My Top 10 Favorite Atari 2600 Games 

Dreamcast is next!

I've been an Atari gamer since it came out in 1977 when I was a kid. I still enjoy the console in 2022. As for games, Imagic and Activision made some of the best games on the Atari 2600 back in the day. I was surprised you didn't have Pitfall or HERO on your list, but as you mentioned, not everyone's list will be the same LOL. As a side note, I have the exact same Pac-Man binder you keep your high scores in. Be sure to checkout some Atari 2600 homebrews. Wonderful stuff being made in present day for the console.

I always enjoy firing up my 2600 and playing Pitfall II, HERO, Frogger, Yars’ Revenge, Keystone Kapers, Frostbite, QBert, Pengo, Dig Dug, Popeye, Jungle Hunt & Atlantis. River Raid & Ms PacMan are also great

1. Berserk 2. Yar's Revenge 3. Jr Pac Man 4. Crystal Castles 5. Blueprint 6. Warlords 7. ET 8. Cosmic Ark 9. Spiderman 10. Lock N Chase

A solid list. Here's my Top 10 from what I've played so far. 1. Yars' Revenge. 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark. 3. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. 4. Spider-Man. 5. Night Driver. 6. Street Racer. 7. Missile Command. 8. Video Checkers. 9. Dodge 'Em. 10. Ms. Pac-Man.

i had to give u a like, no intro, no asking for subs, no sponsers, right to the point, i didnt have to skip the first part of the video as i do in any other video, thank you so much for this editing.

Journey Escape - it had a great intro, music and was fun to play. It was also the only game I remember that were given money not points. Pele's soccer- loved the fireworks at a goal. Jungle Hunt- level variety kept me coming back Solaris- great graphics Donkey Kong Jr.-great graphics and variety. Realsports Tennis- putting your name on the scoreboard was cool. Realsports Boxing- one of the best boxing games ever. Love everything about it. Skateboarding- a lot of fun Freeway River raid Frostbite Decathlon Keystone kapers California Games Ok, I"ll stop🤣

your old camera simply could not "enduro"

Megamania was great! My personal favorite game on 2600 was spider fighter

My favorite 2600 games hands down was Adventure

I'm surprised river raid never got a NES port, and I had vanguard as a kid, and yes it was great!

A woman did River Raid, but let's not forget a woman did (half of) the original arcade Centipede. Her name is Dona Bailey, but it's unconfirmed if she's actually the mother of Justin Bailey.

Adventure is probably my all time favorite on the 2600. First game with an Easter egg. Superman and haunted house are right behind it.

This guy continues to be my friend in another dimension. Enduro was soo good and Ioved river raid. I was honestly thinking the same thing about megamania being a step above everything else.

Interesting choices, Defender II / Stargate is so good on the 2600. Surely one of the best graphics games on the system. My top 3 favourites are Xenophobe, Radar Lock and Dark Chambers. Other top titles IMO are Centipede, Mario Bros, Pole Position and Qbert.

River Raid, Yar's Revenge, Pitfall (and unlike most people, I like it way better than Pitfall II), Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Phoenix, Frogger. I likely pick these as they are some of the relatively few games I had back in the day. I didn't have an Atari, I had a Coleco Gemini, which was an Atari Clone. I no longer have the Gemini, but I do have a 2600 and lots of games for it now.

Nice video! I'll need to check out Vanguard. My pics: Air Sea Battle Combat Dragonfire Fantastic Voyage Frankenstein's Monster Frostbite River Raid Seaquest Video Olympics

Great list. Shoot me, but one of my favourite games is "Boxing". I could probably play that for longer in one sitting than most 2600 games.

There are three Atari games that I always come back to: Pitfall II, Aquaventure, Frogs & Flies. 2600 can be pretty rough around the edges, but those three are among my favorite games. Especially Frogs & Flies.

I find it hard to claim certain games as being better for doing things differently. Megamania is an excellent game but it isn't a better game than say Demon Attack because of it's variety in attack patterns, The stricter nature of Demon Attack has the player getting good within that particular design. Demon Attack is a blinding fun tight shooter that isn't any better than Atlantis for example which is arguably a very simple design but is brilliant within that once you get to master it. Atlantis is uniquely brilliant in a way Both Demon Attack and Megamania don't do That doesn't stop each one of them being a favourite of course but not better objectively

Really enjoy these type of videos you're making keep it up!

