A channel focused on video gaming, with a strong focus on Atari, but I enjoy games from Nintendo, Sega, the ol' MS-DOS days and more. Yes, I own an operate a real arcade business, so some videos might be filmed there.
Nice table! I was expecting early 8-bit graphics or rasters... although possibly generated by a CTIA/GTIA and a POKEY... but this is somehow better! 🍻
@mechamania3 сағат бұрын
BTW, there’s a darned good selection of tables from Amiga, Genesis, and others on AntStream Arcade, if you run that on your Atari VCS. I really wish they would “advertise,” in some way, on VCS and other retro gaming sites, for the other platforms it supports. Giant tiny app with which I have no monetary relationship, except as a subscriber. Mos def worth it, but to be fair, I have no idea what it really costs. When I subbed, they only charged me $16.95 for a year, using the URL on the card that comes with the VCS. I dunno if there were a sale, or not, but I’d definitely renew for a decade, righ’now, if they could promise they’d be around long enough to fulfill it...
@almeidachannel712114 сағат бұрын
Nice Video ! Sub & Big Like ! And Love Retro Metroid Games !
@earx232 күн бұрын
Great analysis! I think some things were really hard to fix, like the 64 bit spec. It actually had a 64 bit bus and Tom and Jerry could use it. But many titles (like Trevor McFur or Club Drive) looked 16 bit AF. They had to do ... _something_. On the other hand, you're completely right that Atari should have just have had much closer relations to users and developers. Many devs complained it was the worst documented console system. There wasn't even a ```printf()``` for them to use. Also fully agreed on having big names on board. But Atari were doing the TOS series just 1 year ago, and their focus was on making good hardware for a low price.. of all kinds.. There was no focus. Also great points about the pre launch and launch phase.
@earx232 күн бұрын
Thanks for this! I had the Pro system joysticks. Suffice to say, "The Arcade" was _a lot_ better. Read about the 7800, but it seemed really tough to code. Like you say.. The XEGS was silly. Atari did so many crazy pivots that lead nowhere. Even before Tramiel came along. That Ricky and Vicky game looks awesome.
@earx232 күн бұрын
Wow! I didn't know about these plans! The 65816 isn't a bad CPU, but it's no 68000. For the MHz it's pretty fast, though. The screen "rotation" stuff was pretty nice. Reminds me of the Megadrive's vertical offset for it's tiling? It still baffles me how many crazy pivots they did between 87 and 93. The ATW is perhaps the most crazy one. It actually did work, and was great. The problem was that there weren't too many companies around wanting to install supercomputers.. Especially not from companies that formerly did games exclusively.
@earx234 күн бұрын
Not bad at all. I think if the object design would have been cooler it would have appealed to starfox fans. But technically this is solid.
@earx235 күн бұрын
Looks like a direct successor in architecture. The problem is that this functional parallelism design is pretty difficult to program. Without a proper library, they'd have serious problems pushing it. Even with the Jaguar 1 Atari messed that up. They only had a small inner circle of developers, and the rest didn't get any support. It's good they added texture mapping, and if they could bake the silicon without that jump bug so that the processors can run code from external RAM.. The PS1 had 1 CPU which, even without data cache, and only a scratch pad, made it a lot easier to use than jag.. The Jag2's GPU seems easy to use, though, with its cache. IMHO, the 68k host processor was silly. The 020 is better because its instruction cache avoids RAM congestion. But still.. it was added because it was a well known CPU.. but it's a completely underpowered CPU compared to the GPU, which runs a RISC core, and can do all the general processing you want.. The Jag was a weird design.
@iratanongrata59735 күн бұрын
AFAIK, the specs did say that they were supposed to address the jump bug that the original Jag had, as well as give it a better library (including C++ support). Seems like it is the kind of hardware that the system should've had from the get go.
@socrates06037 күн бұрын
Is there a score indicator?
@iratanongrata59737 күн бұрын
There is - Atari put them all on one numerical LED panel in the lower left side of the apron. You can catch a glimpse of that in the footage :)
@baroncalamityplus7 күн бұрын
I'm surprised the side by side flippers aren't more common.
