Top 20 Atari 2600 Games Worth Playing Today
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- The top best 20 Atari 2600 games that are still worth playing and fun today. I only include games where the Atari is actually the best way to play the game.
0:07 Introduction
0:18 Two games only fun with real hardware
1:08 20 Jaw Breaker
1:23 19 Solar Fox
1:39 18 Sky Diver
2:00 17 Yars' Revenge
2:23 16 Frostbite
2:47 15 Turmoil
3:12 14 Fishing Derby
3:43 13 Kaboom!
3:47 12 Battlezone
4:36 11 Aadvark
5:08 10 Dragonstomper
5:31 9 Pitfall!
6:09 8 Space Invaders
6:27 7 Phaser Patrol
6:49 6 River Raid
7:12 5 Combat
7:34 4 Phoenix
8:00 3 Berzerk
8:26 2 H.E.R.O.
8:49 1 Adventure
Honestly my fav game of all of these was combat, i remember me and my brother playing it for hours when we finished our chores in vacations
Yeah friends and I played the hell out of combat.
Too bad it didn't have a computer AI version. I got Armor Ambush a couple years later, but few wanted to come over to play Atari by then.
Yes, it was like 60 games in one. I usually played the tank version.
Totally agree was just about to say Combat too. Tanks with rebounding bullets and temporary invisibility. 😅
Then Space Invaders, Pitfall.
Then we got an Atari 800xl … Anyone remember Orc Attack?
Yep playability was great with that game
My mom brought me to a store I haven't been to before, and they let me test some games on their TV over the counter. I tested a few, but ended with Frostbite. I played that a few times and loved it. I asked my mom to buy me that game, and she did. I played that game for years. It is a great game and I have so may great memories with it.
Great game one of the best. You must have been onto it.
I remember that game.
I didn't have a 2600 when I was a kid, but I gifted that game to my cousin.
My list:
Warlords
H.E.R.O.
Missle Command
Gravitron
Yars Revenge
Kaboom
Battlezone
Adventure is one of my favorite games of all time. I came up with the idea of randomized levels too add to replay ability but thought this would never happen. It actually happened with Atari Vault collection.
Hero, Pitfall, River Raid, Berzerk, and a few others are still a blast.
I still play adventure quite regularly it's amazing how many complicated situations you can get in. I've started playing it in stella in debug mod now and again it makes is so the keys and dragons aren't different colours so you have to figure out which keys do what. It's like level 3.5. :P
out of all the Atari 2600 games I own, these are my faves :)
Crossbow, Frogger 1 & 2, Midnight magic, Pitfall 1 & 2, Time warp, Dig dug, Plaque attack, Pole position, Radar lock, Challenge, Mario bros, Donkey kong, Asteroids, Space adventure, Spider fighter, Moon patrol, Millipede, Mouse trap, Solaris, Pacman Jr, Mrs Packman, Galaxian, River raid 1 & 2, Desert falcon, Centipede, Ghostbusters, Crystal castles & Q-bert@@markrotondella4689
That's some collection. I had a few of those I only became aware of the Atari Galaxian more recently. I knew there was one but I assumed it would be terrible but they did a great job on that,
One of my top games for the 2600 was Joust. Ms. Pac Man was also great. Kaboom is fantastic and I do play it from time to time.
Yes played the hell out of Joust the Atari had a great version.
Yeah ... Ms.Pacman is Pac-man done right. Imagine how much obscene amount of $$$ Atari would have made if that'd happened !!
Yeah it is a shame that the polish they put into Ms and Jr wasn't applied to Pacman. It was their best selling game who knows what they would have sold if it was actually good.
Thank you for including the very end of the Adventure game! I was hoping you would show the complete game!! Great description, incredible game for the time! One of my favs!
Yeah I recorded a lot of games before I got lucky and got this one which was a quick to complete. I remember a lot of convincing to get my parents to this one and it did not disappoint.
Adventure was such a landmark game. First video game RPG. First open-world exploring game. First easter egg (the "secret room.") While it doesn't really hold up today, at the time it was completely revolutionary and groundbreaking; and hence remains one of my all time favorites.