Some of my favorite 2600 games are Enduro, Pole Position, Jr. Pac-man, Missle Command, Millipede, Pitfall, Hero, Keystone Kapers, along with lesser known games like Laser Gate and Star Gunner. I also love homebrews like Space Rocks, Juno First, Lady Bug, Scramble, Super Cobra the Arcade game, and Draconian.

I didn't even know they had a chess game with a competent AI for the 2600, the surprise for me was not that you chose it as an honourable mention, but that it had a competent computer player

When playing Vanguard, do not shoot the boss straight away. Hold your fire and dodge for as long as possible - the longer you wait the more points you get. Very good list - great to see Megamania get the recognition it deserves. Would be high up in my list too. I'd also have Kaboom, Super Breakout, Jr. Pacman, Yars Revenge, Atlantis, Demon Attack, Activision Tennis and Beamrider but I couldn't order them.

Some of my favorites: Dark Chambers - Gauntlet on the 2600 though slow Warlords - 4 player was an absolute blast. Atlantis - Favorite shooter. California Games - Specifically the BMX portion Raiders of the Lost Ark - First game I remember with inventory management. E.T. - I thought it was a fun adventure game. Definitely not the worst game ever. Indy 500 - Favorite racing game Solaris - Felt like a really complex game for the 2600 but I never was able to finish it.

Mines are Yars Revenge, Defender, Combat, Air sea Batlles, Mrs Pac-Man, Pole Position, Qbert, Missile Command, Adventures, Galaxian, Démons to Démons, Star Wars.

my mom is a legend at megamania. she's hit 1,000,000 points several times. I have no idea how.

Nice list of games! I also like: - Kangaroo - Street Racer - Concentration - Sneak'n Peek - Haunted House - Adventure - Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em (oh wait, nevermind, lol I've never actually played this game haha)

Commando, Ghostbusters, H.E.R.O. and Pitfall are my favourites, Vanguard was pretty amazing when it came out too

Favorite atari games, pitfall, seaquest, donkey Kong, pacman, frogger, space invaders. I know there were others too. The ones I listed I remember easily because they were played all the time. Thanks for sharing your list of favorites. 👍

One game that I liked was the one that came packaged with it, Combat but they should have included a single player mode. It's not all that exciting to shoot down enemy planes or tanks when they are just sitting ducks.

Difficult to limit to 10 and it's been fun discovering the unreleased and homebrew world...... Superbreakout Indy 500 Spiderfighter Phoenix Aquaventure Barnstorming Demons to Diamonds Elevator Amiss Fireball Moon Patrol Wizard of Wor Solar Storm Dragonfire Snoopy and the Red Baron, Space Cavern, Space Jockey, Polaris, Time Pilot, Lock & Chase......

1. River Raid 2. Chopper Command 3. Atlantis 4. Berzerk 5. Stampede 6. Spider Fighter 7. Mr. Do 8. Lock N' Chase 9. Enduro 10. Reactor Honorable mentions. Haunted House, Amidar, and Solaris

Just today I brought on atari junior from someone in london. He sold it 25 pounds and came with 15 games. I thought it was a scammer, but I hit gold there, and he gave me one atari 2600 wood ribbon damaged for free.

Missle command is my go to game, Maga maina I have not played yet. Looks fast for a 2600. Great video. Good job. 👍 Okay people of the world don't forget to use your sega genesis control! :)

I will play kaboom and warlords for hours. Gotta be quick with the paddle. Adventure might be my favorite, and pitfall II will give you the sweats or make you want to pull your hair out

Pretty cool being the first system I had when I was seven years old and Games I remember most being Combat, then River Raid 🏆

I have 2600 disc for xbox. Play every day. Adventure, backgammon, target fun.

2600 was before my time, but I definitely plan to get one at some point. Megamania looks like fun

Another late one that’s amazing is the arcade adaptation of Phoenix. Fantastic list!!

First console I ever played, like most people I imagine. Some of my favorites were: River Raid Pitfall Phoenix (demon attack clone?) Megamania Mountain King Frogs and Flies Berzerk Seaquest Chopper Command RealSports Volleyball.

