I love that the commercials actually tell you which graphics they were using in the ad so that consumer wouldn't get confused something modern game commercials should learn a thing or two
I would have been fine with it. I actually like the game. I also didn't grow up with a 2600,5200, 7800 , coleco etc. NES was my first console. I love ATARI now. ET and Raiders of The Lost Ark are underrated.
Only the Atari 5200 graphics were shown in the Mario Brothers commercial but the 2600 graphics were nothing to be ashamed of for the time. I still have my 2600 hooked up.
Yeah my brother and I had the 2600 Mario Bros, graphics were fine, and the game play was almost completely perfect! And we could both play at the same time! We loved the arcade version so it was more than good enuff!
I watch the video with tears ... .. I remember when I was 8 year old I was sick and my dad was traveling for his job and when he found out I was sick he told my mom to buy an Atari 2600 with the money he was saving it . To fix his car later.. =( Fathers are the soul of the family.. They sacrifice without limits to bring joy in the face of their children at any cost.. May allah have mercy on his soul. =(
Yes.. my dad divorced my mom because he knocked her up (with me) before they married.... but he still LOVED me and we played Atari into the wee hours of the morn.... then they got hitched again and gave birth to my brother Max.... I loved him as much as an older sister could... he now has a daughter.. Susan. I introduced her to Atari and while she scoffed at it at first... she got HOOKED soon enough.
I remember all these commercials like it was yesterday,The Spiderman and Green Goblin was my favorite,i was a comic book freak back then seeing them as live action was the best!
I got an Atari 2600 for Xmas of '77.... before that I had been SCARED of video games with their black and white graphics. Even pinball made me nervous. But when I got the Atari and found out games were in color I stopped being scared of games.... more arcade games were starting to be in color too like GALAXIAN.... and I wasn't scared of SPACE INVADERS either. Thank you for all you have done Atari..... even if the Crash put you in a negative light.
Very good job!! One of my favorite Atari commercials had either the tubes or the kinks( I think) performing a song in it. Some Sega Master System commercials would be awesome. Keep up the good work!
I actually enjoyed E.T. and remember being awe struck at Eliot´s walking animation! the only thing I didn´t like was falling in the pits so easily :D - but I like the game´s colors and graphics
ET was not that bad. Especially with the rushed production, but I play it more than many 2600 games today. Like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Adventure", it's a quest and forward-thinking.
Thank you so much for watching! What was your favorite commercial for the Atari? Is there another system you'd like to see us cover? Let us know in the comments!
I know i like the popeye video game commercial. Although the voices for popeye & bluto are sounds funny back then. 🤣 The beginning part = 13:29 Popeye saids "Yikes!" = 13:42 Bluto saids "Fight like a man" = 13:45
I remember creating my own story for LASER GATES.... about a sentient computer virus (viruses were a novelty at the time) who looked like Sark and Brainiac (pre-CRISIS).
Holy Hell did you guys pay attention to that Toys R" Us deal?! I thought GameStop gouged you to death...oh no, Toy's R" Us was out to really screw you. Buy any Parker Brothers game for $30-$35 while trading two games in for $15 dollar coupon. That's insane and I bet people did it. I didn't start playing games until 1986 with the Nes and Master System. What always got me was how different people saw games back then as compared to the 3rd generation... My father told me people would buy games for $30 to $50 bucks and play them for 20 minutes at a time. It was as he put it, something you picked up and played for a little while then did something else. He thinks it's crazy that we can spend 100 hours in a game today.
Yeah, that toys r us deal was really something! It’s amazing to see how prices fluctuate. It’s funny because I remember my parents telling me they only liked games that you could “pick up and play”, like you described. They liked playing racing games and crazy taxi with us but when it came to the really long games just the kids would play. It’s interesting to see how interest in games and what kinds of games played differs from generation to generation.
