/vr/ - Retro Games

Everyone in /vr/ is 18-20, they're at that age when you feel you're super old and enjoy calling others underage, but they'd suffer an aneurysm if you put them in front of an atari2600 game.

I have almost all those

>>4149093
27 here. I only like 5-6 games on the atari catalog. But OP does have a few of them in there.

>>4149083
I have 5 of those, so I guess I'm safe.

>>4149083
Welp, haven't done any Atari collecting so I guess I'm fucked.

>>4149083
>no Yar's Revenge
fukken poser

>>4149083
>Own at least 4 of the games in the photo or GTFO.
I own the entirety of that picture, and over half of them I've had since they were new. My VCS collection is staggering. That said, it's also complete, at least as far as I'm concerned. The things I'm missing I have no real desire to own.

I own 12 of them. You should be ashamed you don't have Frostbite. It's my favorite on 2600. I have 3 big rubbermaid totes of the games, one tote is all duplicates. I'm working on a trade of duplicates with a buddy at work. Hope to get a 32x and some other stuff.

>>4149083

>A console so shitty it crashed the industry

Yeah, I think I'll stick to the arcade games from the era, thanks.

>>4149254
You know nothing pleb.

>>4149254
>i like to make things up in the hopes of baiting people
y tho?

>>4149083
I have ALL of those, OP. Check out this bad boy.

It's time for bed grandpa.

>>4149093
I'm 33 and don't care for the VCS either. Nor most of the stuff that came out before I was born for that matter. Some people are only intro retro out of habit not because they like gaming history or e-celebs.

>>4149308
I'm in it for closure.
Most of the retro games I play are games my friend had, games I rented once, or sequels I never had.

I've probably played all of those as a kid, but that's not the stuff that makes me nostalgic.

>>4149083
I'm 33 and I have most of those. No one is stopping you from making posts about pre-NES games. Eat a dong.

>>4149324
I just never really dropped those systems. I'm open to try new games for the gens I grew up with, but don't really care for anything older or more modern than that. Not into collecting either.

>>4149308

I'm 38 and grew up on atari til I was 10 years old. I have fond memories, but only 5 or so games are worth even playing today IMO.

>>4149083
I think you're too old to be here if you own a bunch of Atari games...my mom played this shit when she was in high school and she's in her 50's now...are you 50 and posting on 4chan?

This is all I have for some reason, I have XEGS stuff too
All of them were bought used

>>4149408
>too old to post on the retro board

>>4149083
>mfw I only own 2 of those
>mfw the best Atari games aren't even in this picture
You fucked up, OP. River Raid and Pitfall are really good, but Pitfall 2 is better.

What does /vr/ think of my Atari collection? It's pretty small, and I know I'm missing some great titles, but I think its a pretty decent collection so far.

>>4149460
I like it. You got a couple of clunkers there, but most of them are pretty fun.

Great Replies everyone! Thank You for all the sharing. The new Atari Flashback HD looks like it is going to be great for this era. Have a nice night, grandpa has to go to bed now.

>>4149409
>XEGS
SO JELLY! I have never seen one for sale in the wild here in Wisconsin. Hopefully someday I can score more of the computer line. It supported nearly every title ported from the arcades in the early 80's

>>4149370
HAHA, it was a wind-up to hear from people, dont take it personally. I will be back someday soon to post something interesting.

>>4149254
This. I can't think of anything to play outside of Space Invaders and Defender from that era.

>>4149501
I have so many good memories with it, I would like to buy some other peripherals too
And more games too, but I have yet to find games here is my state
I tried to test it, some weeks ago and the keyboard wasn't working, I will try to get it fixed

>>4149513
>noobs.

>>4149513
underage b&

>>4149513

>>4149083
to be honest... all of 4chan is a joke now

>>4149518
Nope, and you should learn to recognize that the console you grew up with can still be shitty, gramps.

>>4149517
You could have said Pitfall but that's even worse.

>>4149460
Secret Quest? Never heard of that.

Video Pinball is MASSIVELY underrated. The game play has VERY LITTLE to do with he flippers. If you don't know you can slightly "tilt" the ball to where you want it to go by holding down the button. You learn all the common bounce paths and how to get yourself steered into the high point/free ball areas and wreck shop. With some practice and enough time rolling the score board on that is doable and fun to achieve.

