Let’s party like it’s 1977! You enter offices to see Atari employees gyrating like loons to the psychedelic melodies of the Grateful Dead, while weird patterns shift and merge on the TV behind them.
The Atari Video Music was an early light syntheziser which created diamond-shaped patterns that moved in time to music. It cost just under $200, the equivalent of over $1,000 today, and understandably it didn’t catch on. But Video Music visuals did turn up in the video for the 1979 Devo song ‘The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise’.
Atari also released a couple of other curious consoles in 1977 in the form of Video Pinball and Stunt Cycle.
OK, enough partying, let’s get back to the present day.
Curious Video Game Machines 