We haven't had one in a hot minute I'm feeling nostalgic. Post about anything Atari from Computer Space to their 6th gen releases. I might be the only person in the world right now who wants to sit down and play Video Olympics for hours kek.
>>10863941Got a Gamedrive for the 7800 recently. The 7800 doesn't have a lot of games but many of the arcade ports are solid. Plus it's just cozy.
>>10863941I still have my 2600 hooked up, and I love it. My favorite games are Combat, Jungle Hunt, Pitfall, Space War, and Video Pinball. I have the port of Defender too and like playing it, although I hear the 5200 port is better.
I was playing Demon Attack a minute ago. Pretty fun.
Gremlins for 5200 is such a fantastic and addictive game. Shame we'll never see it in any modern Atari collection.
This is pretty neat and better than a licensed game based around a shitty HFCS filled drink should be.
>>10864283They could always just reskin it if they really wanted to.
>>10863941>I might be the only person in the world right now who wants to sit down and play Video Olympics for hoursThere's at least 2 of us.Also, top 100 Atari 2600 games chart.
>>10864561Expanded version of that chart.
>>10864196>Video PinballReally? Midnight Magic has so much better physics.
Atari might have been the greatest developer of all time. And the Atari 2600 is legitimately a top 10 all-time console.
I had a tough match of pong against the computer on the Video Olympics version. I ended up winning 21-20.
>>10863941>>10864572The next Atari Recharged should be Pong Recharged based on the Video Olympics version.
>>10863941I love Breakout. I've played it a lot the last 2 years. Good for flow state.>>10864571saved gif, thanks
Look at that beauty.
>>10863941>We haven't had one in a hot minuteshut the fuck up
Lucasfilm games on Atari 8-bit had a hot run:Rescue on Fractalus, Koronis Rift, BallBlazer, The Eidolon for me
my young mind was blown to pieces when I first saw I,Robot in the arcades when everything else around it was 2D and sprite based. it even made Star Wars arcade look dated. probably the defining moment when I'd follow Atari from then on
>>10865929Honestly I still can't wrap my head around the fact that it was made in the mid 80s. I'd totally expect it to be an early 90s game.
>>10864569I never played that one, I'll have to check it out.
I never played 2600 til maybe 2010 or so but goddamn if I don't love it. Here's all my games, there's definitely still a good handful I'd like to hunt down
>>10867592Nice.
There is one game I've been looking for, Necromancer, from the old Atari 400\800. It looks fun.
What are the best Atari emulators? I tried a couple way back in the day but could never get them to work
>>10868910For the 2600?
>>10864283I fucking hate how compromised retro collections can be thanks to licensing bullshit. Yes, I kind of understand how the most recent collection doesn't have Pitfall in it, for example, because it's owned by Activision but why the fuck couldn't they just come to some sort of agreement? What are they doing with the Pitfall IP (or Gremlins for that matter) that's so important getting some exposure and reminding people the older games exist is not interesting to them? If anything, you'd think they'd want these otherwise dead games out there in some way, especially if someone else is going to be doing the heavy lifting
>>10870119>the most recent collectionThe Atari 50th collection? Why would you expect anything other than 1st party from that?
>>10868910Stella is the ONLY thing anyone uses for the 2600. It works great. Try to find a complete ROM collection to go with it.
>>10870119Activision stuff is on those AtGames Flashback consoles (the "Gold" versions). Maybe they have some exclusivity deal with Activision.
Most underrated Activision game? For me it's Cosmic Commuter.
What pre-crash Atari game did you want ported to the 2600 that never got one?
>>10867592It’s honestly comforting that Atari games are so available. Either to collect or to emulate as even the most third world shithole can do it no problem
I’m not accusing op to be an Atari shill, but I’m letting everyone know they’re paying shills to astroturf on here again. You’d think they’d learn after the multitude of failed efforts.
Got my light sixer 2600 all set up for bedroom play. I just wish I could fix my Vader model that I modded a/v inputs on (I bought it broken but never got around to replacing the TIA chip until recently where I then put it in upside down because of course I did).
>>10875930Are you gonna shutdown the chink handheld containment threads? No? That's what I thought. Shill threads are containment threads. Let them shill on topic.
>>10875930>they’re paying shills to astroturf on here againWhat are you basing that on?
>>10867592for me, it's megamania
Atari has always sucked, and was only noteworthy for being the first game console that wasn't Playskool-tier garbage. Nintendo raised the bar and Atari never recovered. They were still trying to make golden age-style arcade games for the sodding Jaguar.
