You Don't Know Atari!

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Rerez

3 жыл бұрын

Atari aren't the classic video game company you think they are.
Music and Sound Design by James Ronald
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@SmeddyTooBestChannel 3 жыл бұрын

I thought this was a video about the Atari, not the Kingdom Hearts timeline.

@tfisaoppositepresent7194 3 жыл бұрын

lmao I get the joke

@scoutdy6547 3 жыл бұрын

"First to sell vodka in japan" Taito knows how to party.

@Anomaly188 3 жыл бұрын

Might be how they infamously lost the original source code to Bubble Bobble. Some intern got sloppy drunk and spilled vodka on the computer the source code was stored on.

@RoninCatholic 3 жыл бұрын

And the final boss of Bubble Bobble was drunken wizard named Super Drunk.

@EpicGameMusic 3 жыл бұрын

I hope you all like the audio design! I love how Shane puts Atari in perspective!

@EsahnDulin 3 жыл бұрын

I love this audio! Feels very nostalgic.

@EpicGameMusic 3 жыл бұрын

@@EsahnDulin thanks for the kind words!

@taolex77814 3 жыл бұрын

I definitely enjoyed it!

@kilomandarin9950 3 жыл бұрын

@@notquiteordinary dude, they clearly made the audio for this video. Don't be a Debbie Downer.

@EpicGameMusic 3 жыл бұрын

@@notquiteordinary fear not! I have known Shane for over a decade. Let us know what you think

@Dynaman21 3 жыл бұрын

TIL Taito was the first company to sell vodka in Japan. This is why I’m subscribed to Rerez.

@SylveonTrapito 3 жыл бұрын

To think the last boss from Taito's Bubble Bobble is a drunk wizard lol

@rarapas 3 жыл бұрын

@@SylveonTrapito Yeap, he's called Super Drunk!

@jayden6538 3 жыл бұрын

@@rarapas and then in bubble symphony they added hyper drunk

@RustyLeguito 3 жыл бұрын

@@rarapas XD

@ottosantiagolassus 3 жыл бұрын

Ok. But what hapened to Hot Takes???

@jimbo-fk4dq 3 жыл бұрын

The Atari 2600 is a lot like CBGB was with rock bands: people remember the great ones that played there fondly, but forget all of the crap that filled it through it's history.

@OrgaNik_Music 3 жыл бұрын

The old Atari consoles are an extremely important part of video game history, but there's a good reason very few of the games are fondly remembered.

@RippahRooJizah 3 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of all the people saying games were better "back in the day". I mean, some leeway can be offered to pure opinion and newer, less admirable practices, but you still have people who forget or don't know that stuff like releasing unfinished games, soulless cash grabs, obsession over graphical power, or just general low quality games actually existed beyond 15 years ago. Even the earliest form of microtransaction that I can think of was Double Dragon 3 for arcades, where you needed real money to purchase items from the in-game store.

@WrestlingWithGaming 3 жыл бұрын

That's actually a pretty good comparison.

@aimwell8813 3 жыл бұрын

@@OrgaNik_Music ET landfill

@FallicIdol 3 жыл бұрын

The very first drawings on caves are interesting for a historical sense, but children can draw like that today. Nobody considers them masterpieces. The first music and musicians were the same way. The first works of fiction were undoubtedly awful too. They are all important from a historical perspective but not as a form of art.

@asphaltmcgee2407 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not old enough to be a "fan" of atari, but I was excited for the vcs. I didn't know the company was sold so many times so this video really puts things into perspective.

@ItsRetroPlanet 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry if this sounds off topic, but nobody is too old or too young to be an Atari fan. You could be 10 years old but if you like the games, then it's all right by anyone else. With that being said I was also excited for the vcs.

@zackschilling4376 3 жыл бұрын

@@darthkai8242 The Gen X'ers are gonna get mad. I feel the same way. NES games are still enjoyable to play. Atari 2600 games are not. And it was my 1st game system. Now Atari's arcade games from the 80s are a different story, the ones that were later bought by Midway and were on their Arcade Treasures vol. 1+2+3 are top notch. Xenophobe, Xybots, Paperboy, APB, Rampage, Rampart, etc.

@airplane6417 3 жыл бұрын

I like Atari, not a die hard fan, but you can call yourself a fan if you've played the games, or own a Atari 2600.

@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Rerez skipped over their late 90's Midway alliance era of Atari. Imo it's the underrated prime of Atari. Primal Rage? Mace The Dark Age? Area 51? San Francisco Rush?

@zackschilling4376 3 жыл бұрын

@@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial Yes ! Im still trying to goto Galloping Ghost (although I just got a Tier 3 Mitigation warning on my phone for Illinois so thats prob not gonna be too soon) to play Primal Rage 2. I live like 35 mins from there and have yet to go.

@waltercomunello121 3 жыл бұрын

2:52 "Thousands of parents everywhere questioning their children's life choices." been there mate. been there. Twice. One as a protagonist, and the other as a spectator.