I think that was a Parker Bros deal that Toys r Us was promoting. My favorite time for buying games was in 83-84. I owned 4 consoles & a C64. Every store that sold games started throwing them in bins and charging 3 for $20, 5 for $30. The more popular ones were still behind a counter, but they were around $10. My parents would buy me anywhere from 1-5 games at that time whenever we went to Zodys or Gemco. Even SaveOn would have heavy discounts from time to time on cartridges. Federated was still pricey. I’d really come up on Bdays and Xmas during those years. Even though the game industry was dying, there were plenty of games and peripherals to be had.
It's very odd about the Spider Fighter & Enduro commercials was never added on the Activision Anthology (PS2) & Activision Hits Remixed (PSP) as an unlockable content.
@@rclark777 Pac-Man's graphics were shockingly simplistic, for the time. Add to this, gameplay that was almost completely unrecognizable from the Arcade cabinet. I guess, if you were really young and/or spent little, to no, time in an arcade, you would judge Pac-Man in a different light. My mother was nuts about it! Me...ugghh!!! Funny thing though...today, Atari Pac-Man, is an absolute favorite of mine - and not because of nostalgia. It is a great fun game! Especially game variation 1 on "a" or "expert" mode!
@@rclark777 ET was a decent game. It was a quick game once you got the hang of it. Most people didn’t read the instructions and never figured it out. It’s basically a high score game.
Eu não tive o Atari, mas ganhei dos meus pais um Odyssey e um dynavision. Isso se não me engano em 1984 e 1985. O Atari aqui no Brasil era bem caro, igual a Caloi Cross extra. Muito bom relembrar o tempo de criança. Há uns 2 anos comprei o Atari flashback 8, mas não tem alguns jogos que joguei. Um abraço e fica com Deus. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Pre Montezuma, Montezuma revenge, ninja comando, ninja, Rambo blade, Pacman, Green Beret, Popeye, zorro, spy vs spy 1, 2 y 3, donkey Kong, Mario bros, Bruce Lee, pole postion, karate champion, draconus, etc .
The second commercial lied it said Mario brothers new from Atari which is not true as it is from Nintendo and should have said Mario brothers from Nintendo now on the Atari 2600
Musicland was a national store I think? Eventually got changed to Sam Goody and then they were all bought by Best Buy and eventually mostly closed. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicland
Musicland could be found in many malls across the United States. I think even in their heyday, they were under the same umbrella as Sam Goody, but Goody sold more stuff. At the local mall, Musicland "upgraded" to a much larger Sam Goody. However, the prices got upgraded too.
Nintendo licensed Donkey Kong, DK JR and Mario Bros to Atari and even Colleco because before they made the Famicom any company could license any game to Atari, it was a very wild scene before the crash
Have you ever played it? It’s far from the worst game ever made. I was more than happy with it. I never knew anyone back then who thought it was a bad game either. Don’t believe the exaggerated stories you hear now. Especially from people who were infants or not even born during that time.
I know that these comments are old, but I don't care. I wasn't alive in 82, but I own ET and have played it quite a bit, and it's really not that bad. Pac-Man on the 2600 is playable for its time. There are games on the 2600 much worse than ET and Pac-Man.
I love that the commercials actually tell you which graphics they were using in the ad so that consumer wouldn't get confused something modern game commercials should learn a thing or two
Amazing how little flicker they show on the commercials
OMG I STILL get excited about Atari commercials. Getting E. T. was the highest priority of my life.
Well... Did that end well?
Imagine all those excited kids Christmas morning getting ET for Atari and then finally playing it.
At least they helped ET to get to the trash can
I had E.T. I could figure it out with the help of a book I bought with my own money.... and the fact I figured out RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK myself.
THAT GAME WAS ASS. ALL I EVER DID WAS MAKE THE FLOWERS STAND UP
I would have been fine with it. I actually like the game. I also didn't grow up with a 2600,5200, 7800 , coleco etc. NES was my first console.
I love ATARI now. ET and Raiders of The Lost Ark are underrated.
You literally have no way to imagine that. _Cyberpunk_ had WAY more cultural blowback, but you wouldn’t know it.
Only the Atari 5200 graphics were shown in the Mario Brothers commercial but the 2600 graphics were nothing to be ashamed of for the time. I still have my 2600 hooked up.
