Sweet Fake Atari 7800 commercia

[boatofcar]

A guy over at the AA boards made this fake Atari 7800 commercial. It really shows what the system was capable of if it had only had some more marketing thrown behind it.....

http://homepage.mac.com/markrathwell/iMovieTheater3.html

[boatofcar]

A guy over at the AA boards made this fake Atari 7800 commercial. It really shows what the system was capable of if it had only had some more marketing thrown behind it.....

http://homepage.mac.com/markrathwell/iMovieTheater3.html

[Lady Jaye]

Cool ad! And it's true, that's what Atari Corp. oughta have done... (and imagine how it'd be had the 7800 not being delayed in its launch like it was!)

[Lady Jaye]

Cool ad! And it's true, that's what Atari Corp. oughta have done... (and imagine how it'd be had the 7800 not being delayed in its launch like it was!)

[BrokenFlight]

Wow, I thought all the Ataris had blocky graphics and a handful of colours. Or was that just the 2600? I don't know much about Ataris. That ad was good.

[BrokenFlight]

Wow, I thought all the Ataris had blocky graphics and a handful of colours. Or was that just the 2600? I don't know much about Ataris. That ad was good.

[sharp]

Wow, I thought all the Ataris had blocky graphics and a handful of colours. Or was that just the 2600? I don't know much about Ataris. That ad was good.

That was the 2600, the 7800 was technical near the NES, sadly they never put enough money in it for bigger carts and good marketing and so it failed.

Anyway, the commercail looks great.

[sharp]

Wow, I thought all the Ataris had blocky graphics and a handful of colours. Or was that just the 2600? I don't know much about Ataris. That ad was good.

That was the 2600, the 7800 was technical near the NES, sadly they never put enough money in it for bigger carts and good marketing and so it failed.

Anyway, the commercail looks great.

[BrokenFlight]

This ad makes me want to pick up the 7800 I saw in Gamestation. I can't remember the specifics but it was about £50 with something like 25 games. IIRC They were 2600 games. Was the 7800 backwards compatible then? I heard something about a converter for the 5200 to play 2600 games. I'm interested in Ataris now I've seen this ad.

[BrokenFlight]

This ad makes me want to pick up the 7800 I saw in Gamestation. I can't remember the specifics but it was about £50 with something like 25 games. IIRC They were 2600 games. Was the 7800 backwards compatible then? I heard something about a converter for the 5200 to play 2600 games. I'm interested in Ataris now I've seen this ad.

[anagrama]

This ad makes me want to pick up the 7800 I saw in Gamestation. I can't remember the specifics but it was about £50 with something like 25 games. IIRC They were 2600 games. Was the 7800 backwards compatible then? I heard something about a converter for the 5200 to play 2600 games. I'm interested in Ataris now I've seen this ad.

£50?! That's a fucking joke. You can get one on eBay for about £5-£10 (I got mine there for 99p! :) ), and the vast majority of games can be had new & boxed for a couple of quid. Chances are, most of the ones bundled with the one you saw will have been 2600 titles rather than 7800 aswell (it's compatible with practically all 2600 games).

Then again, the Gamestation near me were trying to get £110 for a woody VCS with about 10 dirt-common games. I think someone actually paid it too!

[anagrama]

This ad makes me want to pick up the 7800 I saw in Gamestation. I can't remember the specifics but it was about £50 with something like 25 games. IIRC They were 2600 games. Was the 7800 backwards compatible then? I heard something about a converter for the 5200 to play 2600 games. I'm interested in Ataris now I've seen this ad.

£50?! That's a fucking joke. You can get one on eBay for about £5-£10 (I got mine there for 99p! :) ), and the vast majority of games can be had new & boxed for a couple of quid. Chances are, most of the ones bundled with the one you saw will have been 2600 titles rather than 7800 aswell (it's compatible with practically all 2600 games).

Then again, the Gamestation near me were trying to get £110 for a woody VCS with about 10 dirt-common games. I think someone actually paid it too!

[BrokenFlight]

[£50?! That's a fucking joke.

That's exactly what I thought. Gamestation are generally over priced on everything. They had some used current gen games for £30. I could buy them new for £30. They're still selling GTA:SA for ps2 for £35. The only thing their prices are ok on are Megadrive games less than £4, if they've got their manuals.

Edit: I never said it was a good price, so don't have a go at me for "changing my mind"

And having done some research, it was a 2600, not a 7800, which probably makes £50 even more absurd

[BrokenFlight]

[£50?! That's a fucking joke.

That's exactly what I thought. Gamestation are generally over priced on everything. They had some used current gen games for £30. I could buy them new for £30. They're still selling GTA:SA for ps2 for £35. The only thing their prices are ok on are Megadrive games less than £4, if they've got their manuals.

Edit: I never said it was a good price, so don't have a go at me for "changing my mind"

And having done some research, it was a 2600, not a 7800, which probably makes £50 even more absurd

[anagrama]

Yeah, you can find the occasional bargain when they don't know what games are really worth (just ask the guy on NTSC-UK who got a 32X Primal Rage for £6.99 recently!), but the hardware is almost always overpriced these days - especially as they almost always seem to bundle a system with a bunch of crap games and double the asking price in the process... (spotted there last week: loose 3DO with about 10 games - £249! @_@ )

[anagrama]

Yeah, you can find the occasional bargain when they don't know what games are really worth (just ask the guy on NTSC-UK who got a 32X Primal Rage for £6.99 recently!), but the hardware is almost always overpriced these days - especially as they almost always seem to bundle a system with a bunch of crap games and double the asking price in the process... (spotted there last week: loose 3DO with about 10 games - £249! @_@ )

[boatofcar]

This ad makes me want to pick up the 7800 I saw in Gamestation. I can't remember the specifics but it was about £50 with something like 25 games. IIRC They were 2600 games. Was the 7800 backwards compatible then? I heard something about a converter for the 5200 to play 2600 games. I'm interested in Ataris now I've seen this ad.

In fact, Atari was so hell-bent on making the 7800 backwards compatible, they crippled the system's performance. Of course, after the disaster that was the 5200, I can see their reasoning.