River Raid (Atari 2600) gameplay

Me playing River Raid on my Atari 2600.
No emulators here, I played this on a real Atari 2600 console.

[@JB-hl1qx]

Loved playing this as a kid ! Puts a smile on my face typing this ♥. We had such a great time. Lucky to be 80s kids .

[@MA.CUTLER]

makes me wanna cry....loved my childhood days, atari rocks!!!!

[@PelczarTomasz]

I agree...

[@dest1037]

Same man, do you remeber how awesome this game was. Me and my friends used to play it day and night.

[@MA.CUTLER]

@@dest1037 yes sit sir!!🤦🏽‍♂️

[@dreia2405]

Me too, 😪

[@benomotions]

@@dest1037 Yessir, old days...

[@persia950]

Ohhhh! it's nostalgic. I had a stick that it's red button was on the base, after a while my father got an Helicopter shape stick for my birthday, I was surprised. I love those days. It was my world, small, innocent, but full of joy.

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

persia. the red button was the "SHOOT"!! button.

[@elperroreggae]

This game is ahead its time by like 15 years!

[@TrollonymousFU2]

it looks boring by today's standards but it was really fun to play, especially because you could speed up and slow down, giving you a lot of control and potential to build skill, unlike most games made by atari itself. The Activision guys were probably some of Atari's best game designers and left disgruntled to start their own company, resulting in some of the best Atari games ever made.

[@bfdarecords5614]

@@TrollonymousFU2 was a great game to play .. woudl lose it at times when the atari would freeze or mom would be vacuuming the lounge room an step on one of the adapter cords ahahah good times

[@jeo75]

35 years

[@Pablo-gu4xp]

Mi juego de infancia. Nostalgia. Me pasaba horas jugando. Tenías que llegar a un millón de puntos . Tardes y Noches . Los mejores juegos

[@hectorhomero3789]

Si llegabas al millón se terminaba el juego o era infinito?

[@patilacabesona]

​@@hectorhomero3789todos los juegos de ac tivision al rebasar los 99999 se paralizaba

[@Pablo-gu4xp]

Se Terminaba con signos de exclamación

[@stormy3898]

Respect for Carol Shaw ❤

[@rapidranjan]

This was the game that introduced me to the world of video games I have a very faint memory of a fighter plane flying and knocking off helicopters over a blue strip, finally found it, brings my childhood memories back it was 1983-84.

[@OUTDABOXX1]

For some reason this popped into my mind, never thought I’d see this game again what a great memory from my childhood!

[@Proofltd]

The first game I have ever played.... late 80's

[@ericdawson1088]

me 2

[@pizzafria52]

X 3

[@marcelloribeiro2750]

Same!

[@indian7372]

Me too

[@bartholomewlyons]

Luv yall

[@aniketbelsare]

This was my MOST FAVORITE Games among all...Thanks a millions for Sharing...I had Atari 2600 Jr....My childhood was Awesome...Thanks once again...Sweet Memories from 1990's Reborn Again...

[@RezaAP]

+Aniket Belsare 90s? this was 80s man. bro you were generations behind. 90s was all about nintendo.

[@aniketbelsare]

+Persian Life True Brother...I started playing in 90s when I was 10...Thanks.

[@dest1037]

@@aniketbelsare same lol, I loved this game and played it in the early 90s

[@AdamBrussGoGo]

I loved this game so much. I like how it's dead silence when you die until it starts again. I also love the sound the fuel makes especially when you get all the way filled up and it just beeps at you.

[@BDOUG23]

Great memories!!! Remember getting it for Christmas when I was a kid. STILL have it as well as all the other games I had.

[@shsh12345]

After 14 years from your comment, do you miss the days when you posted this comment?

[@user-mx4ve7nf1r]

Hello, I'm from Iran. This game reminds me of my dad and memories. My dad always used to play with pillows under his hands and watched with those hands for hours and we watched with gusto. 💗💗

[@PelczarTomasz]

All the best...

[@jesussavesjesusheals7922]

Okay, at five years old I found the flying and refueling noise fu**ing awesome! The two things I couldn't work out is why the f#?k my plane would crash into the banks of the river, or for that matter THE BRIDGES, which are far below me...

[@scorpionk4403]

My god this takes me back, can remember playing this with my uncles when I was a kid and I could never beat there scores 😂😂😂 had us entertained for hours and hours lol

[@Spider_Rico]

This game goes on forever. Most games back in the day were all about getting a high score.

