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Bernie bros it's over
Have you played Atari today?
Played some H.E.R.O. this morning in fact
I want to play Necromancer. It just seems so nice, like something else.
FFFFFFFRICK that company. They're more asinine than modern Sega.
The company that created the video game industry as we know it. Too bad the only things they do now nowadays are Pong games to keep the trademark alive.
IIRC Atari died long ago and the current "Atari" is just the result of the branding being passed around from company to company like a cheap prostitute.
That is true, but the original Atari was founded today in 1972 regardless.
I don't get this sentiment. Is every time a company gets sold mean that it, "died?"
Well in Atari's case it is a shell of its former self although that could have been argued even back in the 90's to be perfectly honest here. Atari's rise and even fall was before my time but yeah it did popularize the indsutry into what we know today largely. I would say Nintendo sure as hell did save the industry though.
It went belly up many times, the one you remember died back in the 80s and got revived, only to die in the 90s, only to get the brand bought by infogrames, who then used it as a mask, but then died in the 2010s, and then revived by some random dudes who get devs to make shitty games with their properties and do stupid kickstarter shit, and of course get into crypto because of course they would.
it is if most of the original employees leave
Lol, you trolling?
If the original founder of a company with a vision dies, and his kids who dont give a frick sell the company to some holding company or some investment group, who then proceed to gut the company and change things around to make shit as cheap as possible to funnel money upwards, then it really isn't the same company anymore, even if it has the same name.
Do you really think Activision Blizzard is the same as Vivendi Blizzard?
What even is the current Atari?
Last one I remember was the so called "French Atari" that resulted from Infogrames buying what remained and renaming themselves to Atari
That's the current Atari. It's existed since 2003.
>Info-GRAMES
This has always bothered me
INFOrmatique proGRAMmES. The "S" is silent.
huh never knew that
Are you me?
Real Atari died in 83
Atari Games was still real Atari.
More like '93, Tramiel's Atari was radical.
Tramiel's Atari Corporation was an interesting company, but they were not a real Atari. They were a separate company which bought a lot of Atari assets from Warner Communications, including the rights to Atari name on home products.
There's a popular legend about evil Jack Tramiel buying Atari and instantly firing 90% of its staff. What really happened was that Tramiel hired 10% of former Atari home division staff into his new company to join his band of Commodore refugees, and then Warner fired everyone else due to employees having nothing to do in the newly rechristened Atari Games company.
I have to disagree. They brought Warner's shelved 2600 Jr. and 7800 projects to market and to decent success (the 2600 Jr. especially), particularly in the UK. They designed and brought the ST to market, another European success, and they kept the Atari 8-bit computer line chugging along with utterly kickass redesigns and those too saw great success overseas. Tramiel's Atari might not have been so hot back home, but they literally kept the Atari name alive and briefly profitable in their home division before Jack's son took over and went full moron with the Jaguar.
The European success of Atari can be probably attributed to Jack Tramiel building a solid worldwide network of distribution back in Commodore years. Local branches of Commodore had a high degree of autonomy, and Atari Corporation had a similar structure with powerful regional offices. Jaguar was designed at Atari UK, while Atari Germany handled the Falcon computer. It was a different company from monithic Atari of old, which Irish and Japanese branches were merely responsible for some local manufacturing and distribution.
Yup. Like current Apogee.
Will we ever find the last three prizes from the SwordQuest competition?
Weren't they melted down or some shit?
Have you played Atari today?
The 2600 was cool, it was my first machine. Got it at Christmas, a hand me down from my uncle, with a huge box of games when my uncle upgraded to nes.
Us boomers huh?
deal with it, millennial.
Based, and I'm a millennial. Atari is soul and will be remembered in 100 years. I'm not sure you can say the same for Intellivision, Odyssey, or even Coleco.
Calm down, kiddo. You can still pretend that you were alive for the NES.
gonna play me some Star Raiders
I need to get around to playing Star Raiders.
what the frick is "atari"?
