Star Raiders

Let's say if there were an Atari version of this.

something uh for star raiders you just program it you would just swipe it over the nfc reader and it would immediately invoke huh star raiders you

could have a little like playing card size thing that had yeah picture of star raiders on it swipe it and yep

they're doing that on the commodore 64 it's like why can't there be something like this for the atari pit so um you know if the commodore can do it the atari pit could certainly do it right sure So this is kind of a call to action for somebody to create something like that for the Atari bit.

Brad, have you seen this? You've probably seen this at your user group meetings.

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look at how that works through this video And then Into the Vertical Blank produced one called The Top 25 Atari 8-Bit Games Not on the Commodore 64.

And as you might imagine, it includes games like Star Raiders, which they put as number one.

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And then so all the way through 2600, and then probably Advanced Dungeons & Dragons being, like, a really important moment, or maybe somewhere in there, like Star Raiders, really important piece, um, 2600 title.

So somewhere in there, like, that's kinda like the beginning of like, uh, the imagination I think for me.

I gotcha.

So, Airball...

Asteroids, Basketball, Battlezone, Berserk, Boulder Dash, Bristles, Capture the Flag, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Electric Glide, Encounter, Flip and Flop, Henry's House, Hover Bover, Lee, which is Bruce Lee, Mule, Millipede, Miner 2049er, Missile Command, O'Reilly's Mine, The Seven Cities of Gold, Star Raiders 2, Wavy Navy, and Yoom.

A very good collection of arcade-style games.

But, but, what about games that need the keyboard?

Right.

The whole point of the difference between this and the 400 Mini is that it has a keyboard.

There are many, many, many games, like Star Raiders, for example, the original, that require the keyboard and would be really, really fun with a full-size keyboard.

Yes.

I mean, it's definitely, people got to check this one out.

So the next one is an FTL game, one of two on this list, which is surprising to me because FTL made Dungeon Master, which was, I mean, Dungeon Master, if Star Raiders was the killer app for the Atari 8-bit, Dungeon Master was definitely the killer app for the ST, at least for a time.

And it was on the ST first before the Amiga, which is why I think Amiga owners don't talk about Dungeon Master that much.

But they're wrong.

Yeah, I just, I still, I still call him BS on that one.

Number 13, let's get to number 13.

Star Raiders, 1986 game by Atari Corp. It's a follow-up to the Atari 8-bit classic and could actually be called Star Raiders 2, to me at least.

It's a great graphic and sound update that keeps the original game intact without adding a bunch of unneeded or overly complex gameplay to the original mix.

Think of the biggest, most iconic launch title or monster bandwagon game for the platform of your choice.

Halo for Xbox, Star Raiders for Atari 8-bit, whatever you want.

Hold that title in your head.

I think there's a case to be made that King's Quest was as big as that one you're thinking about there.

I think my first Atari was a 5200, wow, bought in a thrift store in Dana Point, California in the mid-90s.

It had Star Raiders, Centipede, Super Breakout, Pac-Man, and a bunch of catalogs of games I can't remember.

Sadly, it sucked like what the 5200 has been criticized for, and I didn't do much with it.

The first 2600 is one I can't remember much of.

But we played it quite a bit when we were kids.

I remember playing it a lot.

I don't know if that's because we only had 17 games or not even 17 games at that point because Pitfall hadn't come out yet or Star Raiders.

I knew we had those two.

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I recommend Final Fantasy 1 or Star Raiders.

Compelled me into video gaming 40 years ago.

You guys

so used to the games companies being like, yes, it's zero now or one here.

Yeah.

And I'm not sure Star Raiders is available on any modern system, but I do like the callback.

So, yes, it's good to see you, Dad.

It was also very smooth and felt easy to be successful.

This did get re-released as Star Raiders 2.

There is a galactic map.

You do fly around.

It's just a very simplified version of Star Raiders, I think, in some ways.

And it did get released on the Commodore 64.

But to play it as the last Starfighter game, I think, is very special, because it signifies like that really end era of Atari where they were, they had all these licenses.

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