Play me like Atari: Retro gaming and the push to preserve video game classics
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2024
- For decades, the video game industry has pushed the limits of technology, forging ahead into the future. But now, there's a movement afoot to preserve old classic games for the next generation of players - and it includes a new console from Atari.
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I'm 57 now and never stopped playing Atari.
Bought the 2600+ in November and loving it 😊👍🏻
Which games do you play most?
@@Omniverse0With family and friends I like to play Sky Diver, Combat and Basketball.
Great multi-player games.
Galaxian, Defender and Space Invaders are still fun, great classics!
I bought The 400 Mini, it brings me back.
Just played pitfall on my 2600+ yesterday. Never gets old.
I started gaming on the Atari 2600. Though the Nintendo NES is still my all time favorite gaming console. Mario 3 is my all time favorite game since I first played it back in 1988/1989.
The view of the current Atari CEO is amazing. That he came to his views he expressed in this video is amazing
I once had the largest Atari collection in Canada: over 2000 games that I collected hundreds of times from garage sales and goodwills in the late 90s when nobody wanted the machines.
I remember in the 90s and early 00s, you'd find Atari carts for next to nothing everywhere. NES games too, but not as cheap as Atari games.
Usually in bundles with machines.
I was poor so this was how I afforded games back then.
I couldn’t afford even nes lol
Nes was was popular and held its value alot
Trading was a common thing back then.
Genesis was dirt cheap by the mid 90s and good alternative for non middle classers
@@ironhell813 I used to get NES games at thrift stores and yard sales for like $1-$5, so yeah, a fair bit more than Atari. I also did a lot of trading. I used to trade people Mews that I got with my gameshark for Pokemon cards and then trade the Pokemon cards for NES games when I was in middle school.
Old games had original ideas and were packed with content to make you want to buy it
Modern games are half-baked game engines used to nickle and dime you for content
There are a lot of indie games with new ideas now. There were a lot of copycat games then like KC Munchkin (Pac-Man) and Safari Hunt (Sega Master System), Bug Hunt (Atari XEGS) (Nintendo Duck Hunt).
50/50. As a retro gamer. Still a lot of modern indie games but also back then you had a alot of Pacman copy cat clones and Space Invaders. Lady Bug, Spatter, Pac Man, etc. Galaga, Gork, Galaxian. But it was fresh back then, new, challenging. Street Fighter 2 then changed the landscape of gaming all together by bringing the 1 v 1 scene and then consolized it. At the end of the day only so much they can do. The 6th generation from 1998-2004 was truly the peak/prime of gaming an creativity and today is just taking those ideas and bumping the resolution. So many classics from that era across the board that are still being mimic today.
I have an after school retro gaming club for 4th-5th graders at my school. I have seven consoles in my classroom, the oldest being an Atari 2600. Besides gaming, students also learn about video game history. It's been fun!
Good to see a emphasis on preservation. Hopefully someday the industry will get around to mobile games. There were some great games that have been lost in the constant upgrade hill that phones are on.
This dude is what Atari has needed for years!
I had an Atari 2600 during the early 80s. It's kind of cool that you can buy a smaller scale replica of the old 2600. Very cool.
"Play me like atari."
Jiggle your stick and flick my button
😂😂😂😂😂 💀
Yar's Revenge!!! First discovered it at an expo at the Moscone Center back in the 80's and still play it on a disc. This is even more awesome! Gotta get that Atari system!
0:35 bro giving me serious Stewart Cheifet vibes.
Love this gaming guy.more,please.
In my life, Ive seen an analog world go digital. My dad was in the "computer world" as long as Ethernet. I was lucky to have a front row seat to computers, and gaming. And I developed some aptitude with it. But what I really developed was a love for electronics.
As much as I treasure the experience seeing a new industry carve its way, I envy the younger users. This is just the beginning. The stage has been set. Revolution gives way to evolution.
Wish A LOT MORE was being done for game preservation but it is nice to see at least one news organization spreading the word and I hope more stories from other organizations follow
They are but the price gouging since the pandemic has ruined a lot of it too. Why people are going more to emulation. Some carts are just stupid prices now.
My brother in law bought one of those and I told him about a game shop that sold used/retro games...
He took a trip there an bought some Atari games an the guy at the counter said that those Atari games were suddenly selling like hotcakes ever since the system came back...
I really wish other companies would do the same with their consoles... imagine the N64 or Dreamcast but with HDMI genuine upscaling added.