Damn. That’s a long time.
I still think Solaris on the VCS stands up today.
Agreed, I'm a big fan of Radar Lock which is built on the same engine.
Solaris was so far ahead of its time it’s mind-blowing
seeeegaaaa
Frick Atari
>sticky
>less than 30 replies after 90 minutes
why is /vr/ so dead?
yes, thank god
It's monday morning.
Also most of the old guard left when the rules changed, nu-/vr/ doesn't know Atari too much outside of its name.
Board is full of zoomers who only come here to shitfling about console wars that ended decades ago
>I want my board to be as unusable as Ganker
I'm absolutely comfy with the speed of this board.
Current /vr/ is just lite Ganker
Its just Atari anon. If this was Sega or Nintendo you would see a lot more replies.
most of us, are 40 years old people with 9 to 5 work
Most of this board is zoomers trying to impress their parents and peers by being "le so mature for their age" by collecting overpriced plastic crap that predates their births by decades.
I am 20. And Im gonna be really cool and buy a atari as a display piece, I know im probably not gonna play it more than 3 times before letting it sit on the shelf, but then again this is /vg/ no one actually plays video games here, they just brag about their cool crt professional grade monitor or something 🙂
zoomers think nintendo invented gaming
Appreciate it lest it turn into /misc/ where you cant do so much as sneeze without 50 threads disappearing
I'm 31, my first console was the NES, and I've never owned, played, or seen an Atari console IRL. I imagine I'm not the only one.
Stop pretending to be me. Then again I was playing on a borrowed NES when everyone else was playing on a PS2 so I'm still a special snowflake.
The closest relationship I ever had to an Atari is a vague memory of seeing Lynx and Jaguar games in a store somewhere.
the lynx is a fragile pos
do not buy Homebrew scene is actually good though
Ditto
I'm 33, my first console was my older half-siblings' 2600. Technically the 2600 was supported and sold by Atari until 93, so it's not that wild. I'd guess after the official discontinuation that leftover stock was in discount bins in certain areas into around `95.
My mom used to have a 2600 and I never played it when we had it.
anon, it's Atari. it doesn't really have much appeal outside of its niche. I hardly see any Atari threads on this board—I made the last big one asking if Atari gaming was dead.
if it was NES or let alone SNES, you'd see a lot more responses
its not that their titles/IP arent godtier
its
they cared more about moving units than not harming their own brand- nintendo learned from their frickup which is the silver lining
Slow boards are always better than fast boards. Anyone who has experience with Ganker knows this.
>the old guard left
Lmao shut the frick up
gestapo moderation
It should be dead, but Atari is way beyond even most retro gaming boomer's times
I love the arcade ports
Mario Bros
Frogger
Burger TIme
Donkey Kong
Ms. Pac Man
It's out of my generation but I can appreciate it for what it represented in its time and the foundation it served as. I hope Atari always has a scene of 70 year olds making homebrew and discussing their memories with the system.
Amen anon. 2600 arcade ports are unique games in their own right.
50 years ago, video gaming died
HAVE YOU PLAYED ATARI TODAY? *Beepy Synth Jingle*
Still one of the best jingles of all time. So catchy.
Happy 50th!
>how atari paved the way for fortnite
>fortnite
Like, the same way the wheel lead to the nuclear bomb whatever. Journalism is a fun hobby.
On the bottom of the original heavy sixer motherboard (it may be on others but I haven't checked) there is an Atari logo with their original tagline "Innovative Leisure" printed in the PCB. Maybe one day we'll move to the point where all retro games are considered innovative leisure instead of retro games.
Before there was EA, there was Atari
in only America didnt turn its back on American games companies and went Japanese these guys would still be alive.
I thought American companies imploded themselves with shit games. Americans hated Japanese and their encroachment in electronics but even then the Japanese thrived because they had playable games. This is the little I have absorbed, I'm more than happy to learn more or maybe even hear the perspective of people who actually lived through it.
