Word: atari
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Asteroids. Frogger. Centipede. Long before PlayStation was a twinkle in Sony's eye, these primitive video games with their blips and beeps and crude graphics, hallmark titles for the Atari 2600 game console, earned a sentimental spot in our hearts. And though the Atari 2600 more or less vanished 15 years ago, it's re-surfacing among nostalgic video-game enthusiasts...
Before I get lynched by an angry mob of Sony loyalists, consider one thing: the competition. No games-console maker has ever dominated the market for two successive generations of technology (anyone remember Atari?), and Sony faces three heavyweight challengers--Microsoft, Nintendo and Sega--for the next-generation crown...
...history of console wars, however, is on Microsoft's side. Video gamers are such fickle creatures that no company has ever dominated the market for more than one generation of machines. Atari was supplanted by Sega, Sega nudged out by Nintendo, and Nintendo blown away by a company that had never before produced a games box: Sony. Indeed, Microsoft execs love to talk about how the PlayStation was seen as a no-hoper--until it caught the imagination of games developers and took off like a particularly speedy Crash Bandicoot. It's no accident that Microsoft is trying...
...films, except 'Gremlins' and 'Revenge of the Nerds,'" Nathans said in an e-mail message. "No to Cabbage Patch Kids, no to Atari but yes to TI-99 (which was the slightly more sophisticated version of Atari; you could program it, but it also had great games...
While seniors and first-years may not share childhood memories of Atari and Teddy Ruxpin, their experiences at Harvard will also be radically different...