ATARI BYTES
One day in April 2021, ATARI BYTES drifted into Data Age's 1982 game BERMUDA TRIANGLE and was NEVER SEEN AGAIN.
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This week's ATARI BYTES episode, 272 for those scoring at home, is totally tubular (that's for you Gen Xers)
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ATARI BYTES 271 revisits an old friend. A twitchy, large-nosed, profanity-obsessed friend who just won't just hold still for goodness sakes. We all have a friend like that. If you're not sure about that, it's probably you.
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Guys, if life has taught us nothing else, we all should know by now that we must pick up our balls.
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In episode 269 of the ATARI BYTES podcast, we play SOLAR FOX, the 1983 CBS Electronics port of Bally/Midway's 1981 arcade game. Much like Icarus, we fly a wee bit too close to the sun, but do we get burned? Listen and find out!
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ATARI BYTES episode 268 is bubbling over with tasty goodness. We're playing PEPSI INVADERS, a 1983 cartridge created by Atari to cheer up sad Coca-Cola sales people sad about losing the "cola wars" to Pepsi. This episode is both sugar and caffeine free, so you'll just have to rely on my dulcet tones to keep you awake. Sorry.
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In 1979, Twentieth Century Fox unleashed an iconic sci-fi movie called ALIEN.
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We're back to cram more square pod pegs into your round ear holes. It's another cubist's delight in 266 with RUBIK'S CUBE 3D. The three "D"s are "delightful", "delicious" and "de-wonderful", to borrow from an old song.
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Back in the '70s, Hungarian inventor Erno Rubik, we assume, decided to drive people insane with a cube of many colors. "Here, take this cube. Mess up the colors, then put them right again." Though he probably said it in Hungarian, it's no less insidious. The Rubik's Cube was born.
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On episode 264 of ATARI BYTES, we went back to the beginning; a bit of a palate cleanser after the disturbing "Porky's" last week. We take a look at PONG, the game that started it all. The original came out in 1972 with an Atari port in 1975. For my fifteen-year-old on the field report, it may as well have come out in the Pleistocene.
info_outlineEpisode 247 revs its podcast engine to soar over the pond of other podcasts, leaving them in the dust as we fly down the dirt roads of the Internet. Yee-haaaah!
From 1984, we're playing Atari's developed, but unreleased, DUKES OF HAZZARD, inspired by the classic TV show "I Love Lucy".
Just kidding. Or am I? Tune in to find out.
This week's short story: THE DUKES OF HAZARDS
Thanks to Sean Courtney for the "Storytime" theme.
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