Yeah my brother and I had the 2600 Mario Bros, graphics were fine, and the game play was almost completely perfect! And we could both play at the same time! We loved the arcade version so it was more than good enuff!
I watch the video with tears ...
.. I remember when I was 8 year old I was sick and my dad was traveling for his job and when he found out I was sick he told my mom to buy an Atari 2600 with the money he was saving it . To fix his car later.. =( Fathers are the soul of the family.. They sacrifice without limits to bring joy in the face of their children at any cost.. May allah have mercy on his soul. =(
Thank you for sharing your memory with us. It sounds like he was a very remarkable person.
Yes.. my dad divorced my mom because he knocked her up (with me) before they married.... but he still LOVED me and we played Atari into the wee hours of the morn.... then they got hitched again and gave birth to my brother Max.... I loved him as much as an older sister could... he now has a daughter.. Susan. I introduced her to Atari and while she scoffed at it at first... she got HOOKED soon enough.
Got my 2600 christmas 1978. By 1979 I had PTSD from chopper command lol
I remember all these commercials like it was yesterday,The Spiderman and Green Goblin was my favorite,i was a comic book freak back then seeing them as live action was the best!
Same... reminded me of the ELECTRIC COMPANY Spidey
I got an Atari 2600 for Xmas of '77.... before that I had been SCARED of video games with their black and white graphics. Even pinball made me nervous. But when I got the Atari and found out games were in color I stopped being scared of games.... more arcade games were starting to be in color too like GALAXIAN.... and I wasn't scared of SPACE INVADERS either. Thank you for all you have done Atari..... even if the Crash put you in a negative light.
Forget the game makers, I wanna meet the makers of these commercials.
Very good job!! One of my favorite Atari commercials had either the tubes or the kinks( I think) performing a song in it. Some Sega Master System commercials would be awesome. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! We want to eventually get as many systems’ commercials as possible. I’ll let you know when we get a master system video up!
The Tubes- that's Megamania!
@@cecilDisharoon Yes!! That's it! Thank you👍🏿👍🏿
@@gerekbraden2983 Here's that commercial! th-cam.com/video/hXWq9WKfQ3o/w-d-xo.html
@@cecilDisharoon THANK YOU!! Still a cool commercial and that was very good quality on the video! You rock!
Great group of Atari commercials... I remember a lot of them. I miss the 80's...
Hay Russians are still the bad guy and you can get an Atari with all games for 100 bucks an old TV hide in the basement. It's like a time machine
I actually enjoyed E.T. and remember being awe struck at Eliot´s walking animation! the only thing I didn´t like was falling in the pits so easily :D - but I like the game´s colors and graphics
ET was not that bad. Especially with the rushed production, but I play it more than many 2600 games today. Like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Adventure", it's a quest and forward-thinking.
@@ShamrockParticle Now I wonder if the dev who did ET was the same that did Superman as the npcs AI seems similar
“Mario….Where are you?!!” Mario Is Missing for the NES and SNES. Now you’re playing with power!
Thank you so much for watching! What was your favorite commercial for the Atari? Is there another system you'd like to see us cover? Let us know in the comments!
Brings back memories of a simpler time.!!!
And now they are releasing the Atari 2600+ that hooks up to today's tv's and plays the old carts
Or just download an emulator for free instead.
Rusty Griswold: "You got Asteroids?"
"You got SPACE INVADERS?"
I think my 2 favorite games that I had for Atari was Asteroids & Kaboom!
I didn’t know Atari had a dolphin game. Cool
Long before Ecco the Dolphin.
That Pole Position commercial is insane and I love it!
Btw, have YOU played Atari today?
Not today. I almost played Asteroids Deluxe today on my Arcade1Up cabinet.
I played 2600 a few weeks ago. BREAKOUT. It was with a friend.
It's pure insanity and I love it!
I love that the narrator starts talking s**t to the dad right away
I recall so many of these. Thanks for the compilation.