No that was their fault. The fact people don't ditch shitty companies anymore is the reason why most games are trash nowadays.
Was thinking of getting a atari jr, but then I thought, what games are actually worth playing?
Is it worth me spending 100+ bucks to get one, plus another 40 for a flashcart/lot of games?
Should I just get a clone console? Do they suck?
>what games are actually worth playing?
Theres a lot of games worth playing, particularly from later companies like Activision, Imagic, CBS Electronics and Milton Bradley.
-H.E.R.O.
-Pitfall and Pitfall II Lost Caverns
-Montezuma's Revenge
-Secret Quest
-Berserk
-Atlantis
-Cosmic Ark
-Krazy Kreatures
-Krazy Shoot-Out
-Kung Fu (As in the same game on the NES, and yes, it's playable)
I'll add:
>Adventure
>Haunted House
>Jr PacMan
>Ms PacMan
>Bump'n'jump
>Frostbite
>Mountain King
>yar's revenge
>venture
>superman
If you've got a party all of these are winners:
>combat
>air-sea battle
>freeway
>dragster
>space invaders
>wizard of wor
huh, bump n jump is one of my favorite arcade games, I had no idea there was a 2600 port
Yeah it's pretty good, all the ports are good especially INTV.
Wait a minute, that's not a 2600 game on the screen
I've been hornswaggled
HEYYYYYY
YOU LOOK LIKE A REAL JERK
OH NO YOU AIN'T, YOU'RE GONNA PLAY POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIOOOOOOOOOOOLE POSITIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
But I thought only Nintendo got stickies!
Yeah zx spectrum is nintendo. Evil nintendoooooo
the only reason speccy got a sticky was because it was where Rare started which is nintendy's favourite european developer (and only one they know of because they never leave their nintendy bubble) from having played Jetpac in Donkey Kong 64.
amazing headcanon, anon.
will you ever release a book full of nintendo conspiracy theories? I'd pirate it.
I grew up with a Atari XEGS for my fist years of life, Lode Runner was my fix. It gave me good times
Then I got a NES and it was over for Atari
The XEGS was more powerful than the NES. You missed all the amazing games you could've played from a flopply disk.
more powerful isn't better
It has better games.
atari has sucked since like 83
Any good Jaguar games?
Tempest 2000
Anything that i can't also play on playstation or Saturn?
What models did you have growing up, and which ones do you still have?
My childhood model is a wood-grained 4-switcher (has the NOT FOR RESALE message in the bottom), but it has seen better days, and the image is very fuzzy. I later got a 2600 Jr., which works much better. I covet a black "Vader" model, though.
I have this one. Had to make a composite mod for it a couple of years ago. While I never owned an 2600 when I was a kid, I did play it at my neighbor back in 88-89. Was my first game system. River raid and Pitfall were favorite games.
Nice 6 switcher
Ive fricking collected so many VCS's since i got into stuff before my time in the early 90s as a kid.
First model was a Vader, have a silver Sears Telegames, a Gemini clone, the colecovision adapter if you wanna throw that in. Plenty of 4 and 6 switches, 2 different Jr's and like a month or two ago, i finnaly got a Heavy Sixer at a flea market for 5 dollars. I really can see how this system was the NES of its day. These late 70s/early 80s systems have a certain charm to them that was always comfy for me to play, even if i sucked at most of their games. Flipping through their manuals and seeing all the art and hi concept plots made for these simple games is always a treat as well.
Nice collection anon. I got a few Juniors recently, but would love an expertly AV modded Vader. Killer find with the heavy 6.
>bernie gets no sticky
>some company that hasn't been relevant since the first clinton administration gets one
Lynx was always shit.
>a business man who never made a game in his life gets no sticky
>the company to bring video games into the mainstream gets a sticky
yes actually
that's right deal with it
>Lynx was always shit
Bernie was one the reasons
jive turkey btfo
almost like we’re on a retro board or something
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Interesting.