Anberbic
Well Sega and Commodore 64 came out with the retro consoles.
Emulators actually preserved my 1993 or so HP-48 calculator, still working, presently on my desk. Today potential owners might want to try before they buy, if only the model were still in production some 30+ years ago, which is the magic and in this specific case it turns out Hewlett-Packard graciously released the ROM image-files for everyone to enjoy at no cost (using Windows). Game being much more popular these types of emulators can be called multi-platform, a blessing! But ROM images then pose important issues...
Sweet
Always have love for the classics!
Back in the days when we got a complete game for our money, on physical media.
This is why kids are playing these now. They’re tired of the live service crap.
live service can be pretty cool sometimes like f-zero 99, though yeah avoid the scams/console taxes or if sony wants to play gatekeeper for your region a la helldivers 2. Physical is overrated when it's under $30, especially if you can get digital deluxe, though on more expensive stuff, sure, that's why Play-asia is alive. I mention this because mobile/PC hybrids easily kill consoles for digital only stuff due to the library size (xbox), better performance (nintendo) and lack of censorship (sony though all 3 have tried to be our nanny from tomb raider to paper mario TYD or ff7 remake/rebirth).
You also are more prone to have demos/free ad versions with pc/mobile without having to pay a ps plus premium to try out certain games, which is robbery. Let alone online play is paid with little benefits in the long term, unless you didn't already buy stuff, which I'm glad for modern sales being thousands of games (which is another reason not to get the newest version for $70).
Just gotta learn the best parts of each era, I'll take Etrian odyssey 3 quality of life over wizardry remake's bs/limitations any day of the week. Glad many old games have rewind as they were brutal with difficulty to kill rentals. I do wish atari/digital eclipse would sort their movies better as it was a pain to scroll through each segment separately and sift through other history parts in atari 50, which I'm glad had a physical and price drop.
Some of us still buy almost exclusively physical
@ironhell813 why exclusively? There's a ton of quality stuff or even digital being under $10 when physical can be more, or vice versa so I prefer the option. I'd avoid limited run games lol slow as hell and they bootlegged the 3do stuff that didn't work 🤣. I'm good with rocket knight adventures digitally if they're my only physical option.
I won’t buy from limited run because they’re gatekeepers and ip bankers and as a game dev this offends me.
Atari should buy back the rights to all the games made by the arcade division that was renamed Atari Games after the company was split up in 1984. They made so many great games that are no longer legally available.
Because games today will do you dirty.
Reject modernity, embrace retro gaming.
Nice video. Bought the 2600+ and am enjoying it.
I'm glad Dreamcast preservation is pretty much covered
I think that Sega and Nintendo should re -release their old Videogames, like Genesis and NES or SNES, as the old way, to still play the cartridges and re-release the cartridges as well, I think that this could bring a revival to the retrogaming.
Hey fans of video game preservation! Come and see us - and our massive Atari collection - at 1414 Park St, Alameda and 459 Alvarado St, Monterey 🤘🏼🕹️
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Current video games are NOT video games but simulating Reality.
A TRUE video game is full in neon colors and has strong pixelart aesthetics.
Otherwise, you don't realize that you play a video game.
51-year old here, playing Scramble, Saboteur 2, Attic Attac, Paper Boy, Monkey Island, Commando, etc. back in the golden era...
I want this Atari Game.
To be 37...I love this
Pong Sports and Atari Bowling rules!
It is more than an art form. It deserves to be preserved. Sadly most of it wont😢
Hopefully, the retrogaming craze doesn't get too much corporate attention. I like the way it has been slowly growing by the retrogaming community on its own, for the last two decades.
this wasn't a commercial for Atari tonight ? this was a news segment
Mame is king. Atari. Data east. Williams. Sega. All the classic games still fun
Atari is doing a LOT in the last couple years... new games, new hardware, acquiring a LOT of classic IP, acquiring game developer companies. Atari stock is $PONGF in the U.S. Next financial report will be sometime in June / July.
like shipping 1000$ games that are not working? Atari is a stupid company.
@@MarquisDeSang every company has issues sometimes... that doesn't negate that they are growing- both in products and profit.
@@MarquisDeSang Not the first time that Atari sent out defective games either .
Yeah , cryptocurrency and hotels . Atari is into playing dangerous games with their money .