[@ceeIoc]

This is the game that made me fall in love with video games in general.

[@dest1037]

Same

[@a.dean80]

My favorite childhood game. Could never beat it.

[@GunSam]

lol. I remember it being the 1980's and my mom playing this and getting mad at it. She's now 70 years old.

[@91bravic12]

My mom also played this, was her favorite. She just passed this year and was 71,

[@coffeebreakneyfyagudelo7925]

He buscado este juego toda la vida... ahora puedo morir feliz

[@Bruin10145]

An absolute all time classic! I love the sound effects when you run out of gas!

[@mwawadoshanga]

Super!!!! Lots of memories here!!! I loved playing this game...

[@CebrinaSandersSpeaks]

This game needs to be remade.

[@hidden_vault]

hate to admit it but they could never remake this as good as it was for then

[@Susrek]

People today rarely like games where you start from the beginning when you die. I miss the arcades.

[@PelczarTomasz]

I agree...

[@TommyDaSavage]

I loved this game. Watching you takes me back to the best American decade...the 80’s

[@1701alpha]

One of the greatest games ever made!

[@StaceyHerewegrowagain]

This was the first game I ever played as a kid. I miss it so much lol Thank you for bringing me back to when I was a kid. I really enjoyed this video and I usually don't watch people play games online lol. Your really good at this one!

[@TheBeliever-vu8wc]

Back in the days when there was no youtube or facebook. Just pure good time with friends

[@enker26]

20 something years later and i just found that you can destroy the fuel for extra points, i feel like i met an old friend.

[@Hologhoul]

Incredible game for its time, which still holds up well even now! Brilliant programming showed what the 2600 was capable of. Great memories!

[@conniethomas4753]

True playing it now on a all in console affair!& as when 8-0 I’m addicted!

[@Hologhoul]

@@conniethomas4753 A timeless game!

[@DukeHazord]

I am currently playing this game on the Xbox 360, it really brings back good memories. Awesome game of it's generation

[@blubuddha]

I remember watching my dad play this game. It was his favorite. He had it on 5200 though and it had a couple different enemies including a tank that rolled across the bridge and hot air balloons lol AWESOME game. Thanks for posting

[@Jennadanger10]

This game is a classic. I love the newer games and all the graphical enhancements, but this game stands the test of time.

[@dest1037]

People will never understand how good this was back in the days.

[@aledorta3796]

​@@dest1037Era bueno antes y ahora también es bueno

[@StuartGrahamV]

wow I totally forgot about this game, but seeing the FUEL label brought me so many memories.

[@Gitfiddle]

I remember playing this game with my great aunt in Alabama when I was a little kid. We drove down from Michigan for my grandmother’s funeral. First time I met that side of my family. It’s burned into my memory.

[@kdiddyindahouse]

Excellent video!!! Brings back many memories. Thanks for uploading!

[@okidoki3191]

Best Atari 2600 game ever Made , loved it back then

[@VicenteSJB]

Que saudade!!!!!! Que vontade de jogar de novo...

[@chandrashekhar1805]

Legendary game... Can't forget those days when my elder brothers used to play this... Even today I can't consider any fighter plane game equivalent to this...

[@brunocpimenta]

I'm living a very small town by the countryside in Brazil (about just 8k people). Its not my hometown, but I been here for some years now and, as days go by, I'm meeting and getting to know its funny characters. There is a unusual case here of a old man (he's 75 now) who *love* videogames. He used to play with his son (who passed more than a decade ago) and always been a vicious player, hahahah. Not exactly an aficionado, he just had a few consoles (an Atari, a Super Nes and a Ps1), but played the hell out of each one. Today he still into games, but plays mostly just little mobile stuff. Told me about this one today and I had to check it out. His eyes shine when he speaks about it... a 75 year old man, shining like a kid with its videogames. A beautiful sight ❤ Ps: I hope we can all be like that in the future.

[@aviezek3072]

thank you! this brings back memories...haahh...i was so into this game and quite good at it...i think this was the best atari game that time..it was so addictive

[@dukerling]

just saw Atari doco on Netflix and FINALLY remembered what this game was called! SOO many memories here;) thanks

[@RaptureMusicOfficial]

The Atari version of River Raid looks almost like the C64 version! I wonder why most other Atari 2600 didn't have such awesome graphics and smooth scrolling!I grew up with Atari 2600 and C64! :)

[@navidutube]

Nostalgic! I used to play this... it was high-tech those days

[@martinrking]

Awesome risk/reward mechanic here with the fuel. Very pure and simple design!

