The Story and COMPLETE Arcade Games of Atari: Part 2 – 1980-1984

The 2nd part of our Atari arcade retrospective starts in 1980 and goes up to the breakup of the company in 1984. So many classic games: Missile Command, Centipede, Star Wars, Tempest, Battlezone and many more, along with a whole lot of corporate shenanigans as we go through the golden age. Enjoy!

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Alpha 1/Tollian Web: http://gamearchive.askey.org/Video_Games/Manufacturers/Atari/alpha_1.html
Anthrofox – Inside Atari’s Fire Beast: http://www.anthrofox.org/projects/firebeast.html
Arcade Attack – Dona Bailey: https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/dona-bailey/
Arcade Blogger – Bradley Trainer: Atari’s Top Secret Military Project: https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/10/28/bradley-trainer-ataris-top-secret-military-project/
The Arcade Flyer Archive: https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/
Arcade Heroes – Atari Prototypes Over The Years: https://arcadeheroes.com/2012/06/15/atari-prototypes-over-the-years-mega-post/
Arcade Heroes – Garfield’s Quest: https://arcadeheroes.com/2020/04/02/lost-from-1983-garfields-quest-by-atari/
Arcade History: https://www.arcade-history.com/
Ars Technica – Akka Arrh: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/after-a-lost-atari-rom-leaks-retro-fans-ask-was-it-stolen/
Ars Technica – Playland: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/ataris-collapse-cost-us-this-exquisite-looking-laserdisc-game/
Atari – From Cutoffs to Pinstripes: https://atarimuseum.ctrl-alt-rees.com/articles/10yranniversary/cut2pin.html
AtariAge: https://atariage.com/
Atari Compendium – The Great Market Crash: https://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/articles/crash/crash.html
Atari Force Headquarters: https://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/AtariForce/
AtariGames.com (ARCHIVE LINK): https://web.archive.org/web/20110716114634/http://www.atarigames.com/
Atari Protos – Barroom Baseball: http://www.atariprotos.com/5200/software/barroom/barroom.htm
Dan Coogan Interview with the designers of Gravitar: http://www.cooganphoto.com/gravitar/interview.html
Den of Geek – The Last Starfighter: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/the-last-starfighter-the-atari-arcade-game-that-never-was/
Game Design Theory and Practice – Ed Logg: https://arcarc.xmission.com/Magazines%20and%20Books/Chapter%206_ed_logg_interview.pdf
Halcyon Days – Ed Rotberg Interview: https://dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/ROTBERG.HTM
I, Robot Development History: https://www.manfreda.org/i-robot/development-history
Jed Margolin – Firefox: http://www.jmargolin.com/firefox/firefox.htm
Jed Margolin – Tomcat: https://www.jmargolin.com/tomcat/tomcat.htm
KLOV: https://www.arcade-museum.com/
Owen Rubin’s Webpage: https://arcarc.xmission.com/Web%20Archives/www.Orubin.com%20(Sep-07-2003)/default.htm
System 16: http://www.system16.com/
Undumped Wiki: https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
UnMAMEd Atari Games: https://unmamed.mameworld.info/non_atari.html

0:00 Intro
1:01 Monte Carlo
2:00 Missile Command
5:33 Missile Command II (unreleased)
6:40 Battlezone
8:47 Warlords
10:58 Asteroids Deluxe
12:41 Bradley Trainer
17:07 Red Baron
18:33 Centipede
22:01 Tempest
24:20 Maze Invaders (unreleased)
25:40 1982: A Look at Atari’s New Corporate Image
29:05 Space Duel
31:42 Gravitar/Lunar Battle (beta)
34:27 Liberator + The ATARI FORCE Comic
37:28 Millipede
39:23 Quantum + A Brief History of GCC
44:11 Akka Arrh (unreleased)
46:46 Harescare (unreleased)
47:26 Heart of Ice (unreleased)
48:10 Qwak (unreleased)
49:26 Runaway (unreleased)
50:30 Atari Inc. Publishes Games: Dig Dug, Pole Position, Kangaroo etc. + The Dig Dug Song
53:19 Black Widow
54:41 Food Fight
56:10 1983: The Prelude to the Crash. Atari’s Growth Slows, Insider Trading shenanigans
58:26 Star Wars
1:01:35 Crystal Castles
1:04:12 Major Havoc/Alpha One (beta)
1:06:39 Cloak & Dagger/Agent X (beta)
1:08:44 Barroom Baseball (unreleased)
1:09:59 Cloud 9 (unreleased)
1:11:02 Firebeast (unreleased)
1:12:24 Garfield’s Quest (unreleased)
1:14:25 Tomcat (unreleased)
1:15:30 1984: Everything Is Terrible + Firefox
1:18:15 I, Robot
1:20:13 Battlestar Galactica (unreleased)
1:21:07 E.T. (unreleased)
1:22:31 Golf Trainer (unreleased)
1:23:32 Malibu Grand Prix (unreleased)
1:24:29 Nightmare (unreleased)
1:25:26 Playland (unreleased)
1:26:31 The Last Starfighter (unreleased)

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