All 104 Games and Things We Know About Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

[@Wasabialt]

Gameplay video kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJ6ch3xoiahlZpY

[@JayCagigas]

Where are Jungle hunt, Time pilot, RiverRaiders, Phoenix and Pitfall for the atari 5200???

[@dylanmckeon6897]

Regarding Pitfall, blame Activision. They probably didn’t license the game. For Atari 50… 😢

[@uhrsker]

Left off one of the greatest arcade games ever in Battlezone.

[@Fungib1e]

Unfortunately Atari sold that IP away.

[@UndeadSniper5587]

I am so glad they finally added food fight to an atari collection, the most underrated atari game ever and isn't included in any of these game collections but was finally acknowledged here, may consider getting this in the future!

[@Adzcantsing]

One of my personal favourites. Food fight is actually on the evercade console/handheld atari cartridge sadly doesn't save your high score.

[@ssdkilla]

I used to play food fight all the time the game is complete trash all you do is go around and eat food that's all you do you eat food that's the whole game you have a little mouth and you eat food that's all you do.

[@Adzcantsing]

@@ssdkilla each to there own. Most games in 80s and 90s where repetive.

[@JTCT371]

Just bought this and I think I will love every second of it

[@CoreyDehMan]

I freaking SCREAMED when I saw AirWorld. Finally… swordquest can be completed

[@TheCoopsCorner]

This is a rather iffy update to what's already out there with Atari Vault. Sure, it's nice to see some different games for the 7800, the 8-bit family, the Lynx and the Jaguar, but even their selection isn't that great. What I want to know is, where are all of the arcade games that weren't already on countless other compilations? Where's Vindicators? Joust 1 + 2? Xybots? Hard Drivin' and Race Drivin'? Stun Runner? Super Sprint? Gauntlet 1 + 2? Kangaroo? Road Blasters? Paperboy? I mean, how many times do we need new releases of the same vector games? I love them, but c'mon...

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Unfortunately, Atari's arcade division became a separate company. They'd need to negotiate for the rights. And considering those rights seem to be currently held by Warner (through their purchase of Midway), and there's an unfortunate history between those two companies? (Warner's greed was a large part of what created the 80's crash.)

[@the-NightStar]

All of those things that you mentioned, they don't have the rights to

[@maforo85]

Stun Runner 😢😢. Such a beautiful game. A masterpiece. One of my great childhood memories.

[@bouwmr]

Looks great and I'll most definitely buy this, BUT ... can we add more games ourselves?

[@koobsmooth]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@mpicewe3023]

Not gonna lie I wish ET was included as the same way a lot of us love to watch awful movies that are so bad that they’re actually fun to watch I’d love to see if this is the case with ET

[@525Lines]

actually, yeah. Given the games were a few kilobytes each, you think they'd throw in some third party public domain shovelware games in there.

[@1blktalon]

I wish they included Alien vs Predator from the Jaugar. Just noticed how bad I spelled Jaguar.

[@Adzcantsing]

All down to licensing

[@1blktalon]

@@Adzcantsing Yes. A remake would be good to see.

[@guilitogamer]

Oh I forgot about that one. Played it for a long time

[@johngumbar5762]

Where's River raid???

[@literallyunderrated]

I know its because they don’t have the rights but its just hard to tell Ataris history without anything from Activision. They made some of the best games for the 2600.

[@philkenseben]

Wow basic math is included! I'm sold!!

[@Wasabialt]

LOL

[@WarioSaysSo]

I think they should have brought in MORE games from the Atari Jaguar - As that is the sustem most Atari curious players have not been to customed to. Like; - Attack of the Mutant Penguins - Kasumi Ninja - Alien vs Predator - Brutal Sports Football - Zool 2 - Blue Lightning These games would have been a blast here and 4 of these 6 for example was published by Atari, so yeah it could be done! Atari "Do the math!"

[@TripleEye_Josh]

Yeah, it's weird how many 2600 games are in here when there are already a million 2600 complications. They should have focused more on the 5200, 7800, and Jaguar.

