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There are very good points on Zelda 2 and Friday the 13th Both of these we rented for the weekend and of course you never got the manuals when you rented the games. Friday the 13th my brother and I figured some of it out and Zelda 2 took quite the hot minute to get our bearings as well. Without the manuals the all these games seem almost inpossible

Freeway seemed like it would have been a blast playing with freinds

I spent many evenings at my freinds house playing Air Sea Battle on his Atari it was good times. although in my kid brain I could never understand what the giant smiley faces were until I realized it was just a shooting gallery

Frogs and Flies and River Raid are in my top 10 Atari games I owned ua-cam.com/video/vKYJJmwBCbc/v-deo.html Jungle Hunt and Berzerk I just reviewed in Volume 3 ua-cam.com/video/zLSC09neav0/v-deo.html I havent had the honor of playing Fishing Derby yet I will check it out

Several of these I have reviewed in Your Top 10 Atari games series Vol 1,2 and 3

I will add that one to the list!

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Thanks for pointing out the new addition to Berzerk It's pretty cool that Atari is re-releasing these with enhanced features that they could not do originally but with advancementd in chip capacity and technology they can finally do things like add the voices and such.

Thank you! I am glad to have sent you on path of fond memories. I was glad to also have a chance to play all these game everyone was suggesting in the comments. Many of them I'd never even played before. So it was quite the treat to discover their brillance for the first time.

Several of these games that was suggested to me by many of the cemmenters really thew me for a loop as most of these games I had never seen before. Solaris just seems other worldly on the Atari as if it is from another system

Thank you! I perticulary love all the review videos you have done

Yes, It was recorded in 4:3 in DOS then upscaled to 16:9 and cropped to fit the 1080p so it is viewable in the video and not a tiny square in the middle of the video

It's amazong how much detail they could get into those ansi artworks 16colo.rs/ this is a great place that has archived many of the ansi works

I only ever remember beating I once as a kid But that never stopped me form playing over and over again My brother and I would see who could aggravate the spider the closest without being killed

Thanks for the comment! A while back I did an off the cuff top 10 video of Atari games that I owned and not a review of the top 10 best Atari Games. It took off and I got an amazing amount of comments of everyone telling me what their favorites were So I have been doing a video series about the many games people recommended. My favorite 10 I owned was Frogs and Flies, Atlantis, Frogger, Maze Craze, Pitfall!, Adventure, Combat, E.T., Raiders of the lost ark, and River Raid I just released the 2nd Volume yesterday I am glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you will enjoy my others as well

You're welcome. I quite enjoyed playing it !

It goes to show it's not always about the looks but the game play

I imagine i would have been talked about on the playground at school. I found it to be a very intense game it's a shame I never played it until this video

Thanks! Bumper bash I think was a Canadian Atari game with a limited release it maybe very hard to find Arcades anymore are not what they used to be. Most newer arcades are just ticket redemption type of phone app games. I'm not saying they are bad but it misses some the of majesty the 70, 80's and 90's arcade games. There was a really cool Arcade at Indiana Beach but the last time I was there almost all the old games were gone. It was very sad as well. One of my bucket list items is to go to The Galloping Ghost Arcade in Chicago you pay for entry and everything is on free play

I did see some photos of the Video Pinball you are talking about it's a pretty cool unit and to think it was the forerunner of all those plug and play games. We didn't have any pinball games at any of the local places but they did have a US Marshal Mechanical shooting game my brother and I played at the laundromat all the time. As far as I can tell Bumper Bash was a Canadian Atari game and it maybe very rare to find a copy. I had a C64 but I didn't have David's Midnight Magic and that is a shame as well

Cthugha was a great comfort during my long study hours at college. Later in life I used a similar software in windows it think it was the Psychedelic Screen Saver but for the life of me I cant remember for sure. I used to run it for a local heavy metal band piping it out from the TV out on my video card and used an old VCR to pump the signal to several old TV sets I had all over the stage including 2 large projection TV's they used as the backdrop. I ran a microphone to one of the speakers and used the audio to drive the visuals. It was one of my favorite things to do and everyone loved it. When they took a break for the set I ran multiple ads on the screen that also got visualized for their Website I ran and CDs for sale and their next gigs, etc. It seemed pretty forerunning to stuff that is now common place at gig's and concerts. The bar owner decided to start doing the same thing and added their own ads to the big TV's as well. It was pretty good times back in the day. I did the visuals for this and also with the use of my first Digital camera I also use to do live wedding slideshows using Play Inc's Gizmo's 98 slideshow software the forerunner to Proshow Gold to make an on the fly video presentation I got to see a live presentation of Gismo's 98 at Comdex in Chicago and it was presented by non other than Kiki Stockhammer I scanned the bride and groom's pics of growing up and then I took photos during the ceremony and added them to the slideshow for the reception. everyone was flabbergasted how I was able to do it but with the new tech it was becoming very easy to do these things and again its now commonplace Funny how many of these things we grew up with have become incorporated in everything that is used today

I was fortunate enough to have played a Baby Pacman arcade sometime back. It's a pretty bold hybrid of a pinball/Arcade game especially for how old it is. The pinball game Safecracker was similar to Baby Pacman in the aspect that once you broke inside the bank you then played a "board game" on the backglass to try and get into the vault. it was one of my favorites the late 90's ~00's. I went to a similar place in Columbus, OH called Level One Bar & Arcade. All the arcades was set on free play or had a button to add quarters and all the pinball machines was .25 to play. One of the things on my bucket list is visiting Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL. The Arcade is $25 to enter and play all day with almost 900 arcade games on free play including a few prototype arcade games such as Primal Rage II.

