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AtariSpot // rob
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2600/5200 aficionado. Video game preservation enthusiast. Collector of unusual stuff. atarispot @ gmail // @atarispot@oldbytes.space
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19 years ago tonight I was in Madison Square Garden taking some of the better concert photos Iā€™ve ever snapped. Is it a sign of having reached mid-life when the majority of your memories can be described with ā€œfeels like a different lifetime entirelyā€?

Bono, of the band U2, holding a microphone in two hands and wearing a leather jacket and a ā€œCoexistā€ bandana as a blindfold. The singer is lit in red and orange stage lighting.
A profile photo of The Edge, from the band U2, holding a red electric guitar and smiling toward the crowd. The shot is lit by multiple white spotlights.
Adam Clayton, of the band U2, wears all black and strums his bass guitar in a dark photo. He is lit by two(?) warm spotlights and he looks out into the crowd.
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It was just the other night I was using SoundHound to try to identify a song from a 2600 cartridge menu, and that song was suggested as a possibility. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qBfG...

ATARI 2600 TV BOY Game Select TVBOY GAME SELECTOR 208 in 1 Unknown PAL ATARI 2600 CLONE BOOTLEG HACK
ATARI 2600 TV BOY Game Select TVBOY GAME SELECTOR 208 in 1 Unknown PAL ATARI 2600 CLONE BOOTLEG HACK

YouTube video by petsasjim1

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Think I just lost a few weeks of my life with that one

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Hey everybody, I was a guest on a podcast recently! The hosts of the Reddmasq had me on to talk about the recent VCF, all my masochistic TTL projects, and all sorts of other stuff! youtu.be/2ZLAd5Xgb0s?...

The Reddmasq Poddcast - Episode 28   Made with Clipchamp
The Reddmasq Poddcast - Episode 28 Made with Clipchamp

YouTube video by Masq31

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Iā€™m auctioning twelve 2600 cartridges from Thailand on eBay in order to help fund (what else?) a big Atari purchase. If you search for Atari + Thailand youā€™ll find ā€˜em. Gotta love these ā€œActivisionā€ cartridges that use Cliff Spohnā€™s Wizard artwork (created forā€¦ Atari, not Activision).

A light blue 2600 cartridge featuring a silver color label with ActiVision in black text above collage artwork featuring the wizard from Atariā€™s ā€œBrain Gamesā€, among other Atari game related art.
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The janky lettering on this Pong has got my blood pressure up. Gonna practice some self-care now by staring at that beautiful Video Pinball for a while.

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(Image is from print collector Matt Lamont, of Design Reviewed Quote is from Tim Lapetinoā€™s ā€œArt of Atariā€, page 37)

Collection of a variety of six colorful paper sample books with striking cover designs c. 1960s from Matt Lamont of designreviewed.com
Snippet of page 37 from Tim Lapetinoā€™s Art of Atari that includes the quote from my prior post
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ā€œ[Nolan] Bushnell believes that [Atari graphic designer George] Opperman purposefully offered multiple, conflicting origin stories for the [ā€˜Fujiā€™] logoā€¦ā€ What if Opperman didnā€™t want to reveal outside inspiration? NCR (carbonless) Paper and Boards sample book, c. 1960s by Wiggins Teape Ltd.

NCR Paper and Boards sample book by Wiggins Teape (Merchants) Ltd. According to its owner (print collector Matt Lamont, of Design Reviewed) it dates to the 1960s.

Itā€™s a square royal blue book with three stylized white/yellow/light blue lines that look remarkably like the well-known Atari ā€œFujiā€ logo, purportedly designed in the early 1970s. It reads ā€œNCR Paper and Boardsā€ in the upper left.
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AtariSpot // rob
@atarispot.bsky.social
2600/5200 aficionado. Video game preservation enthusiast. Collector of unusual stuff. atarispot @ gmail // @atarispot@oldbytes.space
151 followers125 following64 posts