Just Kidding 1983 - Imagic video game company segment

[@giosasso]

I loved Imagic games on Intellivision. They were the most creative. Swords and serpents drove me nuts because i never knew how to finish it.

[@jcgm97]

Thanks for posting this clip; as a child of the 70's and 80's, I grew up on the old Atari 2600 and Colecovision video game systems and eat this kind of nostalgia up!

[@flynns_arcade]

Thanks for uploading this. This is just amazing !

[@d.vaughn8990]

As I watch this video, I am sitting in my dark garage, at night, watching Atari 2600 "Atlantis", in attract mode, on my Sony Trinitron. If someone told me in 1982, that I would still be playing Atari in 2022, I'd think they were nuts!

[@customsongmaker]

How much was that Trinitron

[@d.vaughn8990]

@@customsongmaker A guy, in a nice neighborhood was throwing it out. Not a scratch on it - anywhere!

[@customsongmaker]

@@d.vaughn8990 have you considered modifying it to add scan lines?

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

Very cool.

[@chemistryguy]

6:41 Something wrong with the graphics... *screen bugs out*

[@ioloavatar8430]

Why am I thinking , Dragon Fire ?

[@treksterjsc]

Demon Attack for the Atari 2600 was one of best games ever made!

[@WillowEpp]

I like how a lot of the things mentioned are as relevant now as they were in 1983. Twenty-seven years and we're still applying a lot of the same methods. (Though with FAR less assembly. ;) )

[@unknownfilmmaker777]

Now 37 years!

[@customsongmaker]

What did he swipe to open the door? Some kind of magnetic key?

[@kellyjinva]

I came across a documentery that a TV show did about Imagic that was also from the 80's. It was cut into 4 parts and was all about the original creation of Atlantis and everything in between to when they debut it at the CES. I havent been able to find those vids on here since! Has anyone else seen them???

[@WebVManReturns]

Kelly Jaye I recall seeing those clips before.

[@jmmbrmm]

Was it this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoGUc3msetmAnaM

[@uzi9millimetuh]

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[@GardevoirBoy]

I actually realized that Imagic is now owned by Activision.

[@CoyoteSeven]

Back in the day both companies were forward thinking and filled with highly imaginative and skilled game programmers. The Activision of today is absolutely nothing like that now. It's just like any other big company, doing big company things in big company ways. Sad to say that if it were Imagic that flourished and Activision that failed, things would probably have turned out the same way, except the names would have been swapped.

[@kellyjinva]

Im not sure what you mean by livevideo. It was just another video here on KZbin that was in several parts

[@snakes3425]

anyone want to bet the IMAGIC designer they featured probably ended up in the unemployment line soon after this aired

[@CoyoteSeven]

Pat Ransil. I looked him up. He seems to be doing pretty well for himself nowadays.

[@superamanda]

The roots of the dot com rise and fall and semi rise again!

[@Mumie12345]

Very cool!!!!!

[@goopah]

@MrColuber At around the 5:00 mark, the narrator says it's "Wing War".

[@scole66]

I think I know the guy who was juggling. wow.

[@bedtime420]

Times were so simple. I miss the simple times.People were all happy, and no one was in debt. Now everyone is in debt. :(

[@XKWX]

Does anyone know the specific model of computers they were using to program?

[@CoyoteSeven]

Those look like terminals. If so they were connected to a mainframe. Probably putting all their projects on a centralized server like that kept everyone in sync with what everyone else was doing. I imagine they wrote their own 6502 cross assembler for it.

[@r1chb]

I love how the old monitors are identical to the Fallout 3 terminals :-)

[@MrColuber]

I have a few questions: what is Pat's last name, 'cos I didn't get it, and how did he design Atlantis when Wikipedia says Dennis Koble did? And what dragon is he making? A Prototype to Dragonfire?

[@AandNvg]

The Intellivision version?

[@AssassinateThisEzio]

wouldn't it be something if they had a beam gun where it could beam them into the digital world. :D

[@googuse]

How did the guy in the Dodger cap not get his ass kicked?

[@rameybutler-hm7nx]

Where did all the american programers go?

[@MagikGimp]

And then they laid of half the staff that year and eventually folded in 3 years!

[@WKRPinCINN]

HAHAHAH!!!!

[@DJcaliban]

adm3a

[@brooklynbred1460]

It a black person in sight.