The last licensed game for the 2600 was released in 1992.
KLAX and Fatal Run are both quite good at that. The late era 2600 games are some of my favorite on the machine. Pic related, minus 7800 Ballblazer and my copy of KLAX hadn't come in when I took the picture. Most of these were new in the shrinkwrap, but I had to open a couple and iron them out because the boxes were so smashed. Buying new Atari stuff is fun, there's so much of it out there.
The Jaguar has a big homebrew scene, same with the 2600.
atari emulator with shaders looks nice
I'm 38 and actually did play Atari, 2600 to be exact. Some of my favorite games are Pressure Cooker, Rampage, Crystal Castles, Q-Bert, Dig Dug, Maze Craze, Combat, and Super Breakout.
frick Atari so much
I'm a boomer but I hate everything Atari.
their decisions were so stupid and their games sucked. there isn't really much good to say about them and I'm glad their are dead.
their games just aren't any fun and post it obscure pixel fever dreams on LSD.
Adventure is ok because it's an actual game for once and I like Frogger. That's all the praise Atari will ever get from me. Frick them.
t. salty intellivision owner
They made excellent underrated hardware. Even the jaguar wasn't bad.
The only good thing about Atari was a few games and maybe the good times it made happen, but they were also hosting Steve Jobs who betrayed the actual legend Wozniak
The only product I liked from Atari was Atari 2600. Also it's the only retro console I liked only when I was a kid but today I find so outdated.
I still find the 2600 library to be fun, maybe not for long periods of time, but fun nonetheless.
sticky
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I had the atari 2600 when it was going for cheap in the early 80s. combat, battlezone, jungle hunt, asteroids, and some more. all great games and great memories. everyone played in my house, parents and kids. I still luv atari
>jungle hunt
Frick yea. It looks like absolute ugly shit compared to the arcade version but plays surprisingly well. You can say that about a lot of the 2600's arcade ports actually, like Joust.
I've been getting into Solaris lately. Came out in 1986, so pretty late in the 2600's life and it's surprisingly deep for a 2600 game.
Excellent
Air-Sea Battle
>implying anyone gives a shit about anything older than NES
Does anybody out there do a GOOD bluetooth/USB Atari style joystick? A lot of the ones I've seen are getting pretty grim review on Amazon
Took some wiring around with an old barely working VHS, but I got it on screen. Haven't played it in over 20 years, and son of a b***h the old boy still works. Playing Pitfall right now.
the dragons in adventure scared me as a kid
i have a strong urge to buy an Atari Jaguar and CD combo
someone please talk me out of it before i drop $1k
There's almost zero exclusives worth playing (only worth with the curiosity factor is Alien vs Predator), and like the 3DO, everything worth playing otherwise got ported to Playstation and Saturn later.
I'll toast a beer to Atari's arcade and home computer efforts. The consoles were alright, but the arcade stuff is still pretty goddamn awesome.
Hey, someone had to lead and show Nintendo what to and not to do.
Happy 50th anniversary.
I've heard that the Saturn was actually harder to program than the Jaguar.
The jaguar was just buggy.
Atari was shit
happy anniversary atari
I'll be honest the only game I played from Atari was Test Drive Unlimited
wait that game for PS3 / 360? probably one of the best racing games ever. also from atari is the godzilla games for PS2 and gamecube. (which are also good)
I have an atari 400 that has nevr been used. but when I opened the box and and plugged it up it didn't start or anything. Is it the power brick? the LED should be coming on regardless right? - also it has the antennea prongs for video signal. ( I have retro crt's n my house so I know how to work them) whats the best OG way of getting rf signal from a 400?
The 400 only spits out RF without modding, just plug it into a TV and tune the channel. You should use an F-Type adapter like this to go straight from Atari to TV:
https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=42
If you're not getting the power LED, the PSU is likely the culprit. Fortunately the 400 and 800 use regular barrel jacks so you should be able to match the specs of the original PSU pretty easily. The Atari 8 bit machines are tanks, it's pretty likely that your machine works fine.
