Houston, we have an Atari!

You had ONE job, Amy! Haha

"You ever want to be an astronaut?"

I had this for the Atari 2600. It even came with two overlays for the console switches, one each for the 4 and 6 switch models. I could make it into space, even managing all the controls, but I never learned to follow the course and dock with the satellite, except in the easy mode, where it handled most of the hard stuff for you. What really threw me was how the Earth is always in the bottom of the window. Maybe it was a technical limitation (which was carried over to the other versions), but it was hard for me to visualize that the shuttle was twisting and turning on all the different axises, when the view out the windows never changed.

"Open the cargo bay doors" LOL!

The outfits and intro are perfection. 😂❤ Also, I “crashed” the shuttle at Space Academy. It was a moment.

OMG I was right there with you in the cockpit! AMAZING MISSION! No matter what happened Captain and Commander, Mission was successful! Well done. I am totally going to learn and play this game myself now. Looks amazing to play! And yes, my face is basically Amy's, but I'm going for it anyway! haha 10/10

I had that on the ZX Spectrum. Fantastic game but the real mission is so tough. I died so many times...

Ok now this was worth the two-week hiatus!!!! :)

Really funny seeing you two cosplaying as Astronauts, complete with Top Gun Aviator sunglasses LOL. Nice seeing the Commodore 64 getting love on your channel. I own Space Shuttle cartridges for both my C64 and Atari 2600. Like you mentioned both are very similar in gameplay, however IMHO the C64 has slighty better graphics and sounds.

Great video - and loved the "in theme" wardrobe. I had briefly played this on a friends 2600, but have never tried/seen the Atari 8 bit and C64 version, so that was interesting. My only other experience along this line was the Shuttle Simulator for the Coco (you knew that was coming, didn't you?). But it was written mostly in BASIC so it is a fair bit slower, although it did have some good bits (I of coursed liked that you had to use the Canadarm to bring the satellite into the shuttle). See you in less than a month!

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Enjoyed the video. Look forward to meeting the both of you at CoCoFest

Such a fun “game”! So freaking complicated, I love it 😃

There was an apocryphal story about this game that some kid figured out how to re-enter the atmosphere if the standard re-entry could not be achieved. Don't know how true this is.

I used to play project space station on the c64. You couldn't fail......however there were rewards for doing well. The launch was 3d and you just have to fly in the rings. If you do well, you are closer to the station. If you do poorly, you are no where near it. So it takes longer to take your pod to it. On the landing (which is much harder) the repair time is 28 days. The better you do, the shorter the time is. I think the best you can do is 3 days. The most fun part was actually building the space station itself.

Dogstranauts. Perfect! 🤣

You two make me laugh so much, great video, love the inflatable astronaut haha

Wow! Safe landing! great job!

Well, that was NASA's version of The Last Starfighter ruse. If you had mastered the game you would definitely be in the next space shuttle launch. Wait...