Gotta love me some atari space shooters. Nowadays I play them on my modded Wii U or PS Classic, thanks to your channel I've gone back to the Atari, after 30 years. Thanks man.
The games with a lot of options can often come off worse in emulation unless the default option is a good one, because you don't necessarily have the manual handy to tell you what they are. One thing I did like about AtGames' Atari console compilations, for all their faults, was that they actually added onscreen capsule descriptions of the game modes. That was a really nice touch.
I once spent a sick day with my ship in the left-hand corner of the Space Jockey screen. Not the best use of my time, but watching your videos are always well worth it!
So I already heaped oodles of well-deserved praise upon you on the Intellivision Archive episode 1, so I won't repeat it here. However, at that time, I told you you'd earned a subscriber. And it's true, you have. But only just now. I didn't subscribe at the time because I've spent the intervening 10 months watching every single video, on and off. I didn't want to subscribe until I was up-to-date. Only today have I completed that task. Very glad to be subscribed in the 3,340 range! Your body of work is just fantastic, both from a documentary standpoint and from a gaming standpoint. You go out and talk to the people that were there, you play the games, you read the sources. Never in my life did I think I would have such an accurate picture of a gaming time before my own, some 25-30 years after the subjects of this video. It's just amazing. I don't know what the future holds for Atari Archive. I don't know if it'll stop at the crash, or go all the way on. I don't know if it'll just cover the 2600, or if it'll expand to cover Atari's other consoles. I don't know if it'll reach the Atari Jaguar, though I sincerely hope it does. And I don't know if it'll ever cover Atari's home computers or arcade business in the same vein as the coverage of Atari's competitors, but I hope it does. This is just a fantastic channel for pre-Nintendo gaming. I am all in on it. I would recommend it to anybody. You're doing fantastic work, please keep it up. You ought to be proud, and we ought to be thankful, and I am. Oh, and since I didn't get to say it at the time, congratulations on the baby.
Nice to see good games from third parties Apollo and US Game's although Space Jockey does look like a Defender clone as mentioned. 1982 is when Xevious became the standard of vertical shooters in the arcade. And good to see that Atari will still be putting out quality first party games with the preview of what's next for 1982.
I enjoyed playing Space Chase back in the day. Sometimes the enemy bullets were hard to see... I always wondered if this was a programming oversight, or whether it was a deliberate choice to make the game more challenging.
I'll admit: I tended to skip over a lot of the third party stuff that wasn't by the bigger names - so it's neat to see that there were third party titles from these folks which weren't cash-ins. I'm looking forward to the ride ahead for '82, it's going to be filled with those high highs, along with the low lows!
I'm curious on his take on the Video Game Crash of 1983. There's so many factors, and it's interesting to hear it didn't spread to Europe, Japan and Brazil. I wonder why? Could someone have prevented it? What if Mattel had licensed Pac-Man for Intellivision, Coleco for ColecoVision, or Magnavox fo Odyssey².
Today's $ 2023 vs. 1982 (from the ads) - Atari VCS = $430 / Skeet Shoot = $63 / Space Jockey = $56 -> $15 (with rebate) / Space Chase = $85 ... Monogramed Edition $316 !!!! / Maxell 120 Minutes Video Tape = $49 ... No wonder my parents plopped their pants everytime we asked for a new game.
hearing the word 'cromulent' embiggens my soul.
Gotta love me some atari space shooters. Nowadays I play them on my modded Wii U or PS Classic, thanks to your channel I've gone back to the Atari, after 30 years. Thanks man.
Those two Parker Brothers handhelds you mentioned - Bank Shot and Wildfire - were also made by Kitchen and his older sister!
The games with a lot of options can often come off worse in emulation unless the default option is a good one, because you don't necessarily have the manual handy to tell you what they are. One thing I did like about AtGames' Atari console compilations, for all their faults, was that they actually added onscreen capsule descriptions of the game modes. That was a really nice touch.
I once spent a sick day with my ship in the left-hand corner of the Space Jockey screen. Not the best use of my time, but watching your videos are always well worth it!
These are all amazing. I appreciate every video.
So I already heaped oodles of well-deserved praise upon you on the Intellivision Archive episode 1, so I won't repeat it here.
However, at that time, I told you you'd earned a subscriber. And it's true, you have. But only just now.
I didn't subscribe at the time because I've spent the intervening 10 months watching every single video, on and off. I didn't want to subscribe until I was up-to-date. Only today have I completed that task. Very glad to be subscribed in the 3,340 range!
Your body of work is just fantastic, both from a documentary standpoint and from a gaming standpoint. You go out and talk to the people that were there, you play the games, you read the sources.
Never in my life did I think I would have such an accurate picture of a gaming time before my own, some 25-30 years after the subjects of this video. It's just amazing.
I don't know what the future holds for Atari Archive. I don't know if it'll stop at the crash, or go all the way on. I don't know if it'll just cover the 2600, or if it'll expand to cover Atari's other consoles. I don't know if it'll reach the Atari Jaguar, though I sincerely hope it does. And I don't know if it'll ever cover Atari's home computers or arcade business in the same vein as the coverage of Atari's competitors, but I hope it does.
This is just a fantastic channel for pre-Nintendo gaming. I am all in on it. I would recommend it to anybody.
You're doing fantastic work, please keep it up. You ought to be proud, and we ought to be thankful, and I am.
Oh, and since I didn't get to say it at the time, congratulations on the baby.
Nice to see good games from third parties Apollo and US Game's although Space Jockey does look like a Defender clone as mentioned. 1982 is when Xevious became the standard of vertical shooters in the arcade. And good to see that Atari will still be putting out quality first party games with the preview of what's next for 1982.
just bumping your algorithm, great series!
Great work as always! Up next: One of my favorites... can't wait to see how much I don't know about it :D
This is one I bought based on the box photo. Mind blowing at the time.
Here is my engagement: GREAT VIDEO!
Thank you again 👏👏👏👋👌
As always... magnificent work, Mr. Bunch!
Heck yeah! Time for shoot-them-ups!
I enjoyed playing Space Chase back in the day. Sometimes the enemy bullets were hard to see...
I always wondered if this was a programming oversight, or whether it was a deliberate choice to make the game more challenging.
Haunted House is next, YES!
Circus Convoys art style makes more sense now.
I enjoyed Space Jockey. I did play it a lot.
I'll admit: I tended to skip over a lot of the third party stuff that wasn't by the bigger names - so it's neat to see that there were third party titles from these folks which weren't cash-ins. I'm looking forward to the ride ahead for '82, it's going to be filled with those high highs, along with the low lows!
I'm curious on his take on the Video Game Crash of 1983. There's so many factors, and it's interesting to hear it didn't spread to Europe, Japan and Brazil. I wonder why?
Could someone have prevented it? What if Mattel had licensed Pac-Man for Intellivision, Coleco for ColecoVision, or Magnavox fo Odyssey².
Today's $ 2023 vs. 1982 (from the ads) - Atari VCS = $430 / Skeet Shoot = $63 / Space Jockey = $56 -> $15 (with rebate) / Space Chase = $85 ... Monogramed Edition $316 !!!! / Maxell 120 Minutes Video Tape = $49 ... No wonder my parents plopped their pants everytime we asked for a new game.
Haunted House...I never got to play that one, really. It seemed like Adventure, but nobody liked it. Oh well.
At the time I liked it about the same as Adventure, and even remade both of them on the Commodore 64!