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Atari 40th anniversary

Postby Silver_Surfer1 » Wed Jun 27, '12, 6:58 pm

Come on everyone and put your hands together and clap to join us in celebrating Atari's 40th anniversary on today, June 27!!!

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Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.examiner.com/article/iconic- ... nniversary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrQ6RcAVKm4

http://www.atari.com/

In honor of the special occassion, does anyone have any favorite stories to share with us regarding when they may have played any of the Atari games, etc.? What's your favorite Atari memory?? What did you like best about any of the Atari game playing systems?? Which Atari game system was your favorite one to play?
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Re: Atari 40th anniversary

Postby Thoul » Wed Jun 27, '12, 7:24 pm

Atari, man that takes me back. They had some great games, but also some clunkers. They adapted a lot of arcade games for those systems, which really helped their popularity to take off. There was something great about those simple controllers with the joystick and the single red button.
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Re: Atari 40th anniversary

Postby Wing Eye » Thu Jun 28, '12, 7:22 am

I still have my Atari 400, I need to get a new a/c adapter for it though.
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Re: Atari 40th anniversary

Postby myau56 » Thu Jun 28, '12, 8:30 am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! I still have my Atari 1040 ST ! But I don't know if it can be still switch on ! Very fond memories about it, even if now video games are only played on Consoles (I don't like to play computer games anymore).
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Re: Atari 40th anniversary

Postby Silver_Surfer1 » Thu Jul 12, '12, 8:27 pm

Hmmm, I'm in the mood to play some Atari games, but it would take an effort to get our Atari system up and going since it is basically packed up, etc. I wonder if there are any good Atari games available to play online. Anyone know of any???? I feel like a good game of pac-man, lol. I really loved playing one of the Spiderman games on the Atari and also the game of Seaquest or Seahunt or Seasomething or other, lol.

What's the last Atari game you remember playing???
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Re: Atari 40th anniversary

Postby myau56 » Thu Jul 12, '12, 9:52 pm

I can't remember any Atari Game played on those last months .. but maybe some others can tell ?
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Re: Atari 40th anniversary

Postby Thoul » Thu Jul 12, '12, 10:25 pm

There are a handful of games on atari.com, in the online arcade section. I played Centipede there for a minute or two just now. Licensed games like Spider-Man you'd probably have to break the system out for to play legally. There might be a legal version of Pac-Man somewhere, as popular as that was. Google might still have their old logo version of the game archived somewhere.
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Re: Atari 40th anniversary

Postby Silver_Surfer1 » Tue Feb 5, '13, 8:45 pm

Thoul wrote:There are a handful of games on atari.com, in the online arcade section. I played Centipede there for a minute or two just now. Licensed games like Spider-Man you'd probably have to break the system out for to play legally. There might be a legal version of Pac-Man somewhere, as popular as that was. Google might still have their old logo version of the game archived somewhere.


Did a google search and found this but I'm not sure if this is what you were talking about or not:

http://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anni ... of-pac-man

http://googlepacmangame.com/
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Re: Atari 40th anniversary

Postby myau56 » Tue Feb 5, '13, 10:12 pm

The google logo with Pac-Man is great ! :)
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Re: Atari 40th anniversary

Postby Thoul » Thu Feb 7, '13, 2:13 pm

Yeah, that's the one I had in mind. It's fun to try it again after all this time.
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