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Please Aaron, if Conan wants to bring back Clueless Gamer, let it be just Aaron and Conan, no guest celebrities or jocks, just Conan and Aaron. Those were good times.
#CluelessGamer needs to return!
Love how Conan just rips the cartridge from the console without first turning it off... the look of shock on Aaron's face... great.
Thats what my parents did when it was bedtime.
Oh how i hated bedtime...
I cringed when he did that.
Won't that damage your Atari 2600 console or game?
console yes, game can take that
You forgot to hold down the reset when you turned it off!
This really is a testament to space invader’s genius.
No...it is a testament to Conan's ineptness. River Raid and Pitfall were far superior games and neither requires any real skill. Just basic competence. Of course, that is if you choose to believe that Conan is really that bad at the other games. Rather than it being what it is. A comedy bit.
Yeah man, the Michael Jackson of games, everyone understands what to do, and it's addicting as well.
@@KnickKnack07 why does a plane crash into the riverbank
@@kh2freek No one even says it is a riverbank. Lots of rivers run through canyons. But it doesn't matter. Conan was crashing on purpose. NO WAY someone his age never played an Atari growing up.
@@KnickKnack07 why is the plane crashing into anything on the ground? It’s a plane lol. Space Invaders has a simplistic logic that anyone can understand without explanation, River Raid might be good but Conan pointed out something wrong with it within 10 seconds
“Oh, God...”
I really laugh at Conan's expression when he see golf actual game.
So you speak English
I winced painfully eachtime Conana ripped the cartridges out without turning off the system. Poor guy had to silently witness this travesty.
What happens when you pull them out without turning the system off.
John Chadwick
you risk corrupting the system, rendering it useless. Might make a good paperweight.
You contract cancer
Who the fuck is Conana?!?!??
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Fun fact: the mechanics of Space Invaders that the sprites speed up as you kill more of them was not originally a design feature but rather due to limited processing speed by the computers of the time. Fans liked it so much that game developers have implemented progressive difficulty as a feature ever since.
Fr??
@@EzraDair Yep. I read that in an interview with one of the original creators
Then why does your " tank" move at the same speed?
It's not a sprite issue.
Wow no one has ever mentioned this before.
🤓🤓🤓🤓
There is no way that Conan is not a gamer if he sniffs the booklet before playing
I'm pretty sure that's just a thing with any antique in nature, especially paper, people love the smell of old books for example...
well he likes reading book, especially history.
If Conan really was a gamer, he would not take out the cartridges during the middle of a game.
@Harry D it absolutely is.
Pretty sure every gamer sniffed at least one box.
"I don't understand where I am in time and space."
Thank you for playing ET. I now understand why so many copies of this game were taken out to the desert and buried.
Listen to the audience cheer when Aaron said Space Invaders. It makes me happy :)
Conan, do more Clueless Gamer episodes! This is probably my favorite one. "This is America on its knees" gets me every time!
I'm old 44 and had an Atari 2600 when it came out. Pitfall was awesome! I hear they buried a lot of the ET cartridges in a landfill in Nevada hahaha! This brought back a lot of memories and makes me appreciate my PS4. I saw all the games and the progression of gaming from pong to Battlefield 4. I still miss arcades and pinball though... Kids nowadays miss out on the group aspect of a bunch of kids standing around a new game just waiting for room to put a quarter up in line. All captivated! Of course though I've made some great friends from around the world online gaming so it's a good trade off. Shit, if terrorists want to plot stuff and probably not be caught they should just be gamers. NSA is too busy with computers, cell phones, and such. Anyway, great video Conan!!!!!
River raid was his best review ever given. “Idk where I’m at in time or space”
I love these clueless gamer segments. Please make as many as possible.
3:50 I've never laughed so hard
When I first saw 3:50 years ago I seriously had stomach cramps from laughing. It's still funny, also the way Conan (rightfully) gets perplexed about why the plane needs to fly on the water
WHERE AM I ???
Who else thinks they should do Clueless Gamer episodes for other old consoles?