@nickc408712 күн бұрын
I always try to beat the Queen without running away from the room (honorable fight), yet she get's me every time. Apparently it's a glitch that she won't leave the room. Another glitch if you save while in the room and reload, the Queen will be frozen until you cross the entrance again.
@xboxclown892214 күн бұрын
This is simply ripping off Gex Trilogy including the same trailer joke reused but done slightly different. I am rather curious who asked for this as well as Plumbers Don't Wear Ties? Everyone knows Sparkster and Gex got the better compilations. Not only that, I'm starting to think as ridiculous this idea may seem. They might even possibly bring Awesome Possum back!!! I don't wanna live on this planet anymore lol. Seriously why Bubsy is a question that bags too many questions with too little answers because most of us could care less about this. At least, Gex is kinda funny in way more interesting platformer games.
@datassetteuser35616 күн бұрын
Doesn't look too bad or too fancy. Maybe I'll get the physical release for Switch one day, I think it was a Limited Run release but it pops up regularly here and there. Thanks for the insight!
@user-hc8qp5gm2y17 күн бұрын
Hercules and the other Atari pinball games are coming to CAX 2024 on July 27th, 2024
@ToddLuck24 күн бұрын
Great video! You're the first person I've seen who figured out how to get past the final screen with the captive apes being lowered down the chain! I do a lot of Tarzan videos on my channel. I'll probably do a video on Atari Tarzan at some point. Would you mind if I use some footage from this playthrough in my video? I'll be sure to give you credit.
@iratanongrata597323 күн бұрын
Sure, thank you for asking!
@JVgamesLV26 күн бұрын
There is a lockup with some carts. I believe they were 2 different sources of boards and ROMs. Songbird will re-flash yours with the newest version that corrects the lockup on the ROMs that had the issue.
@JVgamesLV26 күн бұрын
In the strength test, you were so close to the Hammer of Titans. You need the gloves of strength to pick it up and with the speed potion its the best weapon in the game. :)
@mikejohnson69928 күн бұрын
Definitely the best Jag Cd 💿 game. I used to have this in my collection
@datassetteuser356Ай бұрын
It's unfortunate that the game crashed at the end. Although I have an early copy, I wonder if Songbird now has fixed carts in their shop? But then again, not sure if I'll ever make it this far in the game anyway, so maybe it's not now worth getting another copy? Anyway, thanks for the video! It was fun to follow your progress in the game. Cheers!
@chriswalker8361Ай бұрын
This will be on my next Atariage order…
@curiousottmanАй бұрын
So fascinating. I had no idea. Great video. Loved the Mario Bros footage too. Played it back in the day in the arcade.
@summerlaverdureАй бұрын
i love the absolute lack of texture filtering unironically <3 this game is so cool the cd music is fantastic too, absolutely amazing
@chrischris02Ай бұрын
Wow, the graphics are greatly improved from the first release.
@datassetteuser356Ай бұрын
A great game with an awesome soundtrack. Also: gotta love the Sean Connery-like voice actor 😂👏
@summerlaverdureАй бұрын
do you realize how perfect this is? everything from the amiga style mod music to the weird wolf-style raycasting with the warped floor and the SD video artifacting and the rpg game play ahhh im in love with this <3
@iratanongrata5973Ай бұрын
Makes one desire to set the time circuits in the DeLorean for 1996 ;)
@sashakvasha1529Ай бұрын
Wow! I wish I can play on Internet Archive when they uses
@thatswedishguy638Ай бұрын
Finally, the Amico releases 🤣
@lonewolf31337Ай бұрын
Nice! Thanks for the video. Glad KZread suggested your channel. You got a new subscriber
@lucian2701Ай бұрын
All of the bubsy games were complete rubbish. What the hell are they thinking? Zool was a better series (apart from what the 3d version became).... Atari could have funded an indie house to create some enjoyable platform games based on an existing IP (ok, they are, but still)... Why are they wasting money on a rightly forgettable series of games? F*ck's sake Atari, will you never learn?
