So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a song. I thought I’d scan the box covers and give you all a look back into the fun of yesteryear.
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Never owned a 2600, but had a great time playing them.
Furthermore, the 2600 joysticks were some of the best I ever used for my Commodore 64 — (which also had many underrated games that seem crude to today’s gaming generation, but were importantly FUN. ‘Forbidden Forest’ rules.) Simply made — and more importantly, damn near indestructible.
Epyx’s C64 classic ‘Summer Games’ wrecked more of my precision joysticks with those damn running events (which we ‘banned’ in group competition for that reason) than I care to remember — except for Atari 2600 joysticks.
The 2600 — for all of its 4K/8K games and hypersymbolic gameplay — remains one of the purely golden aspects of my youth. (And look at that cover art! Gorgeous!) And yes, those joysticks were fantastic. There’s just something missing on emulators without those sticks.
The sad/scary thing isn’t that someone paid $24.95 for Atari Pinball — it’s that someone also paid as much for E.T.
And I miss the Atari Force comics. Blowing up universes long, long before Countdown.
It took me too long to realize you were photoshopping. (I actually passed over “Obligatory Educational ‘Game’”, and then had to go back and look at it again.) I’m still not sure where some of them are photoshopped.
My grandma, who loved her thousands of grandchildren ALMOST as much as she loved saving a buck, bought us a huge box of Atari 2600 games without instruction booklets. I distinctly remember Dude - We Shouldn’t Have Done That Acid, My Hands Feel Twizzlers… Oh, Man, Twizzlers being one of them. If you have a spare copy of the instructions laying around, let me know what the fucking point of the game was. It’s been a mystery to me for about 20 years now.
I will say one thing, some of those games had amazing box art. Terrorists in the year 3000, better known as Slot Racers, brings back bad memories. If more folks played that one, then E. T. might not have the rep it does as worst game of all time.
These are eerily similar to the covers for Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books! I’m beginning a conspiracy theory about it — check out my book, coming out in ‘09 ~ “Buzz Aldrin’s Space Rainbow Tennis & Attack of the Meta-Sphinx from Mars, You Decide!”
I was too young for most of these, but I do have fond memories of watching my uncle play Old-Timey Cop With A Stick. That cop never could catch Gallagher.
Very good work. And you summed some of them up pretty accurately (especially Demons to Diamonds and Math Grand Prix). But you didn’t find any Activation or Imagic titles in your new collection?
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I remember playing COMBAT! with my sister. I claimed that the one big plane was better then the 3 small planes so that she would play it. I would then proceed to destroy her because DUH the 3 small planes can dodge the bullets.
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I’ll be the millionth person to do so, but I have to say it: some of that box art is absolutely stunning, and seriously outclasses what you see on the shelves today.
Funniest of all is the “Spaceship Engineering” art’s incongruity with its original title: BASIC.
And is it just me, or does the checkers king not look more than a little like Paul Darrow?
That is a HUGE find– I am so jealous. We have just started having game nights in our school library and that is a true treasure. We always have a “classic” system set up, but yours is a huge winner. The kids think it is so cool to play the “old-school” games. I love the checkers! Wow.
Yars’ Revenge was definitely my favorite game. If someone were to remake that one for one of the newer game systems, then I might actually be tempted to buy one.
Wow, so many memories came flooding back. I too played many of those games as a wee lad, and loved every second of it. I recognize the “education game” as Math Gran Prix. A racing game that let you advance by answering simple math questions (2+2, 2×3, 6/3). That game helped me learn my numbers it did! And “Oh I say” taught me to speak with a cockney English accent, what what. Keep them coming!
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I have a Raiders of the Lost Ark that I have no idea how to play. I can get past the start menu (sometimes) then I usually end of promptly falling off a cliff (for no apparent reason) or some undulating pixel blob somehow kills me. I love my Atari for that reason, as a twenty something I still don’t even know how some of the games work….
Since I’m studying English history, I really enjoyed Magna Carta. I never knew Atari had a game that involved Levellers and Diggers (what about Cromwell?). Fuck, all I had was Night Driver and Real Sports Baseball.
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Those two smug people on the box of “It’s Fucking Checkers” are fantastic! Such smugness is hardly ever seen on video game boxes these days.
