Atari 2600 Games Based on Movies | Friday Night Arcade

[@FridayNightArcade]

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated, but making KZbin videos while raising 6-month old twins is hard. Thanks for your patience guys.

[@manghariz2211]

Well Families are First,Good Sir. We are just happy to see you upload. Keep it up you Good sir

[@FNAFEDITS171]

Just discovered the channel and I’m addicted haha

[@dnice712]

gotten used to be being woken up right after you fall into a deep sleep? I certainly don't miss those days at all.

[@FridayNightArcade]

Eh, they're doing better than they were 4 months ago when we were on feedings every 2-3 hours lol. Down to one feeding overnight so that's not too bad.

[@DjDizzy216]

I have to work late tonight and am so happy to see a new video up! This really brightened up my long, work night. Thanks :)

[@GregsGameRoom]

Krull is one of my favorites. I remember the old Electronic Games Magazine review that wrote it had, "Beatifically articulated horses."

[@sandal_thong8631]

I got it out last summer and finally beat the 2nd level which has a tougher reverse spider web.

[@bluediamonddirector]

Nice to see you back! Love the content. I still have Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. and The Empire Strikes Back on my Atari and I still play them.

[@sandal_thong8631]

I think he did those in other videos like the first 2 in games with endings. Don’t remember if he did Porky’s and China Syndrome which people mentioned below.

[@NiiKEMAN]

Why do u play them still haha?? Get a modern console

[@bluediamonddirector]

@@NiiKEMAN I do have modern consoles as well. I just like to go back to the old ones some days.

[@classicmikecade]

Amazing job on this Aaron. Brings me back to my youth. I can't believe some of these I missed. It was REALLY tough back in the day. No reviews, no internet, if you never knew about the game then you never got a chance. Thanks so much and keep up the amazing work man!

[@SteveNorman]

Nice video. Thanks! That Ghostbusters port is so impressive. I think Alien’s a lot of fun too - definitely my favourite version of Pac-Man on there!

[@davidlevy706]

The _Ghostbusters_ port reminds me of those modern "demakes" that people create to prove that something is technically feasible on a vintage system. Having owned the Commodore 64 game as a child, I didn't bother to check out the Atari 2600 version (and never imagined that it came so close).

[@highscores8593]

Always love your videos if it's on 2600 or sierra games, it's right up my alley. Just beat SQ5 this morning b4 work. That said, you need to see Krull!

[@Asterra2]

Krull seems to be actually super faithful to the movie. Kind of ironic that it's one you haven't seen. Speaking of the first VHS tapes we owned... that's about as early as memories get for me, but I do recall that the parents adopted VHS really early and paid full price for Alien and Young Frankenstein, "full price" being $90 back then. I later realized this was probably what rental stores paid, with consumer purchases not yet on the radar. Those ended up being essentially the only tapes they ever bought. The way the character in King Kong flattens when he dies from falling reminded me of the 2600's Miner 2049er, so I just had to investigate. Although I can't find programming credits for Miner 2049er, they were published by the same entity (Tigervision) so it's a near certainty the same guy (Karl T. Olinger) was responsible. The character in both games moves ridiculously slowly as well, and looks about the same too. It was the same author. It's more than a _little_ ironic that King Kong actually takes a stab at reproducing Donkey Kong's BGM, while the official DK port has no music at all.

[@silverserpentor6710]

KRULL! My dad took me out of school to go see that in the theaters.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

the old blind man gives me the creeps...in fact the whole movie gives me the creeps!!

[@curbydinobot8633]

I remember these games, had most of them but you forgot Porky's, Black Hole, Halloween, Superman, Raiders of Lost Ark, Star Wars and Tron

[@jamesnoble8205]

If there was a Black Hole it had nothing to do with the criminally underrated Disney movie

[@matthewlane518]

Gremlins was the first VHS my family ever rented!

[@ItsRetroPlanet]

I'm so happy that I found you last year, that I caught up on all of your videos and just as soon as I finished your last one, this pops up for me. 11 hours later, but still worth it! Thank you so much, for everything you do. I hope that you do well with your kids!

[@FridayNightArcade]

Thank you so much for the kind words :)

[@alanbenson3104]

Ahhh! Memories! Thanks for this video, and please do some sequels, as there are quite a few more movies to video games. I did have Ghostbusters for the 2600, and I remember buying Krull from Toys R Us for a record low $2.99. And I had the disappointing 007 game. I remember seeing an ad for the 007 game, where there was a James Bond figure (who looked like Pitfall Harry without the hat) on top of a speeding train. Now THAT was the 007 game I wanted!