>>10878650>Atari has always suckedThey made some fantastic arcade games and that alone makes your "opinion" shit>>10875930>paying shills to astroturf on hereI could see other boards(like /tv) sure but why here and of all things to shill why on earth something dead like Atari?
>>10878851Namco mogged.
>>10878238Hello fellow man of culture
It's AI but this feeling right here is why Atari is my favorite retro system.Weekend nights in the basement after everyone else went to bed is a kino as it gets for gaming to me.
>>10880067What the fuck is that supposed to be on the screen?
>>10880165I dunno. I think it borked the reflection. This was a few months ago AI so it would probably do better now.
>>10864561truly a great home console
>>10880445OK, that would sort of make sense.
Favorite publisher on the 2600 that isn't Activision or Atari themselves?
>>10878650>Nintendo raised the baronly part of your post that isn't false
>>10882931Imagic
>>10882931Either Coleco or Parker Bros. Coleco has more of an edge for me because I like how the cartridges look (despite them being more fragile than other carts)
bumpI love PaperboyI call it "Work"
>>10886472I was going to correct you, but I looked it up and whatdoyouknow. I always thought that was Midway.
>>10879012>Namco better therefore Atari badGenius logic anon
>>10878650You must not be very old.The only thing on Jag I can think was golden age style was Tempest 2000, and it's actually pretty good and more like a revamp
>>10864185ah yes my favourite part of centipedethe hyper realistic lamp
>>10864571Atari color cycling was always absolute kino.
>>10864981Absolute banger. I want to make love to it. Used to rest my left hand along the side, there's two circular MIDI ports there and I'd just caress them with my fingertips or run my thumb over the heat grille on top and hear the WHRRRRP noise. I have too many memories of having to insert my finger into the disk drive and just barely hold the floppy up slightly to get a better read and the metal slat would go SCHLICK SCHLICK.
Is anyone else remotely aware Atari technically has a current gen system out?
>>10864185Don't miss out on modern homebrew like Rikki & Vikki or Crystal Quest.
>>10864736That's already kinda what Qomp 2 is
Why didn't stuff like this come out when it could've made a difference
>>10864561Should Klax be on the top 100? I could maybe replace Dragonfire with it.
>>10880165A poltergeist
Whoever was in charge of designing Atari consoles was a genius. They look modern even by today's standards imo.
>>10893992Atari had great looking hardware and THE best names for their consoles.
>>10864224Great game. One of the best console games of its generation.
The definition of soul.
>>10865929Why didn’t this game become more popular?
My Robot Tank cart died so I gotta settle for Battlezone now (Not complaining though Battlezone kicks ass) It's amazing they did a 3D world on the 2600 in the early 80s.
>>10897046Robot Tank is fucking mindblowing. Amazing that Activision was able to take Atari's game and make a blatant clone of it that was actually better than the game they were copying.
>>10895280No one cared beyond the graphics.
>>10882931Imagic is the obvious choice but for me personally it's 20th Century Fox. They weren't prolific and most of what they did was just license games from already established developers like Sirius but a good number of the games they put out on the 2600 are genuinely great and mostly forgotten.>Worm War 1Like River Raid but with a bit more of a strategy element as you can clear the screen by blowing up fuel tanks>Spacemaster X7Fast and frantic arcade action which has a perfect ramp up of challenge and some absolutely classic sound effects>Crash DiveQuality vertical shooter with some neat little parallax backgrounds>Mega ForceA fun take on Defender which plays much better than either of the official ports of Defender 1/2 or Chopper Command, plus you're on a flying motorcycle which is baller >Fast EddieBetter than the 2600 versions of Donkey Kong or most other single screen platformers on the system, pure arcade adrenaline>Fantastic VoyageNot anything groundbreaking but a fun horizontal shooter, gives Vanguard a run for its money>Crypts of ChaosKind of a proto dungeon crawler, one of the closest things to an RPG on the 2600>TurmoilEasily one of the best games on the whole system, fast and satisfying arcade action with really a really great risk/reward balance
>>10895280The machine used an incredibly expensive hall effect joystick which made it a very pricy cabinet. On top of that the stick was real tempermental and couldn't be swapped out for a regular stick. Add in that the game came out right before Atari was split and sold as two different companies and it ended up becoming a cabinet that didn't sell many units and the ones that did sell didn't stick around long in arcades.
>>10899068The Earth Dies Screaming isn't bad either.
