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ATARI REVIEWS
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 ATARI 2600 The Atari Video Computer System, later known as the Atari 2600, was not the first home videogame system, yet it was the first to become mass market. Released in 1977, the VCS didn't really start to sell until a home version of Space Invaders was released, probably the first 'killer app' in videogame history. Many games for the VCS are now very primitive, but somehow can be considered classics. Combat, Adventure, Yar's Revenge, Frogger, and even Pacman have a property I can only call Atariness. Unfortunately in 1983, so many third party publishers wanted a piece of the Atari pie, that for every Battlezone or Ms. Pacman made, many horrible games were released. This saturated the market causing the home videogame crash in 1984. |
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2008 ben langberg, all rights reserved.
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