Atari Flashback

[dave9199]

Adventure was the best in that it had NO music at all. Has anyone else ever found the microdot in that game? Video Pinball I played a lot also. My brother would play Missle Command a bit. I loved Donkey Kong in the arcade but the Atari version sucked. I remember Gorf though I didn't play it much. 5 screens, right? Last was a big ship? My friend loves Galaxian (or Galaga, what was the difference?). My father would take me to arcades and he always played Battle Zone, the one where you're in a tank blowing up other tanks. Remember when Dragon's Lair came out? That was soooo cool. I wasn't good at all at it. Space Ace followed that one, but I remember that one even less. Those were the only 2 games I remember that had a monitor on top to watch. I also remember Raiders Of The Lost Ark for Atari. I thought that was a cool game too.

There was another Atari game I remember playing a few times but could never remember the name. I could only identify it by sight. It was thin red lines that you jumped up & down too. I don't even remember the point of the game. What I do recall was you'd keep jumping up to higher & smaller lines and then at one point you'd jump down & would just fall trying to land on another red line. It was that sense of falling for what seemed like a long time that I thought was so cool that I still remember it. Anyone know which one I'm talking about?

[Robert J]

Oh man - it's like I've gone back to grade 8 again . Those were the days.

Coleco anyone?

[Jim Dye]

Has anyone else ever found the microdot in that game?

Oh yeah. You had to take the purple bridge into the black or white castle and use it to enter a sealed room. Once you had the dot, it allowed you to go right through those barriers to the secret room!

[Soulstation1]

[WD45]

I just last week downloaded Dig Dug on my mobile phone. Love it!

[Soulstation1]

tempest

Edited May 10, 2005 by Soulstation1

[Soulstation1]

[dave9199]

My father had bought an Intelivision & still has it. Went they went under he bought up as many games as possible for cheap. He still has them and many I think aren't even opened. I remember trying to comprehend a game called Utopia where you made your own country.

[Jim R]

This is tempting. B-) My wife's family had a 2600 back in the late 70's, when we were in college. Our friends used to come over to play too. That was "cutting edge" technology back then! We had a bunch of Atari and Activision games, most of which we picked up used, at garage sales and such. Some of them we never even got around to playing. To the best of my recollection, we had:

Air-Sea Battle

Asteroids

Backgammon

Barnstorming (Activision)

Basketball

Blackjack

Boxing

Brain Games

Breakout

Casino

Chopper Command (Activision)

Circus Atari

Codebreaker

Combat

Defender

Freeway (Activision)

Golf

Grand Prix (Activision)

Gunslinger

Ice Hockey (Activision)

Kaboom! (Activision)

Laser Blast (Activision)

Maze Craze

Missile Command

Night Driver

Othello

Outlaw

Pac-Man

Pitfall! (Activision)

River Raid

Skiing (Activision)

Space Invaders

Starmaster (Activision)

Super Breakout

Surround

Tennis (Activision)

Video Chess

Video Olympics

Video Pinball

Now that I think about it... this may be the one to go for, to use on my son's Playstation2:

http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_anthology/playstation2

[Soulstation1]

atari flashback is $20 at bestbuy

ss1

[Aggie87]

Galaga! I loved this game, spent WAY too many quarters & hours playing it.

You can get Galaga (along with Ms. Pac Man, Xevious, Pole Position, and Mappy) in this Ms. Pac Man game machine that plugs directly into you TV, and only costs about $15-20. My daughter "owns" it.

[Soulstation1]

what was the williams' pinball game that had the police siren on top of it?

ss1

[Soulstation1]

[catesta]

Pole Position

[scottb]

I have one of these from about 1985--it still works! I score virtually every possession. 

Scoring every possesion was never my goal. I used to try to hold the ball for an entire quarter to eliminate my oponents chances to score.

[sidewinder]

'Galaxians' cost me a whole mountain of 10p pieces at the pub.

I remember when that ping-pong tennis came out too. Seemed miraculous at the time in that distant analog past. B-)

[Soulstation1]

I have one of these from about 1985--it still works! I score virtually every possession. 

Scoring every possesion was never my goal. I used to try to hold the ball for an entire quarter to eliminate my oponents chances to score.

hey..... that's my trick

[marcoliv]

My father had bought an Intelivision & still has it. Went they went under he bought up as many games as possible for cheap. He still has them and many I think aren't even opened.

i still have my Intellivision too!! and it still works

it was so hard to get their games here in Rio!!

my Atari with more than 50 games was stolen when we moved back from Ivory Coast to Brazil. then my dad got an Atari clone and a lunatic guy wanted to trade it for his Intellivision

later i got a Sega Genesis and a Sega CD

i'm still tempted to have a PS2 but......

Marcus

[marcoliv]

I have one of these from about 1985--it still works! I score virtually every possession.

i have one of this too!!

i also have one for Soccer....i'm brazilian right?

Marcus

ps:nice thread...sweet memories!!!

[Jim Dye]

Keep Try!

Edited May 11, 2005 by Jim Dye

[Soulstation1]

pacman is celebrating it's 25th birthday this month

[Soulstation1]

Human Space Invaders

4 you old school gamers

[Scott Dolan]

I'm glad you resurrected this thread! I missed it the first time around.

Man!! What major flashbacks!! I sure miss those old arcade games. Plunk in a quarter, play for about 20 minutes (if you were good), and then Game Over. Move on to something else.

That kind of blissful simplicity is completely gone from the gaming world anymore.

[sal]

Count me in as one who misses the video arcade! Street Fighter II was the last hurrah.

I've played games since the Atari 2600, and am still hooked to this day. I'm planning on getting a Playstation 3 later this year.

[tjluke68]

My local COSTCO had a stand alone they were selling that had about 100 old games on it. I would spend about 15-20 mins playing games everytime I went shopping (and the wife wasn't with me). Always playing:

BERZERK - INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT

and ROBOTRON 2084 - think I got up to level 7 or 8 - even better than when I was a kid.

Remember:

ZAXON

DIG DUG

JOUST

TRACK N FIELD

TRON