Combat Atari 2600 Review

[ninmachine109]

y does it say ur getting fatter at the beginning? lol. i love ur vidz

[MrTVERSKOE]

wish I can again play this game ..lol agree better then modern of war 3 :)

thanks for video

[KurtKokaine1]

Another classic. I wonder if my dad had gotten this packaged with the Atari console? I don't remember when he actually bought the Atari. One strange thing though. I really don't remember the planes in this game. Maybe I was too young to figure out the different modes. Although I do remember the being invisible mode, lol. Damn this was truly groundbreaking for my childhood.

[EastCoastDude99]

This game was amazing. Still a fun game.

[BasementBeginnings]

On tank battle, can you reverse with your tank?

[ProduccionesJJ]

OMFG!! I was playing this game all day long when i was 10!!

[HailAnts]

Geez guy, they're not 'missiles', they're bullets. And its not 'rapid firing missiles' its a machine gun! Anyway, I played this game so much that I found out that if you make the tanks buttf*ck and then turn, the tanks go crazy, spinning in circles until they reach the edge of the screen. Early software 'bug'!

[explorermike2001]

@HailAnts - Totally remember that software bug!!! My personal favorite one was when you would hit the fire button with the tank in the corner of the maze - holding the button while turning sent you into a "hyperspace" move that bounced you to the other side of the maze. Good for ambushing your opponents or getting away from an attack.

[concretespecial]

If I had a dime for every hour I spent playing this game back in the early 80's I'd be a millionaire. My favorite board was the one where the shots bounced off the walls and obstacles were still present. Damn was this game fun. Combat will always hold a soft spot in my heart.

[angelpichu1]

where is the time limit? is it an invisible bar i can't see?

[tvtimetravel]

@angelpichu1 2 minutes and 16 seconds. The last 16 seconds are indicated when the scores flash on each second.

[pghaffari]

thumbs up if DJ Wheats sent you

[rambling123456]

loved playing combat, but you're right--it is only fun on two-player....love those salmon-colored and lime-colored jets!!!

[EastCoastDude99]

I'll smoke a big blunt of good green's and play combat all fuckin night. This game was great. One of my favorite Atari games from back in the day.

[TyVBuccaneer]

I loved playing this way back in the early 80s.

[shebakoby]

Did you know that in tank levels with corners, you can warp to another corner with your tank?

[radiohavana99]

I was about to say that!

[mrbrandon71]

I remember playing these games for so long that my thumbs would actually hurt and I'd have an unbelievable headache! My Marvelous parents bought me one of these in the 80's! God Bless them, and thank you for posting!!! :-)

[dacarnix]

hahahahahah man you are legend " Im never gona have much as fun playing with youself LOL!"

[tinywentz]

good times!

[MattTheSaiyan]

I'm so happy the copy of Combat I acquired when I first got into retro-gaming has decided to finally start working several years later.

[Basssinger86]

i actually played this game for the first time last night with a friend. The controls take some getting used to but overall it was very fun to play.

[gringolazlo]

the birth of deathmatch

[Noodles37UK]

Don't anyone slag this off cos of its primitive nature. We'd a lot of fun with this in the 80s.

[rataranian]

This was one of the best games. I liked Outlaw too.

[chriscancer13]

Me and my cousins used to play this all summer when we'd visit my grandma.

[bosiex]

Excellent and thorough review, you are the best reviewer on youtube sir

[johnlaughnfaggapples]

Is the title song to your vid SnakeFinger?

[AqualungGameReviews]

@johnlaughnfaggapples Nope, it's the intro to "Warchild" by Jethro Tull

[AIRYman50]

@AqualungGameReviews Actually it's aqualung by jethro tull.

[rambling123456]

@AqualungGameReviews thought it was 'agualung'

[aragorn100000]

@AqualungGameReviews aqualung?

[tomcolordo]

combat is better than modern warfare 2!!!

[dacarnix]

@tomcolordo Wayy better man! Olden day games are just simply the best

[crankthatsonicboy]

@tomcolordo you mean black ops ?

[tomcolordo]

@crankthatsonicboy either one :)

[greenteen85]

no stoppin', no nothin'

[mobyboy]

wow ! ONE HELL OF HISTORY

[theuglybarnacle]

If you had an Atari 2600 and Combat in 1977, you and your friends could have fun for hours.

