One of the best games over made for the Atari 2600. Additive game play. great controls. Awsome graphics for its time as well. Take your own course of action, lots of emeies and lots of places to go. A game that will make you play it for hours to see where else you can go to. a real gem for its time. Someone make a remake of this game
I wonder why Doug Neubauer never wrote many games. He is a real master at programming for very difficult hardware. The whole thing was done in 6502 assembly!
To beat this game you have to keep a pen and paper and map each board and exit. New lives are run up by running up your score collecting or saving as many colonists on the planets and of course destroying all the enemies that you see. Find the board with Solaris. After you know the route you can run the path quicker. That is generally how it is done. Also, I needed the track ball controller to really dominate this game and break a million points. This took a couple of hours.
Best game for the 2600, no contest. You had to read the manual a little, but the gameplay, graphics and sound totally redefined what the console was capable of. This game was captivating!
The 2600 was my first video game console I had as a kid and this game was the best and most advanced game ever to be released for that system. What a gem!
Retro Gaming Roundup and Scott aka Subaru Brat made me come check out this game. He said it was like an early NES game on the VCS. Looks like a very great game, to quote an entrepreneur
I had this when I was a kid in the 80s even my mum and dad liked playing this game. I got really far in it but never completed it. It would get tough at the end.
Even as someone from the ps1/ps2 era I get hours of enjoyment out of Solaris. I always thought the Atari was an old, famous but crap footnote in history. Oh man was I wrong.
When it comes to sheer fun and excitement numerous Atari 2600 games beat the living daylights out of contemporary games. But there was also a huge pile of garbage around on that system. Programmers really had to know what they were doing with the limited hardware at hand.
Ironic I'm from the Atari Era and I thought the complete opposite with the PS1 being a crappy period with ugly untested polygon graphics and glitchy first person style games that seemed forced and unready
That brings back memories. I was 8 years old in 1986 and to be honest, I didn't really like playing this game all that much. Not because it was bad, but because I wasn't really good at it and I didn't really know what you actually had to do, outside of the shooting parts and I was kind of intimidated by the game. I still came back to it again and again, because it had the best graphics and was the most complex out of all the Atari 2600 games I had. Looking at this video I begin to wonder though. Maybe it wasn't just me sucking, maybe there was something wrong with our 2 controllers, because I am pretty sure with those you couldn't fire as fast as can be seen in this video. I think we could like fire 1 shot each second, at best.
Hm. What you see in this video is as I remember it being on the Atari 2600. I agree that I wasn't as good at it as a child, but I do much better now days. Get an emulator and tear it up !
Looking at this game as a programer now, I imagine out what kind of games they couldn't had done still at that time. Thats a pitty this game had come out at the end of 2600' life.
Based on how well NES games like _Kirby's Adventure_ could create detailed, colorful, faux 3-D and parallax graphics despite the limitations of NES hardware, I wouldn't be surprised if this was possible in the NES, but very hard to replicate.
I'm not convinced that it's fully impossible on the NES, though you might not get an exact 1:1 conversion. Now, it won't feel natural to program that on the NES, but, having a guess about how it's written on the 2600, it's not natural on the 2600 either.
One of the best games over made for the Atari 2600. Additive game play. great controls. Awsome graphics for its time as well. Take your own course of action, lots of emeies and lots of places to go. A game that will make you play it for hours to see where else you can go to. a real gem for its time. Someone make a remake of this game
I wonder why Doug Neubauer never wrote many games. He is a real master at programming for very difficult hardware. The whole thing was done in 6502 assembly!
To beat this game you have to keep a pen and paper and map each board and exit. New lives are run up by running up your score collecting or saving as many colonists on the planets and of course destroying all the enemies that you see. Find the board with Solaris. After you know the route you can run the path quicker. That is generally how it is done. Also, I needed the track ball controller to really dominate this game and break a million points. This took a couple of hours.