Mario was a decent port, even if the graphics are blocky.

While SQ:EW and SQ:FW are mostly pointless to own/play now that we are 40 years beyond to contest they were for, they are still fun to have. Grab some scans of the instructions and comic books and see if you can solve it.

You have a real gem though, Vanguard! Great shooter, couple different styles of game play, cool sound track music... the ONLY thing that sucks is that the final boss of level 1 is not a fight. I never made it through level 2 to find out what happens beyond.

DK:JR is also a good port and VERY fun to play.

Fun fact, Steve Jobs (that steve jobs) programmed Breakout.

>>4149526
>gramps
Mate, I'm 22. I'm just not a fucking pleb. There are plenty of good Atari 2600 games.

>>4149530
I wouldn't say the majority but to each their own.

>>4149521
What is wrong? Are you saying that I do know more games to play on the Shitari?

>>4149528
Secret Quest is similar to The Legend Of Zelda, except it came out in 1989. It's pretty bad for 1989, but its pretty damn good for an Atari 2600 game.
>pic related is the room where you pick up the sword

>>4149526
>even worse.

The game it's an adventure plataformer and incredible responsive,just watch this.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_zbg9rs5QZY

>>4149083
These games have the depth of a whatever bs smartphone toilet game with significantly worse graphics and sounds.

I'd rather play Flappy Bird.

>>4149557
t. generation z

>>4149543
That does look pretty fun. The theme reminded me of Custard's Revenge, which may be another Atari classic.

>>4149567
>Custard's Revenge
T H E M A L E F A N T A S Y

>>4149538
I need to play this.

Ever play HALO 2600? It is like Halo, but 2600 level, it is a TON OF FUN.

>>4149409
>XEGS
Play Star Raiders
Star Raiders is the best

>>4149513
The best 2600 games are Warlords and Starmaster

>>4149543
2600 version for comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klxxg9JM5tY

>>4149657
I will check it, thanks for the recommendation

>>4149657
Star Raiders is a good game too. The 2600 version came with a number pad thing with an overlay on it for more game controls. Not exactly the XBOX Mech controller, but for a young kids in the 80's it was amazing to have all these extra buttons that did stuff.

>>4149697
On the 2600 I actually like Starmaster better, since Star Raiders on the 2600 is a little clunky.
But the original Star Raiders on Atari 8-bit computers is great.
I assume the 5200 version is the same as the computer version just with the keyboard controls reprogrammed for the controller keypad.

>>4149083
I owned 4 of these games when I was a child, and sold them all to buy superior Mega Drive games (which I still own). No regrets, would do it a thousand times if I had a thousand lifetimes back.

>>4151270
That is Fantastic! I am happy to hear you where able to flip that to a platform you are in love with.

I did the same thing from XBOX to XBOX 360, I would like to take that back now. LOL. Happy Collecting.

nah, Atari is a joke
you can play through everything worthwhile that it had to offer in a day

>>4151574
>Can "play through" Adventure, Pitfall 1 & 2, Montezuma's Revenge, H.E.R.O., Dragonstomper and all three extant Swordquests in a day

Skiing was a letdown, definitely my least favorite activision game on 2600.

Kaboom was invented for madcunts as something to do after 3 lines of cocaine.

>>4151623
Winter Games is so sweet though, God Bless Epyx. Dat ski-jump then dat biathalon. Mmmm.

>>4151634
Epyx did some good work.

>>4149083
do those even work anymore? I feel like if I turned one on it'd just blow up and turn in to dust

>>4149083
I'm 33 years old.

>own
I own a bunch of stuff in the form of romsets.
Guess what: atari and coleco are some of my faves, and I actually owned a colecovision in the days.

29. Only 2nd gen game I own is pic related. For the Intellivision.

>>4151685
Every game I own still seemingly works just fine. I have had to clean the contacts one a couple, but the chips in there things are big and chunky, I don't think they are going to fail for a long time.

