Classic Game Room HD - COMMANDO RAID for Atari 2600 review

[Morahman7vnNo2]

I like the sunset, I thing the VHS tape helps it blend in the colors.

[gjc82071]

I always found it amazing that so many 3rd parties made games. Even Quaker Oats even had a "software division" back then!?! So did Purina pet food! (Chasae the ChuckwagonTHey say only "$" signs. Unfortunately it was those very same 3rd party software manufactures, flooding the market with, well...."crap", that basically caused the Video Game Crash of 83-84. I mean really! What the hell does a dog food Co. know about game make???  It's cool little trivia though.

[MentalRoXXorGear]

@gjc82071

That's always been the case, but not to such a huge extent. The market leader always gets a ton of shovelware - the PS1 did, the SNES did, obviously the Atari did, the PS2 had a TON of crap on it (review sections were often clogged up with 1 / 10 reviews for shovelware like chess games), the Wii has now.

I think the situation will get a bit better as digitial distribution takes off now.

[Lufttygger306]

ANDROIDS FUELED BY OATMEAL

[Thetruehypersonic]

looks pretty good for a 4 bit game

[RenegadeFury]

@Thetruehypersonic

The MOS 6507 is an 8 bit cpu.

[kurisux]

That's it, when I go to work tomorow I am going to grab a bag of oatmeal and advise fellow workers not to by it, lest they fund the android paratroopers who will tunnel under our cities to destroy our cannon bases!

Got this game in today, and its pretty intense.. kinda overwhelming in a slow way, if that makes sense.

Worth a play.

[edsucksfredrocks]

4:37 pwned!

[kombatmaster12]

Seems ALOT like Atlantis. I do agree as well you should do a reveiw for Flashback for the SEGA Genisis.

[SoFrosts]

why does it look like there's a person jumping up and down on both top edges of the screen?

[InjectedWithAPoison]

TV interference maybe? Dude, it's Atari 2600

[b1l1a1c1k1j1a1c1k1]

EPIC

[Robertskull9]

red dawn... XD

[Oche76]

Great one...blast from the past!...i think there was a game from the same company "US GAMES" named "Sneak and Peak"...wow...Flashback town...that's another relic

[PoPoNellie]

Wow, "Android Paratroopers trying to destroy your AA cannon". It kinda sounds like a story that you would see in a episode of "The Outer Limits".

[GamesGear]

Wow there's no lvles, nothing? you just sit for like 15 mins shooting.. they so called androids...

[kurisux]

Well, each wave could be considered a level in the same way it can be in Missile Command or Space Invaders, but that is arguable.

At least you see my point, I am sure.

[Ahmidsviper]

my god, that game was depressive

[Melville10]

Oatmeal fueled androids!!!! Someone call Dept. of Homeland Security!

[AdMiRaLeDpIeTt]

@Melville10 use meat products for defenses with 900% veggies!

[Dodexas]

RED Dawn whit androids EPIC LOOOOOOOOL

[seanj666]

For an Atari 2600 game the grahics for the sky look good.

[Bufa491us]

i remember this game for Atari 2600, i played it all the time

[fucky0utubeman]

yes!

[Tr3vor42532]

if this used paddle controllers, this game would be about 10 times beter

[atari2602]

Join me in boycotting Quaker Oats for their support of murderous android paratroopers!!

[TheCastellan]

Naw, go after that fat guy with the mustache who did their commericals.

[wolfjak]

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[TheCastellan]

?????

[SubstanceGameCinema]

wow. you really raised the bar there! you are so cool! never would have thought of THREE triangles! wow, good job mate, good job.

[skeleon246]

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[godsadog]

Your comments become better and better.

This is a wonderful review!

[Wizard101Official]

I loved red dawn

[vaxel7]

kinda

[adamnew123456]

His triangle bit actually has some credence: incediantlly, all meshes are counted by the number of triangles they contain.

Great job!

[alexdaplayar110]

needs a flamethrower

[superfakerbros]

Looks boring.

