Imagine, if you will, being a gamer in the 1980s. In order to play anything, you would have had to have exchanged currency for every single play of every single game. And the games in your local arcade wouldn't have been easy, either. Those old school cabinets were scientifically designed to suck quarters from you with quickness; to achieve even a base level of competence at Defender, you're talking at least 15 bucks... and don't even get me started about games like 720 Degrees, that had the nerve to charge two quarters a play... or those rip-off arcades that used tokens instead of coins so they could make the gamer exchange rate three-plays for a dollar.
Thank god our long national nightmare is over.
Imagine going back in time 30 years to a typical arcade and finding a dude in a painter's cap and a Pac-Man Fever shirt and and being like, "Yo, 1980s Gamer Dude: In The Future, you can play arcade games like Asteroids, Crystal Castles, and home console games like Adventure for free. All day long. Without leaving your house."
1980s Guy would be all, "Totally tubular, dude! How?"
You would go, "Just click this link on the web. Atari's giving that stuff away."
And 1980s Guy would be like, "Wait, what's a 'link?' What do webs have to do with anything? Why have you used the ability to go back in time to tell me about video games instead of using it to get me laid?"
Shamed, you would run back to your little time machine or fade into a wormhole or some crap.
Thankfully, time travel is impossible, and you can play a bunch of crusty Atari games in the present... or in The Future, a few moments from now, just by visiting this site. What a time to be alive!
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dolphers
I loved your time story more than the actual subject matter. :)
unfungames
I wish I could just get info without having to read failed attempts at comey every single post. at least the link came soon enough so i didnt have to stomach anymore bad jokes.
RifePrime
"Thankfully, time travel is impossible, and you can play a bunch of crusty Atari games in the present... or in The Future, a few moments from now, just by visiting this site. What a time to be alive!"
I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not. It's a real problem across the site sometimes.
bolo73
Those are some sweet games from back in the day. I do miss going to the local liquor store and playing for hours or going to golf n stuff like once a year to play at there arcade area.
Games like, dig dug, Pac-man, moon patrol, Donkey Kong, Pitfall, Kung Fu, missle command, burger time, etc.
I still have my 2600 with each of those games plus about 300 others. I got a bunch of them for nothing after the 2600 became outdated. The 2600 still works and yes my oldest child laughs at the graphics but gets his but gets owned quickly by the difficulty and the fact 3 lives can go quickly.
jrippin
Adventure was my first game!
BrotherFade
I miss arcades.
Adrenalyn915
Nothing is impossible.
Erthazus
I'm interested in things like: What are Atari plans? They don't do much now and where is Phil Harrison?
Spybreak
Now we can play ET, the legendary Atari game for free! lol Pitfall was my favorite but no way I could play and be entertained to this day though.
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