Yes!! :D
+AnnaDahmer666 I'd love to see Mega Drive. Staple of my childhood that console.
clueless gamer
Magnavox odyssey
***** YYYYEEEEESSSSS
Also...Quest 64, Turok, Mario Kart, Mario Party, etc...the possibilities are endless
"This looks like the defibrillators they used on Elvis." LMAO!
River Raid and Pitfall! were my favorites on the 'ol Atari. They were pioneering shooter and platformer games respectively.
Pitfall was awesome
Did anyone else flinch when he kept ripping the cartridges out mid game?
sukkit
I believe the word you're looking for is 'cringe'.
I actually farted blood every time he ripped a cartridge out..... i know, weird,, but yea. Blood farts.
OffhandDelivery Weird... for me, syphilitic hookers actually sashayed out the sole of my ass. Then we all went to Jamba Juice.
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Same here! Only, we went to the 7-Eleven!
I would love to see him and AVGN review a game together
Knowing that this man retired and we will never get something like this again is a gut punch.So many memories.
If you haven't seen it yet, he didn't retire either. They just posted a new travel show trailer.
He has a podcast now which features Blay and Sona. It's great, highly recommend it.
New episode coming out soon on Starfield, he's back!
I could just sit and watch Bley laugh. He's adorable.
It was 28 years ago when I was playing this! It only brings tears in my eyes, even though the graphics were basically one pixel, but everything was so magical back then! I wished I could go one more time back in time!
rvmvadati one more time back in time? So you've gone back in time before.. how far back did you go?
Dan M I went back to the 1400s
rvmvadati What was your favorite Atari games?
Go back in time? No....the games now are so much better than what I was playing back in the late 70's early 80's. I did love that system to death back then though.
I want him to review some NES games. First and foremost, I want to see him play the original Super Mario Bros.
That would make my day.
Same
Snes is better tho
River Raid was awesome! I loved that game when I was a kid.
+SealAngel One of the few games developed by a woman. Carol Shaw.
Kenny Vilorio Yeah, but we got to see the 80's & you didn't. Your move. :~D
+SealAngel loved river raid, it was one of my favorite games when I was a kid
+SealAngel That was one of the best i ever played
+Aaron Gasparetto Yep activision was the first ever 3rd party developer and they outdid atari imo
Its funny seeing all the people on here hating on the Atari, but without this system you wouldn't have the Xbox one and ps4 or the Wii or any other system for that matter. This is the system that really made home video gaming a viable industry. Instead of mocking history learn the facts. Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Sega should all be thanking Nolan Bushnell. Even the Mario Bros from Nintendo was first on the Atari 2600.....
Technically Mario Bros was an arcade game first.
Nanofuture87 you get my point lol
The pioneers for sure.
Im The only Kid I know that likes retro Gaming.
Good. Maybe without all those consoles we'd only have PC gaming, which would be about ten times ahead of its current state if it didn't have to be dumbed down to also work on shitty low spec consoles.
"There you go, you made the flower go up."
"What?"
LOL
just remember, in *37 years* people are going look back and laugh at the PS4 and XBOX One.
Not really. Itll be different but playable. The nes is old and even though its simple by todays standards, its simple easy and fun and still holds up.
FiZzLE Meme you missed my point.
Virtual Reality is gonna exist by then i'm guessing, could be a possibility we could pass our lives into it and probably live a very long time =3=....immortality is in the technology~
Vince George exactly the point i'm making, in 37 years i guarantee people will be laughing at what we play now..
the same way people in 1977 laughed at toys like Silly Putty, Tonka Trucks and Snakes and Ladders played around 1940.
I laugh at them right now. Between my PS3, 3DS and PC there's no reason to own either of those paperweights.
Ahhhh...takes me back. We loved Combat and Pitfall. We were blown away!!
This was hilarious! I was 9 when a lot of these games were coming out. Damn, that takes me back! Now, the game-play graphics are a good as the artwork of the cover of the game package. But back then, Conan nailed it, because the cartoon-ish game stickers on the cartridge were FAR more flamboyant and detailed than the actual game.
"River Raid."
"Here we go"
*crashes*
that made me laughed way too much
I’m glad Space Invaders got cheers from the audience. Still is an amusing game after all this time
pretty amazing how far games have come.
