530: Atari Archive and the 2600 Launch

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Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Jeremy Parish and Jared Petty chat with author Kevin Bunch about the launch of his book, Atari Archive Vol. I, and dig into the lessons he learned about the creation and launch of the groundbreaking VCS console.

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0:00.0	This week's RetroNots is brought to you by ExpressVPN and MySheetsRock.
0:06.0	This week in RetroNots we race the beam!
0:31.0	Hi everyone and welcome to this episode of RetroNots. I haven't actually
0:35.0	figured out where this is going live so I don't know the number but it's in the 500s.
0:39.0	And this week is a very self-indulgent episode as I desperately promote my
0:49.0	employment and my continued employment prospects. Yes this week we are talking
0:54.0	about Atari but in the context of a book that I helped edit and design for
1:01.0	limited run games so those of you who feel that there is no journalistic
1:06.0	integrity left in RetroNots you are correct and I don't care because we have
1:11.0	with us the author of Atari Archive volume 1 Kevin Bunch to talk about the
1:17.0	origins of the Atari system and also the process of putting together a book
1:21.0	about the early days of Atari so Kevin I've just introduced you but please
1:25.0	introduce yourself again just for the redundancy. Hi I'm Kevin Bunch I'm the
1:31.0	author of Atari Archive and I do the YouTube series of the same name have been for
1:37.0	several years now. And also with us here is another person who was indispensable
1:42.0	and integral to the creation of this book. The fun is back oh yes siree it's me!
1:48.0	That is anachronistic sir that is not this is a book about 1977 and 78 and you
1:56.0	are deep diving into 1987. Yeah you're a decade out of seeing. I am completely
2:01.0	out of sync and that's probably a terrible precedent being set for the west of
2:05.0	the episode. I'm Jared Petty also of limited run games very happy to have been a
2:11.0	small part of this project and happy to be here with you. I mean you edited the whole
2:16.0	book so that's not a small part that's an important part of the process. It's a chunky
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