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Gotta Love That Old Atari
Slashdot featured this site that contains a bunch of old video game commercials. My mom still tells stories about successful and not-so-successful quests for video games. And yes, Collecovision was better than Atari, but dammit we were loyal!
I still have my 2600 and it works great
Posted by: richie on September 5, 2002 03:03 PMWoo-Hoo! Stargate forever!
Posted by: scott on September 5, 2002 03:32 PMIt was the 5200 model I had such an awful time finding as a Christmas present at least 20 years ago. Got up Christmas morning and the damn thing wouldn't work. I cried, you guys took it very well. LOL
Posted by: Pat on September 5, 2002 03:53 PMMy brother might have his old VIC-20. I don't.
Slashdot. The one area I have yet to conquer... how the hell do you get a link from Slashdot? I've wondered if the Slashdot effect could take down my site. Doubt it, though. I suspect that saying, "I'll be the Slashdot effect can't take down my site, nyah, nyah!" is not the way to go, though.
Posted by: Meryl Yourish on September 5, 2002 10:09 PMYou gotta talk about something they're interested in, *or* submit an article (your URL goes on your name as the submitter) *or* simply comment with your URL in the sig.
I've found getting mod 4 or mod 5 comments is a *very* effective way of promoting our site. Whenever it happens (once or twice a month) we get very noticeable spikes in traffic, and it never falls back completely to where it was (meaning we kept some of the readers).
I'm grateful for all our readers, not just the slashdotters, but it is an avenue worth exploring.
I'm also thinking about taking a "personals" ad out on FARK. If it works half as well as they say it does it should make a real difference.
Posted by: scott on September 6, 2002 09:30 AMAnd, unless your site part of some really monstrous server yes, the slashdot effect will quite handily shut you down.
Posted by: scott on September 6, 2002 09:31 AM