Six Point’s Six Activision Shorts For GameTap
Remember the Activision games for the Atari 2600? I played those to death. Freeway was one of the first, releasing in 1981. Pitfall! came a year later, and now Activision is one of the biggest video game publishers in the world.
And last year, GameTap, the broadband gaming network, hired Six Point Harness to make a series of animated shorts featuring the characters from several of these original game properties. They’re essentially marketing tools to drive more subscriptions to the online service, but you can also play some classic online games for free including Defender and Joust. They were directed by Chris Martin, Fawn Veerasunthorn and Mac Whiting and fell under the Re\Visioned brand, which also saw some 2007 Lara Croft shorts.
Watch all six at YouTube, and here’s two of my favorites:
Freeway (play online – $4.95 per month for over 300 games)
Pitfall! (play online)
April 28th, 2009 at 10:34 am
LOL that was pretty good. The chicken one had classic written all over it, and the Pitfall one was great if you know the game. Nice post!