@iratanongrata5973Ай бұрын
Gotta get that money back somehow, I guess (and this is probably the 'low hanging fruit' way of doing so) - although I agree that starting fresh from the group-up on this character would be the way to go.
@grinbrothersАй бұрын
Of all the platform mascots of the 90's to continue to 'thrive', it's surprising to see Bubsy be one of them. Not only is he getting this collection but he got a couple new games in the previous gen. 1:06 - I had actually forgotten about the Atari purchase of Bubsy (here I thought you were covering this just because you were a Bubsy fan). I wonder if this is to build up to yet another new Bubsy game. 2:10 - Feels a bit strange to be targeting a nostalgic audience with a digital only release. I feel this sort of demographic are they type that physical releases particularly appeal too. I wonder if this collection could make it's way to Evercade as a physical release? 4:03 - So will this be all four 'classic era' Bubsy along with the handheld variants? That's pretty solid coverage then. 5:00 - I could understand development issues with the floaty physics but how did they never address the ease of death factor back then? Seems like it was an obvious problem to address by just adding hit points/removing fall damage. 6:24 - To my surprise, the Jaguar Bubsy is an original and presently exclusive game. It does take more inspiration from the first game in the series than the sequel though.
@iratanongrata5973Ай бұрын
Yeah, that should be my main criticism of the title - it's way too easy to die and the collision feels super loose. I don't think I've ever completed the first level to this game, which generally is a tell that it sucks
@grinbrothersАй бұрын
@@iratanongrata5973 I remember the British gaming scene of the microcomputers had a mentality of difficult = quality back; perhaps it popped up in other studios in other regions. It does seem strange for a family friendly platform mascot to be so brutal though, and with no arcade connections as well.
@chrischris02Ай бұрын
The 3D version looks interesting.
@summerlaverdureАй бұрын
it doesnt have the Jaguar Bubsy and they're "fixing rough edges" when thats part and parcel of how these games ended up, you don't revise history for that x_x anyway i love Bubsy 3D but limited run i have issues with so avoiding this
@tonyduffy7441Ай бұрын
'I'm not Bubsy fan' - seriously, is anyone?
@summerlaverdureАй бұрын
i love bubsy, but i hate limited run even more so im not buying this
@brianspain763Ай бұрын
This would have probably been one of my favorite 2600 games. This game looks so cool and I love the music and I love the gameplay
@fabolous2006Ай бұрын
It's Yar, out of all the franchises made by Atari, that one keeps getting remakes. They are really trying to bring that game to the forefront.
@orderofmagnitude-TPATPАй бұрын
Wow the sound! For a 2600 this is as impressive as pitfall2. Just in a different way
@jimcampbellАй бұрын
Cool video. Informative. Your background music is a bit loud tho. Ha.
@Itsuki_GamerАй бұрын
The layout and design is like totally similar to the Smurfs because of the way the forest looks and like that timer bar up there. But like it has jungle hunt and like pitfall elements in there too. Looks totally tubular!
@MrMegaManFanАй бұрын
Does it work with wireless N64 controllers like the Brawler or a Blue Retro adapter?
@BeefyBitesАй бұрын
I think Atari needs to try different things. At least for the home console market
@iratanongrata5973Ай бұрын
I'm not against them trying this for sure, but so far it feels like a subpar Metroid. Here's hoping the final is better (with less silly dialogue - the writers seem to forget you should SHOW more than you should TELL, but that is modern writing for you)
@AtariForeva2 ай бұрын
NTSC artifacts are noticeable due to hi-res mode used and Vladimir Jankovic AKA Popmilo, the developer, told me that NTSC version is coming.
@Chris-cv4tt2 ай бұрын
Tarzan yell in Pitfall? Don't you mean Jungle King that had to change to Jungle Hunt?
@iratanongrata59732 ай бұрын
No, remember when you get the vine in the first Pitfall and he does the Tarzan yell? Sure there was Jungle King with the blatant rip-off of Tarzan, which is kind of amusing in retrospect, but given what Coleco was trying to do (per the article, have their own version of Pitfall), that's where I'm a little surprised.
@Asphodellife2 ай бұрын
Actually looks, and seems to play, quite nicely!
