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Top 20 Atari 2600 Games Worth Playing Today

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Great list but missing Enduro, decathlon and Spider man I agree on putting Adventure on top
Comment from : @matthew9148

Battle tanks was my game also asteroids
Comment from : @Majorjohnson

Anybody had the computer roll double nines in acey deucey backgammon?
Comment from : @dennistaylor983

How is Chopper Command not in here?
Comment from : @johndavey6994

Seriously you don't have asteroids or defender on here?
Comment from : @rogrambo

I remember Adventure, Enduro, and Haunted among my preferred games Though to be fair, I only caught the tail end of the Atari era
Comment from : @astrofizzix5631

What about megmania?
Comment from : @SpEnCeR0003

I got so pissed at the fast red dragon in Adventure! 😂😂
Comment from : @brianalexander7784

Wow, never played Battle Zone Not only is it POV/3D, but it even tracks the enemies with little dots in your “compass” That’s ahead of its time 😮
Comment from : @reedr7142

QBERT!
Comment from : @anticipayo

I could name a lot of game's All the Activision game's were really good Demon Attack was a really cool game They're were lots
Comment from : @vivsavage13

What is that horse game?
Comment from : @CharlieTownsend-n7q

Great list Some of my favourites are Ms Pac Man, Pitfall 2, RealSports Soccer (even though i hate football lol), Mario Bros, Bobby is Going Home, Bowling and Space Invaders There’s so many awesome games on the 2600 that still hold up and i feel like it doesn’t truly get the appreciation it deserves
Comment from : @otakuatarigamer

Dragonstomper!
Comment from : @xannyd

Holey crap Haha I'm old Lol brI still can't understand what I'm looking at I thought I was dumb i was a kid That unintelligible graphics Is that a spaceship or a fortune cookie? Maybe I'm not autistic and I got stuck on what the fuck this magic robot is trying to say? Lmao! No wonder us age group has imagination (vivid) as you'd need one right? Mr presenter, youre so positive and kind about this machine I dispised it, wooden spinning top was better At least it worked 😂
Comment from : @wheat-is-an-ugly-drug

The Atari 2600 was before my time, but Battlezone looked like the bumb for the day
Comment from : @pattrell5257

Centipede
Comment from : @DrDiddler-t9f

Pitfall II, Space Attack, Tron's Deadly disc, and Raiders of the Lost Ark!! These are some of the best games of Atari!!
Comment from : @spitfirexxi

Going to add: Raiders of the Lost Ark was an excellent game on the 2600 It's all relative, of course, but while I love Adventure, Raiders was in the exact same genre and had the same, "Just keep playing and you'll figure it out," attitude and was bs I had to read an article in some offbeat PC World ripoff magazine how to beat itbr1982 was rough to young gamersbrAnd in fifteen hours, the new Raiders game officially drops on my xbox, forty-three years laterbrIndy in Unreal vs 8 bit
Comment from : @MrRezRising

These are my all time favorites: pitfall 2, jungle hunt, smurfs, bobby is going home, mr postman, frogs and flies, keystone kapers, superman, and if it´s a homebrew, I´d say Ature (zelda-like homebrew) - Now I guess my all time favorite of them all (number one) is going to be: Casey´s Gold, released just last month by the veterans from Activision!
Comment from : @AloanMoreira1

Surprised you didn't mention Private Eye, Montezuma's Revenge, Pressure Cooker, or Off the Wall If you've never played any of those, I highly recommend checking them all out! Montezuma's Revenge isn't as good on Atari as it is on other platforms, but it's still a really impressive technical achievement and a game that's largely on par with the likes of Pitfall 2 And the other three are all Atari 2600 exclusives, if I'm not mistaken, and are excellent titles in their own right that are still an absolute blast to play
Comment from : @Wyrdwad

A pretty solid list within the top 10, though I would've rated "Yar's Revenge" higher
Comment from : @tyjohnston8573

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Comment from : @FLipeerFLipeerFLipeeR

Thank goodness you didn’t put Pac-Man on the list I was a kid when Pac-Man came out for the 2600 It was such a disappointment
Comment from : @Saanichian

I hadn't heard of most of the games you mention, and some of the others I actually did have, I thought they sucked almost as much as the ET game However, you did hit some of the best games, River Raid, Pitfall, Space Invaders! Besides these there were a ton of others that were 100x better than all the others you showed You showed a Frogger knock off but NO Frogger, that is a crime and what about Defender or Asteroids or even a basic favorite if mine Super Breakout I have it stored away but I still have my old 2600 and about 100 games! Thanks for the video it was a fun view!
Comment from : @indiana2096

