I got my Atari in 79, and it was the best time of my life. I only was able to afford maybe 10 cartridges, but we depended on our friends getting different games, then we would all go to each others' houses and play new games! Great memories!!!
If I ever getting around to creating a robot, I'm going to program it where the only way it can communicate is through old Atari sounds to display it's emotions.
An older video game set was called "fairchild channel F" -for fun. It had some of the same games just less graphics, storage , sound and color. But hey, atari actually competed with them, sadly fairchild lost and is slowly being forgotten.
@@icewizard9770 Pong was addictive, yet it's only 2 rectangles and 1 smaller square ball! They just don't find the magic today near as much as in the 80s and 90s.
So true! And if the game wasn’t all that fun, too bad, because you weren’t saving up for another one anytime soon! “We’d” squeeze a game for all it was worth - exploring every weird game variation and difficulty setting! Often making up funny/alternate storylines that would keep us laughing!
Those raster colours. I'm so impressed with how the programmers managed to directly manipulate the display signal to show so many vibrant shaded colours on screen. Puts the later 8 bit systems to shame.. and the graphics were so smooth too. I mean how? No one talks about the graphics and display programming on these machines.
Amazing video. So many games on here I used to play. Solaris was my favorite, I used to go deep on that. Its weird, I can't explain how hearing the noises, seeing the games actually make me feel, it's so long ago since I played it, I was so young but its kinda almost tapped back into that child mind. Its eery! Its a mix of nostalgia and something else I can't put my finger on or explain. Weird but thank you for uploading this
Was born 20 years after this system came out but I still have fond memories of sitting in front of the TV late at night, no sound but crickets chirping and the atari. Wish I could go back to those days.
it seems some idiots are trying to compare a 40 year old system with a current one. what kind of shitty IQ you guys have?. it was made in the 70s. we should be thankful for it because it is simply the grand daddy of home consoles and the system that defined them. it is remarkable that there are countless people still playing them. this only tells how awesome the atari 2600 is. also. you got to give them credit for their creativity. they made so much of what they had.
I'm 46yrs old, I still remember when my mom brought me this for christmas...my greatest christmas ever, mine came with a free game of COMBAT. This brings back serious memories, trading games with my friends and cousins...my favorite game was PITFALL.
It's great hearing the sounds again from those games from back then. Burned a lot of hours on those games and enjoyed every minute of it. Night Driver use to drive me crazy in trying to avoid crashing into those barriers.
This brings back memories. Space Invaders was my favourite. Of course back in the day I could clock it but now my reactions aren't as good. It is like I learned when they were going to bomb back then. I also had laser blast (almost played itself), Stampede (terrible game) and a few others I can't remember (about 10 games all up - I bought the Atari 2600 and games (except 1 game) all by myself. I didn't know they had jungle hunt available. I forgot how bad the sound / graphics are although looking at the specs the maximum is 160 x 192 which surprisingly is about the same as the original gameboy. I still play Space invaders (every few months) on an emulator and still have the Atari 2600 Space invaders cartridge (for copyright reasons)
Certainly made me appreciate the progress as graphics and controls evolved. Could you imagine showing someone back then the games today or seeing today what they play in 30 years?
I owned an Atari 2600 when I was a kid. I still enjoy playing some of the games on the Stella emulator, so much so, that I am thinking about purchasing another Atari 2600. It's nice to have the modern consoles, but nothing beats going back to the good old days. Bring back the 80's when life was easy and good lol.
Daaamn I swear when I played those games on release date I thought the graphics were looking photo realistic. Amazing how the gaming evolved (just the graphics, because the gameplay is almost the same....-.-). I was there from the very start!
