The retro market is part of the reason why I emulate. Since the devs no longer get any of the sales, I'm not paying a scalper hundreds to thousands of dollars for something they found at a yard sale or out of their grandparents attic. But I was really shocked that I only heard of three of these. Two of them being the horror games.
Emulation is amazing because we get to play all of these rare and hard to find games. I'm definitely more about playing games than collecting them, but there are always a couple of games that I really wish I would be able to find at a crazy low price (like the two games published by Wizard Video Games.) Now that I think of it, the two horror games and Red Sea Crossing were the only two that I had ever heard of before starting to research for this video. I will say that Malagai will be going into a future hidden gem video for sure; I really dug that one.
Very much this. With the exception of one of these titles, I already had them in my collection in LaunchBox and ready to play. Emulation also gives me the added benefit of things like upscaling, controller remapping and most importantly, save states because even after 30 years I still absolutely SUCK at some of these games. 😅
I found a copy of Swordquest: Waterworld in the dollar bin at a local retro store about 10 years ago. They didn't realize what it was and just tossed it in with the rest of the Atari stuff. Best day ever.
I got the original 'Music Machine' album when it came out, and I was about five years old and loved it. I never knew there was a video game and it blew my mind to see that.
Awesone video! The Texas chainsaw massacre game stood out the most to me because it is the first horror movie I remember watching as a kid. The atari was a little before my time but I would have definitely had to own it if i had the 2600. Only wish they would have made a version of it for the NES
We had the Music Machine record and comics when I was a kid. Great songs on there. Ive never seen the Atari game on cartridge. The Herbert the Snail song is my favorite. Mangia is fun but Ive only played it on emulators. I love how odd some Atari games are. Thank goodness for EMU7800! I really like River Patrol. Better than River Raid actually. I bet Eli's Ladder complete would be insanely expensive. Ive never seen it either. Its interesting that the most expensive games for the VCS are not the best made ones. Fun video! Good job on it.
I started playing Atari 2600 games very recently, didn't have any real experience with the console as a kid, but Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween are on my shortlist of games to try out, but I think I'll be sticking to ROMs in that case. Awesome video. 🤘
So when I was 13 or 14, my grandmother took me to some flea-market type sale that had a ton of clearance items from just about every category you could think of. Tools, clothing, home goods, electronics and (most importantly to my interests) video games. I grabbed a random shooter for the 2600 for maybe $10 bucks and took it home to play. The cart was a baby blue thing with a t-shaped handle, and you know where I'm going with this: it was a copy of Air Raid. Unfortunately, the cart didn't work because it didn't seat correctly. If I held the cart in place, it would play, but for some reason the shape of the cart prevented it from being inserted completely. So I had my grandmother return the thing and get my money back. It wasn't until the early 00s that I stumbled on the Atari Age website and realized what I'd had back then.
Oh wow... that's wild! If only we knew then what we know now... One of my biggest regrets in life is getting rid of all of my Saturn stuff back in the day.
Yo !! I had Malagai !! My mom found a box of atari console and like 50 games for 5 bucks at a garage sale many years ago. I ended up trading an entire Neo Geo, 2 controllers and 3 boxed Neo Geo games for this cart, which was actually lightly defaced by a green felt pen. Wow what luck I ended up with this one!
I actually own Texas Chainsaw Massacre & had owned a complete in box Malagai. It's the only game I ever traded away for something else & I don't even remember what. I had been trying to get Crazy Climber at the time & some guy in Chicago didn't think Malagai warranted the value of Crazy Climber. So he sh¡tted himself out of getting Malagai.
I really would like to own Texas Chainsaw one day, as well as Halloween. Hopefully you got something good for that copy of Malagai! Thanks for watching!
