Classic Game Room HD - YARS' REVENGE for Atari 2600 review

[OmarSuperMario1000]

I'm buying this game for sure.

[l85a1user]

@OmarSuperMario1000 good....good

[OmarSuperMario1000]

@l85a1user thanks for that please subscribe me !:)

[jacoblonewolf]

I used to play this game for hours. You could play, almost all, Atari 2600 games as long as you wanted. The games had no end. Got old after a while. I will say Yars Revenge was my favorite 2600 game.

[abbs123]

I played this on game room on XBLA very addictive.

[RadaStudios]

i dont want any hate or anything but i actually dont like this game very much. it hurts my eyes so badly

[Lupucillo]

The last comic book I remember coming with a game was Star Fox Adventures, but only in Japan.

[medicwheat69]

There is a 360 live arcade remake in development...

but don't look ANYTHING like the source material, not even from the comic..sigh, but it seems it WILL have a digital copy of the comic and additional extras from the original game init

[WumboWarrior]

Balls of Steel edition of DNF came with a comic! :D

[Daviljoe193]

Is that weird line supposed to be there, or is it a glitch?

[Poonard]

i'd like a side of yar with that please sir!

[TJae1]

more like super - ray ~ revenge

[ProgressiveScan9]

this is one of those games on the 8-in-1 things you plug into your tv... i used to play this until the batteries died... then i would buy more and play it...

i could never die in this game :D

[KilleRotom]

I saw this game in a store for 5Fr.(about 5$08), but some f*ckface took it before I could take it :(

[cpufightclub]

jesus what the fuck am I looking at..

[shmoozii]

what is the intro song for classic game room called?

[spinamajig]

Swastika is not an nazi symbol. It's even in this game!

[kdj29]

@spinamajig there is no swastika in yars revenge. it doesnt look anything like a swastika. but it does look like the weapon in the sci fi movie, KRULL.

[Eruantano]

Oh my god! He can see into the future!

[ankokugaiBOSS]

i could never figure out what the manual meant by "the ghost of yars" you'll see its mean streak so stay off of it

[gamesDAMNED]

@ankokugaiBOSS It's a reference to the game's Easter Egg. Here's how it goes: you shoot the swirl in midair with the cannon. That's how you get the big points and extra lives. When this happens, there's a black line on the screen during the explosion. If you run your Yar on that line, and hold the fire button, and stay on the bottom half of the screen, the game abruptly ends. You get a cryptic message - HSWWSH. In other words, Howard Scott Warshaw.

[ankokugaiBOSS]

@gamesDAMNED hey...thanks a lot! I remember that happening many years ago and as a kid me and my friends were all wondering what the hell that cryptic message was and why the game ended! My dude...you've solved a 20 year mystery for us. LOL

[jtomally9681]

I remember the comic book I got with my centipede game.

[concretespecial]

@jtomally9681 So do I!! I still have it.

[maddmaxstar]

HSWWSH  6

[kirgeez]

This games difficulty will start over again it won't keep going forever... First game I ever played where you can shoot yourself....lol

[armkenz1]

wher can i find the original classic game room videos

[XxxGamer5641xxX]

I am watching Classic Game Room review Yaar's Revenge while playing Yaar's revenge on the Game Room on my Xbox 360

[Spazmify]

I got this game today along with some others, I am kind of disappointed about it's condition, being such an AWESOME game. I think I'll buy it in the original box with the manual and everything. OH, AND DID THAT COMIC BOOK COME WITH EVERY COPY OF THE GAME, OR JUST SPECIAL PACKAGES?

[SuperNESFreak]

They had a comic in the MGS3 manual.

[MrSaturn33]

A remake is in the works. See a trailer. It will SUCK.

[Skyrift]

Atari Force!  Hell yeah, I loved that comic.

[rickonami]

YARS rev is coming for the XBOX & PC and PS3...

[UnknownMagician232]

"Your Opponent would be pissed walking across the left side of the screen coming out the right and shooting you in the back" LMFAO!

[Danf91ex]

remake was just announced!!!

[codyc67]

Found myself bored on the first level.

Secret quest is by far my favorite Atari 2600 game.

[theultrapixel]

@codyc67 try it on game mode 6. MUCH better than the other modes.

[123kissfan]

YAR!!!!

[hadesmanuy]

how much did you pay for this

[TiroDvD]

I'm too young for comic books with video games, but I do -love- a well done instruction manual. I also liked RPGs since FF1 and they all came with maps, inventory tables, and usually a mini players guide as part of the manual.

[MalamiteLtd]

The Game Boy Advance game "Drill Dozer" came with a comic. :3

[syxx573]

Pirates love this game

[guitarboy2015]

@syxx573 arrrr.....

[classicgamer1968]

One of the best Atari 2600 games.

Check out the Atari 2600 commercial, the Fly on Youtube.

[johnwx777]

This game has probably the best 2600 explosion ever created.

[darkdude521]

yeah i remember getting earth world and reading the comic till i found all the secrets

[candygameengine]

This is probably my favourite Atari 2600 game, followed by Pitfall.

[cobrabase]

ATARI FORCE ROCKED! The girls were cute in those uniforms!

[gamesDAMNED]

Dude, shoot the damn swirl! Use the cannon on the swirl! That's how you get the big points, and access the hidden Easter Egg. Doesn't everybody know this?  Best game ever made for the Atari VCS. I think any updated version of Yars' Revenge would have to keep the same retro graphics. This game doesn't really need to change anything, in my view.

[JoshuaTaylor]

They included a comic book to distract you from how lame this game was....

I was 11 years old when this came out, and it bored the hell out of me, then....

[andresrevo]

MGS4 comes with a comic book

[doctalee]

Wicked sound effects.....tizao tizao!

[xSicSlipknotMaggotx]

Well, they haven't made a remake (as far as I know) but xbox's new Game Room lets you create your own arcade. So far Atari Intelivision Konami and soon to appear Activision are all signed up and guess what game I bought first... :) THATS RIGHT ET no joking XD Of course I got Yars Revenge. This game is awesome and I will have my kids play these classics when the time comes. Great review \m/ do_ob \m/

[mariokiller55]

Yar is a pirate word!!

[EVILmustDIE666]

I love this game what a classic:)

[HowlerMonkey172]

i'm going to download this on Game Room for 360 (not a rip off to classic game room at all (sarcasm)). its $3 dollars on there and i think it'll be worth it

[animefanclay]

its funny that the best and worst atari 2600 games were made by the same guy =]

[dracoyo]

@animefanclay Gotta tell anyone that is slightly interested in the 80's game crash, it wasn't Howard Scott Warshaw's fault that E.T. game was blamed for this, it actually comes down to a certain Mr Speilberg. Speilberg supposedly was so impressed Howard's 'Raiders of the lost Ark' that he commissioned him to make E.T. But, instead of ten months development time for R.O.T.L.A. he was given five weeks. Imagine if Mr Speilberg had given him 10 months. So whose fault was the 80's crash?.

[animefanclay]

@dracoyo That's really interesting, but makes quite a bit of sense now that I think about it, thanks for the info :D

[Rimsa]

@dracoyo

EA games and gamespot

[TommyTonsuls]

@Rimsa Can't forget activision's part in it. They became the first 3rd party developers and then soon after, hundreds of other companies got into the action creating hundreds of terrible games. Third parties are technically a good thing, but not when there are hundreds of cheap knock-off games that suck

[ransman413]

So thats why yar wants revenge, the quotile stole his coleslaw!

[ransman413]

Ah yars revenge, the thwack of zorlon on quotile, the rush of dodging the spinney cannon, the sweet taste of cell shield. the insanity of playing at the level with no ion zone, would NOT TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!

