Atari Sets Celebrity Game Show in Motion The Pop-Culture Gaming Brand Will Feature in a New Game Show from Executive Producers Jay Blumenfield and Tony Marsh

[PowerDubs]

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/02/08/2826067/0/en/Atari-Sets-Celebrity-Game-Show-in-Motion.html

[Lord Mushroom]

Sounds like it would be fun to watch. It would depend greatly on the level of celebrities, though. I hope they are going to include Atari Games games. Otherwise it would get a little too old school for my taste.

[AAA177]

Surprised something like this took so long to happen. Also wonder where it will land...a broadcaster? Cable channel? Streamer? What's the strategy here?

 

Now we just need other variations...a Shark-Tank-like show where game ideas are pitched, either for 2600, arcade, mobile, whatever? Imagine David Crane as a judge. A collector-focused show? A fictional anthology that involves stories that feature the games/consoles in some fashion (picture an episode where someone time-travels in the past to warn Atari execs about Pac-Man and E.T.)?

 

Love the news, wish Atari the best...(I'll also add that we need another Starcade series, still focused on old arcade games)...

[BIGHMW]

Here here on a reboot of Starcade!!!

 

But who's gonna host it? Geoff Edwards passed on a few years back, perhaps maybe they could snag up former Double Dare (Nickelodeon/Fox run, 1987) host Marc Summers, who knows but I'm all in for another Starcade.

[+cvga]

There's another thread here on AtariAge about a show called Arcade Animals which is a Starcade inspired (very inspired) game show. 

 

 

[AAA177]

I did not know about Arcade Animals...I will check that out. (Just did a preliminary search, and I guess this received capital via crowd-funding? Interesting.)

 

In terms of who should host a reboot of Starcade...honestly, it should be an unknown (read: cheap) graduate out of media college. I wouldn't go for a name as I would not want it to be a host-driven show...make it a games-driven show first, with player-driven being a secondary consideration. And I would use a new host every season (again, for cost-mitigation). Really surprises me Nintendo and other companies haven't explored this kind of thing given that electronic-sports was supposed to be a disruption to the zeitgeist at one point. Anyway, just my opinion...