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Retro Gaming Gets Hot
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, retro gaming is big business, according to a recent article in The Rocky Mountain News. The story talks to Nintendo, Namco and the maker of those all in one controllers that feature games from old systems like Atari. Lin Leng, who's working on the latest Pac-Man game, summarizes it best: 'The games today are hyper-realistic, photo-realistic and take a long time to complete, an average of 20 hours of gameplay,' he said. 'But with Pac-Man you just jump in and play and you get a quick fix. It also brings back childhood memories for some of us.' There's also an interesting sidebar to the story talking about Invader, the Parisian graffiti artist tagging famous locations around the world with images from Space Invaders. The author's website has the full interview with Invader posted in his weblog."
"Hey! I get to PAY AGAIN for this game I bought 10 years ago! YEAH!!!!"
"Pac-Man is still as compelling today as it was 30 or 40 years ago," said Genna Goldberg, spokeswoman for Jakks Pacific, a company that sells a classic Atari joystick loaded with 10 games from the original 1970s Atari home console.
2004-1980 = 30 or 40??? That must be that "new math" I'm hearing so much about.
~Philly
"Pac-Man is still as compelling today as it was 30 or 40 years ago"
Considering that Pac-Man only came out 24 years ago, this statement is pretty amusing.
Those lazy days during the Viet Nam war when I dodged the draft by going to College (since my father was not a senator.) And I spent much of my spare time in the computer lab playing Pac-Man on a PDP-8.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
(Score:-1, Mentioning go in a non-chess-related article)
"Zoidberg! You ate fry! Fry's dead!"
"Its alright! I had another guy!"
"Hooray!"
That's right. All your base.
Dear Corporate Masters
You are not root, go away.
You don't get the old, dimly-lit smoke-filled rooms with drug deals going on in the back, but still, it's damn close.
You haven't been around my house on the weekends, obviously...
I wonder if Atari has any issues with Atari Teenage Riot...
I remember buying 5.25" floppy disks with Lifetime guarantees. I forget the name of the company, being pretty young back then, but they used to have an elephant head on their logo. I guess maybe they figured people might take the term "lifetime guarantee" seriously.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
No, after the video game crash, you could buy Atari cartridges for 25 cents.
A lifetime guarantee alright - lasts as long as the life of the disk :)