Top 10 Atari 2600 Games
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- The Atari 2600 released in 1977 had some amazing games released for it including M's Pacman, Joust, Defender, and many more Why not share your Atari 2600 Memories or favourite games in the comments section below. Also please like and subscribe as there's plenty more Gaming countdown videos on the way.
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I remember how my father got Atari for us even though he could not afford it those days...he saved money for us.....I used to play river raid with my father...he died two yrs back...this video bring back happy childhood memories....thanks
I'm so sorry ;
I have the same story as my Dad died in July. So many great childhood memories with these games.
I remeber this time of old computers beginings like something very special and magic...is indisoluble bounded to the childhood
Great Video!
this brings back memories.
40 years later this seems like nothing, but you can't imagine the excitement I felt whenever I was allowed to turn that thing on as a kid.
Hell yes.. I remember playing with my Atari in the late 70s early 80s… I remember an old company called Activision.. they were so different back then.. LOL. My favorite game was dragster and kaboom..
@Fall Of An Empire What
I feel ya!
Lost both of my parents to COVID in April. I remember my father taking me and my brother to Sears to pick up the 2600. The sounds alone take me back to happy times, countless hours in front of the living room TV, Saturday mornings, snow days. This machine was magic. Thanks for the great post.
Are you sure it was Covid and not an act of war by China?
@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 Were you drunk when you posted this? Show some kindness and sympathy to the man and rein in your instinct to take a jab at whoever or whatever villain is swirling around in your own mind when you make such a comment.
I feel sorry for you man
(This is the reason why I hate COVID)
Sorry man - that’s brutal. Lost a co-worker to Covid. I have equally good memories of Atari 2600 after getting one for Xmas when I was 10yo
Much respect my friend. Remain strong. I bought a 2600 3 weeks ago, then purchased a 1959 philco to use it on. Real dandy.
I remember my father getting us an Atari in the 80s. We played Combat and frogger a lot. I remember him explaining it “It’s like you’re controlling cartoon action on TV” lol. 😅
That's a good way of explaining it! :)
The car acceleration from Enduro stills one of more exciting sounds till now.
Yeah it sounds badass
Did you ever play Grand PRIX? In a blind fold test you might think they were the same game.
Actually I didn't know Activision did the Enduro first. I know only the improved version of it - The Great American Cross-Country Road Race. It seems it's the same "engine" with some extras.
I loved that game. I played it on Atari 130XE.
I love Enduro! I came in third place in an Enduro tourney and won a t-shirt with the box art on it. Wish I still had it, even if it wouldn't come close to fitting anymore.
Sitting next to my 7 year old playing Zelda Botw waiting for a thunderstorm to pass and decided to show him this to compare what I started gaming on to the advancements in gaming now, totally surreal moment.
Ow and pitfall rocked!
I was waiting to hear Adventure. That was always my favorite. Glad Raiders made it to the honorable mention list.
Mine too. It was misterious..
On those days...
One of my favourites too. When you flicked the switch on the console (either difficulty or game reset), it slowed down the music to play some really cool crunchy sound).
I had this when I was a kid! Oh my god, the memories... I remember all the games and the sounds! Thank you for the upload. :)
It's a miracle programmers were able to get so much out of such primitive hardware.
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Omg! Brings me back! I just found your video while trying to explain the games I played as a child to my kids. Their modern iPads were inconceivable when I was a kid. Thank you!
Honorable mention Kaboom. Its fast paced, fun with excellent responsive controls and gets you so focused you forget about the basic graphics
my brother and I played kaboom for hours!
@@macbier6913 My cousin and i played it straight for an entire 3 day weekend
I'm shocked that Demon Attack didn't make this list. It was a terrific game on the 2600.
nigga shut up
No roblox
It's a top-10 seller. But maybe not as much a favorite.
Demon Attack…TOUGH!
Frogger, Chopper Command and Seaquest are also awesome.
Frogger :-) oder Berzerk
Don't forget et
Never mind
And what's is with Reactor?
