Flojomojo

It only takes one sucker to overpay. Well, maybe two to bid against each other.

Gosh, "tapes." It's hard to imagine paying $21.95 -- each! -- for those very early games. CPI-based inflation calculator for 1980 to 2019 equivalents: 8.88 = 27.35 (Space War, blackjack) 21.95 = 67.61 (bowling, football, golf, Night Driver) 29.99 = 92.39 (space invaders, adventure, Superman) 39.95 = 123.24 (backgammon, chess) 159.00 = 490.49 (console) The Atari Flashback Portable (with its own screen and ALL THE GAMES) is $40 today, which would have been like $12.97 back then. The secret to a certain kind of happiness is to wait 40 years. #patientgamers

I think there's an unmet need in the marketplace for an ankle bracelet that can stash your Minecraft and Terraria to play on other people's computers.

Seems like someone is taking the "unreleased games" list a bit too seriously ... especially after 25 years has passed. Remember the Jaguar FAQ's list of "unreleased games?"

Source link updated. Nothing to see here. NOT a new handheld. Maybe an amiibo-type add-on for PS5. https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/27/sony-patents-a-new-kind-of-game-cartridge/

It's become a meaningless slur. I think Keatah was just joking. If not, he should be censured for such obnoxious stereotyping. We don't want that kind of age-based discrimination around here. Also,

The nice thing about touchscreens is they're like a dynamic version of the old Intellivision keypad overlays -- they can be whatever you need them to be. That allows for potentially more meaningful interactions than "press A for action." They can also be a lot more newbie-friendly than a console controller. I'm more interested in them doing cool things than commercial success, but one thing leads to another. No money, no games. The "core gamers" show themselves to be inflexible and unimaginative every time something new comes along. I don't think this is meant for the Xbox crowd.

Maybe. "Should" without all the info, though? I would assume these are the way they are for real reasons. I wouldn't be so keen on duplicating Atari's business decisions, knowing how all that turned out. The atgames devices aren't dependent on add-on cartridge software sales, they're standalone purchases. The electronics market is now /very/ different from the "Junior" days. These are more like toys than anything else.

It's not supposed to come out until 2020, so I don't think so. They're not taking money, fortunately.

How long til they've run out the clock on chargebacks? Maybe that's what their announcement of their announcement in March is about.

The Atari VCS is totally an "evolution of video game consoles." Remember kids, evolution does not imply forward progress. There are false starts, dead ends, and mutations that are incompatible with life. In terms of natural selection, "Atari VCS" is dead on arrival, if it arrives at all. "Not only for atari but all video games in general" means that everyone will be able to point, laugh, and never repeat the mistakes of these jokers. "More flexibility and less restrictions" (ahem) is Rob "Femur" Wyatt's answer to what he perceives as outrage over Playstation 3 not giving Linux access to the GPU, before removing the option altogether back in 2010. It also refers to the fact that since AtariBox won't have many games, the unlucky buyers will be presumably able to run Linux-compatible Steam games on it in a partition of their minuscule 32GB MMC storage device. You know, like any other computer, only way more limited in every single dimension except for "coming from a company called 'Atari.'" Assuming it ever comes out, of course.

Same. Looks like they'll be $20, which is fair. https://liliputing.com/2019/02/micro-arcade-handheld-put-frogger-galaga-and-pac-man-in-credit-card-sized-packages.html

Yah, fair enough. My Google Translator output made me smile. "From the gambling houses."

ULTRA-HAND

Super tiny. The Arduboy (which this resembles) uses a monochrome OLED screen, so the contrast was really good. I presume these are as good. Their Tiny Arcades (little cabinets the height of my index finger) were of high quality, at least from the 10 seconds of demo play you can enjoy while they were still in the package, which felt like enough time.

Not necessarily wrong if "arcade quality graphics" is meant as a superlative. I remember EXACTLY when things flipped from "almost as good as an arcade game" to "just an arcade port, nothing special."

Been watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which is set in 1959. Human-operated telephone switchboards and long distance tolls often come up. It's nice we don't have to worry about those, either. I remember fondly reading AC Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey when he was rhapsodizing about how in the future, every call would be a local call. Almost there. Back on topic ("dumb little tech repairs"), I'm going to spray some cooking oil on the bird feeder to see if it foils the squirrels.

Oh don't be so full of yourself. Everybody loves Pac-Man, including those with better eyesight than you.

I'm not sure where you're coming from. There's a portable Atari Flashback with its own screen and a slot for more games that I've seen for as little as $24 (which is like $9 in 1982 bucks). There are Atari Flashbacks at different price points as well; the wired-up version is about $40 (which is $14 in 1982 bucks). The bundled controllers are probably worth more than the logic board in these things, and the licensing/packing/shipping more than the controllers. How low would you have them go? There are disposable little calculators in the dollar store, and there are $75 scientific calculators in the big box stores for kids to use in school. Are you saying that you want the Flashback line to be even more inexpensive? Personally, I'd rather they went higher end into "keepsake" territory.

https://superimpulse.com/tiny-arcade-product-images/ They're the same case as the Arduboy handhelds. VERY small! More ergonomic than the Tiny cabinets, though.

Yes, that was a big side benefit. I don't travel as much as I once did, so the occasional AT&T international package deal was OK (they've become more competitive in response) but I like that t-mobile shows what is possible. I'm consuming as much data in a weekend than I did all month on the old plan. It's nice not worrying about overages or throttling.

I'm Spartacus.

Ah, but Nintendo controlled the cartridge supply -- the third parties had to work with them to make games for the system. Except for dirty old Tengen. Nintendo profited coming and going, while Atari just got their reputation damaged without any reacharound. The third-tier shovelware providers like LJN, Akklaim, etc were a business hack to get around Nintendo's limitations on number of titles per system. Mob tactics were everywhere.