32 NES games that are ALSO on Atari 2600
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Rampage was one of my favorite games . The best port back then was the Sega master system .
The 2600 and 7800 versions were good despite being graphically inferior
I love finding channels like this where the love for the subject matter is so powerful that it can be felt from just watching it. The videos I've watched here so far have an "all in" 100% effort from John EVERY single time. That's not exactly commonplace around UA-cam nowadays. Lots of "faux enthusiasm" from creators just trying to appeal to wide an audience as possible. So anytime I find a channel that knows what it is and what it loves, I take notice. Awesome video btw, I just recently found and dug out my old Atari and a stack of game cartridges for it. It would be so cool to play some of those NES versions on it!
Millipede on NES was one of my mom's favorite games. She'd sit there for two hours on a Sunday afternoon playing that game over and over again!
Basically, the NES ports are like that fancy Bumblebee Transformers toy you bought at Walmart; the 2600 ports are the Bumblebee Transformers toy you got in a Happy Meal.
Gobots.
@@sidneyvandykeii3169 Actually if you want to be even more technical about it, the arcade version is the Transformer, the NES version is the Gobot, the 2600 is still the Happy Meal.
@@sidneyvandykeii3169😂 I forgot those existed.
My Dad recently passed away. When I was younger my parents bought me a 2600 for Christmas. He loved that Pac-Man game... He kept on saying to Mom,
"Just one more game"
That's a beautiful memory
Thank you for sharing this with us.
That is a wonderful memory.
I miss being a little kid and going to Toys R Us with either of my parents or both and looking at all of the NES games hoping they'd let me get one. Thank you and sorry for your loss.
The 2600 version of Ms Pac-Man was ported by GCC, the actual developers of the arcade game (they were also the hardware architects of the Atari 7800). So, that’s why that port is still pretty good despite hardware limitations. GCC’s history is pretty interesting, as they went from making unlicensed arcade expansion kits to working with both Midway and Atari.
On 2600 Ghostbusters, if you move over a ghost on the map, it will appear in the driving section. Then suck it up with the vacuum.
Young John: oh cool a Pac-Man arcade game!
Mama Riggs: John, you have Pacman at home
Pacman at Home:
The Atari versions were like the ‘we have NES at home’ joke.
Kung Fu Master (not “Masters”) was the name of the all the ports that weren’t on the NES, as well as the arcade version. In Japan, it was known as Spartan X
You forgot RoadRunner, Track & Field, and if you really wanna get into the weeds, Basic Programming = Family Basic and the Space Shuttle simulator game was on both.
I believe Atari also had prototypes for Xevious and Elevator Action.
The BMX event in California Games on 2600 is kind of hilarious looking, it looks like that guy it stuck in a neverending downhill plummet and should be screaming the whole time.
Atari 2600 version of Mario Bros was a favorite of mine growing up. A lot of nostalgia for that one.
I grew up with the Atari 2600 version of Donkey Kong and as soon as I heard you say we got the gingerbread man throwing a honeycomb I lost it. LOL!!!😂😂😂
My brother and I met you and John Hancock briefly at your table at the Washington State Gaming Expo at the Puyallup fairgrounds on Saturday. Good to meet you! That was my first time seeing a gaming expo in person. Hopefully they bring it back again next year.
Lots of gold stars with "YOU TRIED" in Comic Book Sans handed out to the 2600 versions of NES-era games.
