DEBRO Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 Does anyone have a copy of Once Upon Atari? I tried to contact Howard and the e-mail bounced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRetroGamer Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 I have not heard of that one, let me know if you get any further info. Thanks for the other link to Stella at 20, I think my order was placed OK for that before they went out of stock. I also just recently won a VHS titles "How to beat Home Video Games Vol 1" from 1982. It's got some tips on playing some of the earlier 2600 games, nothing spectacular but still interesting. I think there are two more volumes to this, I'd love to find them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 The tapes are fantastic! But he only released 3 of the 4 tapes. His personal website is still up, but the business is not. Have no idea what's going on with that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted April 8, 2002 Author Share Posted April 8, 2002 Thanks Scott, I heard the tapes were great and really wanted to get a copy of these. Does anyone know how to reach Howard to see if he has any left, is producing anymore, and if he is going to do volume 3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted April 8, 2002 Author Share Posted April 8, 2002 Okay I found http://www.atarihq.com/pal-division/scott-...-west/info.html through Google. I called the 800 number and left a message for Scott. I'm also going to fill out the form on this page. Hopefully we'll hear something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted April 8, 2002 Author Share Posted April 8, 2002 Oh well, the e-mail bounced again. Hopefully he'll get my phone message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Oberhäuser Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 Sad thing. The videos are really great! Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 I also have another office number (408)441-7355 and a fax (408)441-6622, plus an older business site, which still looks to be valid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 quoteI also just recently won a VHS titles "How to beat Home Video Games Vol 1" from 1982. It's got some tips on playing some of the earlier 2600 games, nothing spectacular but still interesting. I think there are two more volumes to this, I'd love to find them! Hey, weren't those videos distributed by Vestron? Great company, Vestron was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRetroGamer Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 quote: Originally posted by King Atari: Hey, weren't those videos distributed by Vestron? Great company, Vestron was. Yes, they were. I was lucky to find this one, which was obviously a retired rental tape. It had the original box but was full of those ugly stickers - "bee kind, rewind". Thanks to a bottle of goo gone, I cleaned this up real swell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted April 29, 2002 Author Share Posted April 29, 2002 I have had no luck with getting in touch with Scott I've tried e-mail and the phone numbers but no luck. Would anyone be willing to make me a copy of these tapes so I can see them? I hate doing it this way but I would really like to see these. I hope that someone can get in touch with Scott. It would be a shame for these to be lost forever. Maybe he would be willing to hand over the rights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvis8Atari Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Yes I have one of the Once uon atari videos. It is good. I bought it because Larry Kaplan the creator of Kaboom is in it. It's pretty funny. They curse in the video. Rob Fulop is like "Being an atari programmer was cool but it didn't get you laid." and he says **** in another part of the video. The guy who did pac man is pretty funny too. He talks about how he smoked a joint with heroin in it "little bitty dots and the little bitty ghosts" haha those videos are funny. www.geocities.com/elvis8atari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 I sure some one gets through to him because I sure would like to buy all three copies of his videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Because Howard Scott Warshaw shot this in a casual manner over a long period of time, with a non-obtrusive DV camera, the interviewees were in a more casual and genuine mood than is generally possible with interviews. I was especially moved by how Carla Meninsky cried at the end when expressing her nostalgia for the old days. It's one thing for us to be nostalgic of our innocent Atari childhoods because most of us are nostalgic of our childhoods regardless of any real justification, but it is an affirmation of our nostalgia to see the Atari employees expressing similar feelings from their point of view. You really get the sense of it being an idealistic era that can never come again, kinda the way I feel, as an employee in the sector who worked through it, about the brief dot-com boom. My documentary is more technical and reverential in nature rather than introspective, although it has its moments, especially with Nolan, who has more reason to be angst-ridden about what happened to Atari than anybody else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted July 15, 2002 Share Posted July 15, 2002 HSW is going to this year's CGE, although it doesn't appear he'll have a booth this time out. Hopefully someone can ask him when (or if) the last episode (#3) will ever be produced/sold? Btw, here's the progression of all his known websites: http://www.virtualvoices.com/atari/ (older front page) -> http://pw1.netcom.com/~hsw/hsw.html (older business site) -> http://home.netcom.com/~hsw/ (personal site) -> http://www.scottw.com/ (business site) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriana Posted July 16, 2002 Share Posted July 16, 2002 Yeah, he even interviewed ME for one of the videos ... the one that's supposed to be from the Atari player's point-of-view, and what they thought about the games. I don't know if that video ever came out, because I only ever got one of them. Does anyone have a list of the three videos that he released? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted July 16, 2002 Share Posted July 16, 2002 I know I have two, if not three, episodes copied on a tape at home... must go check... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted July 16, 2002 Share Posted July 16, 2002 Adrian: Check the last link in my post above for descriptions of all 4 episodes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCorcoran Posted July 16, 2002 Share Posted July 16, 2002 I got my copy (autographed) from HSW when he had a booth at CGE'99... I too want to see this series finished as they are great tapes. Although the Tarot card thing is a bit odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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