#atari 5200

[hooperdrivestheboat]

1984 ad for Star Wars the Arcade Game by Parker Brothers

[devileaterjaek]

[retrocgads]

USA 1986

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A bunch of photos from the Wisconsin Computer Club's Open House Show on January 20th, 2024 at the Portage County Stevens Point Library, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. We'll be back here again soon enough, always a great show with a good turnout!

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[thegikitiki]

Welcome to the year 2049, where the future of resource extraction looks suspiciously like a 19th-century gold rush, only with more neon green "radioactive waste" and significantly more anxiety. Here we have Bounty Bob, a man whose pupils are roughly the size of dinner plates, likely a side effect of staring at 16 kilobytes of raw power for too long. He’s accompanied by a mule that has clearly seen things no pack animal should ever witness.

The ad proudly proclaims that $49.95 (roughly $150 in today’s "buying groceries is a luxury" money) will get you the largest cartridge available. Imagine the sheer technical wizardry required to fit "ten entirely different rounds" into less data than a modern-day low-res selfie of your lunch. If you’re looking to "avoid a meltdown" in the radioactive waste level, just remember: in 1983, safety gear consisted of a flannel shirt and a can-do attitude. It’s the peak of retro-futurism, where we imagined the 21st century would involve manual labor in space-caves rather than arguing with chatbots.

Source: Electronic Games Magazine, December 1983.

[humor-y-videojuegos]

Ms. Pac-Man 🏢 General Computer Corporation (GCC) 📅 1982 🖥 Apple II, Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, DOS... #videogames

[wisconsincomputerclub]

Some photos from the Wisconsin Computer Club's Open House Show in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin on 3.30.24. As usual I got pictures mostly at the start and end of the show when there weren't as many people around. All involved had a great time!