Atari 2600 is below the crap threshold. I like old systems, but this is just too primitive to be enjoyable for me. Around 1990 is where it starts for me to be playable
There’s still a handful of games that are still fun and playable esp if you just like good gameplay and fun head to heads with your kids etc. ex: Tennis, Freeway, Ice Hockey for 2 players and Ms Pac Man, Atlantis, Phoenix, Frogger (Starpath) for one player
My honest opinions: 10. It's a relatively ok game, but not really worth your time. Kaboom! is so much more fun & much cheaper too! 9. This game is kinda crap to me. I just can't see it being a full game on its own, especially not the way it is. 8. Wild premise, but not all that great. I can at least say it's a bit creative & can be fun in short bursts. 7. Again, fun in short bursts, but not much to it. It's a "so bad it's good" kind of game. 6. A bit boring, but it's at least more of a game. 5. A strategic tagging game! Kinda fun to play, but a bit hard to figure out what to do. 4. One of the better Tigervision games, but not great. 3. Boring educational game. Nuff said. 2. Kind of a boring multi-screen platformer, but not really BAD per se. Just a bit mediocre. 1. A really bad & poorly made hack of Space Jockey that is so boring & awful that it's not worth even $3.
The retro market is part of the reason why I emulate. Since the devs no longer get any of the sales, I'm not paying a scalper hundreds to thousands of dollars for something they found at a yard sale or out of their grandparents attic. But I was really shocked that I only heard of three of these. Two of them being the horror games.
Emulation is amazing because we get to play all of these rare and hard to find games. I'm definitely more about playing games than collecting them, but there are always a couple of games that I really wish I would be able to find at a crazy low price (like the two games published by Wizard Video Games.) Now that I think of it, the two horror games and Red Sea Crossing were the only two that I had ever heard of before starting to research for this video. I will say that Malagai will be going into a future hidden gem video for sure; I really dug that one.
Very much this. With the exception of one of these titles, I already had them in my collection in LaunchBox and ready to play. Emulation also gives me the added benefit of things like upscaling, controller remapping and most importantly, save states because even after 30 years I still absolutely SUCK at some of these games. 😅
Your laugh is pretty funny at 1.5x speed
Haha. It’s pretty funny at normal speed, so I imagine speeding it up would make it even funnier…
I found a copy of Swordquest: Waterworld in the dollar bin at a local retro store about 10 years ago. They didn't realize what it was and just tossed it in with the rest of the Atari stuff. Best day ever.
Haha! That's awesome!
I got the original 'Music Machine' album when it came out, and I was about five years old and loved it. I never knew there was a video game and it blew my mind to see that.
Awesone video! The Texas chainsaw massacre game stood out the most to me because it is the first horror movie I remember watching as a kid. The atari was a little before my time but I would have definitely had to own it if i had the 2600. Only wish they would have made a version of it for the NES
We had the Music Machine record and comics when I was a kid. Great songs on there. Ive never seen the Atari game on cartridge. The Herbert the Snail song is my favorite.
Mangia is fun but Ive only played it on emulators. I love how odd some Atari games are. Thank goodness for EMU7800!
I really like River Patrol. Better than River Raid actually.
I bet Eli's Ladder complete would be insanely expensive. Ive never seen it either.
Its interesting that the most expensive games for the VCS are not the best made ones.
Fun video! Good job on it.
I started playing Atari 2600 games very recently, didn't have any real experience with the console as a kid, but Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween are on my shortlist of games to try out, but I think I'll be sticking to ROMs in that case. Awesome video. 🤘
There is a lot of fun to be had on the 2600 if you are able to look past the technical shortcomings. Thanks for watching!
Thanks again for the reviews. Halloween and Mangia look the most interesting to me.
Thanks for watching!
So when I was 13 or 14, my grandmother took me to some flea-market type sale that had a ton of clearance items from just about every category you could think of. Tools, clothing, home goods, electronics and (most importantly to my interests) video games. I grabbed a random shooter for the 2600 for maybe $10 bucks and took it home to play. The cart was a baby blue thing with a t-shaped handle, and you know where I'm going with this: it was a copy of Air Raid. Unfortunately, the cart didn't work because it didn't seat correctly. If I held the cart in place, it would play, but for some reason the shape of the cart prevented it from being inserted completely. So I had my grandmother return the thing and get my money back. It wasn't until the early 00s that I stumbled on the Atari Age website and realized what I'd had back then.
