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So many Atari games are still just as fun today. All the love.

Atari was my first console experience. It was the 80s and I went over to stay with my aunt for the summer and I would go to the neighbors house with my cousin and he had an Atari. We were blown away. Good times.

Was so awesome to meet you both today in Tokyo!!! Your haul was amazing!! 😅

This brings me back... I have all 3 Atari anthologies on PS4, and am getting the Atari 50 collection next week, mostly so I can finally finish the Swordquest series (been waiting since I was 10 to play Airworld)

When it comes to the 2600 I was blown away when I got my Supercharger. That was peak 2600 for me.

Metal Jesus, it's incredible but Atari games never go out of style, year after year, it's always nostalgic to play these games! Really cool! 😎 I follow your channel here in Brazil, it’s always a pleasure! God bless you always 🙏 Big hug!

Glad you gave Enduro a shout out. It was my very first racing which also started my love for racing games. And I still think it holds up today like quite a number of Atari 2600 games. They have what's most important in a video game - gameplay.

I would love to get a 2600 to add to my collection! Great video!

Haven't played any of these games but love watching your content and it oddly feels nostalgic for me haha

As someone who was born in 1990 I grew up with a sega genesis and the N64 shortly after that. For some reason my grandpa gave us his old Atari 2600 when he was cleaning out his house. With the genesis N64 to compare it to I distinctly remember being put off by how archaic it felt at first. That being said, I still have a surprising amount of nostalgia for the game Combat.

I got into gaming after the Atari, but there's still something relaxing about sitting down with a simple game where the plot is "you're a space man, shoot the aliens". Brings me back to simpler times as a kid in the 80s.

Not even an Atari fan. Just love your energy, i watch any and everything you do man. Thank you for being yourself❤️

Frostbite is my 3rd favorite game of all time, and that in a personal collection of over 9000 games. Demon Attack has always been great also, it even became popular again with my firends in the late 90s since I took my Atari with me when I left home for College.

Awesome i'm from the uk and the atari 2600 woody was massive i got mine in 78 i was 12 still got it still working after 45 years. Also have a factory sealed 2600 woody never been opened .

The 2600 was my first console in 86, at 6 years old, after playing it at a cousin's house. Was blown away, but it did require more imagination. At the time I didnt realise that NES existed and had not seen arcades. The 2600 was 8 years old by that point but to me it was new. Pac Man was one of the early games I owned and really liked it (there was nothing else to compare to). Yars Revenge was the pack in game and found it really mysterious, played it alot, even though I didnt really understand what to do. The good thing was that youd find these games super cheap which allowed me to build a nice early collection. I really used to enjoy switching between the different games , and all the variety.

Always loved the box artwork. The book called "Art of Atari" is really great, showing some unreleased alternate cover art, or promo items. This system was really great, For me the next system was Coleco.

I have my dad's old 2600, and still play it pretty frequently! From what I've personally played, Empire Strikes Back is my favorite from his collection. And funny thing about Pac-Man, my dad and Grandma have distinct memories of trying to find it but it kept selling out, because Pac-Man was/is obviously one of the most popular retro games of all time. He finally got it from his uncle who worked as a department manager, and found an "unsellable" copy, since the box had been heavily damaged during shipping, so it would've otherwise been thrown out.

I was playing Solaris yesterday for the first time, it is really awesome! hard to believe it is an Atari 2600 game

I love your positivity. Its true that we see/saw these 2600 games through a different set of eyes, they still look awesome and bring back a lot of memories.

In my collection is a factory-sealed Defender. Found it in the toy isle of a junky thrift store for 90 cents :) So many memories playing Atari 2600 at my grandparents’ house.. I think Pitfall was my favorite.

Always happy to see more Atari love. A lot of these arcade ports also shine when you select the more arcade-like difficulty settings. Entire elements are missing by default in a lot of cases, and I bet a lot of players have never seen the other modes.

Nothing against you're last few videos. But these are the ones we love

Never miss one episode since 2011, gotta say that this is one of the best episodes ever on this channel. More episodes on Atari artbox, who's in?

Atari taking it way back I’ve been blessed to see all of gaming from 1980-Now

Ah man, talk about a nostalgia trip! Thanks for doing videos like this man. Demon Attack, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man were my first 3 games back in the day. I agree with you 100% that Demon Attack was the better SHMUP on the VCS. Also thanks for spotlighting Mini Box Gaming. I've been looking for a service like that so I can have a nice box for my old carts. Much love MJR, thanks for all that you do.