@GregsGameRoom 3 жыл бұрын

First of all, when Atari fans say, "Atari" they mean pre-Tramiel Atari. That's what they love. Some even love the Tramiel Atari with the Lynx and Jaguar and Atari ST computers (count me as one of them.) As you said, Atari today is nothing but a collection of properties that the current owners are leeching off of. Why didn't Atari continue their games like Nintendo? Because their style of games are TOTALLY DIFFERENT. Nintendo games are almost 100% character driven but Atari never had any characters (besides Bentley Bear.) Their games were Asteroids, Missile Command, Centipede, Battlezone... NO CHARACTERS. So to imply Atari would still be Atari if they had kept making games in those franchises is incorrect. (They tried, but gamers had moved on to character driven games.) The true hope for Atari fans no longer lies within the company, but within the homebrewers who continue to make quality games for the older systems. Anything new is just leeching off the corpse of the past.

@bitcortex1991 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, pre-Tramiel all the way. My nerd circle was all Apple ][ and they laughed at my Atari, but tech historians agree that Jay Miner's design was vastly superior and matched up well even against the C64 which came out years later. I still think some of the things Woz did in the ][ were insanely, amazingly, fiendishly clever, but they resulted in low manufacturing cost, not impressive capability. Anyway, along comes Tramiel and quickly throws together the ST, essentially a cheap 68K MS-DOS box, which I stupidly bought out of loyalty to the logo, while Jay Miner ends up at Commodore to make Amiga, the true successor to the Atari 8-bit line.

@stillbuyvhs 3 жыл бұрын

Part of the problem: Most of Atari Inc's hits were arcade games first. After 1984, Atari Inc. was split into two companies: Atari Games & Atari Corp. Atari Games made arcade games, like Paper Boy & Marble Madness. These were still hits, & Atari Games continued to produce new games till the early 2000's. Atari Corp made home consoles & computers, like the 7800 & ST. They sold well enough, but they lacked good games, so it became harder & harder for Atari to compete against Nintendo & Sega. There were other problems too; few people wanted to deal with Jack Tramiel, so Atari had trouble finding distributors; IBM had an early-mover advantage on microcomputers, so the ST eventually lost out on that, etc.

@kimberlycarter369 3 жыл бұрын

Pre-Tramiel 2600 was my childhood. By ‘81 I moved on to the Atari 8-bit line of home computers. I also bought and loved the Atari Lynx, just a logo, but I knew that going in, and the hardware was truly better than the other handhelds. But in classic Atari style they went for the “easy to learn, hard to master” style games, while the rest of the gaming industry had moved onto the mascots and platform styled games. I didn’t pre-invest in the new VCS, but if it makes it to market, I will more than likely buy one, mostly for nostalgia, but because I’m hoping...hoping...that the new company will make the system relevant in today’s market. Would love to see my grandkids playing on an Atari system.

@dguy0386 3 жыл бұрын

Atari had characters, like pitfall harry and... and the square from adventure.. and.. yeah i get your point

@stillbuyvhs 3 жыл бұрын

@@dguy0386 Pitfall Harry was Activision's character.

@Nov-5062 3 жыл бұрын

"You don't know Atari"! Said Shane while wearing a Playstation shirt.

@rerez 3 жыл бұрын

I was wearing an Atari shirt but I got worried about having the Atari logo show up so many times in any single frame of the video so I switched it out!

@TheCommanderTaco 3 жыл бұрын

Funny how this video also really talks about the Amico Intellivision lol.

@yvplayz7813 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Karmy. 3 жыл бұрын

I was wearing an Atari shirt yesterday

@JerseyAnimations1 3 жыл бұрын

Rerez please can you try to see if there is a saga genesis knock off of the classic edition like you did with the playstation classic as the fakestiation

@apurpledragon 3 жыл бұрын

I would really love seeing more of these "You Don't Know _____!" episodes. I'd really love to know more of the history of SEGA, Nintendo, Capcom, etc.

@xerzy 3 жыл бұрын

A quick sneak peek: Nintendo started as a company that made gambling games for the yakuza, at one point tried love hotels, and it took them like a century to start breaking apart - now they're fine, other than their draconian legal policies, and some even claim it's Japan's richest company. SEGA was made by an American guy that tried luck with the very first arcades, and the company went (almost) bankrupt after drama in Japan due to losing a legal case for retaining people in a room until they accepted being fired (oh and there's something about the kidnapping of a developer's sister due to involvements with Nintendo) and they ended up merging with a pachinko company, Sammy. Capcom is Capcom, etc.

@mjetektman9313 3 жыл бұрын

If he did a episode about Activision or EA, would be pure drama

@krazycharlie 3 жыл бұрын

@@mjetektman9313 Oh dear me. What about Konami?

@rarapas 3 жыл бұрын

@@mjetektman9313 Activision Blizzard contains Sierra Entertainment with all the scandals and frauds that happened, that'd be a whole season of content ^_^

@Chaos89P 3 жыл бұрын

@@xerzy The PlayStation got its start being an add-on for the SNES until Nintendo realized they bunged up the contract.

