Posts tagged atari 5200

Today's most failure-prone video: Console duds

by Zack Stern (May 7th 2007 12:00AM)

In today's video pick, GameTrailers counts down its list of the top ten console failures, including the Jaguar, Virtual Boy, and 3DO. We were tortured by watching footage of these console failures, yet we couldn't turn away, wishing that the hardware had succeeded while laughing about all the ...

Today's throwbackiest video: Atari Pole Position commercial from the 80s

by Kevin Kelly (Apr 4th 2007 12:01AM)

"HEY! You look like a jerk!" Any commercial that starts off like this is gold in our book. We can't remember seeing a commercial so disproportionally different from the actual gameplay experience. Even the raw processing power *ahem* of the Atari 5200 couldn't make Pole Position look this ...

Lost rarities -- the hard to find gems of console gaming

by Kevin Kelly (Oct 9th 2006 12:45PM)

Developers spend a lot of time and money trying to sell as many copies of their games as possible, but sometimes different reasons cause a game to be produced in extremely limited quantities. A developer may have gone out of business, the publisher pulled the plug early, or the game might have ...