Jeremy Parish
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NES Works Gaiden 74: Atari 2600 beyond the crash
🕑 Added 2024-12-27 21:44:06 +0000 UTCI've been mulling the prospect of tackling the latter-day Atari 2600 library for years now. Given all the other material I've set up recently as a supplement to NES Works, I realized I'd be abrogating my obligations as an elder nerd with noisy opinions about old video games not to cover the 2600. Like the Intellivision and XE Game System sidebars, there's not a lot here to deal with—10 episodes max. Maybe even fewer than that if I come across some unreasonably slight games that don't support four minutes of commentary. Who knows!
Anyway, thanks for bearing with me while I put this episode together. Like I said the other day, the next few episodes (and hopefully everything beyond that) will be published in a more timely fashion, for real.
Comments
Beefington von Barnstorm
The amount of money going into commercial production at the time was staggering, too. Like look at those Pepsi commercials of that era - full on soundstage productions shot like a Spielburg movie. If I cut to an 80s commercial in my youtube stuff, as I am also wont to do, I tend to source from the 80s Commercial Vault channel as in the past few years he's been grabbing from broadcast masters and does a good job of remastering them without AI upscaling
Leif
Unrelated but Jeremy if you read this I received the SG-1000 book for Christmas and it’s fantastic quality, fine work all around especially the embossed hardcover. Well done.
Paul Schroeder
The “fun is back” commercial hip-hop jingle haunts my dreams to this day!
Jeremy Parish
Revisiting this commercial as an adult with years of art history studies under my belt is wild. They straight up turned the work of Maxfield Parrish into a soft rock music video to sell candy. The ‘80s were incredible.
Dustin Carter
My parents gave me the family 2600 in 83 or so, around tlwhen I was 5 and they no longer cared about it. I spent a lot of time with it and it is likely the reason I am this way today.
Beefington von Barnstorm
Sometimes I get a song in my head, and I try to remember what that weird low-key Erasure kind of vibe song is, and then I realize it's that Nestlé commercial.
Petter Öhman
We got the Atari 2600jr for Christmas but I can't recall what year it was. Probably around 87-88. We had some good times, and I still have it.. but by that time it was a very weak alternative to the NES.. which we didn't get, but had to buy ourselves.