Oh wow... that's wild! If only we knew then what we know now... One of my biggest regrets in life is getting rid of all of my Saturn stuff back in the day.
@@AggieThunderpaw Amen! Wish I would have held onto a couple of the electronic games I had back then. Kenner Redline is one that's very pricy now.
Why did you not include Birthday Mania, Gamma Attack, and Extra Terrestrials?
I do these lists according to PriceCharting.com. Those games weren't in the top ten according to their website.
Basically, most of these games have you thinking if you want to afford eating or not.
Precisely.
Yo !! I had Malagai !! My mom found a box of atari console and like 50 games for 5 bucks at a garage sale many years ago. I ended up trading an entire Neo Geo, 2 controllers and 3 boxed Neo Geo games for this cart, which was actually lightly defaced by a green felt pen. Wow what luck I ended up with this one!
That's awesome! You never know what you'll find out in the wild.
I would have kept the neo geo
I would also be willing to play Mangia. With the limited resources of the 2600, imagination was very important. 🙂
I had a lot of fun with Mangia. The amount of imagination utilized in 2600 games is a big part of why I love the system so much.
I actually own Texas Chainsaw Massacre & had owned a complete in box Malagai. It's the only game I ever traded away for something else & I don't even remember what. I had been trying to get Crazy Climber at the time & some guy in Chicago didn't think Malagai warranted the value of Crazy Climber. So he sh¡tted himself out of getting Malagai.
I really would like to own Texas Chainsaw one day, as well as Halloween. Hopefully you got something good for that copy of Malagai! Thanks for watching!
To imagine programming these for the VCS architecture. A machine designed to play Pong and Combat.
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Is it just me or did the very first kid look like a very young Jack black?
That is a very young Jack Black!
I thought the same thing!
These are now officially old games, anyone collecting the original carts should only be doing it for a museum, putting value on these is ridiculous.
Video game values are quite arbitrary and, at times, very confusing. Thanks for watching!
I bought Halo a few years ago. I haven't opened it. I can't.
Very nice!
lol... If Atari ever makes a real comeback, my advice to them would to keep Jack Black out of their future advertising. Poor Lionsgate.
Are you Saberspark?
I own air raid(ers) by m network close enough who wants a copy 5000dollars a cart. Cheaper than asking price lol
Atari 2600 is below the crap threshold. I like old systems, but this is just too primitive to be enjoyable for me. Around 1990 is where it starts for me to be playable
There’s still a handful of games that are still fun and playable esp if you just like good gameplay and fun head to heads with your kids etc. ex: Tennis, Freeway, Ice Hockey for 2 players and Ms Pac Man, Atlantis, Phoenix, Frogger (Starpath) for one player
My honest opinions:
10. It's a relatively ok game, but not really worth your time. Kaboom! is so much more fun & much cheaper too!
9. This game is kinda crap to me. I just can't see it being a full game on its own, especially not the way it is.
8. Wild premise, but not all that great. I can at least say it's a bit creative & can be fun in short bursts.
7. Again, fun in short bursts, but not much to it. It's a "so bad it's good" kind of game.
6. A bit boring, but it's at least more of a game.
5. A strategic tagging game! Kinda fun to play, but a bit hard to figure out what to do.
4. One of the better Tigervision games, but not great.
3. Boring educational game. Nuff said.
2. Kind of a boring multi-screen platformer, but not really BAD per se. Just a bit mediocre.
1. A really bad & poorly made hack of Space Jockey that is so boring & awful that it's not worth even $3.
It’s about the relative rarity of
At least they're all crap games.
It’s about the relative rarity of these
@@patsfan4life I know how it works. The bottom will fall out eventually though and this bubble is going to burst.