Love the slow strategic burn of "Care Bears". Not a single pixel is wasted in execution. Absolute underrated gem....

Parker Bros was a premiere developer for all platforms, being able to wrestle amazing results from systems with lack-lustre or problematic hardware. Their arcade ports repeatedly land at the top of every system's best titles lists. (here I go again...) Their four TI-99/4A titles, Frogger, Popeye, Q-bert, and the late release of Tutankham are the best Arcade releases for the system, arguably better than the same PB releases on other system of the time and certainly demonstrate greater time and effort than the later Atarisoft releases on various systems. They also made the best pre-role-playing board games, that others ported to computers and consoles. The makreting ad was a fabulous addition to the video. Thanks as always.

Parker Brothers lost millions due to the video game crash even though their games were among the best for 3rd party publishers on Atari.

05:02 WOW!!! McDonald's looks *EXCITING* AF!!! 🍔🍟😸🙈💀

I had some really great memories playing Parker Brothers games for the Atari 2600. As a kid I loved,Popeye,Spiderman,Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back and Frogger Keep up the good work Laird.

Return of the Jedi was Awesome - some genius programming going on there. The colors, sprites, action, 3D effect, sound, and death star knowing what piece to fill in you see from afar and up close - Pure Genius. Not to mention fun to play.

There is just something so apt about Star Wars and the 2600. They just make great friends.

Thank you for putting the box art for each. Also I've never seen the ad at the end before. Cool.

Awesome video, thanks for putting this together with the box art included. So many happy memories here!

One day I will be a 75 year old man with Alzheimers in a nursing home, and I will still remember the song from Frogger on the 2600 😉

Very cool video!

1982, Hasbro, video, a new technology, a new market, a new world of games. Hasbro, quality, play value, excitement, advertising muscle, “Frogger”, “Star Wars”, the age of video. Hasbro, the best is yet to come!

When I saw someone playing "Crazy Climber" I asked why doesn't Spider-Man use his webs?

Awesome games, fantastic trailers for games

is the Care Bears game.. a game or a screensaver? lol

I bought a Merlin when it came out. There were different models, but I did have the red one as seen in the video presentation.

Anyone who says E.T. was the worst 2600 game has obviously never played Care Bears. Parker Brothers made some great ones too though.

Empire Strikes Back was frigging boss BITD!

Reactor was one of my favs when I was little, played the crap out of that game! Good times!

Is that the real background music in gyruss? It's freaking sweet!

Gyruss has the 2nd best soundtrack on the system and the 1st best using the TIA chip! Pitfall 2 is the only thing that beats it!

I imagine the Care Bears game came with a warning for cardiac patients.

Of these, only Q*bert was re-released by Atari in 1988 in the red label version. I wonder if you happen to have a video for "Every Atari 2600 Coleco Game" yet? I know of them, Atari re-released Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Mouse Trap and Venture into the red label group in 1988. However, I also think they could have re-released both Smurf Rescue (NBC was still airing the cartoon series in 1988) and Mr. Do! into the red label line.

What was the objective in the Care Bears game? Didn't look like anything was happening there.

amdar reminds me of Quix or Pepper II

Great

Parker Bros. Atari games were every bit as good as Activision!

"Revenge of The Jedi". Almost forgot that was the original title before they changed just before the movie came out.

Amazing what good coders could do with the 2600 pre 1984. Post 1984 after Tramiel bought Atari, the 2600 and 8 bit computer line could have done FAR better into the 90s. The NES and I assume other contemporary consoles got continuously upgraded tech in their carts, like more ram, Rom, and other special chips to enhance sound, graphics or game levels. The 2600 hardware was mostly limited by the low amount of built in RAM and low rom size in the carts to save money pre 1984. But by the time the 2600jr and XEGS were released post 1986, chips were getting cheaper every year. Had Atari sought out great coders like those who did the best Activision, Imagic and Parker Brothers titles, and given them the time and added memory resources in the cart, with maybe extras like a pokey sound chip or other sound upgrade chip in special carts, the 2600 could have really shown it's stuff and lasted even longer. Look at the best, biggest 2600 homebrews of the past 10 years. Only difference is the time and memory size put into them

WTF is even going on in that Care Bears game?? 😂

I always found it funny in frogger II the frog would get flattened by a fish.... 16:55 Lmao "most popular game system on the market" did they basically say Atari (or intellivision) twice as sears did have an Atari VCS (and a rebranded Intellivision), just renamed to Sears Tele-Games video arcade (and Tele-Games super video arcade).

5:42 how the hell did you miss that jump????💀

Was that a presentation for a stock holders meeting at the end? They actually tried to talk the talk and walk the walk. In a parallel Universe, Parker Brothers continued hard core in the NES and 16 Bit era and outbid LJN and other turds for licences. They actually tried to turn big market licensing into good games. It was not always successful. What the hell is going on with the Care Bears game?

star wars games look good

Some narration would be nice.

i dont understand carebears there nothing happening, is this the game? and they need to add a tummy symbol, MC D oesnt seem to do anything

Are you serious with some of these clips?

Is There Anyone Between The Ages of 20 to 50 Making A KZfaq Channel About The Future of Activision Games?

A lot of these weren't ever released.

Wtf is with the care bears game?

Why no gameplay for the McDonald's game?

I mean, cool, but have you ever actually played any of these games? Game play footage is better when you actually know how to play any of these games....