ANCIENT HARD-CORE: Atari pixelling

[Helm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU4exraUg3Q

interesting videos (more than one) for many many reasons. But check out primitive atari pixelling on about the 7th minute. Rocksome to the radcore max.

[ptoing]

"I like it, looks good." 

[fil_razorback]

Hehe so retro...back in time when pro gfx where done in less than thirty seconds ^^

I wish I were born earlier

[Evil-Ville]

What's stopping you from programming an atari 2600 game now? :)

[fil_razorback]

Macromedia Flash 8 =)

[Zolthorg]

mmm mmm good

[Soup]

mmm mmm good

Possibly the greatest graphics ever.

Also in the second part you notice the kid who is testing the game says
"I like how it is detailed."

[Lackey]

Did anyone notice the programmer wore a matching beige outfit?  He dressed like a computer.

I thought it was strange that they identified the pixeller as a graphic designer.  Did they employ people specifically for that job back then?  It seems like the programmer could have done it just as easily.

[Helm]

Yeah I wondered the same.

[big brother]

I'm not used to seeing the words "ancient" and "hard-core" together, but thanks for sharing the video!

It's crazy how much money a designer could make off a single game back then. Annual salary plus commission from GROSS sales? Modern publishers would laugh. From the documentary, it seems that the designer of Atlantis made over a hundred thousand dollars off it (a few month's work) and had the stock gone public, would've been worth about $12 million. You can live on that, especially during the 80's.