# Let's play... Atari games! **URL:** \ **Category:** Adventure/Lucasfilm Games\ **Created:** [June 4, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780 "2018-06-04T08:58:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/1 "2018-06-04T08:58:53Z")
Look! I’ts a topic! Let’s discuss all things about Atari! I can’t let @Sushi get away with his two threads about consoles that nobody knows. So here we can talk about the best console ever: The Atari VCS also known as the Atari 2600. Think about such beautiful games like E.T. Pac Man, Q\*Bert, Circus Games, Pong or Demon Attack! And you can still play it on your computer! > **[Buy Atari 80 Classic Games in One from the Humble Store](https://www.humblebundle.com/store/atari-80-classic-games-in-one)** > > SummaryAtari 80 Classic Games in One provides a host of classic arcade games, including popular titles such as Asteroids, Centipede and Millipede. This comprehensive collection also includes a wide variety of Atari 2600 titles, which provide space... https://store.steampowered.com/widget/400020 Let’s see if we can convert @Sushi to become a Atari boy after all 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/2 "2018-06-04T09:50:31Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > Let’s see if we can convert @Sushi to become a Atari boy after all 😜 too late… the VCS/Atari 2600 was the first system I ever played on. This is one of my desktop backgrounds on my office PC: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/1/11b13c5c9561cae3d8f763c910cc8f8670f1612d.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![yrface](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/yrface/32/11793_2.png) [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/3 "2018-06-04T10:03:14Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > The Atari VCS also known as the Atari 2600. Think about such beautiful games like E.T. Pac Man, Q\*Bert, Circus Games, Pong or Demon Attack! One of my oldest memories is of waking up early before my parents were up and watching my brother play Atari. I remember we had Asteroids, Warlords, Jedi Arena, Crackpots… but my favorite was Adventure, with the dragons that look like ducks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/4 "2018-06-04T10:07:45Z")
The only actual Atari I played myself was at the house of one of my mother´s patients. I also inherited his entire MOTU collection. I remember playing Asteroids, Donkey Kong and maybe a few others. I´m not sure if it was a 2600 or one of the later ones, though. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/5 "2018-06-04T10:09:06Z")
> [@yrface](#): > > Asteroids Oh, yeah! I played that for hours. I also loved Jungle Hunt: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Xm_W_OKX7Vo/hqdefault.jpg "Atari 2600 Longplay [016] Jungle Hunt") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_W_OKX7Vo) ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/6 "2018-06-04T10:11:28Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > I´m not sure if it was a 2600 or one of the later ones, though. It’s likely that it was a 2600. They build it with different cases and the successors 5200 and 7800 weren’t successful (in Germany). ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/7 "2018-06-04T10:13:41Z")
The weird thing is that I don´t remeber being put off by Donkey Kong not looking like an ape at all. I think I had known the game from the C64 version already by that time. Playing Asteroids was fun, though. I was in no way put off by the simplicity of the system even though I was already used to the C64, the NES and the Arcade Cabinets in the restaurants. ---
**Author:** ![yrface](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/yrface/32/11793_2.png) [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/8 "2018-06-04T10:42:13Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > I also loved Jungle Hunt I don’t remember that one 🤔 Looks like a knock off of Pitfall to me. I never had that game but remember playing it at a friend’s house. It seemed so cool at the time, even the cartridge had a different shape. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/9 "2018-06-04T10:49:53Z")
It´s so weird that the screen goes from right to left instead of the other way round. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/10 "2018-06-04T10:53:17Z")
> [@yrface](#): > > Looks like a knock off of Pitfall to me. Only the sequence with the ropes is similar to Pitfall. 🙂 Jungle Hunt was an arcade game: > **[Jungle Hunt (1982) - MobyGames](https://www.mobygames.com/game/133/jungle-hunt/)** > > Jungle Hunt offers four unique adventure experiences, which repeat with greater difficulty once all four have been survived. If you don't survive these adventures, you will not only lose your own life but that of the lovely Penelope, who has been... > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > It´s so weird that the screen goes from right to left instead of the other way round. Yes, and it stays weird after playing it several times. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/11 "2018-07-22T00:16:08Z")
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**Author:** ![yrface](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/yrface/32/11793_2.png) [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/12 "2018-07-22T12:58:35Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > Jungle Hunt was an arcade game: Now I remember it! I must have played it on the C64… I even remember those stupid commercials. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/13 "2018-07-22T13:06:40Z")
I never had it, but I checked videos on youtube and it seems that in the stage where you have to jump over boulders it even went uphill in the C64 version (which as I presume made it even harder?) ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/14 "2018-07-22T14:14:23Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > (which as I presume made it even harder?) Yes, indeed. 🙂 I hated the crocodile level: It was difficult (for me at that time) to hit one of those crocodiles with this small knife. The collision detection was awful IMHO … ---
**Author:** ![yrface](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/yrface/32/11793_2.png) [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/15 "2018-07-22T14:20:46Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > the crocodile level That’s the part that really triggered my memory. I seem to remember getting good at that level after a lot of practicing. > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > It´s so weird that the screen goes from right to left instead of the other way round. Right? I can’t think of any other games that go right to left, except for open world platformers where you can go in any direction. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/16 "2018-07-22T14:23:31Z")
> [@yrface](#): > > I can’t think of any other games that go right to left For example: https://store.steampowered.com/widget/283230 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/17 "2018-07-22T14:24:35Z")
> [@yrface](#): > > Right? I can’t think of any other games that go right to left Well a famous example would be Kung Fu: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IQjzFt8Sqpk/maxresdefault.jpg "Kung Fu (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQjzFt8Sqpk) I think the platformers move according to the way we in the western world read. Which is funny because that would mean most japanese game would be the other way around, but they are not. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/18 "2018-07-22T14:25:41Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Well a famous example would be Kung Fu: But it’s also from left to right (at 7:15 in your video). ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/19 "2018-07-22T14:26:44Z")
Only to immiediatly go the other direction a few seconds later. ---
**Author:** ![yrface](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/yrface/32/11793_2.png) [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780/20 "2018-07-22T14:34:02Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > > Well a famous example would be Kung Fu: > > But it’s also from left to right I used to love that game on NES. My memory could be distorted, but I seemed to remember it went back and forth as you climbed the ladders to the next platform. So left to right, then right to left, etc. I used to really like looking at the enlarged pixels on the box of that game. Then try to recreate it on my Etch-a-sketch Animator: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/5/5c0f195a13474601355b686f697c18bfecb5a860.jpeg) [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lets-play-atari-games/2780.md?page=2)