@JasuchinFaron 3 жыл бұрын

When the Atari Vault was in early access on Steam, and they were taking requests for games to add, I suggested "Blasteroids", the obscure but completely awesome 2 player sequel to Asteroids. Wouldn't you know it though, THAT game is owned by the piece of the original Atari that now belongs to Warner Brothers, so no dice. Atari's name is such a clusterfuck.

@kagenlim5271 3 жыл бұрын

Nah, they are pretty well-established in the modern day, such as Test Drive Unlimited, which practically invented the genre Forza Horizon,The Crew and other games are in right now.

@kagenlim5271 3 жыл бұрын

@yarrak Still, It falls under their brand and I believe that they have the rights for the first two games, not the sequel tho

@ChiruKobra 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to se a Rerez video that's not the "worst ever" or "It's Just Bad" type. We need more of this variety on this channel.

@dandruff3414 3 жыл бұрын

Still like "Just Bad Games" though. But yeah. This is a breath of fresh air

@Takimeko 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I've been noticing that too. He's kinda shifted his focus away from the stuff he used to do. Looking at console peripherals and the like.

@baconking1595 3 жыл бұрын

@@Takimeko what ever happened to positives and negatives. I miss that.

@fearanarchy 3 жыл бұрын

"Shag-carpeted, woodgrain bungalow.." *Looks around room What else would you play it in? A space shuttle?

@79bigcat 3 жыл бұрын

We're in the future. Everything is either boxy, matte black, plastic or rounded, shiny white, plastic.

@cujoedaman 3 жыл бұрын

Well, there WAS the "Darth Vader" color style :D

@ChaseMC215 3 жыл бұрын

There is one slight issue with Atari now.... they are being sued by Frontier Developments for unpayed royalties for the development of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

@fattiger6957 3 жыл бұрын

Not only is Atari incompetent, they are also sleazy businessmen. That's a recipe for disaster. This current incarnation of the name will flop and they've devalued it so much, there's a chance no one will bother buying it.

@ChaseMC215 3 жыл бұрын

@@fattiger6957 Thank god Frontier Developments developed AND published RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition

@jackthorn2744 3 жыл бұрын

haha what if atari got bankrupted again and they had to sell the license to Blood? Just kidding that would be terrible. Unless...?

@ChaseMC215 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackthorn2744 Devolver Digital would gladly take over

@norjia 3 жыл бұрын

And they are building a crypto currency with the kickstarter money

@MattSolovey 3 жыл бұрын

Hasbro didn't buy Atari from Trameil. The company was merged into a hard drive manufacturer, JTS and at that point ceased to exist. Hasbro simply bought the Atari assets like intellectual property from JTS. Atari, the company started in the 1970s, totally ended in the mid-90s. There was no company left - just trademarks and rights that Hasbro purchased.

@coffee115 3 жыл бұрын

At that time Atari was just one person at one desk with a phone, who handled warranties and other bits of customer service. A dark end for sure.

@NaviciaAbbot 3 жыл бұрын

Additionally, Infogrames/Atari went belly up around 2013 and many properties were sold off to try and climb back out of the red. The only thing they do own are the Flashback properties, Alone in the Dark, and Roller Coaster Tycoon.

@alaeriia01 3 жыл бұрын

You forgot that Atari SA declared bankruptcy in 2012 and was bought out by a group of investors in early 2013. So it's not even Infogrames anymore

@BlackburnBigdragon 3 жыл бұрын

The new Atari VCS is basically "Ouya Part II". The last thing that had an Atari logo on it that was good was "Rollercoaster Tycoon 3". All us Atari fans want is an actual re-release of the original Atari VCS and it's entire library of games on cartridges. We want the actual console back. But the problem really comes with the games. A LOT of the cartridges that gave that console it's life, and heart, were made by MANY different companies. There were dozens of companies making games for the Atari. That's why if a new Atari console came out, it would be missing half it's catalog. One only has to look back at the Atari Flashbacks to see that. All the games on the Flashbacks are either games made by only Atari, and cheap, crap, Atari rom hacks. The Flashbacks are not much better than those cheap Chinese 100000000000 games in one consoles where all the games are just hacked Nintendo or Sega games.

@rashidisw 3 жыл бұрын

I do curious what is the largest ###-in-1 nes cartridge that have all its games working and none of the duplicates? I have encounter 20-in-1; 22-in-1; 42-in-1 (which combine both 20 & 22 -in-1 in single cartridge) and lastly 76-in-1 (have all the games of 42-in-1 plus another 34 games)

@NaviciaAbbot 3 жыл бұрын

I'd say that NWN2 was the last good Atari release. After that, they sort of died off, left to a group of investors who bought the company and only seem to market on nostalgia instead of making more new good times.

