Atari 2600 commercial - The Fly (Yars' Revenge, Asteroids, etc., 1982)

A two minute advertisement for Atari 2600 video games (Yars' Revenge, Asteroids, and Star Raiders) that was supposedly shown in movie theaters circa 1982. It features impressive 3D graphics and special effects.

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Entertainment

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• atari
• 2600
• vcs
• video
• games
• yars
• revenge
• asteroids
• star
• raiders
• ad
• commercial
• trailer
• fly

[HIGH777ROLLER]

what the hell is he playing? the kinect?

[goodrob13]

@HIGH777ROLLER The Kinect wishes it were that good! :)

[Bongwyre2112]

@chillitscape You don't know what you are talking about. I have all the systems, from Atari 2600 to the PS3 and XBOX, I still get more out of my Atari than the others. I mean seriously, you need imagination to play the older games. Nowadays not so much. All you really get is a 3D perspective game, one after the other. Nice grafix, but overall it's the same game. 3D 3D 3D 3D, yawn...all the same game really, just minor differences, some are RPG's some shooters, big deal...

[Alaska1925]

the best console Atari made... such a pity the newer ones weren't so good :(

[1xWertzui]

He's playing Atari 2600 games with holographic 3D graphics, and motion controls. That's the past and the future in one!

[russianimp1]

I'd rather play an original Atari game like 'Yars' Revenge' over some bobbleheaded sports game on the Wii or endless shooter/war sequels on PS3. New games suck a fart out of my ass! While we're at it, so can new television, movies and music. Think about it, we're still talking about a 30+ year old game system and it's games, will we be discussing the XBox 33 years from now? I seriously doubt it!

[chillitscape]

@morbidious think closely, How are we pathetic? the atari is a petty little system, the brains of today are beyond yesterday's

Just because you didn't get to play the ps3, wii or the xbox360

doesn't mean we are spoiled

and how do we have no imagination? the atari is terrible, our calculators have better games than that,

Btw, i dont have a ps3 or a xbox360. Imagination created today's technology, "your wild imaginations in the 80's only have gotten you so far as a 8 bit game."

[morbidious]

you younger generation kids make me want to puke. atari 2600 was the BOMB back in the 80's. I turned Yar's Revenge game over about 5 times when I was 14. I LOVED that game and still do! Kids today have NO IMAGINATION and are jaded and spoiled beyond even their understanding! pathetic.

[wildsmiley]

@fubukifangirl I'm sorry that you feel that way. Do you play any classic systems, like NES, Master System, Genesis, SNES?

[fubukifangirl]

@wildsmiley I've played several Atari emulator games and I am not impressed. As for those games you mentioned, I played many of them or games similar to them in arcades and I still didn't like them.

[wildsmiley]

@fubukifangirl Well, see that's the problem. You've never played Atari, so you won't know how fun it all is. Yars' Revenge, Missile Command, Pitfall, Kaboom, Centipede, etc. These games are fantastic, and are simple and addicting. Sad to think you'll never know.

[Bittergamer1886]

@fubukifangirl Oh trust me, my friend, while I think Wii is awesome, I think you don't understand why people play Atari. The reason the system's games looked so crappy is because this was back in the 1980's, not the 2000's. Also, most games on the Atari, if you understood them, was madly addictive, and really fun to play over and over again. And Pong thinks ATARI was unoriginal??? Pong Consoles only had one game or variations of that! The Atari 2600 has about 800 original games! Maybe even more!