Atari 2600 Homebrews, Remakes & Demakes|Which is Best?

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Atari 2600 Homebrews, Remakes & Demakes|Which is Best?

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This video features 6 fan-made games that are Atari 2600 style remakes/demakes. While some pay homage to classics like SMB and Sonic The Hedgehog. Some are demakes like Mega Man and Mappy. Which one is your favorite?
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⭐Princess Rescue by Chris Spry⭐
archive.org/details/princessr...
⭐Donkey Kong Atari VCS⭐
archive.org/details/Donkey_Ko...
⭐Pac-man 4K⭐
archive.org/details/Pacman4KNTSC
⭐Mappy gameplay footage from AtariAge (full video and get game)⭐
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⭐Mega Man 2 PC Demake⭐
gamejolt.com/games/mega-man-2...
⭐Zippy The Porcupine⭐
forums.atariage.com/topic/269...
##supermario #mario #sonic
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video chapters
00:00 Princess Rescue(Super Mario Bros)
03:17 Donkey Kong VCS
06:35 Mega Man 2(PC Demake)
08:33 Pac-man 4K
09:28 Mappy
11:30 Zippy The Porcupine

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@Retromantra Жыл бұрын

video chapters 00:00 Princess Rescue(Super Mario Bros) 03:17 Donkey Kong VCS 06:35 Mega Man 2(PC Demake) 08:33 Pac-man 4K 09:28 Mappy 11:30 Zippy The Porcupine

@ClunkerSlim Жыл бұрын

I'm calling bullshit on this. There's no way most of these are running on 2600 hardware. The title is misleading as hell. Then you tried to walk it back in the description with "2600 style remakes."

@Retromantra Жыл бұрын

@@ClunkerSlim only Megaman is pc demake rest are on 2600 via cart or emulation. Thanks.

@MasterMan194 Жыл бұрын

This should be on xvideos, 'cause what they did with Atari os obscene. Look the speed of that hedge... porcupine!

@Resentedape Жыл бұрын

@@ClunkerSlim you can look up videos of them straight up running on an original hardware 2600

@intel386DX Жыл бұрын

@@Retromantra actually there is a real Mega Man demo for Atari 2600 back in 2008 I guess

@jokerzwild00 Жыл бұрын

As a kid who was stuck with a 2600 throughout the 80s while all of my friends had cool new NESes, I'd have been overcome with joy to have any of these.

@roberto1519 Жыл бұрын

The A2600 is mostly underrated by the status quo nowadays, but it was Atari's most succesful console by a large margin for a reason, while simplistic in nature (1977 hardware, but actually using older tech) many great games using wizardry were made possible, specially in the early 80's. I find most Activision games to be the best titles, but there are many more, it's a system you turn on, start playing right away and have fun, nothing fancy, still very charming. I think this console sold as well as the NES, I'm impressed how big retro game channels mostly ignore this console.

@WayOutGaming Жыл бұрын

Could be wrong about this but I think the reason the 2600 is so ignored by the big channels is because most of those bigger channels are run by people who grew up in post NES era of gaming in the 90s and early 2000s. So it's more that these channels are relying on the nostalgia of their fellow aged nerds more than anything. It's definitely a shame though, as the 2600 is a great system in it's own right, even to someone like me who grew up playing SNES and N64

@roberto1519 Жыл бұрын

@@WayOutGaming Interesting comment, it could be true for maybe the channels you're thinking about, but I'm pretty sure the ones such as GameSack, Sega Lord X, MLiG, MVG and others are older than me, but what you say makes sense, specially the part where they tend to share what people will accept right away, NES onwards up to the PS2, mostly.

@Retromantra Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I feel ya guys, my first game was River Raid, on my cousins Atari 2600 and I was away with what I saw😂

@Vulpas Жыл бұрын

@@roberto1519 The games don't hold up well anymore. They're not unplayable by any means and can be fun in short bursts, but there's just not really a reason to go back. Their best games have better versions on later hardware, like Donkey Kong.

@zenbmonk1016 Жыл бұрын

That main theme music in Princess rescue still really impresses me. Considering the limitations of the Atari 2600's hardware.

