{"id":1300,"date":"2017-06-08T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:30:26","slug":"ataris-forgotten-arcade-classics-1972-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1300\/ataris-forgotten-arcade-classics-1972-1975","title":{"rendered":"Atari’s Forgotten Arcade Classics (1972-1975)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Atari's<\/a><\/p>\n

Rolling Stone recently launched a dedicated gaming site called Glixel<\/a>, and just recently, EGM alum and Glixel’s General Manager, John Davison (of whom I am a big fan), asked me to write something for the site.<\/p>\n

So I did. Atari turns 45 this month, and I thought it would be fun to look back at some of Atari’s early coin-op titles that very few people have heard of. The result is called “Atari’s Forgotten Arcade Classics<\/a>,” and you can read it now over at Glixel.<\/p>\n

If I weren’t so busy with other projects, I’d dive more in-depth into the origins of Atari — I certainly have a lot to say about it. But that will have to wait until another time. Until then, I hope you enjoy this piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stone recently launched a dedicated gaming site called Glixel, and just recently, EGM alum and Glixel’s General Manager, John Davison (of whom I am a big fan), asked me to write something for the site. So I did. Atari turns 45 this month, and I thought it would be fun to look back at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[84,83,869,170,1491,295,1492,1488,1489,1490],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retrogaming","tag-84","tag-anniversaries","tag-arcade","tag-atari","tag-coin-op","tag-egm","tag-forgotten","tag-glixel","tag-john-davison","tag-rolling-stone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}