Every Atari 2600 Data Age Game

This video features gameplay footage from all 10 games produced for the Atari 2600 by Data Age, including two unreleased prototypes, as well as their music album and various promo videos.
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[@joejacobsonwales]

Never played any of these, but don't feel like I'm missing out on much!

[@Meebzorp5200]

You didn't. Companies like these helped bring on the crash.

[@SoulforSale]

Bought these for $5 EA at Kmart and played them to death. Love all of these titles.

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

Encounter at L5 is by far the most interesting. Airlock though, that is a REALLY bad game. It's a game I picked up for $2 and felt I got ripped off. I can't imagine how it was for people playing that pre-crash who paid full price for it.

[@robintst]

I've got a couple of Data Age's games myself, they had some pretty good titles on average, maybe 1 or 2 of those looked subpar. And that album advert at the end was trippy as hell, it's like someone there had this overarching high concept for their software and was maybe a little too ahead of the curve for the times. Or it was just drugs. ;-)

[@SoulforSale]

Most of the children in this comment section wont realize that in 1981 you played what you had. So these games are beloved by true Atari 2600 owners that played them out. Go back to your Xboxes and PlayChannels.

[@GeneSimmonsBoots]

I had Journey Escape, Frankenstein's Monster, and Berrmuda Triangle as a kid. Loved all three of them. I still play them from time to time. The rest are garbage.

[@Svante]

Activision and Imagic was the only third party creators, that made great games for the 2600. It's shovelware trash like THIS that crashed the video game market, not E.T.

[@TheLairdsLair]

Yeah they were the top tier, then it was probably M-Network and Parker Brothers.

[@TMS5100]

@9:40 lmao watching neal and jonathan try to defend that pile of crap game. @10:09 "play a long time without getting bored" lmaoooooo

[@tuffteddy1446]

Bermuda Triangle looks like a knockoff Activision game. All of these games sucked!

[@retrojoe85]

Interesting. The popularity about some of these games (like Frankenstein's Monster) grew with the word of mouth on the internet. Back in the day, most of us never heard anything about this interesting material. The fact that makes these even more interesting is the need of a paddle controller for most of them. They're really obscure, but at the same time fascinating for me.

[@jamesedgewood4643]

I'd love to know what the hell is going on in those crazy games.

[@cessnaace]

I have a few of the Data Age games. Of those games featured in the Discount Game Pack the only one I don't have is the Journey game.

[@TheLairdsLair]

The Journey game is actually one of the best, although Frankenstein's Monster takes top place IMO.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

I bought Airlock for $1 at a Woolworth's store from a barrel full of various Atari 2600 games. A very frustrating game. I almost returned it but eventually learned how to beat it. and then I never played it again. A few games on this list are not too bad actually. Certainly as good as or better than the average VCS game at the time.

[@TheLairdsLair]

Airlock is terrible! Frankenstein's Monster is by far their best game.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@TheLairdsLair Yep. I will say this though: I've learned a bit about the hardware over the years and how incredibly difficult it was to program for, so I have some respect for any programmer who can get it to do just about anything at all, especially with the tools that were available back then (not much!). Still, compared to the average game out there for the 2600 back in the day, Airlock was not good.

[@SoulforSale]

Airlock is my favorite Atari 2600 game

[@SteveMacSticky]

Don't look too great these games

[@Meebzorp5200]

Played these as a kid and they were all bad. Lol. Ironically the Survival Run prototype looks the best of the bunch. That looked fun. They should have just had Journey play music in the background and turned off the farting noises. L5 is kinda interesting with the paddle.

[@STR82DVD]

I never purchased third party carts, with the exception of Activision, for my 2600, it was always Atari out Activision branded carts. Thanks for the great content as always young lad. Spring has finally sprung in Ottawa lad and I managed to survive yet another horrid winter in this frozen country.

[@IntoTheVerticalBlank]

I have a few of these on cart. I never liked them, but they seem to look and play better when you are playing them, K.

[@MuzikJunky]

I had the flexi-disc, which was really eerie, and wasn’t interested in the games! Peace.

[@cougar2013]

I believe L2 is where is the JWST is right now. L5 is real though!

[@everneil4326]

We need these on the Evercade m8

[@retrojoe85]

That's true! Evercade needs more Atari 2600 hidden gems.

[@osenator]

We had Journey and others, played it a lot.

[@tdawg135]

Just bought sssnake friday

[@wallacelang1374]

I have the Atari 2600 "Journey: Escape" game cartridge and it is loosely based on the coin-op arcade video game of the same name. However I never had gotten any of the other Data Age game cartridges for the Atari 2600.

[@surnis9043]

That last "other dimension" add lasts forever! No way this was an ad on television! Where did they show that?

[@Meebzorp5200]

It was from a flexidisc promo they handed out apparently. Flexidiscs were smaller, cheap vinyl in loud colors with a single on them usually.