I know i like the popeye video game commercial. Although the voices for popeye & bluto are sounds funny back then. 🤣
The beginning part = 13:29
Popeye saids "Yikes!" = 13:42
Bluto saids "Fight like a man" = 13:45
We would spend all day playing Laser Gates and Spider Fighter.
I remember creating my own story for LASER GATES.... about a sentient computer virus (viruses were a novelty at the time) who looked like Sark and Brainiac (pre-CRISIS).
Our playlist now contains over 100 minutes of retro video game commercials from the 70s to 00s! bit.ly/3f1CcqJ
I so want Tunnel Runner and Star Wars Arcade, but they’re so expensive.
Activision Commercials
8:57 Spider Fighter
10:59 Dolphin
11:59 Enduro
12:29 Pitfall! (Jack Black)
13:59 River Raid
11:30 this is one you'd watch during an episode of the syndicated StarCade!
0:40 Mario where are you?
Mario where are you! Lol I love that ad
Honestly the cool thing about the pitfall commercial is that we actually got to see Jack black when he was young
And now he is Bowser.... full circle eh
Using this for my gaming through the ages video
Q-bert and Frogger... that's what's up!
_E.T. The Extraterrestrial_ released in theaters on June 11, 1982.
imagic games were alway my favorite!
An iPad at 3:43.... wow. Thats one of those into the future kind of finds.
This is good for the 1970s and 1980s
They think I’m trapped but I’ll escape
These were fun to watch
Atari 2600 ads 1970s 1980s 1990s
Holy Hell did you guys pay attention to that Toys R" Us deal?! I thought GameStop gouged you to death...oh no, Toy's R" Us was out to really screw you. Buy any Parker Brothers game for $30-$35 while trading two games in for $15 dollar coupon. That's insane and I bet people did it. I didn't start playing games until 1986 with the Nes and Master System. What always got me was how different people saw games back then as compared to the 3rd generation...
My father told me people would buy games for $30 to $50 bucks and play them for 20 minutes at a time. It was as he put it, something you picked up and played for a little while then did something else. He thinks it's crazy that we can spend 100 hours in a game today.
Yeah, that toys r us deal was really something! It’s amazing to see how prices fluctuate.
It’s funny because I remember my parents telling me they only liked games that you could “pick up and play”, like you described. They liked playing racing games and crazy taxi with us but when it came to the really long games just the kids would play. It’s interesting to see how interest in games and what kinds of games played differs from generation to generation.
@@PixelSlayers
Absolutely!
I think that was a Parker Bros deal that Toys r Us was promoting. My favorite time for buying games was in 83-84. I owned 4 consoles & a C64. Every store that sold games started throwing them in bins and charging 3 for $20, 5 for $30. The more popular ones were still behind a counter, but they were around $10. My parents would buy me anywhere from 1-5 games at that time whenever we went to Zodys or Gemco. Even SaveOn would have heavy discounts from time to time on cartridges. Federated was still pricey. I’d really come up on Bdays and Xmas during those years. Even though the game industry was dying, there were plenty of games and peripherals to be had.
It's very odd about the Spider Fighter & Enduro commercials was never added on the Activision Anthology (PS2) & Activision Hits Remixed (PSP) as an unlockable content.
One of the best ever
Why were they trying to load Space Invaders backwards? And why is Mario asking where he is? The 80s had a lot of cocaine - I guess.
That was Luigi.
I miss my time so much😔
For anybody wondering... PAC-MAN FEVER WAS REAL!
Yes... Buckner and Garcia had a hit single about it!!!!
Imagine waking up and finding E.T. among your presents. Christmas ruined right there
Well I will defend Atari Pac-Man till my death, E.T was horrendous and there is no use trying to justify it.
@@rclark777 Pac-Man's graphics were shockingly simplistic, for the time. Add to this, gameplay that was almost completely unrecognizable from the Arcade cabinet.
I guess, if you were really young and/or spent little, to no, time in an arcade, you would judge Pac-Man in a different light. My mother was nuts about it! Me...ugghh!!!
Funny thing though...today, Atari Pac-Man, is an absolute favorite of mine - and not because of nostalgia. It is a great fun game! Especially game variation 1 on "a" or "expert" mode!