>>4151623

Kaboom! is an absolute adrenaline rush if you have the skills to get into the upper speeds. I still can't hang for too long, I think 5000 was my top score and I have yet to finished the last speed without dropping a bomb. I normally climb to the top and then loose a bucket and struggle to keep alive for a couple thousand points before loosing it all.

Without the real controller though, it is worthless, but if you have real hardware and perfectly working paddle, then this is by far one of the most blood pumping games ever.

>>4149660
wow that basic as fuck advertising design existed even back then

>>4151574
Riiiiiggghhht.

I guarantee you couldn't even save E.T's ass once if I gave you a whole day to try it. Dont talk shit.

>>4151692
>colecovision

The console with the attachment that let you play game made for another console. Amazing to think that once that was thought as normal. The key was that an atari2600 was all built with off the shelf parts, and anyone could just look at the board and build there own, those sneaky sob's at the Connecticut Leather Company adding thousands of game overnight to the library that could be played.

>>4151778
How is emulating with a mouse?

>>4151612
Good point about SQ, I never knew anyone that made it through any of them.

Also, how many people do you know that even lived the entire 20 minute time limit in Pitfall? Let alone capture all the treasures in time. Get real! Nintendo hard isn't shit compared to Atari hard, limited lives, no save/continues etc.

I should put together a list of "complete-able" Atari games that would make modern gamers cry. Nintendo Hard was a reaction to the standard difficultly the proceeded.

The one game you listed that people do actually have a chance of completing is Pitfall II, but finishing the game with only 1000 points isn't a win at all, you just struggled long enough to finally make it all the way through.

>>4151789
no good. There is lag and it isn't a pure 1:1 horizontal motion. While playable, I don't think it is possible because of the speed and accuracy you are going to want. When I start moving my hand back and forth in the higher level, my accuracy takes a massive dump.

That bring up the next problem too, you need an analog TV. You might think I am nuts to be worried about lag, here is the thing. When the atari "program" runs, it is displaying to the screen directly from the RAM in the machine. As each line is written, programming logic happens at the edges. (case in point, the pitfall rope is actually the "dot" element programmers have available to them to interact with, it was initially intended to show up in one place on the screen and used as a ball or bullet. On pitfall it takes the dot element and draws it, in the off screen programming it moves the ball to the next line, then it draws it in a slighly different place. it repeats that over and over again, and boom, now you have a rope made out of all these dots being smeared down the screen as the program runs, between every line drawn. amazing. So when you are playing somehting like Kaboom, you have a direct digital connection from your hand into the machine and from the machine it is displaying on screen in real time as it is processing through the program. No screen buffers, just raw output from memory to screen. (i mean obviously it is translated from digital to analog, but you get it) it is damn fast.

>>4151808
"direct digital connection" correction, the paddle is analog.

Would love to see more 2nd gen stuff discussed here but most people just aren't interested. I'm 27 and never played Atari until maybe 4 or 5 years ago but damn, it catapulted me into a whole pre-NES world that I had no interest in before then. Now I'm hunting down shit like Vic 20 and TI-99/4a games. It's kinda nice that so many retro fans don't like this stuff, because it keeps the community made up almost entirely of enthusiasts and not resellers or trend-hoppers. Honestly, the difference in fan populations for the SNES compared to something like the Magnavox Odyssey 2 is ridiculous; so many retro communities are all about dick measuring and showing off that finding someone else into this stuff is refreshing.

Anyway here's my 2600 games OP, am I cool yet?

>>4149093
30 here. I have some Atari 30 in One system i bought about 10 years ago. I should play it again

>>4152006
OP Here, DUDE you have a great collection!

You have some titles I am still hunting for in the wild (I know i could get these tomorrow, but I hate buying from ebay)
I am jelly of your RR2, Beamrider, Tron:DD, Cosmic Commuter carts.

I agree with you, I am VERY happy that people have left this market alone too. It is still possible to find boxes of old unsorted carts at garage sales and flea markets because everyone assumes all the titles are crap.

OP again, the photo at the top really wasn't mine, just an image to grab attention... Here is my collection though for real

>>4149083
>still can't get under 6.0 in Dragster

>>4152457
Living in Burgerland makes finding 2600 games out in the wild pretty easy.

