Retro Gaming Gets Hot

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, retro gaming is big business, according to a recent article in The Rocky Mountain News. The story talks to Nintendo, Namco and the maker of those all in one controllers that feature games from old systems like Atari. Lin Leng, who's working on the latest Pac-Man game, summarizes it best: 'The games today are hyper-realistic, photo-realistic and take a long time to complete, an average of 20 hours of gameplay,' he said. 'But with Pac-Man you just jump in and play and you get a quick fix. It also brings back childhood memories for some of us.' There's also an interesting sidebar to the story talking about Invader, the Parisian graffiti artist tagging famous locations around the world with images from Space Invaders. The author's website has the full interview with Invader posted in his weblog."

Bunch of suckers

[Anonymous Coward]

"Hey! I get to PAY AGAIN for this game I bought 10 years ago! YEAH!!!!"

Whuzzat?

[phillymjs]

"Pac-Man is still as compelling today as it was 30 or 40 years ago," said Genna Goldberg, spokeswoman for Jakks Pacific, a company that sells a classic Atari joystick loaded with 10 games from the original 1970s Atari home console.

2004-1980 = 30 or 40??? That must be that "new math" I'm hearing so much about.

~Philly

Inane statement from article

[Jonathan]

"Pac-Man is still as compelling today as it was 30 or 40 years ago"

Considering that Pac-Man only came out 24 years ago, this statement is pretty amusing.

Ah yes, I remember it well...

[craXORjack]

Those lazy days during the Viet Nam war when I dodged the draft by going to College (since my father was not a senator.) And I spent much of my spare time in the computer lab playing Pac-Man on a PDP-8.

Re:No Shit

[falzer]

(Score:-1, Mentioning go in a non-chess-related article)

Invaders! Possibly from space!

[NarrMaster]

"Zoidberg! You ate fry! Fry's dead!"
"Its alright! I had another guy!"
"Hooray!"

Re:Invaders! Possibly from space!

[Zorilla]

Fry playing space invaders:

Fry: "Oh no! I can never get get the last ship"

Alien: "You should have aimed where I was going to be instead of where I was at."

Penny-Arcade hit this on the head back in '02

[r0d3nt]

Dear Corporate Masters [penny-arcade.com]

Re:Anyone find these gadgets to be useless?

[absurdist]

You don't get the old, dimly-lit smoke-filled rooms with drug deals going on in the back, but still, it's damn close.

You haven't been around my house on the weekends, obviously...

Re:No Shit

[factgirl]

I wonder if Atari has any issues with Atari Teenage Riot...

Re:Retro Gaming *Gets* Hot?

[Junior J. Junior III]

I remember buying 5.25" floppy disks with Lifetime guarantees. I forget the name of the company, being pretty young back then, but they used to have an elephant head on their logo. I guess maybe they figured people might take the term "lifetime guarantee" seriously.

Re:Except.....

[Anonymous Coward]

No, after the video game crash, you could buy Atari cartridges for 25 cents.

Re:Bunch of suckers

[NanoGator]

"Hey! I get to PAY AGAIN for this game I bought 10 years ago! YEAH!!!!"

You had a Pacman machine?

Re:Whuzzat?

[zsau]

No-one said Pac-Man existed 30 or 40 years ago, they just said that it was still as compelling today as it was 30 or 40 years ago. Thirty or forty years ago, I'm sure Pac-Man would've been pretty compelling, had it existed. Though Pac-Man as it is predates me, so I couldn't say.

Re:Retro Gaming *Gets* Hot?

[Anonymous Coward]

A lifetime guarantee alright - lasts as long as the life of the disk :)