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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: liquidx on February 02, 2012, 10:24:30 AM

Title: The Founding Fathers of Video Games
Post by: liquidx on February 02, 2012, 10:24:30 AM

"Operating under the theory that the 99-cent download is the new quarter drop, a team of programmers from the original video game company, Atari, have reunited to make a new generation of games for the iPad"

Full story here: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/02/the-founding-fathers-of-video-games/


"TIME gathered these self-described “grizzled old farts” together in the Supercade, a private museum in Pasadena, Calif., to photograph them alongside some of their greatest hits from the Golden Age of video games, including Asteroids, Battlezone, and Missile Command."


(http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/time_atari_20120116_0550c.jpg?w=735)


(http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/time_atari_20120116_0436-2.jpg?w=735)


(http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/time_atari_20120116_0300-copy.jpg?w=735)


(http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/time_atari_20120116_0240_flat.jpg?w=735)


More at Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/02/the-founding-fathers-of-video-games/

Title: Re: The Founding Fathers of Video Games
Post by: Blanka on February 02, 2012, 11:07:14 AM

Nice pictures. What about the location they are shot at? Does anyone here know that place?

Title: Re: The Founding Fathers of Video Games
Post by: level42 on February 03, 2012, 10:52:17 AM

Haha, looks like Ed Rotberg STILL wants to get rid of those damn visors on Battlezone !