@WolfenSG2 ай бұрын
Looks like Tarzan of The Apes from Atari 8-bit ported to 2600 :)
@Deadguy2322forreal2 ай бұрын
Maybe use a script next time.
@MaycolGamer0262 ай бұрын
This game was released in PS1 under the name; Rascal Racers.
@IvoryTowerCollections2 ай бұрын
The secret to the falling boulders screen is that you will notice the boulders bounce off the ledges when they hit and don't fall straight through them. So, line yourself up under them as you make you way higher. If you get yourself under the ledge that is highest on the screen, you can climb up without any issue. And, it seems that once Tarzan is just past that point near the top, the boulders actually seem to stop coming down at that point so you can climb the rest of the way onto the next screen without issue.
@d.aardent93822 ай бұрын
I was wondering about that myself when i was watching 7of7 playing it real early this AM and i got to see some of the "temple" stage and how it played a bit, and i thought while watching i wondered if the ledges blocked the boulders as the player didnt utilize them, he really didnt even fo near them, so my theory wasnt proven at all, as i personally didn't see any boulder deflecting off a ledge. Ps: but i did finally see it in this play here. Thats cool.
@steveafulton2 ай бұрын
This is cool. Reminds me of "Bobby Is Going Home" and "Mr. Postman" for some reason.
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Nice table! I was expecting early 8-bit graphics or rasters... although possibly generated by a CTIA/GTIA and a POKEY... but this is somehow better! 🍻
BTW, there’s a darned good selection of tables from Amiga, Genesis, and others on AntStream Arcade, if you run that on your Atari VCS. I really wish they would “advertise,” in some way, on VCS and other retro gaming sites, for the other platforms it supports. Giant tiny app with which I have no monetary relationship, except as a subscriber. Mos def worth it, but to be fair, I have no idea what it really costs. When I subbed, they only charged me $16.95 for a year, using the URL on the card that comes with the VCS. I dunno if there were a sale, or not, but I’d definitely renew for a decade, righ’now, if they could promise they’d be around long enough to fulfill it...
Nice Video ! Sub & Big Like ! And Love Retro Metroid Games !
Great analysis! I think some things were really hard to fix, like the 64 bit spec. It actually had a 64 bit bus and Tom and Jerry could use it. But many titles (like Trevor McFur or Club Drive) looked 16 bit AF. They had to do ... _something_. On the other hand, you're completely right that Atari should have just have had much closer relations to users and developers. Many devs complained it was the worst documented console system. There wasn't even a ```printf()``` for them to use. Also fully agreed on having big names on board. But Atari were doing the TOS series just 1 year ago, and their focus was on making good hardware for a low price.. of all kinds.. There was no focus. Also great points about the pre launch and launch phase.
Thanks for this! I had the Pro system joysticks. Suffice to say, "The Arcade" was _a lot_ better. Read about the 7800, but it seemed really tough to code. Like you say.. The XEGS was silly. Atari did so many crazy pivots that lead nowhere. Even before Tramiel came along. That Ricky and Vicky game looks awesome.
Wow! I didn't know about these plans! The 65816 isn't a bad CPU, but it's no 68000. For the MHz it's pretty fast, though. The screen "rotation" stuff was pretty nice. Reminds me of the Megadrive's vertical offset for it's tiling? It still baffles me how many crazy pivots they did between 87 and 93. The ATW is perhaps the most crazy one. It actually did work, and was great. The problem was that there weren't too many companies around wanting to install supercomputers.. Especially not from companies that formerly did games exclusively.
Not bad at all. I think if the object design would have been cooler it would have appealed to starfox fans. But technically this is solid.
Looks like a direct successor in architecture. The problem is that this functional parallelism design is pretty difficult to program. Without a proper library, they'd have serious problems pushing it. Even with the Jaguar 1 Atari messed that up. They only had a small inner circle of developers, and the rest didn't get any support. It's good they added texture mapping, and if they could bake the silicon without that jump bug so that the processors can run code from external RAM.. The PS1 had 1 CPU which, even without data cache, and only a scratch pad, made it a lot easier to use than jag.. The Jag2's GPU seems easy to use, though, with its cache. IMHO, the 68k host processor was silly. The 020 is better because its instruction cache avoids RAM congestion. But still.. it was added because it was a well known CPU.. but it's a completely underpowered CPU compared to the GPU, which runs a RISC core, and can do all the general processing you want.. The Jag was a weird design.
