CLASSIC GAMES REVISITED - Adventure (Atari 2600) Review and Easter Egg Bonus

[Shady81900]

White Castle: Cancer Macine.

[pickalockstyler]

5:42!

[pickalockstyler]

did not see that coming! lol

[Vinagre]

Thumbs up if Ready Player One brought you here!

[DiggyHoleAllDayLong]

I read READY PLAYER ONE too

[beppo2814]

@exposed97 Exactly. I remember finding Warren Robinett's Facebook page in 1981 and sending him some text messages.

[rockergod789]

this game rocks. 'nuff said.

[123boy123boy12345678]

1979 gamer: omg this game is 4 kilobytes!!!

thats 4096 bytes wow huge game huge game

[billybobfred0]

I'm finding it impossible to verify, but I've *heard* that Atari had a programmer look through the game before release, but chose not to take out the easter egg for whatever reason.

I also heard that the programmer was asked what he'd have done if he had been told to remove it, and he said he'd have changed it to "replaced by [his name]".

[WatchVenusSpa]

WARREN ROBINETT BITCHES!!!

[Person111123]

I just looked this up after reading about it in Ready Player One, a book written by Ernest Cline. Thumbs up if you read it?

[Chowder908]

lol i remeber playing this when i was 3 i could not figure out the point of the game xD

[mdcowboy15]

@exposed97 You are fucking psychotic. Do you really think that programmers would be hunted down for making a mediocre game? If that's how you think the world works, turn off your computer, go outside, and you'll find out you're dead wrong. Sure, there are some crazy people, but it's just a ridiculous idea.

[mdcowboy15]

@dommesian The description is wrong. This may be the first action/adventure game on the 2600, but other adventure games had been around before on computers. In fact, Adventure is a port of an old text game. Small thing, but I figured I'd point it out.

[CRZMcLoF]

@exposed97

That is perhaps the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. They didn't have the internet and Spokeo back then, psycho. Even if you could somehow get every phone book in the country, you would literally have to visit every single person's home and ask, "Sara' Conna'?" Only two types of people stalked people like that back then (it's easier for you today): 1.) professionals (FBI, gum shoes, etc.) , 2.) the type of people that the FBI actually searched for.

[P0V3RTY09]

I borrowed this game from my next door neighbor when I was a kid for my Atari2600 console. Not only ( after a few hours of hardcore gaming) was I able to complete all 3 game modes, but I discovered the secret dot. I had heard about a secret this game had and I kinda figured it had to do something with the black line that was a barrier just to the right of the yellow castle. Talk about a big disappointment. Not much of a big secret but still was fun to play back in the day.

[adventurem1]

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[NibblesAndCasino]

thumbs up if you skipped to the end to see the easter egg

[mspeter97]

@exposed97 Facebook doesn't exist in the 80s

[funnyglitch]

@exposed97 Except they didn't have facebook and stuff back then...

[dommiesan]

@exposed97 it didn't work that way in the late 70s/early 80s. it would have been virtually impossible to find somebody like that then. 

[hatesgames]

@dommiesan Exactly. It was just corporate bullshit.

[BullToTheShit]

What did Atari do when they found out Warren Robinett had hidden his name within the game? Did he get the boot?

[TheMarineten]

I got it on my iPhone by the way where is the white castle? Can't find it

[tzaremba958]

2 other things: #1: if you get eaten by a dragon and have patience, you can wait around for the bat to possibly pick you both up and you get a free tour/ride around the entire game. #2 if you press down the Game Select switch on the console as the Winning Music is playing you get little remix/glitch sounds every time you press it down.

[ghostshadow25]

lol i thought the first easter egg would be an easter egg XD

[DiamondPhoenix000]

@ghostshadow25 Guess what, there is an easter egg easter egg in GTA Vice city! look it up! its hilaious!

[riotpoliec]

I... i think im going to cry ! the first easter egg made ever!

[TexasTechRulz77]

@4:16 SOMBODY GET THIS FREAKIN DUCK AWAY FROM ME

[seethransom]

I got this game when it was new, when I was like 9. I still play it today! Got it on my PSP, and Xbox360. I remember always thinking it was odd when that room in the black castle would flash. I read the Atari Magazine that it was there, and I found it quickly. It is funny that they would publish the egg as if they knew it was there, even if it was against their policy. Way to spin Atari!

[Peetweet1]

Thanks for explaining to me why I can't find the yellow key ANYWHERE!! I've been told about how there is supposedly a secret castle that's hard to get to and thought that that was why I wasn't finding the yellow key but I can see that isn't the case. These old school games should get somewhat more attention now since Microsoft/Krome just released Game Room. Good post.

