Here are some Atari 400 games

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Жыл бұрын

Thought I would cluster a bunch of Atari 400 Cartridge games. I feel like this system is really similar to the Atari 2600 system- or at least the cartridge games are. I imagine there would be a greater variety of games on disk and cassette. Maybe I'll stumble on some someday...
Asteroids
Choplifter
Frogger
Jumpman Junior
Miner 2049er
Missile Command
Pac Man
Pole Position
River Raid
Spy Hunter Star Wars
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@michaeljordan6008 Жыл бұрын

Nothing touched the Atari 400/800 games in 1979. It was a leaps and bounds improvement over the 2600.

@RB-cz5jn Жыл бұрын

I had a 400 then later a commodore. For the time the 400 was jaw dropping. Going from black and white tv to having a home computer. Wow

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

I had a b&w tv.... oh yeah....

@bryanobrien2726 Жыл бұрын

Come on man , the 400 version of Asteroids is way better than the 2600 version . The asteroids actually have big explosions when you hit them , they travel in all directions after they explode and split instead of just going all vertically in the 2600 version , and the 400 version also offered bounce mode that makes asteroids not pass through the edge of the screen and bounce around like crazy . It's still asteroids except more polished and with better game physics and sound . At the time these systems were new , the 400/800 games were considered way better than the 2600 versions . They're on par with the 5200 games . Try to look at these games through 1980 eyes , not 2022 eyes .

@datacipher 4 ай бұрын

I’ll just be blunt: this guy is obviously an ignoramus.

@brianwolters7560 Жыл бұрын

I'll never forget seeing an Atari 400 for the first time at Dillards at McCain Mall in North Little Rock, Arkansas. They had PacMan running and I was like blown away that PacMan could be that good at home. And they let me use the "BASIC" cartridge and I liked how easy it was....and funny, I am IT Directory for my company but I also have to handle our CEO's 2 homes and family stuff and at one of his homes, there was an Atari 400 in a cabinet in his theater room...no one can tell me why it is there.

@waltciii3 Жыл бұрын

I had an 800 with Basic and only a few cartridge games. I eventually got a floppy drive for 1982 Christmas and then discovered a school friend with a TON of games ripped to floppy disks. One of my favorites was Archon.

@cnfuzz Жыл бұрын

Fond memories of miner 2049er on this machine , nothing beats 8bit Atari ( well maybe some spectrum games for complexity)

@ridiculous_gaming Жыл бұрын

There were some decent keyboard replacements that were decent, but this unit, being really a game machine that's leaps above the 2600. Simply look at an early title such as Star Raiders in comparison. Riverraid offers tanks, balloons and shooting choppers which are not available on the 2600 and is higher in resolution, which offers more details. I am also grateful that it plays just like the 2600 version, for the mechanics on the 2600 version was extremely tight with perfect.

@bitset3741 Жыл бұрын

Actually, the 400 has a perfect keyboard for what it was designed for - they intentionally designed this machine for kids and games. The membrane keyboard was great for that. I had 2 400's back in the day. One had the original, and the other had a mechanical keyboard replacement that is a lot like modern laptop keyboards.

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

I have dreams of acquiring an atari 800 with the mech keyboard...

@IntoTheVerticalBlank Жыл бұрын

Great system, possibly the best "console" cartridge system before the NES with 200+ great cart games, more if you have 64k and can play the XEGS games.

@bryanobrien2726 Жыл бұрын

Even the 64k RAM cards only really gave you 48k useable with jumpers added to the motherboard .

@Earths1stgamer Жыл бұрын

Centipede,Defender and Donkey Kong are much better on the 400 Choplifter on the 2600??..that would be a real flicker fest.

@peterscottodonnell7290 Жыл бұрын

Graffics are great on the Atari and Commodore 64,and miner 49er is a great game.

@Kilroy_5150 Жыл бұрын

I would say the 400 had richer colors than the 2600 and slightly crisper graphics. I've had access to them all. Atari's thing was "gradually" upgrading graphics for every system.

@bobbykopas5358 Жыл бұрын

Synapse (Protector II, Zeppelin, Dimension X, etc.)and ECA/Electronic Arts (Archon, Hard Hat Mack, Pinball Construction Set) games were usually always pretty awesome for the time!

@LTDANMAN44 Жыл бұрын

miner 2049er is the first video game i ever played

@54Ripster 7 ай бұрын

I had an Atari 400 as a kid, had updated keyboard on it, My favorite games on it were, star raiders, miner 49'er, pacman, and missile command. I worked part time as a student and had to buy my own games. So did noot have a lot of games.

@peterscottodonnell7290 Жыл бұрын

I was 5 in 1979,and i love your channel,Atari 800 was the better version of the 400.

@LTDANMAN44 Жыл бұрын

realm of impossibility is also a great atari game

@thegamesninja3119 Ай бұрын

I used to order fries with my Atari 400 Keyboard.

@johngudonis2015 8 ай бұрын

That Mylar keyboard was a pain the butt while typing programs from Antic magazine.

