Ever hear of a game called Pac Man?
Atari is Coming Back
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Ever hear of a game called Pac Man?
That was another nail, terrible port of a game. Though I'd say it was far more commercially successful than ET, but they both got panned and did considerable harm to Ataris reputation. Atari later on ported it for the 5200 and did a better job the 2nd time around, but too little, too late...
E.T. gets the urban legend of being THE game that buried Atari when in fact it was the culmination of many blunders such as shitty games, over zealous sales predictions, out-of-control spending, etc.., . In the short term, yes, P.M. sold but in the long term (remember it came out in 1982) it hurt Atari because it was a garbage port and was absolutely nothing like the Namco cabinet. By the time the crash came, the 2600 had tons of crap software.
Both E.T. and Pac-Man had huge amount of unsold stock because Atari completely overestimated the interest which was there but not in the expected amounts.
People were growing wise to Atari by the time '82 turned into '83. The covers of games looked nothing like the game play and people started remembering such a fact when it came time to purchase games and software.
^^^^Atari did have fantastic cover art!!!
Atari 7800. Various version were released on other platforms as well, including NES. Galaga was my favorite game back in the day. Mario Bros. was my second favorite.
This new Atari console is interesting, but it sure isn't cheap.
Any decent sources for PC?
Y'all see that Atari movie on HBO? About how ET was the downfall?
With emulators and roms being so easy, i never expected this to be released. Although it will probably do well considering how well the mini NES and SNES did and is doing.
for reference:
mini nes http://www.nintendo.com/nes-classic/
mini snes https://www.nintendo.com/super-nes-classic
for reference:
mini nes http://www.nintendo.com/nes-classic/
mini snes https://www.nintendo.com/super-nes-classic
Bought my mini nes for 60$ and used it for a couple of months and sold that joker on ebay for 140$.
Atari emulator have been put for years for next to nothing. Target carries the plug into tv one with all the games for something like 40$
Atari emulator have been put for years for next to nothing. Target carries the plug into tv one with all the games for something like 40$
Keep in mind that most people don't want to deal with ROMs. Sometimes they aren't complete or aren't the right "version" of the games or whatnot. I have the technical know-how, and I still don't like fooling with ROMs. I just want to turn it on and start playing; no "initial setup", no downloading and moving ROMs to the correct directory, etc. Not to mention I generally dislike playing games on a PC. I've always preferred a console over a PC for gaming.
Jeff, that's one game that I thankfully never played. LOL.
Three Christmas mornings stand out to me more than any other in my childhood.
1 : Waking up and my dad had gotten an Atari 2600 and we played pong and pitfall.
2: We had Christmas at my Grandparents, and my Uncle, who is only 2 years older than me, got an NES and we played Mario Brothers and Mike Tyson's Punchout for 2 straight days and nights.
3 : I got a motorcycle.
Two of the three involved game consoles. I'm keeping that in mind with my three kids moving forward.
1 : Waking up and my dad had gotten an Atari 2600 and we played pong and pitfall.
2: We had Christmas at my Grandparents, and my Uncle, who is only 2 years older than me, got an NES and we played Mario Brothers and Mike Tyson's Punchout for 2 straight days and nights.
3 : I got a motorcycle.
Two of the three involved game consoles. I'm keeping that in mind with my three kids moving forward.
I have a Galaga full size arcade game in my garage. Used to walk a mile to play it back in '81.
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And Colecovision was cleaning their clocks graphic wise.
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My favorite games for the Atari system were Pitfall and Q-Bert. I would play for hours and hours.
Sega making a come back would be pretty awesome as well.
Funny thing is the Colecovision had a bigger and more powerful PCU so games would run about twice as fast as what a Atari 2600 ran. I had one since my mother was an assistant manager for a toy store back in 1983-89. And she had inside info on which was better from the get go.
Now Intellevision was a whole different level as almost all their games was more in depth and immersion heavy over the simple inputs that the paddle and joysticks that the 2600 used. But also it cost 3 times as much over a 2600 I think about $500 vs $150. My one cousin had a Intellivision with most of the games, wonder if he still has it as it probably be worth a mint in today's money.
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