I started playing the tank game on the way to FLORIDA in the 4am around ish To stoo for food from late 70s -early 80s at 12-- 15. Then my dad TOOK THE MONEY and sold the family OUT. So NEVER went again but WONDERFUL MEMORIES of GREAT GAMES as a RUG RAT. Are MAGICAL. And also in the first REAL ARCADES just above ATLANTA in Duluth /Norcross /Lilburn /Norcross and a few in and around Atlanta. Like SIX FLAGS. . And alot of RESTAURANTS. Even the EXPENSIVE ONE'S we went to after MARRIAGE COUNSELING. Saw this console and ALL the rest at other people's house's but never got to play. As we were always going to DRINK and swim, camp at our lk Norman. And tennis court's or just in the woods somewhere in Duluth. As no parents within a few miles .So only one home console I played ALL NIGHT was Atari. At a guy who supplied me with a drum set. As by 82 My dad refused to purchase anything of a musical nature. Said wouldn't stick with it. ANYWAY I associated MUSIC WITH VIDEO GAMES. But amazing memories A mother freakin men AMEN means LET IT BE. ALSO STUDIED THE BIBLE and MANY other Books /Documentary. We're being held hostage at gun point for hometown EXTORTION pacified as rent taxes insurance government fines LOANS in USURY not interest on a loan ()and literally VEHICULAR HOMICIDE and MEDICAL HOMICIDE ()and WWW666AntichristJesusVille guns and badges national guard military MURDERERS holding the POOR MEEK hostage at gun point for international SLAVE made products market system so www666AntichristCapitalism WALSTREET gambling on HUMAN SLAVERY and HUMAN SACRIFICE based money and STOCK have value! Otherwise without human's held hostage at gun point EVOLUTIONIZED from www666AntichristCapitalism swords and shields payed to hold POOR MEEK HOSTAGE at sword point. We must MARCH and REVOLT and become the secound Amendment And reinstate the guillotine and DRAG all responsible for all committing TREASON on capital hill for decades Taking Bribes from lobbyists now pacified as Fund raising and campaign contributions and pacs and SUPER PACS Before to late and the REAL two witnesses of the REAL God of physics DIE in the streets of www666AntichristCapitalism AWHORICA OF BABYLON /ANTICHRIST UNHOLY ROMAN BIBLE empire ALL OVER PLANET EARTH
I just noticed... in the beginning "Super System" commercial... that's Yasmin Bleeth as a "wide-eyed video game kid." :) Baseball is an acquired taste. heh.
Yes, it has a POKEY chip, same as the Atari 8-bit computers. There are 2 commercial 7800 games in Commando and Ballblazer that have POKEYs in the cartridge, but that's it sadly. The 5200 can actually do up to 5 channels of sound.
Great episode and channel overall. I check in time to time. I owned a 5200 way back in 82. It was a fantastic system that could have done much more but that is all history. By 84 I sold mine to buy books for college. I have managed to pickup a two and four port versions in the 90s and have Wico joystics. I have a cartridge and rom collection. What would be great is if someone can list all the games in a post for us collectors, enthusiasts, hunters to compare to their collections to see what is missing or what to add. Scrolling videos especially 100game videos can be a bit time consuming. A single list would help vs. checking atari museum and other sites for an actual list of released, prototypes and home brews out there for the console.
Because of its truly innovative analog nature, the 5200 controller works fabulously for many games: Super Breakout, Missile Command, Centipede, Soccer, Defender, to name a few. But the controller was ruinous for games that required precise four directional movement, like Pac-Man. Atari needed to release a 4-direction controller, but didn’t. These days there are various adapters that allow gamers to connect “normal” controllers to the 5200. Back in the day, a couple companies offered alternative controllers for the system.
They completely rewrote Centipede for the 5200 and it was considerably better than the 800 version, even including the actual sound code from the arcade version. It was eventually backported a few years back.
