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Atari Television Ad, 1981

🕑 Added 2021-06-06 19:34:58 +0000 UTC

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You know there's plenty of non violent and simple games made today right? I mean there's even a popular Pac Man game that just came out. Tetris gets remade yearly and sells a ton.

David Peaker

Where can I buy such a fantastically advanced piece of technology? It's science fiction I tell you!

Matt Wietlispach

I had friends that had those Atari systems. I remember Space Invaders as a galaxy of fuzzy, blurry video images on some black and white tube-filled TV. But back then, it was simple and fun! I don't think you can even buy a new monochrome TV any longer even if you wanted one. We didn't need gory high-resolution color depictions of zombies, soldiers or whatever, being disemboweled in a realistic 3D settings. There was nothing personal about Pac Man, Space Invaders, or Tetris. You didn't think of the images as human or intelligent. Good eye-hand coordination was the challenge. There were no school shootings blamed on playing Asteroids. Now everything is so graphically violent and the images are depitions of people. I just don't remember longing to see that kind of stuff back in 1982. Ignorance is bliss, I guess...