Atari walked, so Nintendo could run.
ok boomer
>>12201461/v/ is that way, retard
>>12201453Bless you, Atari grand-senpai
I am tired of wojack/basedjack/I know that feel bro
>>12201568Make better memes then
>>12201453The fact they basically jumpstarted the whole industry while being on fire internally makes them even cooler to me. Imagine if they had executives that weren't retarded behind the scenes. They'd probably still burn to the ground but probably around the late 90s instead of the early 80s.
https://youtu.be/iB7Qffw37G0?si=w_UrHy3WCQNef-iaImagine playing Night Driver at home in 1980, 2 years before Pole Position even became a thing in the arcades. Pure Ludo
>>12201453Atari 7800 could've won if it wasn't 1984 hardware released in 1986.
>>12201453yes Atari was the gay one
>>12201453Atari was based they deserve kudos, don't see what Nintemdo coming in in 1985 have to do with them t. zx spectrum dude
the Atari 800XL was superior to the C64 in every way. it should have won that war
>>12201558Except this thread is unironically /v/. OP's pic is literally from a forced meme when Atari was hyping up their shitty Linux console.
>>12201595it wasn't retardation, it was malice. Tramiel hated video games and wanted Atari to be a computer company, so deliberately sabotaged the gaming side of the company.
joystick
>>12201453miss this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe
>>12201453More like Coleco; the Famicom was designed to present as good if not better an experience of Donkey Kong that the Coleco did.
>>12201453Bullshit, Atari fucked the console market so hard, Nintendo had to use ROB to get retailers to even look at their console.
>>12202295Boomers were a mistake. Genocide all boomers NOW.
>>12201453>he doesn't know the Atari secret handshake
>>12204647I got written up at work for doing this :(
>>12204647>Atari Vice President (who preferred to remain anonymous)Did people in the 80s think children were literally retarded?
>>12201568>>12201580heres my hit meme that will become populari call it face man
>>12202295Atari went bust. Tramiel bought the rights. It wasn't a sabotage. He didn't can 7800 for no reason, the previous management did.
>>12201453Then Atari tripped on its own feet and everybody else trampled it.
>>12204647>rolling someone's thumb while shaking their handGood way to get punched in the face.
>>12204695I mean, I thought the highest political office in the US was "The Governor" until I was like 12.
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>>12205583YOU DARE QUESTION THE LORD ATARI?
>>12206640>THEY CREATED THE GAME INDUSTRY AND SOME OF THE BEAT ARCADE GAMES OF ALL TIME IS WHAT THEY DID! THEY ARE A PILLAR OF THE GOLDEN ERA OF GAMING. AND IN THIS HOUSE, WE PLAY ATARI EVERYDAY, END OF STORY!
>>12206650NOLAN BUSHNEL WAS A HERO!
>>12201453>No SEGAThat kinda stings bro
I still believe that if you don't like Pitfall at all, you don't really care for video games. You might like something that's called video games, but you don't like it at it's core.
>>12209020If you don't like Atari period then you're not a gamer. The 2600 has 500+ games and you can't find at least 10 that you like? I mean if it's not your favorite gen that's fine, but even I can name at least 10 games from my least favorite gen.
>>12209052I name Pitfall for simplicities sake. It has the grounds of what platformers still are to this day, fully implemented to some extent or another. It has continued to be refined, but if you can't spend an enjoyable twenty minutes with Pitfall, you probably don't like video games.Feel free to name other games on the Atari that cover genres other than Platformers. Because I agree, there's a lot there. Probably only RPGs which seem a PC phenomenon weren't well defined on the Atari 2600. Probably due to RPGs requiring a bit more memory which PCs really dominated at in that era.
>>12209074>FPS: Battlezone and Robot Tank >Racing: Enduro, Night Driver>Shooter: Demon Attack, Missile CommandThere are some RPG and Adventure games on the system, but I haven't played many besides Adventure, Haunted House, and Dark Chambers.
>>12209087I've only played Adventure and Haunted House of those three, and that feels more an Adventure game than RPG. Haunted House is also later than both Wizardry and Ultima on the PC.Though, as I write this, who cares? Timeline shit trying to get at who invented what is kind of boring. My main point is something else. I think it's that the sort of RPG-like progression of characters over time in their stats is not well represented on the Atari.Maybe Dark Chambers or some other game I don't know has that. I don't know.
>>12209087Dragonstomper. Play it.>cheating with the starpath muh extra chipsI said play it.