What’s wrong? Weren’t you able to beat ET? 😂
if theyre so awesome why arent in the top 10? guess you're just wrong
What, no mention of Berzerk!? It was a great port of a fun coin op game and played very well on the 2600.
didn't mention Popeye either.
That was my favorite Atari game! That and Bowling.
Remember Keystone Kapers, too.
Berserk! is one of the best!!!
Thanks for uploading! I played almost all of them 35 years ago when i was a kid. Now It reminds me of how simple and enjoyable games are in those times. 🤩
Ufff u have reminded me with my childhood memories... I miss those days so much and I miss these games when I was kid playing them on my atari
Back in the day my favorites were probably Missile Command, Asteroids, Space Invaders, original Breakout, Adventure, Video Pinball, Bowling, and, perhaps oddly, Miniature Golf.
Today I've become fond of some I didn't have back then: Midnight Magic, Yars' Revenge, Star Voyager. And some modern games from the remarkably active 2600 homebrew scene.
What? River Raid wasn't your favourite?
I went back to play Miniature Golf a few years ago, to see if I could improve my best score. I had marked where to put the cursor in the manual to get a chance to make a hole-in-one. I succeeded, but couldn't beat the logbook challenge for Golf. With the good graphics in Activision games, it's too bad they didn't make a version instead of making their own version of checkers.
Oh the memories! Time flies when your having fun! The music and the sound effects give me flashbacks of playing for hours with best friends sleepover parties playing Atari, watching horror movies Benny Hill, and Saturday Night Live. I remember getting chip grease on the controllers trying to beat the high score with your buddies. I liked ice hockey, football, Raiders of the Lost Ark, jungle hunt, river raid, track and field, astroids and frogger. Good times!
All of this was bringing back a lot of fondness for the past, but then you mentioned Benny Hill. Maybe it's good to just let time forget it all.
This brings back many happy memories. Thank you.
Watching just a few seconds of super breakout - especially near the end - brought back the old feelings of anxiety as the ball started moving faster and the bars/paddles got smaller. It really made me feel like I was 5 again!
I tried cleaning my paddles a few years ago, but they quickly became jiggery again. I wasn't able to beat the logbook challenge for S-Bo.
Thank you! River Raid was the name I had been looking for a long time. One of my favorite games of all time!
Już po samych dźwiękach wracają wspomnienia i się łezka w oku kręci 😢
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I cheered out loud at #1. :) That was my very favorite. I loved so many of the others on the top 10 too. Great picks!
Nice list. I had a lot of those games. Played Pitfall, Raiders, Enduro, and River Raid for hours!
Kaboom deserves to be on this list. Stayed up plenty nights flipping the score on that one. LOVE IT.
Thanks, was crazy for that one, couldn't remember the name!
Y’know what was a good variation on that? Eggomania.
keystone kapers is one of the unforgettable for me
The best. My favorite for sure. Wal-Mart has the Plug N Play for $5
Thanx for reviving those sweet memories of my first ever console. 😍🙌🕹️👾💯
Ahh such memories! I can remember being little and my father and I playing the 2600. Our favorites were Combat, Backgammon, and Pinball. Those were the ones we played together.
River Raid was one of my favourite games on the Atari 2600! Also one that wasn't mentioned here was Asteroids! I never got to play the arcade version, but I loved the Atari port!
Neither was Solaris. Kinda surprising.
Emulate it on MAME. Space Duel was an even better arcade game....same principal but with colored polygon shapes. Add to that a two-player game where you could be tethered together.....so when one player uses thrust, it's pulling you with them!
You and I are pals. River Raid will always be a favorite and Asteroids was such a hit that no list is complete without it. One of the vintage greats.
Berserk should have been on there, great game that looked just like the arcade.
Fuck, that rings a bell
Absolutely! I still play it on my phone!
wowowoow THANK YOU! How long have I looked for it! thank you. River Raid the best game I've ever played, but since I was a little boy I didn't remember the title.
