Arcade Game: Joust (1982 Williams)

[@MendelsonShape]

Mind if I stand on the left, Acererak?

[@Lymington214]

C e r t a i n l y

[@leticialemos2434]

THAT'S WHY I'M HERE!!!

[@manylittlefish693]

* - * ahhhhh

[@GriffinPhillis]

Niiiice, haha~ 💖

[@pietersfilms5171]

If you know you know

[@afoolsbabybear2266]

I am here cuz my dad showed me this and actually played the game. I never even heard of ready player one until I scrolled into the comments...

[@ckenthai]

That's awesome. I never heard of it before the book. You should read it. Every gamer should.

[@afoolsbabybear2266]

@Wenzenlao you replied to a comment I made while I was in my freshman year of high school!

[@azooreus]

@@ckenthai That book is terrible

[@flarestriker2005]

Only heard of this game because of Pixels back in 2015.

[@richkeeshan9757]

Forgotten how hysterical this game was... The sound effects crack me up

[@rvsb15]

you can give it a try if you want, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@001jetman]

I'm my mind that were way better lol

[@vegarosa69]

OMG! I can't believe you filmed this. I used to play this game A LOT when I was a kid. This is my first time seeing this game in 30+ yrs. Good old memories.

[@rascallyrabbit717]

same here

[@rvsb15]

you can give it a try if you want, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@MB2.0]

I used to play it when I was 10, 12 years ago. This game was still fire even then 😂😂😂

[@Lowkeychilldroid]

He used an emulator to capture the gameplay

[@sivask96]

I'm here for the copper key ! 😂

[@MausundMeer]

Please check out my in-depth review of the book, then. :) I would really appreciate it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4bYoH5_ipuCd6c

[@gammacentaury47]

I'm here because I want to see the video

[@TiagoSliachticas]

Me too

[@elnidodespring264]

X4

[@nesa9075]

I'm here for the nostalgia. I absolutely loved this game when I was a kid, it has taken me a whole day of googling similar things to "old bird games" to finally find it!

[@rvsb15]

you can give it a try if you want, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@broken1394]

I'm imagining googling Old bird games would be interesting!

[@MarcoAntonio-tb4gx]

Hahahah I understand you, when I was a kid I played a game about a construction site, for nostalgia I have been looking for it, but I have never found it. And I have used different keywords when doing tjf search

[@steveperuski5547]

I loved the ?,, basically pool Q ball you used for direction on the arcade version

[@alanmorris7669]

It's hard to believe we're all in our 50s now, and there are no more arcade game rooms. Arcades were our favorite hangout places. If I had all those quarters back, I'd be a rich man now. Lmao!

[@MattMcIrvin]

They used to be in every shopping mall! Nowadays, the arcades that do exist are full of silly redemption ticket games. But there are some old-school ones here and there. My current local favorite is Electric Avenue in Manchester, NH... I don't think they have a Joust though.

[@georgeshelton6281]

Alan Morris; like I've said it once before, nothing beats the good old days of the classic video arcade game machines. The very worse VG (video game) is called 'Mortal Combat.' Also 'Night Trap' is the same thing.

[@EDGar-wi6np]

I’m about to be be 40 and Although I come from a different generation of arcade gamers (80’s and 90’s) there was nothing like the arcade culture back in the 70’s (from what I’ve heard and seen) 80’s and 90’s. Back when console graphics were no where close to arcade perfect and pc gaming was reserved for white collared dads and nerds. Walking into arcade and seeing what games were crowded around and what rare jewels were lurking in the back of a arcades corner. I played this at a arcade called nickel city that had games that were free play. I played this every time I went to nickel city as well as the game that was next to this one (which happened to be Atari’s 720). I feel bad for today’s generation and that they will never know what it was like to be in a arcade, sometimes as late as 11pm on a Friday or Saturday night. It was a great time and we were lucky to experience it.