Now that's a nice collection

Atari 2600 provided my earliest fun memories with home console video games. Defender, Asteroid plus that 2 player tank battle game were so great.

Love those mini boxes! H.E.R.O is also my fave, so many memories of playing that but had no idea it had been released on so many different systems.

Hope you do a review of the upcoming Atari 2600 + and put it thru it’s paces. What a time to be alive with all this retro goodness! 👍🏻

Great video! I loved the format of this video and how you put it all together. Also, those mini-boxes are really enticing! Thanks for all you do. I really enjoyed meeting you at SEGE a couple of years ago. You were a huge inspiration for my own channel.

I still remember goin to Toys R Us in NYC and choosing the Atari Jr over the NES for my bday, at 6 yrs old the games box art is what sold me, I can still hear my dad trying to Convince me to get the NES, i was like "nah, these Atari games are way cheaper so I can get more". When I got back home to the C'bean, I realised the box art fooled me but i played my 2600 until i got my nes in 88'. 1st consoles are the best. TY MJR

Great video MetalJesusRocks! You give an excellent thorough overview, and your collection is quite impressive!! My channel actually did a review video on Halo 2600 some time back. As you said it's a primitive game, but I felt as though it still has all the elements of a Halo game though down ported to the Atari VCS/2600's level.

Love it when you show your game collection no matter what systems it's always awesome to see.

You now look like the guy in the commercial who buys the atari and everything that goes with it

What a fun video! I LOVE the box and cartridge art for the system. I'm totally happy to keep my Atari games digital-only through a variety of means, but that collection looks amazing. Berzerk is one of my faves.

This is the one we've been waiting for!

This is awesome,I always look for atari games to add to my Collection and now because of this video,I have a ton to look out for. Great Collection.

I got an Anbernic RG35XX recently and H.E.R.O. was the first Atari game I tried, simply because of how often and how highly you talked about it. And yep it really is still brilliant, I couldn’t stop playing it. It’s one I’ve been going back to every so often. Great collection, amazing box art.

Wow minibox sells those boxes for an affordable price, definitely going to buy 1 for my repro goldeneye

I’m getting into collecting home brews for the 2600. Would be great to see a video featuring these especially with PRGE coming up!

There's a reason Imagic was so good... they were an offshoot of Activision, sort of their "B List" game company... the same developers who made the most classic Activision games made the cream of the Imagic crop as well... you mentioned Demon Attack, which was a side project of Pitfall creator David Crane

I've never played Atari, but strangely I played a lot of these games on the Mac when I was a kid. In the 90s there were tons of Mac games that were clones of Atari games and arcade games from same era, but they just called them something different and updated the graphics and gameplay. I never even realized that a lot of the games I played back then were clones of Atari games, and watching this video, I recognized a bunch that I played back in the 90s. Watching this video makes me want to go find all those games on Atari that I played on Mac and also find the Mac versions. Great video Metal Jesus!

Im an 80s kid and Atari is one of my earliest memories when I was 3 years old. Love the system, love the cover artworks and it was the beginning of my favorite hobby. To this day I still playing their games, some havent old very well, others still as fun as before but revisiting them again is so much fun no matter how good or bad they are today.

You’re my fav metal Jesus. I really appreciate your vids. Been watching for years. Love your intro, love the reoccurring guests, and the wide variety of content. You’re a legend

5:36 My line to my mother was always "Hey mom it's a good buy!" To which she usually replied, "Yeah... Goodbye!" 🤣

Thanks for the video! Brings back many great memories my brother and I playing together for hours. Especially collecting the patches for many Activision games.

As a fellow child of the 70's and 80's, I grew up with an Atari 2600 as well. It was something that kept us entertained, especially in the winter where I grew up (Northeast part of the US). I am surprised you didn't cover any of the M Network aka Mattel games. Those were a big part of our collections with some really good games like Tron, Frogs & Flies, Bump 'n' Jump, Burger Time, and Dark Cavern. While everyone remembers the popular classics like River Riad and Pitfall, I'd love to see some love given to the forgotten M Network games that were also so much fun.