@FrenchToasted1995 3 жыл бұрын

Gamers rise up

@BlackburnBigdragon 3 жыл бұрын

@@NaviciaAbbot You're right with that. I forgot about NWN. This is funny considering that I just re-installed the first one on my computer with all it's official add on packs not more than two days ago. It's funny that the NWN community is still there and still making content for it. I never got into NW2 because after I installed it, I discovered that there was very little user made content for it, or nowhere NEAR the complete mountain of content that the first one had. I don't know if that's changed, but I really AM a builder and a creative when it comes to games like that. I prefer the building and creating much more than playing. This is the reason that to this day I still think that "The Adventure Construction Set" for the Commodore 64 is the best RPG maker that's ever been made right up till today. It lets you build, create, and customize EVERYTHING right in the interface.

@NostalgiaCriticAnim1 3 жыл бұрын

They most likely assumed that the number of consoles sold in it’s shelf life being second only to PS2 ensured it would be available on the market in some form

@Fate263 3 жыл бұрын

So basically, Atari needs to re-identify itself as a gaming company, which I am all for... The VCS, though? I doubt that's even a start.

@dguy0386 3 жыл бұрын

it's a step in the right direction but they need to up their game if it and anything else like it is going to mean anything long term

@theretaliation5616 3 жыл бұрын

Sir rerez has blessed us with an upload

@Charlesb88 3 жыл бұрын

The Atari VCS (Video Computer System) was marketed under that name during its first few years in the market until the release of its follow up the Atari 5200 at which point the VCS was renamed the Atari 2600 ( the 5200 was followed by the 7800, the final in that line). Most people call it the 2600 these days but some old school gamers who had the original version in the first few years of its release call it the VCS. There was also a cost and sized reduced version know as the 2600 Jr. that came out in the mid 80s.

@exclusiveturtles 3 жыл бұрын

Nintendo, sony and, Xbox all evolved like real animals. Atari evolved like a pokemon. And Sega evolved like Digimon. and Magnavox, Celeco, Ea are going through a Evangelion type crisis. while apple is "Evolving, just backwards" Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk -Certified Zinnia fanboy

@Chaos89P 3 жыл бұрын

I thought Coleco was bought out a while back?

@TheLakabanzaichrg 3 жыл бұрын

NO! no chameleon

@volo870 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLakabanzaichrg Chameleon could've worked if managed properly. MiSTer works.

@TheLakabanzaichrg 3 жыл бұрын

@@volo870 It was dead on arrival, it's main gimmick has been overshadowed by the Switch

@airplane6417 3 жыл бұрын

EA? When the hell did they make a console. I know SEARS made a console (basically a Atari 2600) and that was ok, but EA?

@CarlosRodriguez-qx5wc 3 жыл бұрын

Atari also released games during the PS2 era. I remember they published Alone in the Dark and a Mission Impossible game on the ps2

@dontegraves5051 3 жыл бұрын

As well as every Dragon Ball game released in North America at that time.

@jayden6538 3 жыл бұрын

@@dontegraves5051 and wheel of fortune

@nikomiyozo8671 3 жыл бұрын

Oh I know Atari. They're the company responsible for massacrering my favorite franchise Roller Coaster Tycoon just to continue to release games when most of the fanbase lost interest ot just doesn't care due to how repeatedly bad they've become.

@phet1211 3 жыл бұрын

There’s more than roller coaster tycoon 2?

@nikomiyozo8671 3 жыл бұрын

@@phet1211 yeah there Tycoon 3 which was pretty good. Tycoon 3d for 3ds which sucked. 4 which was a shitty mobile game. Tycoon world which I heard bombed and one more but I forget its name. There was also a mobile port of the classic games called Tycoon classic which I heard was acceptable.

@phet1211 3 жыл бұрын

@@nikomiyozo8671 i didn’t even know these existed jesus

@Kalvinjj 3 жыл бұрын

@@phet1211 heck they released one for the Switch.... basically the mobile version shoehorned on the Switch almost as-is. Didn't play, won't play. If you're curious about who's making those, definitely not Chris Sawyer. He made 1 and 2, and 3 is heavily based on those (it's said to be mostly just incremental upgrades and full 3D graphics), the rest are something whatever else.

@phet1211 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kalvinjj jesus

@lipstickzombie4981 3 жыл бұрын

The only time Atari mattered to me is that they are the ones originally responsible for the Primal Rage fighting game. That's the first time encountered Atari. 😞 Still saddens me that Primal Rage 2 wasn't mass released during that time.

@nate567987 2 жыл бұрын

so atari games then

@Left-Earth 3 жыл бұрын

_"Have you played Atari today?"_ *"NO !"* 😂🕹️

@PearangeProductions 3 жыл бұрын

Someone is a Scott The Woz fan, I see. 😉

@Steve-ke3cd 3 жыл бұрын

@Left-Earth 3 жыл бұрын

*"This smells like scoliosis !"* 🤓

@jackreacherreviewsandgamin1875 3 жыл бұрын

Reminded me of the Atari porn episode of AVGN: "did you play Atari today?" "Yeah but you don't wanna know what I was playing" 😂

@bootmii98 3 жыл бұрын

Where do you want to go today?

