Atari: The Blade Runner Curse

I never had an Atari growing up-- my family was all about the Intelivision. As such, I didn't really have any strong Atari-related feeling to convey with my drawing today.

When I do think of Atari, I pretty much think of the famous "Blade Runner Curse". Atari was one of several then-giant firms (like Pan Am and Cuisinart) that were featured prominently in the giant moving video billboards in the 1982 sci-fi classic "Blade Runner" that shortly thereafter went bankrupt. Even mighty Coca Cola was almost dealt a fatal blow with its disastrous introduction of New Coke about that time. You can read more about this whole curse here if you don't believe me. It's on Wikipedia, so it must be true.

ADVENTURE

Adventure was a game about a knight (i think) who had to find an enchanted sword (i think) and defeat a dragon (maybe a large duck?) and find a way across a river (?) with a portable bridge (i never really figured out what that was) into a castle (obvious) and then when you beat the game the screen would flash and make a weird noise. I'm not really sure what the character's motivations were, but in my head when I played the game I saw something like this:



When it actually looked like this:


Which is probably why I'm drawing comics right now.

ATARI - Steve Fuentes

Friend of the Studio Steve Fuentes has gained much valuable experience of Atari systems it seems.

EXTREME Atari Pong!

1976

• Atari’s PONG - Atari released a home version of PONG in 1976. Unfortunately, the violence inherent in this "children's game" ended up directly influencing countless adolescents to attack and murder anyone or anything that crossed their paths, be it unsuspecting parents, oblivious school friends or tiny innocent pets. PONG manufacturing was immediately discontinued and all existing games were confiscated and buried in giant landfills.

Atari: The Conquerer

Although looking at it now, it kind of looks like a videogame orgy of some kind...

ATARI - SciFi

I can remember sitting on the living room floor when I was a kid ( maybe 9 years old ) and my father reading aloud an article in the magazine he was reading. It was about this games machine that was coming that you could CHANGE the cartridges in! This was so revolutionary that I remember that moment to this day, it was like Science Fiction. The Carts were insanely expensive in the UK though. I think we only ever had about 4 of them ( Combat, Space Invaders, Adventure & Superman ) then 10 years ago I saw a whole box full of them at a FleaMarket, 50cents each....20 years too late.

Atari: Space Invader

Atari?

A bit of confution today.
Theme is either "Atari" or “Sequels that were
never made.” I started doing one before it changed
but no matter!

I combined them!

Thus,
Next year will see Atari re-enter the field of
video games with “Look Who’s Talkin’ Bout a
Battlefield Earth 3000” the video game (to be followed
by the movie of the same name).

Synopsis:
Creepy talking baby Mikey is “assumptin-ated” in the
year 3000 to help his criminon prison-escapee(holographic) dad
(Played by John Travola) find their Thetan source
and and kill Psychlos for life points. Baby Mikey
is voiced this time around by an assumptin-ated
Charles Nelson Reilly!