AFAIK, the specs did say that they were supposed to address the jump bug that the original Jag had, as well as give it a better library (including C++ support). Seems like it is the kind of hardware that the system should've had from the get go.
Is there a score indicator?
There is - Atari put them all on one numerical LED panel in the lower left side of the apron. You can catch a glimpse of that in the footage :)
I'm surprised the side by side flippers aren't more common.
I always try to beat the Queen without running away from the room (honorable fight), yet she get's me every time. Apparently it's a glitch that she won't leave the room. Another glitch if you save while in the room and reload, the Queen will be frozen until you cross the entrance again.
This is simply ripping off Gex Trilogy including the same trailer joke reused but done slightly different. I am rather curious who asked for this as well as Plumbers Don't Wear Ties? Everyone knows Sparkster and Gex got the better compilations. Not only that, I'm starting to think as ridiculous this idea may seem. They might even possibly bring Awesome Possum back!!! I don't wanna live on this planet anymore lol. Seriously why Bubsy is a question that bags too many questions with too little answers because most of us could care less about this. At least, Gex is kinda funny in way more interesting platformer games.
Doesn't look too bad or too fancy. Maybe I'll get the physical release for Switch one day, I think it was a Limited Run release but it pops up regularly here and there. Thanks for the insight!
Hercules and the other Atari pinball games are coming to CAX 2024 on July 27th, 2024
Great video! You're the first person I've seen who figured out how to get past the final screen with the captive apes being lowered down the chain! I do a lot of Tarzan videos on my channel. I'll probably do a video on Atari Tarzan at some point. Would you mind if I use some footage from this playthrough in my video? I'll be sure to give you credit.
Sure, thank you for asking!
There is a lockup with some carts. I believe they were 2 different sources of boards and ROMs. Songbird will re-flash yours with the newest version that corrects the lockup on the ROMs that had the issue.
In the strength test, you were so close to the Hammer of Titans. You need the gloves of strength to pick it up and with the speed potion its the best weapon in the game. :)
Definitely the best Jag Cd 💿 game. I used to have this in my collection
It's unfortunate that the game crashed at the end. Although I have an early copy, I wonder if Songbird now has fixed carts in their shop? But then again, not sure if I'll ever make it this far in the game anyway, so maybe it's not now worth getting another copy? Anyway, thanks for the video! It was fun to follow your progress in the game. Cheers!
This will be on my next Atariage order…
So fascinating. I had no idea. Great video. Loved the Mario Bros footage too. Played it back in the day in the arcade.
i love the absolute lack of texture filtering unironically <3 this game is so cool the cd music is fantastic too, absolutely amazing
Wow, the graphics are greatly improved from the first release.
A great game with an awesome soundtrack. Also: gotta love the Sean Connery-like voice actor 😂👏
do you realize how perfect this is? everything from the amiga style mod music to the weird wolf-style raycasting with the warped floor and the SD video artifacting and the rpg game play ahhh im in love with this <3
Makes one desire to set the time circuits in the DeLorean for 1996 ;)
Wow! I wish I can play on Internet Archive when they uses
Finally, the Amico releases 🤣
Nice! Thanks for the video. Glad KZread suggested your channel. You got a new subscriber
All of the bubsy games were complete rubbish. What the hell are they thinking? Zool was a better series (apart from what the 3d version became).... Atari could have funded an indie house to create some enjoyable platform games based on an existing IP (ok, they are, but still)... Why are they wasting money on a rightly forgettable series of games? F*ck's sake Atari, will you never learn?
Gotta get that money back somehow, I guess (and this is probably the 'low hanging fruit' way of doing so) - although I agree that starting fresh from the group-up on this character would be the way to go.
