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
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..
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.
@@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.
For me, #1 for Atari 2600 is and will ever be Pitfall II. It has everything, a story, an adventure, exploring, running, swimming, flying, a mission. Criminally underrated game.
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. 😅
pitfall saved my life as a kid.. i was in this fantastical world full of adventure and it lived up to the hype on the cartridge - unlike so many games I had bought previously.. activision.. thanks for making my childhood so entertaining
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.
Centipede was another good one. River raid was my favourite. Man those sounds take me back to a simpler time, either family or friends all playing games on the only TV in the house
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!
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).
An absolute favorite. Getting to the Black Market was so hard! And the Indiana Jones game for Xbox, etc releases tomorrow! Forty two years later, and let's see who wins an Unreal vs 8 Bit showdown!
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!
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!
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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.
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.
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. 🤩
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!
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!
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!
It was THE first easter egg! 🙂🙂 I found mine in '81. Edit: Hmmm, story has been updated... "Starship 1, an Atari arcade game from 1977, may actually have the first Easter egg. In Starship 1, the message "Hi Ron!" appears on-screen and the player is awarded 10 extra lives. The secret was discovered in 2017 through an interview with the game's engineer, Ron Milner."
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.
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.
Raiders was ahead of its time as an adventure/puzzle game. The absolute sheer joy when after days of playing and exploring you'd find something "new," even if you didn't have the context to understand how it fit into the game itself. Maybe it was important, maybe it was a red herring. I remember excitedly running into my parents room while they were both sleeping, screaming because I had found the map room... and then a few days later when I discovered the "sun" rising in it... No walkthrough guides, no internet... just trial and error. A fully immersive game that took a LOT of time and effor to "beat."
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.
Atari is a bit before my time (I was an SNES/Genesis kid) but my dad used to tell me about Atari and the Odyssey 2 all the time as a kid. I ended up meeting another kid at my apartment complex who had an Atari, and we played Defender and Asteroids for hours. I felt like I was in a time capsule or something. Recently I took my son to a local restaurant, and they had an Atari 2600 hooked up to an old TV for the customers to play. I showed him how the old video games used to look (he grew up with XB360 and PS4) and he actually was really interested. I had to go out and find a 2600 at a retro game store so we could own one. I didn't realize that it was even before the AV cables were a thing, so now I have to find an adapter or a TV old enough to play it lol.
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
Defender was the first game me and my brother played on Atari 2600 in 1982 (I was 11, my brother 10). Pressure Cooker, Demon Attack, Fantastic Voyage, Oink, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, Sea Quest, Smurfs, Freeway, ....
These Top 10-20-50 Atari games lists are so fun. I usually agree with about 3 out of every 10 choices. If you include Activision games, Pitfall 2 is my favourite.
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.
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.
@@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 had a Atari 2600 and about 12 games, my favourite was Wizard Of Wor, very addictive game, I got the console and a couple of games for Xmas 1988, biggest mistake i made was giving it away to a charity shop as i no longer used it, back in 2015 as i moved house and had no room for it.
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.
@@ROMBomb001 Wait, wrong game! The game where you rescue hostages is actually on Sega Master System; sorry for misleading information, both games have helicopters. 😅😭😭😭
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.
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)
Growing up high school in the 90s was the best of my life. Hanging out at the arcade place and play billiards was the thing back then. Can someone build me a Time Machine?
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.
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.
@@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.
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...
Marvelous uploading thanks for this. In 1993 I first time play this Atari game and number 4 game river raid was my most favourite game. You cannot imagine that how much I am happy to see this. I have in my imagine the game of river red but I don't know the name of this game. From your this video finally I found my favourite game river raid immediately download from PlayStation and play a lot thank you very much love you take care
@@wizzgamer I cannot express my feelings I am so much excited. After several years I play this game again. Now I am 41 of my age and in my childhood when I first time I played this game I was just 10 years old.
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 👍👍
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
I never agreed with a list on the youtube like this one before. It just brought up my memories back. I used to play with my dad, when he was still alive Thank you Atari for taking really important part in my life
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
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
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.
Raiders of the lost ark on the 2600 is one of my earliest memories. I used to love renting the games out. Loved the box art to. It mesmerised me as a kid.
I remember pole position ! I use to play it in my Atari all the time. Our father got a Atari game console for us. Then he got us a Apple IIe and then a IBM PC/XT. We also had a commodore 64. Life was good in the 80s. I was around 12 at that time.... miss those lovely childhood times
Same here. Played Pitfall constantly. However, it did finally have an ending. It took a long time to get to, and I only reached it a few times, but this is what it looked like: ua-cam.com/video/HKgJ4BXrnPw/v-deo.html
My first video game console, when I was a kid. Only had LCD screen 1-game handhelds before. The joysticks broke like no tomorrow...but I loved this thing. And these games still have better gameplay and experience than most AAA games today.
