The Atari 7800 Project - All 58 Games - Every Game (US/EU)
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**This video shows only the games licensed by Atari**
Random dev: "Hey, let's make a new console 10% stronger!"
Atari: "GENIUS!"
Also let's use a sound design from the previous decade!
Atari 7800 used the exact same sound chip as the 2600. Part of why the sound is so poor, especially compared to its third generation rivals, the NES and Master System.
Master System used the exact same sound chip as the SG-1000 too.
@@MangizTheBrachyrhynchos Which I think used the same chip, or at least a very similar chip, to the colecovision.
And the devs wanted to use cartridges that housed on-board POKEY chips due to not being able to integrate it onto the system
Only Commando and BallBlazer took advantage of that feat
@@MangizTheBrachyrhynchos that's true, but that was still way more advanced than the 2600 chip
It was like releasing an iPhone with the Game Boy audio chip... looks and functions good... but the sound is a few generations behind!
8:23 when your car's alarm is turning on
good video thanks!
No wonder why the 7800 was a failure. Most of these games were outdated by 1987-1990 standards, in terms of gameplay but also in terms of sound. Most of these games have really bad music, or no music at all!
Not really outdated games, but the NES and Sega Master System (not to mention NEC PC Engine/TurboGrafx and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive) offered better looking and sounding games, as well as more attractive exclusives.
The system launch was delayed by two years; it released in '86 instead of '84. Even then... I'm not sure if the 7800 would have ever been successful. Atari was never able to innovate after the 70s.
@@joeboo8626 never able to innovate? ever heard of the 5200?
@@SupremeNerd The 5200 was a poorly designed failure. Not a good example of innovation. Atari had no answer for Nintendo. No plan, hardware, or interesting IPs/software to compete with.
I have seen that Atari is now also active in other areas. Has anyone ever read or found out anything about it?
I'm starting to see why Atari failed. This kind of console might have been okay in the early 1980s, but it wasn't going to fly in the late 1980s. This looks only marginally better than the 2600. It's hard to believe this launched the same year as the Master System... it makes the NES seem really good by comparison. What's even sadder is... Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. appear to be the best games on the console! I guess Nintendo didn't feel threatened enough to sabotage the Atari 7800 port to make the NES look good?
Problem was Atari kept putting out the same games on every system they launched. Ms. Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Centipede, Dig Dug. There was nothing original for the system when it 1st launched. Later on games like Midnight Mutants, Ninja Golf, Scrapyard Dog came out but they weren't system sellers and it was too late by then.
Same thing what todays games are doing but nobody complaining about that
@@damin9913 Many are in regards to PS5 with PS4 re-masters, but their are many more games released than back in Atari's day, still the 5200 had a bit better graphics and sound, whereas the 7800 had better graphics but same sound chip as 2800.
@@Videomaster89 Atari should have stayed in the game they was getting better
I like the covers.
Best aspect of the system😅
I can't believe. This Commando version it's better than the NES port counterpart !!!!!
It's obvious a lot of you aren't familiar with the 2600 if you think these graphics are only slightly better. Compare 2600 donkey Kong to the 7800. Or 2600 double dragon to this consoles. It was a large step up and a beast at displaying sprites. Truth is most of these games were either titles prepared for the original 1984 launch or games that were rushed out the door by an uncaring management team. Proof of what the 7800 was capable of can be seen in games like Rikki and Vikki, Knight Guy and many other homebrews that have been developed in recent years. Not to mention what the demo scene has done. Not saying that it's NES quality but it's better than people give it credit for.
Nes graphics and Atari Sound = Failure
C64 graphics
I am old enough to remember DOS games on the old Win 3.x PCs, where you'd type in the info to load the game. A lot of these look like those kinds of games. They could be fun, but not worth a major investment...
This is ridiculous. I never got tempted from the 2600 to this , and went to the ColecoVision .
ninja golf is the craziest thing I have ever seen. amazing.
I only had Pole position 2, karateka and Xevious when I had my 7800. Played the crap out of Xevious.