On a slightly sadder note, we had a 2600 but none of our games had boxes. We were too cheap to buy anything new. That didn’t stop us enjoying such classics as 96 Fighter-Jet Games that are all Exactly The Same.
Someone was asking what the games were. From my own memory, these are the ones I know (yes, I could be wrong. Please be gentle):
“Magna Carta” - Warlords
“Aliens vs. Ghosts” - Defender
“Every Sport Ever…” - Video Olympics
“Obligatory Educational Game” - Math Grand Prix
“Oh! I Say!” - Dodge ‘em
“Pixel Bondage” - Surround
“Rainbow Tennis” - Breakout
“Motorbike Kids vs. The Hot-Rod Menace” - Street Racer
“Find The Koala” - Hunt and Score
“Dude - We should have done that acid…” - Haunted House
“It’s Fucking Checkers” - uh…Checkers? (Okay, “Video Checkers”)
“Winchester ‘73″ - Outlaw
“Tim Curry’s Magic Board” - Othello
“Starship Engineering Future Challenge!” - BASIC Programming
“The Dots of War” - Codebreaker
“Backgammon for Friendless People” - Backgammon
“Flannals Attack” - Brain Games
“Parachute Pete” - Sky Diver
“Superman: The Game” - Superman
“Salvidor Dali’s Pinball Thrills” - Video Pinball
“Gay French Mario Bros.” - Circus Atari
“Wild and Groovy Moon Combat” - Space War
“I’ve Wasted My Life” - Video Chess
“Buzz Aldrin Space Rainbow Tennis” - Super Breakout
“Pixels At War” - Air-Sea Battle
“Terrorists in the Year 3000″ - Slot Racers
“Atari Video Computer System (Conversation)” - Yar’s Revenge
“Old-Timey Cop with a Stick” - Maze Craze (no relation to that jalapenio)
“Atari Video Computer System (Literal Translation)” - Demons to Diamonds
“Wrong Button!” - Missle Command (”Don’t ever push the red button.” - Duck Dodgers)
After cheating, the Vegas Showgirl is Casino (wasn’t sure if it was a variant cover for Blackjack), and the “Apollo 19″ mission is Space Ship, which I’d never heard of up until now. (Not so sure that isn’t the Sears title.) http://www.xocolatl.com/carts/at2600.lst
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I am looking at these for the second time today, and I again literally have tears of laughter. The first time, at work, I had to stop because I was disturbing my coworkers. I simply cannot thank you enough. Bless you.
Aliens vs. Ghosts and Rainbow Tennis were perhaps my favorites. Find the Koala and It’s Fucking Checkers a close second. And Tim Curry’s Magic Board. God, I can’t even choose. Genius.
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I’m mildly amused by these faux Atari 2600 game titles, but absolutely aghast at the number of you who not only found this site but chose to spend time formulating comments about it. No wait. Were those real titles? Let’s contemplate this question on the tree of woe!
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Warshaw: The working title was originally Time Freeze. I wanted an action game with a lot of colors and sounds – something I would enjoy playing. The concept was, at some point, time would “freeze” and there would be a countdown to a gigantic explosion. One of the things I wanted to do was have the first full-screen explosion.
There’s an interesting story of how Yars became Yars. Marketing had sent down some names for it – all of which were really terrible. So I asked if I could submit a name, and came up with Yars’ Revenge. I even included a whole storyline to support it, which was later used for the comic book.
Now, Yar is Ray spelled backwards, and the game’s story takes place in the Razak solar system, which (backwards) is similar to Kassar, and that stood for Ray Kassar, Atari’s CEO. Once the name was under consideration, I “leaked” this secret to a friend of mine in Marketing and Product Management, adding that Ray found out about the name and liked it! I knew that no one in marketing would ask Ray about it, and if they knew he liked it then they would use it, which is exactly what happened!
But there was one person who actually tried to kill of Yars. He hated the game, and kept insisting there was something wrong with it. He eventually sent it to be play-tested. This is where groups of people would play it, along with another game, and then judge them on a score from 1 to 5 (5 being the best). Well, the game it was pitted against was Missile Command, which was THE game at the time. It was a very good translation, and on top of that had name-recognition. I thought for sure that was it. I was able to see the scores as they came in, and the first couple were around 3.5 – not good! As it turned out, Yars ended up testing with an average of 4.5, rating it as one of the highest play-tests Atari ever did.