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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!
Back in the 70s, it was the best game system the time period had. The alternative was sheer boredom in an internet-less society... or the library. lol
@@LyricsQuest The library was a good place to go in hot weather.
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.
For me, #1 for Atari 2600 is and will ever be Pitfall II. It has everything, a story, an adventure, exploring, running, swimming, flying, a mission. Criminally underrated game.
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! :)
pitfall saved my life as a kid.. i was in this fantastical world full of adventure and it lived up to the hype on the cartridge - unlike so many games I had bought previously.. activision.. thanks for making my childhood so entertaining
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.
Centipede was another good one. River raid was my favourite. Man those sounds take me back to a simpler time, either family or friends all playing games on the only TV in the house
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).
An absolute favorite. Getting to the Black Market was so hard!
And the Indiana Jones game for Xbox, etc releases tomorrow!
Forty two years later, and let's see who wins an Unreal vs 8 Bit showdown!
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. :)
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!
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.
It's a miracle programmers were able to get so much out of such primitive hardware.
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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!!!
Right?? That was my favorite Atari game. It was so insane, lol...
Thank you! River Raid was the name I had been looking for a long time. One of my favorite games of all time!
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.
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. 🤩
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.
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
Just came here to say this
@@tru3sk1ll kaboom is still awesome
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
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!
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.
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.
I'm surprised that Adventure wasn't mentioned. It was one of the first video games with an Easter Egg.
also no asteroids(??)
It was THE first easter egg! 🙂🙂
I found mine in '81.
Edit: Hmmm, story has been updated...
"Starship 1, an Atari arcade game from 1977, may actually have the first Easter egg. In Starship 1, the message "Hi Ron!" appears on-screen and the player is awarded 10 extra lives. The secret was discovered in 2017 through an interview with the game's engineer, Ron Milner."
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.
Już po samych dźwiękach wracają wspomnienia i się łezka w oku kręci 😢
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River Raid, Hero, Pitfall….Amazing games for a child 40 years back…Had great time, unforgettable…
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.
Raiders was ahead of its time as an adventure/puzzle game. The absolute sheer joy when after days of playing and exploring you'd find something "new," even if you didn't have the context to understand how it fit into the game itself. Maybe it was important, maybe it was a red herring. I remember excitedly running into my parents room while they were both sleeping, screaming because I had found the map room... and then a few days later when I discovered the "sun" rising in it... No walkthrough guides, no internet... just trial and error. A fully immersive game that took a LOT of time and effor to "beat."
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.
Atari is a bit before my time (I was an SNES/Genesis kid) but my dad used to tell me about Atari and the Odyssey 2 all the time as a kid. I ended up meeting another kid at my apartment complex who had an Atari, and we played Defender and Asteroids for hours. I felt like I was in a time capsule or something. Recently I took my son to a local restaurant, and they had an Atari 2600 hooked up to an old TV for the customers to play. I showed him how the old video games used to look (he grew up with XB360 and PS4) and he actually was really interested. I had to go out and find a 2600 at a retro game store so we could own one. I didn't realize that it was even before the AV cables were a thing, so now I have to find an adapter or a TV old enough to play it lol.
keystone kapers is one of the unforgettable for me
The best. My favorite for sure. Wal-Mart has the Plug N Play for $5
My first ever video game in my life was "Defender" on a friend's Atari 2600. I will never forget the fun we had.
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!
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
Thanks for Pitfall and Riverraid... definitely 2 of my favorites. Also loved Video Pinball and Frogger
Defender was the first game me and my brother played on Atari 2600 in 1982 (I was 11, my brother 10).
Pressure Cooker, Demon Attack, Fantastic Voyage, Oink, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, Sea Quest, Smurfs, Freeway, ....
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
These Top 10-20-50 Atari games lists are so fun. I usually agree with about 3 out of every 10 choices. If you include Activision games, Pitfall 2 is my favourite.
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.
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.
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 cheered out loud at #1. :) That was my very favorite. I loved so many of the others on the top 10 too. Great picks!
you miss adventure
I had a Atari 2600 and about 12 games, my favourite was Wizard Of Wor, very addictive game, I got the console and a couple of games for Xmas 1988, biggest mistake i made was giving it away to a charity shop as i no longer used it, back in 2015 as i moved house and had no room for it.