@madmax2069 Жыл бұрын

You should hear some of the music the demoscene has got the 2600 to do.

@3vi1J Жыл бұрын

Most likely it uses an emulated DPC chip, like Mappy, to generate the music instead of the 2600 hardware.

@champion_ofcloud-var Жыл бұрын

EVERYTHING in princess rescue is impressive!

@evenmorebetter Жыл бұрын

Holy cow, that Mappy works on real 2600 hardware? That looks like a genuine impressive, accurate arcade 2600 port, I struggle to identify anything other than smooth scrolling that's missing there

@The_Real_DCT Жыл бұрын

I believe so since Champ games put it on actual cart

@roberto1519 Жыл бұрын

@@The_Real_DCT OK, you already replied my question from another comment, thanks.

@Jerberjer Жыл бұрын

The DK and mappy ports are VERY impressive, but Pac Man 4k needs to be given more credit. It's the only one on this list that was made using the same limitations as the original release.

@hunnybunny3716 2 ай бұрын

3:53 go hammer

@andore_btt Жыл бұрын

considering Mega Man 2 is a PC fangame, Sonic's homebrew was by far the most impressive, I mean, the scrolling is INCREDIBLY smooth, man!

@Touhouuu Жыл бұрын

Zippy the porcupine is another level of “we have that at home”

@surawolf9069 Жыл бұрын

What amazes me, the Soundtrack from this Mega Man 2 is actually pretty good! 😲

@rodrigoalves-cg6xv Жыл бұрын

It's not a real Atari 2600 game

@litjellyfish Жыл бұрын

It’s a Pc game

@subtolaicu Ай бұрын

Intellivision ver

@luisreyes1963 Жыл бұрын

Now THAT'S how you make Donkey Kong & Pac-Man for the Atari 2600! Very nice. 😁

@xpoop1570 9 ай бұрын

that pac man one looked better than the one on the nes!

@Patoargentinolimpiador1981 Жыл бұрын

00:00 Princess Rescue(Super Mario Bros) 03:17 Donkey Kong VCS 06:35 Mega Man 2(PC Demake) 08:33 Pac-man 4K 09:28 Mappy 11:30 Zippy The Porcupine

@UniSonBBS08 3 ай бұрын

Wow these are all crazy good! Sonic I can't believe the music!

@Meshamu Жыл бұрын

So, what could Zippy's nemesis be called? Maybe something like Droidberger, Mister Metiisto, or Professor Artifex?

@paulocardoso9605 Жыл бұрын

Doctor Machino - no, wait

@unknown_guy5366 Жыл бұрын

Professor lasaga

@etech4_flipnote 8 ай бұрын

In the instruction manual it says he is called professor dodo

@Meshamu 8 ай бұрын

@@etech4_flipnote Cool! Thanks for the FYI. 👍

@originalfred66 Жыл бұрын

All of these are great, but I think Mappy does the best job recreating the arcade game. It is absolutely amazing how many full color sprites are on the screen in Mappy. Also the video capture used in this video was great. The sprites look like they actually look on the screen with out the annoying fade out that usually happens when the screen is recorded at 30 FPS.

@Nobodyfrom2003 Жыл бұрын

Nice competition to the Pupil System from Fega and the well known Intendo console called DES

@jonasstrack Жыл бұрын

Increible pensar que poseer algun tipo de copia tan exacta al juego original en la juventud de los 80/90 era impensable

@TheRogueMaverick Жыл бұрын

Donkey Kong is incredibly impressive! I have NO idea how they have multi-colour sprites on the Atari 2600! As far as I know, sprites are limited to one colour per scanline. But I do know other systems have work-arounds that make more complicated visuals possible. What astounds me is it looks impressively close to the arcade original considering the hardware came out in 1977!

@espfusion Жыл бұрын

It's flickering between two sprites every other frame.

@litjellyfish Жыл бұрын

It’s stacked sprites. One sprite for one color and another for the second color

@TheRogueMaverick Жыл бұрын

@@litjellyfish - Ahh, that actually makes sense. Now that I think about it, the Commodore 64 can do that too, if I recall correctly.