[@PuertoGeekan]

The Krull arcade version was pretty good. I'm not surprised the Atari port was good as well since it was built on a solid foundation. I played the James Bond game on ColecoVision and have fond memories of playing and beating that game. However I don't know if that's just my nostalgia talking; if I played it today it might be a different story! Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

[@zachmcclintock7431]

Yes!!!! Another FNA!!! You made my day Aaron!!! Hope all is well

[@zachmcclintock7431]

Would like for you to do Atari 2600 paddle control games (circus Atari is always good)

[@alkristopher]

Wasn't there a really infamous game starring an alien that visited Earth, got addicted to candy, fell into some pits, rode around on a bike, and assembled a machine that could call his home planet? I think it was called "Porky's".

[@FridayNightArcade]

Zing!

[@jamesnoble8205]

It was called The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down

[@GenXGrownUp]

What a great blast from the past! I have played all of these - either in my collection or borrowed from a friend back in the day. Plus, it appears that fatherhood has really helped you step up your dad-joke game!

[@mikemayberry7121]

Good to see you back! I think MASH would be a good game for the next episode about Atari movie games. It's actually really fun! Especially with two players!

[@Modern_Robot]

You'd think they'd have made King Kong a game like air combat where you're the biplane shooting King Kong off the Empire State Building, but nope, outright ripoff, ironic.

[@MediaArchiveMike]

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Porky's, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, E.T. and all of the Star Wars atari 2600 games, this could be the makings of a part 2 for you. You are welcome.

[@migueldias8546]

Thank you for this fun video and good luck with the twins!

[@pezjohnson]

Tron: Deadly Disc, best ever, yes it's repetitive, but captured the part of the movie perfectly. I played Ghostbusters obsessively, racking up tons on dollars by playing the game over and over. I also had MASH, which might have been based off the TV show, but that's based off of the movie. James Bond on the 5200 was more of a complete game. Great video. Thanks for making it.

[@sandal_thong8631]

I liked Tron at the arcade with it’s 4 levels: including combat, breakout and surround modes in one.

[@gabster85]

Dude, your videos are always great and appreciated. Cheers.

[@orinanime]

I highly recommend watching Krull!!! It's a great movie. And the game is pretty accurate to the plot, though leaving a lot out. Sort of. It's a sci-fi Fantasy movie (think Star Wars meets Excalibur). Featuring very young Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane as side characters. Prince Colwyn and Princess Lyssa are set to marry. When she's kidnapped by The Beasts knights (called Slayers). The Beast lives in The Black Fortress, which changes location every day. Which is why the secret location changes when the sun sets in the game. It's also fairly fitting that the Spider web is the hardest part of the game, because a trip to The Widow of the Web is definitely always fatal for someone. Colwyn teams up with wizards, rogues, a cyclops and other traveling companions (very D&D) to slay The Beast. He needs a magic weapon called The Glaive to fight his way through The Beast's inner sanctum and fight the Beast itself. The horses are "Fire Mares". Horses so fast that they set the ground ablaze and can temporarily fly. The only creatures fast enough to travel to the Black Fortress before it relocates.

[@haruruben]

The Krull and Fantasic Voyage are very impressive, that’s about as good as you could possibly make a game adaption. Surprising amount of game depth

[@AncientElectronics]

Billy just looks like a random bald old man in that Gremlins game.

[@MrTBoneSF]

Krull is impressively good game on the 2600. While most 2600 games require reading the manual to make sense of what is going on (and not reading the manual is why most newer gamers dismiss 2600 games as "unplayable" or "stupid"), Krull is the one game where I'd say seeing the movie it is based on is mandatory. The game really does follow the plot of the movie, so watching it gives proper context to all the gameplay. Watch the movie, then play the game again.

[@ProjectGeek1]

Having a coffee and FNA drops this. Happy Friday Folks! Love my some 2600 :D

[@stevew8513]

20th Century Fox had a bunch of B-movie based games, like The Earth Dies Screaming, M*A*S*H*, Flash Gordon, and Megaforce. Plus, Alligator People and Planet of the Apes that were completed but never released.

[@colinmcdonald2499]

Good call. But M*A*S*H was arguably a major release, not a B Movie

[@Emulous79]

James Bond 007 does have a cool effect with the helicopter spotlight. I'll give it that.

