That’s Not How Nostalgia Works, Atari
Atari is relaunching/rebooting/reimaginging the old Atari 2600 game Star Raiders. You might remember it — and I stress might — as the game that had its own crazy touchpad controller that virtually no other Atari game used. The new Star Raiders will be a 3-D space battle sim with warps and customizable ships and god knows what else. My question is this: Why?
I don’t know anyone who has ever said “Man, I wish they’d remake Star Raiders,” and I don’t believe anyone ever has. It wasn’t a good game, or that bad a game. In fact, the only only reason anyone remembers Star Raiders at all is because of that huge stupid controller it had. I guarantee I love the Atari 2600 more than at least 90% of you, and even I don’t give the tiniest shit about Star Raiders. If Atari wants to make a space combat game, they should make a space combat game, fine. But they shouldn’t pretend they’re bringing back some classic beloved franchise while doing so. Hell, I’d be more excited by a new Frostbite game. Or Barnstorming. Or Oink! and I fucking hated Oink!. (Via Kotaku)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.