HOLY F... SWORDQUEST EFFING EARTH WORLD!!!!! that game was SO AWESOME back in the atari days, didn't remember the name of the game until i saw this video, thanks man :D
Moon Patrol, Pitfall, Asteroids, Zaxxon, Jungle Hunt, Air Sea Battle, Snoopy and The Red Baron, Battle Zone, Decathlon, HERO, Megamania, Galaxian, Demons Attack, River Raid, enduro, Seaquest, Frostbyte, Space Invaders, Tennis, Volley, Missile Command, Atlantis, lembro que eram estes que eu mais curtia. Tinha uma sacola de cartuchos e nos finais de semana saia com minha BMX e ia de casa em casa nos meus amigos, trocando jogos...
@BringerOfTheTruth: This video originally had annotations with all of the titles in the lower-left corner. However, TH-cam ended that feature last year. I had no way of knowing they would do that when I made this video back in 2012. The titles are still in the video description, however.
Quite primitive by today's standards. But in 1982, these games were all the rage! Everyone loved them! At 1:35, the very first 2600 game, COMBAT! And at 2:25, the most infamous of all the 2600 games, E.T. !!!
He's actually yellow, but some of the colors got messed up when I uploaded the video to TH-cam. But the guy (Evil Otto) is only in some game variations, so check the manual (or find one online) to see which game variations he's in.
still trying to work out why there was a vertical black atari sprite stuck on the left hand side of most of the earlier games?? (any one who programmed the later 400/800 computers knows that the sprites were vertical thin rectangular blocks ).
Somewhere around 1984/85 (maybe even later) I think they had an arcade game in a coffeshop that we as kids would go watch after school (bigger boys would play, we smaller ones would just watch). It was a game where you would advance through a pyramid, through rooms. In a room things would attack you, room was like a labyrinth, it had walls and treasure boxes that would open, doors that would roll open and you would have to collect (some things) and move forward through exit door. By memory graphics was incredibly nice and the screen would slide - was not fixed. (and it was not Lost Tomb game). To this day I'm trying to find which game (and system) it was, so I could find an emulator ... but I could not find this game so far. Anyone has any idea?
No. This was recorded from a 2600 modified to use composite output instead of RF, so you're likely not going to find better quality from actual Atari 2600 hardware. Any videos that look better are most likely recorded from an emulator.
Of All The Videos I subscribed too this here takes the cake !! I born 1971 could not believe how I for instant my mind where I was when I playing these game Christmas Eve late night pit fall game OMG that key game move key different areas very first solo game I got confused on what to do 2600 ATARI good fortune to who's responsible for uploading this video with out this video I never remember. these games childhood I'm sharing this video channel brother family facebook .
The game at 2:00 is Demon Attack. The full list is in the video description. Or if you view on a computer, you can turn on annotations and see the titles in the lower-left corner as you watch.
Wow that's so funny :-) Thnx a lot. I saw a comment here asking for the names so I thought they were missing. I hate the annotations so I always keep it off.
Well, quite a few of those were my old "friends" (Berzerk, Bowling, Breakout, Centipede, Chopper Command, Combat, Cosmic Ark, Dig Dug, Frogger, Mario Bros, Megamania, Midnight Magic, Missile Command, River Raid, Space Invaders and Stampede) and most of the rest were games I'd quite like to play. The trouble is, I did once try an "Atrari Games" pack for PC and while the games looked good, most of them didn't work
that's right kids, these are the games your Grandpappy used to play. back in the day when you couldn't "beat" a game, and your only "achievements" was your high scores.
