How Atari Tried to Appeal to Kids
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Published 2024-01-31
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:35 Computer vs Console
2:39 Keyboard & TouchPad Controller
4:43 Other Controllers
6:13 Kids Controller
7:28 Games
10:05 Summary
11:01 Why Kids Games?
11:43 Outtro
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All Comments (21)
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Snoopy and the Red Baron was an S tier game. I played it constantly as a kid. The music sounded amazing, and it was also the first game I ever found an easter egg in! In the summary screen after each level, if you let it just sit for a while, a secret song starts playing. I found it when I left it on the screen to take a bathroom break, and came back to a mysterious march playing and was totally freaked out at first.
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0:35 love the new dye job, really digging the green(screen) highlights..... LOL
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I still have a bootleg argentinian Atari multi cart with the Mickey, Snoopy, Smurfs and the Donald Duck. I never knew is was never released. But the game was here around 1989 or 1990.
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It was cool seeing footage of some of these unreleased games. Another great video pojr.
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Thanks a lot for the shoutout, Pojr! It really made our day :)
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My parents had given me those Sesame Street games. Got a lot of fond memories about those. The Big Bird one in particular got a lot of play. Those levels with the invisible chutes were kind of brutal, though.
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Hard to believe Atari managed to make a controller like the Wii Balance Board before it was even a thing...
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I recommend you check out the ancient history of "Sierra" and their development of Disney game for the Atari and other home computers before they went full in and focused on the home computers, where they made their brand! A worthy search would be Al Lowe ( he was one of the lead developers for those games in the early days of Sierra)
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I wonder if "Miss Piggy's Wedding" was intended to be a movie tie-in with The Muppets Take Manhattan.
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Almost 12,000 subscribers - so cool seeing your channel grow! 👍👍
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They could have gone for kids as the 2600 was getting older at that point, so maybe Atari thought the system might become a hand-me-down to younger brothers/sisters while the older kids upgraded to newer hardware like the 5200.
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I remember first time seeing that controller was in the AVGN intro, thinking that it was one of the most bizarre controller I've ever seen by that time.
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The edutainment angle was explored in an ad for the 2600 when it was sold in the Philippines during the early 80s. Ferdinand Marcos banned all electronic games at the time (or at the very least, arcade games and pinball machines) in response to a moral panic, so some video game resellers attempted to downplay the consoles as a games machine and present them more as an "educational" tool through software such as BASIC Programming.
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Dang this video is a double whammy, I never realized how many novelty controller is the Atari had or that it had so many canceled games, this is quite the rabbit hole that has potential for more videos if you ask me
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Wow the animation on these games look great. Thanks for shortening the intro a bit. The intro still feels a tad forced though. You may want to convey the intro info with visuals a bit more and less audio to help with flow. Awesome video though I had no idea this stuff existed. :)
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I'm sure kids back then really don't care what games they're playing. Something like the Atari in the 80s was like getting a PS5 or a Gaming PC. The revolution was extraordinaire as technology advance. Seeing their favorite cartoon characters on a video game was like seeing a celebrity on the Sega Genesis in the 90s. Will say though that adding a cassette player that played games like the Commodore was very impressive. Heck using a vinyl to play games like Mario would of been cool.
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Correction for the second part of the video at about 2:20. This definition of consoles not having software built in mostly applies to hardware made after the 1st generation. Every console before the fairchild had all their games built into them, and even after the fairchild and 2600 consoles like the vectrex had a game prebuilt into the machine.
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Another excellent episode on underlooked video game history. Great job!
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Fascinating. I had an Atari 2600 when I was a little kid but never knew about this stuff. Your voice is very similar to that of Rerez. That channel only talks about rubbish games nowadays, so I tuned out, but you just reminded me of it.
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The green screen tinge on Pojr's hair, makes him look like a caveman ninja.