Centipede is a game where screen ratio matters. Centipede is a totally different game on the 5200 versus the 7800 because the 5200 uses a 4x3 playfield just like a TV and a 7800 uses a 3x4 play field just like a "tate monitor", and the tate monitor is what was used in the arcade
Always liked the 800 version of donkey Kong ported to the 5200 later because the 5200 did not have a officially version but the one ported to it is better than Coleco and the nes version because it has the pie factory board not on any other port
Now as my memory returns, you can hold fire button #2 to turn the turret. If your tank is moving it will continue to move and you can move the turret and fire. Pretty neat feature actually.
Missing from the list of 5200 exclusives is Space Dungeon. It’s worth picking up a 5200 just to play Space Dungeon-it’s that good. Dreadnaught Factor came out on the Intellivision, but it was revamped and significantly redesigned for the 5200. So, the 5200 version is sort of a semi-exclusive. 5200 Dreadnaught Factor is another great game when played at the higher difficulty levels.
@@TheLairdsLair It’s exclusive to all home consoles-that’s what I meant. When it came out, the only way to play Space Dungeon was on the 5200, unless you could find the exceedingly uncommon arcade machine, which I’ve only seen once to this day, at Fun Spot in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.
I did not know the Atari 5200 never released outside the US; would explain why I've never seen even a glimpse of the system physically before. The focus on many unreleased games certainly was an interesting aspect to it; both Black Belt and Xari Arena looked impressively smooth. 10:42 - It says a about the functionality of the controller when the company who made the system couldn't even get one of their own games working on it. As a fan of Asteroids and Mine Storm, it is nice to see an equivalent still make its way onto the Atari 5200 in the form of Meteorite. Also, Looney Toons Hotel is reminding me a lot of Hotel Mario.
As I said in the video, The Last Starfighter became Star Raiders 2 for the Atari 8-bit. I believe there are prototypes about in the original name for the A8 too.
6:04 technically "America's Pastime" ;-). Understandable not to be a fan of baseball if you weren't born into a fandom for a certain team. The same goes for its remote cousin Cricket if the other way around. Speaking of cricket, I have never seen a cricket video game. Is there a particular video arcade, computer or console cricket game that is the best? I imagine cricket had a disadvantage in that North America and Japan are the number 1 and 2 Baseball Markets and I bet the big developers stayed clear of cricket. Which is too bad. I may be the only North American subscriber who would click ' view' but a ' 5 obscure cricket games that were pretty amazing in Commonwealth markets' might be a fun topic some day.
I can't stand cricket either, I dislike it more than baseball and it's the most boring sport ever created in my opinion. That said, the best cricket games are undoubtedly the Graham Gooch/Brian Lara titles. Although the licence changed they were all an evolution of the same award winning game created in the early eighties by Audiogenic and I personally know a couple of people who worked on them.
@@TheLairdsLair haha, I have never been able to grasp cricket. It also isn't easy to find on TV anyplace I have lived. Had there been a good cricket game available to me in the early 80's I may at least understand the game somewhat. Baseball translates pretty well as a fun video game when done well. I got an awesome Bandai Handheld LCD baseball when I was a kid ( a quality game competitive with Nintendo Game and Watch ). The game had 2 player simultaneous and a little joystick to control the pitches. If you ever find it cheap... Definitely add it to your collection. Separately, that Looney Tunes Hotel looks like a great game for 1983. It reminds me slightly of Elevator Action with much more enemy variation. It is funny how if it was a 1987 game I would judge it harshly. But being a pre-crash/crash era game. It looks great.
Cricket is much better in video game form than as a real sport. I have a lot of happy memories of playing International Cricket on the ZX Spectrum with my uncle as a kid. He was a very good cricketer and endlessly tried to get me into the sport! Loony Tunes Hotel is a really fun game, I was waiting to see if anyone spotted it, but the concept was actually reused to create Hotel Mario for the Philips CD-i.
