Vox 2008-05-15T23:54:20Z northerngeek http://northerngeek.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d414198da4685e/tags/atari+2600/ Classic Atari with Jack Black tag:vox.com,2008-05-15:asset-6a00d414198da4685e00fa9675c28f0003 2008-05-15T23:23:08Z 2008-05-15T23:54:20Z northerngeek http://northerngeek.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Jack Black

This is a classic commercial from 1982 starring Jack Black talking about the amazing Pitfall. He has been around for a long time hasn't he.

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]]> Atari 2600 Pacman That Bad? tag:vox.com,2008-05-01:asset-6a00d414198da4685e00f48cf39bda0002 2008-05-01T00:43:55Z 2008-05-02T18:55:42Z northerngeek http://northerngeek.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

PacMan2600box Pac-man_flicker Pac-man

I just read a Wiki on the Atari 2600 Pacman game. I was completely lost for words at how the game was this big flop, listing nothing but flaws on how different it was from the arcade Pacman. The ghosts were wrong, the sound was wrong, Pacman's m...

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Atari 2600 Super_Pong

Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney form Atari Inc. in 1972 and begin work on a video game called Pong. Based on the tabletop ping-pong game, the home version of Pong becomes a huge success in 1974. Three years later, the company introduces its video g...

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