Adventure really was ground breaking. It was the first time a secret was called an easter egg but there are quite a few examples that predate it. Moonlander (1972) had a hidden McDonalds. :P I still play Adventure often. I still is the only Adventure game you can complete in 5 minutes or so and actually feel like you had an Adventure
1978 !
Finally. I have seen so many CZcamsrs play space invaders by blowing away the bottom guys first it's shameful. Thanks for actually knowing how to play the game. Hahahaha subbed.
Haha I know - columns!!! shoot the columns!!!
Ah im very partial to this system got it for my 6th birthday with super breakout and e.t. one of the best days of my life
You never forget your first system. :D
The one I played over and over was pitfall, loved it! Thank you for the great video Mark!
Thanks :D :D
Gosh, this video brings back a lot of memories.
:D :D
When I was a child I also loved "Jungle Hunt", "Tutankham", "Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi. Death Star Battle".
I had totally forgotten about Tutankham I had that one back in the day it was very good, the arcade version looks fun too I'm going to have to give them both a go. :P
Jungle Hunt was a good port
@@patsfan4life I disagree. I liked the arcade, as I did many games with multiple stages like Gorf and Phoenix, but the controls were too difficult as you couldn't move the guy much on Atari. It was one of the last new games I got in 1983.
Check out the Tutankham homebrew and it’s sequel for the Commodore 64. It’s really close to the arcade. Such a unique game for its time. It’s great to see new ports of old games and how good they can turn out.
ESB was a great one too, but got repetitive fairly quickly.
Cool game reviews and list, thank you!
Thanks :D
Dodge 'Em, Yar's Revenge, Demon Attack which is similar to Phoenix, Cosmic Ark, Maze Craze, Tutankham, Venture, Mouse Trap, Keystone Kapers. There are some of the one that I still like to play.
Oh Dodge "Em! I forgot about that one I imagine that one is pretty Zen once you get good at it.
Dodge 'Em is one of my favorites. So simple yet so difficult and addictive.
Amazing video, this took me back many many years, can't believe how many games I forgot about
Thanks - I've been reminded of quite a few I forgot about too in the comments.
Great video! I'd forgotten how good Phoenix looked.
Yeah and mercilessly fast. I don’t think the arcade game had sprites based on the weird way the enemies move. The end boss was better but I prefer the rest of the stages in the Atari version.
Played these games in the 80”s with my Brother. He saved the games and controller and dropped them back to me. Now playing with my 10 year old Son. What a blast today! Our favorite is HERO !
HERO is a masterpiece I saved an age to buy it back in the day. Such a good game still today. I got good enough to complete it again last year.
I got Atari 2600 from 1980 and played until about 1985. Probably had about 30-40 cartridges so I’m always amazed by how many of the games on these “greatest hits” lists I’ve never played or even seen. Jungle Hunt is one of my favourites. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this list. Very informative and fun to watch. 🎉
Thanks :D :D
Great list and concise look at all of these, thanks.
Thanks :D :D
Thanks :D :D
Raider of the lost ark, Dig dug, Enduro and Jungle hunt, 4 little gems.
They would make a lot of peoples top games.
I loved Indy 500!!! It was a 2 player racing game and it came with special controllers that looked like paddles but instead would rotate all the way around with out stopping like the paddles did. Played the ice track for hours- so much fun!
I really wanted to put Indy 500 as the third - if you have real hardware game. It's a great game and part of driving game history. I just couldn't get even so so screen capture with cars moving. Plus it's a bit of an investment with the controllers for just the one game. The variations were fun I liked the Tag one and the catch the Dot one too.
I've seen many of these lists. Thanks for including the Starpath games.
Thanks, I actually had one back in the day and most of the games so there was no way they weren't going to be mentioned.
I used to be able to play a game of space invaders forever - rolling the points over multiple times in one go. The only thing that would cause me to die would be mom calling for dinner. Good times.
My father would play it for hours. :P
Great Video. Thanks for introducing me to Aardvark
Thanks they did an amazing job on that game.
Beautiful list! Didnt know most of these good looking games existed!
Thanks you should give them a go :D :D
Nice to see Combat and Video Olympics (almost) make the list. Some games I enjoy that you did not mention are Asteriods, Spy Hunter, Breakout, Omega Race, Q*bert, Montezuma's Revenge, and Wizard of Wor.