Cricket 2007 is considered by many the peak of modern cricket video games runner up is ashes 2017 and cricket 22 is decently good old era was better modern is improving slowly
From its unruly (and unnecessary) system size, to the horrible joystick, the 5200 was the best indicator that Atari had no forward plan to maintain their dominance in the video game industry. The 5200 could have had the largest installed base of software of any console to date at the time, had they only made the 5200 comaptible with their 8 bit computer line (with minor tweaks to account for the missing keyboard and function keys. It would have been like the releasing the XEGS, and not allowing compatibility (the only reason to own an XEGS today is the massive library of 8-bit software available - and perhaps the tacky 80's pastel design choices). And it should be noted that in both cases, Atari chose to repackage severely ageing tech rather than compete by developing something new. While I am a TI-99/4A enthusiast, I also owned an 800 xl (and later a 130XE) when software became scarce for the 4A, and there is no denying that for a system designed in the late 70'S, the Atari 8 bit line was unrivalled in graphic capabilities, overall efficiency and 3rd party software support during their initial production years. But by the time the 5200 was released, the tech was getting long in the tooth, but they just kept re-packaging it for well over a decade. No wonder Atari has devolved into a trademark licensing company. The name 'Atari' and Fuji logo was all that remained of value from their early innovations (well...and the CX-10 joystick which remains my favourite game control device).
I mean in Ataris deffence they were the 1st to have success in the mkt. and they were in the possible position of not killing the goose (atari 2600) that was making WB billions of dollars with increased competition. It wasn't like 7800 was a choice, 7800 was made as a response to consumer feedback and failure of 5200. Atari was a follower vs leader in the mkt at this point, if intelevision and colecovision weren't eating into the mkt Atari wouldn't of had a followup system for a few Years. Consumers really didn't get why they needed a new Atari that didn't play the old Atari games, especially when it mainly had the same titles that the 2600 had yeah graffix were better. But spending 300 bucks and another 30 for middle command a game I'm tired of on the 2600.
Interesting list but I wouldn't call the Atari 5200 misunderstood by consumers - just a bad system. It's a shame because I think Atari did misunderstand what it could/should have been and made some very poor design choices. Rinse and repeat with the 7800...
Black Belt looks good, but it's so s l o w ... Xari Arena looks confusing, also the explanation didn't help that much. Maybe it really has to be played to understand it. Countermeasure looks nice, but again, very slow! Real Sports Soccer: The players rather take a nice walk, but hell, don't hurry! EXCEPT it goes to the kick off: Suddenly they can run! Very strange...
Both were arcade games, so that rules them out straight away. Robotron 2084 appeared on the Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Sega Mega Drive, Super Nintendo, Commodore 64, BBC Micro and more! It couldn't be less exclusive.
Just a year after the 5200 came out, Nintendo released their legendary Family Computer AKA Famicom AKA the NES. The 5200 was doomed from the start by Atari reusing their old tech based on 400/800 computers.
Okay, what the Hell is happening here Laird? I'm seeing games with digitized voice work so clean it sounds like it should be coming out of a fourth generation console not a second *RealSports Baseball. Then you follow that up with another game that's doing things that I thought was impossible for the time period...rotating and warping sprites on a home console *Xari Arena? That's just ludicrous.
The 5200/Atari 8-bit hardware is absolutely amazing for the time, remember it was designed in the late seventies and first seen in the 400/800 in 1979. Just check out the ports of Space Harrier and Stunt Car Racer for example or the amazing shoot 'em up Atari Blast.
@@TheLairdsLair Can you imagine an Atari 5200 that had better control options in 1982?! Wow! Oh and do you get Super Mario Hotel vibes from Looney Tuned Hotel? I am and now I believe Philips got their Hotel Mario idea straight from Looney Tunes Hotel.
Given the Amiga is a 16-bit computer created by the exact same team who designed this hardware, but 6 years later, I should think it is more powerful . . . . .
@@TheLairdsLair very true. Head to head launch and time wise... I grew up with the apple 2e. The Amiga and Atari as game consoles were over the moon in company. Still new here and loving the content.