[@robertdeckard2136]

It always surprises me when I see atari games in color. When I was a kid, I only ever played atari at my great grandpa's house or at the neighbor's house across the street. In both cases, the atari was hooked up to an old black and white television with rabbit ears. So for several decades until I looked up atari gameplay footage on youtube I had just assumed the atari didn't even support color, like with the original gameboy.

[@errantcoyote05]

One of my favorites games back in the day, along with Combat, never knew it's name till today, used to call it "the little plane"

[@mgbaraujo]

One of my all time favorite!!!

[@nerdypeachmango]

oh wow i used to play this when i was a kid and it was old back then...but i could not remember the name until i came across an amazon link for an atari flashback console....this title was on the cover and i found this video. this is it!! I used to love this game!

[@jimijackson]

I loved this game growing up

[@bluebull399]

I remember the day my brother brought home river raid and air raid. Back in the 80s our parents didn't buy us magazines so the only way we found out about new games was at the school playground or on the few TV shows that covered gaming. The first time I saw river raid I was overwhelmed by how smooth the graphics were. Obviously it's a bit crap today but back then it was such a fun game to play.

[@alberthuckabey3169]

river raid is the best 2600 game I wore out a lot of those junk ass JOY sticks on it!

[@Randy-ry9ss]

Warlord.....Outlaw.....Combat.....Indy 500....those had more replay value.

[@equilagioia]

El mejor juego de su época!! Me pasaba horas jugandolo.

[@aledorta3796]

Justo hoy me compré el Atari 50 aniversario para PlayStation 5 y por desgracia este juego de River Raid no aparece y yo lo considero si no el primero, el segundo mejor juego de Atari.

[@MikeBiddle]

Loved this game!

[@Kurt293]

Great vid, brought back some memories :)

[@6690698]

you kept shooting the fuel!!! lol good vid, takes me back!!

[@sarwatsheikh8278]

OMG! You reminded me of my childhood :D

[@momosaferi]

Awsome game, almost 20,000 👍🏽✈️⛽🚨🛥️🛫⛴️ good memories 😊🍃

[@Aztecia]

This was the first game I ever played. It was the reason I have loved gaming all my life!

[@jock4551]

Same, it was not my first love in gaming but it sure was my first game.

[@AshitanoJonas]

"Hier findet im Kindesalter eine paramilitärische Ausbildung statt"

[@larsson71h53]

One of my favourite games on the Atari!

[@tangelorajan]

you're pretty good at this game. It was one of my favourites (along with Enduro and Spider Fighter) on the 2600.

[@Sinful81]

Favourite game in childhood

[@christophergambino3934]

I wasted so much time playing Atari 2600. This brings me back to a time when I was a teen and my life was filled with drama. But games like this shut out the whole world. As well as heavy metal music. Still love my childhood even though it was hard...wouldn't change it for anything...

[@SegaSaturnGamer48]

One of the best Atari 2600 games ever made! :)

[@dave6279]

That one and pitfall!!

[@nibelungvalesti]

I remember playing this when I was 3 years old. Thank you for the video!

[@SuperEdgem]

OMG .... I can play this blindfolded. Watching this video is like experiencing the long gone whole of suspense, thrill and tension.

[@1badboybad]

This was the greatest game ever , in late 80s in Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Kabul before the war started , I used to ride a bike with few of my friends for 4 km and pay 20 rupee for this game To play , and after months of practice , the longer we played , we had to keep paying 20 extra rupee , what a game

[@aawan9953]

after 20 years i seen this game loved it

[@UziDoesIt8818]

My mom was obsessed with this game when it first came out

[@silopes38]

Saudades deste jogo e desse tempo bom que não volta mais!!!

[@josevazquez401]

Recuerdo allá por 1985 que decíamos, vamos a las maquinitas, tenías que introducir una moneda de 50 centavos (Honduras)

[@entidadalan4967]

¡GRACIAS POR DISEÑAR ESTE JUEGO CAROL SHAW!

