Gunstarhero
02-17-2003, 07:02 PM
Well, I know Microsoft is having a bitch of a time selling X-Box's in Japan, and this made me think about the impact that Atari made overseas in the 80's. I was just a young man when I was playing my 2600, so I wasn't into the marketing aspect of the fledgling videogame entertainment industry and I didn't keep up with export sales of ATARI 2600's, I just wanted to play games!
Can some of our members, especially our European and Asian members clue us in to the Atari 2600,5200,7800 collecting/playing scene both currently and in the beginning? I am really curious to whether the American made videogames made a big impact overseas before the crash. This may be a bit nieve, but I tend to assume that most classic gamers/ collectors in non-US/non-North American markets tend to START with the NES and SMS since these both sold extremely well in Non-US markets well before the USA even got to touch them. Are the Europeans and Asians big into getting REAL classic games like the 2600, or are the ATARI products kind of shrugged off and giggled at as a neat little experiment and prelude to better gaming offered by the NES and SMS?
I guess I'm mostly curious if the ATARI stuff is popular overseas, I hope it is because it really does offer that old school arcade gameplay that was never(IMO) repeated on the NES on up, simply because the NES ushered in a new way to play games, especially with RPG's and save features etc, plus the controllers changed from arcade sticks to pads. I don't know, I just figure with the Jaguars bad sales overseas, along with the XBOX having bad sales overseas, I just figure that the original ATARI products didn't do well either. I may be wrong. Please enlighten me/us.
Can some of our members, especially our European and Asian members clue us in to the Atari 2600,5200,7800 collecting/playing scene both currently and in the beginning? I am really curious to whether the American made videogames made a big impact overseas before the crash. This may be a bit nieve, but I tend to assume that most classic gamers/ collectors in non-US/non-North American markets tend to START with the NES and SMS since these both sold extremely well in Non-US markets well before the USA even got to touch them. Are the Europeans and Asians big into getting REAL classic games like the 2600, or are the ATARI products kind of shrugged off and giggled at as a neat little experiment and prelude to better gaming offered by the NES and SMS?
I guess I'm mostly curious if the ATARI stuff is popular overseas, I hope it is because it really does offer that old school arcade gameplay that was never(IMO) repeated on the NES on up, simply because the NES ushered in a new way to play games, especially with RPG's and save features etc, plus the controllers changed from arcade sticks to pads. I don't know, I just figure with the Jaguars bad sales overseas, along with the XBOX having bad sales overseas, I just figure that the original ATARI products didn't do well either. I may be wrong. Please enlighten me/us.