Kareteka had good graphics but literally Apple II sound effects
Ballblazer imo is the best game on the 7800, the gameplay is so fluid and the music is a banger
Atari vcs all game please
Failure but not bad at all
The famicon came out in 86, most of these games were after that. This console was crap and so are most of its games. The sound chip was horrendous
@@muffinmonk Lol, Famicom was realeased even earlier. It was 1983.
Other than the fact there were so many terrible Atari games rushed out, with what seems like zero quality control, the sound was the major downfall (Of course remaking 50 different versions of already released 2600 games). They needed a new sound chip in the worst of ways. Sure, some games might have competed a bit in the graphics department at the time, the sound was straight out of the 2600. Had the sound evolved with the graphics for the 7800, its demise could have been pushed back a little.
the 7800 looks like a lower res NES with shitty sound
Maybe its version of Joust was better than the NES, but that's about it. Only other thing it had going for it, over he NES, was it could run Atari 2600 games. Since the 7800's game library was heavily about the old arcade classics, it's bad that the NES out did it even on those (Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Xevious, Commando, etc etc)
@@IrishCarney you are out of you mind
@@dodgeramsport01 My pointing out the visually obvious - - that the NES versions of various arcade classics look better than the Atari 7800 versions - - makes me insane? What 7800 arcade title, other than Joust, looks better than the NES version?
@@IrishCarney Well just to name a few, Xevious, Ikari warriors, Xenophobe (head and shoulders above the NES version) Commando ( NES was a lazy bad port with tons of flicker and Tetris looking blocks on screen!)Ms. Pac-man faster on 7800 sound as arcade plays smoother maps are accurate, color(s) is accurate, (on NES the first stage is green not pink sound is awful not on par with all other ports and arcades) operation wolf (called Alien Brigade on 7800) looks better on 7800! Choplifter! NES version looks washed out and to pale! Now the NES does wonders with Donkey Kong but is missing the pie factory level! Double Dragon the 7800 stayed true to the arcade! and you can play 2 players at the same time! and up to 6 characters on screen at once! all moves are there at start! As is with the arcade! (Nes you can't do this do to its limitations!)! Kung fu master has better back ground and better color on 7800! Dig Doug on NES has off color again as in Ms pac also sky is black not blue ,better color on the 7800! Mario brothers on the 7800 is great Mario and Lu look more like Mario and Lu as far a aspect ratio is concerned! Out of the three at the time (7800,Master system and the NES) the 7800 was the more powerful machine! It had a better color palette no flicker and could put more sprites on the screen at once! It was also the oldest of the three. The unit was just not used to its fullest back then, but now days home brews have shown its true power! check out Pluto's Klax, and Sirius! these are home brews for the 7800 and are light years above anything else on the machine! Now I need to say that all my opinions on these games come form the original hardware not emu. maybe emu is different but I would not know!
@@dodgeramsport01Xevious 7800 has more detailed backgrounds but the lower resolution makes the sprites harder to see against that, negating that advantage. Also a big part of screen space is wasted with a big score bar. I do think Commando 7800 looks and sounds better overall. I'll check out some of the other games you mentioned
4:11 before mission impossible?
Shame decent graphics got paired with an ass sound chip from the late 70s
nes released in 1983, 7800 released in 1984. nes looks better in anyway.
Atari was released a test in 1984. Official release in 1986, one year witch Sega Master System and Nintendo Entertainment System
@strategic fooyou first agent No NES was Famicom in Japan and didn't release in North America until 1985 and Atari 7800 was supposed to release in late 84 but wasn't released until 86!
Instructions: 1) Turn on tv. 2) Turn volume to zero. 3) Play games
I feel bad for Lord Karnage.
Me too :(.
Only 58 games. Too bad, it could have been a contender. Lets hope the new Atari 2600+ will breathe new life into the old system.
It could never have been a contender. By the time the 7800 was released, the comparable quality C64 had been out for 4 years.