I started playing the tank game on the way to FLORIDA in the 4am around ish To stoo for food from late 70s -early 80s at 12-- 15. Then my dad TOOK THE MONEY and sold the family OUT. So NEVER went again but WONDERFUL MEMORIES of GREAT GAMES as a RUG RAT. Are MAGICAL. And also in the first REAL ARCADES just above ATLANTA in Duluth /Norcross /Lilburn /Norcross and a few in and around Atlanta. Like SIX FLAGS. . And alot of RESTAURANTS. Even the EXPENSIVE ONE'S we went to after MARRIAGE COUNSELING. Saw this console and ALL the rest at other people's house's but never got to play. As we were always going to DRINK and swim, camp at our lk Norman. And tennis court's or just in the woods somewhere in Duluth. As no parents within a few miles .So only one home console I played ALL NIGHT was Atari. At a guy who supplied me with a drum set. As by 82 My dad refused to purchase anything of a musical nature. Said wouldn't stick with it. ANYWAY I associated MUSIC WITH VIDEO GAMES. But amazing memories A mother freakin men AMEN means LET IT BE. ALSO STUDIED THE BIBLE and MANY other Books /Documentary. We're being held hostage at gun point for hometown EXTORTION pacified as rent taxes insurance government fines LOANS in USURY not interest on a loan ()and literally VEHICULAR HOMICIDE and MEDICAL HOMICIDE ()and WWW666AntichristJesusVille guns and badges national guard military MURDERERS holding the POOR MEEK hostage at gun point for international SLAVE made products market system so www666AntichristCapitalism WALSTREET gambling on HUMAN SLAVERY and HUMAN SACRIFICE based money and STOCK have value! Otherwise without human's held hostage at gun point EVOLUTIONIZED from www666AntichristCapitalism swords and shields payed to hold POOR MEEK HOSTAGE at sword point. We must MARCH and REVOLT and become the secound Amendment And reinstate the guillotine and DRAG all responsible for all committing TREASON on capital hill for decades Taking Bribes from lobbyists now pacified as Fund raising and campaign contributions and pacs and SUPER PACS Before to late and the REAL two witnesses of the REAL God of physics DIE in the streets of www666AntichristCapitalism AWHORICA OF BABYLON /ANTICHRIST UNHOLY ROMAN BIBLE empire ALL OVER PLANET EARTH
The 5200 is my personal favourite of Atari's consoles just something about the aesthetic that screams at me
If you look in the description there are links to my other Atari 5200 videos :-)
@@TheLairdsLair Already watched them all been a fan of the channel a while now
I just noticed... in the beginning "Super System" commercial... that's Yasmin Bleeth as a "wide-eyed video game kid." :) Baseball is an acquired taste. heh.
Looney Tunes Hotel, now I know how Hotel Mario came about.
Does the 5200 have a superior soundchip to the 7800?
Yes, it has a POKEY chip, same as the Atari 8-bit computers. There are 2 commercial 7800 games in Commando and Ballblazer that have POKEYs in the cartridge, but that's it sadly. The 5200 can actually do up to 5 channels of sound.
@@TheLairdsLair that is an interesting bit of info
If you like interesting info then check out my Atari 5200 facts video that is linked in the description.
@@TheLairdsLair I could do with a rewatch of them
Awesome, thanks for the info. Have you ever wanted to own a 5200? You're welcome to borrow mine if you ever want to do a video on one :)
Star Raiders II is brilliant, Black Belt looks like it had real potential and Loony Tunes looks like a really fun and addictive game.
12:43 so that's where Hotel Mario came from
Great episode and channel overall. I check in time to time. I owned a 5200 way back in 82. It was a fantastic system that could have done much more but that is all history. By 84 I sold mine to buy books for college. I have managed to pickup a two and four port versions in the 90s and have Wico joystics. I have a cartridge and rom collection. What would be great is if someone can list all the games in a post for us collectors, enthusiasts, hunters to compare to their collections to see what is missing or what to add. Scrolling videos especially 100game videos can be a bit time consuming. A single list would help vs. checking atari museum and other sites for an actual list of released, prototypes and home brews out there for the console.
