[vanadium]

Not only that: "Activision was the first independent, third-party, console video game developer."

Growing up, that was the lens I always saw them through (and I had minor addictions to Laser Blast and River Raid, among others), so to see what they've become, well, you know. Not the same in any way from the David Crane days, just as it is with Atari from the Bushnell days through Warner, then Tramiel, then JTS, Hasbro, etc through present day.

Days long, long gone. The memories are nice.

[DerekL]

By the way, David Crane and others are making Atari 2600 games again!

https://adgm.us/portal/index.html

[tomcam]

They don’t seem to be trying very hard. The Buy button yields, well, suboptimal results

[kgwxd]

They messed up the launch of that game pretty bad. I followed the project from the beginning. I wanted to get the limited VIP pack. I signed up on the site right when they announced it live on ZeroPage Homebrew. On launch day, I took a laptop to my nieces birthday party, watched the countdown and moved as fast as possible. I don't remember exactly what went wrong but it was impossible for me to make a purchase. Based on the AtariAge forum thread some other people had an issue but, other people were able to order just fine. A few days later it was revealed that there was a bug where if you tried to checkout while already signed in, there'd be an error. You had to create an account during checkout instead. So anyone who was enthusiastic about the project got punished for signing up too early :/

[lowercased]

IIRC, Imagic was the second? Demon Attack was, again IIRC, their first, and was visually smashing compared to almost anything else on the Atari VCS at the time.

[TedDoesntTalk]

LaserBlast dedication page:

https://laserblast.neocities.org/

[orionblastar]

I played Laserblast when I had the chickenpox and I scored one million and all the numbers turned into explanation points. I took a picture but had flash on so it didn't take.