95.7 KEZJ - Southern Idaho's Best Country » atari http://kezj.com Southern Idaho's Best Country Sat, 18 May 2013 22:21:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Atari Files For Bankruptcy http://kezj.com/atari-files-for-bankruptcy/ http://kezj.com/atari-files-for-bankruptcy/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:46:39 +0000 John Llewellyn Martin http://arcadesushi.com/?p=25883 Atari's US arm is trying to break off from its France-based parent company, Atari SA. It's filed for bankruptcy and is selling all its assets.

]]> http://kezj.com/atari-files-for-bankruptcy/feed/ 0 'Pitfall!' Celebrates 30th Anniversary http://kezj.com/pitfall-celebrates-30th-anniversary/ http://kezj.com/pitfall-celebrates-30th-anniversary/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:51:15 +0000 Terry Morgan http://kezj.com/?p=95945 My first video game system arrived on Christmas Day, 1982: the Atari 2600. It was boxy, angular, had strange switches on it, and swaths of faux wood paneling. And it was brilliant.

I wasted so much of my youth playing bare-bones, pixelated games like 'Asteroids,' 'The Empire Strikes Back,' 'Combat,' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' But my one of my favorite games was 'Pitfall!'

Now it's back!

]]> http://kezj.com/pitfall-celebrates-30th-anniversary/feed/ 0 'Pitfall!' from 1982 on the Atari 2500, and 'Pitfall!' from 2012 on the iPad. Activision