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Atari Flashback
We got one of these for Christmas. Jealous? Last night I remembered how much I suck at Pitfall.
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December 28th, 2005 - 09:09
I’m not jealous, because I still have my ORIGINAL Atari. Adventure is somehow still my favorite game even though the brave knight/swordsman is represented by a square block with an arrow. Ahhh the 80′s.
December 28th, 2005 - 09:14
And even though the dragons kind of looked like ducks.
That was totally my favorite too.
December 28th, 2005 - 09:19
I had a feeling it might have been GB. The power of a child’s imagination right? When I pulled out the system again a couple years back, I could totally remember the path through the catacombs and where the keys were located like I’d just played it the year before. And when I heard the sound it made when you bring the chalice into the castle to win, I nearly started crying. Oh yeah, and Frogger still rules.
December 28th, 2005 - 10:49
Some of my students went in together and got me an Atari Flashback 2 as well–we hooked it up to the overhead projector and played non-stop during my planning period (they were finished with their semester exams, so I wasn’t contributing to any delinquency). The game of choice for a roomful of 16- and 17-year-olds? PONG. I kid you not–they had a full-on trash-talking hardcore tournament going.
And then I schooled them all in Missile Command. One of my finest hours as a teacher.
December 28th, 2005 - 10:59
Hah! We pulled out Al’s original Atari last year. Ollie thought it was the best thing ever. Poor child is seriously media deprived. We regaled him with stories of ASEC and crazy alarms to keep Joanne out of Al’s room while the boys were playing Asteroids.
December 28th, 2005 - 11:34
Ah, ASEC and Atari … those were the days!
December 28th, 2005 - 11:48
am i the only child in the world to have owned the Odyssey system? my dad brought it back home as a surprise from a trip to chicago. don’t think it was sold in Canada. i think i only had one game, some car race game. it was pretty good, though.
December 28th, 2005 - 12:06
We still have our old Atari, too. We bought new controllers for it on Ebay a couple of years ago. Our Atari isn’t one of the old-fangled black and orange ones…it’s much smaller and it’s black and silver. I miss Pitfall. We have a few games for the Atari…my all-time favourite being Combat. Invisible Combat is the best.
December 28th, 2005 - 12:52
We had an Odyssey system actually. I think I remember it having Pong-like games on it. It came with these colored gels that you were supposed to stick to the TV screen to simulate color, didn’t it?
December 28th, 2005 - 12:59
coloured gels? not that i remember, GB. but then again, i was probably 8 when i got it and didn’t know what half of the stuff in the box was for!
December 28th, 2005 - 14:08
Yeah, I was only 7 or so, but I definitely remember those gels. Of course, I needed to make sure I wasn’t crazy, so here’s some proof, on a page that talks in detail about the Magnavox Odyssey system …
http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm#P3
If you scroll down a bit, you’ll see a picture of what they call “plastic overlays”. Seems like since the game itself couldn’t really muster backgrounds of any sort, the gels provided the backgrounds.
December 28th, 2005 - 14:22
i can’t seem to get the link? tells me operation timed out.
December 28th, 2005 - 14:27
same here.
December 28th, 2005 - 14:31
Weird. I just tried it again, and it works fine for me.
December 28th, 2005 - 14:41
Maybe you have it cached…I still can’t get to it. Sorry!
December 28th, 2005 - 14:51
Hm. I just copied the link into both IE and Netscape, instead of Firefox, and was able to view it there too. And those browsers don’t share caches.
Is anybody else out there able to see the page but me?
December 28th, 2005 - 18:27
I can’t view it. And I loved Combat too. I also had a beach volleyball game that I quite enjoyed and was a huge fan of Pitfall too Deb. Who’d think that running in over the same screens over and over could be fun? I had an idea for a script a while back about the inventor of Pong. But a fictionaliized version. Think Darren Aronofsky meets Being John Malkovich. Some paranoid crackpot type. Anyway, never got very far on it, although the trailer in my head RULES.
December 28th, 2005 - 23:21
The trailer in MY head rules, too.
December 29th, 2005 - 06:48
Okay, what’s insane is that I just tried the link above again, here from my home computer, and it still works fine for me, both on Firefox and IE.
How is it possible that a link can work for only one person? Am I in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode or something? “Submitted for your approval: A man finds a cool website, but no one except himself can see it …”
December 29th, 2005 - 07:25
The link for the Odyssey system works for me, too!
December 29th, 2005 - 08:40
Works for me now.
December 29th, 2005 - 08:44
Yay! I’m not crazy!
December 29th, 2005 - 08:58
Yeah, well, I don’t know about THAT.
December 29th, 2005 - 09:10
Hey now.
December 29th, 2005 - 11:55
It worked for me and you ARE crazy, man.