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I've always enjoyed the retro-ness of classic Macs but this Atari is cool enough to sway me away at times. I'm an old fan of the movie Cloak & Dagger with Dabney Coleman and Henry Thomas. In the movie, Davie's (played by Thomas) buddy at the local video game store finds government information in an Atari 5200 cartridge. Also on his desk is this Atari 800. Since seeing the movie as a kid I've always wanted one of these. I ended up getting one together late last year but as life goes, I haven't had much of a chance to use it yet.
I'm hoping for some better shots of the system but I really need a nice '80's set to make the picture complete. The printer is brand new from Best Electronics in California. It was pretty cool to open that one up.
I know I'm pretty much a geek but I'm not alone. There are tons of Atari fans still out there and there's even a tangible homebrew group still writing games for the sake of Atari.
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so totally obsessed with this girl!
thanks so much to irene for letting me adopt her!
atari wears an HOP smock and vintage barbie boots
Well I received an Atari 2600 for Christmas, so I'm going to try and make it out of Legos, and I decided to start with the controller. I think it turned out really well.
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Another inspirational post on my blog.
Where would we be without them? Atari exploded onto the gaming scene in 1977 and pioneered an entire new genre of entertainment with both arcade games and a home video gaming system, the Atari 2600. With this monumental success came an entire spread of amazing screen and print design that defined the bright colorful style of the late 70s.
I'm teaching my daughter to play Go. I personally prefer Go to Chess; it's rules are simpler but the game is no less complex.
In composing this image, I struggled to find a way to make the flat game board look less..well...flat. In the end, I decided to make the image with my widest (17mm) lens positioned at its minimum focusing distance of 11 inches from the nearest stones. Going wide certainly exaggerated the proportions of the subject and gave it a more three dimensional quality, but it added an interesting complication. I strongly prefer simple images with uncluttered backgrounds, but despite the closeness of the subject, my wide angle lens saw just about everything in my cluttered living room. To keep the background dark I laid about 100 square feet of black drop cloth on the floor and boomed my key light (a 24 inch softbox) very close directly above the the subject to maximize light falloff away from the subject.
I've written more about how lens focal length affects the look of backgrounds in this blog entry.
www.eriksphotoblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/using-focal-lengt...
This entire 1982 gaming magazine is asking to be scanned, there's a whole section comparing all the systems (Atari, Intellivision, Odyssey2, Astrocade (?) and the nascent Colecovision.
Despite the ad copy, Vectrex was never on anyone's radar, although the concept of a portable vector-based system seems pretty cool in retrospect.
The extreme excitement portrayed by the people in this in ad borders on mania. However, it still has resonance, my 7 year old saw this ad and asked me why everyone was looking at each other and not the game. Good point.