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SeanR

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MagicalDrop

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I usually read this courtesy of the Pressreader app thanks to my library card, it downloads every new issue to my tablet automatically. Same with Edge and the daily papers. It's all above board, hopefully the finances behind the scenes sort themselves out, it's why the publishers do a deal with the libraries. Am I right??

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Its interesting reading how little interest there is in the Atari articles. I too feel the same (Although I did read them all). I think that for me the nostalgia factor for Atari is those in their mid to late 50s. I was too young really when the 2600 was out to appreciate it. My friend had one and we played it only a little bit, inbetween scalextric and star wars toys. But I can't remember much of what we played. I am however interested in picking up Atari 50 as this looks like an interesting way to present a history of gaming more than just a few select roms. If only the Jaguar selection had been better. 

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It’s been interesting gauging the response in this thread. Surprised by the lack of love for Atari but the comments certainly put that disinterest in perspective. Next month’s cover is aimed at a somewhat younger audience so it will be interesting to see how it’s received.

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I think we just had so little interest for it back in the day as everyone was skint and cheap computers were king. The 2600 was my introduction to games as a thing and I can recall staring through a neighbours window at 3/4 years old watching him play Popeye before being dragged off by my parents for tea 😒

 

Never had any money as a kid and can often remember walking around the local neighbourhood in the evenings trying to find houses with people playing games in the living room all so I could watch from afar 🤣

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Atari wasn't a big thing round my way. Like others have said - too expensive. Once the Speccy came out, that was when games on the TV became a big thing and people would talk about them at school. 
I did have a cousin who had a 2600 and he brought it to our house once. I remember liking The Empire Strikes Back on it. 

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For me at my age, Atari means arcade games like Gauntlet, Ramparts, Marble Madness, Paperboy and so on. Games I’m familiar with the via the home conversions on home computer formats. Games I variously enjoyed and on average feel positive about in some form. OTOH, to me Atari also means duff systems like the 7800, ST, Lynx, Jaguar, etc. Or minor systems like the 800XL and XEGS which no-one I ever met owned. So I’ve got mixed feelings about the Atari brand as a whole, leaning much more favourably toward the games side of things. Certainly agree that older retro gamers, particularly Americans, would feel much more attachment to the brand from a nostalgic perspective though.

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I was quite lucky. I knew a guy called Andrew who had an Atari 2600 and a load of games (at least ten) while my best mate Paul had a system with things like Frostbyte, Sky Skipper and Empire Strikes Back (among others). I knew a couple of other people (kids of relatives) who had them as well. I was clearly blessed (if that's a word you want to use).

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I got a much wished for Atari VCS for Christmas when I was about 14 with Combat and Space Invaders. Buying new games was a huge luxury but a few years into its life we found a guy who used to come round the villages with a load of rental games in the boot of his car! I used to haul my console round to mates houses replete with joysticks, paddles, Star Raiders and its control pad plus a bundle of games and that was us sorted for the day. Even on the hardest settings I could play one game of Defender and Missile Command for 5 hrs in a sitting. It would be very generous to say those games, Asteroids and other arcade 'conversions' were at all close to what I was expecting. Overall though it was all we had. 

Halcyon days until the launch of the Spectrum but that 3-4 year window was my Atari golden era.

Eventually I collected lots of Atari 2600 and 7800 games for pence at the boot sales but none of it had aged well even by the turn of this century. 

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I started with a c64 and have still never played on a real 2600. The games just looked so basic that I had no interest in them.

It's weird because I've never owned a spectrum either but will gladly read an article about a spectrum game no matter how obscure. 

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1 hour ago, Rex Grossman said:

 

Intrigued by this considering nothing that has come out since 2000 is actually retro. 

I'll quickly blow past that bizarre comment and simply say that the next cover features a series that was huge during the late-Eighties and early Nineties. Will be interesting to see how it's accepted.

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1 hour ago, strider said:

I'll quickly blow past that bizarre comment and simply say that the next cover features a series that was huge during the late-Eighties and early Nineties. Will be interesting to see how it's accepted.


it’s Dizzy the egg, isn’t it?

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4 hours ago, strider said:

I'll quickly blow past that bizarre comment and simply say that the next cover features a series that was huge during the late-Eighties and early Nineties. Will be interesting to see how it's accepted.

I'll have a guess at James Pond.

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