Overlooked Atari Arcade Games

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Overlooked Atari Arcade Games

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Welcome to the first edition of Overlooked Atari Arcade Games! And I honestly intend to do a few of these as I had a ton of games I wanted to cover, but didn't want the run time to go over 15 minutes. But I also want suggestions of what I should cover next! Let me know in the comments! Otherwise, I hope you enjoy the video and hopefully I can remind you all of some lesser known Atari Arcade Games!
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@Breezyacre 2 ай бұрын

720° is one of my all time favorite Atari arcade cabinets! I would dump quarters into that game anytime I had the chance. Good times!

@ObsidianContraption 2 ай бұрын

Major Havoc has become my favorite Atari arcade game. I have this on my Tempest 1up cab. Fantastic with the trackball

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

Oh I forgot about the 1up cabinets!

@Trialwolf 2 ай бұрын

The Atari 50 Collection is the gift that keeps on giving. It's the first time I played Cloak & Dagger which I remembered from the movie as a kid (Picked up the 4K of the film recently as well). Fun looking at all the Atari items in the film today.

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

I almost featured Cloak and Dagger in this video but I dropped it pretty late. It will be included in a later video or maybe a dedicated video...

@Trialwolf 2 ай бұрын

@@TheAtariNetwork With the movie tie in a dedicated video would be tempting, not sure how many people realize the movie exists these days though.

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

If we can introduce it to a few people then it's worth it I think.

@Jolt7800 2 ай бұрын

As an arcade enthusiast above a home console fan, I must admit I have overlooked several of these Atari wonders. Definitely look forward to more.

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

They weren't in arcades long and most were considered failures so it's not surprising you weren't familiar with them. But playing them on the 50th and stuff has been incredibly fun and they deserve attention!

@socrates0603 2 ай бұрын

I was familiar with or at least played all the mentioned games except Liberator. I didn't have a clue that Atari Force comics was connected to an actual game let alone coin-op. I, Robot was a head turner back in the day because of its 3D nature. Cool video, Jon. I appreciate you mentioning how these can be played today. Looking forward to more in this series.

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I chose liberator without even realizing it had an Atari Force connection. It was a cool surprise!

@MarquisDeSang 2 ай бұрын

I robot was literally 15 yeas ahead of its time. I hade the Race Drivin arcade (the full cabinet) and it had tons of PCB to make those 3D graphics, so I imagine I Robot was even bigger in term of PCB and components.

@jeremiahthomas8140 2 ай бұрын

Good selection. I was expecting The Adventures of Major Havoc and I, Robot, but I also thought Cloak & Dagger would make it.

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

Cloak and Dagger was initially going to be in this video but I wanted to leave it open to a video of its own. I think I'd like to cover it and the movie tie in together in the future. I guess I could've done both but I hate repeating stuff...

@rameybutler-hm7nx 2 ай бұрын

Black widow and cloak and dagger are great games, if you come across it the Firefox arcade was amazing!

@Darkuni 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for giving Black Widow some love!

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

It was my pleasure. Anytime we can talk about Black Widow we should

@Darkuni 2 ай бұрын

@@TheAtariNetwork Damn skippy. Almost ALL twin stick shooters deserve love.

@sprrwhwk1 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for covering I Robot. I have The Atari 50 collection on the VCS. I'll try to play that version.

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

It's well worth trying!

@Its_PacFan 2 ай бұрын

Honestly I love Black Widow and Major Havoc lol Genuinely such underrated gems of games, and I wish Major Havoc had gotten a sequel. Glad you're showing more lesser known arcade titles some spotlight !!

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. All these games were really fun but I have to admit that Black Widow and Major Havoc got played a ton in preparation for this video. But all of them are addictive and fun!

@adm712 2 ай бұрын

Outstanding video. I realize that people love Atari 50 for various reasons. For me, it was learning about, and experiencing some these forgotten Atari arcade gems. Vault volume 2 on the VCS also does an excellent job with this.

@tomevil6 2 ай бұрын

All great games that are not just fun to play but are part of the foundation of gaming! I have a couple issues of the Atari Force comics. Great video as usual!

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

I think I'm gonna make that Atari force video. It's pretty interesting honestly...

@VEGANVANIA 2 ай бұрын

Sega was producing "wireframe" (Vector graphics) games that directly competed with Atari: "Tac-Scan", for example. Unlike Atari, Sega does not celebrate (and re-publish) games from that era.

@Monhamd1000 13 күн бұрын

Atari 50th Anniversary Collection is giving the Atari arcades a chance to play after all these years.

@jwdurbin 2 ай бұрын

I like Peter Packrat and Escape From the Planet of Robot Monsters.

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

Oh I'll have to check those out! Thank you!

