Top 100 2600 games of all time

[Metal Jesus]

I make no secret that H.E.R.O. is my favorite Atari 2600 game of all time...and today I released a brand new Let's Play of the game to expose it to a new generation of gamers. I gave a shoutout to AtariAge in the video as well. Hope you like it!

 

[Miss 2600]

I make no secret that H.E.R.O. is my favorite Atari 2600 game of all time...and today I released a brand new Let's Play of the game to expose it to a new generation of gamers. I gave a shoutout to AtariAge in the video as well. Hope you like it!

 

 

 

Nice video! With the Atari 2600, Iron Maiden poster, and the KISS dolls, you're my kind of guy!

[G-type]

I played H.e.r.o on the emulator and thought it was ok, but seeing your playthrough makes me want to give it another try

[Dmitry]

1. Asteroids

2. Combat

3. Indy 500

4. Bowling

5. Brain Games

6. Night Driver

7. Ms. Pac Man

8. Circus Atari

9. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

10. River Raid

[Tangentg]

My top 10, mixing original and homebrews:

 

1. Millipede (fav. non-3rd party game)

2. Juno First (fav. homebrew so far)

3. Beamrider (fav. Activision game)

 

The rest are hard so these are probably rough approximations:

4. Robot Tank

5. Demon Attack

6. Tunnel Runner

7. Space Rocks

8. Lady Bug

9. Kaboom

10. Bermuda Triangle

Edited August 25, 2016 by Tangentg

[+davidcalgary29]

 

Homebrews:

Edtris 2600

Halo 2600

Skeleton+

Ladybug

Stratogems Deluxe

 

An excellent list. I'm going to add Chetiry, Princess Rescue, and Stay Frosty/2 to it.

[AW127]

Here my "Top Ten" for "Original Gamecards":

 

( 1 ) Phoenix

( 2 ) Keystone Kapers

( 3 ) Pitfall 2

( 4 ) H.E.R.O.

( 5 ) Yars Revenge

( 6 ) Demon Attack

( 7 ) Centipede

( 8 ) Activision Decathlon

( 9 ) Zaxxon

( 10 ) Dig Dug

 

There are also some superb homebrews, but i had no thoughts about a personal "Top Ten Homebrew List" until now.

Edited August 27, 2016 by AW127

[almightytodd]

Honestly, these days I spend most of my time playing homebrews while they're in development. But my list of original games goes something like this:

 

1 Phaser Patrol Superior graphics and game-play
2 Space Invaders The game that "saved" the VCS
3 Ms Pac Man What Pac Man should have been
4 Crystal Castles I know there are complaints, but I like it!
5 Yars' Revenge Just a good blend of game-play and graphics
6 Tennis I'm a tennis player, so I'm biased
7 Jr. Pac Man ...usually on "teddy bear" level
8 Missile Command A great port!
9 Video Chess I can never win! But I enjoy the challenge!
10 BMX Air Master Good graphics, sounds, and game-play

[MikeCV82]

1. H.E.R.O

2. River Raid

3. Missile Command

4. Demon Attack

5. Defender

6. Pitfall II

7. Ms. Pac-Man

8. Atlantis

9. Yar's Revenge

10. Berzerk

[Bizby Moomoo]

1. Montezuma's Revenge

2. Ice Hockey

3. Missile Command

4. Atlantis

5. Yars Revenge

6. Empire Strikes Back

7. Asteroids

8. Combat

9. Freeway

10. Pitfall

[AW127]

*LOL* just now i saw, that the list in the first entry of this thread was last updated "Sun Nov 4, 2007".

[rednakes1]

1 ) Ms Pac-Man

2 ) Battlezone

3 ) Robot Tank

4 ) H.E.R.O.

5 ) Space Invaders

6 ) Asteroids

7 ) Cosmic Ark

8 ) Demon Attack

9 ) Missile Command

10 ) Sea Quest

Edited September 29, 2016 by rednakes1

[Miss 2600]

*LOL* just now i saw, that the list in the first entry of this thread was last updated "Sun Nov 4, 2007".

 

I've been updating the list periodically within this thread.

[Q*bertkid]

1 Tutankham

2 Phoenix

3 Eggomania

4 Pitfall

5 Tron

6 Atlantis

7 frogs and flies (2 player)

8 Lock n Chase

9 Bowling (2 player)

10 E.T.

[AW127]

I've been updating the list periodically within this thread.

Ah okay, that`s good. I first thought, the list was only in the first entry. Now i saw, that your last update is from April 2016. I am happy, that PHOENIX climbs up a little bit in the list, because i love this game. It`s my favourite.

