Flojomojo Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 oops fat fingered the post button Nothing to see here Enjoy your retro branded merchandise 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Atari in Blade Runner was mostly an in-joke. Pan Am was there too. That's property of a holding company, too, https://panambrands.com/legacy-- which I'm pretty sure doesn't own any airplanes. Someone got paid, but let's not kid ourselves about it being the time of the Atari renaissance. There is a railroad with the name. http://www.panamrailways.com/ You can even get a model of a boxcar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 They link to Pan Am brands, too. There's no "legacy" or history there other than people passing the old brand name around. "Pan Am entered the rail business in 1981 when the company, then known as Guilford Transportation Industries, purchased the Maine Central Railroad (MEC). In 1983, GTI purchased the bankrupt Boston & Maine (B&M). In 1998 GTI purchased Pan Am Airways from bankruptcy and revived the airline. In 2006 the railroad was rebranded as Pan Am as well. Today the railroad is more vibrant than ever, succeeding in a region where many rail operators have failed, by making sound investments and a focus on the long term." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Yup, just another company reusing a name.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_World_Airways Owned by the parent of Japanese airline All Nippon Airways as of October 2014, Pan Am International Flight Academy is the only surviving division of Pan American World Airways. Reuse of nameAside from the aforementioned flight academy, the Pan Am brand has been resurrected six times after 1991, but the reincarnations were related to the original Pan Am in name only. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 See.. Pan Am looks so good. You don't know about all the projects they have going. They really want this to happen. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 OMG there's a Speaker Hat from Pan Am Brands, too! https://panambrands.com/shop/pan-am-accessories/paul-frank-mini-explorer.html HA ha, monkeys always look How is it that Pan Am charges $10 more and is now out of stock on the same speaker hat that Atari can't seem to sell even at a discount? Pan Am is really doing great things in the retro video game world. I tip my (speaker) hat to their business prowess. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 I haven't seen the New Blade Runner yet, but maybe it was also just kind of a futuristic vision that is also somehow retro...Like the writer's dream of what would be cool, including having brands that have lasted for very long periods of time, Or maybe they specifically were picking the brands as part of the artistic style and vision...So that in that Future you are reminded of the past...No idea if that's the goal, but I like the idea...You see 2049 and are reminded of the 70's or 80's. PS I like the Pan Am hat better than Atari's...Especially the black and purple one! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 OMG there's a Speaker Hat from Pan Am Brands, too! https://panambrands.com/shop/pan-am-accessories/paul-frank-mini-explorer.html HA ha, monkeys always look 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifemadesimple Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 I haven't seen the New Blade Runner yet, but maybe it was also just kind of a futuristic vision that is also somehow retro...Like the writer's dream of what would be cool, including having brands that have lasted for very long periods of time, Or maybe they specifically were picking the brands as part of the artistic style and vision...So that in that Future you are reminded of the past...No idea if that's the goal, but I like the idea...You see 2049 and are reminded of the 70's or 80's. PS I like the Pan Am hat better than Atari's...Especially the black and purple one! That's exactly it. Blade Runner, and Western Cyberpunk as a whole, pulls heavily from the look and feel of around 1975 - 1985, depending on who's behind it. Sort of the future, through the lens of a time period in the past-similar to what steampunk does with the late 19th century, or something like Fallout does with the 1950's. Atari and PanAm are in there in part for the aesthetic, but in part as a reference to the infamous 'blade runner curse', where some folks say that the brands that appeared in the first Blade Runner all collapsed or nearly collapsed after the films debut. Which sounds mysterious at first, but alas we can all put our tinfoil away for another day. If you dig a bit, you'll realize that Ridley Scott intentionally chose vulnerable/controversial brands in precarious places. It gets a lot less mysterious really quick. Also, I highly recommend Blade Runner 2049. I loved it and it was way better than it had any right being. tl;dr: Atari showed up in Blade Runner because it looked cool. Dennis Villeneuve (sp?) has said as much before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerx Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Blade Runner 2049 is a fictional world extrapolated from the original's version of 2019, not from the real 2018, so these brands are alive and well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Blade Runner 2049 is a fictional world extrapolated from the original's version of 2019, not from the real 2018, so these brands are alive and well. Book from 1968 writing about 1992 (later changed to 2021) made into a 1982 movie about 2019 with a 2017 sequel set in 2049 all this can be yours for the low low price of 19.99 fun facts: Atari SA's market cap is $118.43M Blade Runner's budget was $28M, box office $33.8M Blade Runner 2048's budget was between $150 and $185M, box office $259.2M the Atari SpeakerHat® sale is over, all hats are once again $129.99, including the new "Pong Anniversary Limited Edition Atari Speakerhat," and if you buy one, you're still a fscking moron. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBerel Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 fun facts: the Atari SpeakerHat® sale is over, all hats are once again $129.99, including the new Pong Anniversary Limited Edition Atari Speakerhat, and if you buy one, you're still a fscking moron. I can't believe you said "limited edition". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 I can't believe you said "limited edition". fair point ... I just edited my post to use "asshole quotes" instead 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 The speakerhat tells us to invest NOW!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerDubs Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 While we are waiting on ataribox news – http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/pong-game-show-atari-1202681958/amp/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 That is the stupidest thing I've heard all week. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 The lack of tacos is disturbing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercylon Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Ugh.... okay... envision in your mind tumble weeds.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercylon Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 (forgot how add that...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 It's Pong. You already play it on television. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifemadesimple Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Honestly, its been a month and a half since the indiegogo launch was canceled with seemingly no plans to reinstitute it in sight. I was softer on the box than I think a lot were, and at the very least I wanted the damn thing to come out, but I think we're fast approaching the point where we can say it's dead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pac-Guy 26 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 The year is 2049. No news has come out for the AtariBox since 2016. AtariAge has been renamed to Tacos and Classics. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 It's Pong. You already play it on television. What if they made a real-life version of Pong, with a real ball and paddle and... ...wait... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Better now, just had 2 steak tacos with Mayan hot sauce. Carry on. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 That is the stupidest thing I've heard all week. So true. This is truly vapid stuff. He could literally be talking about anything. “Our brand and our portfolio of games are known to many people around the world so it is a natural fit to bring them to television,” said Frédéric Chesnais, CEO of Atari. “We are proud to team-up with Scott and have him join our brand because his expertise will help create a truly remarkable television show for everyone to enjoy.” Could be ... Soap We make some of the best known brands in the world, and those brands are used by 2.5 billion people every day Use this page to browse the list of all Unilever's brands, see what brands are available in your country and link to more information about any of our brands on a local Unilever website. Cereal Creating Brands. Building Relationships. What began with a corn flake has since defined an industry. And today we continuously strive to provide a delicious choice of brands that people know, trust and enjoy around the world. a real electronics company PEOPLE: With over 230,000 employees around the world, we are as much a local company as we are a global one. Our ties to the community ... jump in brand value. Our brand promise is creating products and services that expand experience and open possibilities – possibilities for everyone, everywhere. and we could go on, of course. P-dubs, thanks for continuing to post stupid $hit for us to mock. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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