The Art of Atari (2016)

50 pointsposted 3 months ago
by ghtbircshotbe
(artofatari.com)

15 Comments

criddell

3 months ago

Have you played Atari today? 11 year old me was able to always answer that question yes.

So many times the box art would totally capture my imagination. I'd ask for some cartridge for Christmas or my birthday and it was always a bit of a gut punch to see the screen for the first time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/11ddevl/atari_...

abetusk

3 months ago

I would love to see someone do video synthesis using the cover art as a basis. I wish I were more adept at it to try it out.

amypetrik8

3 months ago

>Have you played Atari today?

I don't know about Atari, but I'm willing to say we've all played ARTari today

progmetaldev

3 months ago

The box art for Haunted House (not the racy, original version) always frightened me as a child. I got the same feeling when I would go through my dad's vinyl collection and would run into the cover of The Moody Blues' "On The Threshold Of A Dream." The surreal style captured the types of nightmares I would have when young.

Atari Haunted House: https://e.snmc.io/lk/o/x/5585d64c8bad9592834b18b0c8394b44/10...

On The Threshold Of A Dream: https://rockandrollglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2505...

gxd

3 months ago

I own the poster version ("The Art of Atari, the poster collection") and it's great. I have three of their posters hanging in my office right now. It's not just nostalgia, the art is terrific.

EDIT: the poster collection now costs $600+ on Amazon. Wow.

LaundroMat

3 months ago

Aargh. I've been wanting a large poster of Missile Command for a while now, but can't seem to find one at a decent price. Having one printed is difficult too as I can't find high-res, large image files of it.

j_m_b

3 months ago

The spaceship beaming people up in Defender always looked like it's proportions were off. As a kid, I remember seeing the spaceship and thinking it looked like a metal glove.

coachgodzup

3 months ago

These were really quite a piece of art. Unfortunately nowadays a box is so rare.

figital

3 months ago

I have this book. It’s fantastic.

JKCalhoun

3 months ago

The Art of Over-Promising and Under-Delivering, ha ha. (Truly, I did just want something closer to a gently stylized screenshot so I knew what I was getting.)

bitwize

3 months ago

I loved art like this. It encouraged you to use your imagination to see the little blob of pixels on your screen as a warrior, spaceship, etc. It made the simple graphics more meaningful.

It's kinda like how in Clue (Cluedo), the characters like Reverend Green, Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, etc. so richly detailed in the box art and on the cards are represented by simple one-color game pieces in-game.