I mean, Kaboom! uses it. But by that point, the paddle controller was kind of...forgotten.

@@unj Obviously, they didn't completely exclude the paddle.

😊😊😊

I can't believe I understood that reference

Take that Rogers lol 😂

lol, I was so pissed he didn't mention that and then that line came and I lost it! :-D

Todd Togers

🤣🤣🤣 scorched

Wow Sears...I havent heard of that in years. Is it even still around?

@@rgm4646 a distant memory

Awe... sears... Also.. that's a wonderful memory! I cant only imagine how cool that must have been!

Ahhhh the good old days of Sears "Telegames" brand of games that were just relabeled Atari games...lol

Heavy Sixers made in Sunnyvale were the best ones. Totally agree about the switches on the back being garbage. Space Shuttle was the GOAT Activision cartridge.

EA under Trip Hawkins was cool as hell too and 3DO’s licensing model would have been soo great shame :/

Electronic Arts started the exact same way and more or less suffered the exact same fate.

@@droopy935 Yup, at that time, I actually bought games just because they had the EA label on it, without knowing anything about them.

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

@@kayeplaguedoc9054 Don't forget about Ubisoft. Its the same story with them.

& we would have never gotten the Tony Hawk games!

@@joeyparkhill8751 As much as Teen Digital Diva (PC CD-ROM), Wreck-It Ralph (Nintendo Wii), Battleship (XBOX 360) and Tarzan (Nintendo 64)

If Activision didn't exist, Blizzard reputation wouldn't be dragged in to the mud. As they said "ether you die a hero or live long enough to become a villain"

On the contrary. Activision single-handedly invented the concept of ‘third party’ developers and publishers. Atari took them to court over it, arguing that only the manufacturer of the console should be able to make and release games for it. Activision won, and the floodgates were opened, allowing anyone and their grandma to make and sell video games, creating a massive glut of absolute trash software on the market, which turned off and infuriated consumers, who then ditched video games entirely, thus causing the crash.

I think it was the proliferation of third-party developers that brought it on. They weren't all as good as Activision.

Them and iMagic knew what they were doing.

And they’re still making them. David Crane and colleagues released the new Atari 2600 game, Circus Convoy around a week ago! 😮

@@amuzulo Interesting 🤔. Did they released it in actual physical form for the original Atari?

@@SIPEROTH They did, but they're crazy expensive... like $60 for a brand new Atari game cartridge and they'll only sell the digital game as an extra if you've bought the physical cartridge. Meh.

​@@amuzulo saluuuton

If only kids these days thought that way. I don’t know any retro gamers irl

brings to mind a saying : "‘You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain’." Harvey Dent

@@autobotjazz1972 I don't remember typing this, 2 years out, but it does entertain me when I see an opinion of mine from years ago, and that opinion hasn't changed. You also picked up ENTIRELY what I was putting down. I've even used that exact reference in more recent times concerning Activision/Blizzard. Maybe they'll beat the average of what happens to companies absorbed into bigger corporations, and be able to redeem themselves, instead of JUST being a corporate cash cow for Microsoft to abuse. MS has a VERY spotty historical record, but you never know, perhaps the name may once again rise to the level of that of pride in their releases, and regain the reverence they once commanded. I won't be holding my breath for that, though.

That game was on another lever, the pinnacle of the system. The Atari 8 bit had an entire new level after you completed it.

I still have a cartridge. Something failed inside though; it was a very sad day. For the "endless ladder" area, there are ways to keep track if you're attentive: where the frog is, the pattern of the bats vs. which rock wall graphic is on the right end of the screen, and the river at the bottom. Sometimes you do need to go up or down a screen to re-orient yourself, but you pick up the patterns with time.

Wanna sell it?

degens.

Nice 😎

Aye, sounds familiar, Keystone Capers & H.E.R.O. were my fav's.

River Raid, Enduro, Star Master, and Megamania were my favorites. I never knew about Spider Fighter until I got into collecting back in the late 90s and early 2000s. Spider Fighter was an instant hit with me; and interestingly, I immediately compared it with Megamania; essentially declaring them equals.

GHESTBESTRES!