[terrorizerr1]

semen what to reach the pussy! think about it!

[kefkaroth]

there's always emulators

[kdj29]

I was just watching Explorers ( the movie with river phoenix and ethan hawk 1985) and the part where they go to the drive in theatre the sound fx in the movie at the drive in is Yars Revenge! Check it out on youtube explorers part 6.

[RadioAAHS]

@kdj29 I was just watching that movie last week and noticed that too!

[kdj29]

@RadioAAHS I always notice right away when commercials, tv shows or movies use old school videogame music/sound effects. It's really funny when they show kids playing videogames in tv shows or movies and they have xbox controllers but the sounds of their game is old 2600 sounds.

[rAdziu993]

check yar's revenge commercial on youtube for some lulz

[ransman413]

@rAdziu993 The youre a fly named yar on a quest in space one?

[kdj29]

I guess Atari came up with the name Yar from a guy that worked at Atari. His name was Ray and Yar is just Ray backwards. I read that somewhere a long time ago.

[rAdziu993]

you are right it was Ray Kassar IIRC he held prominent position in the atari back then so it is possible

[kdj29]

I forgot all about my yars revenge comic book. I do remember my atari force comics though. And not the full size dc comics either, but the smaller ones for atari force members. The graphics in the yars revenge comic you showed totally brought me back.

[KedViper]

Should I try to find the original Classic Game Room, because what I've been doing is watching the videos how it's ordered by consoles on this channel.

[marcusmalone]

Drunken spandex Atari gang! Awesome stuff.

[NintendoACA]

Actually... The Atari Flashback 2 has Yar's Return on it,an exclusive.

[brtshstel]

I'm so glad my Atari lot came with this packed in. I just got it three days ago and now play it more than my Genesis.

[edsucksfredrocks]

Did you buy that for thirty-two dollars?

Talk about a rip-off.

[MadsterV]

This review lasts 8 minutes.

In that time, you can get an emulator, get the image, run them, play the game, see all there is to see there and get back in time to hear the credits music of this video

XD

XD

[cheatboy111]

the huge colored block in the middle of the screen acts like a shield. if you go in it, the missile cant hit you, but you cant attack while your in the shield.

[CCDevonEleven]

They accually made a comic book for Halo Wars. I got it with the Limited Collectors edition

[WebVMan]

E.T. worse than Basic Math? NAH........

[Tryzon]

The comic book wars you spoke of...genius ^_^

[pzzn]

Ah yes, Yar's revenge. It was so repetitive but so fun and good that I would spend full weekends on it.

[harleykman]

I wish you (the reviewer) would stop slamming E.T. That's one of my favorite adventure games, third only to Raiders of the Lost Ark and Pitfall 2.

Just because you lack the "mad skillz" to stay out of the giant holes, is not the fault of the game. I've not only stayed out of the pits, but also taken E.T. home multiple times.

The key is to WALK past the pits, not recklessly run into them. Try it. :-)

[Stalla101]

I'd hate to break it to you, but E.T. is widely regarded as one of the worst games of all time in the entire Video Game community....

[TheCastellan]

They even blamed it for the game crash of 1983.

[Amaranthus616]

@Stalla101 people thought it was bad cus the game didnt spoon feed them what to do and it wasnt just a shooting game like many of them were....you had to traverse areas and collect peices...it was a bad game cus it was glitchy....but the concept of it and what you have to do, i found to be quite cool

[codyc67]

@Stalla101 Half of them never even read the manual :X.

[MrTURBOJOHN]

@Stalla101 nah, there is some worse:

Action 52 for SNES and Big Rigs for PC

[PretentiousHousefly]

@Stalla101 That's because that's the "in" thing to do...to hate on ET. If you think ET is one of the worst games the Atari had to offer...you clearly didn't play many Atari games.

[SuperNESFreak]

@Stalla101 Alot of people say that about E.T, but if you really think about it, they'd be hard pushed to do it that much better (besides the pits, that could really have used some work).

