+frankodragon Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 They should make one that twerks on ya when it pays out. That's what them little wet naps are for right? There is a weird arcade called Boong-Ga Boong-Ga with a fake butt. Maybe Atari SA should make a version with Cyrus. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Bringing back Atari is sorta like bringing back Pan Am; it sounds like a good idea, but it's never going to work. Best to start something new. (Actually, more of Pan Am survives than Atari; their flight school was spun off as a separate entity & is still open today. I think it's owned by a Japanese airliner now.) This reminds me, whats going on with that Circuit City revival? Seems to be playing out like this Atacobox VCS fiasco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Don't tell me that folks here would walk past some slots using the old artwork or playing the old sounds from the Atari hey day and not be tempted to put in a few quarters. I wouldn't. Not even remotely. Not even if I could win a SpeakerHat™. P.S. - I once pulled 5 pork rinds on the Britney Spears machine Is that a euphemism? Never mind... I don't think I really want to know. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Hey, Atari SA, why don't you make a slot machine based on Miley Cyrus? This is about a "slot" machine. You're thinking of something else. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 This reminds me, whats going on with that Circuit City revival? Seems to be playing out like this Atacobox VCS fiasco. CC's last years weren't their most dignified. It would be way too easy for them to "Pull an Atari". Can I trademark that phrase? I want a nickel every time someone uses it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffsGamingVideos Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Pac-Man and Donkey Kong master Billy Mitchell has built up quite the reputation for himself over the last few decades, both for his undeniable gaming skills and his abrasive and competitive personality. Unfortunately, it appears he’ll now be remembered for something else, as well: Cheating. Twin Galaxies, a retro-gaming record organization that tracks scores in many classic arcade games, announced on April 12 that it was removing Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong scores from its leaderboards, as well as all scores he had achieved in other games. The decision comes after the validity of several of his Donkey Kong scores were called into question, with skeptics asserting the footage captured for the records was impossible without the use of the software emulation program MAME. This is due to the way the software produces board transitions compared to the original hardware, and Twin Galaxies asserts the tape Mitchell used for the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters was not recorded with original arcade hardware. The organization stopped short of saying MAME was used, as testing to determine this would be “beyond the scope” of what was needed for the investigation. “From a Twin Galaxies viewpoint, the only important thing to know is whether or not the score performances are from an unmodified original Donkey Kong arcade [printed circuit board] as per the competitive rules,” Twin Galaxies said in its official statement. “We now believe that they are not from an original unmodified Donkey Kong PCB, and so our investigation of the tape content ends with that conclusion and assertion.” As part of Twin Galaxies’ decision, the organization will now recognize Steve Wiebe as the first player to achieve a score above 1 million in Donkey Kong. Wiebe was Mitchell’s challenger featured in The King of Kong. Neither player held the current world record for the game — that honor is held by Robbie Lakeman, who achieved a score of 1,247,700 earlier this year. This is the second high-profile controversy Twin Galaxies has dealt with in 2018. Back in January, the organization banned Todd Rogers after it was discovered he had falsified his own record for the game Dragster. As a result, Guinness World Records removed Rogers from its own database. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 (edited) CC's last years weren't their most dignified. It would be way too easy for them to "Pull an Atari". Can I trademark that phrase? I want a nickel every time someone uses it. January 2016 they announce they were coming back, someone had acquired the Circuit City name from Tigerdirect/Systemax Look at their "news" section on their site, only 2 articles since 2016. Not only that, this website is like the Atacobox/VCS site, looks fishy and very light on content or information of any kind. http://circuitcitycorporation.com/news-press/ A bland, generic article from summer of 2016 about how they're "taking their time" to "get it right" https://www.twice.com/retailing/circuit-city-update-taking-our-time-get-it-right-61941 It's a very generic and bland article with non-existant details. Seems way to similar to Atari. And I love this “The response from our first announcement was overwhelming,” he continued. “Our vendors are very excited about the project. We have people from every industry reaching out, offering their services to help us rebuild this brand." Yeah, right... The other article, they announced in January this year they were going to "launch" their website February 15. https://investorplace.com/2018/01/circuit-city/ And look what happened (What does this remind you of? Article dated February 16, day after they were suppose to launch supposedly) https://www.cnet.com/news/circuit-city-2018-resurrection-hits-a-snag/ They're claiming they had too much traffic on their pathetic website with barely any info of any kind, and they didn't want the site to crash day 1.... lmao And now no news since.... It's scarily identical to this Atari fiasco. Edited April 13, 2018 by Pink 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 That's too bad; I liked Circuit City. They kept PS1 games longer than most other retailers. Got Crash Bandicoot from them shortly before they closed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 (edited) I remember they used to clearance games dirt, dirt cheap. You can maybe still find old threads from back then on places like Cheapassgamer of people talking about finding clearance games for like $2 or something. But that Circuit City died and stopped existing in 2008/2009 when they liquidated and closed for good. This new, current Circuit City, like the current Atari, is completely unrelated and a whole different company (Although it's not really a company right now, it's just an individual/entrepreneur that purchased the rights to the name & logo who has a barebones website with an idea/plan that has yet to come to fruition) That being said, i'd love for them to be successful and more competition is a good thing. But like Atari, i'm not very hopeful with what I have seen over the past 2 years. And i'm not really sure what they're trying to go for with the small Radio Shack sized stores. Small showrooms where you sample the merchandise then order it through their website and either pick it up in store or have it shipped to your home??? Unless they beat (or at least match) Amazon's price, that will never work. Edited April 13, 2018 by Pink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 (edited) Pac-Man and Donkey Kong master Billy Mitchell... (whatever) ...Guinness World Records removed Rogers from its own database. And this has what to do with Ataribox/tacos/slot machines/crowdfunding/Speakerhats™? There's already a thread for that other thing. Probably three or four. Or thirty. Edited April 13, 2018 by Nathan Strum 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 CC's last years weren't their most dignified. It would be way too easy for them to "Pull an Atari". Can I trademark that phrase? I want a nickel every time someone uses it. If I get to trademark "Atari that up", then yes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 If I get to trademark "Atari that up", then yes. "That's hot" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 This is about a "slot" machine. You're thinking of something else. Yeah..um just change one letter in "slot" and you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Yeah..um just change one letter in "slot" and you know what I mean. Slob machine? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBerel Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 I think the phrase will ultimately be, "Jumped the Ataribox" kinda like Star Wars recently "jumped the mermaid-cow". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 There is a weird arcade called Boong-Ga Boong-Ga with a fake butt. Maybe Atari SA should make a version with Cyrus. How do we know that's actually fake? Maybe someone's paid to be in there. Or pays to be in there. That's something else I really don't want to know about today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Slob machine? Yes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Shat Machine (it's changing two letters, but it's worth it) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffsGamingVideos Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 And this has what to do with Ataribox/tacos/slot machines/crowdfunding/Speakerhats™? There's already a thread for that other thing. Probably three or four. Or thirty. and what does tacos have to do with Atari VCSII? Other than weponizing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Shit Machine? Ataribox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Ivi Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 According to Atari we should have news this month, so I think we will finally know this little jewel of atari VCSbecause in my opinion we can have the VR, yes yes the VR, thanks to the platform Virt-U ... to follow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 What Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 What P-Dubs liked it. Is this a cryptic message about their Atari SA's stock price increasing? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainbowCemetery Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 i can't wait til they announce the announcement. then the door will be wide open to an infinite number of potential future announcements 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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