Pixel porn: the brilliantly honest Yar's Revenge, Asteroids, Star Raiders ad

Isaac Cates

#1 – 8:40 AM January 31, 2009

Oh, I don't know, man... Hell's pretty sinister.

But that is cool. It doesn't quite make me want to play the games, but it definitely makes me a little more afraid of Atari and their insidious plans.

Luc

#2 – 8:56 AM January 31, 2009

That has got to be one of the best classic video game ads ever!

hohum

#3 – 12:03 PM January 31, 2009

Yar's Revenge was pretty much my favorite non-Activision, non-Imagic game for the Atari 2600. Don't know if I ever had the manual, so I liked hearing the little names he had for everything in this ad. :)

Patrick Arcee

#4 – 8:12 PM February 1, 2009

This gives me an idea:

Almost all vintage game remakes ruin the essence of the original in fairly predictable ways.*

I would love to see purist-remakes made,
that might look something like this:

-Sprites may be rendered in 3D,
but must be pixel-by-pixel recreations,
or at most no detail added
(e.g. Asteroids, in the above ad)
(e.g. Pacman sprites scanned from Femo models)

-New approaches must fit the feel of the original
(i.e Pitfall would make a great side-scroller,
Pacman would not)

-Any 'enhancement' of the game must be an option which the user can deactivate

-The sound is sacred. Do not adjust.

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*If anyone wanted some examples of
crimes against history I was referring to:

-Making a 3D environment out of something
that was better in 2D.
(e.g. Lemmings, Frogger)

-Adding visuals that are aesthetically distracting/cluttery
(e.g. most Super Mario 123 remakes)

-Changing the gameplay / feel in sadly bewildering ways
(e.g. Interfering polar bears in Pong (Playstation 1 remake))