When Atari died (from making too many shit games) Nintendo came in and saved the video game industry
Playststion ran so Sega could walk out.
>>12201453i bought that atari 50 collection and most of these games have serious input or control design issues but if i didn't have anything else to play i could see myself spending a lot of time on some of the games
>>12209172better to emulate then?
>>12201453That the original Atari no longer exists is proof enough that they were just lucky; at the right place at the right time, that's all. Nintendo's first foray into vidya came five years after Pong. Difference between the companies is, one is going strength to strength for the most part, while the other is foreign owned and only really produces things that appeal to what's really a niche and shrinkng market. There's been far more lows than highs for the company in the last 35 years. The fact is, they only really had a 20+ run, and even then, they were often outshone by overseas competition. They also played their part in almost killing off the industry in the United States.They hit the ground running but couldn't last the course. In all likelihood, they could have died off early and no one would have cared. That's not a legacy anyone should be proud of.Heh.
>>12209172Works on my machine!
>>12210807You call Atari a "fluke" success, just lucky timing? Pure, absolute, unadulterated, nintendie delusion. They engineered the entire video game industry from the ground up, stacking innovation after innovation while your Jap overlords fumbled through a parade of half-baked gimmicks. Start with Pong in '72: Bushnell and Dabney didn't stumble into it; they crafted the first blockbuster arcade hit, shipping thousands of units and igniting a multi-billion-dollar explosion that defined pop culture. Then Tank in '74 pulled them from the brink, dominating arcades worldwide. Home Pong '75? 150K sold, straight-up revolutionizing home entertainment by bringing arcades to the masses. By '77, the 2600 drops: Millions moved, critics crown it the console godfather that birthed modern gaming—hell, it inspired your precious Zelda knockoffs. Asteroids '79? Record-shattering quarters globally, financial juggernaut. Billions in peak revenue, commercial empires, critical acclaim for pioneering esports and design paradigms. Fluke? That's a calculated dynasty, you mouth-breathing simp. Nintendo's "strength"? A festering pile of failures: Virtual Boy frying retinas, Wii U sales suicide, 64DD vapor, Joy-Con drift cancer, 3DS price-slash humiliation. They bootlegged Atari's blueprint, locked down the market post-crash with dev-killing chips, shoving infantile slop down throats while Atari etched eternal legends. Your "outshone" narrative? Atari owned the '70s-'80s until clones drowned the pond; Nintendo's peaks? Riddled with craters that'd doom real innovators. Atari weren't lucky, they were titans. Nintendo? Leeches on borrowed glory. Swallow that truth, faggot.
>>12210838>They engineered the entire video game industry from the ground upSpacewar! predated Atari's initial entry by ten years.>they crafted the first blockbuster arcade hit, shipping thousands of units, blah-blah, and so onNot a refutation of my claim; they didn't last. They would have if they were consistant. 20+ year run and now they're effectively dead. Cry 'til you drown in your own tears, mad little bitch.>nintendie delusion...vomited the foaming at the mouth fanatic faggot. Stop projecting, stop clinging on to dead things and stop asserting that I'm white knighting for anyone. It's sad, desperate and pathetic. . Right place. Right time.
>>12210807>>12210838Two abhorrent retards right here. There is no way you can downplay 1972-1983 Atari. They took what would've been an incredibly niche market and actually turned it into a new industry. They didn't create the concept of Pong (Odyssey and Tennis for Two came first) but they made it into an actual game and not a proof of concept. They continued this innovation throughout the 70s with games like Lunar Lander, Night Driver, Canyon Bomber, etc. and then took it even further with the 2600 by making a game console with games that people actually wanted to play. Nintendo (as a video game company) in the 70s was honestly a joke. Their dedicated consoles sold decently IIRC but their arcade games were straight up clones of popular arcade titles from other companies (Sega, Namco, and Atari mostly). However the biggest advantage they had was that their executives actually were willing to learn how to navigate a new industry. Atari's executives were full of people who probably didn't even know what they were selling. The engineers knew that a new console was gonna have to happen and happen soon, but the executives at Atari were convinced that they could sell the 2600 for a long time after launch with no successor. That little bit of retardation from the suits is what led Atari to their downfall. Say what you will about Nintendo's influence, but they got to that position because they weren't retarded.
