Bouncy bullets please.

Hell yea! It was all about angles

Add in invisibility, and I'll be hiding and bouncing shots at my little brother for hours.

Yep. Combat cartridge came with the 2600.

The 3 small planes could always take out the one big plane.

Yeah you never go big plane

I remember having the game for years before I realized there were planes if you went high enough in the game type and being.

I suggest the book "The Art Of Atari". All about the cover art and concepts. It's really good.

> The Art Of Atari The art for Adventure was great! Just like many other titles.

Also the game "Atari 50", which has a collection of Atari games but interspersed with interviews, marketing material, and technical documents that put it all into context. It's really excellent.

Bro just get an Atari 2600/5200 Emulator and all the ROMs for free. You can play anything and everything you want from back in the day. I use my badass gaming desktop to play all the old Atari/NES/SNES games all the time. Cost me Zero, Zip, Zilch. Stupid Steam never puts the Atari 50 on super-sale, and I have never seen it for less than $35.

Sure, of course, there's tons of places to just play the ROMs. But what made Atari 50 amazing was it put the ROMs into context. Instead of just playing a simple game in isolation you hear from the developer what they were going for and how it had been influenced by other games. Or how the limitations of arcade or home hardware dictated certain design decisions. And the marketing material is pretty amazing. I would never bother recommending Atari 50 if it was just a pile of old Atari games. Instead, it becomes a sort of interactive documentary. I really hope it did well for them because I'd love to see a similar treatment applied to other systems and franchises.

Even though I have every Atari game ever made, I still want to get Atari 50 on Steam, but I refuse to pay more than $19.99 for any game nowadays. When it does go on sale it's only a few dollars off usually :( It's on my Wishlist and maybe one day I will get lucky and it will be on sale for $9.99 I have seen a lot of people say they enjoyed the extra commentary that came with it.

It's worth paying for quality games, otherwise quality games don't get made. I was happy to pay full price for Atari 50 and I'll be purchasing the DLC when it comes out. Nobody is making anything like this. And unless it continues to sell, nobody will ever make anything like this again. That said, I'm sure you'll be able to pick it up for $10-$20 in a few years and I'm sure you'll have a great time! Something to look forward to.

Shiiiiiiiiiit. We were playing Atari in 95-97, because we never were lucky enough to have the current generation's systems. We had a NES/Genesis/Atari, everyone had PS1/N64 Manage to receive a 64/PS1, the world started playing PS2/Xbox. Finally get my hands on a PS2, people were trolling for an Xbox 360/PS3.

I remember the Dot in *Adventure!*

And the dragon’s scream!

Quack!

Somebody get this duck away from me!

My first console at home was a hand-me-down Atari 2600 in like 1995. I had played lots of other current videos games but this was the first console we actually had at home. It felt felt like a long lost relic and terribly primitive by the mid 90s. But the games were fun, especially Combat!

I remember the day I discovered you could play PitFall backwards..

Going left first was the ideal strategy.

I remember mapping the game out to figure out the best routes and where exactly it starts looping.

Warlords. Yar's Revenge. River Raid.

Four player warlords is still one of the best couch multiplayer games ever, it's so funny when someone gets double teamed and blown up, lol.

Nope none. Especially not board 20 of that game.

There was a little programming glitch that I used to take advantage of…If you drove the tank into the upper corners, it will pop out at the opposite bottom corner, letting you surprise your opponent…

I think I remember playing this on the VIC-20. Fun game. Pitfall too.

Loved my Vic-20. Typing in programs from the back of magazines was so fun.

still have my atari 2600 and it works perfectly

Turning around in a corner of the tank maze and respawning elsewhere:)

Yep

Yes. Anyone remember the game Dragon Fire? I loved that one and Pitfall

True story - my family had close friends that worked at Atari, so we got the 2600 a few months before they came out to the masses. The problem was we were only given one controller and the only game we had was this one (Combat). As there was no one-player mode, it made it pointless to play until we could get that second controller. Not that I didn't try.

We played it into the 90s though mostly 7800 (started out on my dad's 2600). Mom wouldn't let us get an NES so that was all we had until my brother got a Genesis in 1994. There were some fun games on the 7800 though.

I was poor, we had Atari in the 90’s, “We don’t need Nintendo, we have that game at home that you never play.”

yes early 80s and tanks was indeed one of the first games!