Now let's be honest: Yes, everybody that grew up with these games will agree that graphics aren't as important as gameplay. However, most of the games had serious issues regarding gameplay and only a few of them are the result of technical limitations. I had at least 20 cartridges and I regularly swapped them with friends. But almost every game had at least one design flaw that was highly annoying and you only kept on playing because it was the best you had. Joust was about the only perfect game I can think of. Here are some examples: - Moon Patrol : It gets ridiculously difficult very fast, mostly because you can't see far ahead. You cannot stop and need the right speed to jump over ditches and obstacles, which means you need to know in advance what will come. Even then you'd be screwed if an enemy shoots at the wrong time, there simply is no way out. - *Moonsweeper*: I really liked the concept of a 2 stages game where you select the difficult of the second stage by picking the right planet in the first. However, both blue and green planets (supposed to be the easiest ones) had no difference in difficulty but granted the least points. The highest, red, was in fact very hard. Most importantly, the satellites were impossible to hit since they never fully entered the screen. The yello one, however, was only slightly more difficult than blue and green but granted almost the most points. And the satellites flew very low and thus were easy to hit. So, all you ever did was picking yellow planets, rendering the first stage useless (or let's say turning it into a game of avoiding everything but yellow). Also, you main objective was to pick up and rescue 6 workers and then leave the planet, however, you got more points by killing satellites all day. Which means if you cared for your score you would not play the game as intended in more than one way. - Pheonix : This had 3 different stages and all of them were great. However, after killing the mother ship (which you do quite fast) the game just starts all over. While other games increased difficulty too fast, this one didn't increase difficulty *at all*. To make it worse, the enemies always moved in exactly the same patterns. You could just memorize them and play indefinitely. I can honestly say I can write something like this about every single game except Joust. And that's not in hindsight, it was annoying back then as well, but you simply had nothing better. Also, the games I just mentioned were my favourites. Don't get me started on the lesser ones. I still have fond memories of course, playing with friends and all, but you need to indulge in a lot of nostalgia to call these games great, regardless of the graphics.
Fun to just listen to without looking at the screen. See if you can guess from the audio what game is being played? (It's in alphabetical order so that helps)
I got my Atari in 79, and it was the best time of my life. I only was able to afford maybe 10 cartridges, but we depended on our friends getting different games, then we would all go to each others' houses and play new games! Great memories!!!
This video originally had the game titles displayed with annotations. TH-cam has since deleted all annotations from the site, so here is the full list of games:
1. Adventure (0:00)
2. Adventures of Tron (0:07)
3. Air Sea Battle (0:14)
4. Asteroids (0:21)
5. Astroblast (0:27)
6. Atlantis (0:33)
7. Barnstorming (0:39)
8. Battlezone (0:46)
9. Berzerk (0:53)
10. Bowling (0:59)
11. Breakout (1:06)
12. Carnival (1:13)
13. Centipede (1:20)
14. Chopper Command (1:26)
15. Combat (1:33)
16. Cosmic Ark (1:39)
17. Dark Chambers (1:47)
18. Defender (1:53)
19. Demon Attack (2:00)
20. Dig Dug (2:06)
21. Dodge 'Em (2:13)
22. Donkey Kong (2:19)
23. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (2:25)
24. Football (2:32)
25. Frogger (2:38)
26. Frogs and Flies (2:44)
27. Galaxian (2:51)
28. Gravitar (2:57)
29. Haunted House (3:03)
30. Indy 500 (3:13)
31. Joust (3:20)
32. Jr. Pac-Man (3:26)
33. Jungle Hunt (3:33)
34. Kaboom! (3:39)
35. Kangaroo (3:46)
36. Laser Blast (3:53)
37. Mario Bros. (4:01)
38. Maze Craze (4:07)
39. Medieval Mayhem (4:14)
40. Megamania (4:20)
41. Midnight Magic (4:26)
42. Missile Command (4:33)
43. Moon Patrol (4:39)
44. Ms. Pac-Man (4:46)
45. Night Driver (4:52)
46. Pac-Man (4:59)
47. Phoenix (5:07)
48. Pitfall! (5:19)
49. Pole Position (5:28)
50. Q*Bert (5:34)
51. RealSports Baseball (5:41)
52. RealSports Football (5:47)
53. River Raid (5:53)
54. Skiing (6:01)
55. Sky Jinks (6:07)
56. Solar Fox (6:14)
57. Solaris (6:21)
58. Space Attack (6:31)
59. Space Invaders (6:37)
60. Stampede (6:44)
61. Star Raiders (6:51)
62. Super Breakout (6:58)
63. Super Challenge Baseball (7:05)
64. Super Challenge Football (7:11)
65. Super Football (7:18)
66. Superman (7:26)
67. Swordquest: EarthWorld (7:32)
68. Swordquest: FireWorld (7:39)
69. Vanguard (7:46)
70. Venture (7:53)
71. Video Pinball (8:00)
72. Warlords (8:08)
73. Word Zapper (8:14)
74. Yars' Revenge (8:20)
75. Zaxxon (8:28)
jvgsjeff is this why so many TH-cam vids of video games don’t show the titles of games being played?
