{"id":16060,"date":"2017-02-10T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16060"},"modified":"2017-01-15T22:20:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T22:20:46","slug":"the-games-of-atari-flashback-classics-vol-2-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/10\/the-games-of-atari-flashback-classics-vol-2-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games of Atari Flashback Classics vol. 2, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ATARILOGO2\"<\/a>We\u2019ll wrap up this presentation of the games in Atari Flashback Classics vols. 1 and 2 by looking at the rest of the 2600 games on vol. 2.\u00a0 Like last time, I\u2019ll only go over each game briefly, because there are so many games here.\u00a0 And also because I don\u2019t have as many good memories playing 2600 games as a kid because our first gaming systems in our house were an Apple computer and an Atari 5200.<\/p>\n

Adventure<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot of people hold this game in high regard, but I don\u2019t really remember playing it as a kid, so I don\u2019t have that same regard that others do.\u00a0 It is one of the first games to have an Easter Egg in it, and there\u2019s even an exhibit about it at the National Videogame Museum.<\/p>\n

Atari Video Cube<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can tell this came out during the popularity of Rubik\u2019s Cube in the 80\u2019s.\u00a0 You know that Rubik\u2019s Cube was so popular back then, there was even a Saturday Morning cartoon about it?\u00a0 Yeah, really, no lie.\u00a0 Go look it up.\u00a0 Anyway, I think I would\u2019ve really liked this game as a kid.\u00a0 You move a little man around a Rubik\u2019s style cube, and you can change the color of any panel on one side.\u00a0 But when you do, you\u2019ll change to that color and can\u2019t pass any other panels of the same color.\u00a0 You win when you \u2018solve\u2019 the puzzle like a Rubik\u2019s Cube.\u00a0 The 3D effect on the graphics was pretty good for the 2600, and I kind of liked this game, even if it was a little stupid.<\/p>\n

Basic Math<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing\u2019s more fun than practicing addition, subtraction, and multiplication on your 2600.\u00a0 Yeah buddy. (PS I hate math)<\/p>\n

Brain Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apparently at some point, the Atari 2600 got a number pad like the Intellivision had.\u00a0 You get a little number pad to view on the screen, and can do various games like Simon and such.<\/p>\n

Casino<\/strong><\/p>\n

I swear, card games on the 2600 were so cumbersome and hard to figure out.\u00a0 There was a card game that my cousins had on their Intellivision that was much better than this.<\/p>\n

Championship Soccer<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this soccer game, the players look like fleas.\u00a0 And it\u2019s really hard.<\/p>\n

Codebreaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another number pad game.\u00a0 Nothing\u2019s more fun than mashing random numbers.\u00a0 I think pressing numbers on my phone and seeing who I dialed sounds more fun.<\/p>\n

Concentration<\/strong><\/p>\n

This number pad game has a grid with numbers on the screen, but I couldn\u2019t figure it out.\u00a0 I guess I wasn\u2019t concentrating enough.<\/p>\n

Demons to Diamonds<\/strong><\/p>\n

This shooter game reminds me of something Activision would\u2019ve done on the 2600.<\/p>\n

Double Dunk<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a basketball game, but you view the field half-court, with the basket in the middle.\u00a0 So it\u2019s more of a one-on-one hoops kind of thing.<\/p>\n

Flag Capture<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think this is supposed to be like Minesweeper.\u00a0 I never liked that game much either.<\/p>\n

Golf<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh my gosh this game is horrible.\u00a0 Maybe worse than Miniature Golf.\u00a0 How are you supposed to know where to hit the ball?<\/p>\n

Hangman<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think I would\u2019ve liked this game as a kid, because I liked to play pen and paper hangman with friends when I was little.<\/p>\n

Haunted House<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never really got the point of this game.\u00a0 You\u2019re a pair of eyes and run through a maze and can shine a light and sometimes a ghost comes out.<\/p>\n

Maze Craze<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another game I probably would\u2019ve liked as a kid since I loved to do those mazes in activity books as a child.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of that snail maze game on the SEGA Master System.<\/p>\n

Night Driver<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a port of the old arcade game and it\u2019s really hard.\u00a0 Whoever would name themselves after this game online must be really goofy (just joking).<\/p>\n

Off the Wall<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s really just a fancier version of Breakout, with better graphics and more rules to keep up with.<\/p>\n

Outlaw<\/strong><\/p>\n

My uncle had this game on his 2600, and I don\u2019t know if it was because of the cowboy motif, but I really liked playing it with him as a kid.<\/p>\n

Realsports Baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve played three different versions of 2600 Baseball on these collections, and none of them is the one I remember playing at my uncle\u2019s house as a kid!<\/p>\n

Realsports Basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that much more realistic than the basketball game on the other collection volume, but you do get to move two people in tandem in this one.<\/p>\n

Realsports Tennis<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never really got the point of most video game tennis titles.\u00a0 It\u2019s just glorified Pong.<\/p>\n

Return to Haunted House<\/strong><\/p>\n

They just reskinned Adventure for this one and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

Secret Quest<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can tell this came out way later on the 2600, and it was definitely in response to the NES Zelda game.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually pretty decent for what it is, although it\u2019s a bit confusing if you don\u2019t read the rules.<\/p>\n

Sentinel<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was actually a light gun game on the 2600!\u00a0 But since you can\u2019t use a light gun here, you move a cursor around instead, so it\u2019s much harder to play.<\/p>\n

Sky Diver<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two players drop people out of planes and open the chutes and try to steer them on a target on the ground for points.<\/p>\n

Space War<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know how one of the first arcade games was just two ships from Asteroids shooting each other?\u00a0 Well this is that game on the 2600.<\/p>\n

Star Ship<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s another one of those cockpit view first-person spaceship shooting games, except here the enemies are easier to see and they ditched the radar.<\/p>\n

Stellar Track<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well you enter in numbers on a grid and that\u2019s all I could figure out.<\/p>\n

Street Racer<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know those old games where you\u2019re a race car on a vertical stretch of road viewed in top down fashion and must steer left and right to avoid other cars?\u00a0 Well that\u2019s what this is.<\/p>\n

Surround<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Snake.\u00a0 Or Snafu on the Intellivision.\u00a0 Or TRON light cycles.\u00a0 I hope you know what I\u2019m talking about now.<\/p>\n

Video Checkers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Activision\u2019s version of 2600 checkers was better than this.<\/p>\n

Video Chess<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a video game that taught me how to play chess.\u00a0 Does anyone remember Battle Chess?\u00a0 I learned how to play chess so I could see all the animations of the pieces in that game.\u00a0 You know what else I learned from Battle Chess?\u00a0 I learned that I don\u2019t like playing chess.<\/p>\n

Video Pinball<\/strong><\/p>\n

A neighbor had this game on their 2600, and I remember playing it all the time as a kid.\u00a0 I loved that game, which I can\u2019t figure out why because it\u2019s just a bad pinball game using Adventure graphics.\u00a0 But I loved it as a kid anyway!<\/p>\n

And those are all the games!\u00a0 Thanks for reading!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ll wrap up this presentation of the games in Atari Flashback Classics vols. 1 and 2 by looking at the rest of the 2600 games on vol. 2.\u00a0 Like last time, I\u2019ll only go over each game briefly, because there are so many games here.\u00a0 And also because I don\u2019t have as many good memories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16062,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions\/16062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}