This was before my time, but I can absolutely appreciate your love for the system. Very interesting video.

I remember when I was younger my hand to eye coordination was much worse. So I find these kind of games alot more manageable than I did back in the day! But for sure, some of the early eight bit games are still some of my favorites! Astroids, Bezerk and Phoenix have, and will always be some of my favorite games!

Man, I'm so addicted by Enduro! What a blast! Also played a ton it's conversion to the ZX Spectrum micro computer :)

Dude, this is awesome ! Again, you've blown us away and inspired me to collect for my Jaguar series !

Very cool video and collection. I really enjoyed this video.

Excellent video! I share many of the same favorite games and opinions from back in the day!

I lost all of my 2600 stuf years and years ago...missed the fun of it all. About a decade ago I was in a used game store and found my fave 2600 game on the shelf, MegaMania for like $5, I bought the cartridge with nothing to shove it into to play...until about a year ago when I traded a PC motherboard and CPU for an early functional and complete Atari 2600...got that bad boy home and hooked up to my TV with the classic switch box and I jammed that cartridge I bought 10 years ago into it and flicked it on...transported back to my childhood and blasting things again...gotta grow the 2600 game collection again! Next game on the hitlist is QBert!

I adore this video. My first console was the NES, but my Dad bought his Atari 2600 when he was a teenager and let me play it in the mid 80's. I loved Adventure, Indiana Jones: Radiers of the Lost Ark, Surround, Air Sea Battle, Haunted House and Yar's Revenge in particular. Thanks for sharing your collection and for the great video, as always.

What I also like about these videos is that they end up being a history lesson through your collection, MJR. I didn't know cassette games were a thing! I learned a lot of fun facts with this!

Great video so many amazing games, loved the Atari growing up.

The Atari 2600 Junior was my first game console as a Child. I remember playing games like Moon patrol and Dark Chambers. And i was impressed by River Raid playing at a friend.

I love the Atari! You have an awesome collection, too. I have maybe half that many, but I love each and every one of them.

"you don't have to beat the game...you just have to play" -Parzival, Ready Player One

My first console experience too. So much time and so much fun ! And so much difficult games for kids ! Where's Dig Dug ? One of my favorite games on this system. Great video as always !

I have heard many people talk about classic Atari and how they grew up with it and loved playing it. I knew a guy who was younger than me and he had a classic Atari collection and I was surprised. I personally go from Nintendo Entertainment System and up but whenever i see Atari in stores or conventions free to play areas I usually play some of the games for fun. Cool video. ^_^

ooh this is perfect, cant wait to watch as I recently modded my Atari Flashback 50th anniversary Gold to device with the entire library... Also got the Atari 2600+ on pre order for my own small original cart collections. I came to the Atari late in the late 80's but it was the machine that made me start collecting older machines at that point. A mate sold me his Atari 2600 Jr with a stack of games... and I remember playing Crystal Castles on the Atari, and realising gameplay wise is was as good if not better than many of my Amiga games I owned... At that point I decided to buy older machines and the games cheap whenever I could.

Excellent video;) I always wondered why there were different covers for some of the 2600 games :D I have just started collecting for the 2600 because of the 2600+ coming out soon :P I got a list of 36 2600 games to maybe get but now I have seen more in this video :D

My first system was an Nes, but I have grow to love the 2600. The box art is awesome. I got Hero in a lot but. So fun and I didn't know it was worth anything. Thank you for the great videos. Been watching for a long time.

Brings back so many memories. I spent a lot of time playing Chopper Command, Moon Patrol, Buck Rogers, and so many others.

Awesome video..Thanks for the nostalgia love Jason

Excellent video. I remember playing the VCS in my friends basement in the late 70s on a tv in one of thise wooden cases with built-in speakers.

My aunt, who is only seven years older than gave me her Atari 2600 back in the early 80's. We had most of the classics, but I totally forgot about Demon Attack. There's something about the animation of the enemies forming. So cool!

A friend o' mine had a 2600 just right before the NES and Master System swept our marketplace in Belgium. Things such as the DC/Atari co-op I never knew about but sure are interesting to discover. Great vid!

Great to see the old Atari games, my friend had a Atari console. I also really enjoyed playing Jungle Hunt!

Metal Jesus just me and you playing video games for eternity. That is a dream worth keeping. Hate aside your channel rocks.

