Atari 2600 Longplay [002] Pac-Man
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Port of the Arcade game to the Atari 2600. Known as the worst port ever created and also as one of the best selling games on the Atari 2600!.
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9:21
This sounds like the main Mario theme
I can't beleave you stay on the video for that long.
LOL, so funny! :)
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Kirbysaas Paul Ikr
You are so right.
All I remember about this game is when my mom purchased it for my birthday at 8 years old , and within 10 seconds of playing I started crying and said this isn't PAC Man....
Alvin Cooper ... lol, yeah it really wasn't... pacman looks like a yellow frog head and he doesn't even turn his head up when he moves up
I'm sorry you had such a traumatic experience.
Alvin Cooper Feel Bad! 😭
Alvin Cooper lol it was very genetic compared to the arcade version. I thought this was the only version until I played it at a actual arcade. The ghosts were super fast. Lol
@Sword Yeaaaah of course, today's games with vibrant 3D graphics and huge worlds are worse than a shitty Pac-Man port with the most primitive graphics ever…
My experience with this game was the opposite of many people. I played this version before I knew that there was an arcade version. So, I enjoyed it. I remember I used to play this game for hours trying to get to the end of it.
Same, only it was my friend's Atari 2600 and game.
The game looks ok... but definitely needs some time to think about what it's done.
Always like how the "Aw geez guys it's not so bad" comments always make it to the top
I like this version.
I played this a lot even though I played it in the arcade first. There are two home brew versions of this and the thing that really gets me is one of them is a 4kb version, which is the same size this ROM was and the new 4k version is UNBELIEVABLE. It doesn't have intermissions like the other home brew version does but it's so much closer to the arcade version than this one was and, like I said, it was the same size. Why did Atari have to rush this version out? Imagine how impressed we would have been back then with the homebrew 4k version! I would have played it non-stop and probably gotten grounded from it but who cares! lol
“Mom, can I go play Pac-Man at the arcade?”
“You have Pac-Man at home on the Atari, don’t you?”
Pac-Man at home:
I’m way too young to understand this😭 but damn they don’t make em like they used to
I feel like this actually happened
Yeah…. We don’t have Pac-Man at home. We have this
This game is basically the embodiment that meme
Pac-Man 2600 is truly the original real-life version of the “we have it at home” meme.
Wow, this takes me back.. There's actually a specific route you can take on this game and never get hit no matter how fast the ghosts get. If you follow that path you can play it forever. One day me and my brother spent about 8 hours playing it non stop and racked up a rediculous score.. Good times!
What level (or screen) in which the Ghosts reach their fastest speed in this video game???
Yes, back in 1983 my Mother and I would flip the score back to 0, great times indeed
This game is actually a prototype. But for some reason, Atari decided to release this game, even though it was still in its prototype stage. Many Pac-Man fans were not pleased with this game.
They released it early because they couldn't wait for the holiday season
I always thought it was released by accident
They rushed the game for the holidays... And it backfired like there was no tomorrow.
+Minecraftdude456 I saw in a documentary about Atari, that this game had to fit on the smallest ROM-Chips available (4KB), plus the Atari 2600 had only 128 Byte RAM and no extra Video Chip. Everything has to be managed by CPU
+MCD456 Kinda like what happened with Sonic 2006!
I remember playing this in 1984 on our 2600. I thought this was the coolest game. A few years ago I looked it up on TH-cam and was shocked to see what it looked like as an older adult.
Geez well you're quite old
Similar things for me: the guinea pig scene in V the miniseries. That terrified me so much I was afraid of the dark for about 4 months. I had no clue how astonishingly cheesy and phony it looked. Also Batman Returns (the movie). I thought it was great, and I thought I would still like it, then I noticed that all Batman and Catwoman did when they were on screen together is make an endless string of absurdly stupid cat and bat puns. Oh and The Great Outdoors. When I was 10, the subtitles of the raccoon conversations were the ultimate height of hilarity. Fast forward a few decades, I realized that the only thing I cared about was the fact that raccoons were saying the word "shit". Easily amused was an understatement. Turns out the entire movie was an abomination of campy cheesy corniness.
