GCC Atari Nightmare Prototype Development Lab Pictures

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Permalink Reply by Brian Hanifin on September 14, 2009 at 9:51pm

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Rothe on September 14, 2009 at 10:20pm

Wow wow wow!

This is awesome. Thanks for posting Scott.

Kind of hard to follow the photos with the descriptions...but eventually I figured out which photo was for the game 'Nightmare'.

So what is the story on this page? Has this made the rounds before in the past years? Or did you just come across this? Or you knew about it and just decided to share it tonight? Looks like the former employees have been commenting for quite some time here on this information...

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Permalink Reply by Scott Evans on September 14, 2009 at 10:40pm

I found this a couple months ago. I had not seen it before that. As you can see from the other pictures, the controls they are using for the game are from a Tron machine. I think they were trying to create a kit game for all the Tron machines out there. The pictures are hard to follow, because the captions are not next to the pictures. The permalinks, in the descriptions will take you to the correct pictures though.

Scott


Jeff Rothe said:

Wow wow wow!

This is awesome. Thanks for posting Scott.

Kind of hard to follow the photos with the descriptions...but eventually I figured out which photo was for the game 'Nightmare'.

So what is the story on this page? Has this made the rounds before in the past years? Or did you just come across this? Or you knew about it and just decided to share it tonight? Looks like the former employees have been commenting for quite some time here on this information...

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Permalink Reply by Ataricade on September 14, 2009 at 11:10pm

Thanks Scott for posting that link! I had seen that site before but I lost the link and it never came up when I searched. I see Steven Hertz made a comment on that group picture with the Quantum back in 2005 actually.

You have to love the fire pole and the fact that they went to court to override the building inspector to keep it. :-) It seems like they were a pretty tight-knit group.

And I am looking VERY forward to checking out Nightmare. I did see a few screen shots you posted of it before, but I know nothing of the game play. Thanks again. I hope all is well up there.

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Permalink Reply by Spriggy on September 14, 2009 at 11:12pm

Nice Scott!! As I've said previously ... love reading up on the classic history of these babies and the people associated with.

Bring it!

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Permalink Reply by Shane on September 15, 2009 at 1:27am

I love to see old photos like this from the inside workings of arcade history.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff on September 15, 2009 at 4:39am

Wow! Very cool. I can't wait to try Nightmare next July.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Szlemko on September 15, 2009 at 3:04pm

Did you ever happen to deal with anyone who worked on Food Fight?

Apparently there was some legal action over splat and food fight, and I would like to hear more of the story.

Congrats on the nightmare, it's always cool to see the atari stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Evans on September 15, 2009 at 3:35pm

Sorry, I have not heard anything about that. We are trying to hook up a session with one of the GCC guys for CAX 2010. Still trying to coordinate schedules.

Scott

Matt Szlemko said:

Did you ever happen to deal with anyone who worked on Food Fight?

Apparently there was some legal action over splat and food fight, and I would like to hear more of the story.

Congrats on the nightmare, it's always cool to see the atari stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Szlemko on September 15, 2009 at 5:37pm

I'm hoping to make it to CAX this year, i'll have to check it out.

I've only heard the rumors from the williams side of the story, which is that atari stole the name and concept from williams, then out lawyer-ed them. I've always wanted to hear more of the story, because splat is such an odd ball williams "non-release"

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Permalink Reply by Richard RikiTiki on September 16, 2009 at 1:54pm

Hey Scott LMK if you need any art printed for NIghtmare to have for next years show
its on the house!
: )

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Permalink Reply by Keith Sawyer on January 8, 2010 at 3:14pm

At GCC I was the developer of the Food Fight 7800 adaptation, and I have never heard of splat. So I highly doubt that we ripped it off. (I never heard of a lawsuit either so maybe I was just out of the loop.) Jonathan Hurd was the creator of Food Fight arcade, perhaps he could help. Nowadays when I show people Food Fight they often think it is Burger Time, which I also never had heard of until after Food Fight was done.

Matt Szlemko said:

I'm hoping to make it to CAX this year, i'll have to check it out.

I've only heard the rumors from the williams side of the story, which is that atari stole the name and concept from williams, then out lawyer-ed them. I've always wanted to hear more of the story, because splat is such an odd ball williams "non-release"

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