Yars' Revenge
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Sep 29, 2026
NateHOST
Yeah.
ToddHOST
And then the last one is Yar's Revenge.
ToddHOST
And this is set in the Razark solar system.
ToddHOST
It focuses on the conflict between the Yars, which are a fly-like humanoid alien race, and the Kuotile, who have destroyed their habitable planets.
JD RyznarHOST
And if you ever wanted to hear the story from the Atari games, uh, you've, you can never gather from playing them, Kid Stuff made the story... made, they made story albums for those.
JD RyznarHOST
Like, you could get a Yars' Revenge story album, which I think is, like, current avail- currently available on Discogs.
JD RyznarHOST
They made a number of those little story albums, 45s, and cassettes where you can read along with the book.
JD RyznarHOST
Gen Xers would probably recognize this Kid Stuff back cover here.
JackHOST
The box art for those is just amazing.
JackHOST
Uh, and I think one of the most iconic ones, and one of my favorites, is Yars' Revenge.
Breakman XHOST
Oh, yeah.
JackHOST
Like, if you've played Yars' Revenge, very simple game, like, you can't really get a whole bunch out of it, but it did come with an entire comic book.
JackHOST
Uh, and that, uh, artwork was something else, man.
JackHOST
Like, you thought there was some real, like some real, uh, intense stuff going on.
Breakman XHOST
It's really good.
JackHOST
[laughs]
Jeff ChortyHOST
It's like if it's like, I look at that list and there's like, like 10 or more that I, I haven't gotten, I'm like, "I'm not even gonna bother." [laughs] No thank you.
Chris FerriccioHOST
So I, uh, the, uh, one game that I was, wanted to get the platinum on but ended up not was, um, [tsks] shit, what was it called? It was the Way Forward game the, that was, uh, like Yars Revenge.
Jeff ChortyHOST
Yars?
Chris FerriccioHOST
Yeah.
Jason RobbinsHOST
1982, in May...
Jason RobbinsHOST
Atari releases Yars' Revenge, and it was probably one of the most popular Atari games.
Jason RobbinsHOST
It was released for the Atari 2600, and it was created by Howard Scott Warshaw.
Jason RobbinsHOST
Yars' Revenge was Atari's best-selling original
Derek DiamondHOST
title.
Derek DiamondHOST
I've never heard of this game, first of all, but I'm looking at the cover art.
Derek DiamondHOST
Looks like a Godzilla villain.
Jason RobbinsHOST
Yeah, it really does.
LavenderPANELIST
I have been playing one from like a year or two ago, Yars Rising, which is one of the strangest pitches for a video game I've ever heard in my life.
LavenderPANELIST
Because Yars' Revenge was an Atari 2600 game, loosely insect-themed, but it was a shooter.
LavenderPANELIST
Like, you flew around with a little bug, and you had to shoot down a barrier that was protecting this thing, and then you had to aim a big gun at the thing to destroy it, and then repeat it.
LavenderPANELIST
So, 40 years later, WayForward came along and made a canonical sequel to that, that is a cyberpunk metroidvania.