NovaXpress Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 In the new Rolling Stone there's a section on video games featuring actor Jack Black. He talks up classics like Asteroids and Scramble and then says that he was the kid in the old Pitfall! commercial and that job is what earned him his Screen Actors Guild card. Wild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariKen64 Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 i never heard of that, but is he serious. so that makes toby macguire in a lynx commecial jack black for pitfall and phil hartman in ice hockey (also activision) any one else famous now and form an 80s atari commercial (or other co.'s?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmiteReturns Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 There were Lynx commercials? Geeesh! I never saw any form of on-air advertising for the Lynx. The only reason I bought one was for S.T.U.N. Runner (and it was a pretty good conversion) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 Here's the link to view some of the Lynx commericals: http://www.atari-history.com/movies/videog...videovault.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariKen64 Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 "there was lynx commercials?" yes but the average person would ask "there was a lynx?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 and some would even go, "atari?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 Yes like Oesii has said, Atari-history.com has lots of old Atari commercials, but they don't have the Jack black pitfall one, I sure hope they get a hold of it soon so I can see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Yeah, I've never seen a Pitfall commercial with a kid in it. The most common one I remember seeing is the announcer who keeps getting the game snatched from his hands by some ravenous Atari fans Here's a few more commericals but no Jack Black: http://www.emuitalia.com/stgraveyard/movie...nsoleMovies.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 And as always, there's plenty here as well. (Just shy of a gig's worth) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmiteReturns Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Which Atari commercial was Toby in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 I'm waiting for someone to uncover an Atari commercial with Adam Sandler. That would be real ironic. Ralph Baer's wife Dena is close friends with Adam Sandler's mother. [ 06-09-2002: Message edited by: rolenta ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmiteReturns Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 never mind, I found it. Its commercial #4 incase anyone else was wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZ Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 That ftp site doesn't work for me, but I found the first one that you guys mentioned. Very cool commercials! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZ Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 There was a video clip on that site.... http://www.emuitalia.com/stgraveyard/movie...nsoleMovies.htm Watch the one called: Star Raiders and Berserk-2 new games only for Atari systems! It sounds like Patrick Stewart's voice in the first part of that video. Am I right? Is it really him? (he plays Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZ Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Some of these commercials were/are mind numbingly cheesy, I almost could not stand watching them, but they were funny too. I watched the "Smurf" one, where he yells out "SMURF THEM" at the very end, and I somehow think I actually remember that (deep deep in my brain somewhere, I remember that, I don't know why). And then they had those two commercials where they said that 64 bit systems, like the Atari Jaguar are "better" than 32 bit systems....which I have later learned is not necessarily true. Case in point, from reading The Official Program from Midwest Classic I learned that Atari 2600 is an 8 bit system, and so is Nintendo (NES). So saying that a 64 bit system is "better" than a 32 bit could be misleading. Would anyone agree with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Kaz, I don't think that's Patrick Stewart, sounds like an exited American guy trying to sound like Captain Kirk though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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