Thank u for the titles... Im lost their title in my brain memory🤣
If I ever getting around to creating a robot, I'm going to program it where the only way it can communicate is through old Atari sounds to display it's emotions.
so like R2D2? :P
Atari was responsible for some of my happiest memories. I had a smile the whole time I watched this. Forget graphics.
An older video game set was called "fairchild channel F" -for fun. It had some of the same games just less graphics, storage , sound and color. But hey, atari actually competed with them, sadly fairchild lost and is slowly being forgotten.
Dont talk about graphics my friend, it was 1982!!
@@icewizard9770 Pong was addictive, yet it's only 2 rectangles and 1 smaller square ball! They just don't find the magic today near as much as in the 80s and 90s.
Thought the exact same thing!
@@StangQuest94 😎😎😎
Brings back memories. A cartridge was so expensive. Getting a new game was a big deal.
So true! And if the game wasn’t all that fun, too bad, because you weren’t saving up for another one anytime soon! “We’d” squeeze a game for all it was worth - exploring every weird game variation and difficulty setting! Often making up funny/alternate storylines that would keep us laughing!
Even worse now. $60-$100 for the game and then $60 for the annual subscription.
Yes it was!
We used to trade,scanning my area for atari owner, it was very rare to have one in my country
@@StangQuest94 yeah now you have to buy dlc.
Those raster colours. I'm so impressed with how the programmers managed to directly manipulate the display signal to show so many vibrant shaded colours on screen. Puts the later 8 bit systems to shame.. and the graphics were so smooth too. I mean how?
No one talks about the graphics and display programming on these machines.
Best sound effects ever!
Agree!
Thanks for reminding me of my old collection of 2600 games. I had like most of these. Best days ever.
I loved "Adventure" (the first clip). Spent so many hours doing the same walkthroughs..
Amazing video. So many games on here I used to play. Solaris was my favorite, I used to go deep on that. Its weird, I can't explain how hearing the noises, seeing the games actually make me feel, it's so long ago since I played it, I was so young but its kinda almost tapped back into that child mind. Its eery! Its a mix of nostalgia and something else I can't put my finger on or explain. Weird but thank you for uploading this
Was born 20 years after this system came out but I still have fond memories of sitting in front of the TV late at night, no sound but crickets chirping and the atari. Wish I could go back to those days.
it seems some idiots are trying to compare a 40 year old system with a current one. what kind of shitty IQ you guys have?. it was made in the 70s. we should be thankful for it because it is simply the grand daddy of home consoles and the system that defined them. it is remarkable that there are countless people still playing them. this only tells how awesome the atari 2600 is. also. you got to give them credit for their creativity. they made so much of what they had.
I'm 46yrs old, I still remember when my mom brought me this for christmas...my greatest christmas ever, mine came with a free game of COMBAT. This brings back serious memories, trading games with my friends and cousins...my favorite game was PITFALL.
I came for the sound and insane explosions:)
brilliant!! takes me back to my childhood, i had most of those games,played them for hours,thanks.
Thank you for bring those memories i used to play moon patrol when i was a kid.
Wow a blast from the past enjoyed this thanks
Thanks for using the real hardware. This video features all my favorites from my first game console. A lot of nostalgia is evoked in this video.
This was so good for my soul, thank you
My first console 79, loved it. We were very poor at the time, and this was one of favorites memories. 😍
Moon Patrol. One of my favorites.
It's great hearing the sounds again from those games from back then. Burned a lot of hours on those games and enjoyed every minute of it. Night Driver use to drive me crazy in trying to avoid crashing into those barriers.