Time flies....cant believe that this was released 7 yrs ago
Wow.....How many times have I watched this?Another priceless moment,courtesy of the great Conando.
That was hilarious. The funny thing is that I used to own everyone of those games. Combat was awesome! I wish that they had played asteroids, which was the one I dominated in back in the 80s.
After you watch extra credits you actually have a lot of respect for missile defense compared to every thing else it was amazingly hard and had a story with in the game world meaningful choices. Truly one of the best games to this day.
Missile Command actually had some of the best replay value of any 2600 game. By contrast, I never really understood all the love for Pitfall.
@@roystonlodge The easier for all ages to play a game, the more popular it is. That's why Pitfall > Missile Command.
I cringed when he took out the game without shutting off the system first.
I've never actually managed to kill a cartridge that way.
Sometimes this can have unintended consequences. Like the time that it gave me invincibility in Transbot, after which I'd left it running for a day. That game has no ending! It just loops the levels over and over until you hit some high score limitation I presume.
Same. You could tell in the other guy's face he did not like it either.
It made me poop blood
i imagine it only played the part that was loaded into the ram
Those are Zardonians and Kritolions alright.
James Rofle would be proud.
Rolfe
@@mmd3585 Jeffrey
I like Irate Gamer better. But Conan is pretty cool!
@@kejiri3593 That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long, long time.
And not one that needs to be uttered again.
@@names_are_useless HES GONNA TAKE YOU BACK TO THE PAST
34 years old from Spain and I remember to play every single one of them. THANK YOU dad an mom 😍😍😍
Nice touch. I asked for one and got Radio Shack pong.
I am not buying that he was that bad at these games. Conan was a nerd kid, from a fairly wealthy family at the time when the Atari 2600 was huge. There is NO WAY he didn't spend hours playing these games 30-35 years ago
Must suck living life being so sceptical. Goodness gracious
skepticism has noting to do with it moron. You obviously don't understand how a comedy talk show works.
FuckYouGooglePlus yeah cuz everything on a comedy skit has to be fake. Fuck off. Also you seem mad haha . Your life must suck since youre always doubting everyhing lol. Must suck to be you. And given your username you are mad haha
yeah ! , i can't believe he didn't play Atari !
Uhhh If u watch the second Clueless Gamer review Conan himself says "i am not a big gamer, i wasent in the 80s and i am still not now" so shut the pie hole untill you get your facts straight.
It's actually pretty impressive what the designers were able to do with the technology then.
OMG that golf game and Conan's reaction to it just killed me! XD
Hey, Pitfall was fun, Space Invaders, Frogger, were fun ✌️💙
I wish the full version of this, an uncut version showing every game he played was available. I could make a list of so many games I wish it showed him playing that I wouldn't know where to begin!
Whilst I laugh at all of Conan's criticisms of these old games (which are hilarious), I also kinda wish he'd appreciate some of the Atari game designer/programmers genius. They were so up against it with the technology, trying to squeeze out every ounce of 'game' from a ridiculously limited platform using a phenomenally low level programming language. They were legit geniuses and this is literally the best they could make.
i wouldn't call them geniuses but yes it was the technology limitations that made it harder
@@xtensionxward3659 Some of them definitely were. There are a lot of youtube videos on old games that pushed the limits of the systems and the clever ways programmers got around limitations.
@@bobbobbity463 Yeah, what these guys did with this limited tech reminds me of cave paintings.
He has to make it funny, hence the clueless gamer name lol... the game designers are truly worthy of praise but this isn't the place nor time for it. If he did something like that, the audience wouldn't be as responsive.
The cover art and the backstory made it work.
River Raid, wow. When I saw this game I had a flood of memories, how many hours I spent playing it and I completely forgot it until now.
That golf game just killed me , I had to pause especially after that hit ..
was ist Daßer?
3:49 lol
I literally can't stop laughing
Hilarious
Hahahaha
Why is nobody asking the real questions? Where the hell did you get a copy of E.T
The secret dumping place was actually found a few years ago
Pitfall still holds up, too.
I loved Missile Command as a kid, and Pitfall is a true classic
Still have my atari 2600 with 84 games playing, that console is almost as old as me. I must say still looks sexy next to my ps4 and ps3.
I really love the sounds of the old games.
