Unreal History of the Atari 2600

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Unreal History of the Atari 2600

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 23, 2003 @05:49AM from the it-ain't-no-intellivision dept.

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."

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Wow by Klerck · 2003-02-23 05:52 · Score: 4, Funny

First 64-bit UT2003 and now Unreal for the Atari 2600?!
Arggh.... by TopShelf · 2003-02-23 05:52 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Crimney... by crumbz · 2003-02-23 05:56 · Score: 4, Funny

...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 by fobbman · 2003-02-23 05:58 · Score: 5, Funny

I was sitting here scratching my head thinking "They had Unreal for the Atari 2600?"
Slashdotted? by jhughes · 2003-02-23 05:58 · Score: 3, Funny

ping....

Pong!

Ahkay, that was weak...:)
How about "Basic Programming"? by Otter · 2003-02-23 06:06 · Score: 5, Funny

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?

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Strongbad by Deanasc · 2003-02-23 06:07 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Mirror by DigiBoi · 2003-02-23 06:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Here is a Mirror.

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pong action figures? by zephc · 2003-02-23 06:17 · Score: 3, Funny

I think those are called sugar cubes

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Re:From the wouldn-it-be-cool-if-Atari-went-OS dep by 0x20 · 2003-02-23 07:48 · Score: 4, Funny

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