Retronauts Vol. III Episode 4 - Atari

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2013

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Retronauts alumnus Scott Sharkey returns from his 40 weeks of wandering in the desert to join us for a look back at the history of Atari, from the early days of the American arcade through the glory times of the 2600 and on to the sad dissolution that followed. Jeremy Parish hosts, with Bob Mackey on play-by-play and Ray on color.

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0:00.0	This week in RetroNuts, have you played Atari today?
0:02.8	Have you played Atari today?
0:28.8	Exactly.
0:30.8	Yeah, that was good times.
0:32.8	Back when video games were sold with jingles, they don't do that anymore.
0:35.8	Nothing is sold with jingles anymore.
0:37.8	Oh sure, like house cleaning equipment.
0:39.8	And you know, there's insurance companies.
0:41.8	They love their jingles.
0:42.8	I find that they normally rework songs like Whip It is now Swift Fit or whatever.
0:45.8	Well, that was like a decade ago.
0:46.8	But you're showing your age.
0:48.8	Yeah.
0:49.8	Like, you know, those farmers commercials, they have their little, I'm not going to sing it.
0:52.8	I know, they're really irritating.
0:54.8	Yeah.
0:55.8	There are plenty of jingles being sung commercial.
0:57.8	What happened to the buy menons of our day?
0:59.8	I know, right?
1:00.8	Very simple.
1:01.8	Three note.
1:02.8	I think Sega was the last of it.
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