I'll be the judge of this
Comment from : @scottl1568

Adventure has a lot of hidden features If you get the gold dot you can find a hidden room
Comment from : @michelleeditor

Artillery duel by XONOX is good also , Indiana Jones, if you had two controllers
Comment from : @shoftim

Played Adventure so much I was able to find the Easter Egg Good memories
Comment from : @rbartig

Megamania was greatSo was Missle Command,Defender,Q Bert
Comment from : @jackgoff2072

Some not listed games I play up to today are Laser Gates, Dragonfire, Megamania and Pressure Cooking Some games in the list, like Turmoil, could really be great games, but I dislike how they become a hell too fast Atari in fact have some games like this, Cosmic Ark and Entombed are examples (good games ruined by how fast they become impossible) Well, your list shows some games I dont know and could try Good job
Comment from : @prosafutebolistica9707

What was the song at the start? So familiar but i can't place it!
Comment from : @TomFrankowicz

My favourite 2600 game is Moonpatrol i like the C64 version of Hero the most
Comment from : @tpiller

Enduro and Missile Command were 2 of my favorites I could carry on a conversation while simultaneously playing Kaboom!
Comment from : @TirepatchKing

Adventure is one of the best console games of all time
Comment from : @67L48

Seriously? No Asteroids or Missle Command?
Comment from : @futureshockxl

Dig dug and joust
Comment from : @MelodyFarris2323

HERO is such a fantastic game!
Comment from : @victorvance2573

Adventure and decathalon Top 2 everyday
Comment from : @johnocola

No Asteroids? You broke my heart 😢
Comment from : @jony3775

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Comment from : @robertosuareztolosa1659

Not a good listbrAdventure, Haunted House, Missle Command, Raiders, Bezerk, but honestly the terrible clones of Q-bert, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Frogger is what everyone was playing
Comment from : @typedeaf

I've not even heard of half of these For my money, Yars Revenge is too low, and the top ten should have Empire Strikes Back and Defender
Comment from : @jasonmiller3134

Warlords and Kaboom were my favorites
Comment from : @bitcoinski

Loved space invaders, donkey kong, combat, adventure and played a ton of surround! Cousin had yars revenge which had me hooked and a friend had pitfall which was awesome too
Comment from : @captainlew

No ET??
Comment from : @helgaratbone1691

Of course everyone is gonna disagree with something My disagreement is that Haunted House was left off That game was interesting with the different behavior of the ghost, the bat, and the 1-3 spiders The different items, like the scepter, and the strats of using them The 4 floors with the different locked doors, and the strat of being able to carry one thing at a time The sound effects were awesome and scary; the best use of the sound engine The different difficulties were great, with level 9 being a challenge for almost any gamer The increasing difficultly was also very imaginative It was the items, the layout, the scepter worked on everything but the ghost, the "darkness", and the overall behavior of everything Level 9 was intense and fast! But the lower difficulties were fun because they were a little more casual and exploratory brbrNot a bad list overall I agree with putting Adventure #1, as that game was a true theater of the mind, using the hardware in it's most imaginative way But I think Haunted House was in a similar vein Atari couldn't compete with the arcade hardware of the time, but games like those used the Atari's strengths to their maxbrBtw, good call on Berzerk Just a fun game And Pitfall was great for the challenge of getting to any treasure brbrHmm, I see Defender isn't there either That was another miss But Haunted House was the big one that think was missed That or Adventure are the first I put on when firing up my emulator
Comment from : @bitteroldhousecat9304

What, no Custer's Revenge??brbrPitfall, Warlords, Yar's Revenge, Adventure, and Kaboom were all huge favorites in my house when I was a kid I loved River Raid but I was the only one for some reason I also had a Supercharger and several games for it It was really great with some amazing games
Comment from : @LiberalsArePoop

Skydiver when the parachute did not open was hilarious
Comment from : @jtrain100179

I really enjoyed Moon Patrol
Comment from : @stevendeans4211

Respect for giving Adventure top ranking My friend had it on his Atari, but he never wanted to play when I came over (I guess he could always play the Atari), so I only saw snippets, as he was finishing up a game or something It seemed magical, and once I got an Atari of my own, it was a game I really enjoyed With the extensive maps, tool use and so forth, it seemed like a deeper game than others for the system I will admit that I didn't go back to it that often, once I'd moved onto other games It didn't have the same sort of action-based adrenaline rush for me, but I got my enjoyment out of it, and it I'd still point to it as one of the most perfect games of its era
Comment from : @stuffyouotterlistento1461