I have found Atari Mania to be by far the best for that.
Wow, excellent video, K. Xari Arena is like 2 player Warlords on steroids.
Because of its truly innovative analog nature, the 5200 controller works fabulously for many games: Super Breakout, Missile Command, Centipede, Soccer, Defender, to name a few. But the controller was ruinous for games that required precise four directional movement, like Pac-Man. Atari needed to release a 4-direction controller, but didn’t. These days there are various adapters that allow gamers to connect “normal” controllers to the 5200. Back in the day, a couple companies offered alternative controllers for the system.
I guess it depends on the person cuz Ive never had any problems playing games like Pac-mAN WITH THIS CONTROLLER
that is to say, when the 5200 controller works at all
They completely rewrote Centipede for the 5200 and it was considerably better than the 800 version, even including the actual sound code from the arcade version. It was eventually backported a few years back.
Centipede is a game where screen ratio matters. Centipede is a totally different game on the 5200 versus the 7800 because the 5200 uses a 4x3 playfield just like a TV and a 7800 uses a 3x4 play field just like a "tate monitor", and the tate monitor is what was used in the arcade
Always liked the 800 version of donkey Kong ported to the 5200 later because the 5200 did not have a officially version but the one ported to it is better than Coleco and the nes version because it has the pie factory board not on any other port
As I recall, you could hit 1, 2 or 3 on the keypad to change your kicking strength. I love Countermeasure. There is a way to rotate the turret, IIRC.
Now as my memory returns, you can hold fire button #2 to turn the turret. If your tank is moving it will continue to move and you can move the turret and fire. Pretty neat feature actually.
Surprised you didn't mention the infamous 5200 joystick was actually perfect for swinging the bat in the RS Baseball game.
Very good report!
GREAT SHOW 👍
Missing from the list of 5200 exclusives is Space Dungeon. It’s worth picking up a 5200 just to play Space Dungeon-it’s that good. Dreadnaught Factor came out on the Intellivision, but it was revamped and significantly redesigned for the 5200. So, the 5200 version is sort of a semi-exclusive. 5200 Dreadnaught Factor is another great game when played at the higher difficulty levels.
Nope, Space Dungeon is a port of the 1981 Taito arcade game of the same name.
@@TheLairdsLair It’s exclusive to all home consoles-that’s what I meant. When it came out, the only way to play Space Dungeon was on the 5200, unless you could find the exceedingly uncommon arcade machine, which I’ve only seen once to this day, at Fun Spot in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.
I loved space dungeon! Such a fun game in the arcade and on the atari line.
Defender for Atari XL / XE / 5200 is the best 8 bit version ever. !
The graphics for the 5200 are excellent and Atari should have fix the controls in the first place.
I did not know the Atari 5200 never released outside the US; would explain why I've never seen even a glimpse of the system physically before. The focus on many unreleased games certainly was an interesting aspect to it; both Black Belt and Xari Arena looked impressively smooth.
10:42 - It says a about the functionality of the controller when the company who made the system couldn't even get one of their own games working on it. As a fan of Asteroids and Mine Storm, it is nice to see an equivalent still make its way onto the Atari 5200 in the form of Meteorite. Also, Looney Toons Hotel is reminding me a lot of Hotel Mario.
Wait . . . was Hotel Mario inspired by an unreleased 5200 prototype, or were they both inspired by some other game I'm unaware of?
Hotel Mario was inspired by the 5200 game, from what I understand the same person worked on both.
looney tunes hotel is mario Hotel for CD-i before mario hotel
Yep!
Gremlins should probably be on here. i know they had a version for the 2600, but it was a completely different game (and not nearly as good).
It was far from exclusive though, also came out for the Atari 8-bit, PC, Commodore 64 and Apple II.