@youreallyplaythat 8 ай бұрын

I can only imagine! The later models were so much better!

@johnathanstevens8436 Жыл бұрын

The 5200 is basically an Atari 400 with different memory addresses

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

Nice! If the 5200 had a modern clone, id give it a try. Thanks for watching!

@tonybarnes2920 8 ай бұрын

I loved my Atari 8-bit. It's where I got my start making games professionally 40 years ago. I can tell by your comments you really weren't a fan or had one back then, otherwise you wouldn't say the games are the same as the 2600 version or assume the Atari 800 was just following the C64. Nevertheless, loved Choplifter. It was a big influence on a game series I made, Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Urban Strike, etc. Jumpman (and Jumpman Jr) is one of my Top-10 games of all time. It has influenced practically all 100+ games I've made over the past 40 years. Miner2049er is awesome. Loved that game.

@youreallyplaythat 8 ай бұрын

I definitely did not have one back then. I've been playing the carts more and they are certainly more involved compared to the 2600. I've also only branched into the cartridge realm so far. I'm starting on some of the other media. I just got an 800xl and am looking to see how different it is than the C64- which I am more familiar with. I picked up a bunch of Atari books too- it's pretty interesting to see all the possibilities with Basic and Machine Language. Thanks for watching! I will check out the Strike games- very cool!

@newkillergenius Жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Classic Game Night did a video this year on connecting an Atari computer up to WiFi and BBS/Internet, had no idea you could do that

@oldschoolgamesstories Жыл бұрын

I’ve always been curious about this system. Never even seen one anywhere. It’s interesting for sure!👊

@trappenweisseguy27 Жыл бұрын

I had one and like he says the keyboard terrible. You had to push down hard right in the center of the key

@RagShop1 6 ай бұрын

A nice trip down memory lane!

@DTM-Books 6 ай бұрын

Yes, these are all great Atari 8-bit arcade games. Highly recommended. Also, instead of Jumpman or Miner 2049er, I’d choose Mr. Robot, which is the best of the bunch and also include a level designer.

@youreallyplaythat 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I will check it out. I love games with level designers!

@retrovideogamejunkie 5 ай бұрын

I came here after hear about the mini atari 400 announcement....cheers!

@youreallyplaythat 5 ай бұрын

Ha! I put in my pre order already. I'm getting one for sure!

@retrovideogamejunkie 5 ай бұрын

@@youreallyplaythat we'll wait that video ... Funny enough, I played that bruce lee so much when i was a kid but in a 800xl

@puzzud 4 ай бұрын

Concerning the yellow Spy Hunter. I was a Commodore kid. It does seem a lot of odd color choices to various games on that system, like all the green in Archon. Definitely a sort of a game aesthetic that has been lost to time.

@youreallyplaythat 4 ай бұрын

Still can't tell If this maybe is the way the output looks on modern tvs. Maybe the mini 400 will bridge the color gap. Thanks for stopping by!

@Hologhoul Жыл бұрын

Great video! I do think the quality was a fair step up from the VCS, the 400 seems closer to the 5200? Pac-Man indeed looks excellent, thought I've never found the admittedly weird VCS version "abysmal" at all, we all loved it. I know many disagree though, at least retrospectively! Must have been exciting, having a home version of Star Wars so soon after it arrived in the arcades. River Raid is such a polished game, I don't think it needed any other improvements on the 400 really. Thanks again for zero b/s videos, always enjoyable not to have to endure the trying-too-hard-to-be-funny-with-crass-humour which bedevils so many other channels!

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

Definitely closer to the 5200 and the star wars game is one of my favorites. Thanks for watching! I never thought talking about the 400 would be my most popular video!

@Hologhoul Жыл бұрын

@@youreallyplaythat I just remember it being such a magical era because it was already amazing having arcade type games at home, Atari VCS etc., but the consoles and home computers were, by the early 80s, starting to approximate the arcade more closely. It was an immensely exciting time! I didn’t realise the 400 arrived as early as ’79.

@elbiggus Жыл бұрын

The 5200 is basically a consolised Atari 8 bit computer; they're not compatible but the bulk of the hardware is the same in both systems. (And I also enjoyed the 2600 version of Pac Man - as a kid growing up in the UK I had never seen the arcade version so I had nothing to compare it against, and while it's not a great port of the original it's still a perfectly playable game.)

@Hologhoul Жыл бұрын

@@elbiggusI'm UK as well, was pretty young when the first waves of arcade games arrived, so any version at home was really exciting. Good times. And great to still relive them.

@markbcrich Жыл бұрын

I noticed Spy Hunter. On the Atari, for some reason, it defaults in Novice mode. You would need to change it to Normal for it to behave like the arcade. Then you will see all of the other cars and such.

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thank you. That will help!

@errollleggo447 Жыл бұрын

I typed in a ton of magazine games on that crappy keyboard hehe.

@DadRacer Жыл бұрын

Yeah! Missile Command!

