Atari 2600

Top Five Vintage Video Games! With D’Arcy and Dr. K

GRAB A STACK OF ROCK With Mike and the Mad Metal Man

Episode 151: Top Five Vintage Video Games! With D’Arcy and Dr. K

An episode long in the making!  We have been talking about doing an episode on vintage video games for three years, but in January, D’Arcy Briggs and I began to discuss it a little more seriously.  Finally we’ve got the episode ready and we’ve brought Dr. Kathryn along for the adventure.

First we had to define “vintage”.  For our purposes, we limited our choices to 70s, 80s and 90s video games.  This still left us with so many choices, that it was hard to put these lists together without using cheat codes!  Yet we rose to the challenge with very minimal, but predictable overlap.  What came as a surprise was how deeply personal some of these picks are.  You might be surprised how video games helped shape the people we would become.

With arcade classics, adventures, first-person shooters, puzzles and more, coming from hand-held machines, consoles, and PC’s, we have a variety of games for you to look at.  What’s more, in addition to gameplay clips, we have physical product that will knock you out.  Dr. K visited Nintendo-crazy Japan and came home with treasures.  She also had some of our vintage Atari and NES gear on hand.  And wait until you see D’Arcy’s collection!

You’re going to love this episode.  Be sure to join in the comments!

Friday June 26 at  7:00 PM EST, 4:00 PM Pacific.  Enjoy on YouTube.

 

New VIDEO PLAYLIST: Gaming – And we have Atari 2600 fun for you

Hello Grab A Stack of Rock viewers, and gaming fans!  Subscribers and readers know that in the summers, I have done some quick and fun gaming videos at the cottage.   These have been fun and simple Plug & Play arcade and Atari 2600 games, made simply by pointing my camera at a screen.  These were enjoyable to make and watch, so I set about making gaming videos at home on the PC too.

On the PC, I like to play Atari 2600 games emulated on Stella.  Windows 11 enables you to easily screen capture videos, so I made a few just by playing games using the directional keys on the keyboard.  This was effective for most games but annoyingly loud on the resulting audio recording.  I went ahead and bought a $30 Hyperkin Trooper 2 joystick, very similar to the original 2600, which has now brought me to the level that I can make gaming videos of a more satisfying quality.

Subscribe to the channel and check out the playlist below.  My recent Atari 2600 videos are embedded below as well.

Happy gaming!

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Satisfying Red Dragon Escape! Atari 2600 “ADVENTURE” on Stella

I was having a REALLY good game of Atari 2600 Missile Command on Stella, until…

Zaxxon: Atari 2600 emulated on Stella

Stop! Hammer Time! Atari 2600 Donkey Kong on Stella – beating level 2 at least!

Stupid Snake! Playing Atari 2600 Q*Bert on Stella with new Hyperkin Trooper 2 Joystick!