Your video, Jack Black 1982 Atari Pitfall Commercial, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 172 Badge!

Okay, Now imagine Atari...
Okay, Now imagine your single mom didn't bring one home....
Now imagine seeing your friends with one..
And now, imagine never having had one at all...

And there's me... lol

Moral: Appreciate when your parents do this for you - This kid had it right- Take my money!!!

Too bad it never came out to other systems. I haven't had a console since Atari 2600.

In defence of E.T, The Extraterrestrial, although not a particularly good game it wasn't the worst game ever for the Atari 2600. It really did contribute to Atari's downfall though, since Atari management ordered 5 million copies of the cartridge (of which 3.5 million ended up being returned).

Snopes has a pretty good article on the subject - http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp

Updated graphics look great! I don't get the beef, but then again I grew up on Atari and Commodore 64 graphics. Graphics ain't really mah thing.

Heh... I remember gaming when frames per second wasn't even a thing yet. Ultima Underworld on a 386 anyone? Or better yet, how about Midwinter on an Atari ST? Kids are spoiled these days.

ET- The Atari Killer

Nice. I was gaming since Atari 2600 and arcade games at maybe 5? And then my gaming mojos started to go down like a decade ago. These days, I just play Uno, Junkyard, etc. in IRC. Ha.

BTW, you can play these TI99/4A and other systems' games in MAME these days since MESS merged over a year ago.

I was surprised at how many people other than myself were interested in this one. I thought I'd get two votes tops.

The comment above this one explains our interest, this is the chip that powered the computers (Pet, vic-20/vc-20, c64, Apple II) and game consoles (Atari 2600, NES) of our childhood.

The OTHER chip that would have attracted some interest is the Zilog Z-80, which was the 80s equivalent of the arduino (but also, earlier, used in computers like the TRS-80 and gameboy and...). The minimum required to use that chip for a project was a 9v battery and an eeprom, and at one point they cost about a dollar, so they were used for everything.

I have been visiting that "Let's Compare" channel like over a year so far. I remember those table tops. Also, I recently saw these other reviews:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZu-0KafeCM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxquNvgrJUI



Oh, I was an Atari 2600 player!

bah sony exclusive...

only console ive ever owned was an atari 2600, then I got a trs-80, moved to Tandy 1000 EX, and every couple years a new pc even the ORIGINAL PS2 made by IBM in the 80's. I'm getting old. Been a PC gamer since age 11, I turned 39 last month.

But Quantic Dream stuff is pretty awesome.

I've never been a fan of Walled Gardens

Peter: You were my first best friend. We met in third grade and were unbreakable until freshman year when our lives went in different ways. We played Atari for days. We hiked the woods and made up adventures. We made abet on who would kiss a girl first. You won. You are such a deep part of who I am. I will miss you.

reminds me of lunar lander on the atari..