How Atari 2600 Games Evolved Into Masterpieces!!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- A lot of early Atari 2600 VCS games were very primitive. But as memory prices came down and programmers got more experienced with the system they were able to make many improved versions of these games. Let's check out some games that just got better over time!
Games Featured:
Adventure, Air Raiders / Bogey Blaster, Basketball, Bowling, Breakout, Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Centipede, Commando, Condor Attack / Vulture Attack, Dark Cavern, Defender, Defender II / Stargate, Demon Attack, Desert Falcon, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Double Dunk, Enduro, F-14 Tomcat Flight Simulator, Fatal Run, Flash Gordon, Football, Frontline, Golf, Haunted House, Home Run, Ikari Warriors, Indy 500, International Soccer, Jr. Pac-Man, Laser Gates, Mario Bros., Midnight Magic, Millipede, Miniature Golf, Montezuma's Revenge, Moonsweeper, Ms. Pac-Man, My Golf (PAL), Night Driver, Off the Wall, Pac-Man, Peles Soccer, Pete Rose Baseball, Phoenix, Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, Pitfall!, Pleiades (Proto), Pole Position, Radar Lock, Realsports Baseball, Realsports Basketball (Proto), Realsports Football, Realsports Soccer, Realsports Tennis, Solaris, Spider Fighter, Spitfire Attack, Sprint Master, Star Raiders, Star Ship, Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator, Stellar Track, Strike Zone Bowling, Super Baseball, Super Breakout, Super Challenge Baseball, Super Challenge Football, Super Football, Tennis, Vanguard, Video Olympics, Video Pinball, Zaxxon
Work Log:
Deciding on Games: 45 min
Capturing Game Footage: 2 Hours 20 minutes
Writing the script: 15 Minutes (Winged the rest)
Recording Voice Over: 2 Hours
Recording B-Roll: 40 Minutes
Video Editing: 8 Hours
Rewatch at 2x: 18 Minutes
Creating Thumbnail: 30 Minutes
Upload Video and Prep: 20 Minutes
Total: 14 Hours and 38 Minutes
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Great video. Super Cobra is the best game in the Vanguard section. And you could have added Empire Strikes Back into the Defender section, although Stargate is the clear winner there.
Yeah a lot of games I could have shown.
Quite nice video, I’ve spent a good part of my early childhood playing some of these games
I'm still playing them!
This video is right on time. I’m about to embark on an Atari collecting adventure and this is quite a handy reference. Nice work!
Oh good! There's a LOT of great games to collect!
Solaris is one of the few late 2600 games that could hang with the NES. Very cool what they managed to do with close to 10 year old tech in an era where console tech was evolving pretty rapidly
Yeah, it's incredible!
Atari was my only way of playing arcade games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, and Mario Bros. for the longest time because the NES versions either were always sold out or only available in Japan.
@richfutrell753 music aside, I'd actually argue the 7800 version of Mario Bros is better than the NES. The NES version feels really slippery
@@MCastleberry1980I can't go that far...maybe it's because I played the Atari 2600 and NES versions so much, but I do have the 7800 and a NES style controller, and something feels off to me in that version.
It does have the best graphics of any other 8-bit version (except NES) by far, I will admit.
And the game play is *very* close...just not quite 100%.
So glad to see another video - I really appreciate your content, Greg! Algorithm took me here a few months ago and Im all caught up on your channel
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
Awesome vid. I love seeing how Atari has progressed through the years. And how sometimes the basics were best.
They're really a product of their era.
Also, there's two versions of Real Sports Soccer. If you get the version with intro music playing, you can run off one side of the screen and end up on the other. In turn, you become your own goalie that way. If you get the version with no intro music, you can't use the wrap around trick.
Some of the later Atari games were really pushing the limits of the system. I still like a lot of Atari games to this day.
The graphics and sounds are a bit rough but the gameplay is timeless.
It's pretty crazy how far these games came in 14 years!
Dziękuję za ten materiał, szykuję sie wlasnie do drugiego podejscia z materialem o Atari 2600 i tutaj jest kopalnia swietnych tytułów o ktorych zapomniałem / nie wiedziałem. Będę chwalił ten materiał po wszystkich odpustach 😊
Gyro was an fantastic, and addictive game. Intense music and gameplay.
Pretty simple in its concept, but that is also what makes it so good.
There was another space shooter where you are a blue space craft, flying from the bottom of the screen, and scrolls upwards, so to say.
When I writing this, I havent seen the entire clip yet, so you may talk about that game. But it was also a really improvement, and really showed what the A2600 could do when treated right.
Ikari Warriors on the 2600 actually has an ending. Not much of one, but it does.
Great video! Makes me want to pull out my Atari and try out some games I missed. Star Ship is a port of an arcade game Starship 1 which was one of the first arcade games I played was really fun at the time. The 2600 version didn't really do it justice, and I would say it was on the lower end of the launch titles. Actually, I don't think even MAME does the arcade game justice because there's some issues with the emulation. I know there's going to be a lot of "you missed this or that game" but how can you miss Activision's Star Master in the Star Raiders group? It was smoother than Star Raiders for 2600 and easier to navigate without needing the keypad.
Given the popularity of Pacman, I'm very surprised that Atari didn't make an exception for the black background. I mean who's to say it doesn't take place in space anyway?
Atari thought they could do no wrong back then.
That isn’t true as far as I have heard. It was Todd Fry’s decision, as he just liked that color pallet more.
25:01 If I can recall, this is just a rumor as Todd Fry himself said he just preferred those colors. Another thing is after the first big launch of pac-man the thing kept selling well. It is not like people were telling others about how bad it is. They were telling them how good it is. You forgot dodge’em for the collectible maze games.
plural of cactus is cacti
So lair riss
Plee eh deez
Ee car ree - 怒り - Ikari is Japanese for "anger" so the game is "Angry Warriors."
What are we doing with our lives??
Enjoying it while we can!
words ending w US are I ie cacti. sarcophagi , pegasi except octopus mat be greek not Latin
My ears are bleading 🙉
Maybe try listening to something besides techno?🤷♂
@@GregsGameRoom 😂
I love 8bit sound, but that was horrible for me. I used earphones and had that directly on my ears. They improved the graphics, but not the sound. Only a few games had something like a melody