Atari ST: The Best Games
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- 🎮 Game List - Αlphabetical Οrder 🎮
0:00:12 Arkanoid
0:00:32 Bomb Jack
0:00:52 Bubble Bobble
0:01:12 Cabal
0:01:32 Cannon Fodder
0:01:52 Captain Blood
0:02:12 Chase H.Q.
0:02:32 Civilization
0:02:52 Defender of the Crown
0:03:12 Double Dragon
0:03:32 DragonNinja
0:03:52 Dungeon Master
0:04:13 Formula One Grand Prix
0:04:33 Gauntlet II
0:04:53 Ghouls 'n Ghosts
0:05:13 Gods
0:05:33 Golden Axe
0:05:53 Ikari Warriors
0:06:13 King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
0:06:33 Lemmings
0:06:53 Loom
0:07:13 Mega Lo Mania
0:07:33 North & South
0:07:53 Oids
0:08:13 Operation Wolf
0:08:33 OutRun
0:08:53 Pac-Mania
0:09:13 Pirates!
0:09:33 Populous
0:09:53 RoboCop
0:10:13 Rodland
0:10:33 R-Type
0:10:53 Sensible Soccer
0:11:13 Space Harrier II
0:11:33 Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
0:11:53 Stormlord
0:12:13 Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
0:12:33 The First Samurai
0:12:53 The NewZealand Story
0:13:13 The Secret of Monkey Island
0:13:33 The Untouchables
0:13:53 Toki
0:14:13 Turrican II
0:14:33 Vroom
0:14:54 Wings of Death
0:15:14 Wizball
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I loved my Atari 1040 STe. Carrier command, Millenium 2.2, Deuteros, Elite, Stunt car racer, Dungeon Master, Resolution 101. Such great games. It doesn't feel like the spirit of those games has ever been recaptured.
Fantastic games right there
Good choice of games!
Carrier Command, what a game !!
Dungeon Master is the best game until today and carrier command I liked I lot back in time. Don't know the other games, but I loved this 2 and Defender of the crown a lot. And dont forget the legendary game "Ballerburg"! =D
I had an Atari ST and later a Mega ST1 with an external 20MB ! hard disc drive. None of my friends had an hard disc at this time, but most of the games didnt work, cause they still tried to read floppy disc A ...
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Totally agree! An epic game! Even if you destroyed the enemy carrier early on (no mean feat in its-self) you had your work cut out capturing the remaining islands!
Dungeon Master.....so many people went out and bought Atari ST's, JUST to play that game.
Wasn't ported to Amiga for a longggg time.
I never had Atari ST, but nowadays, I discovered that Dungeon Master was game that was ahead of its time
And the thing that in Amiga needed 1mb to run was a stepback
Best game on the st was dungeon master still play it now my second favourite was and still is elite
I played Dungeon MaSTer all the time on my 520ST when I had it back in 1987. I got the DosBox version for the PC and STILL like to play it. One of the best games ever made!
Chaos strikes back too though!!
Atari apparently brings out a crypto currency or it is already on the market. Did anyone notice anything about it?
Best game ever Dungeon Master!
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So much fun watching this, I forgot just how much me and my friends were into these games, what was probably only 2-3 years of my life from 12-14 yrs old seemed like a lifetime! I never had any money so used to look forward to the demos on the cover disk of ST Format each month, Gods, Magic Pockets, Llamatron, the clicking of the microswitches in the joystick, pulling fluff out the bottom of that clunky mouse, the loud bang and flash when I tried to add another half meg of memory and forgot to reconnect the power supply properly. The computer game shop in town was just like record shops were years later. I even did all my university work on it in the late 90s before eventually calling it a day.
Yeah. I remember the mouse fluff. Its funny how its the little things that stay in your mind. Cheers
And ST Action was good for the demo disks, it was always hard to actually get the games too…
Yep - got hold of a 1040 STE in 2018, and just this summer I spent an inordinate amount of time just getting a USB optical mouse to work properly with it. It's a lifesaver, and I can now play Carrier Command the way I always wanted to.
The mouse issues with mechanical mice in general, defined that era of computer use. Excellent system.
This list is undermined by the omission of 3 of the best 16 bit games ever made:
Another World
Star Wars
Stunt Car Racer
Some truly *awesome* games on there though. Especially:
Formula One Grand Prix
Sensible Soccer
Speedball 2
Turrican II
Dungeon Master was, is and always will be the Atari ST's best game. It's still the only game that made me get a system just so that I could play one specific game.
That is my favorite all time game. There was nothing like it at the time.