@@bryanobrien2726 They do both great stuff and bad stuff at the same time. I bought all the new cartridges for the 2600+ and they are great.
just wanted to give a shoutout to emulation
Homebrew**
It's difficult tp preserve older games because of rights and ownership. Unlike movies, the game companies don't fully own the games. It's the creators and or company they work or worked for, but so many have gone defunct that if trying to preserve a game that has its owner still alive and or defunct, some company comes in and says they have the rights. That's why you have this huge retro video game collectors surging games because of it. Nintendo is the main culprit. They won't release what was once widely available because they are preserving what they want to preserve.
i’m about to get an original Atari, a stack of games, and a crt from a family friend. i already have both switch compilations and the flashback 2, which i’m planning on modding with a cartridge slot in case the OG doesn’t work. from what i’ve heard the 2600+ doesn’t play homebrew, so i’ll pass on that
The 2600+ does play homebrews
Kuh rah tek kuh
Thank you. That got me too. Hahah.
Worth mentioning that "Atari" is not Atari. A French company called Infogrames bought the Atari name and all of its IPs from Hasbro (who had bought Atari after the Jaguar flopped) and changed its name to Atari because of brand recognition.
This is such bunk. Atari was sold to Warner Brothers in 1976. Did it cease being Atari at that moment? The Atari brand has been in continuous existence, in some form, for 50 years. And it remains, very much, Atari.
@@davidlowey4291 You're not reading.
@@davidlowey4291 Warner Bros then broke up the company, splitting its arcade and home electronics divisions. The history of Atari is not one timeline but rather a branching one.
yes indeed. branching. but this oft repeated claim that Atari today is "not the real Atari" is tiresome ... the brand has a complex history, with examples of failure and success in every era ... who gets to decide if this is the real Atari? Why not ask Nolan Bushnell. I know what his answer would be ... he is an adviser to the company today.
@@davidlowey4291 This Atari comes from the home computer division. They have the rights to the arcade games made before 1984 but the actual arcade division was separated and renamed Atari games. Atari should buy back the rights to all those games and then they really will be the true Atari.
Really? It's been happening for years already
I think that first guy they showed, at the beginning of the video, shouldn't have been watching porn, and doing what he was doing out in public like that. Hope he didn't get arrested...😄
Nice infomercial... No need to say that the new system is actually an emulation machine NOT compatible with all the old cartrirdges...
totally inaccurate it is compatible with old 2600 and 7800 carts. There are some newer homebrew carts that the 2600+ is not compatible with ... perhaps that is what you meant to say
@@davidlowey4291 What you don't know is that I have PhD in Genetics. My PhD is relevant because I can add at least one reference to any of the sentence I write. I would have posted the direct link to the Product page and the Compatibility List from the official Atari website but I can't. This is the quote on the website: "Compatible with most 2600 and 7800 cartridges. View Compatibility List." And saying "Untested" is a political way to say it mostly work.... With glitches... And I said nothing about the loading time on the new system... Be careful next time you open your mouth... Most people are smarter than you...
@@davidlowey4291 No some games are not compatible . They have the list on the site but have updated it since it launched and some youtubers go through the testing. Yes the homebrews for some like Champ Games won't run on it but there are some legit games that are still not 100 percent compatible. Again they have updated some via firmware.
The 2600+ will eventually be able to play any 7800 or 2600 game.
I plays most of the 7800 indie games already.
Not all games will play on the 2600+. There are massive incompatibilities.
All the original games will work with a very few exceptions, such as the carts with special chips. Atari has been working with Champ Games to get his homebrew games working, but the cart dumper scheme makes this a big challenge.
It is vey difficult to get cart dumping to work, because pirate community will maliciously copyright-troll any technology that even remotely resembles something created by a pirate, which means that NONE of the human capital of learning to dump ROMs independently, is actually permissable to use commecially.
But because none of this is actually registered property by the book, it's not possible to seek out the person who DOES own the copyright and license it. The only option is to hire somebody with these skills in the public domain, and risk for somebody to track the company through the mud in public, for "stealing" this socialized IP with game journalists saying it wasn't in public use after all.
"Big focus on AI"
Retro games and Ai don't go well together
whatever F8ck atari 2600. That system was garbage. Thank goodness for colecovision and NES. atari 2600 was so bad back in those days, I was still going to the arcade.
"Games you can't find anymore" is a statement of the ignorant of Google searching the internet combined with emulator applications. That statement doesn't exist to me and I'm going to leave it at that.#droppinjewels
Too freaking bad this only proves only one freaking thing. That modern gaming is way better than retro gaming right now 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅.