Unreal History of the Atari 2600

Such_a_geek writes "Atari fans, do you remember playing Gunther Gebel Williams' Cage Cleaner, Typing Tutor, and Peabo Bryson's Cow Tipper on your 2600? How about playing the interactive Foghat 8-track while playing with your Pong action figures? Yeah, me neither. But thanks to this totally fake but quite convincing screenshots in this alternate history of 2600 games, I almost find myself remembering these things."

Comments

Wow

[Klerck]

First 64-bit UT2003 and now Unreal for the Atari 2600?!

Arggh....

[TopShelf]

The /. effect seems to have knocked the servers down to 2600-like performance...

Re:Arggh....

[Black_Logic]

These kind of posts are really redundant to those of us that don't read the article anyways. :) Someone should compile a list of all the 'server's been slashdotted' comments that get related to the story.

Digital Guitar - Not enough guitars serving up the page..
Atari 2600 - the ./ effect seems to have knocked the servers down to 2600-like performance..

You guys would probably be good fortune cookie writers. :)

Crimney...

[crumbz]

...That was over 20 years ago. You could probably plant fake memories of my ZX-81 having color and
sound into my head.

To heck with those games

[fobbman]

I was sitting here scratching my head thinking "They had Unreal for the Atari 2600?"

Slashdotted?

[jhughes]

ping....

Pong!

Ahkay, that was weak...:)

Re:/. effect

[arvindn]

Actually the site was /.ed before a single comment was posted. I think CmdrTaco was so excited by the article that he managed to /. the site singlehandedly by reloading it over and over again.

Now there's a true Atari fan.

How about "Basic Programming"?

[Otter]

I have this memory of reading an Atari tips/review book that raved about the "Basic Programming" cartridge and how you could use it to write all sorts of sophisticated programs. And begging my mother to spring for it along with the expensive input device it required. And sitting down to try out my 1337 Apple ][ basic skills and finding that the Atari system had a maximum memory of 48 commands and variables, making it unusable for anything beyond:

10 PRINT "BITE ME, ATARI!"
20 GOTO 10

Was that a nightmare or did that actually happen?

Re:How about "Basic Programming"?

[Just Some Guy]

Unfortunately, it really happened. Don't feel too bad - my story was almost identical. I'd promised my parents that I'd automate all sorts of household chores (remember when coupon databases were popular?) if only they'd shell out the dough. I was too embarassed by the end result to ask for a real computer for at least a year or two afterward.

Strongbad

[Deanasc]

I think strong bad speaks for all us classic Atari fans when he say's "Somebody get this freakin duck away from me!"

Mirror

[DigiBoi]

Here is a Mirror.

pong action figures?

[zephc]

I think those are called sugar cubes

Re:From the wouldn-it-be-cool-if-Atari-went-OS dep

[0x20]

Yeah, get my broker on the phone, I'm dumping all my stock in "a Fortune 500 Company."

whoa.. like yesterday

[Racer X]

whoa! it's been so long since i've seen a screenshot of that classic atari game, "The page you are looking for is currently unavailable." i feel overcome with feelings of nostalgia and wonder at times past.

Re:From the wouldn-it-be-cool-if-Atari-went-OS dep

[david duncan scott]

Assembler. We were gods back then, but not idiots. :)