@MarquisDeSang 2 ай бұрын

We had black widow in repair at my shop for 3 weeks, once repaired, the image quality of that game on a real color XY monitor is absolutely stunning. The vector lines are 8k resolution, actually they are infinitely perfect because of the nature of moving a analog beam around the phosphore screen. And the colors were really vibrant. I have the Atari collection version and even on my 4k screen, it does not come close to the original. But the gameplay is always fun.

@OGHUGO 2 ай бұрын

Great video as always !

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@invaderboy7187 2 ай бұрын

Great vid thank you.

@jwdurbin 2 ай бұрын

Atari's clone of Donkey Kong and Popeye called KANGAROO gets no respect I tell ya!

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

I've never played the arcade version. I'll have to give it a try!

@jeremiahthomas8140 2 ай бұрын

That was not an Atari game. Atari simply licensed the title from Sun Electronics for the US rights.

@curtis3948 2 ай бұрын

I think Robotron came before Black Widow, because in interviews with Eugene Jarvis, he stated the twin stick was because he broke his arm at the time and this was easier for him to playtest. Otherwise that would've been a joystick/trackball combination. Could be wrong

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

Maybe you're right. I'll look into it again and find out for sure

@loutchi7981 2 ай бұрын

I personnally loved the atari game era(Mace the dark age,720 degres,paperboy, thunderjaws,even some game who failed but could have revival like pit fighter, guardian of the hoodbut there ip are under midway

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

I wanted to do the next video on games from the 720 and toobin era. Atari was around in the arcades for a long time, a lot longer than some people might realize!

@jeremiahthomas8140 2 ай бұрын

@@TheAtariNetworkIf you do a video over the Atari Games stuff, make sure you put in the video that Atari Games was a different company, and current Atari owns none of it.

@Ian45968 2 ай бұрын

@@jeremiahthomas8140 The current Atari should buy the rights to all those games. Atari Games was just the arcade division of Atari that wasn't sold to Jack Tramiel in 1984.

@jeremiahthomas8140 2 ай бұрын

@@Ian45968 Rumors are that Warner Brothers wants a fortune just to license any of their games. The amount of money they would want to sell the Atari Games catalog is probably astronomical.

@johnketo2150 2 күн бұрын

There is a nice clone of Black Widow for the Atari Jaguar called SpideX.

@jackofallgamesTV 2 ай бұрын

The problem with half these Atari games is that when you try to play them at home the controls are not right. I have to go through some pretty devious methods in order to play paddle games correctly on an Xbox One or Nintendo Switch. And track balls and rollers and Spinners don't work right even with these devious methods on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Atari should release an official nine-pin to USB adapter so that Atari controls could be remade that work on both the classic consoles the modern Atari VCS 800, as well as Playstation Xbox and Nintendo systems.

@TheAtariNetwork 2 ай бұрын

That's something that I know they are aware of, but I think the issue is getting it to function the way you would expect. I don't know if there is really a method for translating these inputs to various consoles (and what not) reliably and I don't know if there is enough interest to warrant a lot of time and money into getting it working. I guess time will tell...

@jackofallgamesTV 2 ай бұрын

@@TheAtariNetwork case in point example Warlords Arcade. Impossible to play against bot level one without a paddle. You need to be so pinpoint to catch the balls, and you need to access any point on the potentiometer at any time, and the built in centering resistance on a typical game pad does you no favors. Constantly switching between riding the resistance and fighting it makes it very hard to "dial a position". I face someone on Warlords online. First of all I thought it was a cutthroat vs game, but apparently I got the Xbox Achievement for "Betrayal". I was honestly unaware of any indicators that we were teammates. Secondly, he moved so slow that I knew he was using a pad in relative mode. He probably never seen someone catch that accurately. Actually using Atari 9-pin standard does two things. The first is you don't have to predict which systems are performing better between Playstation Xbox and Nintendo. Second is a 9 pin standard that could convert to USB would work just as well with the real back in the day 2600 as well as the 2600+ and the Atari VCS 800. That would also make filling the need for controls at both the retro level and modern level be treated just like one level and not have to subdivide the division into a back in the day controller division a VCS 800 controller division a 2600 Plus controller division a Playstation One a Nintendo one and an Xbox One. By the way the only way I got a paddle to work on the Xbox and Nintendo what's I used an Xbox adaptive controller and plugged an icode converter into the left analog Port of the Xbox adaptive controller. Then to get it working with Nintendo I had to plug in a Brook Wingman NS. And the funny thing is Xbox controllers recognize the difference between a mouse and other analog controllers. Add mice are locked out unless the developer and publisher specifically wants to include them, and that is on a software-specific basis. I still cannot get an analog trackball working for centipede. There's just something very specific about a trackball that Xbox recognizes that won't allow a signal through unless the devs and publishers specifically wanted remembered. I'm trying to tell Atari to tell Xbox to allow mice therefore track balls would work fine with these current circumvention methods. That's all Atari has to do to get USB mice to work is to say to Xbox "we want USB mice and track balls to work."