I really liked the Atari Asteroids and as much as I liked the look of the arcade game it was too hard for me. Montezuma's Revenge is an excellent game for the Atari that really didn't have many successfully realised platform games.
This a really solid list. I have most of these and played the heck out of them as a kid. Kaboom, somehow, has always been my favorite but you really need original hardware and a paddle.
Some of the emulators have decent mouse paddle support. I have been trying for ages to find a reasonably priced replacement for paddles on a modern computer. It really is a shame you can't easily play these game now.
Great call out for putting berserk and combat towards the top. Space invaders was so awesome (i flipped score back to zero). I was really taken with Raiders of the Lost Ark. what a great title I never hear mentioned.
Don't think I ever managed to clock Space Invader... well I did it with the two bullet cheat. Never really played Raiders it is quite complex for an Atari game.
@@markrotondella4689SI was the first game I "beat". I was pretty proud as a 7-8 year old. I didn't know about the cheat. Raiders remains one of my favorite xmas gifts ever. I actually found and played the game before xmas in '82. 🤫It was so cool, using a parachute to find the secret room and using the medallion to locate the ark with the sun shining through it. First memories that come to mind. Have not played after the 80s, but fond memories.
Berserk was perhaps the best arcade port on the system
Even when the guy was slow in Berserk, I never felt that it was an error like not being able to move the ship in Vanguard at higher levels, or trouble moving the guy in Jungle Hunt.
Yes, I also loved Raiders.
Oh my word ...my stomach just turned when I started watching this The memories are deep :-)
Crack open an emulator and take a walk down memory lane. :D
Agreed on Phoenix and Berserk, as being the best arcade ports on the system and perhaps even more playable than the arcade versions, as you mentioned.
I thought Enduro should have made the list for its groundbreaking technical achievement and replayability
I agree Enduro is an amazing achievement I just wish it was a more conventional race rather a passathon sacrilege I know. :/
@@markrotondella4689 "Passathon" is a good description of so-called race games where your opponent is miles ahead of you and driving slowly for you to catch up, pass and never see again! Of those, Turbo (1981) was my favorite with the Ambulance making you pull over and crossing a narrow bridge; I also played Outrun(1986) and the one you sit on a motorcycle. Perhaps the overhead games like Super Sprint (1986) were more of a race. They brought some back like Super Off-Road (1989). Apparently Indy 500 (one of the original Atari 9 in 1977) was similar to Sprint (1978) but without the oil slicks.
Yes I had Indy 500 back in the day - it was a great game. Could have used a computer opponent and they could have done the slicks with the bullet sprites. Shame they didn't use the driving controllers for anything else.
That's a wonderful list I have not heard of many of those ones! My favourite games when I was a kid was: Dark Chambers and Quick Step. ❤
Quick Step looks interesting I might give it a go.
Asterix was my fav. I loved it.
It looks interesting can't say I've played that one.
I loved all of them and you got the number order right too.
Thanks :D :D
Loved frostbite and enduro best, I have them on my Gameboy now...🌴🌴
That's double retro! :D :D
These 2 player games were very good head-to-head with a friend: Tennis, Ice Hockey, and, for a nostalgic laugh, Basketball….
Yeah Ice Hockey was on the list till I shortened it and I couldn't decide with Tennis or Real Sports Tennis whether they are actually still good or it is just my nostalgia. I do really like both of them
@@markrotondella4689 Tennis with 2 players and classic joysticks are still fun
Basketball for Atari was the one sport game I had that was better than its counterpart on Odyssey².
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@@sandal_thong8631 wow the Odessey version must've been bad 😂
Great list.
Thanks :D
I got my atari 2600 in 1981 when Space Invaders was the big christmas hit. The base pack came with combat. I still fire up Space Invaders on my MiSTer FPGA on a regular basis. I loved that game as a kid 🙂 There is an "A.I." romhack for combat which allows you to play single player with a computer controller tank. pretty cool.
The MiSTer is a great investment. I love mine, the new developments with Playstation 1 are very exciting.