@litjellyfish Жыл бұрын

@@TheRogueMaverick all systems can do it. I mean it’s not multicolored sprites it’s just sprites stacked at same position to give the impression it’s one single sprite. It’s not a hardware feature or so. Just a design choice. The Amiga have hardware stacking so if you take a 4 color sprite and combine it with another you get a 16 color sprite. But that is a totally different thing :)

@TheRogueMaverick Жыл бұрын

@@litjellyfish - I guess that makes sense. I didn’t know that most systems with sprites could do that. I figured it was limited to certain systems. Thanks for the info! :)

@retro3188 Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@bytesandbikes Жыл бұрын

Given the restrictions, all of these are astounding!

@sonicstarman9663 Жыл бұрын

What's funny is that fight for Princess Rescue is a lot more impressive than the actual fight in the actual Super Mario game lol

@deusnosdefendera Жыл бұрын

Fantastic...

@Jakethehitman73 Жыл бұрын

I love Princess Rescue! Got it years back. Have you played Halo 2600? Pretty neat. It's not as exact a translation but it captures the essence well

@Retromantra Жыл бұрын

Nope, haven't played Halo yet. I will check it out. Thank you for watching.

@retrosgameplay Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@R.P.Pyotrsovich Жыл бұрын

For some reason, Pac man 4k reminds me of the Atari Flashback portable by Atari in collaboration with AtGames, Namco, Konami (For Frogger) & Activision

@pico1201 Жыл бұрын

God that Bowser boss fight was actually so cool tho

@DamienNightmarish 15 күн бұрын

Amazing! Wow!

@roberto1519 Жыл бұрын

I have no clue which is the best, but for the hardware, this is quite impressive, they even added music. Is it possible to run such homebrews on a real A2600 or do they only run using emulators? I'm not going to try as I don't even own the hardware, but I'm curious.

@Retromantra Жыл бұрын

Zippy, Mappy are playable on original hardware. I am not sure about the rest.

@Turbulation1 Жыл бұрын

Zippy has been proven to play on real hardware.

@the1ucidone Жыл бұрын

lol Zippy the Porcupine! Man this stuff is so great.

@zimtak6418 Жыл бұрын

These are all quite impressive considering how little the 2600 can handle.

@user-sp9ht7el5h Жыл бұрын

Zippy and Donkey Kong are my favorite!

@KCF99 Жыл бұрын

Pacman 4K And Donkey Kong VCS!

@AndrewSouzaGames555 Жыл бұрын

Muito legal

@drakonolus7922 Жыл бұрын

Ohh .... my Earache, but these demakes; specially MegaMan are incredible !!!!!

@lapalourde75 Жыл бұрын

Hello Very good homebrews I have a harmony everdrive Where i can downloading the roms Thanks Retro Viseur

@Retromantra Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video!🤗

@alexistramirez 19 күн бұрын

The Pac-Man’s 4K version

@ProgramAndNectar Жыл бұрын

They become hard to notice until you look at it close enough (i never used an atari so i dont know if it became hard to notice for you)

@streetmagik3105 Жыл бұрын

They did a great job getting the MM2 music as close as they did.

@KidPrarchord95 Жыл бұрын

It's a PC fangame.

@tron3entertainment Жыл бұрын

With enough RAM the 2600 can be impressive.

@alfombracitario Жыл бұрын

fun fact, the atati only supported 2 sprites and 2 extended sprites (projectiles) per frame

@VeryEvilGM Жыл бұрын

Angry Video Game Nerd should check these out.

@oldandbitter 9 ай бұрын

Very impressive array of homebrews. Here's what I don't understand: clearly, the 2600 had the capability for a decent Donkey Kong port considering the limitations. The DK sprite alone is comparable to the arcade vs the gingerbread man DK in the official release. So was it the developers were not as skilled back then as today, or was it just laziness to rush the product to market? Same with Pac Man 4k, but I was really impressed by DK particularly for the intro scenes and 100M ending.

@cameranmanner4701 Жыл бұрын

I think the squished 4x3 ratio throws me off. would it be better to have the correct vertical ratio and have the scoring on the left or wight side of the game?

