Old - Schooled - September 2012 promo

September is here once again and you know what that means Yes it's back to school time here at Old-Schooled When we get back to the three R's: Reaction, Repetition, and Recall So open your Retro 101 textbooks to chapter one as we go all the way back to where it began Back to the days when Atari was king and the D-pad hadn't been invented yet So get to studying these classics of the 1.19Mhz era Because there will be a test and it's this September 23rd at 3PM This course starts with the 1977 Atari 2600 launch title called Combat A versus game with tank, biplane, and jet modes with many variations The class will be facing off against each other in game mode #7 Tank Pong with direct hits and billiard hits Next we're moving on to 1978 with a coin-op game that was so popular it caused a shortage of the 100 yen coin in Japan I'm of course talking about Taito's Space Invaders Shoot down an approaching horde of aliens with your laser cannon until only one obnoxous *** is left that you can't shoot down because he's traveling at Mach 2 For the final game of the 70's we're moving onto one of the most iconic vector-graphics games around Atari's Asteroids released in 1979 Clear the infinite space of asteroids which become more and more dangerous as they break up and praying you don't die everytime you use hyperspace Welcome to 1980 with Berzerk from Stern Electronics This game drops the player in a maze swarming with kill-bots bent on destruction It's a maze so dangerous even the walls are out to kill you The game is most known for it's synthesized voices the happy-faced Evil Otto and being the first video game to be involved in not one but two deaths, both occuring one year after it's release CHICKEN FIGHT LIKE A ROBOT Another classic from 1980, Namco's Pac-man revolutionized the video game world not with amazing hardware but with it's design and presentation At a time when arcades were filled to the brim with shooting games with loud harsh sound effects and gritty design Pac-man created a bright colorful world with recognizable characters and fun cheery sounds and effects in the process creating the first true video game mascot Released in 1982 by Activision before they became an evil monster dedicated to crushing dreams Pitfall was a break through game in the platforming genre and it was the second best selling game on Atari 2600 beat only by Pac-man, which became a pack-in game for that system Playing Pitfall you can't help but notice many elements that would later influence the NES era of platformers So don't be late and remember we're grading on a bell-curve So only the two best students will move to the top of the class and the next grade Where they'll quizzed on five brand new secret games