Which atari game is the fastest?

[Atarian7]

Is it Kaboom!, Seaquest, or dragster? Or another game. Please rate the top 5 fastest games.

[keilbaca]

Kaboom by far. Its even faster than DDR arrows!

[video game addict]

Dragster's definitely the quickest one for me when it comes time to hit reset, about once every 10-15 seconds. start game, wait for the lights, then blow motor trying to change to 3rd gear, reset game, wait on lights again, maybe finish around 7 sec range, hit reset, try again.... over & over again.

[bjk7382]

Spider Fighter is pretty quick for a 2600 game, but I think kaboom is still the fastest.

[Cootster]

The high levels of Crackpots and Beamrider are at least as fast as Kaboom, IMO . . .

 

Of course, technically, they're all 60Hz(NTSC) or 50Hz(PAL) But Activision games just look faster . . . Maybe it's the striped logo?

[cimerians]

If your talking simply controls...then its Dragster, you need to be inhumanly quick on flippin' those gears. Don't get me wrong, Kaboom is a very close second. Another game I would place on this list is Cosmic Ark.

[PaulEMoz]

Chopper Command gets pretty fast when you get far into the game....

[homerwannabee]

I dont think spider fighter is that quick its one of those games I can play forever

[adams_ale]

Are we talking about how quick a game is to reach the ending or the speed of gameplay? or both?

 

For the quickest game to completion there is no other shorter than Dragster.

Strawberry Shortcake is thankfully very short, while TCM is unfortunately over too soon.

 

The quickest games in terms of gameplay speed might be Kaboom, Jr. Pacman, and Dragster(if you call this a game).

[cimerians]

Are we talking about how quick a game is to reach the ending or the speed of gameplay? or both?

 

For the quickest game to completion there is no other shorter than Dragster.

Strawberry Shortcake is thankfully very short, while TCM is unfortunately over too soon.

 

The quickest games in terms of gameplay speed might be Kaboom, Jr. Pacman, and Dragster(if you call this a game).

 

Thats exactly how I look at it. I haven't played Jr. Pac-Man, is he simply moving around the maze real fast?

[yuppicide]

Spider Fighter gets pretty fast with them shooting down at you.

[bjk7382]

Spider Fighter gets pretty fast with them shooting down at you.

 

Also when you get to the banana level with the difficulty switch on A (expert)

[Fellow Atari Man]

Are we talking about how quick a game is to reach the ending or the speed of gameplay? or both?

 

For the quickest game to completion there is no other shorter than Dragster.

Strawberry Shortcake is thankfully very short, while TCM is unfortunately over too soon.

 

The quickest games in terms of gameplay speed might be Kaboom, Jr. Pacman, and Dragster(if you call this a game).

 

Thats exactly how I look at it. I haven't played Jr. Pac-Man, is he simply moving around the maze real fast?

 

Him and the ghosts; eep! Have a good, well-responding controller for that one!

 

Tunnel Runner gets damn fast once you get through about 10 Runs or so. The 3-D scrolling's something else!

[SteveW]

What about Fast Food? Once a few levels go by, the food starts to scream past almost too fast for your eyes to keep up with.

[moycon]

The dragons in Suicide Adventure

[DeV0]

Jawbreaker gets pretty spazzy after a while, Id stick with kaboom though

[Video]

Tunnel Runner gets damn fast once you get through about 10 Runs or so. The 3-D scrolling's something else!

 

Tunnel runner also gets my vote. At the sheer speed you ran down the halls and swung around corners on that game, it was very hard to keep up later on. This game proved at the time, beyond the shadow of a doubt that a First Person game was doable. Just a shame nobody then caught onto that fact.

 

Dragster is the fastes in terms of how long it takes to finish the game. It's the only game I know of you can loose in five seconds, and still have fun. I always thought it was a funny sound hearing the rev up and moter expload.

[ZylonBane]

Where's the Turmoil love?

[+FujiSkunk]

Where's the Turmoil love?

 

Turmoil gets fast, no doubt about it, but Kaboom! and company still get much faster.

 

Notice how it's mostly Activision titles getting the vote.

[+Propane13]

Street Racer?

[sku_u]

Ms. Pacman gets really fast in the later stages. So does Defender on the harder settings.

[ZylonBane]

Space Master X-7 gets pretty insanely fast at the higher levels.

[+Nathan Strum]

Challenge of Nexar starts throwing stuff at you really fast. That has to be somewhere in the top five, velocity-wise.

[Tickled_Pink]

Frostbite (one of the best games on the 2600 imho) gets pretty damned hectic after a while.

[NovaXpress]

Don't forget Tac-Scan, at the high levels it's just "press and pray"