You might also check that the RAM and CPU cards inside are properly seated —if they have popped out in storage that could obviously cause a problem.
I will try to get a new psu but Id really like it to be an Atari one. the Atari power brick is HUGE and it says ATARI big as frick on the brick. - which I like..
> its pretty odd because the owner got it from sears and the psu was bought separately with its own box and also star raiders with its own box. complete with a receipt for the whole thing.(as in the atari 400 was in a box with styro. but then the PSU was in its own box inside th as if bought at a different time.) so I somtimes wonder what happened. wonder why they gave up getting it to start..
>metadoom
>no metaatari
>No sticky for Bernie
>"Hey, let's shill company that's dead for way over 20 years due to mismanaging itself into oblivion"
hiro hiro, what a zero
>I want a sticky for a israeli businessman
honestly embarrassing.
>a sticky for the man who killed the Saturn and by extension, the Dreamcast because of his autism
>instead of a sticky for the anniversary of the first true big video game company
Bernie just burried the corpse, the thing was already dead when he got there.
There's a chance it could've bounced back in '97 or '98 if he hadn't scared developers away with his "Saturn is not our Future" speech.
Bernie was never that influential, dude.
SoA post-1994 was just not important anymore.
The only place Saturn did well was in Asia, and SoJ themselves decided to release the Dreamcast in 1998.
It's time to accept that Bernie was never important and that memeing about him stopped being funny. It would have been a fun meme to have here on /vr/, but as per usual, autismos burned the joke too quickly to the point of becoming very unfunny and boring. Not even annoying, it's just the "oh, it's this autist again" feel.
>SoA post-1994 was just not important anymore.
It's not just SoA, but most western devs dropped the Saturn after '97 and began supporting the PSX and/or N64 only, thanks to Bernie.
The rest... is history.
Also, if SoJ hadn't backstabbed SoA, we could've had a real flagship Sonic game (Xtreme) to save the Saturn in the west.
It's like SoJ just wanted to fail with all the braindead decisions they went with.
stop shitposting.
This is an Atari thread
Good luck anon, the Atari 8-bit computers are a fricking blast. I have several and keep one on my desk almost all the time.
Uh, what happened to the sticky?
>we could've had a real flagship Sonic game (Xtreme) to save the Saturn in the west.
Delusional
The anniversary was yesterday, nothing gold can stay anon.
It didn't have to be "good", just something to attract genecide holdouts.
To play devil's advocate:
A obituary feels far more fitting for a sticky than an anniversary thread.
the atari logo is three dicks becoming one
18+
>18+
they could be older dudes' dicks too
It's supposed to be mount fuji
Kinda funny how weeby that and the company's name sounds in a time before Japan even entered the video game market
>It's supposed to be mount fuji
pretty sure it's supposed to be three dudes' dicks merging into one dick
>It's supposed to be mount fuji
Really?
"Atari" is a term from the game Go, but was it ever officially stated what the logo is supposed to be?
It's called the "Fuji" logo, so it's pretty strongly implied.
And yet it was a reference to Pong and not Mt. Fuji.
It's both, AND that it's meant to be an A.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Opperman
>It's both
No, it isn't. At no point did Opperman intend for it to be anything but a stylized logo inspired by Pong. The "Fuji" name was attached later.
>genuine /vr/ milestone
>mods sticky for 6 hours then let it die
>some homosexual jap who worked at nintendo installing buttons dies
>stickied thread for 5 days
>MUS HONORUU SACRED NINTEDU EMPLOYESAN
anon, it was stickied for well over 24 hours
If you think that's bad, Ganker stickies for important old comic writers die barely getting more than a 100 replies, while a twitter screencap of a literally who being moronic goes over bump limit twice
falseflag elsewhere auster, you're banned here
>Stickies now have an actual script that keeps them sticky for 30 hours, rather than requiring manual un-sticking
>Black personhomosexual gets assmad about it