I like the way you explained joust which I never understood but now I think I could give it a go.

Megamania and the arcade game "Astro Blaster" are very similar. Also, Keystone Capers is my favorite game.

Great list . Enduro is on my top 10 . I know HERO has been over promoted but i was playing that before RU-vid was a thing . 👍🏼

I always wondered how they came up with Joust. Knights riding ostriches over a pit to hell that has hands that try to drag you in? Then I remember how much drug use was going on in the industry at the time and it all makes sense.

Vanguard was great. I forgot about playing that one in the early 80's.

excellent selection! i would have added berzerk and spider fighter

Nice pucks! I never knew there was that Stargate cartridge fir 2600!!! I have to find that. I lost my original Atari and am now getting back into building another original 2600 collection. I had several of these as a kid. I had such a blast playing with these games. So many good memories from this system! These are some great suggestions of games that I have forgotten about. I will add them to my list to look for! Thanks.

I've been waiting for you to do this list! Great job. The 2600 was great 👍

Great video my friend. I'm not familiar with a lot of them. So, I'll look for them on eBay and the local video game store and see if I can find them.

Your list is gold! I actually grew up with a lot of these games and were definitely blown away how good they were. I remember playing Vanguard the first time and being able to travel upside down in that cavern. And all the Activision titles mentioned are still my favorites. I would recommend Pressure Cooker and Robot Tank if you haven't played them.

Pitfall is a great game! Circus atari! Love playing atari still!

I really love this list. Those are great games. I think I got Video Chess for Christmas 1979, and I thought it was amazing to be able to play chess on the VCS. I was decent at chess, but I had trouble beating the game even on the easy levels. I remember the cartridge cost $40, which would be about $160 today. Here is a pretty good history of Video Chess: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ERdpCddJ3S8.html

If you have someone to play against, Frogs and Flies on the 2600 is incredible. Literally the best head-to-head two player game ever made. Just make sure both players are on Hard mode to enable free movement. Every time we bust it out around here people get really into it, it's so much fun.

I like River Raid, but I think the game would make more sense if you have a boat rather than a plane. The fact that the plane crashes into the river bank or bridge doesn't make sense because it should be able to fly over them.

Always keep coming back to the 2600, the first console/ computer that came in our household when I was a kid...Demon Attack without a doubt my personal fave...

Thanks for this! I’m kinda warming up to Atari 2600… but not there yet… 😂

Adventure, Space Invaders, Pitfall II, Solaris, Asteroids, and Warlords would be in my Top 10.

Enduro is still among the best.

I can totally relate to joust, so many times I've been out taking a stroll on my flying ostrich and other people mounted on flying ostriches have begun swooping down on me and after I've managed to get past that, those pesky pterodactyls are always the bane of my day admittedly flying ostriches come in quite handy when living in a world engulfed with lava

Missle Cmnd is a legendary game!

You can tell this guy is a poseur and doesn’t know what he’s talking about when he says the 2600 was known for being slow. lol… it was far faster than intv and even cv in general. Spider fighter, kaboom, dragon fire, and many others are among the fastest games seen at home.

How the hell does Stargate look so good when Defender is so bad?

Turmoil is Tempest meets Tapper.

I guess I loved Breakout. I beat all 100 variations on 1 paddle lol

Vanguard looks interesting, I've never heard seen it before.

My Sears Tele-Games version was from Christmas 1979 I believe. It was my machine of choice until about 1981 when I got my VIC-20, but I still used it a lot until about 1985 or so. Freeway, StarMaster, StarRaiders, Ms. Pac Man, Demon Attack, Yars Revenge, Combat, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Missile Command and Atlantis were in my top ten in the early 80's. The list is a bit different now. I still love playing my 2600 games to this day.

Dude, that's wild. I've never seen anyone else with handwriting just like mine! Looks i-dentical.

Vanguard is probably what I played 2nd most after Berserk, but it could have been most! definitely a top for me, along with: Frogger Frogs & Flies Joust Football Missile Command Breakout River Raid

Beamrider 2600, Dig-Dug 2600, Star Rrek Strategic Operations Simulator and Solaris are my top 2600 titles. I still play these ones to this day.

My shortlist: Mario Bros, H.E.R.O., River Raid, Robot Tank, Starmaster, Astroids, Keystone Kapers, Othello, Realsports Volleyball, Decathlon.