April 21st, 2008 la 9:36 am
That was funny.
Never owned a 2600, but had a great time playing them.
Furthermore, the 2600 joysticks were some of the best I ever used for my Commodore 64 — (which also had many underrated games that seem crude to today’s gaming generation, but were importantly FUN. ‘Forbidden Forest’ rules.) Simply made — and more importantly, damn near indestructible.
Epyx’s C64 classic ‘Summer Games’ wrecked more of my precision joysticks with those damn running events (which we ‘banned’ in group competition for that reason) than I care to remember — except for Atari 2600 joysticks.
April 21st, 2008 la 9:50 am
Oh man, these brought back my childhood. I owned several, each one holding a special place in my heart.
Especially Aliens vs. Ghosts, and it’s eventual TV spinoff, The X Files.
April 21st, 2008 la 9:54 am
The 2600 — for all of its 4K/8K games and hypersymbolic gameplay — remains one of the purely golden aspects of my youth. (And look at that cover art! Gorgeous!) And yes, those joysticks were fantastic. There’s just something missing on emulators without those sticks.
The sad/scary thing isn’t that someone paid $24.95 for Atari Pinball — it’s that someone also paid as much for E.T.
And I miss the Atari Force comics. Blowing up universes long, long before Countdown.
April 21st, 2008 la 10:12 am
You nearly had me there for a second. Great artwork. Looks completely legit.
April 21st, 2008 la 10:24 am
It took me too long to realize you were photoshopping. (I actually passed over “Obligatory Educational ‘Game’”, and then had to go back and look at it again.) I’m still not sure where some of them are photoshopped.
April 21st, 2008 la 10:48 am
Hey, I loved Buzz Aldrin’s Space Rainbow Tennis when I was a kid.
April 21st, 2008 la 11:15 am
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April 21st, 2008 la 11:29 am
Also Dugg, as it should be.
April 21st, 2008 la 12:26 pm
My grandma, who loved her thousands of grandchildren ALMOST as much as she loved saving a buck, bought us a huge box of Atari 2600 games without instruction booklets. I distinctly remember Dude - We Shouldn’t Have Done That Acid, My Hands Feel Twizzlers… Oh, Man, Twizzlers being one of them. If you have a spare copy of the instructions laying around, let me know what the fucking point of the game was. It’s been a mystery to me for about 20 years now.
April 21st, 2008 la 12:36 pm
I will say one thing, some of those games had amazing box art. Terrorists in the year 3000, better known as Slot Racers, brings back bad memories. If more folks played that one, then E. T. might not have the rep it does as worst game of all time.
April 21st, 2008 la 12:43 pm
The illustrations alone could be children’s sci-fi book covers from the 70s and 80s.
April 21st, 2008 la 1:17 pm
Oh….that brought tears to my eyes. Beauty of this magnitude is simply too good for this world.
WE DON’T DESERVE YOU!!
April 21st, 2008 la 2:03 pm
I always wondered too, who exactly is Yars?
April 21st, 2008 la 2:12 pm
I thought “I Wasted My Life” was better known as Second Life these days …
April 21st, 2008 la 3:27 pm
These are eerily similar to the covers for Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books! I’m beginning a conspiracy theory about it — check out my book, coming out in ‘09 ~ “Buzz Aldrin’s Space Rainbow Tennis & Attack of the Meta-Sphinx from Mars, You Decide!”
April 21st, 2008 la 3:33 pm
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April 21st, 2008 la 5:34 pm
Sadly, “Backgammon for Friendless People” and “It’s Fucking Checkers” took up so much of my childhood. And, let’s be honest, my adult life as well.
April 21st, 2008 la 6:31 pm
I’m an idiot. I didn’t suspect anything until Fucking Checkers, and then I sat there for a few minutes wondering how that was allowed into the stores…
April 21st, 2008 la 6:31 pm
I was too young for most of these, but I do have fond memories of watching my uncle play Old-Timey Cop With A Stick. That cop never could catch Gallagher.
April 21st, 2008 la 6:40 pm
I think “I Am A Vegas Showgirl” needs to get a trophy.
Either that, or “It’s Fucking Checkers.”