Interesting about Q-bert. I hadnt really ever played it myself or really even knew what it was...or so I thought. Few months ago I was going thru some old storage tubs of my childhood toys and stuff and I came across something DAMN AWESOME. A "Nel Sonic" LCD "Q-Bert" game watch. After unscrewing the smallest screws ever known to man, I put in a new little battery and...it functions perfectly still! After playing around with it and hearing the music and sound effects I remembered playing with it as a very small child. I can't believe It still in such great condition, not scratched or anything. Things truly were built to last forever back then. Much like my original model Gameboy I got at 6 years old in 1991, I STILL have it and it works perfectly. I still buy and play games on it regularly. Just picked up a couple cool GB games last week "TMNT fall of foot clan" and "Super Mario Land 3". I love taking it to work instead of my 3ds or switch because I can easily play it on break in the daylight sun. The GB is still unrivaled in that department hahaha
Had an Activision Atari 2600 CD-Rom collection back in the 90's. It had Double Dragon on it. If the NES version is not already difficult which I've beaten several times. The 2600 version is insane. You won't last more than a minute on that version. Beating a level is an accomplishment.
Pitfall 2 the lost Caverns on atari by Activision is Super Pitfal on the NES. The Atari version wins hands down
My grandpa loved the Tengen Pac-Man really well. Never could figure out games with two joysticks.
MY favorite Atari 2600 game is Atlantis...
I had Donkey Kong, Jr. for the Atari 2600. I hated when my older sister played it. So I hid the game in our trailer. I hid it so well it disappeared. I'm guessing it got accidentally got thrown away. 37 years later I'm still salty.
Karma for a douche...
that's a hilarious gaming memory
Wasn't a good port. The NES version was a complete port unlike the original which was missing the pie factory level.
DKjr not that good but it at least has 3 levels on the 2600. This video say it only has 2 levels which is wrong
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I just imagine if 80's kid like us compare Atari version vs NES version was like Gen Z compare between 1080 vs 4k
Joust on the 2600 is perfect as a simultaneous two player game. Lots of game reviewers overlook this important feature.
Dig Dug was my favorite Atari game as a 6 year old
these single screen golden age type games look so good on NES. by the time we got NES here it's was all the more complex "modern" games where compromises had to be made to get it to run on 8 bit hardware
Hey John. In Ghostbusters for the Atari 2600 it's just like the NES version but on your mini map on the 2600 of Ghostbusters. If you go over the ghosts on your mini map on your car when you're driving that yellow whatchamacallit on the hood is your ghost vacuum and when you go over your ghost on your mini map when you're driving the ghost will appear and you press the button. If you time it just right. You can suck up the ghost while you're driving. You said you just really don't do anything but you can do that. Give it another shot:-)
Great video! Next should be NES games on the 7800.
Amazing video man there were a lot of games I didn't know were on the 2600 an NES around the same time. Double Dragon really surprised me 2600 still was going strong in the 90s WOW. I was really impressed by some of the games on Atari with its limitations it held it's own. Star Voyager man that game looked impressive as Hell never played it but amazing I have to at least play it. Man John this was a really AMAZING an Insightful video love the content ❤❤
Space Invaders for Atari 2600 was awesome. I played the heck out of that one growing up. Too bad we didn't get the Nintendo version here. That one looks like it would've been fun to play too.
So to summarize: The NES is not arcade perfect but it is pretty good. The Atari - eh, it gets the job done.
Crazy Climber for the Famicom uses both controllers to simulate the duel stick controls of the arcade cab.
Man the Atari 2600 reallly shows its age when put up against the NES. Even more so today where theres just very little charm left and yet soooo much to be found in the NES versions. Good thing i dont need charm!
This video missed Pitfall 2 The Lost Caverns ON atari which is Super Pitfall on the NES. The weaker Atari wins that round. You can also argue Atari holds its own with Winter Games. The fact a 1970's console comes close with some games is impressive
My older brother recently visited, and we played some 2600 games on an Atari flashback machine. It was mainly just a nostalgic kick, but I doubt that I could sit down and play those games like the way I still can with my NES.
I like the NES Tengen Ms. Pac-Man more than the Namco Version
So the trick with Star Voyager on the NES is that it's actually really simple except for two things which aren't: Shields and Warping. If you learn how to do just those two things you should be able to get a lot more out of the game! :B
Nice comparisons- always shocks me just how much better the Tengen version of Ms Pac Man was than Namco's version, though!