The best Atari games compilation games I ve seen.
Oh, this brings back memories!
1:05 I love the bowling guy getting excited. 🎳
This brings back memories. Space Invaders was my favourite. Of course back in the day I could clock it but now my reactions aren't as good. It is like I learned when they were going to bomb back then. I also had laser blast (almost played itself), Stampede (terrible game) and a few others I can't remember (about 10 games all up - I bought the Atari 2600 and games (except 1 game) all by myself.
I didn't know they had jungle hunt available.
I forgot how bad the sound / graphics are although looking at the specs the maximum is 160 x 192 which surprisingly is about the same as the original gameboy.
I still play Space invaders (every few months) on an emulator and still have the Atari 2600 Space invaders cartridge (for copyright reasons)
The majority of my childhood was playing the Atari 2600. Great memories that I`ll have forever!
These games was many moons 🌙 ago but I miss them days playing these games as a kid.
Certainly made me appreciate the progress as graphics and controls evolved. Could you imagine showing someone back then the games today or seeing today what they play in 30 years?
Loved it as a kid. Still have it In a box somewhere in my mother's attic.
A real flashback and thank you for the video mate :) Merry Christmas and a happy new year, sir :)
Glad you enjoyed it! Merry Christmas and happy new year to you too. :)
I'm 20 years old and play these to death I'm jelly that you guys grew up with this stuff. Nothing will ever beat the sound effects of the Atari!
The top 75 Atari games list is awesome. I am honored to have played most of those games.
O atari me traz a pureza da minha infância.
These will be the most important images we see before passing. Amen
Memories.....I remember playing several of those games....still got the original Atari 2600 console from the early 80s.....stored up....
I had completely forgotten about Cosmic Ark, but I loved that game as a child!
I owned an Atari 2600 when I was a kid. I still enjoy playing some of the games on the Stella emulator, so much so, that I am thinking about purchasing another Atari 2600. It's nice to have the modern consoles, but nothing beats going back to the good old days. Bring back the 80's when life was easy and good lol.
Darren Rivers in
form
MN
When games didn't took 5 years to be done.
Great video, gave me some ideas of new games to pick up! Love my 2600...sometimes.
1:39 - 25 years searching that game... Thank you so much!!!!! :D
what is it called?
Very nice compilation...thx for sharing...we've come a long way...
damn man, we have really come a long way, can't wait to see what the next 30-50 years will be like
Awesome job putting this compilation together, I'd rather play these games than new garbage.
childhood memories made me feel great..thanks
Daaamn I swear when I played those games on release date I thought the graphics were looking photo realistic. Amazing how the gaming evolved (just the graphics, because the gameplay is almost the same....-.-). I was there from the very start!
HOLY F... SWORDQUEST EFFING EARTH WORLD!!!!! that game was SO AWESOME back in the atari days, didn't remember the name of the game until i saw this video, thanks man :D
The sound effects are so lethal to the ears that it could be used to extract confessions from terrorists
2:18 Gingerbread DK and witch Mario! xD
Happy 300th video. :)
Moon Patrol, Pitfall, Asteroids, Zaxxon, Jungle Hunt, Air Sea Battle, Snoopy and The Red Baron, Battle Zone, Decathlon, HERO, Megamania, Galaxian, Demons Attack, River Raid, enduro, Seaquest, Frostbyte, Space Invaders, Tennis, Volley, Missile Command, Atlantis, lembro que eram estes que eu mais curtia. Tinha uma sacola de cartuchos e nos finais de semana saia com minha BMX e ia de casa em casa nos meus amigos, trocando jogos...
@BringerOfTheTruth: This video originally had annotations with all of the titles in the lower-left corner. However, TH-cam ended that feature last year. I had no way of knowing they would do that when I made this video back in 2012. The titles are still in the video description, however.
Happy 300th video!!! :D
it reminds me my childhood !
@fdn777: The game at 6:21 is Solaris. Great game!