@Kalvinjj 3 жыл бұрын

"Video games t-shirt company Atari" hehe that was savage, and well deserved (oh, not to mention the next reply!). What I just can't forgive (new) Atari for is what they did to Roller Coaster Tycoon. I have no nostalgia for the company, but can definitely respect the old Atari that was one of the most important companies on the video game industry... even when we consider the USA video game crash... oh well.

@Nash1t0 3 жыл бұрын

"What was the last thing they made that it affected you?" I'm not sure if they were the developers, but i clearly remember seeing their logo in that horrid Dragon Ball Z Sagas for the PS2.

@gastonslashx 3 жыл бұрын

Last time i saw the logo, i think it was on neverwinter nights.

@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121 3 жыл бұрын

It was also on the Legacy of Goku games for GBA around the same time so it wasn't all bad at least.

@EGent-nd4mv 3 жыл бұрын

I remember it on the test drive eve of destruction. I still actually have the game

@dontegraves5051 3 жыл бұрын

This is something that he didn't touch on, yet it is one of the many reasons they remained relevant in the modern era and were able to generate cash flow. Dragon Ball (Z) is a cash cow franchise, like Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon. Atari hopped onto Dragon Ball hoping to gain that cash and they succeeded until they lost the rights several years later. Atari even footed the bill to publish Budokai 2 on Gamecube when Bandai had no plans to do so themselves possibly due to the allegedly low sales of the first Dragon Ball Z game on Gamecube in Japan. Atari is the only reason Budokai 2 was even on the Gamecube in North America and Europe and Atari knew that a worldwide release of the game would allow them to get profit.

@thenumberquelve158 3 жыл бұрын

Back when I was nine or ten I was given a Wheel of Fortune game on the Playstation 2 that happened to have Atari's logo on it. I had never heard of them before. My parents got into gaming via the SNES and SEGA Genesis.

@UnclePhil73 3 жыл бұрын

I had a 2600. Heck, my first computer was an Atari 800. How the mighty have fallen.

@Mireaze 3 жыл бұрын

Im really excited for the VCS release. Because its just a PC in a super swanky case, and its going to be super cheap on eBay

@blueisodd 3 жыл бұрын

I’m so happy to see content outside of Just Bad Games and The Worst Ever Series. As much as I love both of those series, I miss the reviews, the hot takes, and I ESPECIALLY miss the Positives and Negatives series. Hopefully this marks a return to form for Rerez.

@zebedeetotty 3 жыл бұрын

The biggest impact atari has had on my life in the last 10 years was having their logo in the opening credits for roller coaster tycoon

@joshm264 3 жыл бұрын

In my opinion, Jack T. buying Atari killed both Commodore and Atari

@coffee115 3 жыл бұрын

Irving Gould killed Commodore. Atari died because it was too ahead of its time in the console space, and Moore's Law was in full force. Atari died, sure, but so did half of the home computer space, which was their golden goose. It also didn't help that atari's name was tainted in the states.

@patsfan4life 3 жыл бұрын

@@coffee115 Moore’s Law?

@vault1230 3 жыл бұрын

Thing that says number of transistor in a console doubles every 2 years and it’s somehow accurate to this day

@ressljs 3 жыл бұрын

Warner seemed to be doing a pretty good job of killing Atari before Jack got his hands on it. It may have died sooner had he not bought them, but who knows. And without knowing what would be coming in the 90's, Jack's strategy of focusing on computers and putting video games on the back burner seemed reasonable at the time.

@AandNvg 3 жыл бұрын

I think Jack kept Atari alive longer than it would be. They sort of brought us the Lynx.

@kyleolson8977 3 жыл бұрын

This video is a Trojan Horse against the new Atari VCS and I love it. People need to understand the mistake that they made.

@Mattastrophic1 3 жыл бұрын

Ever feel like you are watching a lawsuit unfolding before your eyes in real time? That's how news about the new Atari system makes me feel.

@airplane6417 3 жыл бұрын

Well, I kinda like the idea of the new Atari VCS. It is a PC hooked to your TV, capable of playing old 2600 games along with new PC titles.

@Gamevet 3 жыл бұрын

I haven't given that company a dime. When I want to play something from Atari, I'll pull out my VCS, Lynx, Jaguar (Shudder) or arcade compilations. People that invested in that vaporware were conned.

@Mattastrophic1 3 жыл бұрын

@@Gamevet I've got my atari flashback console and an Atari 2600 Jr. Paid less for both of those combined than what this new VCS costs

@kagenlim5271 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mattastrophic1 I mean, if the VCS is the only way we will get Test Drive Unlimited, Driv3r another time round, sign me the hell up

@Dreadjaws 3 жыл бұрын

Man, this doesn't even tell the whole story, missing stuff like how they've desperately milked the Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise and tried to fund one of their games by recruiting crowd funders as investors.

@2Scribble 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the ET debacle!!! :D

@McAllen07 3 жыл бұрын

@@2Scribble That was Steven Spielberg demanding the game be on store shelves in time for Christmas '82. In an interview just before its release, he was asked if the game was completed, he doubled down on people's awareness of the very short development window by saying, "Of course it's completed [...]" (paraphrased). You cannot imagine how aggressive the merchandising around E.T. really was if you're under a certain age. Atari wasn't even the only victim. Ever wondered why the first "Tron" film didn't capture the imagination of, well, everybody in 1982? It had to compete with E.T. showing in theaters at the same time.