[EmoSoliderVCL]

Can be bought on Xbox Live via the Game Room (Game Room is free, game costs 240MSP which is $3 US)

@5:41

"Atari was a real motherf-----!!!!"

Cracked me up.

[EminemFan202]

I still can't beat this game today and I'm almost 30

[seethransom]

@EminemFan202 dude it is easy! Just relax and find the sword! Then explore. Your reset switch is your XYZZY.

[StringofBinary]

despite the dragons looking like ducks? what about the character! he's a 9 pixel square!

[dommiesan]

*just* a 9X9 pixel?!? Or epic sword-wielding 9X9 adventuring 9X9 pixel...

[chefalefadingdong]

forgot about this game. this was the best

[schizoidboy]

@chefalefadingdong You know something, watching this I realized that there was something familar though vaguely.

[uniteduniverse]

Love this game. Thx for posting!

[trombone7]

I've heard that before about Atari not giving credit, not sharing in proportionate success of games etc. Some of the developers broke away and created ..... Activision.

[seethransom]

@trombone7 Activision rocked! Guys at ATARI were doing too much drugs at that time. Coke a guy up, and you get E.T. Let someone make a game without pressure, and you get Pitfall.

[ransman413]

I completed lev. 1 in 40 seconds once

[dirtySwingset]

sweet

[HisDivineShadow245]

What in god's name? I had no idea about Atari not giving people credit for these awesome games! I am officially pissed off. >=(

[sleinfer]

@HisDivineShadow245 That's not the worst, you know Yar's Revenge? They gave the creator of that a coupon for a chicken. (Or Turkey.)

[HisDivineShadow245]

I first started using swear words thanks to this game when I was tiny. :D

[crcracker1]

I remember having this game as a kid, it was addicting.

[Marcloud]

Yellow key locked inside the yellow castle LOL

[killerVisvictor]

level 3, happed to me, lol

[Mixwizzard35]

Man I got this on my TV Game joystick, it is awesome!

[planetidiot]

hunerd!

[videogamemaniac83]

i have this on a newer system

[TANMAC43]

I only have a shortened version of this on a TV Games joystick. : (

[Bluenuhvok765]

EASTER EGG FTW!

[1xxCoolGuYxx1]

you talk too much...

[TrilbyCreative]

OMG I loved this game!!! I'm 42 now and I still remember it well. Thanks so much for sharing this!

[working40]

LOVED THIS GAME!

[JoeChrisMorris]

just found the dot/message in Atari's Adventure II!

[Vanitypantyhoes]

The game was so good for it's time, that you might think the government created it. This game is the mother of all RPG games.

[4thtroika]

Good times!

[DocHackenbush]

"Tunnel Runner" for the ATARI 2600 also is fantastic. Give it a try if you not already have. But if you already have how is it possible you haven't made a review yet...? ;) It is so good and still pretty addictive. If I only would have known about it when I was young. I always tended to get the bad games...

[lizcamps]

Wonderful memories brought back to this 40-year-old gal sitting here with insomnia, wanting to fire up a new adventure game. I think I've played them all. I worked my Atari so hard when I was little, I had to get replacement controllers 3 times. How about the tank game "Encounter" what ever happened to that?

[brycepunk]

I still remember when we heard about that easter egg (though I forget what we called it at the time) and my friend got it to work. He took photos of the TV screen to prove he'd done it.

Great game. Thanks for the memories.

[charlieRicketts]

i love this game.

[ehertzog]

lol 1982

[LitaniesOfFaith]

Played it. Grew up with it. Hated it. It's the first 'bat' game and it's pants.

[todddrouin]

I wondered why that rooom has the faux wall...I have his game in serveral formats. It is probably my favorite Atrai game.

[cooldude2085]

yeah i bet thats probbly what happened, or it might not have because the floor is gray. Anywho its still really cool how he directly violated the rules and put his name in

[cooldude2085]

lol wow i wonder how ANYBODY ever figured that easter egg lol. warren Robinet is bamf.

[dommiesan]

I read that the first person to discover it was some 8 year old kid in Utah who wrote to Atari after discovering it. And I think it's possible for the bat to pick up that grey dot and swap it with an item you're carrying, but the odds of that are pretty slim.

[drummerbod]

@dommiesan - I found this "secret room" in 1979. I was 11 years old. I wrote to Atari (UK) telling them of my discovery. They sent me a letter stating I was one of a handful of people to have discovered it. Also enclosed was two badges (one very special one that had the prism 3d effect), a postcard and some promotional game leaflets. I was so chuffed. I was lucky enough to have the console in 1979. I believe it was £150 - a house could be bought for £4k back then.

Thanks for psting this!

[ChowChowMann]

My favorite game,back then and also a great game today.Thanks for the memories.