[@badbrad9999]

I love the beautiful simplicity of the Atari 2600

[@khanukhanu-ip5ov]

Al fin encontre el nombre de este juego que lo disfrute tanto en la infancia omg

[@ZayyanAjaz]

This was my first game i played on TV. Love the memories

[@selami32]

you played well and good video recording thanks for all.

[@KJ3113]

I got the Atari around 1986. And this game same time. Right now is 2022, which equals a 36 yr diff

[@quesadilla247]

This game does indeed have a ending. It was the very first video game i ever beat. i love this game to this day! river raid and phoenix were my fav atari games!

[@scorpionk4403]

Really I thought it just kept going till you died, roughly how many levels were there

[@patilacabesona]

​@@scorpionk4403como todos los juegos de acti vision en atari al 99999 se paraliza o al disparar te matas

[@donengland9140]

It’s funny, I haven’t played or seen this game in 40 years, but I still know those first few levels by heart, I played it so much. Wasn’t there a deal that if you made it to 100,000 points, you could take a pic of your tv, mail it in and get a certificate or something? I never made it…

[@RecklessLife76]

Takes me back. Best game ever

[@maximusprime3459]

This, Berzerk, and Atlantis were my games back then

[@Siska0Robert]

The sound effects are so intense! *me gusta*

[@DAVUT_06-]

Cocukluguma döndüm ne kadar güzel günlerdi. Nerden bulurum bunu

[@Firguy]

River Raid is a good game. Shoot 'em ups have gradually gotten insanely difficult and weird, like Touhou, as time has gone by so it's nice to play one that doesn't try to spill hot coffee in your lap. And it's got a creative twist on an old gameplay loop as your plane needs fuel and you can either top it off with the fuel barrels you come across or you can shoot them for a lot of points. Having to be presented with choices that you have to make a conscious decision about makes the game more fun. It's also nice to see a game with good graphics (relative to the system specs, of course) as a lot of Atari games have ugly graphics that don't look like anything whereas, here, I can see houses, trees, boats, planes, helicopters.

[@Oneshot2k6]

this is the very 1st video game i ever played,its because of this started it all that i because an addicted gamer today, xbox ps3 psp. brings alot of memories :)

[@imtheantifamily]

That game got so hard so fast you ended up busting the crummy joysticks with all of the thrashing about. Thanks Carol!

[@jespinozaef]

Excelente juego, gratos recuerdos, un saludo desde el Ecuador

[@queen_of_domination]

Damn I miss this game! I miss my Atari.

[@asabra69]

what a classic game i remember i use to fill up the fuel an i would shoot itup an get points like that.. but i hated those blue aeroplanes lol

[@chrisfullington1895]

copyright 1982 talk about bringing back some memories

[@davidradecky5399]

I still have this game two of them actually. I still own an Atari 2600 and I just recently got my Atari upgraded to modern day standards. In other words I took it apart cleaned the inside of the Atari up soldered back in the transistor and got rid of the old VHF cable connection and replaced it with a red yellow and white cord for my flat screen TV. Now I can plug it into any modern TV as long as it has video 1 or video 2. Although the picture isn’t great it’s still pretty good. Which I might have to adjust the tinting and color and contrast. but I think that’s because it’s a flat screen TV. I think if I get myself a small tube television set with the red yellow and white connection probably get a better quality of picture.

[@drewby2006]

i remember i was always late for school because i played this game

[@njersey75devil]

Anyone remember the patches that you could send away for once you reached a certain score? Ahhh the memories,..........

[@victhedude417]

Yes. I reached the level and got one of those patches. I think it took more than 30 minutes to reach it. If you remember you could not "pause" in this game. By the time I was done I was drained!

[@staceyjbh]

This in the day was like space invader on steroids. A stunning game although i always found it quite hard as a child. I'm still a noob even 36 years later :)

[@slipgatecentral]

Fuck, Activision used to make great games before Modern Warfare

[@skegee97edu]

My favorite game! Ahhh memories!

[@dingoxx3044]

amazing! 🎮

[@HakanKoseoglu]

This needs a movie adaptation. (Everything is possible after Battleship...)

[@mikeottonahrgang8456]

It's pretty hard to get a functional cartridge for the old Atari 2600. I would recommed to you the Activision Anthology with 45 Atari 2600 games for Playstation 2. In this collection you not only find River Raid but also River Raid 2.

[@theoriginal80sgamer39]

Classic game I'm going to have to play this game too