@crowmigration8245 3 жыл бұрын

Hasbro atari was awesome, they made those 3d pong and frogger games for pc. So much character. This is very different from usual content but I love it!

@XVC_Bro 3 жыл бұрын

Atari, the Company that brought Gaming in to household

@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep 3 жыл бұрын

I can't wait for "Worst Atari Console Ever"

@Not-Great-at-Gaming 3 жыл бұрын

I think that would be one of the AT Games Flashback consoles.

@AdminHouse 3 жыл бұрын

noooo

@AdminHouse 3 жыл бұрын

it's not bad

@PearangeProductions 3 жыл бұрын

Is this a new series?! I hope so, this is _amazing._

@5Porygon 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu.

@stridermt2k 3 жыл бұрын

Videos like this really make me appreciate this channel all the more.

@xpired5328 3 жыл бұрын

When I told my dad that Atari was making a return with the new CVS, he got really excited even though he doesn't care about the new gaming consoles or the new gaming world. I think I'm not going to tell him about all this, just to still keep him excited until the console releases. We'll see what happens after that, and if it's any good, then I'll be sure to buy it cuz I know this is the only gaming my father will also enjoy with me 😄

@scottthewaterwarrior 3 жыл бұрын

Atari is making a CVS? I didn't realize they wanted to get into the drugstore business too.

@xpired5328 3 жыл бұрын

@@scottthewaterwarrior You're getting it wrong, bud. They do that in the after hours, not as the main business.

@TheKittenCentral 3 жыл бұрын

In the time my uncle was born. He and my grandma used to play on an Atari.

@dandruff3414 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful memory. Too bad the Atari today is not the same Atari that your uncle and grandma played

@dogfromthepurplezoneoffici5182 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information Rerez. Your videos are always entertaining and informative and I hope you make many more.

@thebeats69 3 жыл бұрын

This is amazing, please do more stuff like this!

@ProTayToeGamer 3 жыл бұрын

This actually really helped me understand what's going on, I was so confused on how this is even Atari. Apparently it's just an imposter selling out to be relavant. Quite a sad story.

@VaporZone 3 жыл бұрын

This is good information you have brought to light. As a hardcore gamer as I am, I never knew this backstory. I knew it was sold and bought again and again but "That Atari is not This Atari" I never knew. Thanks a lot for this valuable information.

@jesseboy7951 3 жыл бұрын

Love ur videos, man. So honest, so ironical, so intelligent. U can almost see the amount of heart u put into it. My hat goes off to u, Shane.

@Jarod_Schultz 3 жыл бұрын

I'm an Atari fan in 2020. Some of my favorites are Pitfall, River Raid, and Laser Volley. I especially like the homebrew games from Atariage. Games like Draconian, Scramble, Juno First, and Lady Bug are pretty good.

@daemonspudguy 2 жыл бұрын

Pitfall is from Activision.

@Islandswamp Жыл бұрын

How is your VCS doing?

@Jarod_Schultz Жыл бұрын

@@Islandswamp I have a black 4 switch that works, and a 6 switch that needs repair.

@konagirl805 3 жыл бұрын

As a recipient of an Atari 2600 as a Christmas present, it's hard to describe the "magic" of controlling what was on the TV screen. At the very beginning, it didn't matter much if you were playing pong or some other Atari 2600 game... you were controlling what was on the screen... THAT was the fun... at least at the start.

@techformsmaster930 3 жыл бұрын

if they can keep the spirit of the old atari then I'll be happy calling them atari

@moperry8399 3 жыл бұрын

Infogrames was a big part of my childhood. They were the publishers of the Humongous Entertainment games. Pajama Sam, Putt-Putt, Backyard Sports, and multiple other games were some of the first gaming experiences I had, and the majority of them are still fun to this day.

@jeiku5041 3 жыл бұрын

Take a drink every time he says Atari. I'm not responsible for any alcohol poisoning.

@edgelord8337 3 жыл бұрын

Basically Atari *hey you see that game you played like 40 years ago?* *well we remade it* Atari fans: *OHMYGOSHTHISISTHEBEST*

@BowsettesFury 3 жыл бұрын

“👻 I’m the ghost of the $3M dollars invested in the new VCS.” “👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 F***.”

@souljastation5463 3 жыл бұрын

I'm Atari: waka waka waka waka waka waka waka waka waka waka waka waka

@win9xse 3 жыл бұрын

This was a great video doc, awesome work shane!

@AceNX 3 жыл бұрын

This is a great video! Enjoyable and informative. Would you ever make similar videos on SNK or Sega and their similarly rocky histories recently?

@nitorishogiplayer3465 3 жыл бұрын

Atari hotel at 2 minutes in omg. This is presented quite well. I loved the ending parts about the people teaching their successors in the other companies and your "advice" to the current Atari.