Thanks for Pitfall and Riverraid... definitely 2 of my favorites. Also loved Video Pinball and Frogger
Los jugue casi todos!, Genial video.
I played almost all, great video
Adventure is more important than having 2 racing games that are the same
no
I like repetition.
I liked Pole Position in the Arcade but never finished the 4 or 5 laps, like in the home game. The latter didn't have much excitement and after winning, there's not much replayability at home because times were so close.
Yes! Thank you so much for this video! That’s Awesome! 💕A forever Atari fan! ✨👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻✨
my dear thanks a ton for this wonderful video.....
I used to play for hours with this and sometimes till late In the night or may be till early morning.
GOOOOOOD OLD MEMORIES...
Some of my favorites;
Tunnel Runner - Great 3D maze game. Other games tried to do 3D, but they were often a confusing mess. Tunnel Runner got it just right. I'd rate the game as perfect if they had managed to use a unique image for the back of the monsters, rather than using the same image for when they're facing you and when they're moving away.
Starmaster - More playable than the 2600 version of Star Raiders.
Phaser Patrol - Another Star Raiders clone for the Starpath Supercharger.
Solaris - Impressive game. To be honest, I never got very far into it, but I enjoyed playing it.
Robot Tank - Better than the 2600 Battlezone. The way the enemy tanks seemed to be 3D impressed me at the time.
Imagic Atlantis was a nice variation on Missile Command. Space Cavern was interesting, too. Galaxians came later, but it was really well adapted. I preferred it to Space Invaders. Stargate was also really well adapted. It looked a lot better than Defender. Also, Berserk is worth mentioning.
Thanks for sharing, very fond memories of my Father getting me my First Atari Games around 1989 - 1990 :-)
Thank you! I finally find the game I have played 30 years ago and it's no.1 game in the list!
Oh finally selected the pitfall, good choice 👍, I remember all of them.... time goes fast
you miss adventure
Thanks for the upload
amazing memories ! i still remember all these games playing with my cousins and my sister !!!
I'm surprised that Adventure wasn't mentioned. It was one of the first video games with an Easter Egg.
also no asteroids(??)
Thank you for adding enduro.
Sigh..... nice memories and sweet 'warm' games from the past! Nice of you to make this video.. :)
OMG😁I remember all of them!!! Each sound, each move!!! How cool was that)))and I'll never thought that I looked like tractor's driver with atari's manipulator🤣, till that moment😅
Nós ficávamos hipnotizado com esses jogos e esses sons... Não tem palavras. Obrigado Atari. Obrigado anos 80
I remember every one of these games
Brings back very early childhood memories. Hero would have been fun, but we didn't have that one. I loved playing Asteroids, Haunted House and Adventure. Oh, and Empire Strikes Back was great too.
This Sonic the hedgehog music takes me out totaly from the mood from the 80s,perhaps this is a great vid.
river raid was my favorite game, HERO was Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation!
Mine too!
Oh yeah
Mine was Minecraft
Mine is Just cause 3!
I think Raiders of the lost arc should be replaced with either jungle hunt, or moon patrol.
I don't know what to replace it with, but I agree... Raiders sucked some serious a--😁.
Bezerk maybe?
Pitfall 2: Lost Caverns?
Hell even Riddle of the Sphinx, LOL! This top 10 list is very amateur. The only 4 that really belong on it are River Raid, Pitfall(both by Activision ofc) Mizz PacMan, and I *guess maybe* pole position(more like meh)....the rest on list are early 77-79 Atari trash games which were fun but not the best by any means.
Glad Yars Revenge got an honorable mention at least though, LOL! (And it's not in my top 10...maybe top 20 or 30 though)
The good ole days. I remember we got Atari 2600 for xmas when it first came out. Pac man cartdrige was $90 but a must have. As kids, my sisters and I went nuts when we opened the box and saw it. Lol
Great memories
Had most of these. Brings back good memories and simpler times.
Damn i used to break my joystick in river raid & Eduru racing game.
