I probably could have posted this to ~BooksAndArticles or ~Stacker_Sports. George Plympton was a fantastic sportswriter and also founded The Paris Review. He's known for a bunch of books (most famously Paper Lion in which he went undercover in various sports. And for some reason, one of the most famous -- and very proper -- writers of his time became the spokesman for the Intellivision, Mattel's rival to the Atari 2600. Here's a compilation of those commercials.
21 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 20 Apr
Great stuff. Intellivision games do look much better but yet Atari is still synonymous with retro gaming.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 20 Apr
Very true. Growing up I had a 2600, and while I enjoyed playing Intellivision games when I visited friends who had them, I never switched loyalties. It helped that there were simply more Atari games, and once third party manufacturers like Activision (remember when they were a scrappy independent studio?) and Imagic started making games, the quality improved drastically.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 20 Apr
I was a bit too young for this era of gaming but I do recall being very young and playing atari at my cousins house. The first gaming system I owned was the sega master system.
Oddly enough I am currently playing Sega Ages Phantasy Star on my kids Switch. I loved this game as a kid and recall my dad playing with me for hours as we worked through the dungeons and trying to accumulate mestas and HP.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 20 Apr
I split towards Nintendo during that war, so never really saw many of the Master System games, tbh. I should do a dive into some of them -- I'm sure there was some good stuff I just never encountered.
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