Atari Archive

[TrekMD]

I discovered this channel on You Tube by chance.  It covers Atari 2600 games in relatively short episodes.  In each video a brief history of the game being discussed is given.  I found these to be informative and fun to watch.  Here are three episodes of the Atari Archive which cover Combat, Air Sea Battle, and Video Olympics...

https://youtu.be/LNtI90yiOOU

https://youtu.be/0l0AQ5LuvQM

https://youtu.be/rie4hsUeDuA

[LYNXGUY]

WOW these videos are great, now I will be watching these as long as The Atari Archive keeps putting them on Youtube. . . . . . .

[TrekMD]

Glad you liked them.  I didn't post more as there had not been any reaction.  Here is the latest one...

https://youtu.be/QNk52A0dWto

[zapiy]

These videos are excellent. 

[TrekMD]

They sure are! 

[davyk]

Great info in that...but was something wrong with the 2600 footage capture ? The signposts aren't always visible in the footage in that port in this video.

[TrekMD]

Maybe he had an issue with whatever he was using to capture the video. I think this game has some flicker too that doesn't help.  I still say this game should be hacked and updated with improved car graphics. 

[davyk]

Ah!

The game must display the road and the objects on alternate frames. The persistence of vision we experience adds them together.

For footage sometimes emulating is easier.


It's a great port on the 2600. I never owned it in the day as I considered it too simplistic but I wish I had retrospectively. There are quite a few games like that! I may create a thread about it.

[TrekMD]

OK, this is an older episode but of a very important game to the 2600....

https://youtu.be/ad3TLYZOI-M

[TrekMD]

Next episode...

https://youtu.be/twnPnn_-Rm0

[davyk]

That gets a mention in my "games I wished I owned BITD" thread.

I remember the arcade game. The sound on it was turned way up and the sound of the clowns bouncing around could be heard half away around the arcade I used to visit. The version this arcade had a deeper bass sound for what is in this video - so it was some some of variant on the original I'm guessing -  and it became pretty much part of the atmosphere of the place

[TrekMD]

I don't think I've ever seen the arcade version of the game.  For me, Circus Atari was an "original" Atari game until many years later when I learned of the arcade version.

[TrekMD]

Next episode on Fishing Derby...

https://youtu.be/sY2eYPX2xe0

[TrekMD]

Here is the latest episode of Atari Archive.  This time the game covered is Activision's Dragster!

https://youtu.be/Uyp3v13FhCw

[TrekMD]

Here's episode 41...Activision's Boxing!

https://youtu.be/GWQVpuK3ZsA