[Ninjaman109109]

your boring

[owensed01]

no your wrong go check out aqualunggame reviews

THOSE ARE REALLY BORING

HE MAKES GAMES LESS FUN

[Ninjaman109109]

lol i was kidding ive never even seen any of "superfakerbros." videos

[superfakerbros]

srry for giving you a thunmbs down.

[magge60]

Looks like a dick wtf :D

[TheEvengard]

The graphics rook :P LOL

[valeforj]

wolverines!?

[Poleyonline]

the shooting barrel makes me laugh

[alex76gr]

Playing just for score is something i miss these days.

[DrugMan24]

search for the club

[blackmagetricky]

Intresting....

[crvandme]

US Games was a company bought by Quaker Oats. Quaker Oats also owned Fisher Price at the time, so it's really not that weird.

[HBKanedge818]

Video games sponsored by food companies SCREAMS 1977-1982!!!!.

[2010mustang1]

I am so happy I did not live back in the 80's not all games were bad lots of good music and movies I like Commodore 64's not really good internet back in the 80's but the 80's were not bad.

[theacsupercats]

Haha, Quaker Oats, that's too awesome.

[Atomicskull]

I'm amazed this game looks so good. Just about everything else US Games put out was garbage.

[Defolto]

All right artari for the win

[turoturothegreat]

There is an oldie video game store right down the street from me and I was wondering if I could get any Atari games and donate them to Classic Game Room HD. Please answer.

[blackmagetricky]

I think you can!

[Speedy06car]

2000th view

[me123270]

the preloaded game on my ipod classic 5.5 gen called parachute is alot like this except theres no buildings and the object is different

[royalguard56]

so what youre saying is that its NOTHING like this game then.

[me123270]

no the gun is the same and the object is to shoot the helicopters and little androids i guess so its basically the same thing without buildings

[TheGuyWhoLikesTurkey]

they should just replace the quaker oats guy on the oatmeal label with an android paratrooper.

[Anubis2445]

looks like missle command

[DeathxCubeK]

i hate oatmeal

[notyoursavior78]

That's a pretty wild game concept. Wow.

[JerryTerrifying]

I was eating oat meal while I watched this review. HAHAHAHa.

[smokslyboltx]

wow this game so old but looks fun

[DragnSly]

better graphics don't make a better game.

[TheWhitestKid]

Very true, but a game that had enough effort into it to make decent graphics can't be half bad.

[DragnSly]

oh, yes it can. It can be very bad.

[DragnSly]

we aren't necessarily immature, we just realize that modern games aren't automatically better because technology's gotten better.

[iscrewy]

yea... but some old games are better then any current gen game

[iscrewy]

please your the one who needs growing up when you respond to people that dont say anything bad to you and say it in a nice way by insulting them. Clearly you have never played any game from 2 or more generations back super mario bros. 2 (america version) is one of my favorite games and roller coaster tycoon 2 is second :)

[mrbeanchannel]

GO ATARI!!

[MeisterFalti]

The sound gives me a headache.

[Tryzon]

"Commando Raid"? Am I the only one who thinks that sounds vaguely suggestive?

[GamerX89X]

lol. now that I think about it... luckily they didn't put the word "Going" at the beginning on the title. lol

[DBLZ12]

Hopefully they make a sequel entitled "Panty raid"

Rated "J.O" for Jesus only.

[madpierrot92]

yes

[carlene999]

looks better than all of those ipod games

[xbox360andNDSdude]

the graphics looks really good for an atari 2600 game

[segajin]

did you chainge mic voice is so clear

oh it must be the atari sound

[HellDog987]

this game is full of Otmeal fun get it today! LMAO

[mattnintendonerd]

grat to see more atari reviews

[alexkohnen]

grat 2 c u kan speel 2

[alnaga991]

lol this game rock

[Dodershift]

thje game play may be repetative but for Atari 2600 those sound effects are A-grade.

[Fanvadenaxar]

I haven't seen that game.. btw awesome to see more 2600 reviews!