@@markrotondella4689 it’s hands down the best piece of retro hardware I have purchased. I love all the cores. AO486 and X68000 with the mt32pi are awesome as well :-)
It is also money saving - anytime I start thinking about collecting for Master System or what ever I just have to remind myself I can play them all on Mister. :P
Yar’s Revenge!! Takes me back
It's one I missed back in the day.
It’s unfortunate that you you weren’t a fan of Yars. It was one of the first games that included evolving levels and difficulty that required more than just adapting to faster speed for higher levels. The enemy got faster and smarter while you had to concoct a new strategy using unboosted and unchanged skills. Imagine Bezerk where you could only fire to the right and the enemy robots fire could chase you around the screen. It was an early masterpiece.
I know I really should put the time in and see if it grabs me but so far it's one where I think I might have missed the boat
@@markrotondella4689 So did you put the time in? YOu are missing out!!!!!!
Yars seemed to be too easy. Went on until you decided to turn it off.
@@jasonc2784 I will agree that you could play forever, if you evolved with the enemy. That said, my point still remains, it was still revolutionary game play. Pretty much every other game on the console simply moved faster or swapped to a handful of different level layouts.
Love yars revenge.
In the show Clarence, Clarence and his stepdad play a game called "dragon's cusp" which is a nod to Adventure .
I had a look on the youtube watching him set up the Atari pretty funny. Although composite leads we wish :P
6:49--I think River Raid is the absolute BEST GAME EVER!
It is pretty fantastic.
I had to rewind when you said, "Number 9" a few times. Reminded me of something :&)
Haha where did I put my White Album? :P
Turmoil was the most frantic shooter for that system for sure. That game got very fast. It was my favorite 2600 game as a kid. I used to wish the NES would have got an even faster sequel with bosses... no such luck.
Some other good 2600 games are
TOWERING INFERNO
COMMANDO RAID
TUNNEL RUNNER
Haven't played much of those three they quite unique games.
Nice selection. Check out Beamrider, Snoopy vs The Red Baron, Fantastic Voyage and Laser Gate if you don't know these games. They're very good!
They are great games. Have you seen the home brews of Scramble and Juno First they are both insanely well done.
@@markrotondella4689 Nice to know, I'll search it. I don't know the homebrew scene. This is a good theme for a video! :)
I was a big fan of Dark Cavern (also sold as Night Stalker for the Coleco system). While not an actual Atari release it, and Haunted House, were my favorite games from the 1980s.
Dark Cavern does look good I don't remember seeing the M Network Atari games down this part of the world. I feel like I need to give Haunted House more of a go I never had it back in the day.
@@markrotondella4689 My favorite (and first) Choose Your Own Adventure book was a "haunted" house, "Mystery of Chimney Rock." There's not much to Haunted House for Atari. Too bad they didn't adapt that story, or another. Having a couple screens in the dark, like the catacombs in Adventure, would be OK, but the whole game?
Dark Caverns was a good one. I was happy to have it on the Atari Vault collection add-on pack. Definitely a hidden gem.
combat was great if u got in sum corners and kept going in a tight circle it would glitch and flip you to the other side
Really? I'm going to have to give that a try.
This was a very solid list, I have to say.
Thanks :D
Brings back all the memories of my childhood with my brothers. Oh and dont forgrt E.T. the game. I LOVED IT!
I really should give ET a play through. I do actually have the cartridge. :D
ET is considered one of the worst games ever made.
@@shawbros not to me.
The most underrated 2600 game. It wasn't perfect but it was fun and completely original
Love that Adventure is #1!
Had to be. :D :D
Adventure was just mind-boggling when I popped that cartridge (label then were just some weird alphanumeric symbol and no graphical dragon yet) into my VCS. Multiple screen plays were incredible to me 45 years ago !!
They captured the look-and-feel of the game Phoenix perfectly !! I couldn't believe they could do River Raid & H.E.R.O on such primitive 2600 hardware. Got a party? Put on that packing combat game & see how it drew in the crowd !!
I still play Adventure on the regular and recently spent a couple of days getting good at H.E.R.O. Much easier these days with being able to save I must of played it so much back in the day to learn all the levels without it. Those games are 128 byte (RAM) master pieces mind blowing achievements.