@@Georgevolution009geez well you're kind of fat.
"Yo this is the best game ever"
*Total silence, except for the eating sounds*
Unironically my favourite version of the game. The minimalist graphics and flicking makes the game feel ancient.
Brings back great memories of playing this with my Dad and Brothers. It's what we had and it will always have a special place in my memories.
Thank you for this no annoying music just the game brings back memories
I will never forgot when I was a kid waiting for this game. When I got it, the wtf moment still haunts me to this day
Me: mom, can I get pac man?
Mom: no we already have pac man at home
Pac man at home:
funny thing is that could have actually happened
I died laughing when I read this comment
Lol.
@@ruler_of_everything It DID happen... except it was more like "Mom, can I have a quarter to play PacMan, and she said "what's wrong with the one we have at home..."
This is probably the most realistic use of this meme I've ever seen.
0:56 "We need a sprite for a cherry"
"Okay, I get what you mean ;)"
What?
I mean, it looks like a pit of a cherry.
Looked more lika chocolate bar
Golden ingot.
according to the manual they're vitamins
Even if this version of Pac-Man wasn't great, the sound effects are classic and iconic at least.
It was used in some cartoons like Pink Panther and Pals.
The *BOOP* when you eat the square that pops up always cracks me up. Even though at 8 years old I thought this game totally sucked, I still played the sh** out of it.
EXACTLY! This game was So bad, it was great!
Bruh this game was everything back in 1980. My dad found his old Atari and he STILL LOVES IT, and so do I, and my sister. Mom doesn't care. Because she sucks.
in the manual they called it a "vitamin". imagine popping a multivitamin in your mouth and it goes BOOP
Calling this abomination Pac-Man was like calling a 1983 Station Wagon a Lamborghini
Can't even process two ghosts at once.
Because this was the hardest level and he probably has it on Level A where the pills don''t last as long.
This video isn't 60 FPS, that's why you don't see the whole game.
It can on the actual system, the frame rate is just too low here
I mean uh it can't
You just can normally see 4 flickering ghosts at 60fps
I loved this game as a kid. Still do.
And this was the beginning of the end for atari.
I don’t know about that. The 5200 console cake out in the early ‘80s and it was a vast improvement.
Well you gotta keep in mind of a few things: One this port was programmed by one guy and he only had six months to complete it. Two this was made exclusively for the Atari 2600, a console that was known for having primitive and choppy graphics that today aren’t visually pleasing and to expect the Atari 2600 to look and sound like the Arcade original is naive. And the fact that Ted Frye programmed an entire port in just six months is (regardless of its overall quality) is a feat in its own right.
ET
@@mamusino ET wasn’t the only reason the Crash of 1983 occurred it was also because of companies like Mattel and Commodore tried to put out console like the Intelivision and Amiga CD 32. The market was so overflown with consoles trying to capitalize the success Atari had with the 2600. ET was only a small part of the Crash as games like Pac-Man Atari and the Swordquest games failed and ended up backfiring in Atari’s favor. So while ET wasn’t the only reason why the Industry crashed it’s hard too say it wasn’t a major contributing factor that pushed it over the edge
@@TheSuperSmashBros01 I'm not saying that ET was the one that caused the downfall of Atari. That was a combination of factors as you well mention it. I'm just saying the best known of all video game failures in the Atari era, due to all the hype and high expectations.
I can remember being so disappointed when I started playing this game !
Fun fact: there are actually 4 ghosts, but you can't see them in the video, only on the Atari 2600 itself
How the 2600 generated or had drawn the screen is the cause. I want to say the Stella emulator has a setting to mitigate the issue, but I've been playing on my 7800 with s-video mod, and I like the flickering. Makes the ghosts look better in an odd sort of way
This is why I remember emulating this and dying in thin air
played this for hours non stop on a new years eve in the eighties
In the late 80ies I did a 3 hour longplay. I earned about 360000 points and the attempt to take a picture failed!
I remember those days! Did you use 110 film?
I played this game in arcade machines here in mexico city, when I was a child, and I loved it, it was one of the first games I ever played.
