 10 again and I only hear you saying _the explosion_ came from the source code in this video. In a video years ago someone said the neutral zone came from the code, but don't remember them mentioning the explosion.
You position your Yar on the black line below the explosion as it closes to trigger the Easter Egg.
11. The safety zone in the middle of the screen uses the actual game code to display its patterns. Ray Kassar didn't think that should be done because "what if" someone could figure out the code from that??
12. Yars' Revenge had a CGI commercial shown in movie theaters.
Maybe you didn't actually watch the video? At 4:10 I describe how to accomplish the Easter Egg. The game code in the explosion (and neutral zone) is at 8:30.
I did not know about the CGI commercial, though. I'll have to look that up.
It's been 40 years, but I could swear I reached the end of the game at a million points or something? Anyone else?
I reached one million points and gave up as my thumb was hurting so much!
Yars revenge and megamania were my favorite games growing up. They have a game called yars recharged in the psn store in case y'all didn't know.
We are aware. We reviewed it at launch: th-cam.com/video/BmJa9AYMXCw/w-d-xo.html
Here because of the Friday plays video!
Who says end-screens don't work! 😉
Technically Freeway wasn't a Frogger knockoff, I believe it was actually released before Frogger.
Cool to know, Raymond. Thanks!
A Bob Whitehead game, too!
Both Freeway for the Atari VCS and Frogger at the arcade came out in 1981, but the latter showed up October in the U.S. and the former was released July, 1981.
Yar's was my favorite followed closely by Adventure. I knew about all the easter eggs, except about the initials. No Internet, lol
I also found the easter egg in Adventure....
I used to stay up all night on the weekends to flip the score on Yars...lol
Did you? Someone in the comments said doing it crashes the game.
@@sandal_thong8631 When you stay on the black line in Yars and get the creator screen, you have to reset, but fliping the score doesn't. (Not sure about an emulated version...this was back playing on a 2600 with the original cart. :) )
@@stanleystriker7065 Thanks. I haven't been able to do all the logbook challenges, yet: Game 6, difficulty A.
Pro: 100,000 (made it with 172,789)
Master: 230,000
Wizard: 500,000
It is a cool package, the cartridge is sweet! That patch is massive! It is a little steep for what you get but at least it's overall a decent offering. I really like the speaker hats they offer, but for the money, to me, their not worth it. I'd buy the hat itself if it were available without the speaker.
Agreed point-for-point. Maybe a half dozen times I almost ordered that hat, and the re-realized it was the speaker-hat! 👒🔈
Yars Revenge has always been my favorite Atari 2600 game! I pretty much knew how to play it off the bat. First played it not long after it's release in the early 80's. My high score is over 600k points. And it took me about 3 hours or so. Lol And yes I'm looking to find a cib copy for my collection. Also I am a Generation X kid born in the 70's!
I hope you're able to find that CIB for your collection. Good luck!
@@GenXGrownUp Thanks man. I actually did find not one but two sealed in box! Lol ill probably open one and keep the other one sealed.
If you try again, do so on game 6, difficulty A. The Atari logbook challenge was 100,000 then 230,000 then 500,000 for that variation. Someone here said if you get to a million the game crashes. Likewise if you hit the "mean streak." But another person said he could flip the score.
@@sandal_thong8631 Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a shot next time I play it.
This is the best title on the Atari 50 offering.
Believe it or not, this is true: the last time i played this game in the80ies i made with my first life without ever getting shot, without dieing , more than 1 000 000 points, so that the counting of all my points started again from zero. Took me about 45 minutes (+-) to play that with my first and only life,, as far as i remember, then i stopped and since that time i never played it again. I do not have that game anymore, but i bought it just today for my pc and i am very lucky to have it again. True story
It's got to be true - who would make that up? 😉
I don't know why I thought the titles was named after Lt. Yar from startrek TNG
LOL! The game predates TNG by about 5 years.
I use to own the Yars Revenge back in the days Sadly no clue what ever happened to it or my system lol
Would like to be able to get that Atari50 Seen it has Yars Revenge on that as well as a nice makeover version :D
Was that Vincent Price doing the narration for the Yar's Revenge book?
Nope, definitely not Vincent Price. That was _Kid Stuff_ regular, John Braden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Braden_(musician)
Nice !
How'd you do? 😀
@@GenXGrownUp Good ! Thank you on ask .
Actually, the Neutral zone itself is the game program code.
There's a video here on TH-cam of someone working to decode it.
Actually, yep.
Atari blue 1982 Logbook Challenge: Play game 6 with difficulty A.
Pro (Honorable Scout): 100,000
Master (Yar Avenger): 230,000
Wizard (Yar General): 500,000
(The terms Pro, Master and Wizard came from the 1979 green logbook, before this game came out.) I am not a Yars' expert as I've only made Pro. My best is only 172,789. I tried to maximize points before it gets too hard by only hitting the Qotile in flight. Last time I stepped on the "mean streak" which caused the game to show initials and end my game. Very frustrating.
No mention of Warshaw's Saboteur eh? It takes place in the same universe after all.
Let me go check. Nope, no mention. 😉
Definitely not I'm confident in my overall gaming skills but I'm definitely not an expert on yars revenge.
