Atari Flashback Classics vol. 2: Quick Look

[@MonsterJail]

This is taking me back to the good old days... The good old days of Gameroom quick looks

[@saeku6398]

I wanna apologies to my parents for having to endure these bleeps & bloops. It never bothered me as a kid, but now it pains my old man ears.

[@This-the-way-is]

I remember the arcade cabinet of super sprint with the steering wheel. And this one guy who was a master of it, had this technique for a particular track. He could basically keep his foot on the accelerator, and never touch the brake. Then would rotate the wheel 180 to the left and skid half way around the track, then 180 to the right and slide the other half. I was always amazed watching that but deep down resenting him, because he got waaaay longer out of his turn than me lol

[@TheRealAmericanMan]

I was starting to lose hope and then finally.... part 2 was revealed to us.

[@R3DT1D3]

That Realsports Tennis actually looked like a pretty good sports game for Atari standards. Much better than the basketball or soccer games they played earlier.

[@YourTaciturnFriend]

2600 Asteroids - the asteroids don't show up if you're watching at 30fps!

[@ChristiansCartoons]

Toys R Us had a 2 for $25 deal on all $19.99 priced games so I got these two. lol

[@SuperFirstSecond]

Nothing stops the Game Room quick look!

[@JavierNavarroPrez]

"the thrust is really strong" Jeff Gerstmann 2016

[@zeetos7853]

Brings back a lot of memories for me. I need to dust off my 2600 and ET cartridge.

[@croc2390]

Does anyone else think about how this was ALL the video games we had at one point? How far we've come! Just think someone out there genuinely played championship soccer for fun not nostalgia.

[@PlatformJunkie]

"Race" is actually Indy 500. I believe it was the only game that used "driving controls" basically paddles.

[@talon12020]

I cannot believe Atari got away with releasing a port of the mainframe Star Trek game under the title Stellar Track. That's hilarious.

[@DaviddeBergerac]

Someone explain to me why the fuck "basic math" is included in this?

[@TheRealAmericanMan]

Man, Major Havoc looks like a video game ass video game... I'll probably pick this up.

[@MrBacchus18]

Buck Bumble best game they showed

[@erikakabloodybrains83_8]

Does any of these collections have Battlezone

[@drew081886]

Am I crazy or were there no asteroids on screen during the home version of Asteroids?

[@MontyDotharl]

drew081886 Turn on 60 FPS mode for the video. The asteroid sprites are flickering just right to go invisible at 30 FPS.

[@Tlop04]

You need to be on the 60FPS version or they won't show up.

[@drew081886]

Oh, okay. I was watching on my TV and I don't think there is an option for 60fps mode on the TV app. At least I know what was going on though. Thanks.

[@richardgillette5759]

Video Title says Quick Look Video Time: Over an hour and a half.

[@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010]

😕 I agree!

[@Guernicaman]

Why doesn't Asteroids have the backdrop?

[@TitanIsBack]

Interesting how some games didn't capture correctly. Missing sprites and all.

[@MontyDotharl]

TitanIsBack they're capturing fine. The issue is that those sprites are flickering just right to go invisible when the video gets knocked down to 30 FPS. I just noticed it in the 2600 version of Asteroids- it looked like Jeff was shooting at nothing. But when I turned on 60 FPS mode, all the asteroids appeared.

[@RonnieBarzel]

I missed it during "Asteroids" - must've just had it playing in another tab while I was doing something else - but I thought it was funny how "Night Driver" gave you either the road markers or the on-coming traffic, but not both.

[@ladambell]

Icy BMs.

[@TheRealAmericanMan]

I had a PC Atari collection in the 1990's and you would think that trackball games would have just had mouse control but NOPE all arrow keys.

[@JB-js4xi]

Seriously---why doesn't someone just make a 20 dollar retro stick controller for modern consoles?? I enjoyed the atari flashback 2 console but ended up using the controllers on my heavy six. What's nice about this compilation is that its HD and that it has the right game aspect ratio for big tvs......

[@JaydenB2081]

Sprint came out in the 1976

[@Clay3613]

I'll just stick my PS1/PS2 ports. Can't play these games without the proper arcade style controllers.

[@smiller2323]

this looks a lot better than the first volume

[@DSDMovies]

Two volumes--half a volume's worth of good titles. Atari still screwing us.

[@LucaHibbardCurto]

I didn't quite piece it together until watching this Quick Look, but both halves are the "Atari Vault", available on Steam. Atari Vault is the same emulation, same interface (just a handful more menu screens), same games, but only $20 on Steam, while these two packages are $20 each. So basically they figured they could screw over Console players with this release.

[@Tamacat388]

The extra $20 was probably to pay for the touchpad support on PS4. Yea thats it.

[@RonnieBarzel]

I'm not sure how long it will be at that price, but "Atari Vault" is on sale for just $10 on Steam right now.

[@andrewdupuis1151]

did this come on PS3 or Xbox 360 to ?

[@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010]

Both all.

[@mikemc7901]

Pretty sure surround was before tron , and tron copied it :)

[@pauliecaccamise1980]

moon patrol? anyone? basically from both collections there are about 10 games that are amazing arcade classics that hold up and the rest are disasters of games that should be forgotten. Because they did their job of teaching people how not to program or create a game.

[@2011Savere]

Man they don't have defender?

[@gerasmus]

I played many of these games in the late 1970's and early 1980's an that was enough. I have no interest in doing it again. Gimme Elite Dangerous. This is personal preference.

[@karlatkin01]

The games look so bad now ,I can handle SNES or mega drive games but not these ,,sorry ,terrible

[@beatchef]

"When the game was originally designed, the six cities were meant to represent six cities in California: Eureka, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego While programming Missile Command, the programmer, Dave Theurer, suffered from nightmares of these cities being destroyed by a nuclear blast" - wikipedia

[@justin188541]

Flash forward 40 years and it turns out they are all destroyed by high taxes, extreme homelessness, unchecked migration and safe drug distribution.