I don't know how you broke the joystick on river raid, maybe out of frustration in higher levels. ;-) /just teasing you/
However we did actually (me and my brother) broke few joysticks during "Summer Games" and alike. It felt like we were actually running.
Que saudades eu jogava todos esses jogos. Muito bons parece que foi ontem !!!
What a such beautiful days. this video takes me back more than 30 years ago.
Best regards to everyone from Egypt from the land of the pyramids.
Great games! I specially loved the Activision ones.
I was obsessed with Laser Blast & Kaboom!
God bless those old good old days lol I can remember getting my 2600 and thought it was the coolest thing going, before the nes came out
How nes beat this ? What were people reaction?
@@gamerpro1558 as a 11 year old kid when I got the system back in the day I was happy as a pig on Sunday LoL but when my younger cousins got the nes I so wanted one
I can't believe you left out Chopper Command, Defender, Q-Bert, Solaris, Asteroids, Donkey Kong and Mouse Trap.
Yeah definitely loved Asteroids and Defender. Spy Hunter too.
In your opinion, what is really the difference between Chopper Command and Defender? They look very similar to me, but I have only played defender.
@@ROMBomb001 In Chopper Command, you can land your helicopter and rescue hostages. Defender doesn't have those.
@@irfanafendi4837 Sounds like an interesting feature. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for responding :-)
@@ROMBomb001 Wait, wrong game! The game where you rescue hostages is actually on Sega Master System; sorry for misleading information, both games have helicopters. 😅😭😭😭
When I was in the army, I loved playing the space shuttle game for the 2600. Spent many a weekend catching satellites, drinking my dew, eating slim Jim's and potato chips.
Good on ya, wizgamer and your top 10 list of 2600 games.
Excellent choice for #1 although I would tie ADVENTURE with it
My top 10, in no particular order: Moonsweeper, Pitfall II, Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Atlantis, Solaris, Midnight Magic, River Raid, Phoenix, Seaquest.
Hero?
I missed Frostbite, Seaquest, Laser Gate & Montezuma's Revenge in your list - top notch.
Great vid. Great choices
Remember various: Chopper Comand, Seaquest, Jungle Hunt, Bermuda, Presure, etc.
ah yes, Seaquest. and to think I've come from these low beginnings to being inside the submarine exocraft in No Man's Sky in VR...
Sweet memories.. And a "damn I'm getting old" right next to it ;-)
David Cady it's true
I had a friend of mine who had a 2600. We would play that for hours. Wow have things changed with computer games. Those days are long gone, but those memories are still damn good.
loved the Sonic the Hedgehog music up front. You have good taste. :)
Here's my list, based upon how much I enjoyed the games and how often I'd play them. Something most younger people don't realize is that in the late 70's and early 80's, no one called it the 2600...it was just Atari. Just like a few years later no one said NES, it was just Nintendo.
Enough rambling (get off of my lawn!), here's my top 10:
10. Circus Atari
9. Space Invaders
8. Demon Attack
7. H.E.R.O.
6. River Raid
5. Stargate
4. Pitfall!
3. StarMaster
2. Yar's Revenge
And...drum roll please...
#1. Adventure - One my favorite albums is Queen The Game released in 1980 featuring....you guessed it, Dragon Attack. It was a perfect blend of music and technology.
Now, go read a book!😃
Right, it wasn't branded the "Atari 2600" until there was an Atari 5200. It was officially the "Video Computer System", but that name wasn't informally used much either.
Sorry, that's not how I remember it. We called it the 2600 to differentiate from the Atari 400/800 computer line.
@@colinmerritt7645 Perhaps you are older than me or worked in the industry. But no one I knew, as kids, called it the 2600, there was no reason to. If you had a "real" computer like the 400/800, TRS-80, or Apple II...that was understood. We didn't even call it the VCS. Nope just Atari.
"Hey Johnny, follow me on our bikes after school and we can play Atari at my house," for example. No one was thinking Atari 400/800 because home computers were still rare.