@Samuel Adams: The game at 4:40 is Moon Patrol. One of my favorites!
+jvgsjeff I got a real nostalgia buzz watching this. Nice one.
3:38 ALLAHU AKBAR!!! xd
Quite primitive by today's standards. But in 1982, these games were all the rage! Everyone loved them! At 1:35, the very first 2600 game, COMBAT! And at 2:25, the most infamous of all the 2600 games, E.T. !!!
What's the name of the very first game shown? And also the games at 2:12? 3:04 Thx anybody
The first one is Adventure, Dodge 'Em starts at 2:12, and 3:04 is Haunted House.
@@jvgsjeff Thank you
He's actually yellow, but some of the colors got messed up when I uploaded the video to TH-cam. But the guy (Evil Otto) is only in some game variations, so check the manual (or find one online) to see which game variations he's in.
Evil Otto killed a guy in the arcade.
still trying to work out why there was a vertical black atari sprite stuck on the left hand side of most of the earlier games?? (any one who programmed the later 400/800 computers knows that the sprites were vertical thin rectangular blocks ).
i just love these sound effects
Vaya es extrañable escuchar estos sonidos de atari que tiempos ⌛⌛⌛
This was my video game system when i was Kid / young adult . Atari 2600
I remember these game from back when. They were a blast to play.
fantástico vídeo cara!!!!!!!!!!!! delirei aqui!!!!
Parabéns pelo canal...
Love that sound effects
Who remembers the serious arm fatigue in Decathlon 1500m run event ?
No, Warlords is at 8:08. Medieval Mayhem is a homebrew game that's basically a Warlords clone, but with additional features.
OMG the sounds take me right back it seems like it was yesterday
I grew up in the NES/SNES era, so I never had an Atari 2600, but it's fascinating to see these games from before my time.
Somewhere around 1984/85 (maybe even later) I think they had an arcade game in a coffeshop that we as kids would go watch after school (bigger boys would play, we smaller ones would just watch).
It was a game where you would advance through a pyramid, through rooms. In a room things would attack you, room was like a labyrinth, it had walls and treasure boxes that would open, doors that would roll open and you would have to collect (some things) and move forward through exit door. By memory graphics was incredibly nice and the screen would slide - was not fixed. (and it was not Lost Tomb game).
To this day I'm trying to find which game (and system) it was, so I could find an emulator ... but I could not find this game so far.
Anyone has any idea?
If a 1993 game isn't out of the question, it sounds like it could be Zombies Ate My Neighbors (on SNES/Genesis/PC).
@@jvgsjeff 1988 at latest. It was about some pyramids, scorpions, treasures ...
No. This was recorded from a 2600 modified to use composite output instead of RF, so you're likely not going to find better quality from actual Atari 2600 hardware. Any videos that look better are most likely recorded from an emulator.
Now I have plenty of short games to TAS !
Of All The Videos I subscribed too this here takes the cake !! I born 1971 could not believe how I for instant my mind where I was when I playing these game Christmas Eve late night pit fall game OMG that key game move key different areas very first solo game I got confused on what to do 2600 ATARI good fortune to who's responsible for uploading this video with out this video I never remember. these games childhood I'm sharing this video channel brother family facebook .
Thanks for the memories, jvgsjeff
OMG!!! 2:38 - The first game I've played In my life, back in the 80's!!! AWESOME!
I didn't see worm war 1 or the untitled game with the shark and octopus but a great overview overall!
0:00 Adventure
0:20 Asteroids
0:53 Berzerk
1:33 Combat
1:53 Defender
2:00
The game at 2:00 is Demon Attack. The full list is in the video description. Or if you view on a computer, you can turn on annotations and see the titles in the lower-left corner as you watch.
Wow that's so funny :-) Thnx a lot. I saw a comment here asking for the names so I thought they were missing.
I hate the annotations so I always keep it off.
i remember when i won a playstation from a radio question. i almost fainted how realistic it was compared to my sega genesis...
300 videos! Congrats!
