Best ATARI Arcade Games

ATARI was founded in the United States in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, Atari can be considered the founder of the video game industry, thanks to PONG. The home version of PONG, which connected to a TV, was one of the first video game consoles.
Atari has been around since the early days of arcade machines, created home consoles like the Atari 2600, produced a series of 8-bit computers (Atari 400/800 and the XL/XE series), took part in the 16-bit market with the Atari ST, created the 64-bit Atari Jaguar console, revolutionary for its time; and launched a portable console, the Atari Lynx.
In this video we review his best arcade games as a developer in chronological order. ATARI contains unforgettable games in the 70's and 80's like Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Centipede, I, Robot, Paperboy, Marble Madness, Super Sprint. My tribute to this mythical company, a video with a high educational value and also for the preservation of the video game.

[@christopherzdebski5259]

Marble madness, Roadblasters, Asteroids, Centipede, Paperboy, Super Sprint, Atari Was Fabulous with they’re releases in the 80’s

[@colinlock-lv9vv]

played gaunlet first at bristol uk ice skating rink 1985/86

[@johnmcjunkin4613]

I feel like I'm back in the 70's and 80's, reliving my favorite childhood arcade games, again. Thanks for the memories!

[@EnjoySynthSounds]

From their crude early simple and blocky graphics games, to vector images and full on animations and fast moving sprites, it's interesting to see how arcade games have progressed.

[@pinebarrenpatriot8289]

I love Atari. Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2, Championship Sprint, Roadblasters just to name a few. Atari's arcade hits were incredible back in the 80's.

[@reagandow850]

Wow! This brings me back to the old days in the arcades!!! Life was so much simpler back then. Even those these games are simple by today’s standards I’d put every one of them up against The last of Us part two when it comes to fun and replay value!!

[@Henry_GamesX]

I agree 200%

[@matttherrien9608]

@UnknownEX What is "pos" please?

[@javiervarela1231]

I was really into Atari's Centipede and also it's "table-top" mini version back then. What a blast!

[@LoneTiger]

7:35 Lunar Lander was my very first arcade game I ever played, I even remember the arcade where it was and its name. That game was the beginning of the end. 😁 28:25 Oh boy Hard Drivin was critical in my life, it taught me how to drive stick! Good memories.

[@colinlock-lv9vv]

mesmerized by paperboy road blasters and temple of doom especially

[@elmono6299]

I am so happy we got the awesome Atari 50: the anniversary collection last year, and I've been a huge fan of this legendary video game studio since I used to play the Atari Flashback plug in consoles with my grandfather back in the 2000's. Unfortunately, it is a shame that not all the games were included in the compilation because of copyright issues. The Star Wars arcade trilogy and Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom arcade game are owned by Disney, Clint Eastwood's Firefox, Road Runner, and Tim Burton's Batman arcade games is own by Warner Bros, and games that were made under the Atari Games banner such as Primal Rage and Area 51 were bought by Midway, who later went bankrupt in 2009 and was purchased by Warner Bros. Still, I am very happy with what we got, and it truly is the best compilation game since Rare Replay.

[@elmono6299]

On that note, I would like to see a new Midway Arcade Treasures collection with more of the Atari Games included.

[@Ashadowtotheworld]

Wow Firefox looks amazing for a 1984 game!

[@geraldford6409]

Awesome overview of 70's commercial arcade gaming! Due to the 80's Golden Age, the 70's is often overlooked, other than Pong/Breakout style games I recall playing many of the games shown, and others with Black and White or Green screens, some with colored overlays. A hotel near King's Island near Cincinnati, OH around 75-76 had a Games room with several cool coin video games. Sprint was a fun classic 2 player game, as was Death Race and similar, and a fav on mine as a 9 year old was a 2 player Fire truck driving game, where one person drove the truck with a big steering wheel, the other the ladder trailer. There were Mom & Pop pizza party joints in the 70s prior to chains like Chuck E Cheese, with great game rooms with many classic 70s video games, as well as those retro cool electro-mechanical arcade games like Polaris, or SKeeball, etc

[@robertyoutubelove9169]

Wow que genial . Mi papa tenia uno altarí cuando el jugaba de joven y luego el melo regalo ami y a igual tengo nintendo ... y cuando jugaba altari es super genial jugar en viernes noche jugado en luz apagado.

