Atari: Game Over documentary review: why E.T. got dumped
The truth about one of the great urban legends of videogame history is nowhere near as epic as you’d imagine: in fact, it’s rather anticlimactic.
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retro ad: 1980s Crazy Eddie commercial
If you lived in New York in the 1980s, you could not have escaped the ads for Crazy Eddie, an electronics and home appliance chain…
retro ad: 1980s Intellivision commercial with George Plimpton
Ah, remember the days of the great Intellivision vs Atari war? Good times…
question of the weekend: Atari 2600 or Commodore 64?
Or maybe Sinclair, Amiga, Intellivision, Odyssey2, something else?
watch it: 1980s Atari Christmas E.T. commercial
I fight it rather disturbing to think about E.T. masquerading as Santa. I also wonder if a being from a culture that has mastered intersteller travel would find the Atari 2600 game system rather primitive.
watch it: 1970s Atari commercial
Ah, remember when…?
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movie review: special sauce
Treats the charming nonsense of food falling from the sky like weather with exactly the sort of bouyant nimbleness it deserves…
question of the day: WTF? An Asteroids movie?
Lots of you have emailed me about this one, and yes, I’m as dumbfounded as you are. From The Hollywood Reporter: Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game “Asteroids.” Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced … more…