[@sega-megadeth1276]

I also think they should include their arcade games from 1984 and after, like Guantlet, Paperboy, Marble Madness, Primal Rage, Xybots, and S.T.U.N. Runner.

[@WarioSaysSo]

@@TripleEye_Josh I fully agree!

[@WarioSaysSo]

@@sega-megadeth1276 Fully agree!!!

[@WarioSaysSo]

@@sega-megadeth1276 aGREE!!!

[@UltimaHolyFlare]

I'm excited to get this. My hope is maybe they'll turn this into a series and add more console and arcade gems that aren't on previous compilations, like Gauntlet arcade, Midnight Mutants 7800, and the 2000 series of Jaguar games. Maybe they can even tap into the fantastic Atari Homebrew community like AtariAge, GoodDeal Games, and Packrat games.

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

The one gripe I have is that there are a lot of repeats but other than that it’s a really good collection

[@davidf.cavalhiereaffonso1669]

Parabéns pelo vídeo, muito bom bem explicado

[@mpicewe3023]

If you ever told me a game many decades old is the number one game I’m waiting for I’d say you’re crazy but I cannot wait for this game to come out. It’s a treasure

[@yumsundae419]

What an incredible collection

[@wmscott1975]

No classics like Pitfall,Berzerk,Superman? ☹️

[@Wasabialt]

Atari does not own the rights to these games.

[@kitestar]

I used to think nothing of Atari games for their simplistic game designs until fairly recently

[@RGGeek]

Yeah, simplistic to modern eyes, but it's funny to think back then they were pushing the limits of that day's tech!

[@melissawickersham9912]

I expect to see a documentary series released about Atari and about other video game companies that followed in Atari’s footsteps.

[@rushmore3927]

The title says 104 games and the summary at beginning says 103.

[@Wasabialt]

Oops!

[@melissawickersham9912]

Incredible story. Do we expect to see this Atari documentary released worldwide on several platforms?

[@magedmohammed8674]

the sounds bring back sooooooo many memories, it feels like am living in the past

[@Shanghai_pierce]

Surprised Blue Lightning isn't in this collection.

[@jonrevere7446]

Is pit fighter the arcade version?

[@SallyMangos]

Why do you guys hate Enduro?🥺

[@kurtrein6019]

No Activision games are included, unfortunately. Enduro was awesome.

[@jmit1970]

Warbirds is not on my physical switch copy. Is it a glitch?

[@Wasabialt]

Atari had said on Twitter that Warbirds would be on the Atari 50... due to some problems with IP (Intellectual property) Warbirds cannot be on the Atari 50.

[@joebabe302]

I’m definitely buying this but how in the world did they leave out Atari 5200 Baseball which was the best Baseball game ever back then! My Intellivision friends were so jealous!! Lol Also where’s Countermeasure?? That’s a great 5200 tank game worlds ahead of 2600 Combat obviously!

[@shorerocks]

Thank you for this overview. I was in doubt if I should buy it, and now I know, that the 2, 3 games I would interested in playing are not worth it. Because I realized, that +35 years later, I would not go beyond playing 10, 15 min. And then be done. I mean, for a much lower price, I might grab it. But as of now, nope.

[@ZacharyDietze]

I really wished they included Tempest 3000 as part of the "new games" since there's no way to play that game on modern systems without emulation and piracy, but at least the original and 2000 are here.

[@aledorta3796]

Dónde está River Raid?

[@Wasabialt]

Atari Corporation no es propietaria de River Raid.

[@mpicewe3023]

I wish they could’ve had the Atari boxing game where you see the above the ring view of a head and two arms for each fighter. That was a lot of fun as was the skiing game. Love missile command and asteroids etc. but we really need five different versions of each??

[@MarcGameplays]

Does this Atari collection work on Linux?

[@boberminion6043]

отличное видео ! спасибо

[@pablomarcelmx]

what music is playing at 13:00?

[@Wasabialt]

I did not understand your question. But it's a print of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration in the Atari 2600 section.

[@pablomarcelmx]

question was about the music

[@Wasabialt]

@@pablomarcelmx kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYSTqWienL50rLs

[@pablomarcelmx]

Fabulous!

