Dark Chambers Atari 2600 Review - The No Swear Gamer Ep 54
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Today's episode covers Dark Chambers for the Atari 2600. It is from 1988 and is based on the 1983 computer game Dandy by John Palevich, which was the direct inspiration for the classic arcade game Gauntlet. Developed by Sculptured Software, let’s play Dark Chambers and find out if it is any good or not.
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I was 5, used to love this and play it every day after school. Basically I was playing Dark Souls, as I do now.
I really enjoyed this game back in the day. Especially the 2 player co-op. This was Diablo for the 2600.
I just found the 2600 version in my Nanna and Grandad's attic. As soon as I got home I tested it on my father's Atari 2600 Jr.
@@bricktasticanimations4834 That's cool your whole family still has Atari 2600's
@@robertwilson3866 Well, just the Atari 2600 Jr. We also have two other consoles from my father's childhood. The Binatone TV Master MK 10 and the NES. Unfortunately the NES has recently stopped working properly.
@@bricktasticanimations4834 Well the Atari and Binatone are all you need really. The fact that the NES broke shows that modern technology is not all they say.
@@robertwilson3866 Even though the NES is from the late 80's? We also have a PS1 and a PS2. The PS1 has trouble with it's video out and can't display the image properly.
Just played it today with my daughter. She LOVED it!
me and my brother used to play this for hours, lol we loved it
This was probably my favourite Atari game back in the day.
Wow. Haven't seen this game in action for 35 years. Insane how far games have come.
'Solaris' was my favourite. 'Joust' was fun too.
Only ever played this on a black and white TV thirty years ago. This is the first time I've seen it in colour!
Ahh! The good ole B & W days!
I grabbed a boxed copy of this a few weeks ago even though I'd never heard of it, so I'm glad I found your review. I'm sure the 7800 version looks and plays better, but the 2600 version still looks great for a late release.
Quite an impressive game for the 2600 I must say... kind of like Secret Quest.
I had this game! My Atari 2600 had sat, collecting dust, for many years when in 1992 I found a bunch of 2600 games on sale for only a few dollars each at Big Lots. Figuring the games were only a few bucks each, I loaded up and broke out the then already outdated console.
A friend and I stayed up most of the night playing Dark Chambers. It was surprisingly challenging for a 2600 game. We never did beat it.
Well, that's interesting. Thanks for setting the story straight. I've heard, too that it is accused of being a rip off of Gauntlet (a game I love a lot). Glad to know that this game's basis actually precedes Gauntlet. I love learning new stuff! The smart bombs mechanic does sound problematic. I think I may need to find this game though, because it sounds like a cool idea to have a Dandy/Gauntlet style game on my 2600. That difficulty mode idea is pretty neat. More meaningful than just a number.
Definitely our go to Atari game, especially for the co-op!
Your channel is very good my friend, you deserve more subscribers.
Thank you for the kind words Javier!
And a price, for being very good.
agreed. I have enjoyed this channel for a couple years. good reviews and lots of memories here. I also agree he should have more subscribers.
One of my favourite game one 2600/7800 !
Co-op mode made this game. I don't really remember any other game for the 2600 that you can play co-op anywhere near this game for dungeon crawling. Definitely a good time.
At 6 min range, there are people complaining about unrealistic zombies on a system that has dragons that look like DUCKS!? IMO "Get a LIFE!"
Awesome vid, I'd heard the title but never saw such a game.
I agree with you; this is actually much more enjoyable and challenging than the 7800 version. I just ordered a copy off of Mercari.
thank you for the upload. does anybody remember a game similar to this.but the enemies were bats,death,asps, green mamba, black mamba,. the enemies became increasingly faster as game play went on. i know my description is va
ET in your top 3 atari 2600 games ? Huh ?
Just played this for the first time on the Evercade. Really enjoyed it, A-Z completed then it put me back on H. Would have been nice to have an ending but def worth playing. Smart bombs were a pain for me too. I was hammering fire button more often than not.
I wonder if it does the same on the highest difficulty. On the easy mode you start at A, on normal you start at D and hard you start at H. After playing A-Z with my young kid, it started us on the next difficulty, but keeping our items and score.
Ironically, "Dark Chambers" is more directly credited to John Palevich than "Gauntlet" was. Ed Logg cited Palevich's "Dandy" as the inspiration to "Gauntlet", whereas Palevich wrote "Dandy" as part of his undergraduate thesis at MIT; the idea was originally for a 4-player dungeon crawler in the vein of "Dungeons and Dragons" with another server to provide map data and act as the DM of sorts.
My understanding is that John Palevich still continued to be active in the years since this and "Gauntlet", having had his name credited on several patents as recently as 2011 held by Microsoft and Google among others.
2600 version is the only version I'll play. Great Review. Hope your doing well.
I picked up this game at a local game store also for 2 bucks. I look forward to trying all of them that I picked up (4 in total).
Nice price on this one! What else did you get?
+The No Swear Gamer Hat Trick 7800, Dark Chambers 2600, Baseball 7800, and Satellite 2600??? I think that's the name of it?? but with the last one mentioned I couldn't really figure out how to play it. LOL
I’ve had both the 2600 and the 7800 and I too prefer the 2600 version, the only thing I miss from the 7800 version is its open screen music but found the 2600 to be more of an Adventure game.
I’m watching this cause I’ve been playing it on the Evercade and curious what you had to say about it. I like hearing what you have to say about the games
Apparently I'm in the minority, but I found found this to be too slow and repetitive for me too enjoy. This was the last game I was able to buy new. I got this in a bargain bin at Big Lots.
Thats just how games work for people. For one person its a winner, for another its a loser. I'm a Dynasty Warriors lover and others call it one of the most repetitive games out there. I've sunk countless hours into them and love every second.
Thank u for all the run through love your channel
Yea Gauntlet has some interesting history there, whatever ripped off what, I am just so glad Gauntlet came into this world, cannot live with out Gauntlet! This game looks nice though
Great review. I've recently discovered Dark Chambers for the Atari 2600 and I actually love it. Personally, I enjoy it even better than The Legend of Zelda. I'm also a big fan of Adventure and E.T. on the 2600.
@@Getagirlfriend-y4e I played a little of all 3 games but never much got into it.
I meant to do a quick video of this game on my channel but ended up trying to finish the game.
Watched the 7800 version first thinking it was the better version when actually it's the 2600 version.
Very amusing zombie discrimination comments! And I agree, impressive graphics on the nice large characters. A fun game, I just bought this for my VCS.
I believe this game is fun and will try to get it.
It is good! 👍👍👻
So what exactly do the difficulty levels change in order to increase/decrease the challenge?
Late response, but enemies max out at higher tiers. On easy they cap at ghost, normal wizards, and hard death. You also start at later levels. A, D, and H.
@@TheDalisama More like "Great response"! Thanks!!
Graphics isn't everything, and on the atari graphics isn't anything
Although this looks great for an atari game. Wow
That cracked me up! Every Atari game should have had a disclaimer on the box that said, "Imagination is required" or "Imagination not included".
This is one of the best games I had but I always forget the name because it's so generic sounding
Sometimes you talk too much