[@lennybrewster4673]

Atari was one of the first companies to grab movies licensing rights for games as much as possible. Unfortunately the devs were rarely given the time to really make them shine.

[@Coyotek4]

I'm amazed you were able to create such a video with no mention of either E.T. or Raiders of the Lost Art.

[@FridayNightArcade]

Well... I've technically covered both of those pretty in depth in another video although I may mention them again if I do a followup to this video.

[@colinmcdonald2499]

@@FridayNightArcade yup.. "2600 games that actually have endings" I think is your title. :)

[@matthewlane518]

Gremlins was the first movie on VHS I ever watched, except we rented the player and the movie

[@jeremiahthomas8140]

Fantastic Voyage was one of the first three games I ever played. Along with Combat and Pac-Man. Fun little shooter.

[@MissingLinx]

Would like to see Porky's, the Star Wars trilogy.

[@Jeffmetal42]

No doubt a Porky's mention, interesting to think, of all movies to make a game out of, they chose that one. Lololol! 🤣

[@jamesnoble8205]

I have a vague memory of my dad not allowing me to watch that when it aired on network TV when I was a kid

[@heyhonpuds]

Plus M*A*S*H. Suicide is painless after all.

[@XxStarFoxWolfFalcoxX]

Star Wars is awesome which should included here but Porky's well... It's a sex comedy that's why it was not mention because.. Not so family friendly then again it's still funniest/most coolest game.

[@Jeffmetal42]

Thanks for the upload. Hope you and the family are all doing well. ✌️

[@mattmyers9351]

Very fond memories of playing krull on my 2600 around 84-85. Very cool!

[@galiffrey1]

You haven't seen the film Krull? Do yourself a favor, take a weekend night when you don't have anything going on and rent this movie on Amazon. I live this fantasy movie. One of my favorites as a kid.

[@neuromancer9k]

FNA fans: assemble! I don't remember the Alien game, but that might've been fun. LOL And yes, looks better than the official Pac-Man game. Your video makes me want to watch Krull again. Fantastic voyage makes me think that they merged the code from 2600 Vanguard and River Raid. King Kong.....wow. The downsides to these games aside, they are excellent reminders of what the devs had to work with, and how often they usually were able to turn out something halfway decent (for the time). Cheers, Aaron. Best of luck on twin-detail!

[@40STILLGAMING]

I owned ghostbusters as a kid. I could never get the hang of it.

[@sandal_thong8631]

Downloaded instructions and finally beat the first level last summer.

[@HeitorSpecian]

4:00 just like Princess Peach giving Mario a mushroom, sort of Lol

[@cienciamarcial]

AWESOME vídeo!!!! Keep on Atari! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@mangler103]

Wow...Krull the game is actually very movie accurate. That's impressive.

[@sassywhitebelt]

Krull was an amazing game. It absolutely fascinated me as a kid.

[@yadsar]

You forgot the most important one. The one that help crash the video game market back then, E.T.

[@krisfrederick5001]

Your ad on SegaLordX's channel brought me here. You just earned a new sub my friend.

[@largo621]

Had Alien, Krull, and Ghostbusters. I loved Krull, I liked Ghostbusters, and I played Alien :P. I'd love to see you do the Star Wars games for the 2600.

[@paddyburke4148]

Nice video, cheers for taking the time to post. Hope family life is treating you well.

[@plinkitee]

In the Fanatic Cottage game, I couldn't help but think the giant blood clot looks like an Asteroid. 😂

[@favoritemustard3542]

"If you should have difficulty operating or playing JAMES BOND 007..." I wonder how many cart heads called that #800?

[@lynchie137]

Honestly, I had no idea that Towering inferno was based on a movie of the same name. A movie that I also never heard of, truth be told...

[@sandal_thong8631]

I remember watching that again after 9/11

[@colinmcdonald2499]

- I guess MASH counts as a movie game as the TV series was a spinoff of the original movie. -You have the Star Wars games. -Raiders of the Lost Ark -and ET -There was a Star Trek game ( it was also a motion picture prior to the game). Wasn't there a - Friday the 13th and a -Texas Chainsaw Massacre game too? ( off market... Adult mag advertising sales I guess) How many star wars games were there? I only played the Empire Strikes Back.

[@ShreddingFinn]

How could you have some kind of retro channel and not have seen Krull?

