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The Last Days Of Atari - In Full Color

Posted by simoniker on from the amazing-ancient-artefacts dept.

AtariKee writes "Scott Evans (famous to video game collectors as the sole owner of Army Battlezone and two Marble Madness 2 machines) stopped out at the former Atari's Milpitas, CA facility [most recently a Midway office] and took a large collection of pictures of what was once the mighty arcade giant's headquarters." The good news is that Scott "was able to obtain and preserve the majority of what you see here."

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  1. Re:why is he famous? by kfg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I guess for the same reason that the Louvre is famous among art collectors when all they do is hang pictures on the wall.

    But they've got the only Venus thingy and Mona thingy.

    Some people find this remarkable. Go figure.

    KFG

  2. I'm thinking the same thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This game is legendary; I read about it 2 years ago and the word on the street was the MM2 was just lost to history.

    Now we have what looks like 3 working games (or just 2?). It would a *crime* to lose this piece of history just because of a copyright that is worthless that can't even be pinned down with proper ownership.

    The only thing that is going for the game is that the other guys are anonymous and could "quietly" release the game to usenet on alt.binaries.mame (or whatever). From there, history will be preserved.

  3. Re:Build your own arcade. by filenabber · · Score: 2, Insightful
    No, he didn't build his own *arcade*. He built his own arcade game or video arcade game (actually, it's a MAME machine). An arcade is a place that houses arcade games - AKA a gameroom.

    My garage is my arcade and I have 20 arcade games in it: http://thebrokenjoystick.com/pictures/gameroom

    Brian

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  4. Re:why is he famous? by filenabber · · Score: 3, Insightful
    He is famous in the arcade video game collecting world. He has done more to preserve old arcade games and related material than probably anyone else (Well, except Al Kossow maybe). For further info, check out the Google archives of rec.games.video.arcade.collecting.

    My arcade game collection

    Brian

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  5. Atari by virg_mattes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > Talking of game quality... isn't that why Atari went bust?

    Not really. The reason Atari went under is that they were not so heavily into home systems as they were into arcade games (the big kind you see in the photos), and the money from that market dried up when people started getting home consoles and computer games. They were heavily invested in a market that died out from under them.

    Virg