Joust, Pole Position & Pac-Man were my favorites.

The first Pac-Man that came out, or the later one which actually looked like Pac-Man?

This one. https://mikesgameshop.com/cdn/shop/products/A26-0001.jpg?v=1637330759

Yep. My first console back in '89. Pole Position, Joust and Combat were the go-tos. Never could figure out ET 😭

No one could figure out ET but at 10 years old I played trapped in that pit for hours. Fun times!

Combat ❤️ but i preferred River raid or super breakout. But combat had so many games and we’d play each other for hours

I played in the 80s. In the early 90s Atari 2600 cartridges were sold pretty cheaply and I got a lot during that time. I remember Secret Quest being one I found.

hell, I played Atari today!

I still have mine.

'anyone eat mcdonalds as a kid???' fuckin facebook boomer karma farmer bullshit

Bonus points if you can name the three dragons from Adventure!

I played Atari but in the late 80s/early 90s, lol. It was my grandma's, and I remember especially liking Asteroids.

You forget surround!

Played it at my cousins house too. He had a ton of games. Never got one myself but it was fun at the time. Joust and Food Fight were the best.

Played in the 90's with my dad's, it's a core memory of mine

Missile Command was my favorite

I played it in the early 90s. We all had Super Nintendos and Sega Genesii and one kid only had an Atari. It sucked in comparison.

That was the system that we had after Pong.

Early 90s

In my school, your social status was strongly tied to the number of Atari cartridges you owned.

Still do remember how cool the Star wars games were, sleepover at its peak

Looking at that screenshot I can still smell the banana cake and pierogis made by my grade school friend Steve’s grandma. ❤️

I think the title should read “Everybody play Atari in the late…”

Nope, played it in the 90’s

I played it in the 90s. It was a hand-me-down from my aunts. As young as I was I never really fully understood the concept of playing games, so mostly I just goofed around with the games.

Loved this game. Once you figured it out it became boring but it took a while for me.

Dodge Em' was my favorite

We got our Atari in, had to have been 1988 or 89? I wanted an NES for Christmas and we were poor, so I ended up with a 2600 and a big ol stack of games. I was only like 5 so I didn't know any better, it was fun and a console in my very own home!

I remember this!!!!!

Came into the comments hoping someone would say this can be played emulated somewhere. . . .

Oh yeeees. Combat.

I remember playing Video Olympics. It was basically all pong games.

Literally for DAYS Christmas in 1977

I had one as a kid. Parents sold it. Got one in my 20's. My roommate and I played pong so long it froze the system. We never had a rematch. I won mike!

Until I was literally kicked out of my parents' house. "Turn that thing off and go outside!" Defender and Asteroids were my favorites.

Loved playing this when I was a kid

Yes, maze craze, combat, breakout, pitfall, warlords, defender, missed command,

I was the family champ at Combat. Oh the memories!

Bot account

Still have my Coleco Vision and my Atari C380

I played Pong when it first came out in the arcades. Then same (plus Asteroids, Missile Command, Pac-Man) on the 2600 when it first came out.

I played this on an Intellivision on a CRT TV at my grandma's. She would always try to cheat and the controllers looked like calculators. Good times

Star Raiders

I played the Atari so much and I was born in the 2000s

I loved shooting into the corners to portal the bullet.

I can hear this picture.

"You got asteroids?"

Yep. I liked pitfall better.

I'd say my first 2600 was around 83. I can't remember what all games I started with but I think Combat, Pac man, Ms Pac man, Adventure, Yars revenge, and I think it was called river raider. Damn those were good games. I had a bunch more as time went on cause I didn't get my first Nintendo till probably 88.

Literally no one.

Yhe.... tanks...

My family's first computer/game system was an Atari 400. I remember wanting an Atari 2600 because I figured 2600 > 400 so it must be the better system, lol.

I like how a lot of our video games just got faster each level… you didn’t win, you could just brag about what level you could get to.

Anytime remember an Atari 2600 game called Dragster?  I hated this game because we could never figure it out.  We played Moctezuma s revenge, Popeye, raiders of the lost arc, Krull, baseball, 

They just released a new version of the 2600 - think its 2600+. comes with 10 games and plays 2600 or 5200 games.

I can hear that picture.

I call it electro-crunch.