Fatal Run on Atari 2600 (Rob's Retro Rambles)
14Playing Fatal Run on Atari 2600 for the very first time. And then also on the 7800 for good measure.
Can you believe this game came out in *1990*?
I mean, obviously, if you were born this millennium* you'll probably look at it and go yeah, looks rubbish like all old games, I'm not surprised. But for those of us born in the '60s, '70s and 80s it's mindboggling to think that new games were still released for the Atari 2600 in the same year that Turrican came out on C64, or Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge on the Amiga. Hell, F-Zero was released on the Snes in 1990! And Roadblasters on the Atari Lynx!
Also, Jaleco's released Cisco Heat into the arcades in 1990, but I think this is probably a better game so let's leave that there eh?
Seriously, it's like discovering something like *Vivaldi* spending ten weeks in the top 10 album charts in 1990...
*If you're reading this and are somehow *under* the age of 35 please do let me know as that would make you quite the rarity round here. Even more so if you're female, according to YouTube's Analytics
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MASSIVE thanks for Ricardo Autobahn for the use of
"On the waves of Awakened Light"
From the album
PANOPHOBIA
Go buy it at:
Spray.bandcamp.com/album/panophobia
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00:00 Start
00:03 Fade in
01:45 Atari 2600 footage
15:00 Atari 7800 footage
30:57 Outro