@tecpaocelotl 3 жыл бұрын

Had an atari growing up, but my older cousin (he lived with us) was addicted to it and my dad sold it. This was before Nintendo entertainment system existed. That crowd funding system didn't get my attention.

@portalpiggy 3 жыл бұрын

this is so well done! I found it so fascinating!

@kingpin1331 3 жыл бұрын

I really like this video game history style format def hoping to see some more from you guys, I love the worst ever series but this is great change of pace 👍

@xplodingmojo2087 3 жыл бұрын

I know Atari, They earraped me whilst starting up Roller Coaster Tycoon 3.

@Kalvinjj 3 жыл бұрын

At least the roller coaster going from left to right on the Frontier logo was cool, but dang it that Atari logo was loud indeed. Still play the original RCT3 on CD here, still works on Windows 10.

@Karmy. 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kalvinjj I bought a copy off some dude on eBay so I could keep playing it

@MrMegaManFan 3 жыл бұрын

We definitely don’t at this point. They’re not Atari of Sunnyvale. They’re just a name that gets slapped on crap to fool people nostalgic for their past.

@one_shot07 3 жыл бұрын

Man I love this channel

@mccrh7737 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Vid ;) Learned a bit here, very nice thanks :)

@croppedrubbish 2 жыл бұрын

So... Atari gets made. Atari gets split into two. Atari gets bought by Hasbro. Hasbro gets bought by Infogrames. Infogrames "becomes" Atari. Huh.

@official_johnnys_journey 3 жыл бұрын

You should make a series talking about gaming like this

@maggiebreadsticks5023 3 жыл бұрын

“That’s what this logo means! It means video games!” *Nintendo Switch ad starts playing*

@RussLyman 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the history lesson. Was hoping to see Norm pop up ha. Yeah I’m unsure if those people will ever get the Atari system anytime soon

@Rich.Newell 3 жыл бұрын

I've got an Atari messenger bag, it affects me every day as I carry my lunch to work in it.

@TheSektorz 3 жыл бұрын

6:42 Just imagine the logo he's talking about is the SEGA logo and I can relate :D I like the message of this video. So many people have had their nostalgia milked in the form of money by new owners of classic IPs. There's a retro gaming market that grows ever so popular ever since AVGN inspired countless copycat channels (this one included) to do what he did. And naturally, people are trying to exploit that market, and retro gamers' nostalgia.

@anthonymacgregor9790 3 жыл бұрын

in the case of sega the logo is still owned by the same company that still owns its own video games ip

@CarlosRodriguez-qx5wc 3 жыл бұрын

Sega still makes great games like the Yakuza series.

@theodorerelic2718 3 жыл бұрын

Milking nostalgia is pretty much a constant. You know you're old when you hear a favorite song from your teen years used in an ad for health products :)

@CarlosRodriguez-qx5wc 3 жыл бұрын

@@theodorerelic2718 even new songs are used for ads nowadays.

@SsnakeBite 3 жыл бұрын

That's a really good video, informative AND makes a very good point about the company, and modern marketing in general.

@d11ita 3 жыл бұрын

One of your best videos 👏🏻

@krazproductions 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Rerez, will you ever do a video review for the Atari VCS? I have an original backers edition that you can review if you'd like!

@andrewmattera6205 3 жыл бұрын

You’re not gonna talk about the 1980s video game crash? and how they were FORCED to switch to computers? Or how Nintendo really had to force their way into the American video game market? Just gonna skip over that huh?

@everardogonzalez2232 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video.....a proper way of explaining what Atari was and what it is now..

@Wahid_on_youtobe 3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for your review of Atari vcs :)

@paradoxzee6834 3 жыл бұрын

Wait SEGA is a giant? They now just port the same old games on new consoles and make Hatsune Miku and Yakuza games

@rerez 3 жыл бұрын

Sega is a pretty big company. I've looked into what they own and operate and it spans from video games all the way into luxury vacation resorts!

@thevgmlover 3 жыл бұрын

@@rerez I wonder how big their arcade business still is, too. Far as I've heard, that business never died in the slightest, the year they went third party.

@Stuffgamer1 3 жыл бұрын

I'd say Sega isn't really the gaming juggernaut it once was, but it IS still the same company in a way that Atari cannot accurately claim.

@Kalvinjj 3 жыл бұрын

Not even talking about the whole Yakuza actual involvement stories out there, I don't mean the game, I do mean the real world mafia. Those are stories of course but dunno how far they're real, as far as I know they do make pachinko machines.

@fattiger6957 3 жыл бұрын

It's not a giant like EA, TakeTwo or Activision, but Sega is still considered a major publisher. Its name still carries some weight and they do still put out some good products.

@aplanenerdandagamenerd9087 3 жыл бұрын

1:25 Are you telling me Sega made vending machines?

@dandruff3414 3 жыл бұрын

Correction: jukebox and slot machines

@coffee115 3 жыл бұрын

They still make vending machines.

@Not-Great-at-Gaming 3 жыл бұрын

And Commodore made filing cabinets.

@dguy0386 3 жыл бұрын

very very well made video! good job with explaining everything!