[boogieedownberlin]

I am pretty sure this was the first game I ever played after my elder brother bought the Atari in 79 (could've been 80).

Boy did we spend hours upon hours playing with it :)

[kurisux]

I consider this the first atari game, as its product number is CX-2601, and it was the pack-in game for all those years.

Just yesterday I got an original cart for this. Crazy to think I am playing a 30 year old game.

Really.. the game was 6 years old when I was born. O_O

[WikiPeoples]

THIS GAME IS GAY

[Tr3vor42532]

well, dont bother searching it or commenting on it!

[highwaysonyfan87]

@WikiPeoples

how is the game gay?

[highwaysonyfan87]

@WikiPeoples

the game is definitely not gay

[mandellio420]

@WikiPeoples FAH-Q! THIS GAME IS FULL OF WIN AND YOU'RE FULL OF AIDS AND FAIL!!!!!!11!1!!!one! >:(

[mikeym820]

Aqualung you have an interesting accent. Where do you live and what is your ethnicity?

[Cleonares]

It coud be my firs video game ever!! wow

just 4 yerars old

Que grande el Atari 2600!!!!!!

[RodneyHampton]

Are you kidding me? The jets are soooo much more fun than the tank games.

[speedboosterinc]

I have this on my atari FB2 it's so fun.

[sparky14624]

A friend of mine got a 2600 way back when (around 1979). We had a blast playing Combat! About a year later I bought one of my own. Again, a roommate and I wasted lots of fun hours on this console. I sold it a few years later. Wish I never had.

But I saw one on eBay a couple years ago, bid on it and won. 100+ carts; works great! It's great having such an important piece of video game history.

[TrueCourse]

Takes special skills playing with yourself with combat... wait....that didn't sound right either XD. Hehe...thanx loads for sharing :)

[tinde122]

One my favorite game;))

[metalhead75]

Thanks for these videos. I'm 34 now and had the 2600 as a kid. Watching these brings back so many wonderful memories.

[Dudeperson51]

I'm 14, and I got an Atari 2600. Shame how much I missed out on.

[PCpete101]

I got an Atari to. I feel the same way man.

[babygirltessa]

brings back some good memories, my brother and I would play this and cuss each other out for hours. good times!

[1977JAGuar]

Hmmm... some interesting comments from 3:01 - 3:14 !!! LOL

[alanlaing]

great review.....thank you...

[DeNubbel]

We played this game for hours and hours!

And it was pretty good fun back in the days...

[billnyethe1742]

umm he shows the games and reviews any type and actully reviews them ...AVGN reviews shitty games and swears 15-40 times a episode and AVGN is more hummor than review. Irate gamer is no match for AVGN

[Obviously]

This was THE multiplayer game back in the day.

[montmont99]

these games look so shit now...I can't believe that I could have played them for 8 hours on end as child!

[sberg81]

I give Combat a lot of credit.  Great game for it's time. The part about playing with yourself was funny.

[makwaoosha]

The tank section was essentially remade as a Wii Play game. Nintendo must've liked it enough to rip it off, or just decided to pad out the "game" with abandonware. Either way, it has a current-gen itiration.

[cockcoc1]

I enjoyed this one when I was barely out of diapers. Loved the "War Child" bomb sound byte you dropped on me at the very end of the review! Highly appropriate!

[TheMegaNerd]

man i love your atari reviews man. short and to the point.

[IrritatedGamer]

Best reviewer on youtube, seriously.

[morgangamer22]

COOL

[Noyjeetut]

Looks really fun. Without your review I would have never known about it: Thanks.

[tommylehman]

I LOVED this game.

[boomstick545]

I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee combat, they need to remake that IMMEDIATELY

[Slarto]

Seriously, you should be advertised somehow for the big audience. You beat AVGN easily :/(and Im a big fan of James)

[DrJohnCockwalrus]

Uh, he's not in competition with the AVGN.  Duh.

[MetaHornet]

he actually REVIEWS games, he doesnt swear all the time and yell.

[mamba5445]

thats so true! ^^

[PCpete101]

yeah, all that mindless swearing and yelling does get old after a while.

[Tw1stedMoogle]

I Love this game, definitely one of my fav 2600 games.

I Remember sitting in the basement playing my Atari on an old barely working TV because my parents were worried it would mess up the main TV.... lol.

Great review as always.

5/5

[WhiffleBoy18]

Awesome review. I used to play combat at my uncles house back in the 80's and early 90's.