Blue Max Atari 8 Bit XL XE Review - The No Swear Gamer Ep 607

Today’s Atari 8 bit game review covers Blue Max by Synapse Software
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[@JasonMarshMusic]

I'm glad someone is going through the Atari 8 bit's game archive. It was my favorite game system!

[@10MARC]

Nice! I just scored an Atari 800 XL and 11 cartridges today for $90. It needs a bit of work, but it does function. I am a happy boy!

[@b213videoz]

Congatulations! It took me 34 years to get mine 🤪🤣

[@anthonysalvaro2979]

love your Atari computer game reviews..there are SO many great Atari games out there..you could do a different review for years if you have disk drive for your Atari

[@buffalodebill7986]

I got this one together with my 1050 disk drive, and I absolutely loved playing it.. The isometric view was quite new for the time and (especially) the altitude change made it quite challenging. Great memories, occasionally refreshed by playing it even today.

[@WayOutGaming]

This game looks really cool! Sorta like a WW1 version of Zaxxon

[@markstahl1464]

An astute observation, if I may say so.

[@markstahl1464]

In fact, they might have considered titling this game "Saxon".

[@MattMcIrvin]

That's exactly what it was. I never saw this on Atari but remember playing it on my friend's Commodore 64.

[@jabobo99]

I used to play this on the Commodore 64 back in the day. Lots of fun but very hard.

[@buffalodebill7986]

Same here - a couple of my friends of my childhood and I played both versions (there was an Atari 800 XL in my house and a C64 in one of my friends' house). Tons of fun, regardless of the system ;-)

[@rickr2183]

One of my favorite games of all time. Thanks for reviewing it.

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

SSI released a game called Warship for the Atari-800 it was tactical Naval Combat in the Pacific theatre. It was one of the best Naval combat simulators I have ever seen.

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

This was one of my favorite games on my Atari-800. I had it on cassette so it would take 15 minutes to load. I used to love dropping my bombs on the bridge just in front of the school busses so they would fall through the hole. You could also bomb ships. One flight sim I loved was F-15 Strike Eagle my Microprose I think. It was a fantastic and a decent attempt as a simulation. Hellcat Ace was another fantastic game.

[@MisterRobomareGaming]

Wow, this game looks pretty good. I played this on the C64 back in the day. 👍

[@b213videoz]

Yep, C64 version is slightly better

[@lsgreger2645]

Dang now I had to go look up clips of the British Bulldogs!

[@danestegman155]

Good video! Fun game for the Atari 8-bit computers!

[@TMS5100]

blue max is a GREAT game! one of my favorite on 8-bit. @4:29 easter egg! =)

[@matthewlane518]

Dynamite kid, Davey Boy Smith and dont forget Matilda!

[@evilubuntu9001]

If the game was remade in 2020 "Kamikaze Trainee" would be an achievement.

[@desiv1170]

"where pressing down on the joystick gains altitude" Oh! That would explain why I couldn't take off and kept crashing... ;-)

[@chrishelbling3879]

I loved this game. Don't think I ever beat it.

[@Rasdock]

Maybe the closest we’ll get to a Future Spy home port. I’d like to try it.

[@IntyMichael]

Played it back then on the C64.

[@JohnnyProctor9]

Better than Popeye? Crazy...

[@Rozzjd]

200% nostalgia 😪

[@matthewlane518]

Im so jelouse you got leader 1

[@MattMcIrvin]

Watching this now, I'm unreasonably annoyed by the way that the airplane sprites and the landscape are rendered with different perspective.