H.e.r.o is still way overpriced

@@marccaselle8108 Thankfully in the early 2000’s it wasn’t. 👍

@@MrMegaManFan true and hero is a good game too. It's one of my favorites

​@@marccaselle8108 Did you ever finish it?

@@Apesedits i never finished h.e.r.o but I still love the game.

Pitfall was a monster hit, everyone with a 2600 loved it.

Frankenstein, Save Mary, and Turmoil, are immediate stand-outs in terms of hidden gems. And Communist Mutants from Space is a lot better than the simple graphics and attention grabbing B movie title would suggest. (The Earth Dies Screaming is an even better title, but nowhere near as good.) Yar's Revenge, Adventure, Solaris, and Demon Attack are all games generally regarded as too obvious to recommend, but that's not going to stop me. Just make sure you have a good display for Demon Attack, as half the appeal is what they're doing with the 2600's color palette. Also, Winter Games is better than the NES version, if you're into that kind of gameplay. Meanwhile, there are so many outstanding homebrew that I'm not even going to attempt to name them all. Please do your own research at Atari Age, as you're really missing out otherwise. Here's a list of the games I play the most often, to get you started. Juno First, Halo, Ladybug, Pac-Man 8k, and Frantic - the earlier versions of Frantic, before they added voice clips at the cost of 16-bit quality animation. And yes, that's an officially licensed Halo game, in 4k, without even a hint of bankswitching to make things easy on the game's creator. You may be surprised at what's been crammed into that tiny space, without any extra hardware assistance. Especially if you've read "Racing the Beam" first, like the developer did. Because nothing more complicated than Pong or Combat should exist on that console. And what it takes to break those limits is as close to an Olympic sport as coding can offer.

Demon attack

Pressure Cooker, Cosmic Commuter and Pitfall 2 for the world! Beside those you already mentionned.

River raid!

@@plaztik767 great game!i have it on my old xbox classic with the 2600 emulator

I actually refer to Activision from 1979 to 1991 as 'the Real Activision.' When Phillips launched their lawsuit against Activision, it was the end. Bobby Kotick gambled to buy Activision, but its not the same Activision. He bought it just for the name, nothing more.

Spider Fighter the original rage game. Haha.Good times.

That's really weird how nobody has compiled it yet.

Pitfall had a new title on the NES, but it’s considered to be one off the worst adventure and platform games and worst games in general on the system and many people think that is why the series died and remakes off other Activision titles stopped.

thanks. I actually suggested dual ratings because I thought it would be a good idea

YEAH I read through most of the manuals for these and I couldn't believe that they had little paragraphs at the end written by the person that wrote the game, giving the player tips and the like.

I actually do have one of those somewhere, my dad had one from back in the day and like everything else that was passed onto me. I haven't actually used it in like 20 years.

when I was making my video I had to get one of the achievements for skiing and honestly that was a lot of fun trying to shave seconds off of my time

I doubt it would work. There were such bad games on that system that most developers didnt last longer than 1 year before folding. There really were only 4 companies that made decent games for the 2600. They are: Atari Activision Imagic Starpath (ok! You needed their hardware for their games to run, but still)

I'd rather have the complete C64 library. But more important: in ONE video. :-D

Physical disks only

Agree!

Yeah,me too.I played the hell out of Chopper Command.Shooting was a fine thing to do

There was also some kinda River Raid port, I wonder if that still exists.

considering how it was in Activision Anthology, I'd say it can't be denied

I'll have to include it in the Imagic/Absolute followup then.

Larry the knowledge man.

Ghostbusters 2 kinda sucked, all it consists of is leading a guy on a rope down a hole. I know in the movie it was Ray going into the sewer but it's Atari so it could be anyone on the rope, but that's beside the point

Okay, I just looked into this more and found out something bizarre. In those lists that mention all 2600 games, GhostBusters II is listed as a game by "Salu". Never heard of them before. That's why they weren't in the lists I checked (AtariAge, AtariMania). So... does it actually count? I'm not sure. It says "Activision" on the box, strangely enough. I'm still going to mention it in the following video. In addition, responding to @Game Hero above, GhostBusters II was not on Activision Anthology, neither was the first one.