http://www.ponggame.org/

 

On the case. http://thenextweb.co...e-gaming-focus/ Atari, what a name in the gaming business. Not so much for the big money in modern times but for those consoles and modules cartridges.

 

The idea of Pong was epic and surely has been adapted to some more games. Today, I think they would release it with an optional DLC. I guess. ^_^

 

Find a video of some hardcore gamers here.

For the rw pilots. Should run well on any FMC screen. Just ask the FMC guy to unlock it for you. B)

 

And the more modern titles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfouuznWOUA

Those were the times where the concept of the game had to run the business since you couldn't salvage much with super graphics or effects. I have no idea why I wrote that. :biggrin:

In Japanese, atari　(当たり, あたり, or アタリ) is the nominalized form of ataru （当たる, あたる, or アタル） (verb), meaning "to hit the target" or "to receive something fortuitously". The word 'atari' is used in Japanese when a prediction comes true or when someone wins a lottery.

 

Useless knowledge dust-bunny for my mental lint-trap. I have been carrying that info around for years waiting for it to have a purpose. Then I still had to look it up.

 

Pong has a place in history, but Atari's real time in the sun was the Atari 2600 and in the Arcades. The former are considered to be collectibles, now......

 

I think my part now is to say 'I didn't know that'.

 

Side topic. I wonder how forum posts would look like if the Internet had been around back then.

 

'I've played Pong on a colour TV and it was a blast.'

'Need help on the fps with Donkey Kong.'

'Found a cartridge at my friend's home. Is it safe?'

"Side topic. I wonder how forum posts would look like if the Internet had been around back then."

 

Something like this (though it's the even more primitive Sinclair ZX80/81, not Atari):--

 

http://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1047

 

A very active forum too, by the look of it B)

I love those preview pictures.

I had a chance to meet Nolan Bushnell some years ago. I met him after his days in Atari were over and I remember him for his dry sense of humor. My parents rushed out to buy pong when it was first released, and I remember my cat was fascinated by the little "ball" bouncing back and forth on the screen. I used to handily defeat anyone who would play me, which would get my older brother upset since he was used to winning in just about any sport he put his mind to.

 

My later experience with Atari was with the Atari ST line of computers--wonderful computer, with a MIDI interface that I hooked to my synthesiser. I enjoyed the ST for years and there were a number of ST computer clubs I belonged to. That was before the days of the Internet--you actually spoke with hobbyists face to face!

 

John

I remember Pong, we had one.

 

This is our timeline of Computers when i was growing up:

 

1 Atari PONG

2 Commodore PET

3 Atari 2600

4 Apple 2C

5 Apple 2E

6 IBM 8088 PC

7 IBM 80386

8 IBM 80486 with a math co-processor (By far the best PC I have ever owned)

9 Pentium and so on........

 

From Pentium on I barely remember each machine as they had less and less meaning for me. Everything up to the 80486 was really exciting for me.

 

Cheers

I knew you were playing Pong, Matthew. ^_^ Lol, I had to google the Commodore PET. Did they really build such things?

I knew you were playing Pong, Matthew. ^_^ Lol, I had to google the Commodore PET. Did they really build such things?

 

PONG was the best....LOL

 

Yes the old Commodore PET. That one had a tape drive to load up your programs. The most popular game on that one by far was Artillery. I used to love that game, amazing seeing it now because it kind of compares to Angry Birds:

 

 

Same concept as Angry Birds because all your doing is input your angle and power.

 

Cheers

I must admit that I never ever played Angry Birds. But that Artillery video reminds me of Worms. I guess that some gaming ideas are already decades old. They just get repeated. Reminds me of the movies by the way.

There was a later version of the Commodore PET with disk drives and a real keyboard. It was the CBM, Commodore Business Machine. There were even clones of it.

 

It wasn't a bad computer at all, and their version of Space Invaders was the best I've ever playied.

 

Hook

I liked the design a lot after seeing the pictures. Well, I also liked the first Macs. You know, those cubes.

it is worth bearing in mind though that this is no relation to the Atari that we all knew and loved. When Sam and Jack Tramiel retired from Atari the rights to all the products and use of the name went to the toy manufacturer Hasbro. A few years thereafter, Hasbro sold the name "Atari" to Bruno Bonnell and his French publishing company Infogrames. Infogrames then changed its name to Atari, being a recognisabled brand. Infogrames simply bought and used the name. This is by no stretch of the imagination the same Atari.

 

I have always worked in the computer games industry, alongside an aviation career and I have very fond memories of working at the "real" Atari in Sunnyvale. The people there back in the day where simply amazing, each and every one of them. The Tramiels were always incredibly generous too. At the end of a very tiring project my partner and I were given the keys to Sarah Tramiels brand new sports car, given a wad of cash and told to drive to Disneyland to enjoy ourselves. Having Jeff Minter in the next cubicle, with his wonderful eccentricity (google him, if you don't know him!), the weekly event of the Tramiels taking the staff to Cals Burgers in Sunnyvale, which became quite the social event, the list of memories goes on. Before the Tramiels I had the opportunity to work with Nolan Bushnell and Jaron Lanier.

 

However, as I say, the Atari in trouble now is simply a rebranding of Infogrames. No less sad for the people who work there though, but not Atari by any stretch of the imagination.

 

Jane

Good points, Jane. Seems like the brand name usage to profit from the image happens quite often, huh?

Commodore, Atari and Sega pretty much stole my youth. Coming of age in the 1980s was just awesome. Although the graphics today look dated, they were awesome back then when PCs had 16 colours at best.

 

The Amiga 500 (my favourite computer of all time) was a stunning machine. You could just hook it up to any TV and stereo and have an amazing gaming experience (although I mostly used it to create music). Usability and playability in the best games of the 1980s were also great. Today playability and usability is often missing in games that are mostly copies of older ideas, but with lots of eyecandy. Problem is, you soon tire of eating just the icing on the cake.

 

The iPad would be a great gaming machine for these old games if you could somehow get a Competition Pro joystick attached. I have the Atari app, but playing those games using touch screen controls sucks!