One of my all-time favourite Atari 2600 games. Certainly one I spent countless hours on.
Best game for the 2600, no contest. You had to read the manual a little, but the gameplay, graphics and sound totally redefined what the console was capable of. This game was captivating!
The 2600 was my first video game console I had as a kid and this game was the best and most advanced game ever to be released for that system. What a gem!
Take a look at Pitfall 2 then
best Atari 2600 game
This could easily pass for an 8-bit or early Nintendo game. Great looking Atari game.
I cant believe they managed this with the limitations of the machine!
Retro Gaming Roundup and Scott aka Subaru Brat made me come check out this game. He said it was like an early NES game on the VCS. Looks like a very great game, to quote an entrepreneur
imagine this with the crisp sound and NES grafix...awesome capturing of 3D feeling ... seems better then top gun
A masterpiece.
Really useful video to properly understand the game, thanks!
I had this when I was a kid in the 80s even my mum and dad liked playing this game. I got really far in it but never completed it. It would get tough at the end.
This and Pitfall 2 are some of the most advanced Atari 2600 games
Even as someone from the ps1/ps2 era I get hours of enjoyment out of Solaris. I always thought the Atari was an old, famous but crap footnote in history. Oh man was I wrong.
When it comes to sheer fun and excitement numerous Atari 2600 games beat the living daylights out of contemporary games.
But there was also a huge pile of garbage around on that system. Programmers really had to know what they were doing with the limited hardware at hand.
Ironic I'm from the Atari Era and I thought the complete opposite with the PS1 being a crappy period with ugly untested polygon graphics and glitchy first person style games that seemed forced and unready
That brings back memories. I was 8 years old in 1986 and to be honest, I didn't really like playing this game all that much. Not because it was bad, but because I wasn't really good at it and I didn't really know what you actually had to do, outside of the shooting parts and I was kind of intimidated by the game. I still came back to it again and again, because it had the best graphics and was the most complex out of all the Atari 2600 games I had.
Looking at this video I begin to wonder though. Maybe it wasn't just me sucking, maybe there was something wrong with our 2 controllers, because I am pretty sure with those you couldn't fire as fast as can be seen in this video. I think we could like fire 1 shot each second, at best.
Hm. What you see in this video is as I remember it being on the Atari 2600. I agree that I wasn't as good at it as a child, but I do much better now days. Get an emulator and tear it up !
Wasn't there an Atari 5200 version of this game as well?! Sprite Scaling and line-scrolling on the Atari 2600?! What kind of sorcery is this?!
Oh, so you have a UA-cam channel
This is Amazing
I grew up with this, how are you so amazing?
Looking at this game as a programer now, I imagine out what kind of games they couldn't had done still at that time.
Thats a pitty this game had come out at the end of 2600' life.
Recuerdo cuando jugaba esto a los 6 años de edad!
No lo conocía, se ve muy adelantado para la época
Great atari 2600 game!
A game like this wouldn't be possible on the NES, but why exactly? What does Atari contain that makes these kinds of graphics possible?
Based on how well NES games like _Kirby's Adventure_ could create detailed, colorful, faux 3-D and parallax graphics despite the limitations of NES hardware, I wouldn't be surprised if this was possible in the NES, but very hard to replicate.
I'm not convinced that it's fully impossible on the NES, though you might not get an exact 1:1 conversion. Now, it won't feel natural to program that on the NES, but, having a guess about how it's written on the 2600, it's not natural on the 2600 either.
Was this game ever meant to be finished?
At 28:14 you see Solaris at the map. The flashing planet symbol.
I never made it.
I did see it, but i never made it. Spent hours and hours playing this game. Even just a hour ago.
So there's no real ending to the game.....just a hi score?
The game ends when you reach Solaris. But I still have yet to get there legitimately. Some day, perhaps! I got about halfway there in this video.
@@RadioPoultry same me and my brother played this game for years.... Never found Solaris.