[@turret72]

Will be looking to get this. Is it available on the new VCS?

[@edponpon]

Ahh the memories I had as a kid from the 70's playing these. Very archaic by today's standards, but required you to actually have skills to play.

[@alm5966]

Tempest. Greatest arcade shooter ever invented.

[@timmadone8930]

I have a soft spot for vector graphics, so "Tempest" is on my list as one of the best. My favorite vector shooter though has to be "Zektor". But there are so many... "Eliminator" "Tac/Scan" "Star Castle" "Cosmic Chasm" "Space Duel" "Space Fury" "Qix" "Star Trek" "Star Wars", the list goes on. It would certainly be nice to have them all in 1 physical collection all remastered in HD, but the licenses would be an issue. At least "Tempest" should look really good in this new collection.

[@alm5966]

@@timmadone8930 Star Castle was a favourite too...I can still hear that sound when you cracked the barriers and that huge missile came your way!

[@Exacerbate42]

I wish Xybots and Steel Talons were included. I realize that many games came from third parties, but there are many games missing that are from Atari. Are they being saved for the “Atari 100: The Anniversary Celebration”?

[@Rudy_Nuff]

Does anyone remember the name of the game where you were in a spaceship and had to run around outside the spaceship collecting jewels before some kind of monster got you ? I think it was a dragon but can’t remember 🤔.

[@Wasabialt]

System?

[@Rudy_Nuff]

@@Wasabialt hi 👋 Thanks for replying. I’m sorry I really don’t know what system . I used to play it with my sister , as well as our other favourite Frostbite ( if that helps with the timeline?) . They were two of our favourites because we’d laugh at each other panicking when we were about to get caught by something lol . I’m sure it referenced the jewels in someway. Maybe it had Treasure in it’s title ? It’s so annoying when you can see the game clearly in your mind but it won’t tell you what it was called grrr! 😆.

[@Wasabialt]

@@Rudy_Nuff Frostbite is an Atari 2600 game, so I thought your game might be Dragon Treasure/Dragonfire. But Dragon Treasure doesn't have a ship, so could you give more details about the graphics and what year or so did you play? (Other details too if you remember).

[@gregorycritch2129]

I can understand the nostalgia if you grew up on this stuff (I didn't play games until the NES and early Windows 96 PC stuff like Doom and Lemmings) but most of the games look pretty terrible tbh I don't think most of them would be worth playing today really. Are any of the games any good?

[@zirconviper]

Will this have a save and rewind feature?

[@Wasabialt]

Save - Yes Rewind - No

[@zirconviper]

@@Wasabialt I'm cool with the save feature.

[@krisztiankiraly668]

Where is the River Raid???

[@teddym2808]

I have so many of these already in the previous Atari collection + DLC, I'd only be paying for the Jag and 7200 games so for me at least, it's too expensive. I mean it's 2022 and they couldn't put some of their more modern arcade games, we still get all those old ones? How about road blasters, road riot, stun runner, things like that?

[@525Lines]

All right. I'd buy this just for Gravitar.

[@ronaldthepeculiar1111]

where did you learn to fly lol

[@levimedina4569]

Will dragon ball z sagas be in the game?, I played that game when I was a little kid.

[@otaviohenriqueribeiroxavie7769]

Oh yeah! Basic math!!! The best game of all time, i’d buy this only because of this legend

[@briansheil9763]

I can't wait to grab this one.

[@PatrickBuckley-ol2ok]

No AVP on jaguar

[@mamo5613]

Pitfall??

[@paulreese7788]

Looks great albeit I have all the previous compilations and the Atari X and 9 but will buy this for the 800 and jaguar games as well as lynx. For all asking for space invaders etc there would be licensing issues for games on properties like Namco, Taito, Nintendo, stern, etc that would make it problematic to most likely get for a compilation.

[@jamessullivan8300]

As far as Space Invaders goes. I have an iiRcade and they just added Space Invaders. You can even have it in color too.

[@jsrrrmg]

ugh!! where is the love for Moon Patrol!