@10p6 3 ай бұрын

Wow. The 400 came out in 1979, years before the Vic 20 and C64. When it did come out, it came out with the 800 which had more ram and a full keyboard (the 400 was a cost reduced machine so more people could afford it); both the 400 and 800 came out numerous years before the Famicom / NES. If you 'compare' the 2600 games to the 400/800 you will see a big difference in graphics. The list goes on. I think you should try making this video again with the full facts at hand.

@youreallyplaythat 3 ай бұрын

Yeah. This was my first exposure to the system. 40 years or so late, I suppose. Excited to see the 400 mini next month. Been playing some games and I've been impressed with the number of custom boulderdaah games. They're awesome!

@peterscottodonnell7290 Жыл бұрын

Atari computer and Commodore 64 games were very close to the original arcade games.

@Szejski 4 ай бұрын

Jumpman Junior and Miner 2049 are suspiciously similar to Donkey Kong.

@youreallyplaythat 4 ай бұрын

Lot's of similar gameplay elements in a lot of games back then. Jumpman Junior is decent.

@blikketty77 10 ай бұрын

Miner 2049er is a classic, and the levels 1-10 are very clever as it introduces the transporters and the slides and you have to figure out how to "color" various parts of the screen. The signs in Pole Position - it sucks that they have nothing on them, but if they remove them then there is no obstacle that makes you explode (hence why they are always at the outside corner). I disagree about River Raid, this version has a smoothness that makes it easier to play, it almost feels slower even though it's not. I love this version of Spy Hunter too, to me the NES version is such a "twitch" game where you have to kind of memorize what the screen does next and then know which side you can evade too, whereas on this one, you can see it as it comes. No real point in getting a disk drive for a 400, as you will need more than 16k to play most disk games. If you had an 800 (or just an emulator), then yeah, there are tons of amazing disk based games.

@youreallyplaythat 10 ай бұрын

I just got an 800xl. Am looking forward to checking out more!

@billyhorn7886 7 ай бұрын

I think the billboards in pole position are there as obstacles to avoid crashing into

@youreallyplaythat 7 ай бұрын

Hahah. I crash into them Plenty

@SoulforSale 8 ай бұрын

the Atari 400 has the same specs as the Atari 5200...

@EnjoySynthSounds 5 ай бұрын

I suppose drawing posters on them billboards during Pole Position is taxing on the CPU and memory. However, Pac-Man looks great. ***As of 20024, Jan 11, Retro Games have just announced an Atari 400 mini.

@MarquisDeSang 4 ай бұрын

Just pre-ordered the mini on Amazon.

@youreallyplaythat 4 ай бұрын

I got on that list too. Happy to see they're making it. I imagine the future possibilities of a full sized unit are now possible too! Thank you for watching!

@andymontemayor175 Жыл бұрын

Those membrane switch keys were murder. The 800 was better

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

I would love one of those!

@JustMe99999 10 ай бұрын

@@neb6 Do you have a source for that? I doubt that's true.

@stephenchase2537 Жыл бұрын

I just subscribed.

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@granderwishes Жыл бұрын

Overall the colors look overly dark to me. Very interesting to see still, just seems a bit odd graphically.

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

Getting a video output was a bit of a chore. The most direct route made some games look fine and others a bit washed, I think.

@uj7110 Жыл бұрын

River Raid was alot better than the 2600 version

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

You think so? I'll have to try it again. Thanks for watching!

@biblehistoryscience3530 Жыл бұрын

_Eastern Front 1941_ was the BEST game.

@youreallyplaythat Жыл бұрын

Thank you for pointing it out. I will get it on the list! Never played it.

@biblehistoryscience3530 Жыл бұрын

@@youreallyplaythat, I suspect that game is the grandfather of the computer wargame genre because these were the early days.

@tenminutetokyo2643 Жыл бұрын

DOOD!

@berzerk2600 Жыл бұрын

You can crash into the signs, so they force you to learn how to use your brakes on sharp turns.

@JustMe99999 10 ай бұрын

In any driving game, it's better to lay off the gas rather than breaking.

@johneygd 8 ай бұрын

Too bad you got no nintendo games on it paw,but pac man is definitely a must have.

@ngiants2230 9 ай бұрын

I disagree with what you said about pole position because the billboards are used to give a sense of speed and movement. Without them and the fact that the other cars are intermittent, then you wouldn’t get a good sense of movement or speed.

@jeffreycoogan09 Жыл бұрын

There was an Atari 400 game called ''Jumpman Junior''? That's odd...Considering the fact that ''Mario'' was originally named "Jumpman". Could there be a connection?

@tonybarnes2920 8 ай бұрын

No, no connection. Jumpman and Jumpman Jr. Back then (and even now to some extent) Japanese developers would not look at anything outside of other Japanese developers, so I doubt Miyamoto ever saw Jumpman. It's simply a coincidence. Jumpman is one of my all-time favorite games and I mention it whenever I'm interviewed about my past game making inspirations.