Good list. It's astounding that they were able to make Pitfall 2 and HERO on the 2600 - those are relatively complex games. I would have put Superman on this list as well - quite a good game for the time.
Yeah no frame buffer and 128 bytes of RAM they really are impressive.
Pitfall II had a lot bigger ROM built into the cart than the typical 4K but I believe HERO got it done within the typical 4k
Pitfall II had an co processor Display Processor Chip that helped with the sound and graphics. They both had bank shifting to go over the normal 4K.
Great list! I'd add Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of The Lost Ark, Haunted House, Missile Command and Defender as well.
Yeah they are all great titles although I haven't played Raiders to be honest.
Really great inclusions, some I would have added myself, some I didn't know much about. I came to Adventure relatively late and it's now one of my top games. You try the homebrew Adventure II? I feel like the base came can be improved by just adding a mixture of new elements but the basic game's mastery component, where if you learn how the world works you get better at it, is hard to get past.
I've tried some of the Adventure homebrews I don't think I tried the "official" one the put on the Atari Pro I think it would need to be made by Warren Robinett for my ears to prick up. :P
@@markrotondella4689 That's fair. I'm not sure even a guy who painstakingly put data into the original hardware would be willing to go through that process again to make a new one, especially with the old limitations, but I guess I mean that this simple simple formula has a lot of potential that you don't see in many modern genres
@@nutherefurlong I have wished for years someone could make a modern Adventure. A random adventure game that you can complete in 5-10 minutes a feel like you actually completed an adventure. All the elements just come together perfectly for Adventure the weird way the maps work, the magnet, the bat it would be hard to add to it without making it clunky
@@markrotondella4689 Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Maybe test it and not just try to put a whole bunch of features that drag it down. But there's also charm in the jank, like the flickering changing object interaction is one of them, another is how you basically grab onto the bad and wield the sword that way, it still makes me smile when that happens, or when a dragon gets carried off. The bat is chaos incarnate
@@nutherefurlong Yeah the jank is important and anything you introduce has to have the same simple physics that doesn't care if you are holding it or not. I have thought about making a in the style of.
Imagic Atlantis ... simple but satisfying
It is an iconic game. Imagic were really creative with their titles... well maybe not demon attack but that was a great game with histories best cartridge cover. :P
Some great choices here. Bouncing bullets in Combat was the best!
Pong tank is fantastic.
Superman was also a great game. It doesn't get much love though. What I liked the most about it was that the better you got, the quicker the game was over. For a lot of other games, when you got really good it meant playing for hours which eventually gets boring.
Superman was a very complicated game for the Atari. It had the Adventure code as a starting point (even though it came out after it) I understand. Yeah most Atari games are fun for a short burst although sometimes that is part of their appeal. Have a quick go and then go onto something else.
My favorite on this list is Yar's Revenge. It was a fantastic game to spend a little or kill a lot of time! Battlezone was one of my favorites as well, and I still think it has some of the best graphics on the system. Combat was a fun one I used to play with my dad. The Atari had a lot of bad games that I would challenge as even being games, but, when it was right, it was sooo right! I had a lot of fun times with it!
I love Battlezone I would have put i higher but I felt it was personal bias. The graphics are crazy and only 4 years into the system. The player Tank has no business being on the Atari it uses every graphical element to create it, including changing the colour of the screen twice mid scanline to colour the turret.
I hope you caught the game code dissection video about Yar's Revenge. Apparently the flashing invulnerability field was showing actual game's code (encrypted)!
Everybody's list of favorite games have some that are different, mainly because they had a specific cartridge and not another. It's good to see Atari games before Space Invaders mentioned. I wouldn't mind watching a video about their "best" or favorite games before January 1980's Space Invaders release. Also Atari only put out 5 games in 1984 after the Crash, and other companies put out a few, like those you mentioned, but I bought no new games in 1984!
Yeah they really hit a wall with the console. HERO was my last full priced game which was crazy expensive in today's money and budget bin from then on.
Breakout with the paddle controllers was one of my favorites. The 2600 version was underrated.