This takes me back to my childhood. Christmas break 1982
This game is somewhat playable, putting it leagues above E.T.
yeah? still the worst pacman game ever. surely worse than kc munchkin and lock n chase which are pacman inspired games
ET had to b in the top 5 worst atari games category
ET is playable and beatable if people would have only RTFM
et wasnt all that bad.... if you had it as a kid, you made the best of it... it was fine..
this is getting to be such a tired statement, that ET game was fully functional. back then, needing a manual to explain the correct way to play a game was a turn off for most "Gamers" of the times'', if it wasn't instantly recognized how to do something immediately, ppl gave up. the et game got the reputation of being "bad" in the 80s because most people simply didn't understand the objective and the game was a failure. im 29 years old, and i notice this STILL with some of the people that grew up with console games in the 80s. anyone i know younger than me its fine, but there seems to be a healthy spot right around age 36, where they will see me playing a 3d game and still un-ironically ask "how do you know where to go?"
8:16 why...
because the ghost is invisible
or maybe its a glitch
+Nate Bait i realized that the ghost arent invisible its a glitch
WooSung Choi
The strange case of the occasional glitch
There is a frame for every single ghost. TH-cam/Emulation makes it look like there's 2 ghosts, but when played on an actual television, the ghosts can be seen better.
The Gaming Historian: “This is Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. It was a disaster. The game barely resembled the original, and consumers were upset.”
I don't understand this outrage. The only big difference between the original and this game is that the ghosts flicker because of the Atari 2600's limitations but it doesn't look that horrible to me. And you see only tow ghosts in this video but there are actually 4. The problem with this video is that the framreate is insufficient.
The problem with this game is more in the marketing and... The deception in it. At the time, people where really thinking it was gonna be incredible! Arcade in OUR house! But here... It was a good solding :7 000 000 games got by people's... But they've created 12 000 000 of them, out of the 7 000 000, on USA at the time you can been refunded by giving back the game so a few millions got back and it make the peoples so scared about games that it was the cause (with the game E.T and the economy of the year) the video game krach of 1983.
I loved it. As a child.
The reason was because Atari rushed the game out and released the prototype of the game
I definitely understand how they felt. All because the game was badly rushed.
I never minded this version. Yeah it wasn't as good as the arcade, but it was also a bit different. And even at 8 years old, I appreciated that it was an impressive bit of programming, and was happy to have a version of pacman to play at home whenever I wanted. Back in tha day you can't imagine how cool that was.
Freshbrood it was shit because Arcade cabinets were already made for home
Note: There are more then 2 ghosts, but due to the low frame rate, they're invisible in the video.
I remember playing this at my cousin’s back in the day being disappointed that it didn’t look like the arcade game
I loved this game as a kid. So many fond memories playing with friends. Pacman, Ms. Pacman, Jr. Pacman on 2600.
I was overjoyed to get this for Christmas. I loved it. I don't recall if I had seen the arcade, but Pacman-mania was big at the time and just the basic gameplay enthralled. I always knew the home ports of games wouldn't be as detailed... but the rushed time frame and smaller ROM size did hamper its reception for many, to the point you would see boxes with labels reading "no refund if opened".
Me: I want to play Pacman at the arcade.
Mom: we have pacman at home.
Pacman at home:
Modern games have these amazing graphics and epic campaigns. To me, this is the greatest story ever told.
Dude, you're comparing an Atari 2600 port of a 42-year old game to less than a year old games
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@@CelestinaakaClonaClox9999 Which is a terrible port by the way.
The joke →
You
Thx youtube for halving the fps and hiding the other two ghosts ;)
AmigaOmega The game would be better with two ghosts.
TH-cam used to down-convert to 30fps, but has since kept videos uploaded at 60fps at 60fps. Perhaps this was never uploaded at 60fps.
ghosts are supposed to be invisible anyways.
Nope that’s just the game
@@UltraZombie115 it's not. In my 2600 all 4 ghosts show up
this game isnt as bad as people say it is, its still fun to play
Thank you. Thank you. It could’ve been better but it’s still Pac Man at the end of the day. I do think it’d be better if the the maze were less grid-like, even if it’s not gonna be the same maze as in the arcade version. But it’s a solid port and it’s not like Pac Man is or ever was a visual masterpiece even if it was technically impressive for the time.
