Forum Game Am I the only one who doesn't care about Atari?

[RohanSpartan]

Like the title says, I don't like Atari. Beyond the popular, but not 100% correct theory that Atari caused the original Video Game Crash, I have zero love for Atari beyond the historical impact the brand had. Yeah sure, it was quaint and mind-blowing for the time, but beyond the nostalgia, the Atari systems suck. I didn't grow up with it, but I grew up in the 90s, which might as well have been 1980s Part 2: Electric Boogaloo for me since I was surrounded with 70s and 80s tech and entertainment. Hell I played my mom's old Sears Telegames 4 Pong clone that her dad got her and her brothers, so I do have an appreciation for pre-NES systems. But I've never cared for Atari, and every time they die, get revived, and die again, I feel nothing for them, not even when I see a 2600 completely wrecked at the garbage dump(which has happened a few times). If this came off as a ramble, my bad, but I need to know if anyone else avoids or hates Atari games and systems.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I mean, I'd kill for a Jaguar xD

 

[sandogma sandogma]

but I need to know if anyone else avoids or hates Atari games and systems.

You need validation for your hatred? Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed today?

 

[Graw]

Modern Atari isn't even the same company. The original Atari went bankrupt and the name was bought by Infogrames.

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

Just a question, why this have a "forum game" tag?

 

[CheesyExplosive]

I value sega and nothing else.

 

[dkpopman]

I got myself a Vader model 2600 on a whim maybe 5 or so years ago. I barely play it, plus it's developed a capacitor issue that makes the visuals snowy. The only Atari game I've ever enjoyed was H.E.R.O. which is insanely expensive, so I don't even have it.

I mean, I'd kill for a Jaguar xD

The Jaguar does seem interesting, but the small library of games that actually interest me on the system aren't enough to get me to invest. Plus I've heard that they break very often, which is the same thing keeping me from investing in a SEGA CD.

I don't know, maybe one day I'll dive deeper? I know the 7800 is a much more powerful machine, maybe they have something for me on there? Honestly, I have a pretty massive blind spot for all the pre-NES and early home computer stuff that I feel kinda bad about.

 

[Unassuming_Spook]

I hate nothing. I love everything and all of you. You're all my babies and not a morsel goes into my stomach until my babies are fed.

 

[Morgan Katarn]

I never cared for Atari no as im not old enough to have grown up with it I never ever played on an Atri ever in my life. HOnestly the oldest game system I grew up with before Nintendo or sega well it was Commodore 64.

The fact is Im born in 85 and the only reason I played on Commodore 64 a friend of mine had one when I around 8 years old. I got my first ever console in 1990 a Sega master system which came out in EU in 1987 so I got one 3 years later.

So honestly the only reason I grew up with 80´s things is because in the 90s they where still around.

 

[Fietto!]

No.

 

[TheReal_TomokoKuroki]

I have fun playing an Atari game from time to time, when given the opportunity. Low commitment fun like that can be a relief from time to time, playing low-quality score-based arcade games. Hard to hate them. Strongest emotion I could feel about them is immense apathy

 

[shaggi]

I have sentiment for 2600 model. Otherwise i don't care about Atari.

 

[Zerpina]

I mean, I'd kill for a Jaguar xD

And you'd turn yourself in shortly after getting it...
Not for the murder mind you, for wanting that horrible system

As for Atari itself, I don't hate the company...

No, I dislike it, as you said, they more or less caused the game crash, but that is history now. Atari in and of itself, is just a badly run company, it has always kind of been that way.

I mean, the people who caused the game crash are mostly long since gone, and Atari has changed hands several times, if not more, in the four and a half decades since then. I hold no love or loyalty to Atari by any means, but hate them?

No, not really.

In the same way, I don't actually hate Microsoft or Apple. I don't like them..
I don't use their products, and I certainly don't wish malice or ill will toward anyone involved in those companies.

But again, no, I don't avoid games because they have the Atari branding on them. For example, one of my all time favorite PC games is The Temple of Elemental Evil, a great D&D PC game published by Atari.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

And you'd turn yourself in shortly after getting it...

As long as I get to make "and with my last breath, I curse Zerpina!" my last words :D

 

[Zerpina]

As long as I get to make "and with my last breath, I curse Zerpina!" my last words :D

And I'd make sure your last meal was full of laxatives.

 

[Unassuming_Spook]

And I'd make sure your last meal was full of laxatives.
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Oh Zerpina, you are the zerpiest.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

And I'd make sure your last meal was full of laxatives.
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Oh, what a bitch.

... I like you >:D

 

[Zerpina]

Oh Zerpina, you are the zerpiest.

I do try ;3

 

[Unassuming_Spook]

I do try ;3

Oh you don't try... You doooo. Embrace it.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

And I'd make sure your last meal was full of laxatives.
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To be fair, if it really were their "last" meal, then it probably wouldn't end up being their problem, would it?

 

[Zerpina]

To be fair, if it really were their "last" meal, then it probably wouldn't end up being their problem, would it? ​

Well, I didn't say how long it was from the time of the last meal until the execution, did I?

Also, the Toilets are all out of order...
It will effectively be EVERYONE'S problem​

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

Well, I didn't say how long it was from the time of the last meal until the execution, did I?
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Also, the Toilets are all out of order...
It will effectively be EVERYONE'S problem​

Orrrrr, you can make that the execution itself a la something like Cholera..

 

[bombatomba77]

I like it, but not as much as people ten years older than me. By the time I entered the arcades at ten years-old ('87) they were mostly dominated by Japanese raster games, with only a few Atari-age games peppered about, but only in the larger establishments as well as some of the more run down grocery store vestibules. As for their other offerings, I was too poor for their computers and only played their consoles whilst at my grandmother's house, when they wanted to keep me out of their hair for a couple hours (this was probably '82-'83). That is my personal, mostly utilitarian view.

Culturally speaking, everything is owed to them. They created the industry and all the way back in the late 70's helped shape the mold that future gaming hardware and software companies would utilize. Basically, they did everything first. They showed that video games were not only marketable, but could hold the imagination of a large portion of the public, dominating the (then) modern zeitgeist in a way not seen since the rise of rock music. On the other side of that coin, all the evil crap that Nintendo did in the states (anti-competition and anti-consumerism practices, for example) Atari did first, and because of this the only thing Atari tends to remembered for now was the stupid deals and management decisions that helped contribute to the 1983 crash, which wasn't as dramatic as everyone likes to recall (or not at all if your family was into 8-bit micros). Nonetheless, even then Atari showed the future industry leaders the way, even as they picked up the pieces of the crash and remixed them to their own ends.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Well, I didn't say how long it was from the time of the last meal until the execution, did I?
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Also, the Toilets are all out of order...
It will effectively be EVERYONE'S problem​

You are putting a lot of thought into torturing me... Thank God for the Atlantic xD