Atari 2600 Games Marathon | Friday Night Arcade
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- 23 Atari 2600 Friday Night Arcade episodes rolled into one for your binge viewing pleasure! These episodes are in chronological order dating back to when the channel first started all the way back in 2014.
[00:00:00] - Starmaster
[00:10:28] - Robot Tank
[00:19:17] - Title Match Pro Wrestling
[00:23:33] - The Atari 2600 Games I Loved
[00:40:39] - Games that Pushed the Limit
[00:52:11] - The Atari 2600 Games I Loved #2
[01:01:13] - Awesome Atari 2600 Arcade Ports
[01:11:31] - Atari 2600 Games You Loved
[01:24:48] - Demon Attack
[01:29:42] - Joust
[01:36:12] - Venture
[01:42:24] - Alien
[01:48:05] - Keystone Kapers
[01:54:25] - Dig Dug
[01:58:43] - Awesome Atari 2600 Arcade Ports #2
[02:10:13] - Frankenstein's Monster
[02:17:24] - Secret Quest
[02:27:03] - Spider-Man
[02:32:15] - Atari 2600 Games with Endings
[02:59:26] - Atari 2600 Wireless Controllers
[03:12:03] - Games that Pushed the Limit #2
[03:22:47] - Double Dragon
[03:27:45] - Asteroids on Vinyl LP
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23 Atari 2600 Friday Night Arcade episodes rolled into one for your binge viewing pleasure! These episodes are in chronological order dating back to when the channel first started all the way back in 2014.
[00:00:00] - Starmaster
[00:10:28] - Robot Tank
[00:19:17] - Title Match Pro Wrestling
[00:23:33] - The Atari 2600 Games I Loved
[00:40:39] - Games that Pushed the Limit
[00:52:11] - The Atari 2600 Games I Loved #2
[01:01:13] - Awesome Atari 2600 Arcade Ports
[01:11:31] - Atari 2600 Games You Loved
[01:24:48] - Demon Attack
[01:29:42] - Joust
[01:36:12] - Venture
[01:42:24] - Alien
[01:48:05] - Keystone Kapers
[01:54:25] - Dig Dug
[01:58:43] - Awesome Atari 2600 Arcade Ports #2
[02:10:13] - Frankenstein's Monster
[02:17:24] - Secret Quest
[02:27:03] - Spider-Man
[02:32:15] - Atari 2600 Games with Endings
[02:59:26] - Atari 2600 Wireless Controllers
[03:12:03] - Games that Pushed the Limit #2
[03:22:47] - Double Dragon
[03:27:45] - Asteroids on Vinyl LP
This is very cool! Are you going to do a similar thing with your NES video's?
And my favorite thing about Space Invaders is how the programmers turned a system/programming limitation, the aliens getting faster as they get fewer on-screen, into a special feature! That's what I call quick thinking!
The last alien ship left going super fast left to right dropping down each time used to give me anxiety lol
After a couple years of mindlessly looping AVGN the algorithm finally brought me somewhere new and I'm glad it did! Great channel
Starmaster seems like a first draft of Star Raiders, a game i discovered on 5200 and blew me away.
Kinda although it's way better than the 2600 version of Star Raiders.
I have 2600 Star Raiders and I think I’ve only had it on for 5 minutes. Starmaster, however, I was just playing earlier this evening.
@@goldenphonautogram6141 i cant speak to 2600, but on 5200 its one of the more complex games. Definitely benefits from the numeric pad and overlays if that's your cup of tea. Amazing it even exists on a system of that vintage.
@@unoclayGaming I’ve heard nothing but great things about the 8 bit and 5200 versions. I look forward to trying them out sometime in the future
for any kid getting ready to begin their gaming career, this should be required watching! followed with some demo play on each title, of course
The Atari 2600 VCS that I use now, is the same one my grandfather (God rest his soul) bought for me back in 1986, and it too amazes me that the unit does in fact still work without issue. Now that I've said that.... I'm sure it's just going to straight blow up in my face the next time I go to use it!
I bought a VCS this year (2022), my first in about 40 years! It's a light-6 model so pretty old, works great! Some light colours are weird and patchy but I think that's due to using a modern TV, I haven't tried it through a CRT yet.
this is the first time in history youtube has actually recommended something new to me that I like! subbed. outstanding content and presentation. cheers to you good sir
The Joust commercial was insane.
And it's a good morning.
i still have my patch from star master . I was just a kid but I remember the day I did it . i had a fever , chicken pox I think anyway I was completely in another world and I owned it . nothing else mattered I felt like crap so bad so I concentrated hard and was in the zone . I remember my mom taking the picture of the TV and everything. very cool
This is awesome! I have a long workday ahead and needed something great to keep my sanity!