[@jeffdavis6657]

You should see Krull, it is a good 80's movie. What is the game if the character sprite and sound from on the King Kong game. I have seen it before. As for part 2, I have fond memories of the Parker Bros release of Empire Strikes Back. I have played a few of these, and may still have the cart in my Atari box.

[@eddie_mercado]

The Krull game is actually quite close to the movie plot, I suggest you take the time to watch the movie to see what I mean

[@unconditionalprong]

Megaforce might be the most baffling considering how big of a flop the movie was. The Entity never got past the prototype stage probably because of the film's subject matter. Fox was also involved with both by the way.

[@loganjorgensen]

Glad to see you cover these, most people just do a standard negative review thing for these since they're 2600 and licensed video games. ;) Go watch Krull man, it's the streaming age, YT even has a channel for movies. If you watch it the game levels of the game take on a new light "I remember that scene.", but you seem to be having fun interpreting the graphics. ^_^ Actually quite an accurate adaption when you consider all the factors Ie. usually such games make you go "This is nothing like the movie!". Although I think the 5200 Gremlins is better the 2600 one has it's own charm, graphically it certainly uses all the functions fully to dress things up on 2600. GB2600 is the only version of that game I want to own, it's nothing special on other platforms but impressively complex on the 2600. Personally I think Crane's original game Car Wars would have been better though. FV is another excellent adaption of a film story into a game, you're doing exactly what you want to be doing. Actually just saw a copy but couldn't remember if it was good, think I'll go pick it up now. ;) Also worth noting, Universal didn't actually own King Kong so they were spending money on lawyers to aid the actual owner of KK. 9_9 Certainly enough eye candy in 007 but yeah it would nice if the gameplay actually works. :S

[@pierresavoie]

There is a game based on the movie Tron called The adventures of Tron. Atari released it in 1982 or 1983. You could look into it 😉

[@notaflightreactsfan3706]

i seen your ad on a snesdrunk vid,glad i did also....new sub =)

[@ArcherBodkin]

Can't believe Alien got to have Pac man's arcade sounds instead of the original title

[@TheAsrielDeal]

I know it isn’t Atari, but the Intellivision had a He-Man game.

[@tantivevYT]

Atari had a port of the game too. And it was actually pretty good. It had less levels and the graphics and sound were not as good as on the Intellivision. But it did have a transformation sequence from Prince Adam to He-man at the beginning which the Intellivision did not have. Overall a great game on both consoles!

[@colinmcdonald2499]

I don't think it had been a movie, at the time of release, So I don't think it counts. The Dolf Lungren POS movie was a few years after, no?

[@treyjohnson4035]

Flash Gordon, Porky's,Raiders Of The Lost Ark,Chuck Norris,Frankenstein,

[@cootmaster]

Krull fits the movie VERY well, when i saw movie , i was confused why they saw the seer FIRST. but in both game and movie, stage 1 wedding same the sun is same /hourglass the moving fortrice the widow and the end is same w glave and fireball

[@Coyotek4]

I owned two of these: Fantastic Voyage and Towering Inferno. Loved the former, was mostly indifferent towards the latter.

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

Ahh, yes. The good old days. Before LJN came along and made it their sole mission to obtain and destroy as many I.P.s as possible as everyone looked on in abject horror.

[@glyph241]

You Haven’t Seen Krull?!? 😆

[@akildukes7499]

KRULL IS AWESOME.

[@bluediamonddirector]

It is a very fun film!

[@Jeffmetal42]

Krull is a classic!

[@jeremiahthomas8140]

One of my favorite movies. Great score by James Horner too.

[@heyhonpuds]

Krull is cheesy but enjoyable.

[@birdup6663]

Towering Inferno was pretty awesome. And no, I have never managed to finish it. Ever.

[@davidwatkins1059]

When you can, I'd like to see you cover Ghostbusters 2 on the Atari 2600. I still can't figure that one out.

[@TheGreatPaulG]

How about Porky’s?

[@pierresavoie]

Fantastic Voyage have also a Intellivision counterpart: Microsurgeon from Imagic.

[@victorgasior]

I grew up on the 2600 so I love this channel. You should do Halloween.

[@robertsretrogaming]

Fun video! Om a completely unrelated note, I bet you can do a killer Wallace Shawn impression. ;-)

[@colinmcdonald2499]

Vanguard was kinda like fantastic voyage for the 2600 except you had to fly up into the things head and blow its brains out!