I had QBert on Coleco. Fun game. But the weirdest controller ever for Colecovision. The strange telephone looking thing with the joystick at the top.
You should totally do a video on games that were on the 2600, NES, and the SEGA Master System!
Sega would win every game. Just look at Rampage. It's arcade perfect on the SMS compared to the NES
Wait a minute? There was a ghostbusters 2 for the 2600! The film was out in 89 - I thought the 2600 was long dead by then!
I think for crazy climber youre supposed to use the dpad on both player 1 and player 2 controllers. One becomes your left hand, the other your right
Nevermind you figured it out
Those nintendo games on the 2600 are my favorite ones.
Next, do a 5200,400 and atari 7800 episode of it,would be very cool😁
7:14 That music still sounds iny brain.
The arcade version of Burgertime is one of my favorite classic games, but I felt like the NES version was rough. I was born post 2600 so my first console was the 5200 so I lack nostalgia for 2600 games.
I thought I was the only one who thought Donkey Kong looked like the gingerbread man for Atari.
HEY JOHN! Have you done a video covering all the games you made? Ill watch that!
There's no connection between Star Voyager on the Atari 2600 and NES other than being the same name and genre.
Wait, Atari 2600 Popeye has all 3 stages. You said it only has two.
And Donkey Kong Jr has 3 stages as well, several errors in this video.
Klax isn't actually the last release in Europe, that honor goes to another puzzle game called Acid Drop. Anyway, I think a lot of these 2600 versions are very enjoyable, I really like Joust, Q*Bert, Bump'n Jump. They play really well. Others were a bit too much for the 2600 to handle. Commando isn't bad, but I find it too easy, there just isn't much going on
Pitfall 2 the lost Caverns is Super Pitfall on the NES. This video doesnt mention it and the Atari version is actually way better
i played a lot of those games back in the day for the Atari 2600. Especially Pacman & Mario Bros. At the time I didn't think Pacman for Atari sucked. It was one of my favorite games on the Atari growing up.
This is back in the 80's where you can clearly tell that Nes is way better than Atari. It's not like now where a PS5 compared to a PS4 makes 0 difference.
Wayne: "Now tell me Noah, I've always wanted to know. What is the difference between Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, really?"
Noah: "Well, she has a bow on her head."
Wayne: "That's IT? Get right outta town!"
-Wayne's 🌎World 😂
Atari and NES the beginnings I miss the 1980s
@4:53 - I always wondered why they decided to use the music from punchout for the title screen and between levels. Very odd!
I play NES Qbert once in a while, that game is so much fun, how far have you gotten in it?
2600 Rampage: "thanks for trying" hahahaha!
Get far enough in Spy Hunter and the music gets even better - but that game gets really hard to get far. I always focused on trying to get to the boat launch to the be the boat. Only cause I thought it was cool. Not cause I was any good at the boat part. I pretty much died there instantly every time.
Joust on 2600 looks like pikachu floating around
For a second I thought John was giving everyone the 2 middle fingers
I have like uhh mandella effect going on with Moon Patrol being on the NES for some reason. I could have sworn I played it, but alas.
That's so weird that NES didn't get Moon Patrol because Nintendo published 10 Yard Fight and Kung Fu as US launch titles.
Also strange that the NES never got R-Type...
I wonder if you are thinking of another side scrolling vehicle game on the NES - maybe Silkworm or BreakThru?
@@thetechn1que518 Silkworm with the jeep definitely has Moon Patrol vibes.
Actually in the Ms. Pacman arcade the fruit did move on screen 😊
0:29 Does anyone else have a sense memory from that Atari 2600 Pacman noise/jingle? I should make that my alarm.
I have all these 2600 games except Klax and crazy climber but I never put it together that were so many Nes crossovers lol
Weren't the donkey Kong games made by Coleco for the Atari? I thought they made them purposely bad to compare them to the launch game on the Colecovision and show how much better the Colecovision was.