[chizzy555]

cute little game, wonder how many millions of oldie games were of you in a stationary position at the bottom fo the screen shootin stuff above, maybe 50% lol

[mihai96z3d]

hard old game

[juicedup14]

wow that looks realy boring and repetetive

[Sonicadventureman]

you rock

[madpierrot92]

too bad they don't have this on the I-pod anymore

[KeeL246]

I have it on my IPod Video, or well, a similar game.

[adog262]

Atari or nothin' sucka!  XD

[ToLazyToEdit]

that game looks pretty hard o_o"

[timspacedout87]

I could tell this game would piss me off

[VansDude123]

The sound is epic :/

[Aleromero77]

I have this game, but it's called "Normandy Landing".

You didnt show the part when a plane drops a bomb.

[madpierrot92]

my version is missile command

[eddshomie]

I played a flash game like this with levels and upgrades

[Thecriticwithamouth]

good review. You should review revamped marvel vs capcom 2

[Fall3nsouls]

awesome review, there's a similar game on the iPod. Addicting.

[hendrix1564]

I just love the Atari 2600 sounds. :)

[IrishGodThe4th]

id say you have to grow up with games like this to be able to play them for more than an hour.

[Jarel8787]

I really wanted to see him lose to the game, i wanted to see what would happen lol ^^

[marceloyanez111]

Have not played this game yet. Btw i just received your dvd from amazon. :) I love the Seamen episode!

[awesomekev95]

It actually is.

[moshXpit91]

well...i personally think atari did better with Test Drive Unlimited. Wow games have come a long way. Nowadays Commando Raid would be criticized for "lack of multiplayer features" lmao

[Jarel8787]

lol

[TheDiscoNinja]

wow this was on my old ipod xD

[nuggetjr]

Atari.......

[awesomekev95]

Because its old or because it looks like it plays like shit?

[PilGrimmm]

to me, the gameplay looks frustrating and mundane, i appreciate graphics like this as it was a very limited system considering how old it is, but this game just looks boring compared to games such as ms pacman

[L0rd0fD4rkness]

you look shit

[spare44change]

well they cant use circle parachutes that doesnt even make sense

[supermichael1996]

Maybe the paratroopers are android Quaker oatmeal men trying to get the people who hate oatmeal to eat it!

[segagenesis1989]

I rmember this game. There was also a version for the PC.

[ExcursionsInDestiny]

It's a nice-looking game by Atari 2600 standards. Looks fun enough. I dare say it might be the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it.

Somebody should do a ROM hack of this with little Wilford Brimleys instead of androids and call it "WILFORD BRIMLEY RAID." Yeah, that's the ticket.

[SuperGameReviewz]

imagine,Classic Game Room : The Movie

[SaxyDawg89]

There is a CGR movie. You can buy it on Amazon for only a few bucks.

[SuperGameReviewz]

i meant like him and dave in the movie theaters,not that documentry

[Tr3vor42532]

that game looks pretty cool.

[elmerion]

It seems the controls are really bad,i remember playing a pc version of this game and having lots of fun, there isa actually a came of this game on duke nukem for the gbc

[brad321210]

285th

[Gdog637]

nice!!!

[Fawltykog]

If the Androids are being fed oatmeal all the time then No wonder they are angry!

[TheDookMaster]

not firsts

[Ubervlad]

first?

[CoolJack88]

Great game, so repetitive but addictive, that's what Atari game are all about. Go Atari!!!

[kometbomb]

Too bad you can't shoot the parachute off and watch the little bastards fall to their death like in Paratrooper (the old CGA game).

[rune133]

why doesent he do snes games???

[kulemv]

i dont think he has one

[pandabox94]

He does and he has done reviews on them

[pandabox94]

he does

[sonicpsycho98]

awesome

[Premoyock]

Great Review

[weflake]

Really cool review. I love your intro music.

[totalambient]

i like your reviews because are funny...

[lazycrazybastard]

Another great review