Nós ficávamos hipnotizado com esses jogos e esses sons... Não tem palavras. Obrigado Atari. Obrigado anos 80
I forgot most of those sounds till I watched your video. Awesome job. Thanks for the memories.
I remember every one of these games
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.
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. 😅😭😭😭
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.
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 missed Frostbite, Seaquest, Laser Gate & Montezuma's Revenge in your list - top notch.
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)
Sigh..... nice memories and sweet 'warm' games from the past! Nice of you to make this video.. :)
My top 10, in no particular order: Moonsweeper, Pitfall II, Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Atlantis, Solaris, Midnight Magic, River Raid, Phoenix, Seaquest.
Hero?
Growing up high school in the 90s was the best of my life. Hanging out at the arcade place and play billiards was the thing back then. Can someone build me a Time Machine?
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.
God bless my father's soul ...
Am really crying....
Am 39 yrs ...
Just remember my father's gift when I was 6 !!!
Thx for the video
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
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...
Excellent choice for #1 although I would tie ADVENTURE with it
This brings back many happy memories. Thank you.
You forgot Adventure. This still is a classic and a wonderful 2600 game! Shame you at least didn't give it an honorable mention.
Was probably too hard for him.
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.
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...
Marvelous uploading thanks for this. In 1993 I first time play this Atari game and number 4 game river raid was my most favourite game. You cannot imagine that how much I am happy to see this. I have in my imagine the game of river red but I don't know the name of this game. From your this video finally I found my favourite game river raid immediately download from PlayStation and play a lot thank you very much love you take care
@@AbdulHafeezQamar1718 Thanks for watching glad you found the name of the game and can relive those happy memories from years past ☺️
@@wizzgamer I cannot express my feelings I am so much excited. After several years I play this game again. Now I am 41 of my age and in my childhood when I first time I played this game I was just 10 years old.
Does anyone remember the Easter egg in the Adventure game?
me
No.
Not me.
I have never played the game at all.
Thanks for sharing, very fond memories of my Father getting me my First Atari Games around 1989 - 1990 :-)
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.
We got our 2600 in the late 70's. River Raid was my favorite game.
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 never agreed with a list on the youtube like this one before.
It just brought up my memories back. I used to play with my dad, when he was still alive
Thank you Atari for taking really important part in my life
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
My first console......I remember being amazed that I could control what was happening on the TV lol :)
Same for me!
How about Solaris?
I love how the background music is sonic the hedgehog from Sega.
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
I use to play this as well as my father brought this for me back in late 80 , well my father pass away 20 years now , some memories.
World has been changed rapidly.i think i become old.very veey old
I've heard of and played everyone of those games except Hero. Never heard of it before watching this video. Great list.
Oh finally selected the pitfall, good choice 👍, I remember all of them.... time goes fast
Man, this is rudimentary. But it has so much charm
I legit believe some of these are incredible
OMG, Good old days ...
So lucky to have been a kid during the Atari days. Life was so simple. My parents bought me the Atari 2600 on Christmas 1980.
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.
Thanx for reviving those sweet memories of my first ever console. 😍🙌🕹️👾💯
what happened with Asteroids!!?
Those of us who still Love Atari now play Space Rocks! Cheers!
Moon Patrol (1982) !!
It didn't make his list of favorite games.
Raiders of the lost ark on the 2600 is one of my earliest memories. I used to love renting the games out. Loved the box art to. It mesmerised me as a kid.
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...
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I remember pole position ! I use to play it in my Atari all the time. Our father got a Atari game console for us. Then he got us a Apple IIe and then a IBM PC/XT. We also had a commodore 64. Life was good in the 80s. I was around 12 at that time.... miss those lovely childhood times
Thank you for adding enduro.
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.
I used to play pitiful all day all night that game never had an ending, there was no ending
Same here. Played Pitfall constantly. However, it did finally have an ending. It took a long time to get to, and I only reached it a few times, but this is what it looked like: ua-cam.com/video/HKgJ4BXrnPw/v-deo.html
@@ElaineBenes99🧐 WOW 😲, so there really was an ending, thanks for showing me that, after all these years I always believed there was no end to pitfall
Pitfall did have a ending and if you could finish it in 20 minutes and take a picture Activision would send you a patch. I got one.
A great part of our childhood in the past ..we can't forget those days .
Sweet memories.. And a "damn I'm getting old" right next to it ;-)
David Cady it's true
That’s a solid top 10, well done!
Thanks Adam
Watching this, and suddenly I'm back in 1982...
My first video game console, when I was a kid.
Only had LCD screen 1-game handhelds before.
The joysticks broke like no tomorrow...but I loved this thing.
And these games still have better gameplay and experience than most AAA games today.