The history of Atari

[@ThunderHorsePyro]

I consider myself lucky to have grown up in the 1980s and experiencing the maturing of video games from the Atari 2600 to what we have today. It's been an incredible journey. Many thanks to Nolan Bushnell and all of the other brilliant minds at Atari. And in case anybody asks, like the commercial, I actually did play Atari games yesterday.

[@deg6788]

I played my Atari lynx today❤❤

[@Rexlaninetales]

I'm 41 years old and I grew up with the Atari 2600. So this video was quite nostalgic for me. Thank you very kindly for bringing back such memorable video gaming moments.

[@GamingTechnologyVarietyChannel]

Your very welcome man well I’m 49 years old snd I remember the VCS from back in the late 1980’s around 1987.

[@GamingTechnologyVarietyChannel]

Well I mean 40 years old(damn touch screens).

[@peal1179]

I am 51 and I grew up on the original Atari, seems like you guys who are 10 yrs plus younger than I am would have grown up on whatever came next after the original Atari.

[@Rexlaninetales]

@@peal1179 At your age, it seems that you would have grown up with the variety of pong consoles that preceded the Atari 2600. And yeah, I started with Atari 2600 and gravitated towards the original Nintendo in 1986; and Super Nintendo in 1992.

[@wallacelang1374]

This primary interview with Nolan Bushnell was originally featured on the "Atari Anthology" CD-ROM for the Windows PC. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney were the co-founders of Atari. They brought in electronics engineers Al Alcorn and Ed Logg to create the earliest Atari arcade games, for they helped create Computer Space, Pong, Breakout and Asteroids.

[@ociemayfield2332]

I was right years old when Atari put out the first arcade game called pong which I played in 1972,then four years later Atari came with the Atari 2600 along with several video games,I am proud of playing the Atari game system as a kid during the 1970's and the 1980's.

[@edwardiii8409]

To og gamers We salute you

[@heyhonpuds]

I was left years old myself

[@simplyme5324]

I didn't know shit about how computers work in detail. I grew up with Windows. My first home computer had a frequency of 1GHz and I thought "A billion Hertz? That is enormous." I got my first laptop in 7th grade and became an internet addict. Not for social media but for reading. Reading whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. Wikipedia, press articles, etc. I wanted to learn more and put up different Linux distros in a VM in 2012. That was my intro to computing. I still want to understand computing in all its beauty and debt. No way I will ever understand something as complex as my laptop. So I try with smaller systems, a few bit, no error correction, no copying of bits and bytes. Quantum computing is my field now but I am also amazed by retrocomputing. Maybe I will learn Assembler the next year and see how to program really old machines. Thanks for the amazing interview 🙂

[@kevinrickey3925]

I'm a crazy old fart. Playing Video Games is Truly a "gateway" to programming. When I moved to Eugene from Portland in 1979, I was short a math credit at Sheldon High School.. Math was not my favorite subject, but I saw a Math credit in "BASIC Computer Programming". I said YES to that. I was lost for a week, it made no sense. I'd been building and repairing power amps and equalizer circuits, but I liked the idea of making shit without a soldering iron... Programming.... on a TRS-80 with a mem-expansion unit, cassette drive I/O.. BASIC was good for writing games.. A$=Inkey$ can be wonderful at interpreting keyboard things, but too slow. I heard whispers about "Machine Language"..."X=USR(0)" I asked my teacher: I wanna learn assembly language for the Zilog Z80 cpu, can you help me? No he said... SO I got a Rodnay Zacks book and taught myself to hand assemble machine language for the Z80. Graduated Sheldon with Computer Programming Honors.. My First Comp I owned was an ATARI 400. A 6502 CPU.. SHIT.. Architecture and addressing modes were so foreign, it took me 8 months to get used to effectively using ZERO-PAGE addressing to make that 6502 fly like crazy, then got the ATARI TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUALS for Christmas when I was like 15.. Oh Shit.. Vertical Blank Interrupts, Display Lists, Display list interrupts. Player Missle Graphics. I was in Heaven. Until I was forced to go with IBM, and a JOB and Lotus-123, and Word Perfect. FUCK I gotta learn the INTEL 8088/8086 shit now.... Um... I'm fixing my site... kevinrickey.com... someone trashed my ssl. I'm fixing and bringing up retro code. Love you Bro...

[@karak962]

that's awesome!

[@FoundOasis]

A very smart man for his time and even now! Nolan bush well is not a name brought up much nowdays but it was such a big undertaking that started video games and made it boom. There work environment was free too and they were the kings at the time

[@soulblazerz]

Thanks for posting this!

[@GamingTechnologyVarietyChannel]

Your welcome.

[@msnchan]

@@GamingTechnologyVarietyChannel you're (but yes thank you)

[@mindcrome]

I would say to boil it down: Inability to see the changes, over production of outdated software, drugs brought down Atari (Home Division). The Arcade division was making good stuff.

[@outaspaceman]

I like this kind of history lesson..👍

[@theunknown4570]

I was there from pong and I am still here with Call of Duty Black Ops 6 next month. I am an old G gamer. Do not discount us we grew up on it

[@goopah]

Oh wow. Great to see this here. thanks for posting it. Do you know approximately when this interview was done? seems like the early 2000's, but I'm just guessing.

[@naomibillharzferreira2981]

Great video!!

[@zg-it]

"Video games of the training wheels for computer literacy" -Nolan Bushnell

[@cybermindarcade5172]

ya dont see that atari 2600 track ball much at 7:30 mark in video. i was not born till 80 so I never saw one lol.

[@rezneba101]

Kids, the only key to success -> 1:20:52

[@rosema7909]

Thanks Nolan

[@lucaorlandi289]

I am 41 and i grew up with atari 2600

[@knicknevin9975]

16:55 That flight simulator commercial lookin pretty sus...

[@jasonmoore1051]

What are the credits for this video? Who made it? Who owns it? Where did it come from?

[@bobbywhite1411]

Exactly

[@medes5597]

@@bobbywhite1411 it's an extra on atari museum collection on PlayStation. Hence why It has PlayStation prompts and stops and starts because its tiny videos in mpeg2 video. Its all over the Internet.

[@shawncarter7188]

The dog in the ET commercial is dead now HAHAHAHAH

[@Starchdread]

This Bushnell guy seems kind of shady to me.

[@uncleTedK]

All businessmen are.

[@rondelllee8936]

Atari are great innovators and geniuses they just don't know how to market the right games people want like San Francisco Rush or mace the dark age because they're sitting on a gold mine 😑

[@maniacsatwork]

I love how they totally dismissed the success that Atari had with their 8bit line of computers and when Jack took over, the ST line of computers, which were very successful throughout the UK and Europe, dominated the music industry. Software companies that are still around today such as Cubase started on the ST. Jack took the company into new, more successful markets. What an absolute garbage documentary.

[@rosema7909]

Uk doesn’t matter though, has no one ever told you?

[@gfdggdfgdgf]

So let's see, some randomly thrown together clips, not in chronological order and the same info is tepeated several times. Yeah this is not a good video.