Same here once I saw it had to have it still works ok
I remember playing dungeon master on my STE in 1994 as i was playing it came on the radio Senna had died at Imola :(
@@jasont6287 Him and Roland Ratzenberger.
Stunt Car Racer, missing here, was an excellent game on the Atari. Of those in the vid Lemmings was a classic game but Dungeon Master was the most influential, Populus get's a shout out.
Oh damn, so many hours played nearly all of these games!! Just sitting down with my son (6) and watching, making him see what i use to play!!
Nice list. I also played games like Raibow Island, Stunt Car Racer, Paradroid, Midwinter. Good memories.
And Nebulus
Thanks Samu 😊
Xenon and Defender of the Crown are the ones that I loved from this list.
Bought my son a 520 STe for his 7th
Christmas and upgraded it to 1040. He
Loved Turrican. I would sneak into his room when he was asleep and play Lemmings till stupid o'clock in the morning with headphones plugged into the tv.
There was a block falling game called Klaxtrix. Does anyone else remember that?
I am glad I had an Amiga. ST games (apart from 3D graphics, which were a bit faster) almost always looked inferior to Amiga 500 versions and had a much worse sound/music. You also see that the ST-games had fewer (16) colours compared to the Amiga. Especially obvious in Mokey Island. But some programmers did a good job. Speedball 2 looks very good for example. Or Formula One Grand Prix by Microprose (which was a great game!). When VGA became standard the PC both "killed" the ST and the Amiga... .
I had both as a kid. Of course I loved my Amiga 500 to death and the sound and graphics were above what the original ST could do, but the ST was excellent in a lot of areas where the Amiga lacked...at least the A500. The ready to go HDD connector on the machine was excellent...even more-so today with modern microSD devices. You could do that stuff on an Amiga but you need to buy stuff (sidecar addons, etc). The ST had that HDD connector right there. The ability to read DOS disks and the ability to make ST disks from a modern PC easily is a big plus. And, there are some games that are better on the ST in my opinion regardless of graphics and sound...as in better to play. Action Fighter (which is a game I really love) is a lot better on the ST in my opinion. Both machines have their ups and downs....both are worth owning.
@@eightbit1975 , this is good writing. Plus, I must say I am surprised you liked Action Fighter, I also think it was very good looking and pleasant game, and I played it on my C64 - and for unknown reasons to me, magz reviews were lukewarm, it was deemed as mediocre. Personally, it was THE Spyhunter clone for me, and the only version I really played more than usual.
PS - had no idea ST contained HDD controller inside!? WOW! But SCSI, right? Which means those hdd drives were still quite expensive. Wished I had PC hdd-s to connect directly to my A500 (no IDE), same as I wished to hook PC floppy drive to my C64... but they made it impossible. Sad.
@@cybermodo I think I liked Action Fighter because I played it constantly on the Sega Master System. I am in the USA and the Master System was not as popular as the NES, but in my area many of my friends had one and I did too. After playing and loving that game and finding it was ported to various platforms I made an effort to play them all ;) As for the port on the back of the ST, it is ASCI (Atari Small Computer Interface) similar to SCSI. Today people make HDD simulators that take microSD and plug into that port. Super simple, pretty inexpensive and a great solution!
@@eightbit1975 , hey, it's so interesting - so, you are Action Fighter expert! Please, tell me what you think of C64 version in comparison to others? Have in mind it was done to fit in a single load, working in 64K !
@@eightbit1975 Amiga could also read PC DOS disks.
Speedball 2 was probably the most playable and flawlessly animated ball game on the ST. It had those weird pinball effect and perfect control of the players.
and turricane 2 and IK plus;)
@@guts6157 heck no, not IK plus, it was unplayable. There was no strategy possible just a random chance of doing the right type of strike at the random right time unplayable.
There are amazing :
- Rodland
- North and South
- Arkanoïd
- Lemmings
- Cabal
And I can suggest :
- Midnight Resistance
- Troubadour
- Weird dream
- Krypton egg
- Internationnal Karate +
- MataHari
- Maniac Mansion
- Metrocross
- Jumping Jackson
maupiti island ;)
Thanks for this nostalgia hit. I loved, Hunter, mercenary 3, civilisation, alone in the dark, Robin Hood, Carrier command to name a few
Thanks for your comment
My favourite games, in no particular order, Oids, Speedball 2, Xenon, Rick Dangerous 1 and 2 (So long as you have the cheat), Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Wizball, Turrican 1 and 2, Nitro, Arkanoid 2, IK+, Loopz, Elite, Sim City, Lemmings.
Great list 👍
@@DimGaming I made the list before I watched the video, and most of my choices were in it. So great list by you too, we both forgot Stunt Car Racer though. That was brilliant!
