A happy Atari Christmas story...

[Red 5]

So my wife is in Best Buy and she comes home and tells me this story...

 

She says there's a six year old kid with his Grandfather pointing at the Atari flashback system begging his Grandfather for it.

 

The Grandfather says, "No you don't want that. It's the old one."

The six year old says, "No Grandpa ! That's the one I want ! I want Atari ! I like the old ones ! Mom said I could get it !"

 

Don't know if the kid got it or not, but how cool is that !

I mean, I know it's the Flashback and it pretty much bites the big one from what I've heard, but the fact that it's 2004 and a 6 year old is begging for an Atari system for Christmas makes me smile.

[Philflound]

I agree. I miss those days.

 

Phil

[Godzilla]

sniff... truly a tale to warm the cockles of a crusty old gamer like me.

 

reminds me of the time in the early 90s when i ran a game store and a little kid in the store WANTED to play the 7800 i had snuck in to amuse myself with, even though there were all the other new systems around.

[Big Player]

I hope the kid gets his Flashback.

 

Though he might be in for a shock when he grows up and plays the real games. "But these aren't how I remember them."

[mvigor]

sniff... truly a tale to warm the cockles of a crusty old gamer like me.

 

It warmed your wrinkles?

 

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?db=*&q=cockles

[maibock]

sniff... truly a tale to warm the cockles of a crusty old gamer like me.

 

It warmed your wrinkles?

 

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?db=*&q=cockles

 

From your link there "Idiom:

cockles of (one's) heart

One's innermost feelings: The valentine warmed the cockles of my heart.

 

[mvigor]

Mmm hmm.

[yuppicide]

I miss the old days when I'd go into a store and see a wall of like 200 games for sale.. there used to be this place.. it was considered an indoor fleamarket. It was basically a big building with booths. It was only open on the weekend. I remember wanting Journey Escape and I picked up Deadly Ducks instead.

[yuppicide]

Imagine if you knew back then what you know now?! You'd look for more obscure companies games to buy lol.

[4ever2600]

I don't know... Even if the kid did get it for Christmas, I think he's going to be crying on Christmas day. Not so much because the Atari 2600 wasn't an incredible machine, but because he got infogrames screwed up, miscued version of a 2600!

[mvigor]

Same applies to Yuppicide's comment though.

 

If you had bought all these R-10 games back in the day, you would have been crying Christmas morning because your games were so bad. You would have jumped at the chance to trade the entire lot of them to your friend for Q-Bert.

[Synthead]

The kid isn't going to be like "waa, the gameplay is a little different than the original Asteriods," noooo ... he'll love it. I know it's not the same, being merely a badly reprogrammed, expensive, Infrogrames-owned version, but you can't beat the spirit of Atari, no matter how it is concieved.

 

That's so great, what a story you have there!

[Philflound]

If it was an R10, it probably wouldn't have been sitting on the shelf. And the price you paid back then for most of the games is more than you pay now, not even counting the cost of living increase over the years. Now, if you got them on blowout, that's a different story.

 

Phil