[@tylerensminger]

My local pizza place had roadblasters when I was growing up. Had good times playing that game

[@Henry_GamesX]

WOW, thanks for this video. I enjoy watching various games. It brings back memories and I enjoy seeing all of the creativity and the type of imagination to make these games.

[@napalmhardcore]

It's kind of sad watching this when you understand the context of when these games were released and what they were competing against. You see Atari go from innovating to competing, then struggling and finally being left behind and kind of embarrassing themselves.

[@joeyjoe308]

As a kid, I never grew up playing these arcade games, but I do remember seeing an Atari arcade game (can’t remember what game it was) when traveling by ferry. Even though I never actually played one, it was apparently my first exposure to Atari back in the early-2000s. Sadly with the age of smartphones and gaming devices, my local ferry no longer carries out arcade games 😢

[@ezequielgomez7083]

I love play Atari Arcade Game when I was a 7 year old child since 2008 here's my top 10 favorite atari arcade game of all-time 10. Pong 9. Black Widow 8. Gauntlet 7. Space Duel 6. Hard Drivin 5. Tempest 4. Missile Command 3. Klax 2. Star Wars 1. Centipede

[@markhealy0073]

Great selection of games. It has some of my favourites on there.

[@d.vaughn8990]

Atari (Inc.) was more amazing than most people know! Unfortunately, upper management drove Atari off a cliff!!

[@chibang492]

I hope in the near future, Atari ports S.T.U.N Runner, Road Blaster and Hydra to the VCS console for purchase on the VCS store.

[@Hektols]

Gran colección, muchos juegos estaban adelantadísimos para su época, como el I Robot y el S.T.U.N. Runner. La mayor parte de la gente no sabe que Atari ya hacía juegos poligonales antes que Sega o Namco.

[@JaimeSalcedoA_72]

Muy cierto... Saludos!

[@dennyhaynes3]

Fantastic collection as always 👍

[@retro_reflections]

Goes to show that Atari's golden years really were between 1979 and 1990, and even then not all of those were stone-cold classics. And after that, the Midway influence of churning out derivative games really starts to bite...beat 'em ups and light gun games over and over again. Strikes me that the last truly original game was Klax...

[@x_RunRummer_x]

I was thinking the same thing. There were some early/mid games with really great gameplay. The later years really tailed off, sadly.

[@martinevans1206]

Firefox looked incredible for 1984!

[@randalgelking7329]

It was Laserdisc background with game graphics superimposed on it

[@lisaknox4113]

I missthe old Atari games and Atari. I have games on my Roku but no one programmed them for me!😞😞😞😞😖

[@Spagyr]

A lot of these i never ran into. But i sure ran into gauntlet.

[@jermania7467]

Great vid. I gotta find me a Black Widow game. Never saw it as a kid and it looks pretty fun. I recently discovered a perfect Robotron cabinet which was a ton of fun. I'm always on the lookout for a game that eludes me. If anyone knows from my brief memory please let me know. I would guess it was around 89-92 era. I remember it being a vertical scroller where you are moving up the screen, a fantasy based game. It seems like you were in a bog or mud and the bog men would come up out of the ground and attack. It seems like you could get upgrade also while moving up the swamp by stopping at a merchant. I have no idea what it was though.

[@BURRITO44]

Watched a video of over 60 plus Atari vertical shooters from A to Z. None had creatures coming from a bog. I will keep on looking however. By the way , there were many vertical shooters and lots looked great. !!

[@jermania7467]

@@BURRITO44 Thanks always for looking. I'm sure it will be one of those games that I accidentally come across. My description is pretty vague unfortunately. Definitely not a shooter though. Reminded me more of a Black Tiger type game but had the vert scroll through swamps.

[@thomasbell8451]

Firefox looks ridiculously ahead of its time

[@YNGBLD80]

Another Fantastic Video!

[@jupreindeer]

when compiled like this, it is truly wonderous just how many universes that Atari has created. Such creativity. Perhaps more shocking is how barely anything has been ported to a TV show or movie. (Aside from Tetris. But that already has a legacy.) "What about Batman?" (Games INTO movies) ;P

[@borisdisko4322]

What about The Human Centipede?

[@dancero643]

a partir de mediados de los 80 los arcades de atari tenian menos tiron, pienso yo. Para mi lo mejor de Atari es la 2600 y 4 o 5 arcades miticos en sus comienzos

[@keithfulkerson]

1980 was a good year for Atari.

