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Well, Kool-Aid is very refreshing. It's delicious. Perhaps that factors in?

Hmmm good point. I'd love to see a Defender, Tempest, Q*Bert, Robotron.

I definitely remember doing this when I was a kid, though I didn't have the presence of mind to know it as something repeatable. Good work.

Neat ad. Of course, I disagree with the conclusion. It's much better to get an Atari for Christmas than a car and the car note.

It doesn't matter to me in general whether the clothes were made to appeal to a fashion sense. If I like the design enough, I'll buy it.

Atari Age was biased? MIND. BLOWN.

Holy crap! I'm going to say something positive. Yeah, I think the prices are a bit high, but these don't look like shirts that are going to flake apart or fade after a few washes at 50% poly/50% cotton. And considering it's coming from outside the U.S., I don't think the price is outrageous. The designs are striking. I'd like to see more effort on the design work, but I like them overall. (I like the brown shirt the best and wouldn't mind a plain blue shirt with a plain logo (not distressed).) And kudos to you guys for not trying to fly under the radar and make unlicensed shirts. Yeah, we can argue about intellectual (or imaginary) property and whether the folks who negotiated with really give a tinker's cuss about the heritage behind the name, but you followed the laws set in the world we live in and that's commendable. I hope that will allow you the freedom to make really cool designs that you can publish. (Why not commission designs from artists here??) I think it's a good effort.

That Missing game is not rare at all. Why, there's several on that page alone.

I'm sorry. I liked it.

Joe at Digital Press created a series of videos showing games that are, in his estimation, worse than E.T. Here's his message from the forums: --- I know I have a face made for audio only, but there's a point I've been trying to make for awhile now and it simply required video evidence. Special thanks to Frankie ("Says_Relax") for recording and supplying some insight as we literally "winged it" one morning in the store. Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdqaJIeE0Q Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR50m78IIJs Part III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwoUt-AGW3c Two things post-production that I noticed that I probably would have changed or elaborated on. Games by Apollo, while "arriving late on the scene" were actually one of the first third-party companies to design games for the 2600. The words didn't really come out right there. Also, there will be much debate forever regarding the dumping of E.T. cartridges in New Mexico. My stance is the same as Howard Scott Warshaw, who in a discussion he led at my store last summer shared his viewpoint - which makes perfect sense. ---

HOLY CHRIST!!! Are you okay, dude? It's just a tv show. Seriously, though, I still don't think Mythbusters is a good place for this story. History Detectives would be better suited. For those of you who haven't seen the show, usually someone asks them to investigate an artifact they have to determine something about it. An example would be a letter from a figure in history passed down through the family's generation. The person would want to authenticate the letter. They do all kinds of things, from pop to historical. One guy wound up with something from Coney Island, for instance. It's quite American in the scope of things they cover. It's a pretty nice show. They do say they want "historically relevant" stories. I think if you package it up with someone like Curt asking them to investigate this ... where they can film a shinola-load of Atari paraphernalia at Curt's house ... and go out an research the story. I don't think they'll do any digging, but they'll find written evidence and prove or disprove it. The downside is that it's a PBS show and has a limited season. So, space would be limited as well. However if you can combine this with a die-hard Atari fan who has a lot of interesting stuff that would look well on TV and a professional submission package, I think it has a decent shot. m

What if Stargunner has a sex change and legally changes his name to Carol Shaw? I'm sorry. I'll stop.

It was not ET at all that was dumped in the desert. It was its sequel.

The way the OP wrote the subject of this thread, I really thought we were talking about porting the games ... a version of the games running on the Atari. Not emulation. Emulation would be a neat trick, but I could play the games either way! I picked up one of these things at D. H. Holmes in Metairie, Louisiana the day after Christmas one year. They were having a 50% off after Christmas sale and I spied one. It broke in pretty short order, but I played the heck out of Block Buster. I desperately wanted Phaser Strike, but the system broke before I could get my hands on the cart. Mobile gaming was so exciting back then. Still is in a lot of ways.

Played it last night. Enjoyable!

TITS OR GT.. oh wait

Sears at Clearview Mall in Metairie, LA. Probably shortly after the TeleGames system was released, but it's hard to recall exactly.

Umm....yah, read a few posts above. I heard some guy on rec.games.video.classic provided the boxes for it. That true?!??!?!1

Here! Here!

Aaaand cut to the family next door whose garage door goes up-and-down, up-and-down.

I suppose this is too harsh, but, to me, Atari is gone.

Don't take it that way as I honestly didn't intend it as such. While I've never really had a desire to collect things, I've known folks who do. I can be in awe of their collection, their desire to collect and still wish more people had a chance to see something in a collection. I don't know how many 2700s are out there and I doubt that one of them will ever be within my budget. Still, I wish I could see it. That would mean that someone would have to show it somewhere. My message was more about my desire to see it shown, not a general disagreement with collecting.

Yeah, I agree with you. I'm just another random Atari fan who mostly lurks here. When I heard about this find and the auction, I felt kind of sad. I would have suggested that the current owner either use it for shows (take it around to the various classic gaming shows) or find a museum that can take it so people can see it. Who knows? The person who buys it may yet do this very thing. I sure hope it doesn't wind up in a closet. (I realize the current owner may not have wanted attention enough to go around to the shows (even if some may have paid his way), but imagine one of the bigger shows being able to get this on loan for display. Wow.)

I honestly never considered it. I was enamored of this far-away city called "Sunnyvale," where the sun never set, the arcades never closed, and you could play all the Atari you want. Or so I hoped!

My take? The Mascot-as-Console didn't really come around until the 16-bit consoles. Suddenly, Nintendo was Mario, Sega was Sonic, and NEC was Bonk. Before then, I don't really recall so much emphasis on console-mascots, but you definitely saw mascots in the SNES/Gen/TG16 era. Intellivision? No. (Except maybe cuddly George Plimpton.) Colecovision? No. Vectrex? No. Had Atari survived? Who knows. I mean: It could have been anyone they either licensed and/or made a major hit.