Breakout is definitely a classic. I love a bit of DX-Ball I'd say a new take on Breakout but it's old enough to be a classic it's self. :P
I remember being able to rent the games from my local "video shop" and the likes of ET , Indiana Jones etc. But Combat and River Raid were our goto games. For years after getting rid of the 2600 (and moving onto computers) my mother would refer to us playig computer games as "ding dinging" - as a reference to River Raid.
We couldn't rent til at least NES I think.
I completely agree with your list. Greetings
Haha thanks I feel like this is the first time this has happened on the internet. :P
Our generation is the best! We have seen the evolution of the video games industry from the pong and Atari days to what it is now! We are so lucky
It's a little weird to be part of history and I really think that is what we experienced from pong to real time 4K ray traced games it's an incredible progression and it fantastic the library of decades of games you can have access to now very cheaply.
@@markrotondella4689 Yesh, and the beauty of it all is that we can remember being amazed by the graphics of every generation along the way. Like the first time we saw a NES game after having played only Atari and Intellivision before. And later the epic war between Sega Genesis and SNES. ( I was team Sega back in the day). Then the era of 3D games with the Sega Saturn, N64 and the very first Playstation. Impossible to forget it.
The jumps were dramatic back in the day each Generation is leagues ahead of the previous one.
"Krull" and "ET: The Extra Terrestrial" are both severely underrated Atari 2600 games. The bad reputation of ET is undeserved and likely comes from people refusing to read the instruction manual that comes with the game. Krull is also easier to figure out if you read the instructions.
Ooo I'll have to give Krull a go I've never played it. ET seems to be getting a little more love these days I'm glad the programmer seems to see the funny side of it all in retrospect.
Amanecimos jugando ❤❤❤
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@9:08 “Somebody get this freak’n duck away from me!” - SB
You'll never look at ducks the same way again. :P
Warlords arcade game version was off the hook!
I can imagine I don't think I ever saw it in the wild. The atari homebrew version is very impressive.
Great list! IMHO just one game missing: Cristal Castles
I'll have to check it out. I've played the arcade game but can't say I've give then 2600 version a go.
Had Phoenix, but it came out with the Atari Force comic.
How have I never heard their was an Atari comic!?
@@markrotondella4689 They came in certain Space-type games. Like Star Raider, Defender
Not a bad list. Completely missed Pitfall 2. Came out near the end of life for the 2600 and had an extra-large (for the time) memory chip in the cartridge. The playable "maze" of the cavern was huge for a 2600 game. Would not see games that size until NES, at least for my basement back in my childhood.
I only ever played the C64 version of pitfall back in the day. Evidently that version has even more hidden levels. :P
My older brother lived at home forever and had a lot of disposable income so I got to play many of the ones listed here! The parachute game and fishing derby were funny to play when you got bored and purposely lose like the end of the Simpsons episode where Bart is choking on the Lee Trevino golf! Haha! My friends & I agreed in high school that the funniest characters in Space Invaders was the second to the bottom row with the little guys shooby doing their feet back and forth! Good #1 because Adventure was the one I played the most in addition to Othello.
Hard to argue with Adventure with how ground breaking it was. I also don't think anyone has managed to create another 3-5 minute to finish Adventure game.
Omg sky diver :D
Fishing derby :')
Classics ;) :P
Solid list. I feel that River Raid gets a little overrated, but this list certainly gives deference to some obscure titles, cheers to that.
Thanks. I must admit I'm not a huge fan of River Raid myself mainly because I'm terrible at it. But considering the whole scrolling shooter had only been created the year before it is quite a historically significant game. As far as I can tell it was the first scrolling shooter on a console. Also a huge technical feat when you consider it is playing on a console that doesn't support scrolling and only has two proper(ish) sprites.
I love Atari 2600 because is part of My life.
Same :D
You forgot Haunted House and how playing it as a kid with the lights off in the house was an experience.
Haha I still do that with F.E.A.R. once a year playing through the first game and then the expansions. I didn't have Haunted House back in the day I might not have given it enough of a go. It is iconic.
I think people would have been interested to know Dragonstomper used a cassette tape to play.
Yeah it was a cool upgrade. Atari were silly not to do a 32x style upgrade for the system. Just RAM and extra graphics chip with a frame buffer - perhaps a sound chip and suddenly you have a nes. The super charger just added memory and it was a great upgrade.
