The correct way to play this game is to build a cockpit out of couch cushions and bed sheets.

@tomy.1846

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!

@razorfett147

4 ай бұрын

When i was a kid i used an old refrigerator box with my little 13 inch tv set in a cut out. Even had my own pilots chair made from old lawn furniture 😎🤘

I seemed to have issues trying to do the deorbit the "proper" way (and others also did). The proper way was to turn the Shuttle around backwards and fire the OMS engines to deorbit. The game was to slow in the rotation and it was almost impossible to get back forward before entry interface. What I did was just use the RCS to slow down, you didn't have to turn around backwards for that. Worked everytime. There was a story in a gaming mag about this a year or so after release and NASA chimed in saying that this was an actual backup procedure for the real Shuttle if the OMS system failed.

@shrinocri

Жыл бұрын

yeah it is a simple simulation

First flight simulator I ever played.

Had this as a child. Always lost once it was satellite rendezvous time lol. A really great game for the current time is "Deliver us the moon"

@fousiyashaju6699

2 жыл бұрын

You can play this again !

@Hirthirthirt

2 жыл бұрын

Same here......I saw the landing-strip but from my memory from 40 years ago I think I never completed a mission. I might be wrong but thats what I recall. I remember it had a cardboard-bezel for the switches too.

This video game was also brand new to me, especially when it's about the early age of space exploration.

@watcher818

6 ай бұрын

"Early age of exploration" ? This game came out like 22 years after the first man in space happened (USSR). I get it though. (Atari 1983). I admit, that it's been 43 years now after the shuttles and this game :) Find a copy if you can, I bought it new and at the time was a very good game. After completing the missions, you can send a photo (from the TV) to receive a Atari Space Shuttle pilot patch. Too bad this game can;t be emulated for the PC.

@VideoGamesRevisited Yeah, you control the launch with the switches, but in space with the joystick. And I found it on rombay.

Did anyone ever make it Commander? I did (thanks to a glitch)! Took a screenshot and sent it to the US. Sure enough, few months later I got the badge from Activision 🙂

This game actually used the STS-1 timing for everything (Main Engine start at 4 secs instead of the later T-6secs) and liftoff at T+3 Secs rather than right at 0

I played this as a kid it was cool

I never had this game, but it got a lot of buzz at the time. It would be interesting to see what kind of program this would be, with the quality of modern homebrews.

Stephen kitchens masterpiece

@mciramp688

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that picture and description of the game programmer in the manual! I don't even know why, but I loved this game. I played on the hard difficulty. Don't think I ever made Commander but could get Pilot ok. Those satellites were a bitch to dock with after about 4 times. Ran out of fuel trying many times! Remember the insert that went on top of the console? I lost it after awhile but could still do it without it. Not a bad game considering how primative the tech was back then!

@jack_knife-1478

2 жыл бұрын

@@mciramp688 Yeah they had it on computer chronicles☺

@fousiyashaju6699

2 жыл бұрын

@@jack_knife-1478 well I just used an 2600 emulator and downloaded ROM link and got it running on mobile

I think my copy of this game was bugged. I always got an Abort: Error 4000 after landing, no matter what I did. That means my landing gear wasn't down on touchdown, which was BS - I made sure to raise and drop it on time, every time, and all my console switches worked fine. Was that a common flaw with the cart, or just my copy?

@Getagirlfriend-y4e

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Mega man

@Hirthirthirt

2 жыл бұрын

Same here......I saw the landing-strip but from my memory from 40 years ago I think I never completed a mission. I might be wrong but thats what I recall. I remember it had a cardboard-bezel for the switches too.

@watcher818

6 ай бұрын

@@Hirthirthirt I bought the game new and don't remember any overlay for the switches.

Watch out for Kilrathi... 🐯

Yes! Mr Benway pointed me in the direction of this game after my F14 flight sim review. Word on the street is you control bits of the shuttle with the 2600 switches? How did you find this game?

@watcher818

6 ай бұрын

I can't remember what some of the switched did in the game. Maybe landing gear was one? The goal was to keep the flashing white dots in the centers of the drawn pathways. I see in the video some dots were way out of where they should be. Great game though, I bought it new. I have a patch ATARI sent me when you complete the missions. I think there were 3 possible patches you could get.

i remeber this

Great piece of programming

No man's sky.

I never could land the shuttle as a kid!! It was always an abort error every time....☹☹☹

@Hirthirthirt

2 жыл бұрын

Same here......I saw the landing-strip but from my memory from 40 years ago I think I never completed a mission. I might be wrong but thats what I recall. I remember it had a cardboard-bezel for the switches too.

@watcher818

6 ай бұрын

Your white dots on the s displays had to be within the path displayed. If they were out, you may have been too fast or not on the right glidepath. Look in this video you can see the white dots way out of their range.

Kerbal spaceprogram meets atari

how on earth do you play this game? its beat me.

@Hirthirthirt

2 жыл бұрын

Same here......I saw the landing-strip but from my memory from 40 years ago I think I never completed a mission. I might be wrong but thats what I recall. I remember it had a cardboard-bezel for the switches too.

@JustMe99999

8 ай бұрын

@@Hirthirthirt You copy/pasted the same comment all over the place. Once is enough.

Could not understand this game at all as a kid

Has anyone seen the Computer Chronicles episode where they show this game? The game designer talks about how they met with real astronauts to make the simulation as real as possible. It just funny how he is talking about a realistic simulation and it is just fart noises and flashing lights LOL

I had such high hopes for this game but I believe it’s worse than E.T. 😂

@bozobo3822

2 жыл бұрын

Nowt wrong with et

@princesspuff3653

6 ай бұрын

I hated this game!! I always thought this was absolutely terrible. Boring is a understatement. I loved ET as a kid but this game was just terrible

People always say ET was the worst game ever. I think a kid in the 80s would have found this game to be much more boring than ET.

@dlxmax

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, I had both in my meager collection of games.

@razorfett147

3 жыл бұрын

Not for space enthusiasts such as myself. I logged more hrs on this game than any other in my 2600 collection

@Hirthirthirt

2 жыл бұрын

Still for some reason I liked it...but never finished a mission...from what I recall

@princesspuff3653

6 ай бұрын

I hated this game. I always fell asleep. I honestly think this was the worst one made I liked ET

@HerecomestheCalavera

6 ай бұрын

@@princesspuff3653 ET isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. There are many MANY worse games for the Atari 2600.

This is one of the all yime worst and hardest games ever. More than et game by far!!!!! What a ripoff!!