[@Quadrupliplex]

arcades still live, albeit inside bars now. the trend is to have an arcade bar. Just got back from one. Wish they had joust there though. I'm in my 30s and do remember growing up going to the arcade in the mall.

[@somebodyoncerolledme7211]

@@EDGar-wi6np Yeah born in '92 and totally missed the arcade era, whether the golden era or afterwards. It's just not the same experience playing these games on an emulator, a console they got ported to or even a mini arcade system. Just one of those things late 70's-80's kids had over 90's kids.

[@datacipher]

It’s a lot more enjoyable to watch somebody who can actually play the game and not rely on cheating.

[@GunninRebel55]

Oh my goodness the memories!!God bless the 80’s and God bless KZbin for allowing us a glimpse into our past to see how glorious it was. Salute to you for posting this!

[@mouse264]

boy do those sound effects bring back memories lol. i always loved the sound of the ostrich screeching to a halt!

[@tealeriver1499]

Im here because of the book READY PLAYER ONE.

[@erburu]

Me too! I'm loving it

[@ChasformerG2]

+Teale River You too? Awesome!

[@jonahst.hilaire7216]

me too lol

[@gerardoraitor]

Me too!

[@lukedd6756]

me too best boom!

[@WobblesandBean]

I just love the sound effect whenever the ostrich runs 💜

[@childfreesingleandatheist8899]

and when it's slowing or coming to a stop real fast; Like a car's screeching wheels,lol.

[@newportgss6566]

I recall I was going back and forth with another player setting the high score back in the early 80s I believe. I set one summer day aside to settle it. I planned it out so that I would maximize my time on the machine. I showed up at the arcade as it opened and played for 10 hours. I believe I left with 20,000,000 as the high score. I recall the manager of the arcade caught wind of my playtime as other folks were viewing my play. He came and talked to me and realized I was on his machine for ten hours on a quarter. The week after, I came in and my score was reset and the difficulty of the early stages was reset to the most difficult setting. Ah the memory’s of a childhood spent playing arcade games :).

[@jasoncorder5426]

When I was 12, in Marin County, I learned a glitch from this younger kid and one Saturday I played at a 7/11 in Fairfax on one quarter for 14 straight hours. The score I got was much higher than the one listed in Joystick mag at the time as the national high score. It was where, if you didn't move, once the pterodactyls come out, they fly right into your lance.

[@UtikaCollar]

I remember I loved this game so much as a child and when I was getting really good at it and leveling up, my dad came in and put a stop to it saying I was wasting too much time. I remember that vividly and ever since then I've held a grudge against him

[@GunninRebel55]

Lol that’s funny. You should call & tell him u forgive him for killing your Joust progress, dreams & aspirations. He’ll probably be like “Son I never knew u were jousting but I’m sorry.” 😂

[@zawezplays]

2:36 was that the bite of 87?

[@nananooknak]

As an avid gamer today, I am truly impressed. I loved this game for it's SFX and how unique it was. I never understood the mechanics until now 🤣

[@Cj_Hellectric]

I am here because of the book ready player number one. Cheers from Italy

[@josbird]

Easily my favorite arcade game. As someone who was born 17 years after it came out, I really appreciate the feeling of weight controlling the character gives you compared to most other classic arcade games.

[@THEGREATMAX]

I'm here because Joust is my absolute fucking favorite arcade game of all time~

[@rvsb15]

you can give it a try if you want, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@Chris-jo3nb]

I still remember where I was, back in the 80s, first time I saw it. Pure magic.

[@broken1394]

I played it a lot - favourite though?? So many good ones!

[@callmeizzy9785]

That was one of my favorite arcade games! Been looking for it in a retro app for years..

[@Super-650]

Hilarious game, best played with a friend. I'm laughing now remembering the frantic smashing of the "flap" button :)

[@yousefslimani99]

😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

[@DaRealPatrickP]

One of the best games ever .

[@pjherald6096]

That's the transporter sound effect i'm looking for! 2:16

[@babasemka]

I am here, because I know my games before reading that dumb book. After that as well.