Freeway... ...the only activision game my family ever got was f@%^ing Freeway. No River Raid, no Keystone Kapers, certainly no Pitfall. Just Freeway... ...yep...
I loved the game as a kid but could never figure out how to win
You can't really "win" per se, but you can absolutely take it deep as an endurance game. Eventually, IIRC, the Neutral Zone completely disappears!
I was one who l ioved this game when I was a kid. I got my score over the one million mark. I just wish there was more than two main screens. However, looking back I can see why there wasn't.
Nice t-shirt. People would only realise what it was if they knew Pac Man.
Thanks, Jim. I personally appreciate that kind of subtlety in t-shirt designs.
I really want basic fun or my arcade to make a mini donkey Kong
"It is easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle then it is to get licensing from nintendo".
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GenXGrownUp do you think they could
I learned of this due to the lost episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Excellent!
Now I have the Atari TV commercial stuck in my head. Yar's Revenge is new for Atari...Have you played Atari today?
Yars revenge is the to the Atari 2600 as Kurushi is to the PS1
Sounds about right.
Howard Scott Warshaw got a bum deal on his very next game (E.T), but this was a hit classic from the jump
Rocky, did you catch my piece about the Alamogordo E.T.? You might dig it: th-cam.com/video/eODuuB4C6nY/w-d-xo.html (pun intended)
Dam you Time Warner/Ray Kassar lol
#FACTS
@@GenXGrownUp Gen X o can't wait till i can get my 5200 Roc-umentary uploaded i finished the script now i just need to get audio recorded. I touched upon a lot of this, so many people blame the wrong people for the downfall of Atari i simply wanna set the record right . It was the suits that ruined Atari not the talent.
You used to play this game with a commodore sixty four
Yars' on the C64?
Saboteur is a spin off of Yar's Revenge
Yars' Revenge, yes.
Hey that's a cool shirt. I'm older than you!
Thanks and... congratulations? I guess? 🤣
Also featured in an episode of The Walking Dead
Lol, I accidentally got the Easter Egg last night. First time playing in years.
And if I recall correctly, you're stuck once you get the egg, right? That's a bummer to get accidentally!
@@GenXGrownUp Hah, yeah, luckily it was an early run so I wasn't warmed up yet. Didn't even think much of it till I was watching this vid.
@@GenXGrownUp Very frustrating on my last attempt to improve my high score. This was a popular game, and all three of his sold over a million copies. But I don't think I like HSW very much or his games.
just picked up this game, no clue how to play it and this didnt help with that, BUT....it was amazing nonetheless :)
Thanks, Peter. Glad you enjoyed it! As for how to play Yars'? May I suggest the manual at Atari Age? atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=603
It also had a cameo in the walking dead
Someone else shared that with me! They were playing during a conversation in some safe house, right?
@@GenXGrownUp Yeah. It was played by that guy with the mullet.
What about the game that came out in 2011? you didn't mention it or is it possible that you didn't know it exists?
The XBLA on-rails shooter? Yeah, the less said about that the better. 😊
it was made to make fun of ray kassar, which greediness was akin to insects.
Insects are greedy? At any rate, yes. I cover that in the video.
I have no idea what the appeal of this game is. Never have. It looks way, waaaaaaaay too simple.
"Looks way...too simple" suggests that you haven't played it, or perhaps you didn't experience it the context of '82-'83. The basic premise is certainly quite simple by today's standards, but for the 2600, Yars' was a leap forward in visual presentation and fast-paced arcade-style gameplay.
Ah man I just realized something, Do y’all think you’ll be at comic con here in Tallahassee depending on when this whole pandemic blows over?
Infinity Con Tallahassee is on our list of shows we enjoy attending, John. We were there last year and were all set to go this year until the apocalypse hit us. We definitely plan to be there again.
GenXGrownUp That’s awesome I just thought about the virus and the comic con, and didn’t know if they would even have it or not, thanks for the info.
Here’s one for you! When you’re about to break a million, it resets the score! I found this out! 😡
cool Lore but he Doesn't Have to be in Flight to Hit the easter egg
Not necessarily. I've seen it trigger by just sitting on the stripe and facing upward.
@@GenXGrownUp ya it can trigger anywhere on the vertical line where the Q is killed at makes me wonder what the exact trigger is in the code....
I would be more inclined to watch more of your videos if you didn't include shitty rap music.
To each his own. Technically our theme is Nerdcore.
Please tell me you're joking.
I'm not joking. Not everyone likes rap (or nerdcore whatever that is) and I don't see why anyone would think it's a good choice to accompany videos about 80s video games. Shame as I liked the video apart from that.
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback, Rob. The reality is, regardless of a style we choose there will always be someone who doesn't like it -- you can't please everyone, right? As for why it would accompany videos about the '70s & '80s (we cover much more than just video games, btw), rap was created and matured in the '70s & '80s just like children of Generation X. It's an integral part of the cultural fabric of GenX, even if you don't like it. 😀
@@robm8809 Considering Rap was born in the 80s I think it is completely appropriate. Honestly, I don't care if you appreciate it or not, but I will say that perhaps you should try creating some content yourself before you ask others to change what they've done. Beefy is a singular talent is his profession and I was very proud to hear his music on these videos. Oh, and before I forget, fuck you. :)