I miss Atari.

times were much simpler then.... no one can complain about the passiveness of Pac Man or Tetris...

 

those games still exist for the computer or some emulators

 

I remember playing some sort of Smurf game on the Atari. It was a side scroller. Dear god, I was three or four when I played that. That was twenty years ago. hahaha

 

I used to love playing James Pond

 

Ahh, I play strategy games.
I too come from the land of pong, & Atari.

 

I remember thinking pong was the coolest game EVER!

I never imagined we would be playing 3-d RPG games only a few years later.

Kinda makes you wonder what it's gonna be like in 15 years ...

 

I was so please when I found out my phone had pong.
Then sooo pissed cos the phone was so crap it made the game really shit.

There were other games I spent so long playing like E-Type (for the Archimedes), Repton, Starship Command (on the Electron) and Frak. That and Bug-Hunter (for the Arch). They used to be way cool.

 

too bad kids today dont have the imagination to play games with such low graphics, lol.

 

Atari is awesome! We still have one somewhere, but it might need to be fixed... again.

 

Agreed with you on this subject.
And I am glad some people here mentioned Pong. I also grew up in the era were Pong was the most technically sophisticated game ever. More than that even.

 

I liked Galaga

 

I liked pacman, donkey kong, dig dug and kangaroo on the atari.

We have a CDRom with 80's games on it and a controller you plug into the TV...it has pacman, dig dug, bosconian and rally x

 

Atari - also made Star Wars - the new one is fkn excellent but the old vector one of the 80's had stereo sound behind your head and was 10p a go (uk) and a mechanic used to go in every saturday morning and tune up the handset control thingmyjig and if ever I had to go to the job centre I'd make sure I beat the top high score before leaving.I've got it on MAME but somehow its not the same as being down in the arcades in Brighton