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst yeah but if they had the support of 3rd party developers like the NES did, it would have done good I think. It's not always the specs that determine how well it does. Look at the Gameboy compared to the Game Gear and Atari Lynx.
@@ramgladore Gameboy had vastly superior battery life. That's what made that platform. Game Gear would last a little over an hour. It took disposable batteries. It would be cheaper to pump quarters into an arcade game.
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst yeah the Gameboy was easier on batteries because the screen wasn't back lit. But the same could be said for the Wonder Swan. It was the support by 3rd party developers that made the Gameboy successful. That's the ways its always been for any platform.
Poor Atari 7800, the console may be a failure but the few games for it still look pretty good.
5200 had few games too.
They were but the 5200 was even better at that
Good collection VGL.
I have some gameplays of this system on my channel for those who are interested.
Pretty cool system
Have you lost your mind?
Which games used the minnie sound chip?
Interesting that a system with 58 official titles has 2 wrestling ports
good arcade ports were made for it, but nowadays it's much better to play the originals
The funny thing about this console is that it had a better hardware in comparison with Master System and NES, but the games were like in the middle of Atari 2600 and NES generation
No way this console has better hardware than Master System.
@@technoir-1984 go to Wikipedia
Most of the games look ridiculous for that period but i see pretty much potentials
It really makes you wonder who the hell were the project managers for this stuff? Just like some old boomer who was like "man this stuff is really neat!"? I mean it was obvious that this was substandard by any measure at the time. This stuff was roughly comparable to Commodore 64 games, not even that maybe. And C64 came out in '82, the 7800 came out in '86! So compare this stuff to Amiga 500, MSX2, NES, SMS, etc.
The sad truth is that Atari at the time was more interested in the computer market, and spent as little as possible on the 7800. The reality was that the 7800 actually had the power to compete with not just the NES, but also the Master System. 7800 homebrews like Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest, Dragon's Havoc, and many others show that the 7800 actually had enough horse power to carry it just as far as the NES, if not further. The 7800 could have competed with the Genesis.
@@KrunchyTheClown78 While the homebrew titles you mentioned are neat, there's a few problems with that. If that's representative of "pushing the 7800 to the limit", it's unimpressive of the NES equivalent like "Batman Return of the Joker". Those homebrew titles don't even look as good as the early Megaman games. Second, NO WAY could 7800 compete with the Genesis. The 7800 had an 8 bit 6502 CPU, the Genesis had a 16/24 bit 68K. Apples and oranges!
Definitely an upgrade from the 2600
Galaga.
Dig Dug.
PAC-Man.
Yeah….SSDD
i always said the only reason people bought the games were the artwork on the cover.
Today they call it Skins and Bundles. COD take a page from this book.
The 7800 and Master System both launched the same year*, and the port of Rampage released on 7800 and Master System the same year, compare the Master System port and the 7800 and you’ll see how malnourished the 7800 is by comparison
*The Master System actually released a year earlier than the 7800 in Japan, which makes the 7800 more embarrassing
Centipede? OMY! AGAIN?
Definitely a step up graphically from the 2600, but the NES beats the 7800 in every single way. Not even close.
THE 3D EFECTS THE BEST MORE THAN SEGA AND NINTENDO only fail the wort music , the graphics are exellents
It's amazing that this console came out after the NES but looks like it should be competing with the Intellivison or Colecovision. Terrible graphics for this time period.
Because that's what it was originally made to do. It was supposed to launch in 84. But what happened was Time Warner sold Atari to Jack Tremell who then got into a pissing contest with General computer Corp who designed the 7800 and shelved it as on top of being a arrogant penny pitching twit, he was more focused on putting his former company Commodore out of business in the computer market thus the 7800 was shelved till the NES got popular. Which led Jack to settle with GCC and release the 7800
Nintendo offered Atari a chance to produce the NES in the states & they declined. They said video games are over. NES became a big hit! In a panic Atari who had the 7800 in the back burner, but canceled it, quickly rushed the 7800 to market to compete with the NES. 7800 It flopped! My point is that the 7800 is not worthy of this plus system. The games feel rushed. They're bad. The fact the ad calls it "iconic" is insulting. The Atari 5200 should be getting an Atari 5200+ release before the 7800. It has better quality games and great arcade ports. Atari could also re-release the crappy controllers, but now have them work well. A chance to redeem the Atari 5200. I'm not happy how Atari keeps neglecting the Atari 5200. No, the Atari 400 mini is not worthy tribute of the 5200. I don't care if the hardware is the same. I grew up with the 5200. I'm nostalgic for it.