2600s are awful and no fun
anyone who's convinced themselves otherwise are delusional or wearing some rose tinted glasses

>>4152723

I wish Atari had wised up, left the console market and aimed for computers

>>4149083
>own at least a dollars worth of games of GTFO LOL XD
look out we've got a bad ass

>>4152723
I'm sorry you're bad at video games, anon

>>4149093
The average age here is at least a bit higher than that, but it's also true that a lot of people here are too young to have played the Atari when it was current, and/or simply happen not to enjoy games that old.

Ouside of Combat, Pitfall 1/2 no one cares about the Atari 2600. Most games sucked balls

>>4149083
> gatekeeping using your personal tastes
I want you to fuck off as hard as you can.

If you just wanted to show off your collection, you don't need to be rude to be accepted. Enthusiasm works.

>>4153359
forgot pic. I want to share what I've got.

>>4149532
Well no, the majority is pretty bad. Same is true for almost every console.

>>4153050
5 of those games will cost you $25 maybe. Atari games cost nothing.

>>4152006
Yes, you are cool.

And your pic explains a big problem with the Flashback systems.

A lot of the best stuff for the 2600/Colecovision/Intellivsion 8 bit computers were third party stuff or games released at the end of the console's life that aren't going to be retro collections.

I just wish I still had my 7800 carts.

>>4152796
400
800
1200
XE

>>4149083
2600 is to checkers as snes is to chess. IT's not about graphics, it's about complexity. Very few games from this era are worth playing in any context outside of aesthetic masochism. There are standouts like Pitfall, but compare Adventure to Rogue (same year) in terms of depth.

>>4152460
You have Warlords and Starmaster so I approve

atardi is not even real video game

>>4153497
Also collections never have licensed stuff based on movies, cartoons, etc.
Like you'll never get Superman or Krull or Tron games

>>4153497
It's true, a ton of great stuff will likely never make any sort of rerelease. On the 2600 and just about every other console of the time, Imagic was one of the best third party devs but you never see their games on any compilations or plug & plays. The newest atari flashback has Activision games on it, which is a step in the right direction but you're still never gonna see stuff from tiny companies like commavid and telesys and small devs like that released a handful of the best 2600 games.

>>4153475
>$25
Spotted the eBayby

>>4153363
Vanguard was fucking cool

>>4153498
They still produced consoles like 5200 and 7800

>>4149093
25 here, atari games are not fun, maybe adventure or pitfall, but the rest are at the pong level

24 here, used to play Pitfall like my life depended on it when my dad had a MS DOS

(Brasil poorfag)

Atari games blow dick. People are here to talk about videogames, not those borefests.

>>4154305
>couldn't last more than 30 seconds in yar's revenge
It's okay, they aren't for everyone

I grew up with Atari and had no other consoles until the N64 late in its cycle. I really dislike the joysticks, but the paddles felt great and I enjoyed using them.

>>4149083
>plays Atari 2600 games
>thinks he's retro

Pfft. Look at this little bitch with his 'graphics' and 'gameplay that doesn't revolve entirely around moving a square across the screen'. Take that shit back to /v/, kiddo. The Magnavox Odyssey is the console of choice for true retro gamers such as myself. The Odyssey was the golden age of console games and the 2600 brought forth a new era of casualisation that would later ruin the industry altogether. I'm sorry, but if you're too lazy to put a plastic overlay on your TV screen every time you want to play a game, you are the cancer killing video games and you should kill yourself as soon as possible. Fucking casuals.

>>4153646
For some reason Imagic games were in the Windows and Mac Activision Anthologies but not the game system versions
Dunno what's going on there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Anthology

anything before N64 can be accurately emulated.
One should only collect media from N64 onwards.

>>4155814
I know Activision owns the rights to the Imagic catalog but I never thought they did anything with it. Thanks for the info, anon.

And why didn't Activsion make any games for the 7800 or NES?

>>4156239
Activision did the 7800 ports of Rampage, Double Dragon and Kung-Fu Master. On NES they didn't do much in the way of development but they published a few good games like Ultimate Air Combat and Sword Master.

