check out that price! 30 pounds! thats what,like 50 bucks 80’s conversion? So you could drive an 8 cylinder station wagon to Branson from anywhere and back or…or..play Frogger-? lol!
The frog is playing his own game. I wonder how it feels to play a game where I have to take the commute to work, and then commute back home to my lily pad, er, aparment.
LOL
you gota think about it back then it was brand new.
so its like basically a ps3 game looks amazing by todays standards, most likely in 30 years itll look like shit. well you get it. good night!
Obviously you’ve never seen the Atari 2600 “Starpath RAM Expander” version of Frogger. Totally Amazing (given it’s still and Atari 2600) and way better graphics then the Parker Brother’s (regular Frogger) version. I’m thinking of uploading a comparison video of the 2. Let me know if you want to be informed about it, if I do that.
“It’s just like the arcade game” just not authorized by Konami, the original creators.
“You saw Luke Skywalker battle Imperial Walkers; now you can bring the battle home.” Just don’t let those AT-ATs ruin the furniture.
“Play The Empire Strikes Back where the battle never ends.” I’d rather play Tetris where the stacking never ends.
These are really good graphics by 2600 standards! I’ve played games on the 2600 that have such dire graphics you can hardly tell what you’re supposed to be doing.
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April 5th, 2009 at 5:16 am
check out that price! 30 pounds! thats what,like 50 bucks 80’s conversion? So you could drive an 8 cylinder station wagon to Branson from anywhere and back or…or..play Frogger-? lol!
April 7th, 2009 at 5:15 am
I used to have both those games. man I miss those days. graphics and sound be damned!!
April 8th, 2009 at 1:15 am
The frog is playing his own game. I wonder how it feels to play a game where I have to take the commute to work, and then commute back home to my lily pad, er, aparment.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:47 am
wow haha!
Froger was my favorite game. Enduro and River Raid too!
Thx for the video.
May 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
shit, i remember this ad in the 80s!!! i still have over 350 cartridges at home… hehe
May 18th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
I remember waiting in line for like a half hour at Musicland to play ESB on the demo 2600. That game was HOT when it came out.
May 20th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I only have about 50 Atari 2600 carts.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
It was better than the 2600 Pac-Man or Donkey Kong.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
The irony is that most of the games from companies outside Atari were better than those made by Atari itself.
I never had an Atari, sigh…. parents bought me a Commodore instead because it was “educational.”
June 14th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Each cartridge is £29.95? what mofo paid for that??? lol
June 17th, 2009 at 6:36 am
LOL
you gota think about it back then it was brand new.
so its like basically a ps3 game looks amazing by todays standards, most likely in 30 years itll look like shit. well you get it. good night!
June 20th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Damn. How can a home console make the arcade frogger look so shitty? Was it THAT hard back then to add a couple frames for the leaping animation?
June 21st, 2009 at 5:20 pm
They did, this wasnt what the game actually looked like, they drew the game small scale to fit the TV in this ad. The real game looks much better.
A big advertising fuck up
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 am
Obviously you’ve never seen the Atari 2600 “Starpath RAM Expander” version of Frogger. Totally Amazing (given it’s still and Atari 2600) and way better graphics then the Parker Brother’s (regular Frogger) version. I’m thinking of uploading a comparison video of the 2. Let me know if you want to be informed about it, if I do that.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
“It’s just like the arcade game” just not authorized by Konami, the original creators.
“You saw Luke Skywalker battle Imperial Walkers; now you can bring the battle home.” Just don’t let those AT-ATs ruin the furniture.
“Play The Empire Strikes Back where the battle never ends.” I’d rather play Tetris where the stacking never ends.
October 18th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
You know, some Arcade games should have NEVER been ported to the Atari VCS.
I could understand something simple like Space Invaders and Breakout, but why in the hell did they decide to port games like Moon Patrol or Frogger?
Folks, if you get an Atari VCS, leave Frogger out for the wolverines to feed on. It simply sucks.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Jeff Minter ripped off Empire Strikes Back to make his cult classic Attack Of The Mutant Camels.
It was good, the graphics were higher resolution and it was much cheaper than the Atari cartridges.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
£29.99? Equivilent Commodore games only cost £2 or £5 budget!
November 26th, 2009 at 5:47 am
That’s why certain old games should only be played on your PC or game system (PS1, PS2, XBOX, Game Cube, Wii, etc.)
November 26th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Those old systems just weren’t able to handle arcade style graphics-that’s partly why the video game industry crashed back in 1983-84
December 15th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
These are really good graphics by 2600 standards! I’ve played games on the 2600 that have such dire graphics you can hardly tell what you’re supposed to be doing.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:29 am
lol, i never knew games back then were so expensive
February 20th, 2010 at 9:51 am
@Neville6000
No, it’s because the market got flooded with crappy shovelware.
February 20th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Notice I said ‘partly’ in my previous post, not ‘completely’.
February 20th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Oh, like River Raid or Custer’s Revenge