Well what's your job
God damn that David crane.... genius.....he even got the copyrighted year in there too....pure magic... Take that warren
Didn't battlezone train army tank corps
Friday Ni.......no Friday Morning Arcade........Aaron your channel is the new retro standard my friend.
Awesome compilation video...almost had a seizure while watching Starmaster's part though 😆 Love your work man.
Dude! I absolutely LOVE your channel!! I love the Atari 2600 videos... so takes me back to when I was a teenager! Thanks for putting these together!
The front covers of the cartidges were incredible, developers cleverly used to extract the essence of the game in just 10x10cm, although you were a yellow 2x2pixels in the game you could really imagine you were that brave Warrior that was printed in the front cover. 😄
I didn’t see this whole video. I still remember Indy 500 and Circus, both used the paddle controllers. Both great games
Well, this has just made my day!!
Hats off to you and your channel man there are so many hidden gems on systems I grew up I would have never played had I not found this channel.👊💥🇺🇲
Love your Atari focused videos! Keep em coming! And thank you for all your hard work!
Great video as always
This Game 🎮 Sounds and Looks Amazing still and I've never played it but just watching this video it tells allot.
Great work Sir thank you
Great collection. I appreciate you putting this one together, not sure how much time was involved. Either way, cool move. Cheers, Aaron!
On Starmaster, I could regularly beat the game on the highest difficulty level, but ran into a couple of things in doing so. 1) I could never finish it without losing a starbase. No matter how hard I tried, I always lost a starbase along the way. 2) I ran into some scoring glitch where if you save 3 of the 4 starbases and do everything else right, you get a score that is lower than 1000 or something weird like that. I loved that game to death back in the day
Yes, I have beaten E.T. and I love brussels sprouts too! I actually first beat E.T. back in 1983. I remember going to Kay B Toys and getting it for like $5 I think? I see videos all the time about how this game was the reason the video game crash happened. I can tell you at that time there were games worse than E.T. . There were so many games discounted if it was today, i'd have my backseat of my car full of them.
Your channel has revived my love for the Atari so much I just bought one 😆
Now I just need to work on my collection (the nine games it came with are hit or miss)
Wow! Well there goes my friday night.
Pitfall was my favorite 2600 game
Damn that thumbnail brings back memories , loved joust
Absoluelty amazing work man. You're channel is one of the best. The work you put into the starmaster video alone is worth watching the entire video. (You had me subscribed with your space quest III video. That's how long I've been a fan)
Best way to rack up points in Yar's Revenge was to nail swirls in mid-flight.
God bless you!!
Great stuff! Subscribed!
Great video although you forget to mention that there were TWO versions of Frogger for the 2600. The Starpath cassette version was far superior to the Parker Bros cartridge. Although the PB version is certainly OK - the Starpath version is just so much better - better graphics - esp on the turtles, less flickering, and finally sounds and background music very comparable to the arcade.
For the record, you can totally dodge the enemy shells in battlezone. I was an ace at that. He just had to learn to turn and move mediately when you heard the shot. It also helped immensely to attack your enemies by going backwards constantly. That’s right I constantly pulled back on the joystick and then I’d hear the shot And immediately turned the tank right or left wall still going backwards constantly. And then every now and then you turn in hit the enemy
Activation was the Rockstar of game devs in the 80s. I think the remnant of it died just this year.
Three of Activision’s best developers formed Audacity Games and are releasing new 2600 games. The first one just came out
É um prazer conhecer este canal, pois lembrou muitos jogos que joguei no atari na minha infância.
Rader ... 😄
I remember playing Starmaster on Activision anthology for PS2 when I was a kid all the time
this is awesome. 2600 overliad!
Just started delving into these great videos... Wow, Alan Miller was some talent. Starmaster is amazing, I'll be trying that via Stella. As for Robot Tank, I own that on my actual VCS and it's a brilliant game, so imaginative and full of atmosphere how the weather and day/night cycles come into play.
Thanks for checking out the channel! If you're going to use Stella for Starmaster, be sure to get familiar with the hot keys for utilizing the B&W and Game Select switches that are on the console since they'll be used frequently in that one. Good luck!
@@FridayNightArcade Advice noted, thank you!
This was fun to watch. I've already commented on many of the individual episodes, so I won't repeat myself as far as specifics for each episode here, but I will say that I enjoyed being able to watch all these episodes together in one place. Perhaps you can do another compilation episode for other titles that go together like all the NES or Arcade game episodes? Feel free to steal that idea if you like! But anyways, thanks for the entertaining video and stay safe out there!
