Thread 11887714

Atari is adding their Namco games to Atari 50 as DLC, including the shitty 2600 port of Pac-Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HUUaqbJiS8

>>11887714 (OP)
2600 Dig Dug is pretty rad for the time

I keep bringing it up, but Atari is also currently working with WB on a Mortal Kombat compilation, meaning that they have a working relationship. Announcement of this Namco collab DLC for Atari 50 opens doors for other collabs, and that's where working with WB creates opportunities. I can envision two separate DLCs:
>Williams and Midway home ports (Defender, Stargate, Joust, Robotron 2084, Wizard of Wor, Tapper, Rampage, Xenophobe, etc.)
>Atari Games arcade company after 1984 (Marble Madness, Paperboy, Gauntlet, RoadBlasters, Tetris (if deity Henk Rogers approves), Hard Drivin', S.T.U.N. Runner, Klax, Pit-Fighter, Rampart, etc.)

>No Ms. Pac-Man
How can the IP rights system be so fucked?

How much of a market do they think Atari 2600 games have at this point
They'd probably do better selling those shitty plug n plays to toddlers who don't know any better and are just happy to play video games

>>11888932
It's not that the rights to Ms. Pac-Man are not available, it's that Bamco outright refuses to pay money to AtGames who bought the rights from prior owners and has no historical conbection to the character.

>>11887714 (OP)
groovy as hell

>>11887724
Not sure if you're talking about the clip in the video but I believe that's the 5200 version

>>11888945
wonder how AtGames pulled that off

>>11887714 (OP)
Damn, guess i wont be buying a physical copy anytime soon until they completely finish drilling for content and do a final, final complete edition.

>>11889326
This is why I'm not exactly excited for it. I got the steel book thinking that'd be the complete edition, but I guess not. If it has some legitimately cool behind the scenes shit in it then I'd pick it up on sale, but I'm not buying another "Definitive Complete Collector's Edition" only for them to buy Vectrex rights or something and throw another DLC at it.

It's honestly really cool that they made new Atari Pac-Man art and apparently they even got the same artist to do it.
In general I'm not the biggest fan of when Bandai Namco sometimes uses weird old US art on Pac-Man products, especially when it's something random like an energy drink. Kinda feels like the brand is moving backwards and contributes to Pac-Man having a lack of identity. But this is like the one instance where I'm all for it, especially since it's new art of an old specific design. I dunno it's just cool and neat to me.

>>11889938
>Brown eyes
Thirdworld pacman

>>11888986
probably gave them the best deal. Atari was probably salty about the whole thing at the time they were selling

>>11889958
>yellow skin
Never in any doubt

>>11887714 (OP)
That looks nothing like Pac

>>11888932
AtGames has the royalties for SCOTT-FREE and Namco spent years trying to get her back on their side fully.
They're not having it anymore.

>>11889938
Yeah, it's cool

>>11890029
Agreed. First draft was better

>>11887714 (OP)
>shitty 2600 port of Pac-Man
it was pac-man
at home
for 5 year olds

it was fine

>>11891716
>it was fine
Only in your head

>>11891134
Chrome Consumer

>>11891716
>it was fine
it only had 2 ghosts. it was a known disaster

>>11891134
fucking incredible. Love the "pre cartoon" era

>>11893947
Yes, I'm sure little Johnny was counting the ghosts and very upset and not pissing himself over Pac-Man at home on the TV without having to put in quarters.

>>11891716
The 2600 is just an overrated console in general, it was made in fucking 1977 and can't run ports of any game made after that without compromises. But it's the most beloved golden age system because nostalgia.

>>11894064
why are you getting so anal over this.

>>11894089
? I made one post. It's a perfectly serviceable Pac-Man at home to keep 1970s kids occupied. I don't know why you're so obsessed about its quality, do you complain that Tiger Handheld ports?

The developer of 2600 Pac-Man made a bold decision early in development to prioritize alternating multiplayer over other features, so the game had to waste a lot of precious console memory remembering game state of inactive player.

>>11894106
>whataboutism
no one is saying it doesn't keep people with down syndrome shut, you trying to shut criticism down though, makes you a downy yourself.

>complain
lol

Its honestly really cool that this collection keeps getting supported. I thought they would just stop with the last two DLC packs, but somehow it seems to be profitable enough to keep getting updates.

>>11894120
ah yes, the classic "we made the bold decision of cutting content but still charge full price".

>>11894167
The point is that the dev did not cut content. Removing alternating 2 player mode could have led to a better single player game.

I like this port. It's still a shitty conversion yeah, but I think on its own it's pretty fun.

>>11894120
I think it's funny how the artist had to redo the box art many times because the management team at Atari didn't like it. Apparently that one was too expressive too, so the final result was this. But they didn't have time to change it to cartridge labels anymore.

