CBS San Diego Reports on Video Games/Atari in 1982

[RickR]

This one came up in my youtube feed.  It is fascinating!  I bit more well done than most local news stories about video games of that time.  You'll see a lot of familiar faces at Atari, including Howard Scott Warshaw with a whip!  This was made as the 5200 was being developed, so you'll see some clips from the 5200 game developers.

 

[Atari 5200 Guy]

That is very entertaining and interesting.  They really dug deep into the industry and for 1981 that was pretty deep.  I liked hearing about the bug that was in Galaxian.  I so wanted to jump in on the 2600 product line.  I would have loved to have helped assemble those.

[RickR]

5 minutes ago, Atari 5200 Guy said:

That is very entertaining and interesting.  They really dug deep into the industry and for 1981 that was pretty deep.  I liked hearing about the bug that was in Galaxian.  I so wanted to jump in on the 2600 product line.  I would have loved to have helped assemble those.

Right?  Me too!  I don't think I'd need any training. 

[Atari 5200 Guy]

2 hours ago, RickR said:

Right?  Me too!  I don't think I'd need any training. 

Haha there would be one problem with me on an Atari assembly line.

”Oh LOOK!! 👀 A new product!”  Swipe.

[Atari 5200 Guy]

I just noticed how those VCS systems we grew up with went through being assembled.  About 1:48 a lady plugs a game into the system hard and then flips the entire unit over.  My poor four switch had to endure that?

[TrekMD]

I've saved this to watch later.

[Albert]

I don't think we ever saw a news report from Atari headquarters before from back then. It's cool to see this now, I just saw the first few mins I'm going to watch it all the way through

[MaximumRD]

An interesting video by the same news channel sometime later.