It is the first console of Atari taken in 1977 in the USA. UU, although it was not the first in history, was the first to popularize the video game market worldwide
But did you know that because of Atari almost all the videogame industry disappears? Even with these, without this console the video game market would be very different because of the following:
Top 7 games of the Atari 2600
For this list the most innovative and important games for the console were chosen.
Space Invaders (1980)
First successful console game worldwide
Gun Fight (1977)
Implement individual controls for movement
Asteroids (1979)
The first successful Atari game
Pitfall (1982)
Activision’s first popular game (one of the most important companies today)
Video Olympics (Pong) (1977)
Classic of domestic consoles. It was the first console game
Air Raiders (1982)
Better implementation of the 3D view of the time
Battlezone (1980)
The first game with 3D vision
☝️ Crisis of video games of 1983.
The cause of this crisis was the saturation of games of poor quality, both from the company Atari and other independent distributors, who saw in video games a quick and easy way to get rich.
There were manufacturers who made their games in only 5 or 7 weeks the most famous example is the ET by which everyone believes that Atari went bankrupt, but in reality the company was entering a crisis before the departure of this game, only detonated the bomb.
Et of the Atari 2600. A misunderstood masterpiece?
While it is true that has many obvious errors, which completely ruined its gameplay, was the first non-linear game that had an open world and even secondary missions.
It is also known for the millions of cartridges that Atari buried in this game, although it was not the only one. This they did mainly to reduce costs, at a time when the company was in economic crisis, since the storage of the cartridges was somewhat expensive and why have games that were not going to sell anyway?
PAC-MAN of the Atari 2600. The worst adaptation of the story?
Much of the games that came out for the console were adaptations (port) that had been created especially for arcades and often the hardware limited to make an exact adaptation.
It was the case of PAC-MAN or Donkey Kong that, were a successful in arcade, were a big disappointment in their versions of this console, why? In the case of PAC-MAN the levels were smaller, the design then … you are seeing it and the worst of all is that it had several bugs that make it unplayable. For all this Atari is on the verge of bankruptcy.
✅ Atari 2800 ¿Por qué lo hicieron?
It was a special version of the Atari 2600 that came out only for Japan in 1983. You could say that it was a desperate action by the company to recover some money from the crisis that they caused. The list of games of the Atari 2800 is the same as the Atari 2600 but, it was so broken the company that the label of the games were the same as the United States, that is, the games were not even translated.
This product clearly failed, not only because of the poor implementation, since a few days later Nintendo’s super successful NES came out
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Could you save the video games?
But, Atari would not accept bankruptcy so easily:
Atari 2600 jr. The salvation of Atari?
It was a redesign of the console, which some called Atari 2. Although it was released in 1986, a time that was evident the success of the NES with its 8 bits, was intended for people with little money, since it was 62% more cheap!!!
Although this was not a super success, it generated considerable benefits for a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. But clearly the most important, because of the impact it had on the industry, was the Atari 2600.
✅ New design of the Atari console is not dead!
Although it may not seem like it, the new managers of the company have recently been redesigning the console in the form of a home console and a laptop. Do you want to know them?
Atari Flashback
See the mini desktop version
Atari Flashback Portable
See the portable version
I’m really looking forward to read more on this topic.
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