The messed up history of ATARI! (PONG!, 2600, Asteroids & Centipede)

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  • @Sashko_Dee
    @Sashko_Dee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    @0:50 So this G-Fuel is for making your G-spot more sensitive or what? How does it work? Do you sprinkle the powder directly on your junk or do you have to snort it? And why is it Atari themed?

    • @Ramblinman26
      @Ramblinman26 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I assume you’re joking right?

    • @Sashko_Dee
      @Sashko_Dee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Ramblinman26 Come on, man. It's like you've never bought a 55 gallon drum of Astro-glide before. Everybody knows that when you buy the stuff at scale that it comes as solid granules. You add the water yourself to save on shipping cost. Same deal but with this Atari branded sex powder.
      If anything it makes a hell of a lot more sense then a caffeinated Kool-Aid jar endorsed by some jabronis that play video games for a living. Because if that's the product my competing Genital Juice is being trademarked as I write this and will utterly fucking crush them in the sugar water market.

    • @Ramblinman26
      @Ramblinman26 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sashko_Dee I have no idea what you just said.

    • @AudreyShehan
      @AudreyShehan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sashko_Dee… what?

    • @Sashko_Dee
      @Sashko_Dee 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AudreyShehan To quote Lil' John "Yeah!"

  • @petabread313
    @petabread313 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    My Christ, the g-fuel shit was obnoxious. Not only did I skip all of it, it actually convinced me to never try one of their products. I get it these people want to get paid, but wtf.

  • @coryfice1881
    @coryfice1881 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I like how most of this video's length was multiple ads for a crappy sugar coated drink.

    • @Brian-vs9sd
      @Brian-vs9sd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      If you don't like it. Unsubscribe and go to the next video. It's the only way to stop this rot. The analytics will show the sentiment.

    • @hwogrillo
      @hwogrillo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      This channel in particular has become terrible with the ads/sponsored garbage/endless shilling/patreon shoutout crap. To make it bearable again:
      Windows, Adblock/Ublock + Sponsorblock.
      For Android, TH-cam Revanced Extended.
      For Apple, make better decisions.

    • @Brian-vs9sd
      @Brian-vs9sd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@hwogrillo make better decisions. That made me smile.

    • @ExValeFor
      @ExValeFor 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      do you though? do you actually?

  • @melissawickersham9912
    @melissawickersham9912 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Energy drinks are dangerous to use for people who need to use prescription stimulant medication. Always talk to your doctor before you decide to drink an energy drink and you need to drink responsibly.

    • @FantasticDizzy1
      @FantasticDizzy1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Definitely. They should be banned.

    • @w0447862
      @w0447862 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      4 ads in one episode...must have fast forwarded around 8 mins of the vid ! 😂

    • @EzekielB-f1993
      @EzekielB-f1993 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​@FantasticDizzy1 so booze should be banned? All caffeine drinks should be banned? Chocolate banned? Just because for a minority of users they can be dangerous doesn't mean they should all be banned.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@EzekielB-f1993 None of the above should be banned. I think that they should be regulated so that they can be safely used. Caffeine can be regulated so that there would be safe doses in energy drinks, soda pop, and coffee. Chocolate doesn’t need to be regulated, but it can come with a warning for people who are allergic to it or who can’t physically tolerate theobromine. Alcohol is already regulated so that minors can’t buy it.

    • @FantasticDizzy1
      @FantasticDizzy1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@EzekielB-f1993 I think you should read my comment again. I said energy drinks in reply . You are the one who is adding all the others.

  • @UsaSatsui
    @UsaSatsui 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    There must have been a lot of zeroes on that G-Fuel check...

    • @chillhour6155
      @chillhour6155 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      yep, IDK who would drink that "gamer" poison otherwise

    • @Sashko_Dee
      @Sashko_Dee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Remember the G stands for gastrointestinal distress.

    • @abberline2664
      @abberline2664 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I thought it stood for 'Gay'

    • @nilus2k
      @nilus2k 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mans gotta get paid.

    • @UsaSatsui
      @UsaSatsui 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@nilus2k Heck yeah. I have no problem with the sponsorship. Do what you gotta do to pay the bills. But 3 very long ad breaks, plus the outro bloopers also being part of it, is a bit much, you think?

  • @paultaylor9477
    @paultaylor9477 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Good lord. Times must be hard
    Video utterly ruoned by product placement.
    Adam Sandler would say you went too far.

    • @fernie-fernandez
      @fernie-fernandez 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That time he made the movie "Pixels"...at a bad time when SONY got hacked, and it reveals leaks of their miserable relationship with him.

  • @RicardoRandom691
    @RicardoRandom691 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    "Yeah I like that. That's nice. That's nice, yeah I like that."
    What "contractual obligation" sounds like after the check clears.

    • @insertgenericusernamehere2402
      @insertgenericusernamehere2402 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How dare the man make himself some money....what a heartless git 🙄 grow up

    • @oaf-77
      @oaf-77 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Krusty: I fully endorse this event and or product.

