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As the Atari Video Computer System turned three years old in 1980, the installed userbase of just over a million consoles had doubled to over 2 million. More consoles meant more gamers, and more gamers meant a growing demand for more games. Keeping up their established pace, Atari released just shy of a dozen new titles during 1980, and while some of their key talent had departed by the end of '79 to form Activision, 1980 would prove to be a breakout year with the release of what would become the console's first killer-app. In this video, I'll be ranking every VCS game Atari released in 1980. #atari #retrogaming #tierlist #genxgrownup - LINKS BASIC Programming footage courtesy @MissionEdPossible - SHOP http://genxgrownup.com/amazon http://GenXGrownUp.com/merch - PODCAST http://GenXGrownUp.com/pod - SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/genxgrownup - WEB & SOCIAL http://GenXGrownUp.com/discord https://twitch.tv/genxgrownup http://fb.me/GenXGrownUp https://bsky.app/profile/genxgrownup.com https://www.tiktok.com/@genxgrownup https://www.instagram.com/genxgrownup/ http://GenXGrownUp.com - CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome to 1980 01:00 VCS Growth 02:01 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe 03:07 Adventure 04:50 BASIC Programming 06:42 Circus Atari 07:56 Dodge 'Em 08:28 Golf 10:20 Maze Craze 11:39 Night Driver 12:53 Space Invaders 14:10 Video Checkers 14:59 Summary

Super Impulse has a raft of Tiny Arcade Micro Arcade titles. In this review & comparison, we take a look at the Frogger variants of these two releases. Join GenXGrownUp for Perks! » bit.ly/395HEr9 #frogger #tinyarcade #microarcade #genxgrownup B U Y  Y O U R S Tiny Arcade » amzn.to/3BSKMn8 (affiliate) Micro Arcade » amzn.to/3aO0rIs […]

In 1980, Mattel Electronics published this Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth board game. One or two players battle against the computer in a randomly-generated maze to find the treasure and avoid the dragon that guards it. Jon found this one at a local toy show and despite never seeing it before, immediately decided to give […]

Ever since its release, there has been some debate about the accuracy of the paddles included with the Atari 50th Anniversary Edition Flashback Gold from  @AtGamesGaming . We did some digging and discovered just what’s going on, and talk about how it might get fixed. You can download Paul Slocum’s Testcart image from this link to […]

It’s on to phase two of assembling the new LEGO Atari 2600 set. In this video, we move on through probably the least interesting feature of the entire kit: that little brown cartridge storage box. I wonder if real Atari cartridges fit in that thing… #atari2600 #atarivcs #genxgrownup SUBSCRIBEGenXGrownUp.com/yt PATREONpatreon.com/genxgrownup MERCH GenXGrownUp.com/merch MEMBERSHIPbit.ly/395HEr9 PODCAST GenXGrownUp.com/pod […]

Rolling Thunder from the My Arcade line of Micro Players hit the scene back, in 2019, but if you’re looking to flesh out your tiny arcade collection, is this one you should seek out? Rolling Thunder is a run-and-gun shooter action game produced by Namco, originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1986. Take […]