Cool video, brings back memories 👍

Now that's truly an impressive collection. We're probably close to the same age I'll never forget my dad surprised my sister and I with an ATARI 2600 I remember playing Combat and Pitfall.

9:48 Those fuel things are not to destroy. :)

Great trip to memory lane thanks. I’m happy you mentioned Cosmic Ark , Chopper command, Jungle Hunt & Moon patrol cuz I spent countless hours playing them.

A friend of my parents had a 2600 back in the 80's. I used to love going over to his house as a kid and once asked to stay over and he let me stay up until 2am glued to that big wooden 80's fishbowl TV. My favourite games were H.E.R.O. and Pitfall 2.

Amazing! The Atari 2600 was my first console too. I still remember when my uncle brought it to our home and left it for the whole summer. I was 5 maybe. And I've become a gamer since then!

Sweet pile. Love 2 see it. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome video man 😎!

Christmas 1980 was a watershed moment for gameplaying in my life. Like thousands or even millions of kids all over we got an Atari (in our case a Sears Telegames) and Space Invaders. I did practically nothing else the entire Christmas break but play Space Invaders. We had a Coleco Tel-Star a few years before that but it couldn't even begin to compare. Great Memories! Thanks!

Amazing collection!

My sister was one of the first GenX and I was one of the last. In 1983 when I was 5 I was getting all the hand me downs and these were among them. Love the nostalgia trip

Very cool episode!! Thanks MJ..

awesome video! surprised you didn't mention the new Atari 2600+ coming out though. kinda thought it was the point of you pulling out the collection.

Great video, great collection. Lots of great memories with the 2600. I remember they released a trackball for the likes of Centipede. Looked like a cool accessory but never got it. Indy 500 was cool, with its' driving controllers (which were different from the paddle controllers) and I even got Basic Programming and had to hunt down the keyboard controllers. Super limited in what you could do, but cool nonetheless. The paddle controller games were great too (Kaboom, Circus Atari, Street Racer). Pinball and Air Sea Battle were also some faves. I remember seeing Realsports Baseball for the first time and thinking how realistic it looked [at least compared to the original Baseball game]. Grew up w/2600 Vanguard and even prefer it to the arcade when I played it later. Good times.