H.E.R.O. FrostBite SeaQuest Tennis boxing fishing derby chopper command crackpots joust defender moon patrol

Defender, Pinball, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Ms PacMan, Demon Attack, Battlezone, Atlantis, Pitfall, Frogger, pole Position, Joust, River Attack, Dig Dug, and Centipede. Thats my top 15.

I dismissed the original Atari VCS because of its primitive graphics compared to what I was used to from the video game arcades. I got an Atari 800 on closeout when the 1200XL was released and I learned everything I ever needed to know about computer science on it. I've noticed in recent years that while the graphics on the 2600 are poor, the playability is certainly there. F'rinstance Centipede is a good example. Those sure don't look like mushrooms but the playability looks as good as with any other version. The Defender and Joust look better than I would have ever expected from a 2600. Almost as good as the games I played in the arcades. I'm quite impressed with what some programmers have been able do with the limited graphic capabilities on the machine. Thank you so much for this list of games I need to look for. Missile Command is just about my favorite Atari game of all time. In the arcades it was the first machine that offered a trackball controller. I got an Atari CX22 Trek Ball Controller specifically to play Missile Command on my Atari 800. Fortunately it will work anywhere out can plug in a DIN 9-pin Atari CX40 joystick.

Some nice surprises on this list! The 2600 was my family's first console in the late '80s, and I genuinely love playing these games to this day. My current Top 10: - Gravitar - Demons To Diamonds - Adventures of Tron - Solaris - Mouse Trap - Galaxian - Desert Falcon - California Games - Phoenix - Defender 2 / Stargate Honourable Mentions: - Fantastic Voyage - BMX Airmaster - Fathom

TURMOIL!! A FLAT version of TEMPEST!? Absolutely perfect description!!!

gettin right into it lmao

For me, Jungle Hunt and Keystone Kapers, Freeway along with Asteroids and Pitfall are among my favorite games for the 2600. Others include: Donkey Kong Fishing Derby Basketball Frogs and Flies Air Sea Battle Galaxian Berzerk Indy 500 H.E.R.O. Smurfs: Gargamels castle Surround Kung Fu Master Barnstorming Plaque Attack Phoenix Gangster Alley Kaboom Bowling Dolphin Fast Eddie Gunslinger Spider Fighter and many more!

Awesome recommendations! River Raid is also one of my favs. Gonna try them out soon. Here are mine: Yar's Revenge Warlords H.E.R.O. Cosmic Ark Wall Defender Criminal Persuit Jungle Hunt Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi: Death Star

My top 10 favorite Atari 2600 video games: #1 - Space Invaders. #2 - Asteroids. #3 - Missile Command. #4 - Pac-Man 4K (Homebrew). #5 - Ms Pac-Man. #6 - Jr Pac-Man. #7 - Centipede. #8 - Pole Position. #9 - Enduro. #10 - Wizard Of Wor.

1. Enduro 2. Missle command 3. Centipede 4. warlords 5. breakout 6. Kaboom 7. yars revenge 8. Asteroids 9. Battlezone 10. space attack

Wow! I did NOT expect Megamania to be #1! I spent the whole vid hoping it would at least get an honorable mention. I didn't have my own 2600 as a kid, just played with other folks when i could. Later, as a young adult in the early 2000s, I finally bought my own 2600 on ebay. Megamania was in the lot of games I bought, and it was the first time I ever played it. So, it's a "later" game for me. But, wow, it stood out as the most playable and re-playable game I had for the system. As much as I love old faves like Pitfall, I spent way more time with Megamania. Thanks for the video! I subscribed!

