Atari Vs Commodore!

[MoreCoffee]

In the 1980s and 1990s there was a battle between Atari and Commodore (with the Amiga). In the end the Amiga won but Commodore was poorly managed so they went bankrupt and so did Atari. But the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga were interesting machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2pX6bU7-pU

 

[hotrhymez]

Dude are you living in the stone age..lol just kidding. Im probably too young to remember though I know Atari had Pong...right? I guess that was alright.

Playstation >>>>> X Box for me personally.

 

[Lamb]

We had the Atari 5200 and loved it! I had guys over at the house playing all the time. They came to challenge my mom's scores. Not to see me

 

[MoreCoffee]

We had the Atari 5200 and loved it! I had guys over at the house playing all the time. They came to challenge my mom's scores. Not to see me

That's very sad ...

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[MoreCoffee]

Dude are you living in the stone age..lol just kidding. Im probably too young to remember though I know Atari had Pong...right? I guess that was alright.

Playstation >>>>> X Box for me personally.

I had an Amiga way back and I gave it to a chap in 2000 or 2001, not sure what happened to it, he may have sold it in a garage sale. I don't miss it. No nostalgia about it, but the history was interesting. The Amiga and Atari ST were both way better that the Apple Mac and the PC in the late 1980s. After that Intel began to win the chip wars and made faster and cheaper chips than did Motorola (the Mac, Amiga, and Atari ST were all based on the 68000 series chips from Motorola) so PC and eventually Apple went with Intel and now we are living in the Intel world ... I wonder if an alternative universe exists where Motorola won ...

 

[tango]

We had the Atari 5200 and loved it! I had guys over at the house playing all the time. They came to challenge my mom's scores. Not to see me

5200? You progressive heathen you

I still have an old Atari 2600 console. I just don't have a way to connect it to my TV.

 

[Lamb]

We had a Telestar before my dad bought the Atari. I hated the Telestar. So boring watching that little ball go back and forth across the screen.

 

[tango]

We had a Telestar before my dad bought the Atari. I hated the Telestar. So boring watching that little ball go back and forth across the screen.

I remember those things. The first time I saw it, it was when I happened to notice the TV screen through a neighbor's window, and I wondered why I couldn't find the channel they were watching (back in the day there were only three channels, so it didn't take long to search). The first time I got to plug an Atari 2600 into - get this - a COLOR television set it was like my universe expanded before my very eyes.

Somehow I was spared the ordeal of a Sinclair computer and instead got to argue endlessly with a friend over whether an Apple or a BBC micro was the better machine. Not surprisingly we both insisted the one we had was better than the other...

 

[Lamb]

Which Atari games were your favorites?

 

[psalms 91]

space invaders and missileshoot

 

[Rens]

I only know Atari from the song they had at my sister's wedding 28 years ago, since her husband was a fan of Atari.

 

[Rens]

We had a Telestar before my dad bought the Atari. I hated the Telestar. So boring watching that little ball go back and forth across the screen.

Oh was that tennis on tv?
That was marvellous. I came home with my friend and my dad had that on the tv and we could play tennis. Amaaaaaazing!!!!! Ping. Pong. Ping Pong. Loved it.

 

[tango]

Which Atari games were your favorites?

River Raid

 

[Lamb]

I liked Galaxian and QBert.

 

[tango]

I liked Galaxian and QBert.

QBert was fun too.

 

[hotrhymez]

space invaders for the win

 

[tango]

I quite liked Yars Revenge at the time too.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I played DUNE II on a PC back in 1991 I think.

 

[tango]

I played DUNE II on a PC back in 1991 I think.

This thread isn't about newfangled modern stuff

 

[MoreCoffee]

This thread isn't about newfangled modern stuff

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