April 21st, 2008 la 6:56 pm
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April 21st, 2008 la 7:08 pm
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April 21st, 2008 la 9:09 pm
For some of these, if they came in a poster size, I’d buy them. They are comic art. E-mail me if they do, please.
April 21st, 2008 la 10:01 pm
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April 21st, 2008 la 10:56 pm
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April 21st, 2008 la 11:26 pm
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April 21st, 2008 la 11:27 pm
Congrats dude . . that was some funny shit . .. .took me WAYYYY back. .
April 22nd, 2008 la 2:50 am
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April 22nd, 2008 la 6:10 am
Yar IS the fly. The enemy is the Qotile.
April 22nd, 2008 la 6:12 am
Very good work. And you summed some of them up pretty accurately (especially Demons to Diamonds and Math Grand Prix). But you didn’t find any Activation or Imagic titles in your new collection?
April 22nd, 2008 la 7:15 am
I have got a mint in box Oh! I Say, but it is PAL so probably not worth much
April 22nd, 2008 la 7:39 am
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April 22nd, 2008 la 8:33 am
OMFG. I remember so many of these games.
I remember playing COMBAT! with my sister. I claimed that the one big plane was better then the 3 small planes so that she would play it. I would then proceed to destroy her because DUH the 3 small planes can dodge the bullets.
NICE FIND! You win.
April 22nd, 2008 la 8:49 am
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April 22nd, 2008 la 8:50 am
There need to be more games with a Latin Mode.
April 22nd, 2008 la 9:31 am
That’s superb. I remember Old Timey Cop with a Stick. Hours of fun!
April 22nd, 2008 la 9:54 am
Hell yeah, i wanna play ‘Gay French Mario Bros.!’
April 22nd, 2008 la 10:09 am
You had me up until “Obligatory Educational Game”. From there it was pure joy. “And all of them are Checkers. Seriously, you want this?”
April 22nd, 2008 la 10:18 am
joystiq’s got it too.
April 22nd, 2008 la 10:27 am
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April 22nd, 2008 la 11:27 am
Sweet Jeebus, these are wonderful! Who would’ve thought the Internet could be more than a fabulous porn pipeline?!
April 22nd, 2008 la 1:27 pm
“It’s Fucking Checkers” made me laugh/snort out loud at my desk at work.
April 22nd, 2008 la 4:07 pm
I’ll be the millionth person to do so, but I have to say it: some of that box art is absolutely stunning, and seriously outclasses what you see on the shelves today.
Funniest of all is the “Spaceship Engineering” art’s incongruity with its original title: BASIC.
And is it just me, or does the checkers king not look more than a little like Paul Darrow?
April 22nd, 2008 la 4:19 pm
That is a HUGE find– I am so jealous. We have just started having game nights in our school library and that is a true treasure. We always have a “classic” system set up, but yours is a huge winner. The kids think it is so cool to play the “old-school” games. I love the checkers! Wow.
April 22nd, 2008 la 4:29 pm
Yars’ Revenge was definitely my favorite game. If someone were to remake that one for one of the newer game systems, then I might actually be tempted to buy one.
April 22nd, 2008 la 5:32 pm
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April 22nd, 2008 la 5:34 pm
Man those are GREAT! You can’t even tell they were edited!
Any chance of offering high-res pics of these? I’d love to print out a few and put them on my cube at work.
April 22nd, 2008 la 6:47 pm
Superman has a Superman-shaped penis.
Weird. o_O
April 23rd, 2008 la 9:45 am
Absolutely Brilliant how did you cobble the artwork together??
April 23rd, 2008 la 10:08 am
Wow, so many memories came flooding back. I too played many of those games as a wee lad, and loved every second of it. I recognize the “education game” as Math Gran Prix. A racing game that let you advance by answering simple math questions (2+2, 2×3, 6/3). That game helped me learn my numbers it did! And “Oh I say” taught me to speak with a cockney English accent, what what. Keep them coming!
April 23rd, 2008 la 10:50 am
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April 23rd, 2008 la 11:16 am
Funniest thing I’ve seen in forever.
April 23rd, 2008 la 11:39 am
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April 23rd, 2008 la 11:55 am
I have a Raiders of the Lost Ark that I have no idea how to play. I can get past the start menu (sometimes) then I usually end of promptly falling off a cliff (for no apparent reason) or some undulating pixel blob somehow kills me. I love my Atari for that reason, as a twenty something I still don’t even know how some of the games work….