The MOST COMPLEX Atari 2600 game has 21 screens to the left or right, when you go up or down out of any screen it goes to different parts of the city, when you go into a phone booth you go into different parts of the subway & when you exit the subway to the left, right or down you go to different parts of the city, if you keep going up you stay in the subway that's 4 to 5 different parts of the subway. you need to put all the robbers in jail & complete a 3 piece bridge while the helicopter picks up parts of the bridge & puts them in different parts of the city while kryptonite satellites are moving around through out the city & subway. if a satellite touches you when you are Super Man you lose your power to fly until you kiss Louis lane. when you put all robbers (Lex Luther is the only robber that has a hella pack on his back & flies around) in jail & complete the 3 piece bridge at the bridge sight part of the city. you must go to the phone booth with a phone on it to change from Superman to Clark Kent so you can walk across the Bridge then into the phone both with a diamond on it because that is the daily Planet building, X-Ray vision is when you push the button down & move the joystick in any direction to see up, down, right or left screens before you walk or fly to those screens. This is by FAR the MOST COMPLEX Atari 2600 game EVER made (I mean its so complex most people have NO idea how to play it so they think & say bad things about the GREATEST game EVER made for the Atari 2600 it was one of the FIRST releases after the system was released) but it can be one of fastest games to complete: I seen it completed in 38 seconds. I completed it in less then a minute. The Atari 2600 SuperMan is by far THE BEST GAME FOR THE Atari 2600 it sells for under $5 most the time. it beats the crap out ALL these 1 screen games for sure. today is 12-27-23

Thank you for your top 10. I'm going to check out tempest. I would appreciate if you can tell me how or where did you print those snes boxart in frame hanging in the background. Also I notice you used one of Shenmue theme in this video. Big fan of the series as well. You got my sub

A very good list and I would agree with your choices, especially Enduro and Jr. Pacman. Most 2600 owners rave about Ms. Pacman, but I think Jr. is superior. I'd also mention that if you like "death from above shooters" like Demon Attack or Megamania, check out Activision's Spider Fighter. I really like that one. A couple of other games that should get honorable mention are Berzerk and Asteroids...

Frogger, Missile Command, Spider Fighter, Berserk, Joust, Adventure, Defender, Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Raiders of the lost Ark

I'm not sure of my top Ten but my top 5: 1. Kaboom! Easily the most fun game on the console. You give a paddle controller to a ten year old boy that has no interest in Atari 2600 games or your wife and she will have fun trying to catch all the bombs in the Buckets! 2. Dragonfire- Amazing game with 2 basic screens and tons of strategy and reflexes. First screen you have to cross a draw bridge while fireballs are being chucked at you. You will have to duck, jump or Duck/Jump to avoid these fireballs or if you get in too much trouble run back all the way to the right to your safe spot from all fireballs. Later levels draw bridge pulls in/out to make it even harder. Second screen you have a little hut you can sprint out of at a frenetic pace and collect beautiful treasures while a dragon on the bottom of the screen runs back and forth chucking fireballs at you. Every cycle the dragon changes color and difficutly. Black dragon is he final hardest dragon before the next cycle. Cool thing about the Atari version of this game is it has the most beautiful treasure much nicer than even the Colecovision Version because the developer used a prograing trick giving them access to the full 128 color palette of the 2600 the Intellivision and Colecovision versions do not have this. Worse yet the Colecovision version of this game the dragon doesn't even run he sits on his fat ass spitting fireballs at you. 2600 version is easily the best. 3. Missile Command: Loved the arcade version and 2600 has an amazing version of this game. 4. Chopper Command: It's basically Activisions version of Defender but much better than Atari's Defender but on par with Defender II. You fly a Helicopter instead of a spaceship which honestly makes more sense to pick up ur buddies but I totally understand pickig Defender II over it if you did the graphics are a little flashier. Yar's Revenge: Just a very addictive game and the sound effects and trippy graphics were perfect for the 2600. 5. Pitfall II: Lost Caverns Probably the most technically impressive game on this list. Only true 2600 game with a real soundtrack. They cheated by using an extra chip but still counts as an official released game. I honestly played The Original Pitfall a lot more hours but only because I didn't own this game until I was an adult and every Atari owner had a copy of Pitfall.