THIS ONE WAS EPIC METAL JESUS !. 👌👏👏ONE OF YOUR BEST EVER ! (your O G Xbox related editions are generally excellent too, as well as the PS3 buying guide with Kelsey and that one with the potato comparison. Next it´s about time you dedicate a video to the subject of "Wolfenstein games" now, with its rich history that goes way back to 1981/the Atari 800 era !). I was born in 1971 too and your feelings about the Atari brand ("The REAL company", not the current semi professional project) could have had come from myself as well. That goes for "Hero" too. Doubtllessly the single 2600 game i did played most (i beated its 20 levels a couple of times, but it takes practice for at least 5 days a week during each period to accomplish it. Without any preparing training, i doubt anyone would make it beyond level 15, cos it´s getting REALLY HARD after that !). Now, i really, really wanted a 2600 so bad when it showed up here in Sweden in ´81-´82, but all i had then was a pong console and three "Game & watch":es (typically, a very common situation for working class kids at the time). When i finally got one, it was early ´84. Happy times arrived, altough with just "Air sea battle" only for while. But during the calendar year of 1984, the bastards released the "Colecovision", "Intellivision" and "The Vectrex" nationwide, and there i was, stuck with a console that was concieved for the american 70´s in mind !. But don´t get me wrong, I LOVED MY "DARTH VADER" BLACK 2600 DEARLY, and i still have it somewhere ("connect a RF device to HDMI ?!"..hmm...yes i know, it CAN BE DONE, but i just don´t have the drive to actually do it. Instead, with huge informational help from John Hancock´s video, i succeded with the bought of an "Atari Flashback" console with an added SD card input). About the games you mentioning/showing up. The traditional 2600 games "Asteroids" and "Combat" , never was my favorites. I owned "Defender" and "Centipede"(= that psychotic f¤cking spider ruins the whole game !), but never liked them either. "Super Cobra" was awesome but the difficulty was WAY to high !. "Pitfall" was very, very repeating and therefore, boring. "Demon attack" was definitely a favorite though !.-The fact that it was a version for the 2600 makes it "A masterpiece" i think !. "Action force" was kind of the same concept, and also the game that first presented me with the "ONLY FOR PADDLE CONTROLLERS SYNDROME" !.The paddles, oh, that paddles. It reminds me of "Circus Atari", another favorite !. I never had "Phoenix" on my 2600, but the arcade version was one of the very games that woke my passion for real gaming (beyond the mentioned Pong and G&W´s), to begin with. It´s an obvious rip off of "Galaga", but i still love it yet today. I had both "Breakout" and "Super breakout" though. Very entertaining for shorter periods of gaming. But "Star raiders"..-What the heck was that one really ?!. "A space ship simulator with included control panel for 70 bucks" in 1983 ?!. I never got any grasp of it, and neither any of my buddies at the time !. "Sky diver"..had it, I LOVED IT, and i think it´s relevant as entertainment in 2023 as well. No, i didn´t had "Berzerk" nor "Space invaders", but damn i wished i had ém exacty as much as i did with "Moon patrol", "River raid" and "Battezone" as well !. "Jungle hunt"..i thought that was an "Activision" title, but i obviously remember it wrong then. "Enduro"..wow...that game was ALWAYS active when any of my pals was visiting !. Awesome game for its time !.I did´nt had any "Pac man" titles, but i had the slightly similar "Dodge ém", and i actually preferred it. A two players highlight on the 2600 that you´re missing here is "Outlaw". Me and my buddies laughed our pants off when we fought on that game ! 😂. Very exotic these "Atari 2600 games on audio cassettes" of yours !. (ok. so they loaded BIG games over to the console, just like C64 or such machines. But if the ROM was so big that it didn´t even fitted on a standard cartridge, how could there be space enough on the console´s own system to handle it from ?). By the way, "The double flip side" cartridge is very special too !. About "new games for the 2600": Yes, there´re sure awesome, at least most of them !. But some year ago, i saw a youtube clip here with "new games" on the "Atari yada yada emulator". I watched it and i could immediatelely tell it was way to advanced for being "Atari 2600 gaming". I wrote and told ém exactly that, and they replied: "Yeah, but these games are for the ""Atari 2600 yada yada emulator"" ONLY !. Meaning, you could never run these homebrew´s on AN ACTUAL 2600 MACHINE !". What f¤cking bullshit is that ?. It´s either a Atari 2600 ROM or not ! But as said. If "new games" means "actual 2600 ROMS/cartridges", i´m definitely positive to it !.

Dude, MJR, you are a youtube LEGEND at this point. Up there with the greats!

Enduro is what started my love for racing games too! It was so much fun and the way it had day and night cycles seemed so amazing back then.

My greatest and most fond memories regarding picking up new games was back in the late 80’s to early 90’s when my parents or more often just me and my Dad would go to Toys R Us. Back when they had all the games on the walls with those little paper slips. And it was always an awesome feeling grabbing the last available slip for the game you wanted. I can still remember when me and my Dad went to Toys R Us to pick up Zelda II. As my Dad was a huge Zelda fan when I was a kid.

Sick level of progression if you compare this to the PSVR 2 where i play most of my games on nowadays..😂We've come a long way! Love your passion and enthusiasm for the medium, MJR!

Most of your Atari collection still looks neat! Great stuff 🤟

Atari is way before my time and I had just assumed the games were garbage, but a lot of these look so fun. It’s making me honestly want to pick one up

LOVE this video! Thank you :)

If your around 50 or older and a gamer you definitely appreciate this video. These were great times. Adventure is one of my all time favorites. Still played Hero and Pitfall years later.

This Video ROCKS! Thanks for sharing dude!

I can appreciate the simplicity of the 2600 - no Text, no Interface, to title screen, just GAME. It starts instantly and you can be playing as soon as you hit the button. Wish you went into exactly what the ‘game variations’ were. I had a 2600, but these days it’s all roms and no manuals And yes- moon patrol is pretty much the same as the arcade gameplay wise. Lots of emulators use “Mouse for paddle controller” so it’s close ish One month until Portland retro!

I got my 2600 in '82, when I was 7. I had Yar's revenge, Berzerk, Air Sea Battle and Knight Rider. My neighbor had like 50 games that he would loan me regularly. We couldn't afford an NES till '89, so I got 7 good years of Atari memories