[@cameronlavelle4855]

Baba Semka you want a medal or something?

[@babasemka]

The Indoraptor erm... No. If I wanted, I would've say so.

[@bdragonseven]

Fuck, just enjoy the fact that other people lived a similar life as you and actually wrote about to give light to such an amazing time. Instead of gloating about the years of life you wasted on video games.

[@iNathanLite]

Ignorant nerd

[@babasemka]

@@bdragonseven Fuck, just stop caring about youtube comments. rip

[@jazcon978]

Williams always had the best sound effects in their games including my next fav which was Defender

[@BronzeEleven]

Robotron 2084. Sound effects eargasm

[@rain5545]

they used some of the sound effects form robotron 2:47

[@mystifiedoni377]

This. I downloaded the SFX and they are perfectly crafted.

[@sansasteph]

Yep Defender and Tempest pole position too

[@bakedyournoodle8158]

@@mystifiedoni377 & how?

[@goose7617]

I had this on an old GBA cart that had an assortment of arcade games on it. This one really stuck with me and Im happy to know about its existence

[@DeepBarney]

Haha, same. I just got to thinking about that game today and had to look this up.

[@ThriveIntegration]

🤣You got a "NO Death Cheat Code"! Loved Joust. Thanks for sharing. Great memories.

[@888Winkler]

This game was one of my favorites as a kid playing it on a TV console with my friend.

[@jam-gw2fn]

I just started reading ready player one and now I'm here

[@alextuqueres7885]

Me too

[@jorgej.carias8938]

Same

[@georgeshelton6281]

Im still remembering the classic old video games news magazine, of the time when 'Joust' and 'Q-Bert' were both brand new brought into the arcades.

[@rvsb15]

you can give it a try if you want, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@rascallyrabbit717]

I loved this game as a 12 yr old..never had cheat option thou. best way to high score was to stay at the top and fly fly fly

[@HummaKavula-DontVoteForStupid]

I’m an old video game head from the 80s and I have to say Joust was just one of those games I didn’t get

[@ThisWeekInThe80s]

I loved this game! I dumped a ton of quarters into it! Awesome!

[@broken1394]

This was one of my go to's on an a Arcade visit - wish Arcade Archives or someone else would put oiut the Williams games officialy.

[@MrArcadia2009]

My God, I used to play this game.. I was just recently re-introduced to the name, because I had forgotten a very long time ago.

[@cthulhuhoops7538]

I always loved the sound effects in this game.

[@Rorschachqp]

I bought this on Gameboy Color. The translation for a lot of these old arcade games to GBC is pretty crisp! I also got Stargate and Spy Hunter.

[@MoonwalkerWorshiper]

Thanks to this game, Mario has a brother. It also probably inspired Balloon Fight for Nintendo.

[@Eli_Santin]

I had the chance to play a real Joust machine at a local arcade in my area. It was hard, but fun!

[@leowribeiro]

Is it me or this is actully NES's "Balloon Fight"?

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

Maybe both... I don't know

[@jamesholden4571]

I loved this game. I would walk into a place with this game where I had never been before, beat the all time high score, and walk out. I pissed off a lot of people LOL. This illustration of the game is nostalgic for me, but the player in this video should have lost at least fifty times. That ostrich seemed to be immortal LOL

[@heyimmajinbutregularsized9830]

I'm here because of Shang Tsung's friendship xD

[@cooldog1994]

I had the 2-in-1 gameboy port of this + defender as a kid around 1999 or so and I never knew how old the original was until today

[@Da1Dez]

I came here after not playing the game for over 10 years since last playing it on my gba sp. Fun little time killer when I was young, long before this ready player one stuff I'm hearing about

[@rvsb15]

you can give it a try if you want, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@MystLgnd]

Wait whaaa, this game got created by Williams Electronics ? We learn something new everyday, I love it, thanks for sharing ! 🥰

[@burgerrider7773]

Joust is a tough game. Only need a controller that is a 8 way joystick, and a botton. No reason to have a cheat on at all. Unless you have no skills at all. Oh wait. This person plays all games he uploads with cheats on.

