A recent study showed what video games Wyomingites had Google-searched the most over the last decade, but home systems have been around since the late 1970s. With that in mind and the recent rise of retro gaming consoles being sold throughout the world, it got us thinking: what is Wyoming's all time favorite system?
If you were a child of the '80s, chances are your first experience with video games came on the old school Atari console. When I was growing up, I played so much Atari that the joystick would literally rub my thumb raw.
As much I loved Donkey Kong, Frogger, Asteroids, Space Invaders and others, Pac-Man was the undisputed king of all video games...
Back in the early '80s, Atari was all the rage and they were preparing to release the latest and greatest console, the Atari 5200. To get people pumped up for the big release, Atari put together this commercial that, presumably, actually aired on TV.
Super Mario Bros is one of the most iconic video games of all time. It's the game that turned Mario into a house-hold name, the music is legendary and video games today still use Super Mario Bros. as their main source of inspiration. It was the game that was included in the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the mid-80s so it just missed the opportunity to be on the Atari 2600.
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Thanks to some documentarian film makers, the landfill where Atari dumped 10-20 semi-truckloads of old video games is about to be excavated for the first time.