@lemondemonfangirl1337 3 жыл бұрын

10:18 “Video games T-shirt company Atari” there’s no coming back from that

@colbycity2843 3 жыл бұрын

I’m actually wearing an Atari shirt right now.

@chadtaylor3292 3 жыл бұрын

I'm wearing a fishnet ballbag, thats holding my sack gently. :P lol

@SomeOrangeCat 3 жыл бұрын

The Atari I knew and loved died in 1984.

@roberthanthonymartinezrive7383 3 жыл бұрын

AFAIK, people regarded Atari Games (the arcade division) as the true successor of the original Atari, as they kept making arcade games such as Marble Madness, Primal Rage and Mace: The Dark Age to name a few titles. They also distributed games developed by other companies such as Gaelco's World Rally and Radikal Bikers, as well as Toaplan's Knuckle Bash...

@raplesyrup 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man, I see a new rerez upload notification I tap it. Great stuff!

@darthck5066 3 жыл бұрын

A very interesting and informative video, Rerez.

@Silvyya 3 жыл бұрын

i hope the only reason there doing the extremely high 400 dollar price tag is to stay above water in money so they dont die then if people buy it it would atleast be 200 dollars

@hobbybuilds4174 3 жыл бұрын

What if i said i knew everything in this video AND play atari everyday. whatabout that?

@peavn1680 3 жыл бұрын

But you didn't?

@hobbybuilds4174 3 жыл бұрын

@@peavn1680 Idk did I?

@OMA2k 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! This is so much better than your usual "crappy Chinese console" videos. Keep it up!

@TheGrandtheftautops3 3 жыл бұрын

Love the video, the last Atari product I bought was Test Drive Unlimited 2. It was there last product ever produced before bankruptcy. Still I love that game and it is the best racing game I feel. I hadn't really played any of the other Atari products aside from the ps1 collection and the Driver series on ps2 (before Ubisoft took over).

@JamesBrown-oz5bl 3 жыл бұрын

I only care about the Atari ST, silly console peasants

@titanstardx 3 жыл бұрын

Me: sitting on the Godzilla fighting games. Fruit Ninja? Odd way to say Destroy All Monsters.

@thetrashpile2507 3 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for someone to bring these up.

@khit007 3 жыл бұрын

Wow I had no idea it was a different company and I love video games. thanks for the knowledge! :)

@calvinskithepolishamerican7524 3 жыл бұрын

Make Atari Great Again Another great informative video, good work Shane. :)

@voodoojosh1 3 жыл бұрын

Turkish mothers called Atari every game consoles in nineties! :)

@PANZERFAUST90 3 жыл бұрын

In the US everything was called a Nintendo.

@randomguy8931 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact "playstation" isn't the same as it was before.

@RippahRooJizah 3 жыл бұрын

It more or less is, especially compared to Atari. The move of their HQ to California had questionable results but I'm not one to hate censorship purely due to it being censorship.

@IlokanoWarrior 3 жыл бұрын

The 2D games for PS1 still look great. Metal Gear Solid is one of the best 3d games on that system also.

@Richyman397 3 жыл бұрын

*(**8:19**)* "When a classic game does re-emerge from the vault and gets rereleased by Nintendo, everyone is talking about it because it's an event worth noting." Yeah. Like Super Mario 3-D All Stars. DEFINITELY notable.

@Chaos89P 3 жыл бұрын

Not always for the, ahem, "right" reasons.

@MissCircle616 3 жыл бұрын

Last time i interacted anything with atari was that transformers game in 2004

@GatorRay 3 жыл бұрын

Sadly that's probably better than the new turn based strategy game published by Outright Games.

@leogreaves2931 3 жыл бұрын

Request: Money Ghost colour genders

@goalhorncrazy9779 3 жыл бұрын

No offense, but most Atari games are awful. Most Atari games were terrible games that were confusing to understand. And people will say, “ No that’s just ET.” No, ET was one of the better games on the 2600, considering it was made in 6 weeks by one guy, and was one of the few games that had a concrete goal outside of high scores

@coffee115 3 жыл бұрын

They're awful in *comparison*, but that's due to you knowing what you consider "better" games. Most games back then had dozens of variations which required a manual. These games weren't as "pick up and play" by any stretch.

@wyldshot666 3 жыл бұрын

I played the hell out Raiders Of The Lost Ark as a kid. Didn't really know what was going on. Didn't care either. I knew I was a pixel Indiana Jones. That's all that mattered.

@blastedmcgraw152 3 жыл бұрын

Not true. As someone who’s first console was a 2600, I can tell you that the games were, in fact, not awful, but pretty fucking great. And the fact that I was 7 or 8 years old and figuring them out quite easily, as were many of my friends and cousins in the early 80’s, shows that they were actually NOT confusing. And by the way, ET sucked back then too.

@fattiger6957 3 жыл бұрын

Atari games are wayyy too primitive for anyone to appreciate who didn't play it back in the day. To most people who don't have nostalgia, playing 2600 games would be like trying to drive a Ford Model-A.