[@BAKU2K2]

Burgerrider, You are right on Joust being a tough game, especially for someone who only played its sequel Joust 2, Survival of the Fittest, wich totally plays different then the original.

[@burgerrider7773]

I played it back in the day in the arcade. Stores would typically have a game set on one of the highest settings. But, arcades normally would have a game set on it's hardest setting. And, yes Joust was set on the hardest one. My typical game lasted me 45 seconds start to finish.

[@Kitties_are_pretty]

Why would you care if some KZbinr plays with cheats enabled in his videos? Does it upset you that there are people who aren't as good at video games as you? As far as I know this isn't a world record attempt so why would you care if that's how someone else does it somewhere?

[@danielalzate7456]

For win this game you just have to stand on the left

[@MattMcIrvin]

You only need a 2-way joystick!

[@acorahil]

Ready Player One first door key

[@christronius1724]

mauricio gomez ospina Same

[@MausundMeer]

Please check out my in-depth review of the book, then. :) I would really appreciate it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4bYoH5_ipuCd6c

[@grazz7865]

The person who created this game is very detailed (sound effects of the bird walking and skidding to a stop 😂😂). Reminds me of myself. Love it😃. Probably contributed to the games success. Impressive technology for early 80s.

[@sgt13echo]

I dumped so many quarters in into this arcade in the 80's. We also had JOUST on our ATARI 2600 & 5200. I'm surprised how many times he survived when he was below the NPC and got hit...

[@rvsb15]

you can give it a try if you want, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@paulwilson9281]

I just saw this in The A Team episode with the creature from the Black Lagoon play in a movie with Judy Landers

[@laurababyyy1]

Even with the limited amount of k of memory in the game, those are really great graphics.

[@mjowsey]

I loved this game. It was a rare one... I don't remember seeing more than two.

[@hero9402]

I have played this game and This game was one of my favorite games

[@StarfieldRailway]

This game was the greatest.

[@lenski1115]

My pizza parlor days hanging out with my best friend playing joust and asteroids great times I wished life could be more simpler again

[@Howzer1776]

Reading “ready player one” right now. Great book so far.

[@stepha7102]

Everyone is here from Ready Player One, but I’m here from the Smash Ultimate stage builder.

[@batcat2338]

This is my favorite GAME of all TIME

[@gabrielylouisy]

JUST NOSTALGIC.

[@alitlweird]

One of the greatest video games ever.

[@OceanChime]

My dad brings this game up literally anytime I talk about smash brothers

[@rvsb15]

tell him this game is available on the appStore! bet that will make him happy. the game is called JOUST. with a full stop

[@azooreus]

I guess I can see why.

[@Frankcastlepunisher74]

Released on my Birthday in 1982!

[@bryanekers3472]

That initial test graphic is a stereogram. If you stare at it long enough, you'll see a 3D rendering of your wasted youth.

[@batcat2338]

Ok, now we talk my childhood.

[@FaMKA]

i'm here because i used to play this when i was younger and i couldn't remember the name AT ALL. so thanks to ready player one, i can now die happily.

[@rvsb15]

not yet you can still play it on mobile now as it is available on the appStore, its called Joust

[@TAIL313]

Sound effects took me back to the 80s

[@ThePrayingMantis08]

im here because i used to play this game on gamespy arcade

[@tommyg4842]

i'm now imaging parzival and the lich hunched over playing this

[@nespik69]

What machine is that ? I was playing it on Atari 800XL, but it was not so colorfull ... I see, game console ...

