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Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 11:39:39 No.2053035 [Reply] [Original]

Nintendo has Mario as its mascot. Sega has Sonic. Atari has...?

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 11:40:24 No.2053036 E.T.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 11:44:31 No.2053045 File: 250 KB, 960x540, bushnell.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2053035 Nolan Bushnell

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 11:58:53 No.2053051 They didn't have one. The whole mascot thing wasn't really prevalent until the 90s.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 12:10:40 No.2053062 >>2053051 And really hasn't been since.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 12:50:33 No.2053092 >>2053035 rainbows.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 12:54:01 No.2053096 >>2053035 Is that a Frazetta?

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 12:58:53 No.2053104 >>2053051 They could have gotten one for the Jaguar but I think it wouldn't have changed anything.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 14:22:56 No.2053201 >>2053104 I'm pretty sure WHERE DID YOU LEARN TO FLY has become the post-Jag mascot given how often that gets thrown around.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 14:55:09 No.2053238 >>2053035 Beep-boop sound effects are Atari's legacy.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:00:45 No.2053249 >>2053051 Games have been sold based on the character alone for as long as there have been labels to be put on the cart or cassette.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:04:29 No.2053258 File: 2 KB, 800x600, Pong.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2053035 Only valid answer

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:15:35 No.2053270 File: 395 KB, 1500x1500, 1415391335898.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2053051 >implying

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:17:09 No.2053274 >>2053270 You're probably not trolling either

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:19:57 No.2053276 >>2053274 >implying 2600 Pac-Man wasn't GOAT

Waterworld Box-Chan Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:23:39 No.2053281
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Probably the closest Atari has ever had to an original mascot would be Bentley Bear from "Crystal Castles" who was also one of the main characters in "Atari Karts" on the Jaguar

Fun Fact: He also had a small cameo in Wreck-it-Ralph

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:26:49 No.2053284 Atari's most iconic character is probably Paperboy. Which is kinda sad, really.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:28:54 No.2053286 Seriously, I'm the only one who thought of Pitfall Harry?

Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:33:08 No.2053291
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>>2053286
>he thinks Atari made pitfall
>people ITT think Atari made Pacman and Pong

It takes like ten seconds to look up a game on Wikipedia and find out who made it. There's no excuse for this shit.

Anyway, I nominate the dragond-ducks from Adventure.

Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:36:50 No.2053294

>>2053291
>Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games; it is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to defeat an opponent in a simulated table-tennis game by earning a higher score. The game was originally manufactured by Atari Incorporated (Atari), who released it in 1972.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:40:09 No.2053297 >>2053291 Whoops. I totally assumed most non-arcade ports were made by Atari until you called me out. Forgive this NES-raised heathen.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:41:01 No.2053301 Master chief is the mascot of xbox?

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:41:02 No.2053298 I was gonna say Pac Man too even though he's technically Namco. But a lot of people got Ataris just to play Pac Man.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:44:37 No.2053310 >>2053258 Except pong machines precede atari

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:44:54 No.2053312 File: 9 KB, 641x383, Picture-6.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2053301 Master Chief is the mascot of Atari 2600 you dweeb >being this underage

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:46:30 No.2053315 >>2053310 >Atari >Founded June 27, 1972 >Pong >Release date(s) November 1972

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:48:57 No.2053323 >>2053312 So who's the mascot of xbox?

Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:51:44 No.2053331

Atari had no mascot because at the time, in the states at least, video game consoles did everything possible to look as cutting edge as possible.

The late 80s mascots craze? only happened because Nintendo wanted to portray their system as a toy, and then in the 90s Sega and Sony had mascots because they needed any "in" possible to take down King Nintendo.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:52:37 No.2053332 >>2053323 Blinx the Cat

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 15:59:34 No.2053348 >>2053323 Banjo Kazooie

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 16:08:14 No.2053367 >>2053323 Flubber duh, he showed up every time you started the console.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 22:13:28 No.2053971 The dot from Adventure.

Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 23:31:08 No.2054087

>>2053310
>pong machines precede atari
>a game made by atari precedes atari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQOGW1_270

Atari more or less had a monopoly on the market before the crash.They didn't need a mascot because if someone wanted to sell their game in the home, they had to go through Atari. Even nintendo had to put their characters on the 2600.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Nov 7, 2014 23:33:52 No.2054094 >>2053323 blinx seriously, blinx was the official mascot for the original xbox. master chief is the 360's mascot.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 01:04:10 No.2054194 File: 237 B, 185x189, combat.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2053035 I guess this guy as much as any other.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 01:58:25 No.2054262 >>2054087 >Even nintendo had to put their characters on the 2600. Donkey Kong and Mario Bros were released on a number of systems. Exclusivity was rare.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 02:59:46 No.2054315 I'd call Pitfall Harry the 2600 mascot even though that's an Activision game. But I also consider Crash Bandicoot the PS1's mascot even though he never officially was.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 03:04:14 No.2054319 File: 1.33 MB, 1509x2312, atari games.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 08:42:16 No.2054585 >>2054319 How many bootleg carts were there for the Atari systems?

Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 10:25:17 No.2054718

>>2054585
Hard to say since they're still being made, believe it or not.

>>2053291
>>2053971
Not a bad idea but I vote Paperboy. Everyone I knew with any Atari console had Paperboy and nearly every arcade ever had a machine at one point or another.

I'd say anything from Gauntlet, but none of them have the 'tude Paperboy does or the Hand from Klax or the Marble from Marble Madness, but neither of them are mascot material.
Definitely Paperboy.

Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 11:26:22 No.2054814
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>>2054319
It's so god damn sad seeing Atari in this state. It was my first system and I have fond memories. And I loved watching interviews with Nolan Bushnell and the Atari staff of programmers.

Long story short Nolan sold Atari to a bunch of corporate dicks who considered Nolan's management techniques obscene and the staff no more talented than the next minimum wage code monkey off the street. So when Nolan signed over the company there was a lifetime non-compete clause in the contract and when he left the company due to new management he effectively banned himself from the game industry. And when the staff asked to see a portion of the profit on games that sold well the management told them to fuck off. So everyone with talent left the company and formed Activision. Since then Atari has bankrupted and changed hands numerous times and is currently parked in a holding company known for gambling and porn sites. And the only recent development was a license to Denny's to port Atari games to mobile featuring breakfast menu items.

I wish things could have been different. Justin Barwick owner of GCW was trying to buy Atari and make the GCW-Zero an Atari brand handheld. He didn't raise enough money but I would have preferred that fate. Atari selling hardware for open source freeware devs making retro games.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 13:48:19 No.2055002 >>2053035 Wood grain.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 14:18:58 No.2055050 File: 101 KB, 200x263, k_c_krazy_chaze.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2053051 >They didn't have one. The whole mascot thing wasn't really prevalent until the 90s. Come on even Odyssey 2 had one.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 8, 2014 14:54:55 No.2055118 >>2055050 >The whole mascot thing wasn't really prevalent until the PACMAN FEVER(1982). fixed*

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