I find these games to be a bit more playable on a mobile solution like a miyoo mini plus or similar. It's good to get in and get a couple quick minutes of fun and they look better on the small screen too, vs trying to play em on a TV.
They were not designed for a cinema sized screens and I think people forget that the short quick game was often how they were played.
I enjoyed and finished Montezuma's Revenge back in the day. IIRC there was no ending, just a black screen.
Montezuma is really impressive. I wish they put an ending for H.E.R.O. just going to pro when it is so hard to finish was an anti climax.
I used to play Montezuma's Revenge and H.E.R.O. on C64. They were great.
Never knew they were on Atari.
Like the list.
But... Shouldn't Robot Tank from Activision be there,
instead of Battlezone?
Thanks :D Robot Tank is really good, I like Enduro style weather and day night cycle and the damage system but Battlezone has proper 3d space (sort of). You have to fight the tanks being aware of where they are regardless of whether you can see them or not. It's definitely Battlezone for me.... But Robot Tanks is cool too :D
I really recommend Thunderground, Star Trek, Space Jockey, Mountain King, Blueprint, Tunnel Runner, Turbo, Myst and Battle Tank. My Favorite top ten probably even though I haven't tried Myst and Turbo yet.❤ Great games.
Hadn't played Thunderground or Mountain King before. Turbo and Myst look crazy I love that people are still making games for the Atari. I had Battle Tank but it's Battlezone all day for me. ;)
Loved Pitfall, but to Mute the second one after awhile due to the music got annoying.
Music is not the Atari's strong suit. :P
"Rotondella", that resembles "rondelli" that's something kinda good, but at least it is not "tortelli", the huge "raviolli" that could be wonderful but it is mistakenly filled with pumpkin (I hate pumpkin). Great video btw, thank you.
Thanks :D I've never heard a cool explanation of the name - small wheel - or something like that :P There is a pretty cool Italian town Rotondella if I ever head back to Italy I'm definitely visiting it.
Aardvark looks like the most fun game here. HERO looks like the best game. Are any of these on the Switch collections?
See other reply ;)
Snoopy and the Red Baron was always my favorite on the Atari 2600
Super charming game.
ardvark reminds me of the oil one w the retracting tongue compared to the oil line
Yeah very similar mechanics.
Glad you put Adventure at the top! Also glad to see Dragonstomper and Phaser Patrol.
Personally I would put Superman on the list as a cousin of Adventure, and Communist Mutants from Space as the best bottom shooter. And also Escape from the Mindmaster, a Supercharger game where you are walking first person through mazes, solving puzzles, and avoiding a bad robot.
True fact: once in the 1980s, the Mind Master declared me Awesome. How many people can say that?
I also was one of the few that had a Supercharger back in the day. Shame I didn't keep the tapes I had all of them and they are worth a bit now. I think I was being a bit dodge already putting two supercharger games on there. It was an achievement just finishing Mindmaster I can't remember what rank I got. I've been meaning to try and finish it again.
@@markrotondella4689 Let me remind you of a Mindmaster tip you've probably forgotten. The sixth and final level is a grid of rooms with doors that appear or disappear depending on how you got there. It's profoundly frustrating on the first try, and the second, and the third, and so on. So here is my tip: do NOT go to the room in the top-right corner. Every other room other than that corner room is fine. But when you go to that top right corner, it shuts the doors that lead to the exit at the bottom left, so you have to backtrack a ways to make the doors reset properly. That'll save you a lot of grief.
I might try dragon stomper it looks good
It is. Hints check your stats before and after using items to figure out what they do and enter the castles from the top. :D
Loved pitfall and the Olympic one that would have the marathon on the end and break your controller. Lol
Decathlon I had always thought it was Activision's answer to Track and Field but it actually came out first and started that whole multi sport button mashing joystick breaking genre.
