Fresh NASDAQ warning for Atari:
US Stock Exchange threatens to withdraw publisher from its listings following value drop.
This is just a little too sad. A company that used to be synonymous with video gaming to have fallen so far. I doubt that the company will every close though, the name is just way to valuable.
Just as school children must read Dickens, Hemingway and Salinger as part of a proper education, so too should a proper diet of game classics be required playing. During summer breaks and by force, if necessary.
Too many gamers today believe that video games started the PS2 and have no appreciation for the classics. And that’s really too bad, there are some very good games that came out in the past. One of the best 2d platformers I’ve ever played was Aladdin for the Sega Genesis. And older than that, one of the best “twitcher” games has got to be Kaboom!
Courtesy of the Vintage Computing and Gamine website comes The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids.
I hereby declare: let this monstrosity be spread about the world as the scariest, strangest, and most disturbing Halloween costume ever conceived by mankind.
I knew video games were big, but would a person actually wear that?
Here it is, a video of the final scenes of the Atari 8-bit computer version of one of my favorite video games, The Goonies:
The Goonies is a great puzzle game, where you have two protagonists trying to get through various scenes from the movie. You can control both with one joystick, switch between the two, or you and a friend can control the characters separately.
I remember having to use a cheat to get unlimited lives to get through the game, but that was the style at the time. We also rented the movie to try to get hints on how to get through the various screens. Go over to Moby Games for more information. It’s a great game, if you haven’t played it you should be able to find it for an emulator.
Over at Atarimagazines.com you can read the article from compute entitled 21st Century Computing: A World of Technology Makes Your Home Computing Future A Virtual Reality.
Since 2001 was 5 years, I started poking around to try to remember what the start of the 21st century was like. I went to archive.org to use their Wayback Machine to look at ArsTechnica.com’s buyers guide, and clicked on the God Box.
Without an operating system, this could’ve been yours for $7,348!
The Compute article completely misses the boat on the Internet, and puts a lot of weight into voice recognition and technology in the home. I don’t know of any home that has automation features, and voice recognition still hasn’t really taken off. In my opinion, the biggest failure of technology has been ease of use. Computers are still too hard to use, video game systems intimidate non-players, and HDTV is a confusing mess of acronyms.
