Game developers flocked to the pioneering platform, churning out new titles. Nintendo, the company which eventually became a major player in the video gaming industry for the next three decades, delivered their first series of video game console from to These consoles essentially followed in the footsteps of Atari and featured Pong-style games. So how many Atari consoles are there?
Including the Atari Pong, there are ten original gaming consoles that were made by Atari. As mentioned above, Activision was formed by some of Atari's top designers. Not too surprisingly, Activision is one of the few era companies still in existence. Do's Castle are a few other examples.
A number of independent and semi-corporate developers have released "homebrew" games for the console in recent years. Ed Federmeyer is widely recognized as the first homebrew developer, releasing SoundX a sound utility cartridge in and Edtris a Tetris clone in Those interested in programming their own games can learn all sorts of useful information at the archives of the Stella Mailing List.
A landmark game and one of the 's best, Pitfall! In Pitfall! The object of the game is to collect 32 items of gold, silver pieces, and money bags in 20 minutes. Along the way, you must avoid rolling logs, bottomless pits, crocodiles, fires, snakes, scorpions, and other obstacles. You can swing on ropes, jump on crocodile heads to cross ponds, and climb ladders. Even the sound effects are great. It sold millions of copies, established a new genre of adventure games and spawned hundreds of similar products.
There are now more sideview platform video games than any other category. I wanted to do a game with a running man. I had designed one and I liked the effect, but I had to make a game out of it. So, I thought, 'Well, he has to be running somewhere And then I had to put it into a place - so I picked a jungle. The idea took all of ten minutes. It was a simple idea - a man running in a jungle. But, it spawned a genre of side-scrolling games.
It was the beginning of a genre. Also, I guess people just remembered it as being neat. You're a set of chomping teeth, and you race around munching flying junk food while dodging purple pickles. Eat too many purple pickles and you'll die! It's fast-paced, simple, fun, and addicting. Everything a good game should be. A great "twitch" game.
One of the first cooperative games and still one of the best. Joust shows that despite its limitations, the was capable of producing very faithful arcade ports. One of the biggest bombs in videogame history. Play it for a few minutes and you'll know why. However, while E. Give it a try and see for yourself. Significant for many reasons: for one, the infamous "Easter egg" which rebelled against Atari's practices of not giving any credit to game creators it's usually considered the first Easter egg ever.
Also, Adventure is one of the first videogame RPGs, albeit very primitive. Adventure also has a "random game" feature which means the game can stay fresh, even after hundreds of plays! There are dozens of Atari accessories and funky controllers out there, and a complete list would be difficult to put together, but here are some highlights:. Space-Age Joystick Atari and third parties introduced all kinds of accessories and expansions for the There was also an alarming amount of products that were announced but never released.
Atari was infamous for its vaporware. Some products that never saw the light of day include the aforementioned computer add-ons "My First Computer" and "The Graduate," and the Voice Commander voice recognition system, which Atari had planned to develop with Milton Bradley. Atlantis II. Star Raiders. Beany Bopper [Xante]. Swordquest Earthworld. Cosmic Ark. Yars' Revenge. River Raid. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Swordquest Fireworld. Beyond those three, the first two versions of the machine contain just one more chip, a standard CMOS logic buffer IC, bringing the total chip count to the very low and cost-effective number of four.
Some later versions of the console eliminated the buffer chip. Programs for small computers were generally stored on cassette tape, disk or paper tape. By the early s, Hewlett Packard manufactured desktop computers costing thousands of dollars such as the HP , which packaged ROM memory into removable cartridges to add special programming features, and these were being considered for use in games. At first, the design was not going to be cartridge-based, but after seeing a "fake" cartridge system on another machine, they realized they could place the games on cartridges essentially for the price of the connector and packaging.
Stella was still not ready for production, but it was clear that it needed to be before there were a number of "me too" products filling up the market — which had happened after they released Pong.
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