Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Artwork from Ancient Atari History

Posted by michael on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

Matey-O writes: "Safestuff.com contains some early information on Atari's arcade games. Internal memos, brainstorming sessions, and artist renderings that accurately predicted what arcades would look like. (Except there seems to be a LOT more women in the arcades than I seem to recall.) The artwork has been there a while, so it's archived on the wayback machine."

2 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. Art Style by byolinux · · Score: 3, Informative

    A similar style of art was used by the BBC for I love the 70's/80's/90's which features items talking about the significance of Space Invaders in 1978 and Pac-Man in 1980

    The 'blood' under most of the machines just raises yet more worry for me.

    --
    Join the Free Software Foundation
  2. Atari - I bow before thee by sinnerDOTcom · · Score: 2, Informative

    While I own & still do play the Arcade Atari games, I was more of a 2600/7800 gamer myself. They defined Video Games for me at a very young age, I don't think there's one person that lived through the 70's & 80's without seeing an Atari product somewhere.

    Barnstorming, River Raid, Missle Command, Boxing, Pitfall, Dig-Dug, Pacman.. These games defined a LIFETIME addiction of indulging in madly pressing buttons and screaming at a television set.