Defender was great!
Comment from : @bensexton254

I spent a lot of time playing Yars' Revenge! Also, The Empire Strikes Back was great!
Comment from : @bensexton254

Great list Personally I'd have included Superman Possibly Defender and Asteroids as well
Comment from : @maxpiemuse9584

I would have included Missile Command
Comment from : @curmudgeonextraordinaire1884

Solid listwould've liked to have seen Activision's Demon Attack on there
Comment from : @boreddad6805

Spider Fighter is another classic Atari game that holds up It's similar to Space Invaders or Phoenixbr In the late nineties when I was in my early twenties, I hooked the 2600 up in the living room of the house I shared with my degenerate friends Spider Fighter was a big hit and I think the only Atari game that got serious use We had a dry erase board on the wall and for awhile we kept track of Spider Fighter high scores This was in 96 or 97, when the 2600 was already considered way old and it was rare to ever see onebrbrKeystone Capers is another good one that is very fast paced , good gameplay, good graphics for the Atari, and has a bit of a sense of humor brbrYars Revenge is one of two video games that my dad, now 90, ever got into He never gamed at all - AT ALL - he didn't even watch movies or tv really - but he became obsessed for a couple of months with Yars Revenge, and years later, with Dr Mario
Comment from : @sonicsnout

Oh man, Pressure Cooker was one of my favorite games of all time I loved a bunch of the games, honestly Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Comment from : @linuxjeffrey

I was really into the system and knew about every game Maze Craze was a blast for multiplayer! War Lords the same You listed some games I think some people never heard of And how could you leave Astroids, Centipede, Missile Command, and Ms Pac-Man off of the list?
Comment from : @skyjim777

Makes me feel old now, remember rushing home from school and Turing on my 2600 and playing pitfall
Comment from : @grimreaperscreed5938

Missile Coomand
Comment from : @michaellurie9138

River Raid is tops for me
Comment from : @smallmj2886

Still have carpal tunnel from playing hours of Decathalon
Comment from : @johnhaig9620

Chopper command not even mentioned and should have been number 1!!!
Comment from : @jb6879

Berzerk and Phoenix are not nearly as good on the Atari 2600 as they are in the arcades Don't know how you could possible think so Graphics & sound are far better in the original arcadenice video otherwise
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Yars’ revenge is giving me a seizure
Comment from : @magichead79

Wow no Solaris, Road Runner or Double Dragon or Crystal Castles! Ghostbusters as well
Comment from : @RabidGerry

Very hard to play ATARI after playing todays versions of games
Comment from : @milfinu

My favorites were: Yars’ Revenge, Combat, River Raid, MegaMania, Vanguard, Cosmic Ark and Pac-Man
Comment from : @KevyNova

I knew adventure would be first!!! And I used to love to line up that through the neck trick on Berzerk
Comment from : @hpbrownsaucecraft7966

My list of Atari games as an 80's kid: Space Invaders, Adventure, Ice Hockey, ET (Which I honest to god enjoyed), Frogs & Flies, Yars Revenge, and Kangaroo I'd say that is a good collection, I was lucky!
Comment from : @toptenguy1

No boulder dash?
Comment from : @moore66

PACMAN No 1
Comment from : @barisyilmaz5582

A few of my favs not on the list:brbrEmpire Strikes BackbrRobot Tank brDemon AttackbrVanguard
Comment from : @GrnXnham

Omega RacebrEmpire Strikes Back (AT AT vs speeder battle)brCentipedebrDodge embrStar Raiders
Comment from : @Kissfan96dr

Good list and you had to limit the number of,beers But chop lifter deserves mention
Comment from : @toddkorson8207

Loved pitfall
Comment from : @toddkorson8207

You know you are an atari fanatic if you can identify most of the games in the thumbnail just from a single graphic apiece!
Comment from : @ednguyen3822

Atari version of Defender was excellent!
Comment from : @georgepburdell7237

atari my favorite consel❤
Comment from : @yasmeenmalik5126

cant believe qbert and kung fu master not in that top 20 which dont make sense way much better than most of those games
Comment from : @simongs99

Not all of the games are Atari There are a few from Activision which was an independent company Activision games were usually a step above Atari in graphics and overall game quality
Comment from : @BarrySmith70

Stampede by Activision, Demon Attack and Atlantis by Imagic, The 2600's version of Asteroids, Laser Blast by Activision Those were my favorites
Comment from : @brianasbury8315

Until I got an NES, I loved the 2600brTo be honest, I've only heard of 5 of these Battlezone was one of my favorites along with Pitfall and Combat
Comment from : @retluoc