Edited October 7, 2016 by AW127

[Obviously]

1. Berzerk

2. Yar's Revenge

3. Space Invaders

4. Vanguard

5, H.E.R.O.

6. Asteroids

7. Defender II

8. Seaquest

9. Enduro

10. Dark Cavern

[sn8k]

1. Star wars arcade

2. Raiders of the Lost Ark

3. Star raiders

4. Ms pac man

5. Yars revenge

6. Millipede

7. Krull

8. Galaxian

9. Battlezone

10. Chuck Norris Superkicks

[PitfallHarry77]

1. Hero

2. Warlords

3. Adventure

4. Video Olympics

5. Ms Pacman

6. River Raid

7. Megamania

8. Kaboom

9. Pitfall

10. Stargate

 

I found this really difficult as my list is still missing greats such as Frostbite, Enduro, Spiderfighter and Missile Command

 

Supercharger

 

1. Frogger: The Official Version (best arcade port on the 2600?

2. Communist Mutants From Space

3. Phaser Patrol

4. Fireball

5. Dragonstomper

 

Homebrew

 

1. Pacman 8k Dintar816 version

2. Space Rocks

3. Medieval Mayhem

4. Chetiry

5. Thrust+

 

There are so many good homebrew games and titles such as Juno First, Halo 2600 and Toyshop Trouble really also need to go in somewhere but don't fit with just 5 places.

[PitfallHarry77]

I make no secret that H.E.R.O. is my favorite Atari 2600 game of all time...and today I released a brand new Let's Play of the game to expose it to a new generation of gamers. I gave a shoutout to AtariAge in the video as well. Hope you like it!

 

 

I agree that H.E.R.O. is one of the best games for the 2600 as it is far more complex than most games, it controls well and has great replay value (moves fast as well). I think the Video Game Critic gets most of his reviews spot on but I think that, of the Activision titles, he is a bit harsh on H.E.R.O., Megamania and Spiderfighter. He criticises how H.E.R.O controls and says that it isn't 'fun enough' to be a classic. I couldn't disagree more. Anyway, I started playing H.E.R.O. after watching one of your videos so thanks for that.

Edited February 22, 2017 by PitfallHarry77

[RUNNER]

1. Space Invaders

2. Combat

3. Super Breakout

4. Missile Command

5. Asteroids

6. Demon Attack

7. Phoenix

8. Air Sea Battle

9. Atlantis

10. Freeway

[RUNNER]

That was very interesting, dark-aleph. Thanks for doing this. I think your list is definitely more accurate in determining the best games. One thing I've noticed compiling the lists is that many who post their lists have very few comments in this forum which leads me to believe a lot of the participants are casual fans of Atari and are only familiar with a few of the more popular games.

 

I don't agree...yep I'm kind of new here cause I don't have that much spare time to post but I'm a fan since I was a child and that's close to 40 years now as I'm about to turn 50. I just simply keep on thinking that best games are the ones that most of us thought were the best and most popular at the time like invaders or asteroids. That happened because of a reason. These games were good, the best and still are in my view. I still play them a couple of times a week and I don't think they need any explanation, it'd sound a little dumb :-) All due respect for great brews of course like space rocks, galactopus or many more. Cheers

[Spookanide]

all-time faves out of my current collection for upvotes:

- Solaris

- Beam Rider

- Enduro

- Yar's Revenge

- Warlords

- Phoenix

 

That last one is probably my current favorite space-invaders shoot-m-up. It has a variety of enemies and a boss. A lot of people vote Demon attack, but I can't help prefer this.

[Rom Hunter]

Haven't been here in ages.

Perhaps this gives a good impression:

Top 10(0) Total Hits since 2004:
http://www.atarimania.com/top-atari-game-atari-2600-vcs-_G_2_H.html

Top 10(0) Total Downloads since 2004:
http://www.atarimania.com/top-atari-game-atari-2600-vcs-_G_2_D.html

Edited March 31, 2017 by Rom Hunter

[+jeremiahjt]

Haven't been here in ages.

 

Perhaps this gives a good impression:

 

Top 10(0) Total Hits since 2004:

http://www.atarimania.com/top-atari-game-atari-2600-vcs-_G_2_H.html

 

Top 10(0) Total Downloads since 2004:

http://www.atarimania.com/top-atari-game-atari-2600-vcs-_G_2_D.html

 

Why the hell is Alpha Beam with Ernie the third most downloaded game?

[Rom Hunter]

Beats me.

But the counting is correct.