Atari Flashback Classics col. 1 Quick Look

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[@swarmland]

Nothing stops the Game Room quick look!!

[@Guernicaman]

Man, GameRoom had so much potential.

[@helloimtom100]

I still go back and watch the video of Jeff tricking Ryan into a game room QL, its a classic and still hilarious.

[@psychicsandwich7]

It's actually really cool to watch this video and have Jeff explain these games because I bought this package and had no idea what to do or what was even going on about 90% of the time.

[@dogmd7]

Quadrun released back in 1983 as part of a limited promotion as a mail-away game in the Atari Club, so it was definitely released officially.

[@trippivey]

That 5x moon landing at 11:15 was nice.

[@gvulture1277]

Damn some of these Atari games are pretty awesome

[@AwesomeNick94]

There was a centipede cabinet in my dentist's office, but the vertical movement of the trackball didn't work at all so you had to stay at the bottom of the screen the entire game. Seeing Jeff play and move around vertically is blowing my mind.

[@rotmirerob]

I spent over an hour on the Lunar Lander arcade machine last time I went to the arcade.

[@lwispe]

"Jets, Guided Missiles, No Clouds" is probably the "Fox Only, Final Destination, No Items" of its day.

[@hornylink]

I still prefer Jeff's take on X-com heavies only no med kits!

[@hazy33]

Thankyou for this thorough look at all the games. That takes some dedication. In the UK the was the spectrum computer and a company called Cascade made the Cassette 50. A compilation of 50 games on one tape cassette for £9.99 about $16 back then. All were completely rubbish. So whether it's one game or 50 you're still paying for utter trash. Exactly like these Atari comps. You are doing a public service.

[@peterchartier3387]

There is no terminal velocity on the moon. Damn it Brad, you're supposed to be the resident science officer! Mr.Spock shakes his head in disapproval

[@Callico_]

Surely there must be a terminal velocity on the moon, obviously slower than earth atmosphere's terminal velocity. "A constant speed that a freely falling object eventually reaches when the resistance of the medium through which it is falling prevents further acceleration."

[@peterchartier3387]

Calico Terminal velocity is the velocity at which the resistance of the air equals the acceleration of gravity. On the moon, there is no air to slow you, so you will keep accelerating all the way down at 1.62 m/s/s

[@Callico_]

The more you know.

[@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes]

I love the 2600. Got all 3 flashbacks, tho flashback 3 is albout the 5200. Still good stuff. Millipede and centipede are my fave.

[@atomicpuppet]

They should have pictures of the cabinets in a gallery, like on the Dreamcast Atari collection game, so Brad would know the type of button layout games had.

[@RonnieBarzel]

At $20 each, I may buy these, but Game Room and older collections have really hammered home that so many of my favorite games (e.g. Missile Command, Tempest, Warlords) just don't play well without their non-joystick controls.

[@Guernicaman]

Didn't some of these vector-graphics games have like a pictured background that was part of the inside of the cabinet?

[@BurtonRadons]

Boy, what a throwback! This sure brings back memories. Of the days before readily-available ROMs and emulators made it necessary to offer more value to these releases, like control bindings, leaderboards, save states, or basic information like when a game was released and what it was on. And why aren't games listed in alphabetical order?

[@RonnieBarzel]

Burton Radons They do appear to be in alphabetical order, going top to bottom, from left to right. I'm guessing that's why Jeff and Brad saw Combat 2 (top of right column on first screen), but missed the original Combat at the bottom of the middle column. (Should say: I'm not yet done with the video, so they may eventually see it includes Combat.)

[@IDidntSetAHandle]

1:03:55 - Not what I first thought of, to be honest Jeff. (Turner the Worm being sick, anyone?)

[@dontwakemeup1037]

The graphics of today's games are just incredible... You cannot compare them to the primitive graphics of these classical games... Yet, I'd rather play the primitive classics any day instead of the ones released in 2020! The whole family used to gather around these games, and it was possible to simply choose multi-player to literally have tons of fun! Nowadays, for multi-player games, you need two xbox ones, two Tvs, two original games and two subscriptions to just have some fun... Not to mention how complex the menus have become, all in the name of profit!

[@brotzmannsax]

You shoot the bugs and they turn into dollars, I wish that workeded in real life, ha.

[@Munecoshh1]

What’s the name of the Tanks game?! I remember having games of tanks. 2 player and 1single big tank in the middle. Do you know the name of those please?

[@talon12020]

Activision's Starmaster is the superior version(clone) of Star Raiders for the 2600. Also, these games seem to run faster than I remember them ever running on the original hardware.

[@TheRealAmericanMan]

Very very very late here but Black Widow and Robotron 2084 released the same year and Black Widow is the VASTLY superior game. Also Atari Liberator was released in 1982 as well and is for it’s time a graphical powerhouse. Literally no other game looks or plays like it does and it’s primitive line scrolling faux polygonal flat textured worlds are still a wonder for their hardware.

[@stevenmaneri1972]

Did you guys ever notice the 1st Combat is on here??? LOL

[@insanelol]

XboxAhoy shout out by brad

[@Helvetica_Scenario]

Even as a kid in the mid 80s, I knew these games were horrible. When the NES came out it was this realization that video games wouldn't be a constant torrent of awful shit.

[@andrewdupuis1151]

good games i have Atari Vault comes with 100 games for pc

[@GTHelmer]

I enjoy using my trackball mouse

[@nicholaswilliams5396]

Can you correct the title? It’s not “col,” it’s “Vol.”

[@JohnSmith-td7hd]

Playing this on an Xbox One X is so ironic.

[@moshkitteh]

Is Brad always high in these videos?

[@Destide]

Who remembers when this price got you all the games. £16/$20 could buy me a real 2600 and yars revenge what more do you need?

[@edoodleful]

sirico The 2600 actually sold for £161 at release

[@Destide]

edoodleful by 1989 it cost my mum £20 with pretty much all these games. which is what I was alluding to.

[@edoodleful]

oh my bad

[@musicstudios4418]

Atari is apparently bringing out a cryptocurrency or is already on the market. Has anyone heard of it?

[@quinnrobertson7393]

Don't Atari release these every few years

[@JonnyJoestar_]

They are referring to the newest Alone in the Dark game, Alone in the Dark Illumination you fool. It released last year. Maybe do your research before calling someone a stupid idiot.

[@RonnieBarzel]

Cold Monkey Basically every console generation. Keep in mind that the split between Atari Corp. and Atari Games means there are two companies with "Atari" catalogs to repackage into retrospectives like this, so you will see "collection of Atari games!" twice as often as normal.

[@Cowmanik]

Sunset Riders joke!

[@VIDEOWRECKINGCREW]

😍😍😍

[@davidg1612]

A 79 minute video is a "quick look"? Lol

[@Captainasquared]

This channel is dying...

[@eandjproductions2]

Adan Alspektor Huh?

[@Captainasquared]

eandjproductions2 198,000 subscribers, only 800 views...

[@g1nobleteam]

Adan Alspektor It's like most of them are on Video Games Dot Com.

[@eandjproductions2]

Adan Alspektor Okay?

[@Captainasquared]

Thanks for the responses everyone. Now it makes sense.

[@robertblevin54]

You have to have this in your collection. If you don't then you don't appreciate gaming. FACT.

[@dandome7888]

Trapne hry

[@MagikGimp]

Yawn. Pointless. Money-grabbing. Entire library fits on a CD-R, probably with space to spare. Original hardware is probably cheaper. I hate "convenience" people.

[@MagikGimp]

Exactly!

[@nonedermis4611]

don't need to swear so much, could be more mainstream if you didn't