Retro Scan of the Week: Your Atari Christmas List
December 11th, 2006 by Benj Edwards
Dear Santa,
I would like Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede, Phoenix, Vanguard, Jungle Hunt, Kangaroo, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Pole Position, Battlezone, and Moon Patrol for Christmas. I would also like the ATARI 5200 (TM) Super-System (The world’s most advanced video game system), the ATARI 2600 (TM) System (The world’s most popular video game system), the ATARI 5200 TRAK-BALL (TM) Controller (For the real arcade touch. Plays more TRAK-BALL (TM) compatible games than anyone else), the ATARI VCS (TM) Cartridge Adapter (Lets your 5200 play every game made for ATARI game systems), and the ATARI TRAK-BALL (TM) Controller (For real arcade action on the ATARI 2600 (TM) System, Sears Video Arcade System and all ATARI Home Computers).
That’s all.
Sincerely,
Tommy L. SpeddlemanP.S. Send me hardware and software, not underwear!
[ Scanned from Electronic Games, December 1983. Special thanks to McPhail Hunt for donating this issue. ]
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December 11th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
DITTO! Well not the 2600, I already have that… but everything else!
December 11th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
You needed that underwear back then, you’d crap your pants with excitement seeing the wonders of 40 pixels!
December 11th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
And what is up with asking for both the 2600 and the 5200? That’s like asking for the GBC and the GBA….GBA can do both…
December 11th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Yeah, but only the 2600 had fake wood panelling. So you’d get the 5200 for raw power, and the 2600 for atmosphere.
December 12th, 2006 at 7:53 am
I had no idea that Atari was a Warner Communication Company.
Maybe that’s why AOL sucks so bad, it runs on 2600 technology.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:21 am
I have a question more than a comment.
Back in the early-mid 90’s there was a cable company that came with video games. They had a game I loved but can’t remember the name of it you start off working your way through a pyramid going through all types of trials when you finally reach the top you get in a space ship and fly away. I was hoping someone would know the name of it and where I can get it…thanx…C.C.
December 12th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Hehe. Atari was a Warner Communications company between 1976 and 1984. For more on Atari’s history, the Wikipedia Article on Atari does a pretty good job.
And Celia,
You might be thinking of Time-Warner Interactive, which was a later incarnation of Atari Games. The game you’re describing is unfamiliar to me, though. Maybe someone else could help you.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:42 am
I could realy use the undies though!? I play all my games in them!