/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5668014
Kung-fu Master
Jungle Hunt
River Raid
Pitfall 1 & 2
Demon Attack

joust
robot tank
off the wall
jawbreaker

>>5668026
>>5668031
So basically, no.

>>5668035
thank you for outing yourself as a zoomer, you can go back now

>>>/v/

>>5668014
>>5668035

Escape From the Mindmaster
Dragonfire
Dragonstomper
Adventure
Berserk
Enduro
Frostbite
Kaboom
Phaser Patrol
Pressure Cooker
Secret Quest
Solaris
Stampede
Wizard of War
Yars Revenge

Yarr's Revenge and what the fuck was that caslte defence game called, Warlords?

>>5668014
No, anyone who says otherwise is a boomer by the non-4chan definition or desperately trying to sound older than they are.

Because this thread sucks, I'm gonna ask instead: what's the best way to play Star Raiders? I'm assuming my only choice is an Atari 8-bit computer emulator, but is there some other release that's better?

>>5668173
The 5200 port is better.

It’s fun but it’s one of those things where you should really play an actual console on an old shitty CRT. I’m all for emulating, but the games (even the good ones) are pretty obsolete, you’ll probably enjoy the 2600 for what it is more if you get your hands on a real one for a few hours.

maze craze, frogs and flys, beserk, pifall, river raid

>>5668014
Seaquest.

>>5668035
>"Are there any games?"
>lists games
>"so no?"
Eat shit kiddo.

Adventure on the harder difficulties

>>5668385
I didn't realize the 5200 anything could be better.

>>5668035
>>5668109
buy my game faggots

Most of them really it depends on you. I even had fun with 3D tic tac toe. The CPU is a bitch!

>>5668014
Missile Command, especially the track ball hack version.

>>5669207
The 5200 has many faults, but its game library is not one of them.

>>5670005
This is true. Space Dungeon is an incredibly underrated game for example.

Space Invaders
Missile Command
Space Rocks (homebrew redux of Asteroids, much more arcade faithful)

>>5668014
Frogs And Flies

galaxian and tapper

ms. pacman port was pretty good

>>5668101
Yeah, Warlords is cool. There's gonna be an indie fan-sequel called Hex Lords or something. Six players. It's an arcade cabinet. It's in development.

>>5670201
>>5668101
Found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_4BjgB463I

>>5668042
To be fair I would be a zoomer by the standards of the 2600. I can't think of anything I'd enjoy and I'm 32.

Really guys, up until NES is acceptable. No one wants to play games by [S]masterbating a fucking dildo controller[/S] carving the commands on stone aged console. I also love You, anons.

>>5670249
>up until NES is acceptable

So NES and anything after it aren't acceptable in your view?

>>5670210
(not him) i'm 29, and while i can appreciate the historical significance of the 2600, and probably could enjoy a 2600 game for 5 or 10 minutes, the system was simply not capable of large or in-depth games
graphics don't make a game fun, but there's really only so much you can do with 128 bytes of ram and 4096 bytes of rom, most games are barely more advanced than a tiger lcd game
i can't think of anything you can play on the 2600 that hasn't been obsoleted by something else

>>5668035
>So basically, no.
Shut the fuck up, zoomer

>>5668014
YAR'S REVENGE

I'm 27 and I love Enduro, although it might have to do with the fact that I used to play it when I was little.

For simple arcade-y games, the console is in no way obsolete. The type of limitation it has (old tech and simple controller) bred a type of game that you really can't find nowadays, with the games like that being flash shit that have almost no effort put into them.

>>5668014
The games are hard to play nowadays, but the stories about the developers racing the beam and pulling off crazy coding wizardry are spectacular. It's more fun to develop for than it is to play.

>>5670330
I have to grudgingly agree. As someone who had a 2600 when everyone else had a NES, it was frustrating that I couldn't get anything even approaching what they had.
Even if you made a special cart that had 40K or more, the hardware really doesn't have the capability of doing text, so even just trying to communicate with the player was nigh on impossible.
Even the more ambitious ones like Pitfall are still very repetitive. Things I liked were Mario Bros. and pacman which could be had better almost everywhere else.

>>5671203
>the hardware really doesn't have the capability of doing text, so even just trying to communicate with the player was nigh on impossible.
i was going to say "it doesn't even have any text adventures", but i double checked, and it seems there is at least one for the system, though it's paired with "entering text is not fun with the controller" and "8k just isn't enough for a text adventure, you'll see everything in the first play-through"

>>5671319
oh whoops, i think that might be a modern homebrew game

No, not really. All the good games have better versions on other platforms.