[@kyleharmon9548]

I'm glad you know how to play the games, unlike some channel I watch where they put it in and are like I don't understand it so it sucks

[@garyaldridge5574]

I bet the paddle controller was useful for the Gremlins game. I mean, it was for Kaboom! so... Anyway, this video was wall to wall nostalgia (except for the Bond game, terribleness), thanks FNA!!

[@Jagaroth]

Flash Gordon, Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[@briannorthFW]

Krill, I had the game and somehow figured out hot to play mostly, Also Raiders of the Lost Ark...

[@briannorthFW]

I also think of Star Wars games

[@Spencer_Beard]

The Coleco Vision port of the James Bond game was way better, in gameplay, graphics and sound

[@holyhex6520]

That's not Frogger on the Aliens game, it is almost a copy of Freeway.

[@coinslotsandjoysticks2572]

These videos are awesome

[@DaCaptainDerpy]

I have a few of these!

[@santocuban7086]

Good video, but you check out the Atari Game based on the movie Porky's. It's not the best, but it plays pretty ambitiously for a Atari 2600 Game. They also made two Games based on the Horror movie's Halloween and Taxis Chainsaw Massacre for some reason. Probable due to a lack of censorship that later consoles had. Theirs also a pretty good Halo Atari 2600 game. these are just a few recommendations.

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

Krull was the only one I had

[@Jaypeapolaris]

Have you heard of springer on atari 2600 based on the orca arcade game

[@yannisbskt]

In the original alien movie the nostromo crew never managed to kill the alien xenomorph

[@FridayNightArcade]

Ripley flushed it out of the airlock on the escape pod at the end. Although in Ridley Scott's original idea for the ending, Ripley doesn't win. The alien bites Ripley's head off, then makes her final log entry in her voice! FOX rightfully shot that idea down.

[@yannisbskt]

@@FridayNightArcade i think in the review of the game you said that you cant kill the aliens unlikely in the movie. I like your videos a lot

[@Fatalroadie]

I had The Towering Inferno, it was cool, Aliens back as a kid, it was pac-man lol

[@sandal_thong8631]

I didn’t see this Alien game before. Funny how much I like Xenophobe at arcade and NES, and how bad this is.

[@Fatalroadie]

@@sandal_thong8631 like I, as well as. Our gracious host said, its pac-man lol

[@lsodiumoverdosel]

Krull is a great movie. If you're a fan of movies from the times of old... Check it out.

[@jeffreyellison8850]

Of course. My mother had two sets of twins with a single in between.

[@draconous342]

not seeing Krull is sooo sacrilegious.... 😧... sad sad sad.... gotta watch it dude... for 80's graphics & what not... it's a damn good movie.... ice pirates also... lol... just thought i'd throw that lastr one in there...lol...

[@Mylatenightvids]

Halloween and Texas Chainsaw

[@benb3316]

Save the not-mentioned ET I missed all of these. Well, also played Raiders of the Lost ARK (sucked coz no manual, one joystick...) and Empire Strikes back (Increddible!) IMO the best "movie" games are those made years after the movie. Most are rushed to market so obviously everything that can go wrong will. Psygnosis did some ok ones just re-skinning it's "Shadow of the Beast" games. The Epic James bond game for N64 was years between the movies. That Fantastic Voyage game while similar to Vanguard looks pretty innovative and again it's from a 50s/60s movie.

[@pawned79]

Perfect video for me to comment that the infamous E.T. game is not bad FOR AN ATARI 2600 GAME. There were a lot of Atari games that were much worse. I have an Atari cart entitled Poker that plays blackjack for example. WTH?

[@heyhonpuds]

Especially when you consider HSW programmed the whole game in five/six weeks.

[@jamesnoble8205]

No Megaforce? Shame on you ;-) I spotted that as a loose cart in a nearby independent video game store last week. The movie was unbearably cheesy. I can't even do it justice.

[@randallleddy4822]

YOU MUST WATCH KRULL!!!

[@heidifedor]

I loved Krull the movie.

[@INFINITESYKOSIS]

good video 😘

[@retrogameroom9019]

Where the hell have u been? Don't tell me two kids keep you that busy....get your ass back to work here....we miss you....hope all is well by the way lol....one love homey see u soon

[@FridayNightArcade]

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Stay tuned!

[@SA77888]

Nothing about the title of this video sounds good.

[@SebastianSnoeck]

The worst us e.t.

[@brucelombardo]

China Syndrome. Great movie. The game is floaty pac-man. And it’s fun.

[@RetroKidKnuckles]

I have an atari