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A sad image, of two comic geniuses who have become ex-parrots, sure.

I can remember the fevered (literally) buzz around Pac-Man when it started appearing in arcades in 1980; how it looked so different and like an actual cartoon compared to other games vying for our quarters, how the ghosts seemed to chase me purposefully a…

Of the great cultural touchstones we’ve lost over the years, the saddest, I think, is the demise of the video arcade.

Here we see a few storyboard panels created by project lead Mike Hally, presented to Lucasfilm to demonstrate the concepts for Atari’s eventual 1983 coin-op video game adaptation of Star Wars.

Back in 1976, Steve Jobs was working for Atari; in fact, he was employee #40 when he joined the company in 1974.

A couple of great video games by Williams Electronics, 1983.

If you’d like to see how the mighty Intellivision was developed and how it impacted the industry, you can check out our history of the console, a history you can read, listen, watch and even play, here at The Dot Eaters: https://thedoteaters.com/?

Psygnosis was a vaunted British game developer and publisher, perhaps known mostly for their games for the Commodore Amiga, such as the smash hit Lemmings.

If you’ve ever yearned to play Atari arcade games like Missile Command, Crystal Castles, Major Havok and more in an affordable arcade cabinet format, Arcade1Up and Atari have teamed up to release a new arcade cabinet to celebrate Atari’s 50th anniversary.

Atari and Wisconsin-based Artovision have collaborated to make shadowbox and desktop versions of 3D artwork based on the classic arcade game Asteroids, along with a piece based on their 2600 game Adventure and another one featuring the Atari logo splash s…