I feel like it's similar to ET. Divorce it from its history, and it's not... that bad
I have a certain nostalgic fondness for this version as my best friend had an Atari 2600 _and_ this was the only game he ever owned.
We played for hours on it almost 40 years ago and it seemed cool to me, I'd never seen the arcade original though.
To a degree. There are worse games than it out there. This is still playable.
@@amk8411 You should. See the big difference between this and the arcade.
I'd never played Pac Man in the arcade because all the big kids hogged it. When this came out, I actually liked it. We knew that Atari ports were always inferior to the arcade versions. That's just how it was. This was still playable, and it was the only Pac Man I had, until I got the vastly superior Ms Pac Man.
People who say this is one of the worst games ever are probably new into the world of old video games, there were far worse games.
Well, it was definetly overhyped, that's all i can say.
Nobody complained? I'm not so sure, and i can track back how big the disapointment was at the time.
True but this game was probably the first well known instance of Hype Backlash.
They were the worst games at the time though.
Arguably, Custer's Revenge was considered even worse than this and it was an X-rated game.
Got this when it originally came out. It absolutely sucked balls and went straight to the bottom of the cartridge pile.
The Pellets Kinda Sound Like Banging Machinery
It was a terrible implementation of the game, but we played it ... and the nostalgia is exquisite. Seeing this video takes me back to a sleepover at my friend's house as a pre-teen, playing it on their 19 inch television. Ah the memories!
It sounds like a 50 Hz beeping sound when pac-man eats the pellets.
Wow ha!! I still remember playing this. It didn't even have floating fruit, it had a vitamin or something. How could they do this to a legendary game like pac-man.
The ghost’s literally look like microchip’s
i had the Odyssey 2 along with KC Munchkin and KC's Crazy Chase - i was the rock star of the neighborhood.
K.C. Munchkin was a lot better than the Atari 2600's Pac-Man.
I remember playing this on a real Atari once as a kid. One of the two games (other being ET) responsible for the '83 crash. Although this is a horrible port compared to the arcade, I still find it somewhat playable. I've seen worse than that. The artwork of the game is funny; instead of dot, it looked like Pac Man was eating POP TARTS (looked like that in the game as well). The thing I hate though is because the game was so rushed, the layout is screwed and it can't register 4 ghosts on screen, making it hard to survive. Ms Pac Man fixed all this. I do have an idea of having myself in a maze and had the Eeveelutions chase me within...
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I love this. Brings me back to my elementary school days playing it at home with my brother 😊😊
Ms. Pac Man is a way better game but this version is still fun, mainly for the sound effects.
Fuckin' good old days 🫡
9:20 He plays the super mario bros theme
In 1982 this game cost the equivalent of over $90 in 2022 money.
It's the only game I ever had as it came with the Atari 2600, money was tight back then and the Atari cartridges were very expensive.
i remember getting this game and being totally mystified as to how it could be this bad. Then there’s that weird glitch where you enter the bottom exit and pop out the top and then slide all the way down through the maze lol . remember that
Thank you for preserving this important piece of gaming history...that no one really wants preserved. D:
Here's some history: Atari got very greedy back in the 80s and this game was supposed to take 6 months to make. Atari said they wanted it out in time for the holidays so it had to be made in a few weeks. They were so confident it would sell well that they printed about 10 million copies of it. To hide the embarrassment they dumped the games that weren't sold in a New Mexico landfill.
After this plus the failure of the game E.T, neither customers nor retailers trusted the video game industry. That is until Nintendo released the FamiCom in Japan in 1983 and as the NES in N.A in 1985, and marketed it as a toy. We may not have video games today if they hadn't done so.
Are you secretly The Gaming Historian? Because you are really smart
@@1ksubsbutwithnovideoschall278 lol no, Ig just have a lot of free time
A lot of false and ignorant claims.
Finally the sound I was waiting for- 10:27, like an analog bell
You also hear that from the movie Santa clause the movie and other atari game.