@Retromantra Жыл бұрын

Which game are you talking about?

@cameranmanner4701 Жыл бұрын

@@Retromantra vertical type games like pacman.

@Retromantra Жыл бұрын

Ohh ok 👍

@Vulpas Жыл бұрын

These would be highly impressive back in the day, I'm sure. Kind of hurts my eyes and ears but I respect them.

@eduardogarcescabezuelo8872 Жыл бұрын

Jamás conseguirás hacer un Demake tan bueno para que realmente funcione en Atari 2600

@achimis23 Жыл бұрын

Mi opinión es: 6- super Mario Bros de atari 5-pac man de atari 4-sonic de atari 3-donkey Kong de atari 2-mappy de atari 1-mega man de atari

@slender303ytmulticuenta6 Жыл бұрын

Dude on the MegaMan II part is incrediblely how someone made it on 4/16/32KB

@Meshamu Жыл бұрын

Apparently the trick to it is, they totally didn't do that. It's a PC game that mimics the look of an Atari 2600 game.

@slender303ytmulticuenta6 Жыл бұрын

@@Meshamu soo good to be real

@truthiskey8625 Жыл бұрын

Princess rescue and Mega man 2

@ranchdressing1037 Жыл бұрын

Knowing my shrimp self in the early 80s before NES, I would have been up all night playing these! (MM2 wins)

@braydengraves4655 Жыл бұрын

The MM2 remake was actually a PC fangame.

@bobobo6rel Жыл бұрын

0:44 what he doin on the coin 😭

@HasanAli-tu5rt Жыл бұрын

Donkey Kong for Atari 2600

@ChaossX77 Жыл бұрын

The Mario one looked amazing. More like a 7800 game.

@subtolaicu Ай бұрын

No a 5200!

@SheldoLe 10 күн бұрын

Pero si ya existe uno de Pacman ?

@ulyssia2717 Жыл бұрын

The mario one hurt my ears tho

@ex1524 Жыл бұрын

I was completely blown away by Rockman.

@Turbulation1 Жыл бұрын

To be fair it’s a PC fangame trying to emulate the Atari 2600’s capabilities.

@Stumblemuysano Жыл бұрын

genius

@noveltyman6723 Жыл бұрын

There was an actual Mega Man demake playable on a real Atari 2600 instead of being a stylized pc game, but it was just a demo with only one level.

@Freshbrood 10 ай бұрын

Have you seen the Mortal Kombat wip?

@Retromantra 10 ай бұрын

Yeah I've seen it.

@Freshbrood 10 ай бұрын

@@Retromantra Would you ever feature it when its finished?

@Retromantra 10 ай бұрын

Sure! Why not.

@solong.everyone Жыл бұрын

consider it cheating with the chip to enhance audio, but mappy is still my favorite

@The_Real_DCT Жыл бұрын

How so? Pitfall 2 did it back in the day.

@solong.everyone Жыл бұрын

@@The_Real_DCT i know that, but i'm saying this because the other games all use the original sound chip for their music

@DobygamesGC Жыл бұрын

@@solong.everyone 3 channels sounds soo superior

@burntyper Жыл бұрын

Megaman 2 and mappy are awesome

@etech4_flipnote 8 ай бұрын

hold up how is mario able to throw fireballs and jump in princess rescue

@slimballs9650 Жыл бұрын

Mega Man 2 Atari Demake may be a PC fan-game, but it is miles better than the original game!

@Barreto89121 Жыл бұрын

Impresionante el megaman 2

@litjellyfish Жыл бұрын

It’s a Pc game

@torajooourico2994 Жыл бұрын

WHY zippt the porcupine is sonic the hedgehog

@txikitofandango 4 ай бұрын

Mario and PacMan look unplayable, the others seem like fun! The music for Mega Man is excellently done

@MaoRatto 4 ай бұрын

Mega Man isn't a REAL game for THE ATARI 2600 though.

@maleiaty Жыл бұрын

If this was narrated, it would have been so much more interesting

@PlXNIN Жыл бұрын

mega man 2 is absolutely amazing!!