Yes, you are correct on this. In my defense I really didn't script this video I did it off the cuff as I said at the start of the video and I was trying to remember everything from when I played all these games as a kid since I really hadn't done it since the mid 80's. I was trying to rack my brain while talking and I think Atlantis 2 popped in there instead of Cosmic Ark. I also messed up on maze craze as well. I said the cops were running around the maze instead of the robbers :(

@@TheDI No worries! It takes a lot to make these videos and we all love watching them.

it's all good I took it as good constructive criticism and was being more hard on myself :)

It was something else for it's time. There was a Chicagoland area BBS that had a RIP front end and I download RIPTerm to use it and it took forever to download and cache the sound effects and the image files. The main menu was a graveyard and flashes of lightning would crack in the background and play a thunderclap sound effect. All the tombstones were different menus for the board. I only had a 14.4 modem and it took a long time to do anything on the ripboard so I abandoned it and went back the Ansi.

I was mostly right about that statement. I forgot that the A-B difficulty switch meant (A)dvanced and (B)eginner instead of A being standard and B being Harder. But the rest was dead on. Game 1 was whole hog, Game 2 was FBI and Elliott only and Game 3 was Elliott only. So unlike Adventure where Game 1 was the easiest ET started out with the hardest. I think the logic was that they wanted you to have the "Full" ET experience . I have always said that ET was not as bad as everyone made it out. Yes the pit pixel perfect collision could get annoying but the game was different every time you played. That in it's self was gold to me that I didn't have the game memorized and could beat in in 4 mins like I could in Game 1 of Adventure. Many of the comments left on this video pretty much are in support of ET not being a bad game. Some people state they still don't like the game but that facts about it's short development time and such gave them different view about the game. And then there are the people that no matter what is said they hate it into the ground. That is fine with me because we are not all alike and that is what makes us human.

that are many other Atari games that deserve the worst game title but it mostly comes from the Game crash and bad decisions from Atari and ET was square in the middle of all of that

It was a late release (red box) in 1986.

Apple II and C64 also had Midnight Magic. It's a shame I never got to play that as I believe both my Atari and my C64 was taken out when a bolt of lightning struck our house and fried many electronics in the house in 1985 :( We ended up with a NES as a replacement

yeah, that increased your score by a boat ton!

Thanks! This was an early video of mine Funny you mentioned trying to find these I saw 1 on eBay and I think it was for jokey Smurf when I did the video but there is quite the void of any info on these cards or anywhere to pick them up which is sad

@@TheDIthanks for the quick reply, man! yeah, they indeed are super difficult to find. i hoped you might have a lead 😁👊🏻! but it is what it is. will keep looking!

I had only ever beat Raiders once as a kid. I'd come close but I'd catch my parachute on the tree branch trying to get into the cave. You know just like it happened in the movie :)

Many Manuals ad hint sections in them to give you clues about what to do. Raiders had many sections to it about the game play

I never saw it or played it but it's not the first time that game has come up in the comments

It was a great find indeed. It was so awesome to play it with the paddles and I easily increased my score. Another poster @jeremiahthomas8140 said Nukey Shay had passed away.

I never got to play Yar's until I got the Atari plug n play controller and it was a very good game

@@TheDIRunning it dosbox sounds convenient. I used dosbox to run the control.exe for Pit 3.6 when I was trying to set it up a local synchronet BBS... but I didn't get the configuration right (even following the Synchronet instructions). Based on your comment, I also tried running the pit.exe directly with d-fend reloaded, adding a dorinfo1.def file type from Synchronet's example docs, placed in the game directory, but no dice there either. I'm just really fuzzy on what the pit.exe requires to run.

@@TheDI I've only played Video Pinball. I was just looking at adding Midnight Magic to the collection CIB. This off-topic from pinball, but you mentioned your dad's 286 PC. I had an IBM PS2 50Z with the 286 chip and I was still using it in engineering school around 1992 (I skipped the 386 era). We had to write code from scratch in a fluid dynamics course to model fluid flow and performance of nozzle. The program took over 23 hours to run on the 286. I happened to get a Zeos 486 via mail order, and the code ran in less than 17 minutes! All of my friends wanted to borrow my PC.

Never got the chance to play Demon Attack back in the day but it is a pretty great game. Defender was a pretty good port of the arcade on the 2600