Article: Gamer Decades: The 1980s

[VectorGamer]

This is pretty cool:

 

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/105/1057250p1.html

[+Ransom]

Nice article, but saying the 80s was the 2600's "last hurrah" sort of sells Atari's experience in the decade short. Asteroids, Pitfall, Demon Attack...most of the big hits for the 2600 came out in the 80s. The 2600 was in its prime in the 80s. The 70s were mostly prelude.

Edited December 24, 2009 by Ransom

[Vic George 2K3]

And it all went south for the system in the late 1980s.

[+Ransom]

Still, the 80s were much more than a "last hurrah" for the 2600. I just thought it was misleading, the way the writer phrased it.

 

Maybe I'm hyper-sensitive on this subject, though.

 

I would have said something like, "The decade of the 1980s is when the Atari 2600 reached the apex of its market share, and also when (later in the decade) the Nintendo Entertainment System swept the nation."

Edited December 25, 2009 by Ransom

[godslabrat]

Still, the 80s were much more than a "last hurrah" for the 2600. I just thought it was misleading, the way the writer phrased it.

 

 

If the 70s were a prelude, then then 90s were the epilogue. The 80s were WAY more than a last hurrah, they were the bulk of the 2600's experience. How can you have a 10-year "last hurrah" for a system that was commercially viable for ~15 years? That's like saying "Yeah, except for a brief 20-year span throughout the 80s and 90s, no one ever bought VHS tapes..."