Storm Master, Transarctica, Hunter, Midwinter, Maupiti Island, Future Wars, Cruise for a Corpse, B.A.T, Metal Mutant, Boston Bomb Club, Extase, Interphase, Epic, Robocop 3 ...
Good selection that brings back a lot of great memories. Vroom was such an awesome racing game...
Thanks bro ☺️
I agree vroom was very playable, and difficult. Though it lacked a bit of a progression and goals.
Great sellection. Rainbow Islands, Goblins, Ivanhoe and International Karate +,...they were great titles too
Thanks maybe in my next video
IK+, had to be bought from the back of an ST mag via mail order lol
I saw adverts for the Atari ST with game bundles in Acorn computing mags (in the UK) and being awed by the graphics. It was a glimpse of the future! That was before we got an Acorn Archimedes in 1989.
It's a shame that the Atari ST versions of games like Lemmings don't have the full tracker music like they did on the Archimedes and Amiga.
i agree
I remember watching my dad play captian blood back when it first released. That game was a surreal experience.
Got My 540st right around same time my friends were getting their NES. Played Ikari Warriors & Super Sprint a LOT. Phantasie 1 & 2 spent years playing & never figured out how to beat. Being no strategy guides back then just tried everything possible.
Beating Ikari Warriors was Aweosme though!
Sundog was one of the best ST games ever made. At least they have Dungeon Master on here.
Best only in one person's opinion. A lot of fighting games in there and sideways scrollers, only one RPG. How about the Ishar series, Starblade, F19 Stealth Fighter, Typhoon Thompson, Silent Service II, Cadaver, Knights of the Sky, Crazy Cars III, Shuttle, Lure of the Temptress, Virus, Obsession (pinball), Infestation, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge... Carrier Command! Really there are too many to cover in just 16 minutes.
true my friend, but list is from users rating
Aw monkey island, that was proper class. Loved leisure suit Larry too.
I so loved my Atari ST
North & south omg I loved this game ahhh and dragon Ninja
Powermonger, Another World, Stunt Car Racer, IK+, Panza Kick Boxing, Rainbow Islands, Kick Off 2.
The Sentinel published by Firebird. Fantastic strategy game with excellent graphics.
You forgot Rainbow Islands. I played that one for hours.
I started oput on a speccy sinclair but was bought an ST. Have to admit Micropose Grand Prix, and operation stealth were good favs.
The most impressive ST game i ever saw which is NEVER shown in these videos was a true 3D game were you controlled a spaceship flying over a planet. The dynamics of the flight were about 10x faster than any flight simulator game, it really looked like it couldn't be possible to have full real 3D at such fast update frame rate. I don't remember the title but it was mouse or keyboard controlled and the space bar controlled the spaceship thrust. Gravity was extremely realistic and speed was phenomenal. You sometimes had to dog fight an alien ship. The difficulty of the game was to not crash due to gravity.
that game is virus. ported from the archimedes.
thanks for the list! it really helps to choose from 4GB of images as I am new to ATARI!)
You welcome 🙂. 4gb of images ? Wow I don't know atari st have so big game database :)
Super sprint , ikari , turbo cup, gauntlet, toobin, thunderbirds, north and south, midwinter , buggy boy
Maybe in my next video 🤔
Oh, talking of Midwinder, how about Hunter! That was a difficult game to play, let alone win, but such a great early open world game.
Good collection of games there. Other greats worth mentioning are Mercenary II, Frontier, Zool, Return of the Jedi, Rainbow Islands.. I also enjoyed on of the last games ever made for the ST, Pick n Pile. I still own boxed originals of some of these games, a working 1040 STfm, and a 520 ST.
My favourite games on Atari ST were Gauntlet, Chariots of Wrath(strange and difficult game), Wizball, Paradroid and the game in which the teddy bear collected donuts(I don't remember the name). Another ones I liked were RAC Rally and Rolling Ronny.
It just reminded me, how amazing Amiga's APU was.
Amiga was better but and Atari st was great computer
@@DimGaming I had Amiga and I think that Atari ST was still great machine to have at the time. Never understood that stupid war. Having an Amiga or Atari was so much better than having a console.
Awesome video. Some I'd never pick, but some I would... Love it!!
Exactly; what the hell is outrun doing in there? The ST version was utter pants! I'd go for overlander instead.... Hang on, there's no stunt car racer?! OR enchanted lands?... Where's no second prize? shuffle puck cafe? chaos? llamatron 2012? Is this just a random list of ST games? Where's obsession, hunter, lotus turbo challenge 2 (or 3.. or even 1!), harlequin, monster business, north and south, nitro, rainbow islands, pang, starball, venus the fly trap, switchblade II?... I could go on..
