The Ultimate Atari 7800 Review - Player One Start

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  @JerryTerrifying · 6 years ago

  In Robotron 2084 you can use two controllers to play the game on the 7800.  It controls very well actually.

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  @EugenioAngueira · 6 years ago

  Nice video.  A couple of comments.  Robotron can be played with two joysticks on the 7800.  You just have to plug them both and the system will recognize them for dual control.  There are other alternatives nowadays to make it easier as there is no holder for the 7800 joysticks.  As for Commando, yes it is one of the two titles that use POKEY from the original game library.

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• MI

  @misterknightowlandco · 3 years ago

  I still have my 7800 from when I was a kid. Underrated system as was the jaguar. I really enjoyed both.

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• SH

  @ShinGoukiSan · 6 years ago

  I lived in LA at the time and remember a friend on my street having a 7800 in 84

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• RO

  @robertcasey2490 · 3 years ago

  Heard that 7800 games could be played on an Atari 800, after you somehow get the code out of the 7800 cart and onto a floppy you could then run on the Atari 800.

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  @stevesloan7132 · 6 years ago (edited)

  I actually like the Atari Thrust song better as a piece of music. Also, the song cutting off when you went from the demo to game play was actually what happened when you dropped a quarter into a standup arcade game back in the dawn of video arcades. Aaaah, the golden Age of arcades! It was a different world, a whole new world, and a better one, to replace the defective one that we'd been given by fate or history.

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  @matthewlane518 · 5 years ago

  When I was a kid my small hands were able to use the 7800 joystick perfectly, but as an adult it's difficult

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  @stevew8513 · 7 years ago

  As far as racing games go, there&apos;s also Motorpsycho, which is essentially Pole Position but with a motorcycle and the ability to jump. It&apos;s a really rare one - I&apos;ve had my 7800 since 1987 and I have most of the library, and yet I&apos;ve never seen a copy of Motorpsycho outside of a retro gaming convention. <br>Fatal Run is sort of a racing game, but you also have to contend with other vehicles trying to ram you off the road. It&apos;s post-apocalyptic so you get machine guns and armor along with whatever you can afford to equip your car with at each town you stop at. It has a nice little ending, too. One of my 7800 favorites.<br>As far as recommendations go, the late releases near the end of the machine&apos;s life tend to be good (well, maybe with the exception of Jinks which is only &apos;meh&apos;). My absolute favorite is Midnight Mutants. Take the gameplay of Adventure on the 2600, make it isometric, add a very large map, throw in some really large bosses, and the weirdest licensing tie-in possible that does absolutely nothing for the game other that give it another layer of strangeness. It&apos;s pretty satisfying to defeat, even though the ending isn&apos;t exactly too impressive.

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  @goldenphonautogram6141 · 5 years ago

  If you ever find yourself in DePere, Wisconsin, there is a little store there with lots of different 7800 games for sale. Well, &quot;lots&quot; compared to other retro games stores I have been to. You don&apos;t find many 7800 games in the wild.

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  @Defender7800 · 7 years ago

  Amazing documentary on the underappreciated Atari 7800. Great job! Robotron 2084 does however support twin stick control. You can get a arcade twin stick controller on atariage for it. &nbsp;Such a great console for arcade style &nbsp;gameplay when you realize it&apos;s two systems in one. &nbsp;So much potential still for this system.

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  @SuperHamsterGaming · 7 years ago

  If you haven&apos;t played Rikki and Vikki it&apos;s a pretty decent homebrew for the 7800 with really good graphics and it&apos;s own sound chip. I think the lack of mapper chips really hurt the quality of games. It had a lot of potential that was never tapped.

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  @rustymixer2886 · 6 years ago (edited)

  1984 units had laserdisc add on slot ! Props to ninja golf ⛳

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