[@thomasbell8451]

Road blasters and Gauntlet dominated the arcades when in the 80s

[@Pzkfw5]

Many of these later games ended up getting fantastic ports to the Atari Lynx. But of course the people that ran Atari Corp we're tight arses and screwed over Atari Games and thus the Atari Jaguar missed out of most of these amazing games

[@adm712]

Your so right as I was thinking the exact same thing. I also thought many of the 1985-1990 games could have been ported to the XE computer/game system.

[@bradleymcavoy3432]

Asteroids was the very first game I played as a kid! I had to stand on my tippy toes but I still played it and able to get to the 9th or 10th stage! 🙄😉😎 Also so many classics but I absolutely Loved and played the crap out of Tournament CyberBall 2072! Come On it’s Robot Football and the Ball is a Bomb! 🤩

[@speedbird737]

I have all of these on my AtGames Arcade Legends stand up machine! includes a roller ball and spinners!

[@johnwardjr3001]

Two games I like: Gauntlet and Indiana Jones.

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Missile Command. I play a lot!

[@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide]

5:05 scary good tech demo

[@ThunderFist1978]

I see you combined Atari Corp. and Atari Games into one video, even though they were two different companies.

[@omegadaniel8692]

Buff mi primera consola🙈🙈🙈🙈

[@adm712]

From 1983-1995 Atari developed numerous home video game systems. What I don't understand is how the arcade ports of these games never made it on to the systems. It certainly would have helped Atari stay relevant in the home video game market.

[@rockethero1177]

Major havoc absolutely deserves to get a Recharged version

[@capscaps04]

I thought that atary died in the 70´s, I was never expecting 80´s, 90´s or even 2000´s atary games.

[@randalgelking7329]

"Atary" really?

[@capscaps04]

@@randalgelking7329 Yes.

[@valditravel]

My best childhood games

[@josephreed6746]

What about Road Riot, 4wd, which I believe came out in 1991? I didn’t see that on the list. Didn’t Atari Games make that game?

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

legendary arcade game maker

[@jesuscolon4487]

Atari 2600 was my time

[@Mumie12345]

After 1996: Midway Games!

[@yaywhewclips242]

Space Duel was featured on A WHO album cover

[@BURRITO44]

Awesome

[@TuHermanaEnTanga7]

Excelente.

[@DOGLIKE76]

The Best games for Atari: Boulder Dash, River Raid, Zorro, Bruce Lee, Zybex, Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory, Ninja, Henry's house, Pole position, Montezuma's Revenge. All another - peace of...

[@matthewc.2578]

Love Super Sprint.

[@alejandromanjarrez1563]

you should do "Best Exidy Arcade Games"

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

Coming soon

[@TheGravygun]

That football game was excellent

[@jbponzi1]

My brother and I called the original football, baseball and basketball Atari’s locker room series. With all that trackball action you ended up pretty sweaty.

[@scottmonroe5426]

Great compilation but no Road Riot?

[@guerraldo]

Atari es lo máximo

[@chibang492]

S.T.U.N RUNNER Road Blaster Hydra Star Wars.

[@slickrichelicopter8977]

Atari had a 3D game in 1978?!?!

[@grymmjack]

Whoa how the heck did sky raider work? Was this a projection or screen drum or something?

[@MANU11178]

Gauntlet and gauntlet 2 🏆

[@ThomasDickensheets]

I play Asteroids!

[@tyruiiederttree3074]

Nice video but the Japanese arcades of those years were on a much higher level.

[@Blairedwardperry-yu2mg]

How of these games that i saw are on the ATARI FLASHBACK FOR SWITCH

[@ALKASHIF-]

nice collection but you not mention which Atari console is this game and that game

[@seorandyless]

wow... 💗

[@robertford9837]

Gauntlet was the best

[@crazyoldschool6342]

Never new atari and midway were one of the same.

[@WaveGazer]

Does anyone know what the deal is with Midway and some of these games? Over they years some of these games have shown up in Midway collections even though these are made by Atari.

[@retro_reflections]

WMS Industries, who owned the Williams, Bally and Midway brands, bought Atari Games in 1996. The whole lot are now owned by Warner Bros. since 2009.

[@bradleyconrad678]

What emulator did you use that has the “bloom” on the shots for the Asteroids games?

[@uzziel524]

4:58 Cheetos, The Cheese That goes... Crunch.

