Vintage Atari 2600 ad explains the genesis of Yar's Revenge

This vintage ad for the Atari 2600 shows how the ideas for games were dreamed up before there was a conceptual library of standard ideas to draw inspiration from: a man sitting in a room with a dizzy fly, creating a game out of surrealist idea association as he simultaneously stuffs wads of blotter LSD up his nostrils. "A fly! I'll have a mutant fly. There we are. You'll need some potential. Now an Ion Zone. Yar. Yar's Revenge."

There's a big part of me that doesn't want to admit that this isn't the way games are made.

Atari Commercial [YouTube]

[#1 posted by LSK , August 11, 2008 5:47 AM]

I don't know whether to cringe or to be in awe. This video makes me wish I were a child of 1970.

[#2 posted by zuzu , August 11, 2008 8:22 AM]

Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!

[#3 posted by shMerker , August 11, 2008 10:24 AM]

I'm pretty sure that's "you'll need some protection"

[#4 posted by Ryan Rapolsive , August 11, 2008 3:37 PM]

For the ultimate crazed acid head, try it on "trippy mode" for atari anthology!

http://www.amazon.com/Atari-26081-Anthology/dp/B0002W5S0I

[#5 posted by trr , August 12, 2008 11:27 AM]

Can't get the video anymore. Aaargh. I liked that game.

[#6 posted by Daniel Rutter , August 14, 2008 1:03 AM]

Here it is again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Mvwh_Jjhc