I can't believe I played this game when I was a kid and never asked any questions about the lore or why the fuck we were riding giant birds or what was coming out of the portal platforms. I just played the game and was entertained.
One of the coolest and most imaginative games ever. I wish I knew that the strategy was to stay low back before I spent a Hundred bucks on this machine
hi there! do you own an iPhone? I have been working on making joust for ios devices for about 5 months now and would love for you to be one of the first to beta test it
Anyone notice how these old games had purpose? You had to be focused and coordinated. The new games I see kids just pressing buttons but the game is basically doing whatever it wants. Nothing will ever compare to these classics. And don’t get me started on pinball!
guy i knew years ago played the arcade version, got a Hunter trapped by the lava hand, and sat on the ledge waiting for pterodactyls. He had it so they were constantly respawning pterodactyls so he just killed one, quickly turned to kill another one, lather rinse repeat in quick succession lol.
Amazing!! Some truly epic moments in there with the Shadow Lords. Eg. at 13:27 ... up until now you'd grab the straggler in the hand, but now that the Shadow Lords are here you're waiting ... it's so cinematic!
Been playing since I was 8 years old. Used to watch this guy play it at stop & go. He never let me play doubles with him until he got tired of me watching him play.
@@batron101 God, I remember the day when arcade games were everywhere... outside random corner stores, inside newsagents and supermarkets, at the airport... Really miss that:(
@@guidadiehl9176 yeah i grew up seeing the games first appear - remember when all you saw was pinball games,then the games came in a torrent and i loved most of them -- space invaders was fun as were the many vector graphics games as well but joust was always my favorite - well that and crazy climber
I would just fly and drift as fast as I could around the screen and off the screen crazily till I flew straight into one of the enemies and was killed and I would just crack up laughing. I remember the weird alarm sound of the pterodactyl would make me laugh to and I would try to fly into him. My brother would get sort of mad and say "Your not supposed to keep dying, play right!" Lol Good times. :D
Remember this was one of the first games I played on a pc lost on the internet as a kid, this and a billion other arcade games, wonder what the site was back then
i had an Atari 400 or 800 XL home computer & had this joust cartridge, it cost 250 $ for the computer, tv monitor exactly like the arcade, DEFENDER was also identical in almost every way.
32:00 I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Japanese-American. Male. So, you have an idea about what video games I grew up playing. I was never great at Joust. Maybe, I could get up to the early teen waves, with 2 Egg Waves. Why was THIS seemingly the easiest place to defeat the Pterydachtyl? Slightly over 50% of the time, I'd see people actually defeat the bird. Any other time, it was like forget it. Also, no shock, considering the advanced juncture of the game, killing all 3 PTs, cost him a life. I guess it's an ok tradeoff, if you got an extra life every 20,000 points.
@@Fatboypool For these video games, you were of a great age! When I was 10-11, you were 17-19, and it's amazing how much every year of age, at that juncture in life, makes so much difference in "video games smarts" that we have. You probably got Defender and Robotron down very quickly and well! I never was good at Defender. Maybe, I could get to Wave 4, but I'd have so few humanoids left, and unlike a more skilled player like you, I wasn't good at saving Smart Bombs. At least, in Defender, even I knew that, when some later stages started, and there were like 3 or 4 Pods, to just use the Smart Bomb, and get rid of them (and get the 1000 points). I always wondered why Swarmers were only worth 150 points, as they were hard as heck to kill!
Here's what my wisecrack wasn't about playing this game: You'd better hurry up before the pterodactyl arrives. Did you also notice that MST3K {Mystery Science Theater 3000} never had a video game of its own? Since the Sci-fi series features the deadpan janitor Joel Robinson, his 2 robot buddies: Tom Servo and Crow, fling these wisecracks at the very worst sci-fi flicks ever made. The mad scientist plays these flicks to crush the deadpan janitors soul. In this case: I find that kind of ridiculous of what the mad scientist does.
I swear I've played an 80s Mac game that was suspiciously similar to this? I remember jumping between three platforms, lava underneath, and pterodactyls diving down at you or maybe dropping bombs on you? I want to say there were pterodactyl eggs too, and maybe some pterodactyl babies? The ostrich rider seems right.
@@Sekusamu Wow! I just looked at a video of Glypha. What the heck? Complete rip-off of Joust. Is it by the company that holds the rights to Joust? To be honest, the original arcade Joust is better.
I f...n loved this game , was 12 when it twas released !! I can remember spending my silver coin collection , including 1 $ - & 50 cent pieces ect lmao , was it worth it? every cent....
@@batron101 Haha, I guess the Lava Troll is a "common enemy" to you, and the other mountees! In the earlier rounds, I do like to defeat enemies, when the Lava Troll is holding them down.
Imagine if, in the middle of playing this, baiters and mutants suddenly fling into the screen in surprise cameos and ... after dealing with them ... the sound "I am Sinistar. I will pursue you, even across game worlds. Run coward!"
Somehow, at the beginning of kindergarten, age 5, I was able to repeatedly make it to level 99, then it repeats and goes back to level 89 forever. I wish I'd remembered what my score was, I could've gone forever because I'd figured out the precise spots you can stand depending on each platform arrangement. I suppose that might not have been too advanced for a 5 year old to figure out, but my older brothers were perplexed as hell and no one at school ever believed me