@@rclark777 ET was a decent game. It was a quick game once you got the hang of it. Most people didn’t read the instructions and never figured it out. It’s basically a high score game.
@@wolfgangpuff7030 Yes.... there was an entire book about it!!!
"YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF FLUUUUUUIIIIDD!!"
That Goblin reminded me of Cesar Romero's Joker from the BATMAN show.....
FINALLY A GOOD RIP OF THE POLE POSITION COMMERCIAL
It is truly the greatest commercial ever made
That first ad reeks of desperation.
Omg 😱 I feel so old seeing this…Have you played Atari today
5:47 is that John Lawlor from season 1 of Facts of Life?
3:45 backrooms in a nutshell
If you're into game development, then you're probably into this stuff...
Jim Carrey playing Star Wars 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Eu não tive o Atari, mas ganhei dos meus pais um Odyssey e um dynavision. Isso se não me engano em 1984 e 1985. O Atari aqui no Brasil era bem caro, igual a Caloi Cross extra. Muito bom relembrar o tempo de criança. Há uns 2 anos comprei o Atari flashback 8, mas não tem alguns jogos que joguei. Um abraço e fica com Deus. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Pre Montezuma, Montezuma revenge, ninja comando, ninja, Rambo blade, Pacman, Green Beret, Popeye, zorro, spy vs spy 1, 2 y 3, donkey Kong, Mario bros, Bruce Lee, pole postion, karate champion, draconus, etc .
Did the guy at the end really get a seizure from playing video games?
The second commercial lied it said Mario brothers new from Atari which is not true as it is from Nintendo and should have said Mario brothers from Nintendo now on the Atari 2600
That's old corporate for "new to our system".
@@kevinr278 Irem were the same guys that gave us R-Type.
15:20 is that Issac from Children of the Corn?
By 1986, who would’ve wanted an Atari 2600?? Nintendo had already taken over the video game market.
12:29 Jack Black
PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES
@@CreesNostalgiaHut "I LOVE YOOOOOOUUUU!"
Don't you realize that Watermarked videos get less views?
My mom divorced my dad over E.T.
It was that bad.
1977-1992
Where was musicland
Musicland was a national store I think? Eventually got changed to Sam Goody and then they were all bought by Best Buy and eventually mostly closed.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicland
Musicland could be found in many malls across the United States. I think even in their heyday, they were under the same umbrella as Sam Goody, but Goody sold more stuff.
At the local mall, Musicland "upgraded" to a much larger Sam Goody. However, the prices got upgraded too.
I remember MUSICLAND.... good times
Atari 5200 graphics shown - lol...16 minutes of lies? lol
Looks like something from 1990s im my opinion
Jim Carry!
Atari 2600
❤❤❤❤
I’m old
What was the name of the game were birds were back from revenge.
Phoenix .
So Mario is not originally from Nintendo??
Nintendo licensed Donkey Kong, DK JR and Mario Bros to Atari and even Colleco because before they made the Famicom any company could license any game to Atari, it was a very wild scene before the crash
Mario Brothers was a Nintendo arcade game released on Atari before Super Mario Brothers or the NES came out
@@rynomclaughlin1595They made a fucking CHASE THE CHUCK WAGON game for the Atari... I actually had it
*You missing ALOT of Atari Commericals*
Megamania, Skying, Reactor, Turmoil, many others.
Get with the program.
the games were the pits
E.T I can't believe they showed this crap of a game in their commercial. 😁
Have you ever played it? It’s far from the worst game ever made. I was more than happy with it. I never knew anyone back then who thought it was a bad game either. Don’t believe the exaggerated stories you hear now. Especially from people who were infants or not even born during that time.
I can’t believe they put the crappy Pac Man port.
I know that these comments are old, but I don't care.
I wasn't alive in 82, but I own ET and have played it quite a bit, and it's really not that bad. Pac-Man on the 2600 is playable for its time. There are games on the 2600 much worse than ET and Pac-Man.
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