>>11888925
>Marble Madness, Paperboy, Gauntlet

>>11888925
I really REALLY want to see the Midway Arcade Treasures titles (hell, just give us more old Midway games plsthanx) collected, especially on steam

I had such a fucking ball with Treasures 2, especially the more forgotten stuff like Wizard Of Wor (which could really use a Recharged! upgrade and yeah, I am aware of WOW Remix)

>>11887714 (OP)
Why would anyone buy an Atari collection? I have never once in my life seen a real life human being playing an Atari of any model. Those games are unbelievably bad. It’s like an entire console dedicated to Action52.

>>11894768
Go back to Fortnite and TikTok, zoom zoom.

>>11894771
Fuck off collectooor faggot, I own NES hardware and about 30 cartridges for it. Answer the question. Justify your urge to buy literal dogshit that brought the entire industry to its knees.

>>11894780
fuck off collectooor zoom zoom faggot

>>11894780
In America, maybe. The U.K's video gaming scene was largely unaffected though. There's also the fact that whether you like it or not, Atari really did break new ground with the 2600/VCS. The hardware was ancient as shit compared to what their arcade division was putting out, but it was still a game console made during 1977 so what did you expect?

>>11891716
I basically agree with you
Not to say that 2600 Pac-Man is "good" but it's just, compared with other arcade ports on the 2600, Pac-Man doesn't stand out as remarkably worse

>>11894993
ms pacman came out a year later and shits all over it.
I find very strange how is everyone jumping to defend a game that's been mocked by everybody for decades, it shows how little you know about the console

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJopmbRM1Q

>Every time a major anniversary for either system comes along, discussion of how the NES saved the videogame industry after the disastrous Atari 2600 comes with it. Your opinion of Atari vs Nintendo probably depends on your age.
>
>I have to admit I scratch my head as I read this stuff. Did the people who write it live through both of them? By what measure was the 2600 a disaster? I can’t help but speak out in defense of Atari a bit.
>
>As someone who spent way too many hours after school in front of both of them when both of them were new, it seems to me like Atari vs Nintendo is like arguing whether The Beatles were greater than Elvis Presley.

>>11887714 (OP)
cool i can't wait to tell my dad that old fuck

>>11892346
It was what their was and it was great you retarded boring prick
>>11891716
2600 wree family living room consoles, people had families and sat in the living room together back then people had fathers unlike fatherless attention whore rejecta like >>11892346

>>11888925
>Williams and Midway home ports
>Atari Games arcade company after 1984
Both would be nice and all, but I'm waiting for them to fill the gaping hole that is the Activision collection.

>it shows how little you know about the console
lel
I was born in '73, the Atari was our family's only console until we got a NES in 1988. (Tbf we also had an Atari 800 computer and that was generally more interesting than TV games, so I might've had a bit of an "all TV games look the same" viewpoint going on)
There were many arcade ports on the 2600 that were missing a lot from their arcade counterparts, without them being described as disasters
I'm just saying 2600 Pac-Man didn't make any special impression on me of unusual badness for the system

>>11895071
>l i can't wait to tell my dad that old fuck
you don;t bhave a father or a family you're just a decorative accessory gone wrong for an aging woman that rode the cock carousel and fell off it. As far as you know your father was just an extra mope on a GGG porn video.

>>11895082
>Activision
Does AtGames have some kind of exclusive contract or what?

Wonder if they'll ever manage to rerelease the 2600 version of Space Invaders

>>11895097

pic related is the best arcade space invaders anthology

>>11895082
if you want activision try this

>>11895102
But the 2600 version 112 game variations! 2-player co-op! Fat cannon mode!

>>11895105
I got that for GBA

>>11895086
i bet my dad can kick your ass

>>11895041
nobody says the 2600 was a disaster, but that it lacked quality control.
ET is just the most known example, the system was full of garbage and that saturated the market.
The crash only happened in USA however, rest of the world was chillin, so yes is overblown, a lot.

>>11895084
>too scared to reply
>"I'm just saying 2600 Pac-Man didn't make any special impression on me of unusual badness for the system"
so you admit it was bad, just like all the other games that were bad? are you serious?

>>11895204
>so you admit it was bad, just like all the other games that were bad?
that's what the original post you replied to said >>11894993

>>11895112
>112 video games on a single cartridge
We used to be a real country.

>>11889938
I thought this style of painted game art was dead. Awesome to see a new one

>>11891134
I hope there's a chance we'll see more of this guy's illustrations. I saw a glimpse in the trailer

>>11895073
"family" means designed for kids, anon

>>11895120
Your imaginary father? The guy who found your mothers nude on a postcard in a phonebox with a phone number on it? He probably died of AIDs a decade ago

>>11896215
It does now zom zom but there really were things called families with mothers and fathers and children who sat inromms together. Really happened in the time before milennials.

>>11891134
Is this fanart? Damn