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Britt
May 5th, 2008 at
2:10 am
I grew up with nothing but an Atari 2600. E.T. was the devil. I always fell into that damn hole. The only interesting part of that game was the loading screen.
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SearcH? EngineS WEB
May 5th, 2008 at
2:20 am
This is one of the best posts you’ve ever done.
Emailed it to several older relatives - who often spoke about the very early computer firms and what became of them
http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Atari_How_Why_It_Died
For you next post, uncover the mystery of the Altair - it is what got Bill Gates excited.
Also Gary Kildare, the original Bill Gates
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Parker
May 5th, 2008 at
2:58 am
I cannot believe there was a time when people went out and bought pieces of crap like the E.T. game for entertainment. Of course, this is around the time people bought pet rocks as well.
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Tim Giachetti
May 5th, 2008 at
4:22 am
Nolan Bushnell was the biggest drunken idiot ever conceived. My father was a manager for his wonderful Chuck E. Cheese arcades and crappy pizza.
My father injured himself at work resulting in gangrene and an extensive hospital stay.
Bushnell himself fires my Dad while he was in bed recovering at the hospital, for and get this, unshined shoes and long hair.
My dad was a 32 year military man who never had scuffed shoes or even close to the ear hair. Was the best thing Bushnell ever never drunkenly remembered because my Dad really retired then, with a monthly hush up payment from Bushnell, and his military retirement.
One of the greatest reason Atari failed? Look in the dictionary under FAIL: insert pic of Bushnell -
Algonkin
May 5th, 2008 at
6:09 am
Wow! that was some neat reading. Ah! the memories. I remember my old Intelevision system.
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stacyj
May 5th, 2008 at
7:04 am
Aww, I -liked- the E.T. game, I thought it was good fun trying to find all the bits to make that telephone while avoiding the FBI guys and not falling into the same blasted hole 5,000 times. Until I started reading articles like this, I’d had no idea it was considered such a terrible game … guess -everything- is liked by -somebody- …
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Fran
May 5th, 2008 at
8:01 am
Very interesting article. Loved it. I had the Atari pong game as a kid and remember how “cool” we thought it was that we could play a game on the TV screen.
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bean
May 5th, 2008 at
8:46 am
This may have been a neat post, but I honestly didn’t feel like reading it after realizing how ridiculously long it took to scroll past. It would have been better to post a short excerpt, and link the rest.
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Tempscire
May 5th, 2008 at
10:32 am
I second bean’s post. Where is the “read more” link it so desperately needs?
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Toby B
May 5th, 2008 at
10:52 am
Loved this post! I’m going to have to pick up one of those Uncle John reader books now
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editor
May 5th, 2008 at
11:32 am
Though the consumer trade is fixated on Atari’s consumer past - it is important to remember the importance of the amusement (arcade) development.
Now with the acquisition of the ‘full’ range of titles we will also get a glimpse of how Atari and Namco are linked!
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fsmarch
May 5th, 2008 at
12:02 pm
Great post! Brought back memories of my old Atari 2600. I spent hours playing on that thing.
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Christophe
May 5th, 2008 at
2:06 pm
@Algonkin : I still own my Intellivision, but it’s been a couple of year I haven’t played it. Simple graphics yet highly playable games ; I just found that recently in the Wii. I don’t have to go O+O+O+O+left arrow+right arrow+etc to do a combo…
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tigergal39
May 5th, 2008 at
10:02 pm
I remember my Atari, all the hours spent trying to finish “Demon Drop”. I can remember the blister I had on my left palm from holding the controller so long. No pause button back then!
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ted
May 5th, 2008 at
10:58 pm
I third bean’s post.
I might have read it, but I was swamped. -
Viola
May 5th, 2008 at
11:09 pm
Longest post evar?
Still, great material.
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Leon
May 6th, 2008 at
12:11 am
Thanks for the detail write out. I didn’t know so much about Atari history until today.
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Pol x
May 6th, 2008 at
7:08 am
I used to work for atari…wel I worked for Infogrames who rebranded themselves atari.
Which is an amazingly daft thing to do in the industry, as the name reeks of FAIL.
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May 6th, 2008 at
9:53 am
i gonna miss space invader a lot
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Ajan
May 16th, 2008 at
7:38 am
Maaan! Wish I get Uncle John’s books in India. And all I get here is some bloody gossips of some actors or some senseless reads about politics…
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