The First Black Video Game Character (Atari Basketball, 1979)

[zackborgo1994]

Lolol soo funny i fe srry for those people who only had that

[The360Enterprise]

damn, that nigga balled out. i thought he was done for sure when whitey made that swish from half fucking court. good game guys. pretty suspensful stuff

[ReplayGoblin]

Awesome

[ScotsmanRex]

I played this as a kid on the atari 800

[dwarfLT97]

damn I want to play that game LOL

[MattTheSaiyan]

Another interesting historical gaming artifact is the 1984 game "Daley Thompson's Decathlon", issued for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. Though curiously, due to the hardware limitations and limited colour palette of the ZX Spectrum computer, the version issued for it had Mr Thompson appear a ghostly white....

[teddybruscie]

Step aside Atari Basketball Black Guy. There's a new Black Video Game character in town. I forgot the his name but the game I cant forget. Its called StarHawk and my God it looks awesome.

[msms47]

this is the first balck guy in games lol

[JerkinIsAhHabbit]

I Wanna Playyyyy =(

[KiWiDingDong]

1 v 1 full court, gotta love it

[David19J91]

Oh shit SLAM DUNK!!!

[y8nu7z]

i gone download this game :P :))

[ken0176]

lol! of course black dude wins

[karouFTW]

Looks better than the new NBA live....... :P

[NoDakBees]

Wow, this brings back memories!

[Mikesmooth49]

now heres graphics you can say sux. Im tired of kids that are spoiled by todays graphics. Play through the era of these graphics and you wont take graphics for granite again!!!

[unlvrebelx]

@Mikesmooth49 ...vocabulary may be taken for "granite" though regardless of era

[eastwoodone]

@Mikesmooth49 I totally agree with you on that one now lol. My nephew is one of those kids that you spoke of. He doesnt seem to understand. =D

[resedentevil4guy]

White and blak dudes no racest

[jacelw96]

this is on my Christmas wishlist

[dylansconcertvids]

of course the black character one =p, basketball is a black man's sport haha

[gamewizard]

@dylansconcertvids

Invented by a white man.

[dylansconcertvids]

@gamewizard haha yea i know but its definitely turned into a black mans sport, you don't see too many good white players anymore

[ThrilloVanHouten]

Well, this is a port of the arcade version, which also had a black character...

[Igogameshark]

High Tech!!!!XDD(he is Jordan?)

[Ihatepeople666z]

back then, this was like crysis on maximum settings :)

[philiptwood]

Reminds me of my kindergarden days back in 1982.

[yawnlee]

Ooo Wee XD LMAO thank god i wasn't born back then..just look at those graphics ..and those sounds XD>>MAN

[3939allen]

man THANK GOD VIDEO GAMES EVOLVED!!

[OllieAverage]

Must've been made in early 1979... there's no 3 point line.

[RPKGameVids]

This is quite fun for a short while.

[pearlmax]

First pink character too..

[3Dinvent]

this game is RACIST!!!

[chaq686]

wasn't so bad

[Joaozinho2684]

this is tecnology

[cuuuuue]

what about basketball on oddessy 4000 1977

[energypartner]

oh lord

[NinjaNfly]

seems hard

[DekaDude]

It looks like he's not wearing basketball shorts, just really, really, short boxers.

[Bayfaces]

ok that really sucks more than d pat hero not the video but that game

[citymoukari]

Omg hehe this sucks :D

[wildcritic]

history in the making. this is almost as great the first black president.

[shadowghostra]

LMAO!!!!!

[herring4115]

@wildcritic almost? this is freaking ground breaking!

[ynhynh]

We have the first purple character also lol.

[MyPhoneGoezBeep]

You mean pink. :P