@@Perich29 Ahh memories
The Refresh rate only allowed one ghost to be shown at a time. That's why they flickered so bad. This video's frame rate makes it so you can only see two of the ghosts. That's why PAC-Man seems to die out of nowhere.
I never had an Atari 2600, but I know my friend down the street did, and we played this game for about 5 minutes before I put the controller down and wanted to do something else. I think the only game I liked on the 2600 was Pitfall. Wow, what a game.
This isn't as bad as people says it is
Despite it's nothing like the real arcade game, it was a great game for the Atari 2600 vcs for it's time!
But nowadays this version is just, ya know, it's... Eh. I mean I guess it's okay... There is definitely much better games on the Atari 2600 like space invaders, missle command, asteroids, and warlords for example.
Oh that annoying sound! Brings back the memories of being so frustrated and disappointed with this version!
This game was the biggest letdown of my life. They couldn’t even be bothered to try to reproduce the actual board pattern. Other than E.T., this was the biggest bed-crapping effort of all time.
E.T. is average imo. This one really is awful tho.
It stands as the best-selling Atari 2600 game of all time, selling over 8 million copies, and was the all-time best-selling video game up until then.
Sure it was. The anticipation of its release was huge. I bought it as soon as it came out. That doesn’t change the fact that it was positively awful.
@@baccaruda1970 awful to you and you are entitled to your opinion of course, but this game is not awful to everyone, I know people that like this version.
Most ppl hated it though and it's one of the reasons why the video game industry crashed in '83. The industry was later saved by Nintendo.
Thankfully I stuck to gaming, but this game surely nearly killed my passion for games at a very young age. This was not even close to the arcade version at all, thanks to it being rushed out the door before it was ever really completed. Thankfully I had other Atari 2600 games to tide me over, and sometimes I'd borrow a game from my uncle, like Megamania, Spider Fighter, or Pitfall.
The strobing effects on the ghosts hurt my eyes
This was THE game for at least a couple years on the Atari back in the day. We didn't have arcades all over the place like some people here apparently and of course you had to put on pants to go TO the arcade anyway. This game....so many hours.
If the flicker was more under control,and had the programmer given it a black background it would've been better received.Not to mention the sound effects needed to be tweaked.
it was a prototype after all...
@@bleack8701 tod frye debunked that, it wasn't a prototype
My thumbs up to you. I’m 54 now just looking back on the things I loved
Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka? WAKA?! Were at Atari 2600! 😲
I Feel bad for the poor kids who put this game on their wish list back in the day.
2600 Pacman was OK - but the developer needed some more time.
davy K like every other Atari game
He only got like 2-3 weeks to complete it,21 days,which is not okay
This actually wasn't the final game, they just released the beta because they wanted it to be available for Christmas.
Exactly. Same with ET.
Its a 1977 console now fuck off
"Differs slightly from the original" that perhaps was an understatement.
Ah, one of the games that bankrupt Atari and I was part of it. Begged for this game for Christmas. Played it for a few days and took it back to the store.
*The beauty of Atari 2600 games were their user-friendliness, just pick and play.*
*And damn did I have fun with it!*
did pacman committed suicide at 17:23 ? I remember playing this on the Atari. I should be about 6 or 7 at the time.
I miss this game
The Atari Video Computer System was one of the greatest video game console that was ever made, but the Atari version of Pacman was just horrible. The original 1980 arcade version of Pacman was a success, but not for the Atari. This is one of the reasons of the Video Game Crash Of 1983
Yeah, this is like the road company version of it. Still, it was fun to play. Especially if you didn't want to go to an arcade and spend quarters on the game.
The video game crash was not caused by 1 game. It was caused because the market became flooded.
1984. Not 1983.
@STARMAN pacman 8k has the cut scenes
Haven't seen or heard this since the mid 80's, the sound brings me right back 😎
I always loved to play this game!!! I like the sound... I don't know why!!
Gotta love pac man eating the pills from the top of his head. Enjoyed it at the time but recognized how bad it was compared to the arcade version at the time. Lol
This really doesn't look as bad as its reputation belies. The sounds effects are ass though, so that probably accounted for a lot of its reputation lol
0:08 THAT SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH
Same it sounds like a UFO 🛸
Kind of amazing how they could even port this at all....