I really enjoyed Activision Anthology on the GBA. I have a consolized Gameboy Advance and love playing in Pixel mode using my NES Online controller using the 8bitdo SNES dongle. Great games. Robo Tank is really my favorite. It's a Battlezone clone.
haha that's quite the set up you are my kind of people :P Robo Tank is pretty impressive but it's Battlezone all the way for me.
my favourite was always Missile Command on the 2600
it is a great conversion another game that based on the hardware has no business being able to run on the Atari
I remember I was trying to install an Atari 2600 emulator on certain machine, and when I set it up finally, I had just like two or three roms available to test, I tried with "Dragonstomper", never heard about it, so I tried with that... I was about 3 hours playing, it was ridiculous. Good game.
Still not a bad way to kill an hour. :P
Imagine if Warlords was created a little later on. The quality of later games such as Stargate, Millipede and Ms Pacman proves that so much more could have been accomplished especially with the graphics. Maybe some home brewer could build an enhanced version on an 8k or 16k cartridge?
It's also a pity that the new CX-30+ paddles are only available packaged with a multi-game cartridge (and are now out of stock). I really want four paddles for my original six-switcher along with two of the out-of-stock CX40+ joysticks. I'm hoping they will be more robust than the originals. My old controllers have been broken for years. :(
Imagine no more have you seen Medieval Mayhem? I knew the new paddles were going to sell out so I bought two sets. They were cheaper than buying 30+ year old ones. :P I'm hoping they sort out the Paddle emulation on the Atari 2600+ I have a 9 pin to usb but it seems to add a lot of lag. Waiting to see if it works better on the Mister (the usb hub broke so waiting on a new one). If that fails I might have to just get a get a normal 2600... I'm a little obsessed with being able to play 4 player paddle games again.
Atari my hole childhood beautiful gorgeous memories 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Same :D
List of games mentioned:
Honorables:
- Warlords
- Video Olympics
20 - Jawbreaker
19 - Solar Fox
18 - Sky Diver
17 - Yars Revenge
16 - Frostbite
15 - Turmoil
14 - Fishing Derby
13 - Kaboom
12 - Battlezone
11 - Aardvark
10 - Dragonstomper
9 - Pitfall 1 & 2
8 - Space Invaders
7 - Phaser Patrol
6 - River Raid
5 - Combat
4 - Phoenix
3 - Berzerk
2 - H.E.R.O.
1 - Adventure
spoilers ;) :P
*sees Phoenix at #4*
"Demon Attack's a ripoff of Phoenix"
THANK YOU. Phoenix doesn't get enough love and it seems most people remember Demon Attack over it. To me, Phoenix is the best of its kind (the "you get the bottom of the screen and the top is a bunch of enemies" kind of space shooters, not the side scrollers or open field ones)
I miss fixed shooters. Demon Attack is great but Pheonix on the Atari is so polished.
Demons to diamonds over Phoenix
There's more games...but anyway...thank you for bring me a lot of memories from my childhood 😎
No worries. :D ;)
These games should be on the list: Boing!, Ms. Pacman, Pacman Jr, and Pole Position.
Pacman Jr and Ms Pacman are masterpieces but for people who didn't experience the Atari back in the day I only picked games where the Atari version is the best available. Weirdly I was aware of the cart of Boing! because it was rare but not the actual game, it does look cool I'll have to give it a go thanks. :D :D
I would add a couple of titles:
- Solaris (a masterpiece on VCS)
- Ms.Pac-Man (different levels, great gameplay)
- Pac-Man Jr. (great scrolling environment)
- Crystal Castles (excellent arcade conversion)
- Kung Fu Master (incredible arcade conversion)
not counting some modern homebrews like Mappy :)
Yeah Solaris definitely should be there but my attention span didn't hold out for me to learn to play the game. Ms Pac-Man and Jr are masterpieces of programming although Jr is for pros only way to hard for me. That Mappy home brew is pure which craft I should do a home brew list - the Juno First and Elevator Action ones are amazing too.
Another fun one I had as a kid and kinda creepy was Haunted House.
Had some of the same elements mentioned for Adventure.
It has an iconic look too I think that would be on a lot of peoples lists. :D
Didn't Combat come with the Atari console?
Yeah for a long time. In later years it was Pac Man and then a dodgy multi cart in the end.
On berserk I used to fry the guy on wall intentionally
They weren't the brightest. :P
Oh my God atari i want my childhood 😥😭😭😭
haha you can emulate it now :P