What do you consider Atari?

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theflea:
To me, When ever I hear people talk about Atari it's always about the Atari 2600.
But I Think of Atari as the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800 and 400/800/XE.
But I do think of Jaguar and Lynx is still an Atari just a different generation.

After the Jaguar days when they just became a game publisher, they pretty much are Atari in name only by then.

scott:

--- Quote from: theflea on March 07, 2013, 04:54:59 am ---To me, When ever I hear people talk about Atari it's always about the Atari 2600.
But I Think of Atari as the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800 and 400/800/XE.
But I do think of Jaguar and Lynx is still an Atari just a different generation.

After the Jaguar days when they just became a game publisher, they pretty much are Atari in name only by then.

--- End quote ---

That's what I was thinking too.

oldgamerz:
BUMPED 1-11-2020 I found this thread interesting

I consider Atari the founder of mostly all home video games, if the Atari 2600 never existed, the at home arcade video games probably would never had seen the light of day. back in the year (1977) I mean I read there was the other video game devices before the Atari2600 and Intellivision, the Atari 2600 I believe was more arcade perfect than the Intellivision competitor.

Of course some say Nintendo basically re-founded the video game industry , but from what I heard from an older local. the Atari 2600 never really died in the early 1980's (at least in Chicago IL in the Midwestern United States), she said that she doesn't remember people even having a NES in their homes until the vary early 1990's. She said
when she grew up in the 1980's and almost everyone was hooked on Atari consoles most notable the original Atari 2600 console.

I think that someone should re-make an Atari compilation for newer consoles, they do have emulators but I would like something legal to obtain, and not pirated copies. However I own "Atari Anthology" and "Activision Anthology" for the PlayStation 2, but I would like to have something bigger with more Atari games included in it.

But as much as I like Atari 2600 games. instead I prefer to use a controller and not just a Joystick, I do believe that the Atari 2600/VCS was one of the most uncomfortable video game consoles ever made, because You needed to reset the game console every minute of play time on most games and keep the console next to you to do so.

pzeke:
This?

sworddude:

atari at its finest

also considering the quality of atari products after the 7800 I'd stay far away from dentists at the time when these where in use.

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