[concretespecial]

@Stalla101 Ha, can you believe I broke my piggy bank for E.T. on the 2600 back when It came out!! $38.00 at Woolworth's department store.  Some things we NEVER forget. Good times

[hejjagedu]

@Stalla101 very late reply, but abysmal means that it sucks

[stuff505]

@Stalla101 do you know what obismal means

[TKTannerman89]

Shaddup

[l85a1user]

@TKTannerman89 go get a dildo in your ass and go fuckoff

[neobogard]

i look at the atari as a neo geo of it's time.they are both arcade home consoles wich had games that played just like the arcade.they both had comics or manuals that told a story and had great art work.and they are both highly collectibles.

[brtshstel]

Not quite. NeoGeo AES hardware was the exact same taken from the arcade machines, and the carts were huge because they were the arcade ROM boards. Those games weren't ports, they were the actual games (hence the huge prices for games and system). Atari games (while great) were only ports because the 2600 (while still great) was a weaker system than an arcade machine, and they had inferior graphics, sound, and less content (like Ms. Pac Man, Space Invaders, Tapper, BurgerTime and Donkey Kong).

[neobogard]

what i meant was the style of game play of the atari.

[neobogard]

for egsample nes also had arcade ports,but the style of gameplay was very home console like and not arcade.

[neobogard]

in atari games,when you play past a certain score,you get an ectra life just like the arcade.where as on the nes version of the same game,you didn't. sorry for the confusion.

[harleykman]

First off, it's a mistake to say the 2600 was weaker than the arcade. When the Atari was introduced in 1977, it was actually more-powerful since it had 128 colors but arcades were still stuck with black-and-white. From 1977 to 1979 there was no raster-based arcade game that the Atari could not replicate perfectly, plus added color.

Night Driver for example is better on the Atari than in the arcade. It was not until circa 1981 that arcade games surpassed the Atari in power.

[brtshstel]

Not entirely a mistake. You say "it was not until circa 1981 that arcade games surpassed the Atari in power." But you also did not mention that the Atari 2600 still had software support and games released roughly a decade after 1981, albiet in the shadow of Nintendo and Sega. Also, graphics were not the only thing I mentioned. Berzerk in the arcade (1980) was superior to the console port in sound and content. Same goes for Missile Command and Warlords. Space Invaders (1978) was in color.

[harleykman]

I didn't mention the 1981-91 timespan because it was non-relevant to my point about how 1970s raster-arcade games were inferior to the Atari's abilitiies.

And now Space Invaders Arcade was not color. It was black-and-white. Color was added using see-through plastic stuck to the screen.

Very primitive tech.

[brtshstel]

Granted, I was wrong about Space Invaders. But Berzerk's arcade version was still superior to the Atari port, and it was before that 81-91 time span. I also disagree that Night Driver was better on the console. Despite the car not actually rendered by the software, the animation of the road's rails and the sound effects were superior on the arcade.

Also, it's in bad taste to downvote a user's comment despite it not agreeing with your opinion.

[brtshstel]

1:05 I remember Metal Gear Solid 2 came with a manga inside the instruction booklet.  That was in 2001; 20 years after Yar's Revenge was released.

[neobogard]

what else besides that had a comic that came with it from then to now?.

[OhmygodSportacus]

marry me CGR

[corvettefan96]

for like $10.00 you can buy this thing that's a controler with a joystick and 2 buttons on small black box and hook it up to your tv like a console and it has all these old games like asteroids, centipede, pong, missile command, and of course, yar's revenge. ypu don't even need to track down an old atari or games.

[Naxwell]

I remember the n64 Turok had a comic book. I wish the new Turok stuck with the mystical time traveling indian stroy instead of the uninspired bald space marine on a dinosaur planet crap. It would be nice if it didnt suck also.

[DOSDestroyer]

@Naxwell

Don't forget the flamethrower.

