liquid_sky Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 part of the duck and cover cartoon from the civil defense film of the same name circa 1950s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallowmyers Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 My first idea would be to put a snip-it from a current Playstation 2 tv commercial on it... how novel and ironic for it to be played from an atari... but this will age once something bigger and newer then the PS2 comes out. *of course an NES 'now you're playing with power' add would be just as super* Next, I would like to see either the 10 second clip of Heather Macrimera downing the cup of toxic hull cleaner then smashing through her glass coffee table (from the movie Heathers) or 10 seconds worth of "NO WIRE HANGERS!" child abuse fun from Mommie Dearest. If all else fails I second the Paris Hilton idea... Ethan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted December 19, 2003 Author Share Posted December 19, 2003 Bleh...check the politics at the door IMO Yes, I think that's a good idea. And people should remember that *I* am not American, so I'll have no particular reason to treat any American historical event with more favour than any other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakpack Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Just think... someday 2600 videocarts might replace the outdated DVD! -Bry Or at least that VideoNow Player. Spongebob! on VCS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Vivo la 2600! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakpack Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Vivo la 2600! Or maybe more like 'TiVo la 2600'....hmmmmmmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cootster Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 This proves, beyond a doubt, that the 2600 is eternal . . . Because, well, anything is possible with that little box . . . Which makes me wonder, if given enough motivation, time, and drugs, Andrew could make a working MindLink . . . My suggestions for a video clip: 1: The Death Star explosion from Return of the Jedi. 2: That pizza guy in Pennsylvania's head getting blown off. 3: Whichever Atari commercial Jack Black was really in. The sound: 1: Keep the original sound . . . Duh. 2: the Benny Hill theme 3: The "Tribute" riff by Tenacious D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatdan Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 I would definitely vote for an Atari commercial. Lets face it -- the people who get these cartridges aren't going to watch them over and over, and they will probably take them to shows and stuff to show the new technology. If I showed up at a show and someone plugged an Atari 2600 cartridge in and I saw a show / movie that I don't really know or like for 10 seconds, I wouldn't be as impressed with the technology as if I had seen a clip about the 2600. Besides, that way even someone else there who might not know too much about the machine, the clip would automatically introduce them to it. While the idea of a space landing or flight or whatever is interesting, it wouldn't get the same message across in my opinion. Regardless of if the 2600 can play FMV or not, I think that we all realize that this will not cause a new revolution where people toss their PS2's and GameCubes and run out to pick up a 2600. It's awesome and completely revolutionary for what it is, but I think that outside of a select group, seeing a clip like that might be a little bit too much. Those are my thoughts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 How about this short clip that G4TV has on their website of Howard Scott Warshaw (author of Yars Revenge) dancing a jig? Dang, that just occurred to me too! It occurs to me that the light cycle bit from Tron, possibly after they break out and the tanks are chasing them, might work well too, but now we're back to copyright issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uosipa llamxew Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 I thought of an old slogan that was used in Recycle ads. Mix it with a custom animation/morph and you have: The recycle logo shapeshifts into the Atari logo. Audio is, "Recycle, Resell, Reuse - because Atari matters" I thought it was a neat idea - but uh... what do I know? Awww! I think I mismatched my socks again this morning - DAMMIT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 How about an image of PS2, GC, and XBox and the announcer says "Today's consoles may be popular but..." And have a 2600 console land and flatten nthe 3 consoles and the announcer continues "... nothing beats the classic!" Or something like that. I still think a bit of the 3D Yars Revenge commercial wuld be cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisjohn Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Yes, I think that's a good idea. And people should remember that *I* am not American, so I'll have no particular reason to treat any American historical event with more favour than any other. Do we have any historical Australian events on video? How about that "May God save the Queen because nothing will save the Governer General" snippit? Or Hawk's "There will be no child living in poverty by 1990"? I think everything else is sport-related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbid Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 if an atari commercial is the final decision, make sure the "Have you played Atari today" final line is the focus of the cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheedback Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 What about the Moon Landing Hoax Video? http://www.moontruth.com/clips/moontruth.mpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Why not do a short promotional thing for AtariAge? How about for PhillyClassic? Just put a small clip with Albert and Alex talking about AA or something. Just ask the, to decribe it in 10 seconds or less...LOL. How about YOU, Andrew Davie, shoot some footage of yourself explaining this breakthrough? Hmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Why not do a short promotional thing for AtariAge? How about for PhillyClassic? Hmm, or AGE2. That sort of thing can always be done later. Just put a small clip with Albert and Alex talking about AA or something. Just ask the, to decribe it in 10 seconds or less...LOL. Haha, that would be funny, but I'd personally like to see some type of historical footage. Or maybe a clip from a movie. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 The Cemetary Zombie from Night Of The Living Dead making his first appearence. (Its even Public Domain material) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 What about the Moon Landing Hoax Video?http://www.moontruth.com/clips/moontruth.mpg Interesting video. I saw the clip and found it humorous. I would like to see 3-D Yars Revenge video ending with "We are Atari. We invented the videogame and we bring the videogame experience home" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potzrebie Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 The video should be a clip from that Intellivision commercial comparing the graphics of the atari to the intellivision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 That would be ironic since the INTV was supposed to be superior. As an INTV owner as well, I say "Bah!". It's always nice to see old technologies pushed to their limits and given new life in this digital age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uosipa llamxew Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Here's a silly idea: 3 young kids rummaging through an attick come across a VCS. Unsure of what it is, they poke it around and come up with different ideas for what it might be. 1 says,"maybe it's a toaster... except for english muffins." 2 says,"naw, there's too many switches! It's probably the factory mp3 player from your Dad's Mustang!" He pokes it with a stick, accidentally knocking it to the floor. The cartridge from the top comes loose (revealed is the title : Missile Command). 3 says, "Oh my God! Don't touch it! Do you want to be responsible for a world war?! 1 says, "He's right, this is boring anyways... let's go play the X-BOX" (Some sort of ending caption here at the end.) The conversation wouldn't have to go like that - but I think it would be funny to see clueless kids poking around an Atari. Perhaps instead of going to "play the X-Box", they go to play "Enter the Matrix"... the irony being that it has the Atari brand on the game. Okay, maybe I'm just weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Okay, maybe I'm just weird. All that in just 10 seconds? You are weird! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uosipa llamxew Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 All that in just 10 seconds? umm, oh yah. I forgot that part. You are weird! NO SIR!!! Um... yah... maybe... okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_Larson Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Ok I got it. How about the famous speech of John F. Kennedy giving the challenge to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade, except with the original audio dubbed over so that he is *instead* challenging to port the Paris Hilton sex tape to the Atari 2600 by the end of the decade. Then cut to the Paris Hilton sex tape, of course... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Ok I got it. How about the famous speech of John F. Kennedy giving the challenge to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade, except with the original audio dubbed over so that he is *instead* challenging to port the Paris Hilton sex tape to the Atari 2600 by the end of the decade. Then cut to the Paris Hilton sex tape, of course... The VCS couldn't handle a night-vision video could it? And besides, who would want to watch THAT? (Paris Hilton video). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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