Atari in Movies

 Eine lustige Sammlung von Atari Cameos in der grossen weiten Filmwelt. Ich habe mir mal eine Handvoll ausgesucht.

Ausserdem sieht man hier mal einen Lynx, nachdem ich mich bereits gewundert habe, wie gross das Ding gewesen sein muss. [...]
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Atari on Film
Finding Atari in the movies
By Atari Fans · May 5, 1997
During its lifetime, Atari was in many prominent films due to the fact that they were owned by a very large movie company: Warner Communications. While there is no doubt there are dozens of more examples, here are some of the better known. Also, check out the Atari On TV section that covers Atari's forays into television!

Also, if you happen to have any screen captures of Atari on Film, please send them to me! Thanks!

Airplane!
Some of the extras can be seen playing 2600 Basketball towards the end of the movie. I wonder what the air traffic controllers play these days?


Blade Runner
There is a sign that displays the Atari logo which can be seen in few shots. Especially when Deckard is chasing after the stripper. I guess Warner Bros. and Ridley Scott thought Atari Inc. would still be around in 2019, huh? (Atari Inc. was sold off from Warner to the Tramiels in 1984, two years after Blade Runner was released.)

Atari being in Blade Runner has caused some to call the death of a company even though it is projected to still exist in a film to be called, "The Blade Runner Effect." Now that Kmart is in trouble (2002), the movie Rainman has succumbed to the Blade Runner effect.

Child's Play 3
There is a youngster playing his original Atari Lynx quite a bit in this movie. He seems to be glued to it (and who wouldn't be back in the age before the GBA hit it big?)

BTW, the guy cutting the kids hair is Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
There is an Atari 2600 on top of the TV in the living room with joysticks. Also the older brother wears a Space Invaders T-shirt. (I don't suppose E.T. knew he would become infamous as the worst game for the 2600?)

Road Trip
In this comedy starring Tom Green, DJ Qualls's character wears an orange Atari T-shirt through much of the movie.




Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Communicator sound effects are those of holding down a key on an Atari 8-bit computer.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Probably one of the most well known examples of Atari on film was when John Conner used an Atari Portfolio to steal money from an ATM. While Atarians should be upset that an Atari product was used to commit an illegal act, the Portfolio redeemed itself when it helped open a lock thus saving the world from a nuclear holocaust towards the end of the film.

During the arcade scene, John is playing a game of Missile Command. That game was definitely no accident, since it depicts the end of the world by nuclear missiles. If you watch until the end, you will see a credit for Atari Games rather than Atari Corp. Since Atari Corp. owned the rights to Missile Command and designed/sold the Portfolio, why did Atari Games get the credit in this movie?
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