  • @ImTheMayor
    @ImTheMayor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Smooth product placement, barely even noticed there were ads

  • @bernardopaul2817
    @bernardopaul2817 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    ,Sorry Slope, but the Motorola 68000 was at least 5 years away in 1975, guess you meant the 6800 line instead.

  • @TG_Sponge
    @TG_Sponge 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I watch your videos once a year and I get excited to catch up on all the videos you have made

  • @russmawson6744
    @russmawson6744 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    More an advert for an energy drink with a bit about Atari if you ask me 😂

    • @KabukiKid
      @KabukiKid 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah... holy crap with the pumping of the energy drink thing! lol It was maybe a bit too much.

  • @Riz2336
    @Riz2336 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Even though I wasn't even alive during the hey day of Atari can't help but respect what those old school guys did for the history of gaming

  • @TimChuma
    @TimChuma 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    PONG even ended up in the Bargearse revoicing of the 1970s Australian cop show Bluey (no, not that one) on the Late Show in the 1990s:
    Bargearse: Careful! There's 3 cubicles and one of them contains the pong!
    Glen Twenty: Oh my eyes are watering!
    Bargarse: Game over!

  • @darinherrick9224
    @darinherrick9224 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    So I’m the only one who found Atari themed energy drinks amusing? Sure it got old and I skipped past, but it was a LITTLE entertaining.
    I like seeing weird products.

    • @TimChuma
      @TimChuma 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I liked that he couldn't even be bothered to clean up the spillage "ehhh, that'll do!". Certainly not the most irresponsible read I have seen on a sponsored video (SsethTzeentach wins that).

  • @JohnHenrySheridan
    @JohnHenrySheridan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice thank you!

  • @christinecrawford
    @christinecrawford 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a gen X-er, I loved arcade games! Especially Asteroids, Centipede, Tempest and Galaga! Good times. 😁

  • @alexriesenbeck
    @alexriesenbeck 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That MJ bit got me laughing like an insane person. Thanks for another great video. Next time your family is in the US, come up north and stay with us

  • @LordTeaboBaggins
    @LordTeaboBaggins 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I still remember 6-year old me being happy as hell getting my VCS in 1980. My brother and I spent hours getting the high score in Asteroids to go back to 0 lol

    • @slopesgameroom
      @slopesgameroom  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not only is that a cool comment. But your profile picture made me reply... SHO NUFFF

    • @LordTeaboBaggins
      @LordTeaboBaggins 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@slopesgameroom WHO’S THE MASTER, LEROY!?

  • @ctrlaltrees
    @ctrlaltrees 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good stuff Slopes, a subject dear to my heart and one I've been meaning to tackle at some point. Atari certainly were rock 'n roll and practically invented the Silicon Valley techbro culture that we know and love today 😅

  • @pvt.rainbowpony8898
    @pvt.rainbowpony8898 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Seriously, i love your videos but MULTIPLE sponsor parts in a single video? No way

  • @TimChuma
    @TimChuma 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The first games we got for the family Atari 2600 were in 1981, the very last was for my birthday in 1990. I remember it being fixed several times which was supposedly easy to do realitively.

  • @rnickolasjones
    @rnickolasjones 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this!
    All three of my kids and all my nephews have worked at Lagoon at one time or another.

    • @angrytheclown801
      @angrytheclown801 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey, last time I was there, the fast draw cowboy wasn't. Do you know if it was out for repairs or is it gone for good?

  • @Mankey619
    @Mankey619 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am still impress to this day, that how simple arcade games like this has brought so much popularity over the past 50yrs. These games are still enjoyable even to this day, and Atari really brought the golden age of gaming with these games.

  • @tipulsar85
    @tipulsar85 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There are some interesting games from early Atari, but none of them had a story, but this was at a time when stories in video games was an after thought to the gameplay. Besides these, Tempest and Battle Zone also didn't have stories and the only one that was known to have a story by 1980 was Colossal Cave Adventure (or just Adventure for short) for the mainframes. Adventure would go on to influence two separate companies' projects in the PC side of things, In Cambridge, Massachusetts you had Infocom's Zork Trilogy and just down the raod from Atari in Oakhurst California you had On-line Systems' Mystery House. Both compaies would go on to not only be success stories, but also be bought up by Activision.

  • @Thiesi
    @Thiesi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    21:32 - I think in 1975 a Motorola _68000_ would have cost a lot more than just a hundred dollars as it was only introduced by Motorola in late '79 with actual chips being available not before over a year later.

  • @mathieubrebouillet714
    @mathieubrebouillet714 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Another really great video, thanks you !

  • @Chris-cj5rh
    @Chris-cj5rh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I had no idea g fuel still was even a thing!

  • @MotownBatman
    @MotownBatman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh! Cranking the 90s Jams!
    Damn, I've searched, read & listened to Tons of old tech info over the Years: I cant say I've Ever Heard the story about Atari Employees filling the Pong Machine Intentionally.
    Thats Crazy!

  • @hendoiii3487
    @hendoiii3487 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Atari was my childhood. I miss them dearly 😢

  • @SB-tp3yw
    @SB-tp3yw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    how about some content with the advert

  • @ViegasSilva
    @ViegasSilva 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Motorola 68 HUNDRED

  • @ambostralian
    @ambostralian 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Why is this vid so heavy on the ads? Sorry man, i love your videos but it made it feel pretty tacky.