I somehow remember that the name of the those little critters that you have to save in the game "Cosmic Ark" were called "Beasties" according to the game manual.
Love Star master
Such a simpler time. Love it.
I always get Activison's Star Master and Atari's Star Raiders mixed up because both are pretty much the same exact game with the same first person perspective and a bunch of other things in common. But Star Raiders had a separate touch pad with an overlay included that plugged into port two and gave you several options like warp. I could never get far in that game or ranked higher than "cook"
I’m watching the Asteroids part and wondering, “Where are the spaceships? Does he not know about the UFOs? Why is he playing on easy mode?” Hah. This is a problem with playing 2600 videogames on an emulator, in that you don’t have the instruction manual and miss out on so much.
So when playing Asteroids, set the difficulty to “A.” That introduces the satellites and UFOs, which makes the game far more interesting. You also have the option to select hyperspace, shields, or a 180-degree flip as your special move (press down).
Finally, Atari Corp ripped off the Asteroids box set for Gates of Zendocon on Lynx. That’s the Tramiels for ya, always pinching a penny.
Great video, i see it's a compliation of many videos and i'm watching it. Another great game for the 2600 was Jungle Hunt; also Stargate (Defender II) Looks Amazing, and is insanely hard. Donkey Konk Jr. is well made and is very difficult. What to say about Activision, used to program the best games for the ATARI 2600; i love Sea Quest. There are more wonderful games for the ATARI 2600, like Pigs in Space; Klax, The Challenge of Nexar, Frost Bite, Pete Ross Basseball, Double Dunk (...) I must check what games i still own. I also still own my ATARI XE with games, you probably can make a review of it's best games, and it's Homebrew scene.
Yesssss
3:12:44 I smiled at the cute ass dog playing the atari...until I realized that he probably died 20 years ago 😭
Great job. Can you review these 2600 games: Mr Do! (Coleco), Smurf (Coleco), Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (SEGA), Tron Deadly discs (Network), The Adventures of Tron (Network), Air Raiders (Network), Krull (Atari), Congo Bongo (SEGA), Montezumas Revenge ( Parker Brothers), Snoopy and the Red Baron (Atari), Amidar ( Parker Brothers).
Did you know that if you hold down the start switch and turn on Space Invaders at the same time you can shoot two lasers at a time instead of just one at a time,!,!
It's no wonder that video games were dying out with the quality of games that Atari was putting out at the time.
While this may have been ambitious and innovative for the Atari, this was a fairly common style of space game from that era. There was a similar game that I liked to play on Intellivision, and I even remember there being a game like this on the Apple ][.
My 3 favorites h.e.r.o yars revenge and aquaventure
You talk up how amazing it is to have that extra "RAM plus" chip in Tunnel Runner to augment the gameplay, but you completely left out that the amazing soundtrack in Pitfall 2 was achieved pretty much the same way. That's right, each Pitfall 2 cart had an additional chip providing extra audio capabilities to enhance the game's sound and play those catchy tunes!
Briefly mentioned it in a different episode, ua-cam.com/video/3cHLHjfL2vM/v-deo.html , but yeah... I'd left some of that out because I wanted to find out more about it and make a separate episode focusing entirely on that chip and how it worked (and other cartridges with built-in enhancement chips) but then never got to it lol.
Well there is one issue with certain games that use the black and white switch and it's when you decide to play them on the 7800 for example when you try to pull up star chart or map because when the 7800 uses a pause button with technically replaces the black-and-white switch from the 2600 you literally have to hold down your pause button
I think my family got Starmaster very very late, and it was just the cartridge sealed in a bubble plastic to a cardboard backing with a little folding paper manual...considering the complexity of the game, I now realize why I don't even really remember playing this one! The manual was probably ridiculously insufficient for the needs of the game!
Never knew about the other modes on Berzerk
I loved the wrestling game so much as a kid, I guess I was about 9-10 and WWF was big. It was one of few games that leet you take on friends one on one. I was dissapointed you didnt throw your oponent out of the ring in the demo.
8 bit top gun ?? Coooool
This was awesome! I'm really glad to have been recommended this, subscribed
Nice Aaron I’ll definitely watch this, keep up the great work!!!
When we were young....
Intellivision had a bunch of stars too.
