Classic Game Room HD - JOUST for Atari 2600 review

Classic Game Room was the FIRST classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999. Returning in 2008 with new episodes, Classic Game Room breaks out a review of JOUST for the Atari 2600 VCS! Developed by Williams and originally released in the arcade in 1982, Joust was a smash coin-op, old school video game hit. To this day Joust remains one of the best 2D arcade titles to date and is amazingly fun to plady. Joust has been released on just about every video game console system in history including the Atari 2600, 7800, NES, Playstation and Xbox Live Arcade. There was even a Joust pinball machine!

Be sure to watch the original Classic Game Room episodes. Classic Game Room was the original classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999-2000, now on DVD. Wii, PS3, Xbox 360.

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[harleykman]

The reason the eggs don't land is because the Atari is limited to only two sprites, therefore you can't have more than two enemy birds (or eggs) on the same scanline.

So the programmer decided it was easier to just have the eggs fly through the air, rather than deal with a flickering mess of overloaded sprites.

[mario123dude]

Where is Dave?

[AtariAndre42]

OK you're right, no need for your name calling though...sorry I didn't check. I'm more of an arcade and A8 person..

[fpvshitsonhsv]

@AtariAndre42 It does but not like you are think of ,digitized sprites that was a new thing in the 90's. Any pixels used to make an object is classed as a sprite

[fpvshitsonhsv]

@harleykman Well 2 sprites of 8pix width and 3 sprites of 1pix width. :)

[SONGOKU02]

@harleykman I see more than two enemy bird in that Review.o.o

[JamtlandsRA]

Exuse me but your have your settings on black and white!

The birds are actually in color.

[bl4ckw1ngz64]

@burr1aj: That's Zaxxon for the Atari 2600.

[kid66625]

playstation x-box suk



[harleykman]

@AtariAndre42 You're a dipshit for being so damn dumb

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I could excuse your ignorance if we were living in the pre-web dark ages, but we have wikipedia now. It confirms that that Atari VCS/ 2600 had 2 player sprites. All you had to do was look it up

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[AtariAndre42]

@harleykman The 2600 doesn't even have sprites !

[marvinchannel123]

I have an intellavision and atari guess who wins