Atari 2600 Commercials

[@d.vaughn8990]

Just for historical purposes...all of the excitement and yelling over Atari games, as portrayed by these commercial "families" is accurate. I am of the Atari generation - I was there!!

[@Aliceeyes]

haha nice my older brother was the atari generation and as a result i ended up with his hand me down atari as my first system, so i wasnt there at the time but it was still formative gaming for me

[@sideburn]

I held out for the ColecoVision 😝

[@d.vaughn8990]

@@sideburn If the Colecovision was introduced a year earlier, I would’ve opted for it without hesitation. It’s unexcusable that Atari didn’t make a Colecovision caliber system by 1980 or ‘81.

[@sideburn]

@@d.vaughn8990 I think their 8-bit computers and the 5200 were at the same caliber. Maybe a little better. The 5200’s main issue was the terrible controllers.

[@Itsuki_Gamer]

Soooo true!! Oh my god, my mom and river raid = yelling screaming, excitement and also cussing. Magical times for sure!

[@marcburger8458]

Good old days, just got my new 2600plus😊

[@mistergone5156]

13:28 I'm convinced that this is the greatest commercial ever. For Pole Position, with a great opening line and insane explosions!

[@CStars55]

'Twas truly a simpler time, for better and worse

[@Neotron2001]

The Yars Revenge/Asteroids/Star Raiders ad was brilliant.

[@reubenguttenberg7405]

Mario where are you

[@randalgelking7329]

Mr Hooper & Elisabeth Shue!!

[@Yubl10]

Thanks for the compilation something like a year late. I wasn't born until 88, so by the time I was old enough to play video games, they were into the 16-bit generation. I didn't get an atari 2600 until I was in my 20s, but I really like it, and it's games also E.T. isn't that bad. Have you played Atari today?

[@OrangeHarrisonRB3]

8:55 So funny in retrospect, someone throwing their "ET" game out their house combined with the unceremonious thump.

[@nickwerner7983]

10:52 Finally! Activision

[@TheVampirePredator]

ET The Videogame: Coming soon to a landfill near you!

[@Aliceeyes]

lmao

[@troyandrew6154]

Also coming soon, pac-man for the atari 2600

[@sith7183]

Thank you for posting my Childhood Simpler Times

[@Dave00068]

Dios mío! Que tiempos! Gracias a Atari (Y sobre todo al mejor de sus juegos: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' del genial Howard Scott Warshaw) me decidí a aprender a programar y a hacer videjuegos, lo que muchos años después se puede decir que salvó mi vida. Gracias Alice! Un video fantástico! Saludos desde España!

[@mistergone5156]

27:55 Hey, it's The Tubes! Fee Waybill was a Megamaniac, who knew?

[@gavinojdomingueziii7991]

I remember the first video game I've ever played on Atari was kaboom when I was about 6 or 7 years old I thought it was the coolest thing ever at a neighborhood kid friend house after that around a month later I went out and bought the Nentendo entertainment system although home gaming systems where cool It still didn't compare to the 1980s arcade gaming experience as a kid back then.

[@lclark2132]

Awesome!

[@dogeymon83]

Discover how far you can go……all the way to two bits of power.

[@Ovalbugmann]

Atari VCS, it was an 8-bit processing power cpu and system, and you can thank the 8-bit gaming revolution for starting the industry.

[@hiimIan1872]

come and play atari today! no!