[@tyshchenkoyevhen]

I used AI to find this information, but AI tends to be very inaccurate. So please, may you clarify the following information? The number FF06B5 is a hexadecimal value that represents the green dragon's character data in the game's memory. When you press the buttons on your controller, the game reads the input and changes the value of the character data to FF06B5. This tells the game to load the green dragon's character model and animations into memory. The combination of buttons is a specific sequence that the game's developers chose to use to trigger the cheat code. The buttons are pressed in a specific order because the game's memory is organized in a specific way. When the game reads the input from the controller, it looks for a specific pattern of button presses in a specific order. If it finds the pattern, it knows to change the value of the character data to FF06B5. It's important to note that the number FF06B5 and the combination of buttons are specific to the original Joust arcade game.

[@3373-g8z]

In the front of Winn-Dixie, 1983. Charlotte NC. AnP had Pole Position

[@garyg9311]

Anyone playing in 2024?

[@ClaireGreen-wo6ep]

You can legit see a character from this game in Wreck-It Ralph.

[@impureneighbour9792]

Joust will always be impossible for me to play. I just don't know how to make the knight's ostrich fly.

[@perkm0]

the machine i first played it on was broken so the joystick would only move in one direction, good times

[@georgethomas7040]

I named my dodrio as joust 15yrs back.

[@rvsb15]

you can give it a try if you want, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@kingkazma3246]

What if you went to Hell and this was it, just a bunch of medieval knights on top ostriches crashing against each other! 🤣

[@blu_otaku7063]

They had a joust arcade machine in the laundromat my mom and i used to go to and i played the shit out of this while we were there. I was 8 at the time. Later got gba cartridge with this robotron, sinister and defender. I only wanted it for joust lol

[@kg4boj]

Those are some real jive turkeys!

[@adamkorekach9936]

I’m here because of Graham Stephan’s $100,000 apartment remodel “Ceiling Jousts”

[@caseycognito2267]

What's up with the lava? I was always falling in there. 😬

[@kartheesjoseph8260]

Where can i download this game for Android?

[@designright1033]

It’s coming out on the AppStore 1st of February

[@rvsb15]

, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@alexbork4250]

This game refers to famous Shang Tsung Friendship from MK3. How they could know about MK3 in 1982? Unbelievable!

[@alrecks619]

Shang told them in his time travel.

[@ztevezen9434]

Why not focus on a pattern in the game

[@Jopo1226]

I'm here because it was mentioned on jeopardy twice.

[@rafaelcastro2591]

DUDE EVERYONE READING RPO IS HERE!!! So I wanted to see what Joust was like, and I feel its pretty much like Balloon Fight! Now Im ready to take the copper key

[@GoatOfSpades]

Goodbye, Sir Parzival.

[@hyperknux77]

Just realized this is very similar to Balloon Fight. Could be where the latter was inspired from.

[@azooreus]

Balloon Fight was inspired by Joust, yes. HAL, developers of Balloon Fight, did a Joust port for the NES as well. Wouldn't be surprised if they used the same engine.

[@Fminus14]

I'm here from Ready Player One, best book!

[@Judithoo]

Ready player one?

[@JOAKED]

Shang Tsung MK3 "FRIENSHIP".

[@constantinsturze4464]

i wish i was born 30 years earlier......

[@rvsb15]

you can give it a try if you want, this game is now available on the app Store, its called JOUST.

[@weverton4623]

entao foi por aqui que o parzival ganhou a chave de cobre?

[@anthonystevenson830]

I remember playing this on NES and I was born in 91

[@aink9106]

Left Siren 4:46

[@aink9106]

LOL 5:30

[@artyom1264]

Fun fact: this is the origin of the bite sound from fnaf 4

[@raidaiman6045]

i was reading Ready Player One and now here i am hsjahsn

[@Lowkeychilldroid]

You just scared me when you inserted a coin 😱😭😭😭😭

[@canaldemais]

Im here because of the book READY PLAYER ONE.

[@lukedd6756]

me too

[@PositivelyBrainwashed]

haha awesome, glad I'm not the only one

[@lukedd6756]

So its a nice book u should try it out Zero Cool

[@tksiftih]

Likewise

[@Jailbird82]

the book is awesome!