Anybody who still enjoys an atari game past the age of 10 is probably maintaining double-digit IQs. That shit is so boring, 90% of the games are single-screen chores, and the 5 or so games that kind of look like an adventure game, 3 of them make little sense, 1 of them is outdated as fuck, and the last is ET which crashed the market.

Atari can get fucked.

Moonsweeper, Robot Tank, Atlantis, Cosmic Ark, and Vanguard - top five for me.

>>4156856
>questions the intelligence of people who enjoy Atari games while in the same breath claiming ET crashed the video game market
This board is 18+ there friend

>>4156856
Any 5 year old can finish SMB on the NES. Clearing 20 boards on Pacman, I doubt you can do that.

>>4152006

>it's mostly just shitty arcade ports.

>>4149083
Had most of those games growing up. Thought they were fun at the time. Booted up few years ago and realized it was almost all nostalgia. Also busted out the colecovision. While it was the same deal (mostly shitty games when nostalgia wore off), I still love the controller.

>>4156909
>Any 5 year old can finish SMB on the NES.
No they literally can't. The last few levels of the game are actually difficult, interesting, and require thought process.
>Clearing 20 boards on Pacman, I doubt you can do that.
If you can beat one board on Pacman without dying, then beating 20 is merely a matter of time because they're all the same.

>>4157119
when someone writes shit like this, do you guys have any doubt about summer?

>>4149093
>>Everyone in /vr/ is 18-20
>tfw 33
Y-yeah. How about that Mick and Rorty show, huh?

>>4157201
Noticed you ran out of arguments defending your pile of shit, so you resorted to the old summer myth, eh?

>>4149083
35 here, and I just can't have fun with most Atari games. I like Warlords and Combat when with friends, but that's it.

>>4149098
Nobody gives a shit about you, old man.

>>4157119
I hope you don't mean Atari Pacman.

>>4149083
I own 17 of those. Missing Skiing, Sky Jinks, and Dolphin. And my VCS turns 40 this year!

>>4158373
Oh, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you meant a not-shit version of Pacman. Because why would you ever degrade yourself by playing the Atari version?

Sold my VCS a while back, the only games I really enjoyed were paddle games. It's a shame paddle controllers died off.

>>4158361
is john wick 2 worth a watch?

>>4158336
What can I say? If you think solving castle puzzles in SMB requires thought process then figuring out patterns in pac-man might be mensa worthy.

Beat it, kid. The main reason people enjoy NES is because the games are easy to finish and they are rewarded a slideshow with 2 phrases written on it. Gives them closure while making them feel special.

>>4158793
>Implying there isn't a greater amount of skill, motor control, and thought process put into beating Mario levels than there is in dodging ghosts in Pac Man
A grade schooler with enough time and autistic love of playing the same board over and over again will get through pacman. On the other hand, SMB can stump kids to a point where they are unable to complete it even when using short cuts. This is hard fact.

>The main reason people enjoy NES is because the games are easy to finish
Holy shit you are literally retarded. The NES has a fucking reputation for "Nintendo Hard" bullshit, and you're trying to tell me people enjoyed it because it was easy? You are absolutely delusional if you even think this is remotely true and not something you pulled out of your ass.

>>4158793
>The main reason people enjoy NES is because the games are easy to finish

Get the fuck off this board, you are worthless and wrong.

>>4152006
>TI-99/4a
I got one for free from a family friend along with about 30 programs/games. fun system, Star Trek is incredible for the era.

>>4158927
press right and jump
hard

Wow.

Just. Wow.

I came here to have some retro fun.

Found a cesspit of retards insulting each other, posers who know nothing, "collectors" who appreciate nothing, abuse on top of abuse.

You are dead inside. I'll go back to the real forums where people still know how to have fun.

>>4158793
>>4158927
<-- This board's heroes
>Beat nes ghosts n goblins
>Can't figure out a single special move on shadows over mystara
>beat zelda II
>claims alex kidd in miracle world is tough

Nintendo hard. Yeah, right.

>>4149460
I like the use of the Bauhaus typeface on most of the end labels.

>>4149528
>Fun fact, Steve Jobs (that steve jobs) programmed Breakout.

Lol no, it was Woz.

>>4149083
https://youtu.be/wnlGxWs7aM8

>>4149093
Most of the atari games have aged like milk.

