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The midwest's largest retailer is Nebraska Furniture Mart. There's only two locations but they make a Super Wal Mart look like a Sunglass Hut. They announced this week that they were refusing to sell the PS3 because of the limited release and surrounding idiocy so they donated their stock (all three) to local charities. That's the first sensible move I've seen in this whole embarassing saga.

Oh, I approve due to historical reasons. I enjoy that shit. But if someone needs help to play Berzerk . . . Of course, I solved ROTLA the first afternoon I owned it. I can't believe people had so much trouble figuring out how to work the Staff of Ra.

The Centipede ad is brilliant. Fun and a great sales message.

Anyone who needs such help should be embarassed.

In a Video Games magazine interview, the Parker spokeman said that the only thing missing from the final design is the leg-tying cable and the shield generator which should have been located to the far right of the playfield. I think the game sucks anyway.

I'm sure that MS will donate a lot of kits to "game programmer colleges." This could pay off big-time.

Atari is not owned by Infogrames. They are two separate entities which share management. For the love of God, lets have no ridiculous "let's buy Atari" and "new Atari console" talk.

It seems that somebody failed their freshman Logic class.

They're an industry joke. They're just days away from being delisted on NASDAQ. Finacial analysts are predicting even lower-than-expected results over FY07. Bruno must be suffering stress ulcers at this point. So what does Atari do in this hour of crisis? How do they recover from the humiliations of Dungeons and Dragons Online and Mark Ecko? PAT SAJAK! Atari and Pat Sajak Announce Partnership That's a corker. But the best Atari quote of the week (about Driv3r): Unlike the Pat Sajak game, no doubt.

Does the smoke come from tobacco, marijuana or crack? Inquiring minds need to know.

It's not exactly "Howl" but it has a certain rhythm.

Was that supposed to be a poem?

I don't need to read any books on the subject because I lived through it. The "fad" slur was prevalent at the time. When retailers ran into the red in 83, they figured that it was a fad and they pulled out. Why else would they get rid of ALL videogames? Looking outside of Atari, retailers screwed up by trying to sell too many systems. Notice that Sears did really well when all they sold was the 2600. They did well when they added the Intellivision. But after droppng their re-branding requirement, they were suddenly selling five systems and confusing the market. Don't forget that Ray Kassar also presided over Atari when they were the biggest hit in the country. He approved the Space Invaders license, which sold more 2600s than any other game. Yes, he bailed out at the end and was a pain in the ass, but I;d take him over Tramiel (and expecially Bruno) any day. If any one game really screwed the 2600, it was probably Swordquest:Earthworld. I really looked forward to it, but after playing that piece of shit I became a Colecovision owner and didn't buy another 2600 cart until they were liquidated after the crash.

Hmm, it used a different logo. I looked at a few clips and saw nothing that says Namco. Did DiC license the game or just attempt to "steal" the name?

Do you notice that a GameStop seems to be located within 1000 yards of every WalMart? At least the ones in my state.

Remember that in the "crash" years, people bought more games than ever before. But there was just too much product on the shelf. Retailers screwed up by accepting bad deals and by giving up too soon.

No, if computers were the reason then video games wouldn't have made the big comeback. Retailers lost money on games from Xmas 82 to Xmas 83. People still bought them, but Atari shoved so many non-returnable games into the pipe that video game retailing became a money-losing effort. So the retailers called it a "fad like the hula hoop" and pulled out. Fortunately, Nintendo pulled some slick moves to get on the shelves and video games have never left us since. Even though PCs get better and better.

No, because we have the answers. The crash was caused by Atari's business policy of forcing large number of games onto retailers and not taking returns. They glutted the market in Xmas 82 and the whole system collapsed. Pac-Man would not have been a contender because it was the best-selling 2600 game of all time. ET was a catastophic failure in the marketplace, resulting in countless unsold carts and damaged retailers, which is why it serves as the poster child for Atari's screw-up.

Some jerkoff wage slave at my local Best Buy wandered over while a couple of us were checking out the 360 display. He said the PS3 totally rules, and he knows because they have fully working system in the back room that he gets to play. But they can't let anyone see it. I called him a liar and when he kept going I told him to get the fuck out of my face. That worked. I can't stand game store employees. Anything beyond one "can I help you find anything?" really pisses me off.

Somebody actually likes Sub-Scan?

It's apparently a trend that re-occurs every five years. If we don't stop this right now, there will be no carts left after 2011. Won't someone PLEASE think of the cartridges?

Bermuda Triangle. The bulk of Data Age efforts sucked so bad that their three gems often get un-noticed (L5, Triangle, Frankenstein).

Who is this thread directed at?

Dammit, didn't anyone take astronomy? Pleiades is pronounced "PLAY-id-ease"

Enduro.