[@timmadone8930]

Well that wouldn't be included in this collection as it was from Williams. But I do hear you on the lack of love for the game. I believe the last time it was released to a home console was on a arcade collection for the original Playstation, although the Dreamcast version ( same collection ) might have proceeded it. There are so many arcade games I wish would get re-released to modern consoles. In the meantime at least we have MAME & Pandora's Box.

[@muffinboymcgee7411]

Atari doesn't own the rights to Moon Patrol. It was originally an Irem arcade game, so I think Granzella owns it now. Either way, Moon Patrol actually is available on Switch and PS4 as an Arcade Archives release.

[@TomMannCenturia]

Over 90 variants of Breakout, Missile Command and Asteroids included.....

[@ZEKESPILLEDINKMUSIC]

This is interactive history. Also, thank God Atari didn't add E.T. for the 2600 for this collection.

[@IonicHyperspace]

I don’t think they would be able to anyway.

[@ginormousaurus8394]

I owned E.T. as a kid. In my opinion there were worse games for the Atari 2600. E.T. had good graphics for an Atari 2600 game, made references to scenes from the movie, and had a goal besides going for a high score. However, you have to read the instruction manual before you play the game. If you don't you'll be confused about what to do.

[@trcsonic]

My childhood is here.

[@IaconDawnshire]

Shame they couldn't get Activision 2600 games on their and Demon Attack. Yes I know they don't own the rights but would be nice if they could get em.

[@svenkruse3986]

Frostbit ?

[@Wasabialt]

Only Atari Corp IPs.

[@maikelpachanga4448]

Si tiene todas las opciones es de tanks va estar bueno. Falto kabbom Keystone keppers Pitfall 1 y 2 Bobby go home Golf Enduro y muchos mas

[@sega-megadeth1276]

This lineup is kind of a mixed bag so far. I want to see them add a lot more games that aren't just pre-1984 arcade and 2600 games.

[@Wasabialt]

Atari only has rights to pre-1984 games because it's before the purchase of Atari.

[@eshep71]

Polybius?

[@timmadone8930]

I'll be getting this for sure...well...that is if it gets a physical release. No digital-only games for me thank you. Anyway I'm happy to see that some new games have been added that weren't on any previous collections. I do wish however that the home-brewed 2600 version of "Star Castle" would have been included as well as the PSP "evolved" versions of "Pong" "Super Breakout" "Asteroids". Now if only SEGA would release something like this but focus mainly on their coin-op arcade library. I'd love to play 4-player "Eliminator" once again. :) :)

[@ogsegasteve9430]

Yup...#PhysicalOrFO

[@vircentti]

Your lame digital is the future physical is stupid af

[@lydveldid5500]

Not Bobby is going Home or Pittfal :(

[@wilsondamique9769]

My only gripe is that it doesn’t include avalanche other than that this is just a masterpiece

[@blatherskite3009]

The arcade version of Avalanche is included in Atari Flashback Classics Vol.3

[@moppetgirl8831]

I'm spending all my Saturday off playing atari 50th anniversary

[@atlasandkittycat]

No Pacman or Space Invaders smh

[@mpicewe3023]

Lunar Landing alone is worth price even though I already have the Arcade from that company that makes them for homes for like $200

[@matthewkeating6970]

Major havoc was a great game.

[@525Lines]

A great one.

[@Nikademus1969]

Yet another Atari collection that ignores their late 80's/early 90's arcade games. I was really hoping this collection would have games like Blasteroids, Vindicators, Xybots, and 720, but noooooooo gotta have the same games over and over again. I will give them credit for including some black and white games other than Pong tho, have not seen that firetruck game since I was a kid

[@the-NightStar]

They didn't "ignore" it, they don't have the rights anymore.

[@Nikademus1969]

@@the-NightStar which is a shame, because they put out some damn fine games during that time.

[@jimwright4163]

Pity the arcade Star Wars isn’t on here. That was done by Atari.

[@the-NightStar]

@panicman10 Licence

[@jumbosinbad360]

Take my money! Worth it just for Jag emulation.