>>4159169
>white people

Am I the only one that thought Pac Man was just okay? I was legit surprised to learn it was considered E.T.-level garbage on the internet. I mean sure, it looked like crap and nothing like the arcade, but so did every other Atari game, it just seemed on par with them. Hell, I played it as recent as when the SNES was out and still thought it was okay.

>>4158937
>Implying
So you haven't played SMB. Why didn't you just say so from the beginning?

>>4159012
Hard != Impossible.

Shadows over Mystara isn't a Nintendo game either, and if you're arguing that he's "stupid" because he didn't figure out the special moves, he did actually. He figured out the spin-attack area move. He also doesn't play fighters or use arcade sticks, so I don't think he even knows what a QCF motion is.

You're also ignoring the fact that Ghosts n' Goblins and Zelda 2 are often heralded as some of the most difficult games period.

You also didn't point out that he never beat Ninja Gaiden 1.

tl;dr you're retarded, get fucked.

>>4159258
The only thing easier than SMB is Kirby.

They have a neo geo. Do you know what the controller looks like? Do you know which genre 90% of its library consists of?

Do you know they're almost 40 year olds? Do you know anybody that was alive in the 90s can fucking hadouken? Even my 68 old father learned to hadouken at that time.

Do you know they made a video of their favorite CAPCOM BEAT EM UPS? Do you know SOM was placed 2nd? How dare someone expect them to hadouken on that garbage. How dare anyone expect them to know that by pressing start you select the alternate version of a character.

tl;dr quit shitting through your fingers

>>4158996
>I'll go back
Thanks for that champ

>>4149083
I own all these but come on man only Activision titles. I mean Kaboom! is the best thing since your mom but come on. What about Berzerk, Adventure, Yar's Revenge, Frogger II, Q*Bert Qubes, Deadly Duck, Joust, Dig Dug, or Mountain King? THis pic is even missing good Activision titles like Oink! or H.E.R.O.

>>4159234
Describing Pac-Man as okay is perfectly reasonable. Although I still think it's pretty awful when you consider the fact that arcade ports like Berzerk, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Centipede, & Missle Command all came out before the Pac-Man port & were way better ports. Then you consider that Ms.Pac-Man came out only shortly after & was in my opinion what Pac-Man on the 2600 should have been.

>>4159545
>The only thing easier than SMB is Kirby.
If you're going to open up with an outright lie, then why are you even bothering to post?

Post again, but this time remove your falsities. I might take you seriously.

>Atari 2600 is going to be 40 years old on September
>we probably gonna make a thread about it, get 5-10 replies and end buried with some console war bullshit involving nintendo/sega/sony or doom thread n°847650985

>>4159197
>American people

I have 4 of the games pictured, don't play any of them.

Breakout, space invaders, yar's revenge, and berzerk are my pics.

>>4149530
You're a fucking faggot

>>4160560
There's almost no time left now. Hopefully you can beat SMB by the time school resumes.

I suggest you get yourself larger ear lobe stretchers because your retro skills are surely lacking, Mr. Cantbeatmario.

>>4160878

SMB is moderately hard if you haven't played it much. Pac-man has no win state so you can't compare it really. The only competition in pac-man is your friends high scores.

Lost Levels especially takes dozens of hours of practice to clear at the bare minimum.

>bet you can't beat 20 boards XD
You are just picking an arbitrary number. Why not 15, why not 25? Bet you can't beat the world record SMB speedrun faggot.

>>4160878
I was going to continue insulting you, but >>4160902 seems to be doing my job better, so I'll just leave it at that.

Favorites of the 2nd Gen, think of this as a starter kit if you've never played.

Adventure (2600)
Dolphin (2600)
Yars' Revenge (2600)
Frostbite (2600)
Pac-Man (Arcade)
Astrosmash (Intellevision)
Black Widow (Arcade)
Crystal Castle (Arcade)
Keystone Kapers (2600)
Major Havoc (Arcade)
Night Stalker (Intellevision)
Thin Ice (Intellevision)
Thunder Castle (Intellevision)
Berzerk (Vectrex)
Tempest (Arcade)
Qix (Arcade)
BurgerTime (Arcade)