April 23rd, 2008 la 12:12 pm
Since I’m studying English history, I really enjoyed Magna Carta. I never knew Atari had a game that involved Levellers and Diggers (what about Cromwell?). Fuck, all I had was Night Driver and Real Sports Baseball.
April 23rd, 2008 la 12:42 pm
Completely brilliant. Well done.
April 23rd, 2008 la 12:58 pm
‘Wild and Groovy Space Combat’- yes.
April 23rd, 2008 la 12:59 pm
I, too, would be tremendously interested in buying a poster or two with these on them.
Please create, ???, profit!
April 23rd, 2008 la 1:30 pm
where’s “Championship Soccer Darts”?
“Slam Dunk Battle Tank”?!?
even “Kid Lazer and the Robot-Ghosts on Planet Frightening!” is missing
April 23rd, 2008 la 1:34 pm
Can anyone identify all of the actual game names? I see (in no order) Defender, Othello, Breakout, Circus (?)…
April 23rd, 2008 la 2:20 pm
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April 23rd, 2008 la 2:38 pm
These are awesome. I did a similar thing a while back to the Pitfall cover
http://p9g.tumblr.com/post/25114833
April 23rd, 2008 la 4:17 pm
I love these!
Very, very cooly done
April 23rd, 2008 la 4:22 pm
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April 23rd, 2008 la 4:50 pm
CLASSIC. The names are amazing.
April 23rd, 2008 la 4:51 pm
Die. Don’t Die. That’s about it…. Genious!
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April 23rd, 2008 la 5:03 pm
damn straight! genius!
April 23rd, 2008 la 5:18 pm
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April 23rd, 2008 la 11:58 pm
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I see many guys talk about this games but none of this guys give a result opinion how to play all this games again.
April 24th, 2008 la 3:01 am
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April 24th, 2008 la 9:02 am
Warlords RULES!
April 24th, 2008 la 10:33 am
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April 24th, 2008 la 11:14 am
Those two smug people on the box of “It’s Fucking Checkers” are fantastic! Such smugness is hardly ever seen on video game boxes these days.
On a slightly sadder note, we had a 2600 but none of our games had boxes. We were too cheap to buy anything new. That didn’t stop us enjoying such classics as 96 Fighter-Jet Games that are all Exactly The Same.
April 24th, 2008 la 11:25 am
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April 24th, 2008 la 1:33 pm
wasn’t checkers a dog?
April 24th, 2008 la 2:45 pm
Someone was asking what the games were. From my own memory, these are the ones I know (yes, I could be wrong. Please be gentle):
“Magna Carta” - Warlords
“Aliens vs. Ghosts” - Defender
“Every Sport Ever…” - Video Olympics
“Obligatory Educational Game” - Math Grand Prix
“Oh! I Say!” - Dodge ‘em
“Pixel Bondage” - Surround
“Rainbow Tennis” - Breakout
“Motorbike Kids vs. The Hot-Rod Menace” - Street Racer
“Find The Koala” - Hunt and Score
“Dude - We should have done that acid…” - Haunted House
“It’s Fucking Checkers” - uh…Checkers? (Okay, “Video Checkers”)
“Winchester ‘73″ - Outlaw
“Tim Curry’s Magic Board” - Othello
“Starship Engineering Future Challenge!” - BASIC Programming
“The Dots of War” - Codebreaker
“Backgammon for Friendless People” - Backgammon
“Flannals Attack” - Brain Games
“Parachute Pete” - Sky Diver
“Superman: The Game” - Superman
“Salvidor Dali’s Pinball Thrills” - Video Pinball
“Gay French Mario Bros.” - Circus Atari
“Wild and Groovy Moon Combat” - Space War
“I’ve Wasted My Life” - Video Chess
“Buzz Aldrin Space Rainbow Tennis” - Super Breakout
“Pixels At War” - Air-Sea Battle
“Terrorists in the Year 3000″ - Slot Racers
“Atari Video Computer System (Conversation)” - Yar’s Revenge
“Old-Timey Cop with a Stick” - Maze Craze (no relation to that jalapenio)
“Atari Video Computer System (Literal Translation)” - Demons to Diamonds
“Wrong Button!” - Missle Command (”Don’t ever push the red button.” - Duck Dodgers)
After cheating, the Vegas Showgirl is Casino (wasn’t sure if it was a variant cover for Blackjack), and the “Apollo 19″ mission is Space Ship, which I’d never heard of up until now. (Not so sure that isn’t the Sears title.) http://www.xocolatl.com/carts/at2600.lst
April 24th, 2008 la 3:46 pm
“I have a Raiders of the Lost Ark that I have no idea how to play.”