[@onlysublime]

it's a good sampler of Atari games. wish it had games from developers other than Atari as Activision had the best games out there. Also, even if you look at just Atari-produced games, there were lots of better games not included in this list. I guess it was due to licensing issues or technical issues (problem with the game running in the emulator?)

[@DaemionBlackFire]

I don't really have nostalgia glasses as I loathed the 2600 even as a child (terrible joysticks, terrible games)... but I will say this. It got me to play on Tandy and Commodore computers instead, which fueled my PC gaming obsession. So, thanks Atari for making me hate console gaming!

[@onlysublime]

wow! watching this video, game consoles didn't do these old games justice. vector games actually look like vector games (rather than seeing pixels). before, buying the Atari games on the OG Playstation didn't look that different from an Xbox 360 than from a PC with Nvidia 4090.

[@CaptainRufus]

Enough new games to a collection to get it but its still obviously missing quite a bit. Though things based on other ips were unlikely to ever be on such a thing anyhow.

[@clumaster]

What No ET???

[@MarkTheMorose]

Available in a landfill near you, now!

[@clumaster]

@@MarkTheMorose 😁

[@spock_elvis]

Battlezone? Star Wars???

[@the-NightStar]

Don't own the rights.

[@ramiabosrour5015]

Can I play

[@ricsw9303]

Honestly don't want to see this fail but aside from feelings of nostalgia I don't see many gamers getting this compilation. We already got the Atari Flashback compilation for the consoles a few years ago.🤔

[@ZEKESPILLEDINKMUSIC]

9:10-9:15 Oh, no...

[@terancephillips7193]

Yet another compilation without even the 2600 version of Space Invaders, no Pac Man, no Frogger - I could go on. Yes I know there are rights issues but seriously how can they call it 50 years without those titles.

[@segaseth]

I'm really excited for this but at the same time I just want a port of bezerk 😭😭

[@infernonine]

I wish the Atari lynx version of stun runner was on this

[@ViciousAlienKlown]

The Jaguar games could've been better. Cybermorph? Should've picked the sequel Battlemorph. No Aliens Vs Predator seems odd as well.

[@the-NightStar]

How is it odd that they don't add a game attached to a licnece they don't own?

[@everyone_knows_itsbutterst7808]

Still no Atari Arcade Star Wars or Superman on the 2600

[@AjayESharma]

5:35

[@InsaneWayne355]

It's too bad the Atari 50 game collection for consoles/PC doesn't have the 2600 Activision titles. The Atari 50 Flashback consoles has lots of the essential Activision 2600 games.

[@randomhuman19]

I noticed that too. Would there be a difference other than wanting people to buy both?

[@JohnDoe-wb7fc]

@@randomhuman19 it's because they have to pay to get those on the game. this atari 50 is just atari software which is pretty much crap games. i can't believe they are charging 30 bucks for this crap when they aren't even paying to add activision games and other 3rd party games which was pretty much the best games for the 2600

[@billyrapp7884]

Cool. But I already have entire Atari library

[@JoeyJoJoJoestarJuniorShabadoo]

Sucks that they don't have that weird Gauntlet game for the Lynx.

[@chriskutz7144]

They can't make Hard Drivin' and Race Drivin' ,but they can make Club Drive .🙄😒🤪

[@Yusei255]

For a collection not having titles such as Kung fu master river raid, or pitfall is a load of crap.

[@Keviel1]

Atari karts and the pimball one looks decent

[@525Lines]

Atari Karts must be the mother of all kart games.

[@okamikitsunegaming]

No Qbert at all

[@fatboyshortarms]

not atari

[@ssdkilla]

I don't know about you all but I'd rather just buy each individual game for like 99 cents each I don't want the whole collection. I only want berserk and they don't even have that so I'm pissed.

[@bryansteele832]

No Battlezone….No buy

[@MalcolmJames-sg3zg]

It's nice to see the old games But I think it's designed for people who likes to live in the past 🤪

[@andyauthor2007]

I'm kind of disappointed with the 2600, 7800, and Jaguar lineup.