The age of the Atari 2600 is a such foreign country to us, it makes later "golden eras" seem positively humdrum. Howard Scott Warshaw's GDC look back at his 1982 hit Yar's Revenge offered a window into a lost world of gaming that glows for us, like a daguerreotype in moonlight. Yar's Revenge, a side-ways Space Invaders-meets-Breakout with touches of Asteroids, was the most successful non-license game on the Atari 2600, a console that sold around 30 million units. Prior to making this game, Warshaw had zero experience in game development.
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