Atari 800 XL - Panther - Longplay to Survivor Unload

[@steerpike66]

Great tune from Dave Whittaker.

[@polishpaul]

I watch this for the music. Great skills! I never got past the missile stage, had not thought about riding the ground like you did.. guess the missiles don't even come out then. Awesome! Now i wanna play...

[@nicholasnickson7254]

Spent hours playing this in the 80s. Greatest artari game in my opinion. Always looking for something like it in flash. When you realise the height shadow indicator makes the game 3 dimensional - a first of its kind. And music haunts me to this day.

[@bormisha]

There was another similar game on Atari: Blue Max. There also there was a shadow underneath your plane. Up-down controls were different, though. After I got used playing Panther, I always switched the up-down control in Blue Max to reverse, good that there was such an option available.

[@waynedaly100]

I loved this and gun law, biggles, zorro, bruce lee played them to death back in the day

[@timmyanderson4032]

Excellent music.

[@ADreamPC]

Will of been the 80s i last saw this. I'm getting a nostalgia rush watching it.. as a kid i couldn't get past the radar section.

[@bormisha]

Yeah, many were stuck on the radar section. Fortunately I went to a computer gaming club where knowledge was spread quickly! For me, the most difficult part was the "Plasma attack". I never saw anyone passing it, everybody was killed there quickly. But in 2000s, already with the emulator, I somehow found the trick to beat the Plasma attack. The key is to fly in the counterclockwise pattern around the screen, watching your radar (instead of the main screen) for the "plasma particles", especially those approaching from behind.

[@ADreamPC]

@@bormisha nice.. I did get an emulator to play the classics in the 2000s, but I couldn't remember its name at the time. I may go back and check this out again 😎

[@einokeino303]

Unfortunately never had this game, would've loved to play it. At least I got Blue Max. Whittaker shows his magic here once again. Very unique, but recognizable composing style.

[@bormisha]

Actually, for me Pather stands out among other Whittaker soundtracks. It is much more elaborated and deep. Don't know why.

[@einokeino303]

@@bormisha SOTB is imo definitely his most significant ost. Not all the tracks are great, but worst are the last ones in game so probably few got to hear those often. Agreed though, Panther is probably the best 8bit one, if not rating through nostalgia.

[@ufomesh]

Music written by David Whittaker - a Great Musician. I loved his tunes on my Spectrum

[@nissan040]

Great game me and my dad loved playing this gd old days

[@Heaven-dy9lj]

Superb skills!

[@presario123x]

Great skill ! I was never able to pass the 6:00 minute mark. Thanks for sharing, I was always obsessed with this game to see what's happening after :)

[@Highretrogamelord]

Mad props and huge respect to you! :)

[@bormisha]

You're welcome!

[@David_Varash]

Супер. я увидел всю игру. спасибо

[@ivuldivul]

Holy cow! As a kid I could never get past the missile part - I wish I knew that with flying low back then!

[@bormisha]

Well, you'd still have to dodge buildings, but it's indeed much easier this way!

[@hgjf3]

neither I didn't know how to pass by plasma attack. The plasma ufos are almost imposible by destroyed

[@bormisha]

Yeah, especially when they approach from behind. The best bet is to dodge them based on your radar display. I was just looking at my radar display to watch for UFOs approaching from behind and didn't look at the main view at all.

[@masy3d96]

Great game, when I was a kid I manage to get to rocket part......once :)

[@MrAmerilias]

great game, thats what is best in old games - giving emotions instead of false illusion of reality , the magic is inside of a mind of gamer .... not in computer

[@bormisha]

You should have watched the messages on the game control panel. It says "Fly under radar" when you are approaching the city! For me, the most difficult part was the "Plasma attack" until I found a trick to easily go through it.

[@THOMASSU63]

Rise from the ashes like the fabulous bird (Phoenix).

[@bormisha]

@andthis1 Actually, back then, I also didn't know what it means! But I was playing the game in a computer club where lots of children were playing computer games, and I could have watched the "professionals". Someone just empirically found that if you fly low, missiles won't strike you. Only later I found out what do such phrases mean like "Fly under radar" or "Phoenix maneuver complete". Btw, do you realize what does the latter mean?

[@Green2Beret]

Best game of the 80's and what music !! Why isn't there a flash version of this game ?? Come on you young fellows with the techy skills this should be a doodle.

[@ShamrockParticle]

Loved the game, disliked there was no way to turn off the sound effects and play solely with the music. I'd actually try to fly around the baddies as far as possible just to hesr the song the whole way through 😁

[@bormisha]

Oh yeah, back in 1991 I recorded the music onto a tape and also played in a way to avoid triggering the sound effects! But nowadays you can get the music as a SAP file and play it undisturbed

[@tahustvedt]

Amazing.

[@ELTomeq]

Great video.... i love and also hate this game :) I love it for the music, but it's so f**** hard.... that once (about 15 years ago) I smashed my joystick on a wall :) P.S. GREAT SKILL !!!