Hahahaha , ACTUALLY that sound makes it sound like there is wind in "space". There cannot be, according to THEIR model. :-)
I owned copies of both Activision's Starmaster and Atari's Star Raiders for the Atari 2600 around 1982. By then, I was already familiar with Star Raiders because I had played it on a neighbor's Atari 400 computer. (My parents couldn't afford one of those). The original Star Raiders had been available for the Atari home computers for some time before either of the 2600 games were introduced. In fact, it was rumored at the time that many owners of those computers had bought them explicitly to play Star Raiders! Atari's version of the game for the 2600 was noticeably inferior to the 400/800 version, obviously owing to the limited capabilities of the game console. After playing Starmaster for the first time, it was immediately apparent to me that it was Activision's attempt to replicate Star Raiders. Activision's designers succeeded, and I thought it was clearly superior to the Atari game, with smoother movement, and without the flickering graphics that were typical of many of Atari's games from that era. Later on, I owned an Atari 5200 console, for which I bought the version of Star Raiders designed for that console. That 5200 version of the game was virtually identical to the Atari 400/800 game I had played years earlier, with the added benefit of fully utilizing the 5200's integrated analog joystick and keypad. which gave far more precise control over the simple joystick of the older console and computer. I still own an Atari XE Game System, and after having dusted it off and played a round of Star Raiders (the original Atari 400/800 version) recently, and found it to be just as exciting as I did as a teenager. Oh, and by the way, I actually did achieve the top rank of "Star Commander Class 1" back in the day, thanks to many, many hours behind the controls.
I wonder if I can still send in and get a patch now that its 45 years later I have an original working 2600 and I have Star Master lol
Everyday is a great day with newborn twins and a system that's 40 years old with 20 year old snes sim city scores
I had this game. Lol
In combat if you fire in the corner and turn your tank you will teleport to another part of the screen
On Yars revenge I prefer game 7, because U have to touch the left side of the screen to load your cannon.
The joust ostrich looks derpy
I actually thought Phaser Patrol (Starcade/Arcadia) was the best of the 2600 Star Raiders clones. Then Star Master (Activision) and Star Voyager (Imagic). I never played the official 2600 version of Star Raiders.
I HAVE BALLY AND ALL THE GAMES, AND ATTARI 2600 WITH SHOOTS AND LADDERS, MY BALLY IS GIVIBG ALL NONSCENCE CHARACTERS.
Krull, indiana jones, and tapper. Forgive me if you have videos on those. If not you should.
I don't think social services would give much a fuss if they found out their parents let them play tapper lol....just in case I'll throw out my 7 year olds tapper t-shirt......damn those classic games
You need to LINE-in "RIP" those old vinyls? Separate your tracks very well nice and close. THEN? ... Load those into PC editor stuffs like, example, a HEX Editor? ..... Comb through it for Program code. :-) .... ESPECIALLY any tracks that play, but, do NOT seem to have sound? OR if they would really goofy YOU remember those sounds.
But yeah dood eastrr eggs on VINYLS. ... There was a recent punk band that did it. Thats why it popped in my head. It contains a hidden game program created by the drummer? HAHAHAH?
Looks like Solaris
The 5200 system was really good. Its the controllers that sucked. Graphics were awesome. I like atari games sometimes. Easy to pick up and play. Good for kids.
What the hell were they smoking when they made that Joust commercial? It went on about 5 minutes too long.
OK, seriously. Asteroids... ON VINYL?!? What the heck is THAT? Did Tommy Tallerico do a "soundtrack"? Or was it all just looped game sounds?
you sound like BOBBY from SUPERNATURAL :)
Jim Beaver is a fantastic actor. Thank you for the kind words.
I bought a used set from a co-worker and they didn’t work good for me, they had lag and glitches
what the hell they removed my plus bro. I Put it Back.
Baby bite
First
Nothing wrong with the primitiveness of these games. A lot of the stuff today transcends games and may be a little too realistic so that it is not even a game anymore...or is it?
I WANT TO BUY YOURS
Come on aaron put the 2 kids down and finish editing and upload.we need some content here. U didnt come down woth covid20 did ya
Workin' on it.
Was literally gonna work on a video today but the babysitter called in sick. I can't win lol.
@@FridayNightArcade gosh darn it, it's okay. Just remember from one dad of twins to another....the greatest day on earth next to your kids being born, is the day they can wipe on their own.....I'm not kidding.....hope your teaching em how to play game boy or something. Start with the cheaper consoles lol
Please don't text and drive.. that's some solid advice bro
What ruddy twonk gave this a thumbs down? Seriously...
bro i turn ads back on to give creators support where i can, this has 0!
Seems like a star raiders wannabe clone. Not a bad game, but not super original.