  • @FourThousand4K
    @FourThousand4K 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the video

  • @Boogie_the_cat
    @Boogie_the_cat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The separation of Atari and Atari Games. Muy importante

  • @Compucles
    @Compucles 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Why'd you leave off here? It's not much of a history video if you leave out the ending of Atari's downfall (or at least that of the original version of the company).

  • @Justin-Hill-1987
    @Justin-Hill-1987 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bally, the company who manufactured pinball machines and the Astocade game console, would later own Six Flags theme parks, a casino/hotel in Las Vegas, fitness centers and most recently, the Bally Sports network...

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ..until they foolishly sold Bally Sports to Diamond Sports Group in a leveraged buyout, as DSG is currently, desprately trying to avoid bankruptcy.

  • @SkyFly19853
    @SkyFly19853 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Atari 2600 was my first ever console...

  • @freelancegaminglive4030
    @freelancegaminglive4030 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would like to have that Atari collector box (even though I’ve never had g fuel before), so I clicked the link and could not fine it on the site anywhere. Wtf??

  • @ShadowDx
    @ShadowDx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Right up Allen’s… street” 👀 2:26

  • @darkfyraproductions7958
    @darkfyraproductions7958 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the broken Pong machine seem to be true as it's also talked about in one of videos in Atari 50

    • @slopesgameroom
      @slopesgameroom  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah. I felt it was important to talk about both sides of the story.... That's a great collection though

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Slopes, I ❤ your channel bruh, but if the drinks taste like 💩 I don't think you'll leave in that edit...😊

  • @melissawickersham9912
    @melissawickersham9912 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you haven’t done so already, do a video on the Video Game Crash of 1983 and how Atari’s downfall played a critical role in the Crash. Since Atari was the leading console maker and video game company during the Crash, it’s downfall was the needle that caused the metaphorical video game economic bubble/balloon to burst.

    • @Boogie_the_cat
      @Boogie_the_cat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why are weird words in caps?
      Crash doesn't need a capitol c unless you're talking about a certain bandicoot. 😂
      Nor does 'video' or 'game' need capital letters.

    • @LordTeaboBaggins
      @LordTeaboBaggins 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Boogie_the_catbecause notable historical events are also capitalized. For example: The Great Depression. The Second World War. The Renaissance Period. The Video Game Crash. And so on

    • @OneofFortyEight
      @OneofFortyEight 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That Crash, didn't cause us any distress over here. The bubble did not burst.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@OneofFortyEight That’s because YOUR country had centered its video game industry around games for computers like the Commodore 64. You weren’t as reliant on consoles like the Atari 2600 like the American videogame industry was.

    • @OneofFortyEight
      @OneofFortyEight 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@melissawickersham9912 Exactly. The so called crash, was an American anomaly, that for years was spoken of as if it was experienced by the whole of the game playing world.

  • @ColdWarAviator
    @ColdWarAviator 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Those of us who grew up in the 70's will never forget Atari.
    The 2600 was the Pinnacle of video games for a good while.

    • @Aragorn7884
      @Aragorn7884 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I grew up in the 80s...Atari was big then too bruh 🤷

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Tommy T. is jealous by half of these stories 😅

  • @BfDelano
    @BfDelano 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I hate that advertising to gamers has become caffeine filled drinks. They have the “hydration” flavors, but they’re rarely advertised, and very limited in flavors.

  • @shatner99
    @shatner99 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If a girl ever came over to hang out with you here, would you make her play Ms. Pac-Man first?

  • @Urban_Flux
    @Urban_Flux 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hows the story Fake if it was Atari employees filling the machine to make the manager go mental... Im confused, it happened then?!

  • @vladix-ty5sz
    @vladix-ty5sz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3 Sponsor ads? are you fu*king kidding me?

  • @mgabrysSF
    @mgabrysSF 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh look Atari bought Intellivision. Oh look they also bought Atari Age. Huh. Oh, you can still get Amico tho - Atari kicked that to the curb. Go git it!

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm surprised that Slope didn't go hyper after drinking those free drinks

  • @AcornElectron
    @AcornElectron 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Be rude not to on a Saturday night!
    Keep up the good work fella and, as always, stay safe!

  • @alexelectricx
    @alexelectricx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Lol I wish I never signed up for patreon. This and the Saw video I've already seen 😢

    • @slopesgameroom
      @slopesgameroom  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Habbo is now live :) Working on a Kickscammer next :D

    • @toomanycables996
      @toomanycables996 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      and it’s basically a 30 minute infomercial.

  • @GregsGameRoom
    @GregsGameRoom 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brilliant! Atari will always be the most important video game company ever. It really shaped the direction of my life!

  • @jamesmcgeachy5433
    @jamesmcgeachy5433 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🎉

  • @beecat4183
    @beecat4183 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    G fuel ads are embarrassing.

  • @Kamifox1
    @Kamifox1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hehe Nutting...

  • @hughneutron5303
    @hughneutron5303 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    first