@dipper6439 Жыл бұрын

You forgot the Halo port to atari

@anonimoanonimo1354 Жыл бұрын

wow mappy

@dallase1 Жыл бұрын

The Intellivision Home Brew of SMB totally blows away the shitty atari vcs version because it actually looks almost just like the NES version and the music and sound effects are way more accurate and not off key.

@deaniepops1 Жыл бұрын

Mario looks great but why is he so tall.😂

@felipemelo-rm3io 2 ай бұрын

Ok, donkey kong looks a little creepy-

@kaylaking1831 Жыл бұрын

his name is not zippy its sonic

@CrutchMax Жыл бұрын

mega man cool, but donkey kong vcs better

@zxczx392 Жыл бұрын

質問だよ他のアタリゲーム機は

@TonyTheTGR Жыл бұрын

I liked that MegaMan 2 and "Zippy" the most

@pointedspider Жыл бұрын

MegaMan is absolutely incredible

@bunnyfreakz Жыл бұрын

Atari 2600 was so primitive. It makes NES so powerful in comparison.

@alexandr3891 Жыл бұрын

Voooooo Mappy =)

@merubin_t2278 Жыл бұрын

Mega Man the best with Mappy 🤩

@gatocatcat Жыл бұрын

i always thought the Original Donkey Kong for atari 2600 could be much better but they made a bad port.

@iplaystudiosoc Жыл бұрын

mom can we have super mario bros classic at home? no we have super mario bros classic at home

@mcasias33 Жыл бұрын

These would've made someone rich 40 years ago.

@pacario9625 Жыл бұрын

The Mega Man game is cool, but if it can't be played on actual hardware, its existence is kind of pointless.

@merlinhacker_yt3725 Жыл бұрын

eso esta echo de la china

@Wasabialt Жыл бұрын

Mega Man 2 is not an Atari 2600 game, it's a game that pretends to be.

@JoelBourg Жыл бұрын

Donkey Kong looks the best, while Mega Man sounds the best.

@the-NightStar Жыл бұрын

the Mega Man 2 one was fake. it's not running on an Atari

@unknown_guy5366 Жыл бұрын

Mappy sounds the best. (It runs on a real console.)

@alfombracitario Жыл бұрын

I had lower expectations Zippy

@UnusualShy Жыл бұрын

Son los mismos juegos de siempre pero hecho con menos ganas, ni creo que funcionen en la dicha consola

@kingwillsadventures2217 Жыл бұрын

MARIO

@uhhh_adam Жыл бұрын

I think Halo is the best Atari 2600 game

@michelmoroni9865 Жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: Zippy the Porcupine is an Atari Homebrew of Sonic the Hedgehog

@sweetpataterz8738 Жыл бұрын

Wow you blew my freaking mind it’s almost like that’s the entire point of the video!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

@Bro1985_Animations Жыл бұрын

Oh hell nah what happend to sonic to this Ohio sonic

@ClunkerSlim Жыл бұрын

I'm calling bullshit on this. There's no way most of these are running on 2600 hardware without significant help.

@Retromantra Жыл бұрын

Links are in the description, except the Megaman, rest are on 2600, thanks

@The_Real_DCT Жыл бұрын

You would be shocked at what modern coders can get out of ancient hardware. Hell someone pulled off AD&D Eye of the Beholder on the C64 as well as the Master System/Game gear version of Sonic 1, both run on actual hardware. Just advancements in coding techniques and access to larger storage in the case of Atari homebrews. I think Donkey Kong VCS uses a 24 or 30k cart which wasn't available then or wasn't cost effective

@litjellyfish Жыл бұрын

@@The_Real_DCT true still C64 was really powerful so like you say with greater storage (and also don’t forgot memory expansions) a lot nice can ge done. Still I find the pushing of 2600 more impressive as it’s not just storage. It basically have so little in hardware to play with

@Dwedit Жыл бұрын

The Mario and Sonic games have added RAM in the cartridge, and use bank switching to allow a bigger ROM size. Other than that, it's not doing anything that violates what an Atari 2600 can do.

@the-NightStar Жыл бұрын

Then you're an idiot becuase these (except Mega Man 2) are all real.