8:40 my man you are WAY too nice. It is. It is terrible. Great vid.
sounds like Defender sampled Mike Tyson's Punch Out on its intro screen
yoooo that's crazy it does
every time i see you in round glasses, im thinking oh mr robotniks doing a review video in his spare time
Tem o porte de MS. Pac Man da Tengen, e mais fiel ao arcade !
That Double Dragon port is just a "why does this even exist?" thing. The saddest part is the Atari 7800 version isn't much better and has the same music lol
If you haven't looked into the homebrew versions of some of the Atari 2600 disasters (Pacman, Donkey Kong), they are WAY better.
@4:50 anyone else noticed Defender 2 sounds alot like punch out?
You forgot about spidermam and superman
Why has this video been posted again? I distinctly remember seeing it because of the line that you cut prematurely in editing: “And I guess according to lore…” In the original video, someone asked in the comments what you meant. I was able to tell them that you were talking about Donkey Kong being Cranky Kong and DK Jr. being DK in the Donkey Kong County series, only to have you confirm after reading my comment.
I did two different ones in the past so I combined them into one.
I noticed once before you reviewed this game and another time Dick Tracy. I was wondering if you ever thought about hacking Ghostbusters and putting some of the better graphics from Dick Tracy in it as they seem better?
I like the Minus World tee - representing Utah!
It was our test in the late 80's to see how your parents felt about you. If you got an atari, you know they hate you😂
I bought double dragon on the 7800 and prefer it to the nes version because you can play 2 player co op.
I love different games with the same name.
I have a serious question. After all these revisions and new games. Why haven’t Donkey Kong Jr have lore? Or in a game that explains him. So Donkey Kong a deadbeat Dad? Who’s Diddy Kong really?
Isn’t the character in Donkey Kong Country, DK jr?
I play my 2600 at least once a month and Galaxian and Galaga are usually what I play first before I ultimately play H.E.R.O. for 6 hours lol
Nice video dude
As a Intellivision kid, I hated the 2600. The main reason is I couldn't get used to the joystick. They seemed way too stiff
Why no centipede? I remember that on the 2600.
How do you respawn in Ikari Warriors without ABBA?
Conclusion:
Nes port:
Close enough to the arcade version 😎👍🏻
Atari 2600 Port:
With some imagination🤔, it gets the job done😌
Cool video concept
Donkey Kong on my vader made me cry. That was not DK!
Great video 👍
GREAT video!!!
With the exception of Double Dragon, most of these Atari ports don't look bad.
I'll stick to the Colecovision version of most of these, even over the NES.
Yup technology got alot cheaper and it advanced greatly in that 5 years from 1977 to 1983 and you see that the 2600 had nothing to improve on where the NES did the cartridge port didn't even have enough address lines to produce the full 8bit graphics but the Joystick for control of some games is actually nicer and a big part of its success no matter what people say about or show thats not great about the 2600 it falls on def ears people ❤ the 2600 its the icon that started it all no matter how bad it hurts NES fans feelings and i write this because the NES fans seem to be the only ones who show distain for the Atari 2600.
The Atari versions definitely got the job done
Both the Tengen and Namco Pac-Man games are the exact same game.
According to lore what?! I must know. :)
Minus World; I've been there.
Me too
Xenophobe for the NES is a great game - simple, but a lot of fun! Not too hard to master once you get the gist of it, though.
Does it get the job done tho, John????...........lol
Popeye for the 2600 had all 3 stages
DK Jr also had 3 stages on the 2600
I don't know why there's so much disdain for the 2600 version of Pacman. It's not great but it's certainly playable.
The problem is that it looks like a Pac Man clone instead of the official home version. On its own merits it's not an horrible game, I agree
I found it very playable in 1982.
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Saying they’re “on” 2600 is debatable. Just the name is on 2600. The game itself cannot be ported.
Double Dragon on Atari is... well, it's a valiant effort but the hardware just isn't there for that type of game.
Winter Games on Atari is oddly the best version. Has 8 events!