Comments on: Deeply Sinister Atari Ad, Featuring Yars’ Revenge

By: Lilo

Lilo — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:02:01 +0000

It actually made me want to inhabit the world they were selling

By: SPEEDCORE

SPEEDCORE — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:16:09 +0000

Yars Revenge was one of the best Atari games ever!
I played it thru all the colour bases and there was a way you could lock the game…. actually its on the wiki page as the “easter egg”.

For the gamers that missed the Atari 2600 scene, you can get the emu called stella http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41847
and the roms pack is like 3mb for every atari game made just ask google :)

By: Carey

Carey — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:50:28 +0000

That’s exactly how game development will work when I’m king.

By: Redford

Redford — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:29:30 +0000

For those wondering, Yar’s revenge game play went pretty much like in the commercial. You are the yar. You destroy blocks from the Quotile’s energy wall by shooting or eating them. If you eat enough blocks (or touch the Quotile) you get the zorlon cannon, which can be fired one time. If the homing bullet hits you, then you die. You can hide in the energy belt from it. If the Quotile hits you in pinwheel form, you die. Your mission if you choose to accept it is to kill the Quotile an infinite number of times for as much points as possible. If you are really awesome and you can hit the Quotile while he is flying at you in pinwheel form, you get the most points. This is harder then it sounds – he gets going pretty fast in the higher difficulty screens.

By: Warduke

Warduke — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Loved Yars Revenge and Star Raiders, they were 2 of my favorite games to pull a marathon with the ole’ 2600

By: Nifft

Nifft — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:47:14 +0000

Fantasy and imagination win over reality,

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:34:30 +0000

Now there’s a game that should be remade.

By: Tei

Tei — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:01:12 +0000

@Biff.
*cue joke about 8086 games*

By: john t

john t — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:57:05 +0000

Man, that is fucking awesomely well done. Who directed it?

By: Twitter Shitter

Twitter Shitter — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:01:36 +0000

I wonder why Jack Thompson didn’t use this to show how video games and drug use are deeply interconnected.

By: Biff

Biff — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:13:46 +0000

Loved Yar’s Revenge. Easily one of my all time favorite 2600 games.

I’m impressed that you’ve compiled such a long list.

By: Michael Walbridge

Michael Walbridge — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:52:13 +0000

Hey, this wasn’t about a PC game! I do protest!

*watches*