The other day me and my dad finally hooked up his Atari after 30 years of sitting in the dust
Did it still work?
Wow! Such good memories. Well. Good & bad memories actually. The wise truth is that we all should focus on the good. Always.
Wonderful hyper-saturated colors!!!🙂
I need to get me one of these...
Also subbed.
The game that starts at 7:39 is SwordQuest: FireWorld.
One of the best console!! My favourite with C64 and NES!!
Still the best gaming console ever!
Couple great games not mentioned here are Montezuma's revenge, and Flash Gordon
bons tempos desse video game atari!
que saudades!
Well, quite a few of those were my old "friends" (Berzerk, Bowling, Breakout, Centipede, Chopper Command, Combat, Cosmic Ark, Dig Dug, Frogger, Mario Bros, Megamania, Midnight Magic, Missile Command, River Raid, Space Invaders and Stampede) and most of the rest were games I'd quite like to play. The trouble is, I did once try an "Atrari Games" pack for PC and while the games looked good, most of them didn't work
that's right kids, these are the games your Grandpappy used to play. back in the day when you couldn't "beat" a game, and your only "achievements" was your high scores.
You could beat Adventure
Now let's be honest: Yes, everybody that grew up with these games will agree that graphics aren't as important as gameplay. However, most of the games had serious issues regarding gameplay and only a few of them are the result of technical limitations. I had at least 20 cartridges and I regularly swapped them with friends. But almost every game had at least one design flaw that was highly annoying and you only kept on playing because it was the best you had. Joust was about the only perfect game I can think of. Here are some examples:
- Moon Patrol : It gets ridiculously difficult very fast, mostly because you can't see far ahead. You cannot stop and need the right speed to jump over ditches and obstacles, which means you need to know in advance what will come. Even then you'd be screwed if an enemy shoots at the wrong time, there simply is no way out.
- *Moonsweeper*: I really liked the concept of a 2 stages game where you select the difficult of the second stage by picking the right planet in the first. However, both blue and green planets (supposed to be the easiest ones) had no difference in difficulty but granted the least points. The highest, red, was in fact very hard. Most importantly, the satellites were impossible to hit since they never fully entered the screen. The yello one, however, was only slightly more difficult than blue and green but granted almost the most points. And the satellites flew very low and thus were easy to hit. So, all you ever did was picking yellow planets, rendering the first stage useless (or let's say turning it into a game of avoiding everything but yellow). Also, you main objective was to pick up and rescue 6 workers and then leave the planet, however, you got more points by killing satellites all day. Which means if you cared for your score you would not play the game as intended in more than one way.
- Pheonix : This had 3 different stages and all of them were great. However, after killing the mother ship (which you do quite fast) the game just starts all over. While other games increased difficulty too fast, this one didn't increase difficulty *at all*. To make it worse, the enemies always moved in exactly the same patterns. You could just memorize them and play indefinitely.
I can honestly say I can write something like this about every single game except Joust. And that's not in hindsight, it was annoying back then as well, but you simply had nothing better. Also, the games I just mentioned were my favourites. Don't get me started on the lesser ones.
I still have fond memories of course, playing with friends and all, but you need to indulge in a lot of nostalgia to call these games great, regardless of the graphics.
What was the one called where the character looked like the Karate Kid?
the game at 4:26 is Midnight magic it sould be called pinball
7:32 "entering a door is an event"
Looking at these in 2020 as opposed to 1983 wow but great memories for sure
Fun to just listen to without looking at the screen. See if you can guess from the audio what game is being played? (It's in alphabetical order so that helps)
Ah! 30 seconds into the video and I’m already remembering all these sounds. I feel my body stressing - some of these games were not easy!
Sounds of my childhood...
Olha a perfeiçao da epoca o epoca maravilhoza anos 80
how the hell did we go from this to NOW?! the world is evolving at such an amazingly fast pace
Barnstormer and some of those kinds of games would send you a patch if you sent them a photograph of the screen showing a sufficiently high score.