I have played The Last Starfighter before on my 400 and 130xe. I am guessing it was a port. Never saw any of the other games before.
As I said in the video, The Last Starfighter became Star Raiders 2 for the Atari 8-bit. I believe there are prototypes about in the original name for the A8 too.
@@TheLairdsLair Graphically better than original star raiders, but was it more fun? I dunno.
I prefer it personally, but I know I'm in the minority.
Does it really count when most of these games were never even released?
Maybe not back then, but they can all be bought on cart now, so it shows people some good reasons to add a 5200 to the collection.
6:04 technically "America's Pastime" ;-). Understandable not to be a fan of baseball if you weren't born into a fandom for a certain team. The same goes for its remote cousin Cricket if the other way around. Speaking of cricket, I have never seen a cricket video game. Is there a particular video arcade, computer or console cricket game that is the best? I imagine cricket had a disadvantage in that North America and Japan are the number 1 and 2 Baseball Markets and I bet the big developers stayed clear of cricket. Which is too bad.
I may be the only North American subscriber who would click ' view' but a ' 5 obscure cricket games that were pretty amazing in Commonwealth markets' might be a fun topic some day.
I can't stand cricket either, I dislike it more than baseball and it's the most boring sport ever created in my opinion.
That said, the best cricket games are undoubtedly the Graham Gooch/Brian Lara titles. Although the licence changed they were all an evolution of the same award winning game created in the early eighties by Audiogenic and I personally know a couple of people who worked on them.
@@TheLairdsLair haha, I have never been able to grasp cricket. It also isn't easy to find on TV anyplace I have lived. Had there been a good cricket game available to me in the early 80's I may at least understand the game somewhat. Baseball translates pretty well as a fun video game when done well. I got an awesome Bandai Handheld LCD baseball when I was a kid ( a quality game competitive with Nintendo Game and Watch ). The game had 2 player simultaneous and a little joystick to control the pitches. If you ever find it cheap... Definitely add it to your collection.
Separately, that Looney Tunes Hotel looks like a great game for 1983. It reminds me slightly of Elevator Action with much more enemy variation. It is funny how if it was a 1987 game I would judge it harshly. But being a pre-crash/crash era game. It looks great.
Cricket is much better in video game form than as a real sport. I have a lot of happy memories of playing International Cricket on the ZX Spectrum with my uncle as a kid. He was a very good cricketer and endlessly tried to get me into the sport!
Loony Tunes Hotel is a really fun game, I was waiting to see if anyone spotted it, but the concept was actually reused to create Hotel Mario for the Philips CD-i.
Cricket 2007 is considered by many the peak of modern cricket video games runner up is ashes 2017 and cricket 22 is decently good old era was better modern is improving slowly
From its unruly (and unnecessary) system size, to the horrible joystick, the 5200 was the best indicator that Atari had no forward plan to maintain their dominance in the video game industry.
The 5200 could have had the largest installed base of software of any console to date at the time, had they only made the 5200 comaptible with their 8 bit computer line (with minor tweaks to account for the missing keyboard and function keys. It would have been like the releasing the XEGS, and not allowing compatibility (the only reason to own an XEGS today is the massive library of 8-bit software available - and perhaps the tacky 80's pastel design choices).
And it should be noted that in both cases, Atari chose to repackage severely ageing tech rather than compete by developing something new.
While I am a TI-99/4A enthusiast, I also owned an 800 xl (and later a 130XE) when software became scarce for the 4A, and there is no denying that for a system designed in the late 70'S, the Atari 8 bit line was unrivalled in graphic capabilities, overall efficiency and 3rd party software support during their initial production years. But by the time the 5200 was released, the tech was getting long in the tooth, but they just kept re-packaging it for well over a decade.
No wonder Atari has devolved into a trademark licensing company. The name 'Atari' and Fuji logo was all that remained of value from their early innovations (well...and the CX-10 joystick which remains my favourite game control device).
