Have you played Atari today (or Atari)?

[kain_kusanagi]

richardhutnik said:

kain_kusanagi said:
As a matter of fact I did play Atari today, and yesterday too. I didn't play my Yars cart, but I did play several versions of Donkey Kong. I love my Atari consoles/computers. I have every version of Donkey Kong and all the consoles and computers it was ported to. Yesterday I played the 7800 version and today I played the Atari 8Bit version on my Atari 800 as well as the 2600 version which has a special nostalgia for me even though it is the worst port, even worse than the Intellivision version.

My understanding is that around this time in 1979, the Atari 8bit computers hit the market.  It is a shame the Atari 8bits lost the home computer war.   That was fanboy days for me, where I defending the Atari 8bit against the forces of evil, the Commodore 64.  I did eventually jump ship. out of choice.  Still remember trying to run Pacman with 8K memory on the Atari 400 and it be a disaster (cart didn't break but still).  I remember using the membrane keyboard and typing in code.  Spend hours enterting in data from ANALOG Magazine so I could play ripoffs of arcade games.  Ahh, those were the days.

Anyone remember the Atari Program Exchange (APEX) catalog?  It was like the XBox Live Arcade Indie channel offline.  The dreams and wishes I had.  CAVERNS OF MARS!

Those were the days. I never had the patients to type code back then. I barely had the patients to wait for a program to load off a data tape.