It's been a bit of a slow week in gaming news and goings on. So let's speed things up a bit with some classic Atari marketing courtesy of Youtube:
An awesome arcade port for a very underrated game system. The Atari 5200 gets attention from collectors and gamers alike more for it's reputation for poor controllers than it's awesome game library and near arcade perfect ports of classic games. I think the 5200 is often overshadowed by it's predecessor the Atari 2600 and gets forgotten quite easily.
According to it's Wikipedia article this Pole Position commercial is considered by many to be one of the greatest game commercials of all time. While I can say there's no accounting for taste I agree it is a classic.
Take a moment and imagine the possibilities. What could have been had the 5200 been compatible with Atari 2600 titles from the start, had a digital joystick instead of an analog one or didn't suffer through the game crash of 1983-84?
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