[Artherus1]

got a copy for a dollar sadly my dads old atari is of no longer use.

[WULFY1993]

no matter how many atari machines i see at yard sales i almost always end up buying it XD

[CarlstonSolar]

Oh this game was also one of the easter egg games. You blew up the base without shooting a shot and a code came up you mailed in. Btw why is there always a bash on the ET game, if ya fall in a pit and float out, just make sure your up left ect and not just up, left right or down...

Ahh the days

[charlestonchewy]

When I used to play this game back in the day, I used to adjust the difficulty to "B" so that I can destroy that missle. After awhile, that cruising missle would be very annoying. If you destroyed the missle while the Quotile was changing into the swirl, the missle wouldn't appear until the swirl turned back into the Quotile. Another fact, if you destroyed the swirl in mid-air be careful of the location of where you do your victory dance (note the seam). Otherwise your game will crash!

[simzxzxzx]

I used to play on this back in the day. A true classic game. Many a dry eye due to not blinking watching out for that spinner attack. YAR 4 EVA!

[GangrelLondon]

In the 2600 "Indiana Jones" game, the map for the mesa's is a yar and zorlon cannon. If you have the old book that came with that game, have a look.

[AFNYOAQIS]

your a fly named yar on a quest in space..

[CAGEDTF2]

just got the game for 25c

[wildsmiley]

wow! nice bargain for such a great game.

[smartoonkid02]

Whatta Bargain!

[nastyguard007]

Yeah, seriously! People who sell such awesome classic for 25c really do not understand what they are missing...

[CAGEDTF2]

it's is a common game most Atari 2600 games are cheep if you look heard you can finds lots with 60 2600 games foe $20.00

yard sails for the win

[nastyguard007]

Yeah too bad I live in Latvia and right in the center of the capital... lucky me no yard sales anywhere...

[synthem]

great aphex twin-meets-amon tobin-style end tune!

[Panpizza15]

I like to see a FPS where you shoot a bullet into the sky and it comes out of the ground and keeps looping like the Flintstones until someone gets hit by it.

[notyoursavior78]

I had all the shit that went along with this. Even a seperate story book that came with a audio tape! Though I'm not sure where that went. Awesome review. I love going to the Classic Game Room to get a substantial Atari Fix. Thanks man.

[tutucox]

i love yars

my favorite 2600 game ever

[StarInvasion]

thats 2 power ups for wind squid now

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Ray Kassar was president of Atari after they gave Nolan Bushnel the boot.

Also the galazy they're in is called the Rassak Galaxy (Ray Kassar's Surname backwards).

[sinistermoon]

Hey right on you reviewed one of the 4 games I own for my 2600! I was going to review that game you bunghole! Nah man I am just kidding. Besides, I do not have the cool comic book. This was a great review. I am glad you decided to do a more serious review of it. Rock on!

[boomstick545]

nostalgia, thanks mark, you always deliver

[Rep2369]

Waffle fries always make revenge taste better! Actually I think they go well with just about anything, I mean who the f*** <-- (insert patented CGR bleep there) doesn't like em? ;) :D

[BONESIV]

great review as always i was just wondering if u have played the new space invaders it prety much what you are talking about with taking something old and updateing it on the platfors if u like that then u may also like pacman chamoion ship edition or price of persia on the 360 arcade

[explosionsfrommybutt]

I have it for gameboy and it took me three years to figure out what to do ( I got it when I was five).

[THE7thHAND]

In Starfox or lylatwars for the N64 you can fly out of the map and appear on the other site of the map (multiplayer mode)

[manny022]

to play games that kick ass :P

[sukingeggs1]

Did i just get sent to the past?

[everyonelovesbutters]

yars again??

did i miss somethin or have i just got some sorta future seeing.. ohh i get ya now,, hey the same guy also made indiana jones (lost ark)

[AceFrehley655]

I own that game it's pretty cool.

[madmatt894]

nice man