>>12210893>They took what would've been an incredibly niche market and actually turned it into a new industry. They didn't create the concept of Pong...So, basically, right place, right time. Thanks for clearing that up. Taito's first entry into vidya came only a year after Pong, by the way. It was even a Pong clone. Their IP is still worth a shit. Atari's isn't. Still haven't refuted my claim that they were lucky early on, didn't last and have almost nothing really to show for it now. Keep those tears flowing.
Nintendo just evolved Atari's legacy because Atari was mismanaged, that's really all there is to it.
>>12210902Taito's been a subsidiary of Square Enix since 2005 so I don't really see your point there. Also it wasn't the fact Atari got there first that made them start the industry, it was the fact they consistently gained momentum. I mean making a game system and selling a license to Sears in 1975 is insane. Luck or not, I still maintain that Atari during those 11 years is not to be downplayed and that without them, commercial video games would most likely be DOA. I do agree that modern Atari is like 4 steps removed from the original company. If anything, Warner Bros. Games is closer to the original Atari than NuAtari.
>>12210882Spacewar wasn't a commercial arcade game you fucking moron.
>>12210882>...vomited the foaming at the mouth fanatic faggot. Stop projecting, stop clinging on to dead things and stop asserting that I'm white knighting for anyone. It's sad, desperate and pathetic.That's basically what this is:>>12210807You're projecting because you got utterly and completely and laughable blown-the-fuck-out. Cope and seethe, dude. Atari's success is one for the history books, and there's nothing you can say, do, or angrily shitpost about, that will change that.>>12210928Atari were a juggernaut through much of the 80's thanks to its continued 2600 sales, its computer line which offered a profitable return, and its arcade division which put out hits like Star Wars, Millipede, Paperboy, and Gauntlet.Warner Communications bought Atari in 1976, and the company, as a result of the retarded executives, downplayed its own success. Activision, the good Activision before they became a corporate soulless husk, were originally the founding Atari engineers, who were pissed at Warner Communications corporate oversight that stifled their capabilities.
>>12201632The terrible audio really ruined it.
>>12201632That's not at all why it failed. It failed because it wasn't pushed at all, coupled with the fact that the overall design of it reeked of the 70's, where kids associated the 2600 as their "dad's" console, and it looked very reminiscent.
>>12210951>Warner Communications bought Atari in 1976, and the company, as a result of the retarded executives, downplayed its own success.So we're in agreement? They certainly did downplay their success, but to the average gamer, I don't think that's the case.
>>12210962Listen to the audio and “music”. It was basically nes graphic with 6800 sound chip. It was a cost cutting decision but ruined the console.
>>12210981Not primarily a cost cutting move, I believe it was done mainly for 2600 backwards compatibility.
>>12210935Your point, spastic? Talking about legacy; shoulders of giants, etc.>>12210928>Taito's been a subsidiary of Square Enix since 2005 so I don't really see your point thereOf course not, because reading comprehension defies you. Atari's IP is all but dead, while IP from competitors from the same era are still going on strong. Like you, that simple.>>12210951>That's basically what this is:Oh no. You did the thing. And you still haven't refuted my initial claim. This is becoming tiresome. You're also just underpinning my other claim pertaining to your somewhat unhealthy idiosyncratic autistic screeching about dead video game companies, while not proving in any capacity my allegiance to any rival company. Stay mad, schizo. It's fun for everyone. Or you can tell me what state/county/province, etc. you reside in so I can get you the help for those mental health issues that you so critically need. I'm there for you man. You're not alone. We love you.
>>12210951>>12210968 (me)Sorry I'm utterly retarded I thought you were the other guy.>>12210993It still doesn't change the fact that those in 11 years Atari were practically on top of the world. No idea why you're acting like you have a personal vendetta against Atari desu.
>>12201598Why are the CPU cars so much more detailed than the player's car?
you guys are children
>>12211004No vendetta. That would be petty. I've already used one absorbed former industry giant as a sticking point. You're surmising console/company wars faggotry. Stop it now. It's not useful.
the reality is nintendo were set to make all the same mistakes atari did but they got really fucking lucky with the distribution deal from the teddy ruxpin guyit's hardly like they were immune to flops, they left the console business altogether after the wii
>>12201453>xbox not a skeletonone job
old man couldn't keep up
>>12211480dead but not forgotten
>>12201568the internet turned stagnant when everybody decided to go to reddit, twitter and 4chan. when the internet was more segmented we have more diverse humor but now everybody posts the same buzzwords and memes
>>12201453Nintendo were just the Furbie or the Stanley cup of their era desuThey have no talent as developers, which is why they've constantly seen diminishing returns