But just because you can, doesn't mean you should....
1:23 It says "Bockwurst!"
My oldest brother, since deceased, used to say “Buck, Ward.”
Note. The game can be sped up if you hit the game select switch to 2. Theres about 9 or so options. You can also dumb down the ghosts if you want less of a challenge.
This is actually a very good game. Arcade will be better, as you have to take into consideration the limitations of the Atari 2600 when compared to an arcade machine.
True, but this still was a "layup" in terms of what Atari could have developed at the time. Their timing just happened to be perfect.
They should’ve called it something else. In no way does it resemble the original Pac Man. Even the NES port looks and sounds the same in 8 bit.
Atari: "there is NOTHING wrong with this port!"
kids that bought it:
bah-dae-dah-dee! bonk. bonk. bonk. bonk-bonk-bonk. bonk. bonk. bonk. boooooooop. bonk. bonk. bonk. bonk. bonk-bonk-bonk......... I just enjoy that sound whenever Pac-Man eats a dot (lol)..... oooops, I meant when he eats a dash, and also the booooooooop sound he makes when he eats either a power pill or a bonus pill where the fruit should be at.
3:06 is there an invisible ghost? Don't recall that from playing this game...
The Atari is only capable of rendering two sprites at once, so as a work around for that it always renders pac-man and then renders one of the ghosts per frame. Because of the frame rate of the video you can’t see all of the ghosts. The Atari is utterly reliant on the technology of the time; the ghosts would linger on the display of an old tv long enough that you’d be able to see all of them all the time
Pac-Man Dying In Mid Air
TH-cam's frame rate isn't high enough to show all four ghosts at once. They're flickering a little too quickly (which makes them look translucent on old TVs) for that.
It was crap. But,if I remember right,it was rushed for the holiday season and the programmer only had a few weeks to do it.
9:21 WE’VE BEEN MARIO’D
This is my fav Atari game :)
No 2 on my list
Everytime he eats the pellets in quick succession I feel like I'm having a stroke.
In 1980 I was 15 years old.
This game was a huge exciting anticipated game. The news media covered it on all three channels. Yes only 3 channels on your UHF broadcast band with TV. I believe the price was a whopping $19.00. Today's standards. RE3 would have been $90.00. Ah. Memories 💜🤣!
Wow thanks for sharing lol
No wonder people were so mad about it. $19.00 for what is pretty much a lackluster prototype port (and yeah it was rush released in its prototype stage) of Pac-Man.
With that aside, I have nostalgia with this version as I used to have an Atari 2600 that came with this game.
This port of Pac Man was Hollywood's go-to source for generic video game sound effects. To this day I still hear those sounds in almost every movie and TV show that has a scene with somebody playing a video game, even when the game is a modern FPS.
along with donkey Kong 2600
OMG, this mind numbing sound brings back horrifying memories from my childhood!
The beginning of the American Video Game Crash.
It and ET.
Pac-Man Jr. was the most crazy game for Atari 2600...
10:28 He dies and no ghost touches him.
It's because there are 4 ghosts, but you can't see them in the video
No,it's because the Atari 2600 can't process more than 2 ghosts
I think Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 is one of the misunderstood video game comparison
No lie, I was on the waiting list for this damn game in 1980. I had been playing it in arcades for a while...even got a book that taught me the routes to take to get to like the 4th or 7th key, can't remember. There was no internet, no gaming magazines to give you a preview. When my mom took me down to whatever store we ordered it from, I was ready to piss my pants. Got home, plugged in the cartridge, and now, as I near 50 years old in a week, all I can say is it was literally a boner killer. Never have I been more disappointed in a game, not even E.T. - which I had a lot of fun with btw. But this game, the colors, the sounds, the entire thing was NOT Pac Man. Looking back, I imagine my mom was thinking, "well shit, you've been bitching about this for a year, and we spent however much $ on it, and you aren't happy." RIP mom, and damn, I hope to never hear these sounds again.
My, aren't you a cartoon.
17:24 what pac man is dead without a ghost touching him
I agree. When I played this that would piss me off so much.