The Ultimate Parker Brothers/Atari 2600 Tier List - ALL RELEASED GAMES RANKED

Frogger, Popeye and Gyrus were amazing on the 2600 back in the day and IMHO they still hold up great in 2023.

Nailed it again Jon. Amazing how the programmer of Frogger managed to get it so much better than Atari did.

I'm not a retro gamer, or much of a gamer at all anymore. But these videos bring back fond memories of saving up my allowance to buy more 2600 games. And then when I got bored with the games I had, I pulled out a large notebook of paper and colored pencils and wrote down and drew so many of my own game ideas! Now today all these years later I'm developing my own online game project. Things have come full circle! Thanks for these videos and putting a smile on my face!

Reactor should get bumped up to a B based on the soundtrack alone. I enjoyed the game because it was one of the few games where you felt like your character was being pushed around by the particles instead of either being destroyed or destroying them. I recommend people look up the Arcade version of Gottlieb's Reactor soundtrack.

Man Parker brothers really had a good lineup. Empire Strikes back was so good.

I remembered playing the Empire Strikes Back and was immediately drawn in by the music and the graphics. "Graphics" as in getting the shape of the AT-AT reasonably close considering the limitations of the time. Looking back it reminds me of Defender but themed wonderfully.

These ranking videos are so much fun to watch. The game play video is just right for giving a good view of the game play in a short time, and the commentary is great. There was no way for me to try all these games when I was a kid, so I really enjoy getting to see what I missed.

Today Parker Brothers is known more for board games rather than video games. What makes Atari collecting interesting is that there are so many brand names on the carts. Everything from Parker Brothers, Mattel, CBS, Sears, Sega, Nintendo, and Coleco. The 2600 was the most popular system of the early 80's, and everyone wanted to cash in.

I love Qberts Qubes. You have to get past the learning curve before you really start to enjoy it. Also, they got the difficulty switches screwed up and you have to set it to 'A' to start at the beginner levels.

Montezuma’s Revenge is one of my all time favorites on the Atari 2600. Glad you liked it too. I think the other rankings are pretty spot on.

Great video, I didn't know some of these games but now I want to add them to my collection. From what I saw on other channels, I thought The Empire Strikes Back was just boring and repetitive, but you convinced me there's actually a lot more going on. Frogger and Q-Bert are just amazing and I could play them endlessly. Amidar, on the other hand, would be much better if you could move a little faster. As it is, it's a slog

100% agree, Especially Montezuma's Revenge. It was far more than just a platformer.

Thanks for another ranking video, they are very entertaining. We had only Q-Bert and Sky Skipper from Parker Brothers. As far as I remember I did't really like Sky Skipper the first few times I played it, felt a bit like a bad buy but after playing it more I started to like it.

One of the best "frying" games was Frogger. It looked like you were in the Atari Twilight Zone. 😁

Little Andy had a few of these, and some of Andy's friends also had a few of these. Sleepovers were Activision and Parker Brothers themed parties. Playing Atari until 10:00 or 11:00 at night. Ahh the memories!

The theme of Frogger is based on a Japanese kids song Inu no Omawarisan. It is a police dog who returns a lost kitten to its mom.

Always found it funny as a kid that Atari created Star Wars the Arcade game, but couldn’t put it out on the 2600. I loved Super Cobra, because of the variety of levels.

Back in the day, Parker Brothers was the premiere arcade game porting company. They pushed the hardware limitations of every system they released cartridges for. Their versions of Popeye, Q-bert & Frogger on my Ti-99 were not only the most fun games to play on the TI (until Atarisoft Centipede & Moon Patrol), easily passing the criteria of this video, but the release of Tutankham (40 years late) continued the tradition of kick-ass games (WAY better than the VCS version). And since they decided to do an end-run around TI GRom licensing, they created every TI port in only 8K!!!!) I know they were every bit as good on the Atari 800, and from this video, it looks like they knocked their VCS games out of the park in a few cases. I'm just jealous that you guys got such a bigger library from them. They were not just ourtstanding ports, but also GREAT games. And every TI release was worth owning.

Parker Bros understood the power of Licensed games : easy sales. Homebrew re-makes of these games are great though : Q*Bert, Scramble/Super Cobra , Tutankham (Champ prototype) ... maybe CrushRoller/Amidar or Gyruss in the future.

I remembered 007 as a much better game with the ability to kill enemies, and just realized why... The version I remembered was for ColecoVision. Solid list!