Actually xenon 2 isn't that great either but at least it had a sampled intro and the graphics looked nice.. Still, at least vroom is on there. [/rant] :D
.... Wait a minute... - Street fighter II??
@guythp Yeh it's a mixed bag for sure. Stunt Car Racer was huge back in the day, and deserves a place on any list. Not just for sheer awesomeness, but also since it's one of the ST games which run better than the Amiga version. Same for Star Wars.
I had Street Fighter 2 on the Atari ST and it was utter wank. Almost unplayable with one fire button...
Many great games on this list. I had a 1040STE . Remember i was playing IK+ very often.
Great list, thanks. That was a nice nostalgia trip!
Thanks Andrew 😊
Technocop, afterburner, nebulus, purple Saturn day, barbarian, kick off 2, silkworm, supersprint, buggy boy, mortville Manor, ik +, Batman, prince of persia, Rick dangerous, winter games...spherical, shufflepuck café, ...
Xenon 2, midnight resistance, magic pocket 🥰 ork 2, creatures, lotus Esprit 🥰 9 lives, Italy '90, final fight 🥰
Ivan Stewart's off road racer was a great game
Rolling Thunder and Gemini Wing were both great conversions, dunno why they never get mentioned.
I played every single one of those games, its crazy.
I had an Atari STe, and my favorites were Fire and Ice (off a demo disk, just one level, but it was great :) ), F-15 Strike Eagle II, Llamatron, and another PD game whose name I can't remember, but felt like a cross between Defender and Asteroids.
Lots of great games on the list! I’d have added Buggy Boy and Super Sprint to them.
Yes i know and many more my friend
Геймплей Атари игр очень хороший !!! Звук как на Спеке !
My dads favourite game was ‘Grandad 2: In search for sandwiches’ and I’ve tried for ages to download a rom and play it on retroarch
Thanks for the heart! 🙃
OMG some classics here - Bomb Jack, Bubble Bobble, Double dragon - but man i wish there would be a decent modern PC version of Populous
My top: Bomb Jack, Rodlans, Xenon
@2:05 shaking hand on captain blood is the 'anti-piracy' protection, to try to make the game unplayable.
Some games missing from this, unless I just missed them. Heroes of the Lance. Licence to kill and Xexon 2. Vroom reminds me of the PS1 as my brother in law bought one and used to go to his house to play. Amiga owners don't understand when they go on about better sound, this games were great fun as they are on the ST, also the graphics were not always better!
I still have my ST and two Amigas, one is still boxed with the original T-shirt. Relaxing watching this during the plan dem IC.
Очень нравятся игры на Атари СТ. Напоминают графически игры на Спектруме, но с более качественным изображением, т.к. есть видеорежим цвет на точку. И процессор помощнее. Напоминает именно какой-то навороченный/прокачанный Спек. Такой современный графический адаптер Я хотел бы видеть на нём, для ретро игр очень хорошо, очень классно !!!! Разработчикам игр для Спектрум Некст - делайте игры с графикой как на Атари, а не как на Амиге !!!Не нужно тащить Амигу на Некст !!! Лучше делайте графон и геймплей, как на Атари !!!! Он ближе к Духу Спектрума.
Wizball!!!! Excellent.
Airball, Spindizzy world, Magic Pockets, Carrier Command, Silent Service
StarGlider, Another World... and more!
I am from the uk and i sailed the other way and had an amiga500 in the 80s..i always was curious about the ST and they are quite difficult to find here in the uk.
3:36 I used to play a bad crack of Dragon Ninja that would crash in the same place every time. Pretty fun game really, but I don't remember the frame rate being so abysmally low...
I loved Ghouls n Ghosts for the Spectrum! Looks much better on the Atari.
Dziś kiedy kupujemy komputer to 70% oprogramowania i sprzętu za jaki płacimy ma mas szpiegować i pracować przeciwko właścicielowi komputera. Tamte dawne komputery takie jak Atari i inne były prawdziwymi komputerami osobistymi w 100% działającymi dla swoich fanów.
So true...
This compilation is OK but how on earth can Vroom not be in there, best racing game ever.
For me this is missing Rick Dangerous 1 & 2, Elite, Leisure Suit Larry 1 & 2, Weird Dreams, Final Fight, Golden Axe, Ik+, Settlers, Premier Manager 2, Another World, Stunt Car Racer....and others!
not a bad machine really at the end of the day.