>>5668014
Hero, Hauted House, Star Trek Tactical Simulator. They've also got newer games at Atari Age including a Halo game and a Wolfenstein one.

>>5668014
Any Activision game

>>5668780
The question was games worth playing. If any of those can keep your attention for more than five minutes you are a steel minded monk or a drooling retard.

>>5670249
>>5670321
For me the MSX/Colecovision/SG-1000 triplets are the bare minimum hardware I find enjoyable. Am I alone on this one?

>>5670210
Same here and I'm older than you, I grew up playing on my father's old Atari before we got a Nintendo. But I didn't really play it much, it was like that toy you forgot you had, it was fun in short doses when bored but not really more interesting than whatever was on tv or playing tag outside. Then we got nintendo and it was 24/7 glued to video games after that. There is just a significant difference between pre and post NES gaming, sometimes it feels like it's a totally different form of entertainment.

No, any game that was worth playing has a superior arcade version.

>>5668014
Have you never played a game before? Then yes.

Have you played anything from NES onwards? Then no...only arcade titles from the first 2 gens are worth bothering.

>>5670904
isn't that game super short and loops indefinitely?

>>5674167
like the majority of games at the time yes

Pong, that's it.

>>5673361
And even then, there are better versions on pretty much any other platform.

>>5668014

I really like Wizards of Wor

>>5674187
There's no game titled "Pong" on the VCS. There a pong-like games, but you're just outing yourself as a zoomer.

>>5668014
robot tank, demon attack, space invaders (it's got co-op), pole position, enduro, hero

This is a mostly complete list of the games on 2600 that I've felt like playing in this modern era.

>>5668014
ET. Rare and awesome game.

The Based and Redpilled Atari Triforce
>Pitfall
>Enduro
>River Raid

>>5668014
Anything published by Activision and maybe half (at most) of Atari's games.

>>5668026
>make pitfall
>game about swinging over pitfalls
>make pitfall 2
>remove pitfalls
>remove alligators
>remove everything cool
it's the andromeda of pitfall

>>5668014
What was the most graphically advanced game on the Atari?

>>5675030
Solaris seems to be mentioned often
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f68IjW7_w98

Combat is still a super fun 1v1 game to play against a friend.

>>5674742
>There's no game titled "Pong" on the VCS

That's the joke

Adventure

Entombed is pretty fun

>>5668014
Yars' Revenge. The audio scares the shit out of every pet in the house.

>>5668014
HAHA NO

Too old for this board,
The anons here didnt even own a snes when it came out because they werent even born

Combat was fun as fuck and any retard can understand how to play it so you can play your grandma op since I know you don't have friends

>>5675059
>i-it was just a joke
choke on a tidepod zoomer

>>5668014
No. Atari 2600 was just too underpowered, the games are either too simple, too shitty, or both. And everything that was decent was re-released a billion times on better systems.
The only kind of value Atari 2600 games hold is historical.

>>5669259
I know it's an ataei sprite, but all I can think of is fhqwhgads.

>>5676959
What are the best 5200 games, and 7200?

>>5678303
7200? what do you need a 5200 for? 2600 is all you need, anon

What's the best 5200 emulator?

I never understood these retarded threads, do you all think Pac-man and Asteroids are unplayable too? The only handicap something like Yar's Revenge has by comparison is the need to RTFM.

>>5677107
>le tidepod meme

Okay boomer

>>5678915
>do you all think Pac-man and Asteroids are unplayable too?

On the 2600, yes. If you think otherwise then maybe you should try playing them. The arcade versions are 100x more playable than the 2600 versions.

>>5668014
Halo

Keystone Kapers is like a game AND PLAY.
Am say it good make great BEEF I FEEL.
Good time I PLAY AND SAY.
Got me GOING FOR.
IT pretty SOLID ROCK.

H.E.R.O

>>5678915
>do you all think Pac-man and Asteroids are unplayable too?
you're missing the point, it's not that pac-man and asteroids are too simple to be enjoyable games /at a conceptual level/, but there are better versions of pac-man and asteroids available on other systems, including the original arcade versions of those games
given the choice, would you honestly pick the 2600 versions of those games over the arcade version?

>>5668014
River Raid