Famous Atari Characters

[Rocko]

What are some well known atari Characters?

 

 

 

The Adventure Square

R. Hero

Pitfall Harry

Yar

 

 

 

Who else?

[Rocko]

They can be on any atari system. Prefferably

2600 | 5200 | 7800 | Lynx | Jaguar.

[NovaXpress]

Pitfall Harry. End of the list.

[Rocko]

Even if atarians only know...

[Rocko]

Anyone?

[tyranthraxus]

There aren't really any famous characters, Atari in their prime was all

about arcade games and the early ones weren't really character stuff.

They were mainly space shooters with no characters.

 

Pac-man is often connected to Atari but its Namco's baby. Those two were

so close I was surprised to learn as a collector that so many games I

thought were Atari were licensed from Namco.

 

A lot of non-gamers associate Donkey Kong with Atari.

 

There's that Monetzuma guy but thats getting a bit more obscure. I think

its Panama Joe? And again its another Atari didn't make themselves.

 

Atari wasn't very good at building franchises. Even if good it seems all

their sequels were poorly recieved - Asteroids Deluxe, Millipede, etc.

Swordquest got worse as it went on. And they dropped the ball on a Yar's

sequel. But then again it seems that until Nintendo took over that game

sequels were very anticipated.

[bradjewell]

bentley bear.

major havoc.(they were gonna make him a real character so to speak)

probably some more.

 

brad

[tantone56]

MS Pacman and the aliens from space invaiders

[chairmonkey4406]

Why ET of course!

[Ze_ro]

Lynx: Dirty Larry, Chip, the guy from Scrapyard Dog, the guy from Xybots (I forget his name).

 

Jaguar: Trevor McFur, Skylar, and the Iron Soldier mech come to mind.

 

As for Pitfall Harry, he's an Activision character... he just happens to appear on an Atari system (He's on the Jaguar too)

 

--Zero

[Rocko]

Ok, so the game can be third party as well.