Extended cut please!! I want to see Conan's reaction to the duck-dragons in Adventure.
Don't take this so seriously folks. I own an Atari 2600 and I don't mind him making fun of it at all. In fact, it's hilarious!
Although, to be fair: "Conan made fun of it, therefore it MUST be stupid" is just as stupid.
Also, he should've played Custers Revenge.
Yes, but nobody cares how YOU reacted to it.
MeatHook33 Rofl, even being a gamer myself, I'm aware of how silly that era was. Jontron recently did a a segment on Star Wars atari games that really fits here. Lol, a star wars game where you play an X-wing and take out a Walker. "You could have called this game Bird vs. Camel, and no one would have argued with you." I still see some Atari games and go "Okay, I need a 'legend' to tell me what this is and that is".
For me, gaming Magic didn't really start till NES/SNES era, where things started to become noticeable as shapes(while still leaving lots of room for 'childhood imagination').
+MeatHook33 beat it and it was another x rated classic
beat'em and eat'em
Groffis glorch goops!
1:15 Missed out on a "that's what she said" joke.
I have most of the good games i think, and surprisingly, one of the least known or owned, Indy 500, with the special controllers of course, works extremely well, the way you turn the the joystick knob to have your cars go around the corner and how they react on screen is perfect, and especially the ice tracks, they way they slide, those physics (which they aren't even really) is surprisingly good, it feels right.
And of course the Breakouts, and Decathlon (kill your controllers).
I remember playing some of these games and yes back then some of them seemed next level future. Now video games look just about like real life. But that did take 30 + years to get here.
Yep. My parents bought us the Atari 2600 back in 1980 and we had all those games. Hated the golf but Space Invaders and Pitfall were amazing. Of course, it was Frogger that blew everyones mind! That was freaking hi-tech!
I don’t even bother watching Clueless Gamer with celebs in them. Wish Conan and Aaron could do some more episodes. I’ve seen all clips and want more.
I can confirm that my mind was indeed blown when I played these games back in 1982. No one even had a console in those days. NO ONE.
I just happened to be friends with a rich guy whose parents imported an Atari from...somewhere. And had they given him the Millennium Falcon,
I would've been less impressed than by how amazing "Combat" was.
My dad had this as a kid I've played and fell in love with missile command one of my favorite classic games
I love how he mentions men at work, truely an underrated band, thanks Conan
This brought back sooo many memories! Big up to all my 35 year olds who remember this. I had every game they played
OK grandpa time to put you in the home
@@lumpylumpyloo One day you'll be old and you'll remember this...or you'll die young, either way.
I wish he gave a little more backstory on ET, It was so bad Atari rounded up all the unsold cartridges and buried it in the middle of the desert in an unknown location so that no one can ever play it.
Unknown location...? It's very known.
hockey161616 what do you mean very known.
MrPepsicola123 Really? Wow....
MrPepsicola123 The cartridges were known to be buried somewhere outside of Alamogordo, New Mexico. They were discovered in a landfill a year ago.
Alfonso O. who discovered it.
I love how the audience cheered for Space Invaders that was my fav.
the 1977 Atari 2600 is comparable to the 1871 Carhart automobile. Considering how much cars have evolved in over a century, I'm excited for the future of gaming. And we're getting closer all the time.
"I was just about to throw two hamburger patties on it and start grilling." Too funny!
Pitfall!!!! Who didnt love Pitfall!
seifukusha How about the sequel, Pitfall 2. That game was the first time I saw an Atari 2600 game with music.
+seifukusha I did not like it because it was Boring, all you did was jump over logs and jump on vines and jump on the back of crocodiles BORING.
+seifukusha At least he loved Space Invaders. Common, but I approve. *shrugs*
Juho I’m playing that right now! As I watch this video again
The first one was "meh", but the second one was great.
Love how Conan was holding the controller wrong for River Raif and kept smashing into the “wall”.
I remember playing the two first games on Atari when I was a child. Then it was Space Invaders on either PC or cellphone, I can't remember which. I got a kick of nostalgia from this video.
6:42 *The sound is actually fantastic listen "Pupupupupupupu"* _Die_ 😂😂
Who could not love space invaders?