Hint: Use both controllers. One joystick moves you, and the other controls advanced things, such as inventory. It was a pretty good game, actually.
April 24th, 2008 la 3:59 pm
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April 25th, 2008 la 1:08 am
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[…] Mightygodking.com » Blog Archive » Fun From Yesterday! So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a song. I thought I’d scan the box covers and give you all a look back into the fun of yesteryear. (tags: mightygodking.com 2008 mes3 dia24 at_home games Atari 2600 blog_post image) […]
April 25th, 2008 la 7:15 pm
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April 25th, 2008 la 10:41 pm
I am looking at these for the second time today, and I again literally have tears of laughter. The first time, at work, I had to stop because I was disturbing my coworkers. I simply cannot thank you enough. Bless you.
Aliens vs. Ghosts and Rainbow Tennis were perhaps my favorites. Find the Koala and It’s Fucking Checkers a close second. And Tim Curry’s Magic Board. God, I can’t even choose. Genius.
April 26th, 2008 la 1:08 am
[…] up, the hilarious: via crummy.com, a link to literal translations of Atari 2600 game cover art. Brilliant. My personal favorite would have to be “Backgammon for Friendless People”, […]
April 26th, 2008 la 10:48 am
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April 26th, 2008 la 11:52 pm
I’m mildly amused by these faux Atari 2600 game titles, but absolutely aghast at the number of you who not only found this site but chose to spend time formulating comments about it. No wait. Were those real titles? Let’s contemplate this question on the tree of woe!
April 27th, 2008 la 1:41 pm
lol, oh man, I feel dumb. It took “Fucking Checkers” to realize they were faked. Great photoshopping there.
April 27th, 2008 la 3:06 pm
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April 28th, 2008 la 6:49 pm
That has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long while….
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April 29th, 2008 la 2:42 am
You gotta love the cover art, nothing like the game at all ^^
April 29th, 2008 la 10:41 am
I thought that Apollo 19 was actually Space War. Very funny stuff though!
April 30th, 2008 la 7:33 am
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Awsome!!!! I’m still giggling……Excellent job!
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May 5th, 2008 la 12:19 pm
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/interview_warshaw.htm
DP: What’s the story behind the name?
Warshaw: The working title was originally Time Freeze. I wanted an action game with a lot of colors and sounds – something I would enjoy playing. The concept was, at some point, time would “freeze” and there would be a countdown to a gigantic explosion. One of the things I wanted to do was have the first full-screen explosion.
There’s an interesting story of how Yars became Yars. Marketing had sent down some names for it – all of which were really terrible. So I asked if I could submit a name, and came up with Yars’ Revenge. I even included a whole storyline to support it, which was later used for the comic book.
Now, Yar is Ray spelled backwards, and the game’s story takes place in the Razak solar system, which (backwards) is similar to Kassar, and that stood for Ray Kassar, Atari’s CEO. Once the name was under consideration, I “leaked” this secret to a friend of mine in Marketing and Product Management, adding that Ray found out about the name and liked it! I knew that no one in marketing would ask Ray about it, and if they knew he liked it then they would use it, which is exactly what happened!
But there was one person who actually tried to kill of Yars. He hated the game, and kept insisting there was something wrong with it. He eventually sent it to be play-tested. This is where groups of people would play it, along with another game, and then judge them on a score from 1 to 5 (5 being the best). Well, the game it was pitted against was Missile Command, which was THE game at the time. It was a very good translation, and on top of that had name-recognition. I thought for sure that was it. I was able to see the scores as they came in, and the first couple were around 3.5 – not good! As it turned out, Yars ended up testing with an average of 4.5, rating it as one of the highest play-tests Atari ever did.
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