Typical gorgeous Atari box art!
I wonder what the heck was Atari thinking with this console though?
It's nowhere near the NES or Sega Master System... it barely looks any better than the ColecoVision
Not that it wasn't capable of matching, or even beating the Master System graphics, just that all the games were made at rock bottom prices
Crystal Quest?
Atari 5200 was better with sound than pretty to look at graphics but shitty💩 sound.
TRASH VIDEO GAME, I PREFER THE NES 8-BIT!
Can you believe we used to spend our time playing this junk 😆 wasted youth
I just purchased one on ebay mostly to play Robotron 2084 with an Edladdin Super Twin 78 arcade controller. The system is well worth owning today for that alone but also looks like it has solid ports of a few other fun arcade games like Joust, Centipede, and Dig Dug that I'll probably enjoy. The homebrew scene is quite active too, from what I understand.
While there are many cool games on the 7800 ,but many off them were arcade games wich were already released on both the atari 2600 and atari 5200 so why releasing them for the 3th time again???
Sure for 1984 it might,ve been all impressive but by 1986 when the atari 7800 was prereleased it wasn’t impressive anymore since side scrolling platform and lightgun games became the new norm,it just makes my wonder why on earth atari cancled toki for the 7800,why was there no pacland for it,why was there no paperboy for it,why was there no castle adventure,no qwack,and no stunt cycle game for it???
Had atari ported all there arcade games for it like those ones i mentioned here,the 7800 could,ve stopd a better chance against the nes,
But i just guess that atari just gaved up waaay too fast on their 7800 and instead just split up into tengen to put many of their games on the nes,something i consider to be a dumb decision,they only should,ve support 7800 till the bitter end.
почему атари 7800 называют консолью 3его поколения? игры на ней выглядит максимум как 2ое они просто ужасны =_=
Если игры 3его поколения даже с мастер систем который страдал из за монополии нинтендо в плане игр, выглядит достойные для игры даже сейчас.
то то что вижу в этом видео с атари 7800 не выглядит как что то что имело бы смысл играть сейчас -_-
Most of the 7800 library are games that were made very cheaply, and thus look cheap. Sadly, the 7800 could have competed with the Master System in terms of graphics, and sound, but Atari at the time was not willing to spend the money needed to compete better, and make there games stand out more, and instead was more interested in the computer market.
@@KrunchyTheClown78 In my opinion, Atari did not know how to run a business in general, they were lucky at the very beginning, but when competitors appeared, they did anything but what they needed to win in the competition in the market. It was as if they did not understand the market and did not want to understand it. I translated it in the translator, don't be angry if it's written crookedly.
@@SiMBi0ZZA yeah I agree with you. Atari was run by suits that were only focused on there bottom line.
Videogame muito bizonho !!!
Is this supposed to be 8 bit?
What an embarassment.
I'm agreed. But PS5 / Series X / Switch are beyond embaressment than this console.
@@drakonolus7922 wdym
Total garbage.
Viendo las especificaciones gráficas de la atari 7800,sus juegos son un poco mediocres gradicamente
Doesn't suck as hard as the 5200 but it still kind of stinks! Maybe 8 to 12 titles ( 10?) worth playing. 🙄 Played the Shit out of Joust, RoboTron 2084, Galaga and both Pole Positions in the Arcade though ( Christ who hasn't right!) They're we're actually some better titles on the Atari ST and Atari XEGS!
the emulator used in this video was awful and doesn't do these games justice.
That was some awful games.
What a useless console!
All Atari's were garbage