[@yoshi314]

it was an awesome hame. too bad i was not too good at it :/

[@la.mandinga]

@polishpaul awesome music, anybody knows a polish game for atari, something about a tank? I don't remember, it has great music too.

[@hgjf3]

8 levels: desert, fields, sea, missle island, plasma sea, ocean, back at desert , and rescue bay. After level 8 go back at level 1. After sigma wave of enemy ships I don't know what waves comes.

[@bormisha]

The last coming wave has the name "Omega". Well, sort of the last one. After you destroy it or get killed, another "Omega" wave will be launched. Probably this game has no ending other than that the player will eventually get killed.

[@bormisha]

Если в городе лететь низко - то ракеты не сбивают, и остается только маневрировать, чтобы не врезаться в здание. Не самая сложная часть игры. Для меня самое сложное - это было "Plasma attack", да и я никогда не видел, чтобы кто-то проходил этот уровень, пока сам не научился.

[@steerpike66]

I do not know how you got past those plasma attacks.

[@bormisha]

+Chazbot yeah, that part was hard to me as well, I was always dying there until I figured out the trick. See, there are 2 kinds of enemies in there, the "plasma balls" flying from the front and the back, and the missiles flying at you from the side. The plasma balls always track your altitude, so you can't dodge them with changing altitude. You can destroy them if they approach from ahead but it's not very practical. The best bet is to track them on your radar (bottom part of the screen) especially as they approach from behind. Then they are easy to dodge. Just look at the radar, not the screen. To avoid the missiles, simply do a rectangular movement pattern, moving right-left, then down, then left-right, then upwards. This generally avoids the missiles so you don't have to look at the screen to dodge them.

[@eiliannoyes5212]

What plasma attacks?

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

Is there / was there actually an ending to this game or was it continuous? I was never able to get any further than the plasma attack stage

[@bormisha]

Well, I could never get past a few attack waves after unloading the survivors, because the enemies get so much stronger. So I couldn't tell. But I did manage to get all the attack wave names through. I sort of stayed at low altitude where there is no forward motion but you could maneuver sideways. The attack waves kept coming, with increasing greek letter names. After destroying the "Omega wave launched", I got the next one that was also Omega. So I suspect that the game is continuous. Perhaps the difficulty level rises even higher if you manage to drop the survivors a second time. A definite answer could only be obtained by disassembling the game.

[@korkodilhop7765]

сложность.. нервы здорово расшатывает - особенно уровень "город"

[@bormisha]

Если ребенок (да и вообще любой человек) сталкивается со слишком сложной задачей, которую он не может решить - то он просто бросает ее, сдается. Такие задачи постоянно встречаются в реальной жизни, а не только в играх. Поэтому непонятно, почему сложность игры должна расшатывать детям нервы. Есть множество игр, гораздо более сложных, чем Panther. Я в детстве в такие игры просто не играл. Было неинтересно сразу погибать без малейшего шанса зайти сколько-нибудь далеко.

[@k1pka]

В былые времена час игры на Атари стоил 5 советских рублей. Мне этого часа не хватало, чтобы пройти до эвакуации, постоянно сбивали.

[@bormisha]

@@k1pka Хе-хе, помню эти времена и цены! Кое-где было и по 6 рублей за час. В те времена я тоже не мог достаточно научиться в эту игру, чтобы пройти "Плазму". И никто её не проходил, всех убивали. Потом уже, на эмуляторе подучился лучше.

[@khv3046]

@@k1pka У нас в Аэропорту вообще 10 руб. в час было.

[@polishpaul]

hehe, didn't speak english back then :D

[@Samodelkin12]

Уважаемые пользователи инета, где этот шедевр можно скачать для винды. Я очень любил эту игрульку в детстве.)))

[@bormisha]

Для начала нужно скачать эмулятор Atari. Их много. Например, Atari800WinPlus. К эмулятору нужно скачать комплект прошивок. По-моему они легально поставлялись в комплекте с каким-то не очень хорошим эмулятором, так что, если скачать еще и его - то оттуда можно взять прошивки. Ну и наконец, надо скачать саму игру. По названию игры и компьютера гугл должен что-нибудь найти. Давать ссылки бесполезно, сайты с архивами игр открываются и закрываются.

[@LordCritish]

Das is voll fedd alder!

[@johnryan8173]

Hard game

[@jacekschneider4686]

This game gets unplayable 2/3 into your video

[@bormisha]

Come on, just practice a bit and it will remain playable! The games that I like most also get notoriously hard as you progress. I remember playing "Raze 2" (see my other video), its last level is so hard that it took me about 6 months of daily practice to beat it! And in every video of that game that can be found online, where the player completes the last level, their movements are so precise and agile that they, too, must have taken an enormous amount of practice to learn it so well.

[@spearPYN]

I prefer the 80s version of science fiction...

[@bormisha]

Не понял, а почему детям нельзя? Что в этой игре такого, травмирующего детскую психику?

[@David_Varash]

Это и есть наше детство. ! Спасибо тебе. !!!