[@bossmanboss3087]

Firefox is not from Atari that's from mame games also I looked on the internet and can't find a lot of these games you have on here are they actually from Atari?

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Night Driver is hard. Not head lights!

[@CésarPrueba]

pues no se pero el asteroids se ve muy guapo no se que filtro le metisteis....

[@Kourumeme]

Akka arrh should be on here as well

[@tdickensheets]

I remember football

[@videogamesman131]

Atari 2600 were very expensive in the 70s I was told around 700 bucks. Which I'm sure most couldn't afford since minium wage was around 4 bucks. I can see the arcades making casino type money

[@randalgelking7329]

It never cost $700. Maybe in today's money. Your source is far off. Kids were getting them for Christmas & birthday gifts

[@randalgelking7329]

Source: Google "The Atari VCS was launched in September 1977 at $199 (equivalent to about $850 in 2020), with two joysticks and a Combat cartridge; eight additional games were sold separately." Do your homework before talking

[@henriquedearruda8902]

I may be mistaken but I think Ataris goldenboy is Kao the Kangaroo

[@jaysmith2858]

Atari certainly came up with some classic arcade games, notably in their early days, but boy did they make some shockers later on, and they certainly tried to milk any slightly successful game and innovation for all its worth e.g. Developers: How many variations of "Super Sprint" type games do you want? Atari: "Yes".

[@Henry_GamesX]

I agree. It seems like Nintendo has been doing the same thing with Mario.

[@jaysmith2858]

@@Henry_GamesX I've never been a fan of the Mario games, but it seems I'm in the minority. As long as millions of people keep buying each new Mario game that is released, Nintendo will keep making them.

[@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser]

@@jaysmith2858 same with FIFA and call of duty.

[@jaysmith2858]

@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser EA with the likes of FIFA and Madden are the worst. Full price for an anual 'update' that not only have little to no improvements on the previous iteration(s) of the games, but also contains loot boxes which is just a form of gambling that can be aimed at kids, as well as microtransactions.

[@ozzie.l.6035]

@@Henry_GamesX Noo,Mario has been doing some innovations at least,,from Mario Bros to Super Mario,Super Mario 2,Super Mario 3,Super Mario World to Mario 64 to Super Mario Sunshine to Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 to Super Mario 3D World,New Super Mario World to Super Mario Maker to Super Mario Odyssey ect ect ect..different Mario games as you see..can't compare to Super Sprint which are basically the same games.

[@marcoriganelli4421]

Bad Lands!!!!

[@werewolfpit8141]

All these games are from Mame Emulator?

[@cradionevesneves9010]

show de bola

[@dennisneo1608]

Oh, Atari. Such mismanagement destroyed a great company.

[@boonboy8333]

Fortunately the Japanese assisted them with seppuku

[@HerrBerzerk]

What was that intro organ music again?

[@ricardonb6375]

Skorne's boss theme from Gauntlet

[@HerrBerzerk]

@@ricardonb6375 THX

[@lepio126p]

This is some emulator with better grafic?

[@DJDanceClassic]

wow, some really bad games in there! some good ones too *marble madness, Tetris, paperboy, 720, too bin *

[@d.vaughn8990]

I don’t remember any of these games being bad at the time - not even close!! Were you alive in the late 70’s/early 80’s??

[@DJDanceClassic]

@@d.vaughn8990 born in 65!

[@d.vaughn8990]

@@DJDanceClassic Hahaha - o.k.! You’re a few year’s older than me. I am surprised! I was blown away by most of these games bitd!

[@johnsmith-xw4ez]

What about Tetris?

[@HiImRalph]

Where’s Computer Space?

[@Ur2ez4me81]

Anyone know where I can find a pong mame rom?

[@Laurent-yn4hh]

Toute ma jeunesse

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Warlords.

[@tdickensheets]

Star Wars.

[@TheJHPJr]

39:12 Xzbit?

[@chibang492]

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[@PrototypeOnDemand]

advanced

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Cost .25

[@rudycassiano]

Xenophobe and Steel Talons?

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

Xenophobe was developed by Bally Midway and the Steel Talons couldn't get the controls to work :(.

[@rudycassiano]

@@TROldSchoolGamer I didn't know that about . Your work is amazing!

[@leobardoozazuna2848]

Faltaron muchos títulos de atari,!! El tema del video esta mal hay muchos juegos mezclados de varias consolas 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