It doubled and redoubled sales of Atari consoles, making it more than just a Pong console.
@@sandal_thong8631 Easily the best game on the console, and still extremely enjoyable to this day.
@Kristie C Both good games, but not so much on the 2600. Much, much better on the 5200.
@@jeremyc9593 Extremely might be hyperbole.
@@Lambda_Ovine Might be, but isn't.
How did Conan get replaced from on NBC? he's the best comedian talk show host I can remember.
Conan you should play, "Hellen Keller The Experience". It would make my day haha
You know what's truly scary? The United States nuclear arsenal is still run by computers from that era.
Yeah... but no lag or startup times, that's gotta count for something
AdvocateIX More complicated means more loopholes which can be exploited by hackers too
@AdvocateIX "malicious cyber attacks."
Swayzak the malicious virus
"this may be the worst day of my life"
this may be the funniest clueless gamer
Perpetually_Biased It Is.
Interesting how both with Conan and the audience Space Invaders still holds up :D
Space Invaders and Combat were definitely my two favourite Atari games in the 80s.
"If you see a man in a trenchcoat, never let him touch you" hahaha
Who's your favourite gamer?
Me: Conan O'Brien
it's all about the cover art!, Buck Rogers - Coleco Adam, best vintage game ever and it played from a freakin cassette
Lol, as soon as he said we did a poll i immediately thought of E.T. XD
Conan (sniffing the booklet from "Combat"): "This smells like the mid-70s ... This smells like Stevie Nicks."
If you're in a position to know, you have my unqualified admiration, sir.
If you are someone who isn't Conan, I highly recommend river raid. It's a bit simple by today's standards, but it's a pretty fun game.
Golf always got me , and then the plane one omg hahahahah , please bring this back!!!!!
I'm 25 and when i was about maybe 9 my father found an atari with games in some trash to be thrown. He brought it home & it worked do we used to play for hours. Sadly it broke after a couple of years but I still love that console.
Duuuude you must respect this grandpa console ....
"It looks vaguely sexual."
That's a sentence I'd like to incorporate into my nonexistent social life. 🙃
1:57 Conan just basically summed up why the video game market crashed in the early 80's before Nintendo came along with the NES.
I remember those tanks.I used to play more advanced version on old nintendo when i was a kid... damn how time flies!
6:44 And thats the worlds first dubstep
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
I love and miss Atari...
Atari 2600!!!! Outstanding!!!! Love the Clueless Gamer series.
I got missile command on my phone. Love it. Just like the arcade game graphically.
Contemporary gamers are the first ones to tell us old school gamers to "get a sense of humor" and "get over it" when old consoles are ripped like this, yet when someone makes a smart comment like Red23 ("just remember, in 37 years people are going look back and laugh at the PS4 and XBOX One") about current gen consoles being viewed as archaic in the future THEY start whining and denying. Who's butthurt now? :D
2052 -- Kid: "Geez gramps! GTA V? COD? You actually enjoyed playing this CRAP?" (laugh track)
Gramps: "Shut up you little disrespectful fuck! These are true classics!! Look at those graphics dammit!!!" (sound of crickets chirping)
Kid: "Those graphics are SHIT!! And you had to use your hands? So GAY!!" (laugh track)
Gramps: "Knock it off, unappreciative piece of shit!" (crowd boos)
Kid: "And you needed to download patches, content and stuff? Your gaming era sucks balls old man!" (crowd owwwwws)
Gramps: Shut up! SHUT UP!!!" (cries and curls up into a ball. Thunderous laugher and applause)
+Big0taz0 The kid prolly has a point tho lol
That child seems a bit disrespectful, though. Even though I don't exactly favor Call of Duty, I wouldn't say the animation and graphics are "shit." If NES, SNES, N64, Ps1/Ps2 are still glorified, I think the Ps4 and Xbox One Will be as well.
lol the "you have to use your hands?" part is from back to the future.
i can't thumb up on the CZcams app dammit !
Brennan Adamski lol I remember that reference. Back to the Future is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Thank you fans for picking E.T!
This just reminds me that video games have had quite the journey. Pretty awesome. I wish we'd kept the old Atari. It's history. :D