Of all the platform mascots of the 90's to continue to 'thrive', it's surprising to see Bubsy be one of them. Not only is he getting this collection but he got a couple new games in the previous gen. 1:06 - I had actually forgotten about the Atari purchase of Bubsy (here I thought you were covering this just because you were a Bubsy fan). I wonder if this is to build up to yet another new Bubsy game. 2:10 - Feels a bit strange to be targeting a nostalgic audience with a digital only release. I feel this sort of demographic are they type that physical releases particularly appeal too. I wonder if this collection could make it's way to Evercade as a physical release? 4:03 - So will this be all four 'classic era' Bubsy along with the handheld variants? That's pretty solid coverage then. 5:00 - I could understand development issues with the floaty physics but how did they never address the ease of death factor back then? Seems like it was an obvious problem to address by just adding hit points/removing fall damage. 6:24 - To my surprise, the Jaguar Bubsy is an original and presently exclusive game. It does take more inspiration from the first game in the series than the sequel though.
Yeah, that should be my main criticism of the title - it's way too easy to die and the collision feels super loose. I don't think I've ever completed the first level to this game, which generally is a tell that it sucks
@@iratanongrata5973 I remember the British gaming scene of the microcomputers had a mentality of difficult = quality back; perhaps it popped up in other studios in other regions. It does seem strange for a family friendly platform mascot to be so brutal though, and with no arcade connections as well.
The 3D version looks interesting.
it doesnt have the Jaguar Bubsy and they're "fixing rough edges" when thats part and parcel of how these games ended up, you don't revise history for that x_x anyway i love Bubsy 3D but limited run i have issues with so avoiding this
'I'm not Bubsy fan' - seriously, is anyone?
i love bubsy, but i hate limited run even more so im not buying this
This would have probably been one of my favorite 2600 games. This game looks so cool and I love the music and I love the gameplay
It's Yar, out of all the franchises made by Atari, that one keeps getting remakes. They are really trying to bring that game to the forefront.
Wow the sound! For a 2600 this is as impressive as pitfall2. Just in a different way
Cool video. Informative. Your background music is a bit loud tho. Ha.
The layout and design is like totally similar to the Smurfs because of the way the forest looks and like that timer bar up there. But like it has jungle hunt and like pitfall elements in there too. Looks totally tubular!
Does it work with wireless N64 controllers like the Brawler or a Blue Retro adapter?
I think Atari needs to try different things. At least for the home console market
I'm not against them trying this for sure, but so far it feels like a subpar Metroid. Here's hoping the final is better (with less silly dialogue - the writers seem to forget you should SHOW more than you should TELL, but that is modern writing for you)
NTSC artifacts are noticeable due to hi-res mode used and Vladimir Jankovic AKA Popmilo, the developer, told me that NTSC version is coming.
Tarzan yell in Pitfall? Don't you mean Jungle King that had to change to Jungle Hunt?
No, remember when you get the vine in the first Pitfall and he does the Tarzan yell? Sure there was Jungle King with the blatant rip-off of Tarzan, which is kind of amusing in retrospect, but given what Coleco was trying to do (per the article, have their own version of Pitfall), that's where I'm a little surprised.
Actually looks, and seems to play, quite nicely!
Looks like Tarzan of The Apes from Atari 8-bit ported to 2600 :)
Maybe use a script next time.
This game was released in PS1 under the name; Rascal Racers.
The secret to the falling boulders screen is that you will notice the boulders bounce off the ledges when they hit and don't fall straight through them. So, line yourself up under them as you make you way higher. If you get yourself under the ledge that is highest on the screen, you can climb up without any issue. And, it seems that once Tarzan is just past that point near the top, the boulders actually seem to stop coming down at that point so you can climb the rest of the way onto the next screen without issue.
I was wondering about that myself when i was watching 7of7 playing it real early this AM and i got to see some of the "temple" stage and how it played a bit, and i thought while watching i wondered if the ledges blocked the boulders as the player didnt utilize them, he really didnt even fo near them, so my theory wasnt proven at all, as i personally didn't see any boulder deflecting off a ledge. Ps: but i did finally see it in this play here. Thats cool.
This is cool. Reminds me of "Bobby Is Going Home" and "Mr. Postman" for some reason.