I begged my mother for Atari's Chess back in the early 80s. I specifically remember her saying it was an extra expensive game and it was $50 at the time. She ended up relenting and got it for me as a Christmas gift. I played the heck out of that game. I remember at the highest difficulty, it took the computer 24 hours per move. That cracked me up... I guess you would have to leave the Atari on for like a month straight to play a proper game at that level. I never did it, but I think I did let it think for most of a day, just as a goof... with the screen flickering non-stop while it computed its next move. lol

Interesting selection. Some others that are worth checking out, if you haven't tried them: Venture An Adventure style game, with more variety of enemies. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Snowspeeder vs Imperial Walkers Star Raiders 1st person space fighter "sim". One of the few games that used the keypad. RealSports Volleyball Beach volleyball, with background animation and a day/night cycle. A fun little game that's often overlooked because most of the "RealSports" series sucked. Moon Patrol Perhaps not the best port, but a fun version nonetheless. Keystone Kapers Cop vs robber in a booby-trapped shopping mall. Lot's of Activation style obstacles. Warlords 4-way "breakout" using paddles. There's also Medieval Mayhem, a better homebrew arcade port. Haunted House Perhaps the first console "survival horror". Open exploration of a 4 story "house", with smooth vertical scrolling on each level, and a variety enemies. Rather impressive for an early 2600 release. Jungle Hunt Brave the jungle to save the girl, a variety of gameplay on each stage. A decent port of the arcade game. Secret Quest Clear labyrinthine stations overrun with aliens, each bigger than the last. It takes awhile to get to the end, at least it offers save codes. Solaris A sci-fi shooter with a combination of planet and space combat. One of the largest and graphically best looking games ever released for the system. It's so big, it has a separate game map that spans 16 screens! My mind was seriously blown the first time I played it.

Some pretty good choices but Pitfall one and 2, Berzerk, Yars Revenge, Frogger, Space Invaders and Jungle Hunt are even better.

10. Frogger 9. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 8. Warlords 7. Kaboom! 6. Missile Command 5. Enduro 4. Berzerk 3. Centipede 2. Keystone Kapers 1. Yars' Revenge

Stargate! Brilliant game. It gets manic as you progress. My brother and I used to love playing it together, we'd take turns in being pilot and gunner! (The second joystick controlled ’inviso' which was temporary invulnerability, smart bombs which took every enemy out on screen and emergency hyperspace which could get you out of and sometimes into a jam!)

It's a little late to get frothingly furious about disagreements over Atari 2600 games, isn't it? I don't doubt someone would do that, but it feels a bit like tilting at windmills. Anyway! My 2600 faves include Solaris, Midnight Magic, Ms. Pac-Man, Millipede, Solar Fox, Winter Games, Megamania, Gorf (Champ Games), Crystal Castles, & Frogger (Starpath).

If you haven't tried Mountain King I highly recommend it. The other two in my top three would be turmoil and enduro.

not in order: reactor, mr do's castle, congo bongo tron: deadly discs, superman, moonsweeper return of the jedi, warlords, river raid, cosmic ark and several others that have ports on other systems that I'd prefer to play today, but played it first on 2600 (frogger, joust, kangaroo, mario bros, etc) I'd probably put Venture on the list, but I have never gotten very far in it. but it seemed really cool back then. I should give it another go...

Kaboom, q Bert, ms Pac-Man, hero, pressure cooker, cosmic ark, robot tank, breakout and dragons descent home brew are my go-to.

Top 10 in no particular order: Yar's Revenge, Centipede, Berserk, Solaris, Missle Command, Defender, Asteroids, Demon's to Dimonds, Joust, & Moon Patrol. Most I remember from my childhood, but Yar's Revenge and Centipede are relatively recent additions from playing the Evercade. Three honorable mentions are Crystal Castles, Kangaroo and Human Canonball. I actually have tons of honorable mentions as well as lists of games I want to try, like Megamaniac and the Pac-man sequels. Great video.

These personal lists change all the time, but here goes my current one, I guess. 1. Pitfall! 2. Breakout 3. Asteroids 4. Montezuma's Revenge 5. Q*bert 6. Omega Race 7. Indy 500 8. Spy Hunter 9. Video Olympics 10. Combat Honorable mentions: Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, Superman, and Star Raiders.

YESSS your first pick ive been seeing MORE and more people appreciating it. I love top picks that arnt the same old games over and over. I don't think even half the people making the lists have ever even played a 2600 >.< its all click bate same 10 games. GREAT WORK THANK YOU for being real

This list is near perfect. however, # 1 is incorect. megamania is #2. The correct #1 game is Kaboom! And the secondary reason why Kaboom! is th ebest game, it truly is a reason to own a real 2600. Anyone can play megamania on an emulator with agammepad perfectly , but there is not other wa way to properly play Kaboom! without the proper paddle controls.