@@tempestfury8324 Oh I'm not saying you're wrong. We just had different experiences. Regardless of what we call her, I loved my Atari. My father died and mother had to work, so it got me past many lonely afternoons and evenings.
Adventure yes...👍 thank you
Adventure my boy, Adventure.
I just ordered myself a home retro gaming system and can't wait to try some of the classic games I never got a chance to play as a kid.
the sounds are just amazing and takes me right back to the early 80s
You forgot Adventure. This still is a classic and a wonderful 2600 game! Shame you at least didn't give it an honorable mention.
I remember playing "Pitfall" not long afer it came out and I believe that was around 1979-1980!
Seems older, but Pitfall! was released on April 20, 1982. Just in case ya wondered...
@@AnarchyDragon6 👍
I love chopper command. I can fondly remember playing it at my friends house growing up. I'm so happy I got it a couple years ago. Yars revenge is one of my favorite too. Who ever made up these game dynamics were amazing.
That’s a solid top 10, well done!
Thanks Adam
OMG, Good old days ...
I was beginning to wonder if you were going to mention Pitfall. I was about to throw this list in the garbage until you totally redeemed yourself lol. Defender should have had a mention though
Defender, Asteroids and mostly "the Empire strikes back" were the titles duly missed... Pitfall deserves the top spot.
Stargate, the sequel to Defender was even better.... especially on the 2600.
I had River Raid on a two-sided cartridge with Chuck Norris on the other side. It was my favorite, thanks for the memories.
loved river raid as a kid! great game! Of course pitfall was another favorite.
My childhood top ten and I still own them with there boxes
Yar's revenge
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
River raid
Warlords
Missle Command
Chopper Command
Demon Attack
Kaboom
Megamania
Defenders
I only found out a few years ago Pitfall can be beat by collecting all 32 treasures before time runs out which is why only certain tunnels should be used and touching wrong items drains the time. It's not easy to finish and requires strategy and planning. Both Pitfalls can be beaten. I would also include Jr. Pacman and Millipede as honorable mentions but good list 👍👍
If you do make a pitfall Tabletop arcade add jungle sound effects to the cabinet.
This video was very nostalgic, but some of the sounds I hadn't heard in 40 years (Pole Position and Pitfall) brought back my adolescent frustrations of playing Atari. TRIGGERED! 😂
Superman, frogs and flies, kangaroo, zaxxon, video olympics, dodge'em, outlaw, seaquest, centipede in 2019 😊
Superman and Outlaw! I forgot about them. Both excellent games. 😁😎
Does anyone remember the Easter egg in the Adventure game?
me
No.
Not me.
I have never played the game at all.
Good list! I remember them all but Hero. I remember those plus Keystone Kops, Bowling, Baseball, Q-Bert, and Defender!
I had this console ....wow ...just wow it brings back memories
Corrections: Combat was not single player. Pole Position did not have multiple tracks for the 2600 version. Space invaders had little similarity to the arcade. I like the idea, but I don’t like one rushing these videos out just to be the first without actual care for the system and history.
Relax, it's going to be ok. Video games are just games ment to entertain and pass the time. Let's not take it so serious.
Montezuma's revenge? Moon Patrol? Decatlon? Adventure? Wizard of wor?
Where is moon patrol?
It's Decathlon not Decatlon. But I agree. So many great and underrated games on the 2600....
Berzerk could have made the list too, Sure it's not a patch on the original arcade, but it's a great conversion given the hardware limitations
Nice post i love also Decathlon,Stellar 7 ,and Demon Attack from Imagic
Your beautiful video, took me back to my adolescence،I was in grate 9 (1988)which I hardly bought a Atari 2600 Jr, (it was very expensive at the time) and rent it to people, and I made a good money of it,😀
Memories💓
The #4 is my favorite!!
Same!
Defiantly!!
I can respect this list. Nice work.
My first console......I remember being amazed that I could control what was happening on the TV lol :)
Same for me!
World has been changed rapidly.i think i become old.very veey old