I mean in Ataris deffence they were the 1st to have success in the mkt. and they were in the possible position of not killing the goose (atari 2600) that was making WB billions of dollars with increased competition.
It wasn't like 7800 was a choice, 7800 was made as a response to consumer feedback and failure of 5200.
Atari was a follower vs leader in the mkt at this point, if intelevision and colecovision weren't eating into the mkt Atari wouldn't of had a followup system for a few Years.
Consumers really didn't get why they needed a new Atari that didn't play the old Atari games, especially when it mainly had the same titles that the 2600 had yeah graffix were better. But spending 300 bucks and another 30 for middle command a game I'm tired of on the 2600.
It is kind of weird with how much Atari spent on R&D, that they didn't have a better video chip for 1982.
Interesting list but I wouldn't call the Atari 5200 misunderstood by consumers - just a bad system. It's a shame because I think Atari did misunderstand what it could/should have been and made some very poor design choices. Rinse and repeat with the 7800...
have blazeball got a arcade version ??
If you mean Ballblazer, it's on just about every 8-bit system out there and a few 16-bits too.
I think they should have kept the sound chip from the 5200 and put it in the 7800. The 2600 sound is very irritating
Black Belt looks good, but it's so s l o w ...
Xari Arena looks confusing, also the explanation didn't help that much. Maybe it really has to be played to understand it.
Countermeasure looks nice, but again, very slow!
Real Sports Soccer: The players rather take a nice walk, but hell, don't hurry! EXCEPT it goes to the kick off: Suddenly they can run! Very strange...
Blackbelt reminds me if an early version of Karateka. (pronounced ka-rah-teh-kah, i think)
Yeah, it's very similar.
Robotron and Space Dungeon should be on here. neither came out on the 2600, and I don't believe they had an Atari 400/800 release.
Both were arcade games, so that rules them out straight away.
Robotron 2084 appeared on the Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Sega Mega Drive, Super Nintendo, Commodore 64, BBC Micro and more! It couldn't be less exclusive.
Just a year after the 5200 came out, Nintendo released their legendary Family Computer AKA Famicom AKA the NES. The 5200 was doomed from the start by Atari reusing their old tech based on 400/800 computers.
so Looney Tunes invented the "closing doors" before Hotel Mario.
Yep, it's almost exactly the same concept. I do wonder if one of the same people was involved in both games.
Okay, what the Hell is happening here Laird? I'm seeing games with digitized voice work so clean it sounds like it should be coming out of a fourth generation console not a second *RealSports Baseball. Then you follow that up with another game that's doing things that I thought was impossible for the time period...rotating and warping sprites on a home console *Xari Arena? That's just ludicrous.
The 5200/Atari 8-bit hardware is absolutely amazing for the time, remember it was designed in the late seventies and first seen in the 400/800 in 1979. Just check out the ports of Space Harrier and Stunt Car Racer for example or the amazing shoot 'em up Atari Blast.
@@TheLairdsLair
Can you imagine an Atari 5200 that had better control options in 1982?! Wow! Oh and do you get Super Mario Hotel vibes from Looney Tuned Hotel? I am and now I believe Philips got their Hotel Mario idea straight from Looney Tunes Hotel.
Yep, Hotel Mario blatantly ripped off Loony Tunes hotel. I have wondered if perhaps one or more of the same people worked on both.
What about Space Dungeon ?
As I said elsewhere, it's not an exclusive, it's a port of the Taito arcade game.
@@TheLairdsLair true .
The Amiga crushed this machine.
Given the Amiga is a 16-bit computer created by the exact same team who designed this hardware, but 6 years later, I should think it is more powerful . . . . .
@@TheLairdsLair very true. Head to head launch and time wise... I grew up with the apple 2e. The Amiga and Atari as game consoles were over the moon in company. Still new here and loving the content.
@@TheLairdsLair Rest well Jay Miner.
I think a better comparison is the Famicom, which came out just a year later.
And the Playstation crushes your Amiga. SMH