Where was "Barbaian"? That was a classic
i agree
I vote for Stormlord and Vroom
Vroom 😍😍😍😍
The Last Samourai is a beautiful animated graphics game. A lot of these games are not good and you miss the really good ones.
Biggest issue I had with my 520ST was the slowdown when you got too many sprites on the screen - an issue that for the most part the Amiga did not have.
Great Yamaha synthesizer chip.
Yesss :)
Missing Bolo. The list is completely missing it, and I'm missing it, too.
Impossible Mission 2!
Had a 1040st with a music package and keyboard setup for basic music making and a few games. Loved it but moved to console gaming later.
carrier command, skull diggery, spherical, ... this list is sorely incomplete :-)
Ok in my next video
Carrier command was awesome
List looks a bit random. Missing many good ones.
Nice selection of games
GODZ
Turrican
R-Type
Oids
Robocop
Xenon 2 Megablast
Still have the 1040STe with upgraded 4 meg of RAM and hi-res B/W monitor - can't seem to part with it.
Best games for Atari ST.. Outrun..
Beyond thé ice palace
Alien syndrome
I never understood why so few early 1980s games were released for the Atari ST. I remember back when I had an Atari 8-bit, I was considering upgrading to the ST. When I looked at the games available, I realized that I would not be able to play any of my old time favorites. Games like Donkey Kong, Defender, Dig Dug, Robotron, Ms. Pacman, Tempest, etc. were not available. I think that is when I just decided to upgrade to an IBM PC and give up on the gaming PCs.
Αtari st had better technical features there is no reason for old console game
Maybe the public Domain demo scene tried to compensate for that lack ?
I had that first game but it was called IMPACT
Any list that includes the dreadful us golds version of outrun is scrapping the bottom of the barrel
the atari ST with the third party support it had would have fared a lot better had it been a console instead of a computer. the company's obsession with beating commodore was its own undoing. commodore didn't see atari as a serious rival. they saw sinclair more as a worthier opponent in the 8-bit home computer race whereas they viewed atari as an organisation that had incompetent leadership in the form of a former employee. if it was me the ST would have had the genesis name for the US or europe, the controller would have been like that of NEC's PC FX and the console itself would have been like that of the neogeo CD's loading tray variant and the storage medium would be either a hard disk or a HU card like the PC engine's but it would be the size of a slice of warburton's bread or a sheet of paper from an A5 notepad. there would be more exclusive games from the likes of namco, snk, williams/midway, taito and a few others.
sacaste las chidas que nostalgia
xenon/ bumb jak/ gauntel II/ out run
Missing Rick Dangerous 2, Stunt Car Racer and any Space Quest. Lots of good games on this list, but also a lot of boring ones
I agree, that video is certainly not selective, it's just any games. It's missinga lot of beautiful games especially adventure games with beautiful graphics.
If this is the best the Atari ST had to offer then I can fully understand why I always preferred the SNES for my gaming fix back in the day. And the same applies if I consider the SNES vs the Amiga too. Clearly PC gaming just wasn't up to my standards yet back in the day.
snes was better game machine from amiga and atari st
vive AMIGA ! :D
Both was great machine’s
@@DimGaming oui merci pour ta video ! ;)
Out of all the Atari Systems this would've competed against Nintendo instead of 7800 And XE.
vroom is supes impress!
I miss my Atari ST. Emulators are just not the same 😔
Captain Blood was better on real hardware, rather than an emulator, as the hyperspace / planet destruct sequence actually had coloured bars going into the tv borders.
And here I thought the 7800 was badass.
😂
Outrun and Chase HQ, but no Lotuses or Crazy Cars III, seriously? Pac-Mania plays okay but it's hard to get past the graphics and screen size once you see the Amiga version. Otherwise mostly pretty good.
SUNDOG - FROZEN LEGACY is missing. Best game ever for the Atari ST.
Civilization was among the ugliest games ever but it was so intense and addictive !
rick dangerous 1/2, stunt car racer, buggy, switchblade, mouth trap, (...)
Great games 👍
Bonjour j'ai justement a vendre ce type de materiel, Atari avec avec lecteur externe intergré avec disque dur plus un autre disque dur et écran, et une souris avec justement cubase et des jeux sur disquettes, mais je ne sais pas comment évaluer son PRIX, quelqu'un aurait t'il une idée????
Bonjour, www.ebay.com/b/atari-st-computer/bn_7024874868
And why is STARGLIDER missing on the list???
good game, maybe in my next video
Wait, Arkanoid says "TATIO" instead of "TAITO"? I've never noticed that! 🤣
Not a single Dizzy game?! Fantasy World Dizzy was great!!
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