Top 10 Atari 5200 Games

The Atari 5200 while not being a great console featured some excellent games including Pitfall II, Qix and many more. Why not tell me your favourite Atari 5200 games in the comments section below and please like and subscribe as theres plenty more top gamimg countdowns on the way.

[urbanknish]

Donkey Kong was never released on the Atari 5200. It was an Atari 800 computer game that was ported much later as a rom-hack by the emulation community.

[cardgamerdebu]

Just spent a fun couple of hours watching your work! Thank you so much for putting the time and effort into compiling these retro game lists; I've not only thoroughly enjoyed what I've seen, but also learned more about some classic titles. Thank you for the education! :)

[EsmeAmelia]

Pretty sure that Donkey Kong was a homebrew. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it was ever officially released for the 5200.

[chazcov]

How do you not have Montezuma's Revenge on this list? Or Dig Dug? Or Missile Command? Super Breakout? Megamania? Joust? Zaxxon? Q Bert? Jungle Hunt?

Way too many notable omissions.

[rangoononline]

Hell yeah! Good to see you back. Stoked for this list because I never owned this system. Just had a 2600 and a colecovision.

[DTM-Books]

I just bought ten Atari 5200 cartridges from a retro game store today, a birthday present to myself. I don't actually own the system, but I might at some point, and it's just fun to have these on my shelf in any case. The software library for this machine is very strong, despite the fact that most of them are identical to their Atari 8-bit cousins. But there are enough games that take advantage of the analog joystick or trackball to make it worth your while.

[heckensteiner]

Gremlins and Vanguard look amazing! Two games I had never seen before.

[Gaming-Enthusiast]

Loved pole position on my Atari 130xe . I still play it weekly

[TwippyTwilight]

I remember beating pitfall II when I was home sick from school. It was awesome

[jimgoebel]

Donkey Kong was never officially released for the 5200

[gameymas]

magnificent top I love them all they transport me to my children

[andychicago]

Hero was great, but extrem hard. Great List!

[bmla]

Man the speed of vanguard and the timing of the shots looks incredibly frustrating. It reminds me of trying to go back and play the old shooter atari 2600 games and wonder how i did it.

[adm]

Great video but Donkey Kong was never released for the 5200

[paulmodjeski]

Donkey Kong was on the Atari 8 bit computers not the Atari 5200. So I would have put Kangaroo on the list. Atari 5200 Kangaroo was a good port.

[jasonmoran]

what is the opening song? Its so familiar.

[lurkerrekrul]

Gremlins - I liked this game, but I lost more lives to the time limit than to the gremlins.

Vanguard - This one looks a lot nicer than the Atari 2600 version, but the control doesn't seem as precise. No, I'm not talking about the stick, but rather the fire buttons. The buttons on my controllers work perfectly in other games, but when I played this game, it didn't always shoot when I wanted it to. Often, I'd press the button while moving the stick, no shot comes out and I crash into the enemy I was trying to shoot. Or maybe it IS related to the stick. Maybe it wasn't registering the direction strongly enough for it to shoot in that direction. I never had that problem with the 2600 version.

[michaelcooper]

These games where way ahead of there time

[type]

Any top 5200 best of list without "Space Dungeon" on it doesnt pass muster and is likely a fraud.

[blikketty]

Miner 2049er? Astro Chase? Star Trek and Star Wars and Star Raiders? Countermeasures? This list is missing all the iconic 5200 games and has too many arcade ports that were just as good on other 8 bit systems.