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DID YOU KNOW That the trademark for "dumpster" expired more than ten years ago? It's completely generic and you don't have to capitalize it. COME ON "ATARI," YOU KNOW TOU CAN DO IT TOO.

As I recall, it was just the "pizza parlor" stuff, which isn't worth replicating. This old review says there was a 10 minute video. Realtime Associates should have it. I can't remember if I still have my Xbox disk. Should I try to dig it out? Are you going to make something cool? I'll bet a version would have the video in a format that could be extracted.

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

That's a good way to do it. Familiarity breeds contempt. I kinda envy you!

Thanks RT for posting them inline, I was just going to do the same til I saw that you already did so. The PDF attachments, while appreciated, are unnecessarily large for our purposes. When I see the original prices, I have NO PROBLEM AT ALL with my parents' decision (not really a decision, but just reality) to sit out the early days of home video games. Some more old stories, shared here just because I thought they were interesting. I'm sorry I couldn't find ADVENTURE in the Times archives. It seems that old advertisting is the best place to find it. Business news about video games generally doesn't get to that level of detail, and lifestyle sections arrived too late to acknowledge the old blocky game. It's weird how popular the super-primitive sports games seemed to be! New York Times, November 9, 1975 NYT Dec 25, 1975 NYT Jan 12, 1978 NYT Nov 27, 1978 NYT May 8, 1980 NYT Nov 9, 1980 NYT Jul 6, 1981 NYT Aug 9, 1981. Did you know that at least someone "obsessed" over Night Driver? NYT Nov 21, 1981. Where the hell is Adventure?

Poll: Choose your favorite pointless waste of time A. Atari games, in a Tesla automobile, with a controller adapter so you can use the original "Old Rubber" B. This thread, "New Atari Console That Ataribox," with 610 pages of replies C. Visting www.tingiant.com just to see if they've updated (they have not) D. Giving money to "Atari" and posting comments in the "Atari VCS" crowdfund thread?

Complain, complain, complain. You'll get no sympathy from us. You know how you'd get a silly patch from Activision back in the day? 1. Get your high score (the easiest/most fun/fastest part). Don't let anyone reset the game or turn it off! 2. Using a film camera, take a picture of your TV screen. When the whole roll is finished, 3. Take it or send it to photo processing for a large sum per image, or use darkroom chemicals to develop it yourself. Or a Polaroid for about the price of a nice drink. 4. Put it in an envelope, stamp it, send it to Activision. 5. Wait for days. 6. Did I say days? LOL it's actually weeks. In the time you took to type this up, you could have made a dummy Facebook account for no other purpose than to perform this transfer.

I guarantee you that not everything will be available on everything. I would put even odds on Microsoft quietly abandoning this effort within 18 months. and I think the one game that everyone is playing is called Fortnite. It's a building game too ... but it's clear that the engine could be used for SecondLife type nerdery.

PlayStation Now but for Xbox stuff.

Which was in 2006

big heads seem pretty silly though

meanwhile, on the island of misfit toys,

"market forces at work" are bigger than any one person ... or his sons

It's a handy symbol/shorthand/scapegoat, easy to understand. Like how we put anger into the person of the CEO/president when an organization or government goes off the rails. We talk about Tramiel-era Atari in the same kind of way.

OMG that's completely insane. I'm sorry I doubted you, Jin. Good luck with finding the replacement. I have the game too, but lack the attention span to care enough to complete a whole season or track my stats. Seems like there are ways to hack the ROM (not the cartridge) to insert the modern roster, which would be neat for roundball fans. I think that would be completely awesome for a certain kind of person.

Oooh, it must be a "failure" then

I don't see how what you did would have "killed" anything except for the data you didn't want anyway. These cartridges are old. The save game battery probably died.

That's a good point about the PPC, I had forgotten how that was everywhere in the past generations. Still, wouldn't you say that role has been assumed by AMD, which powers the silicon in PS4, Xbone, Wii U ...and presumably Ataribox someday? https://www.amd.com/en/products/semi-custom-solutions I didn't know about Weather Channel, that's interesting. They also bought up SAS and SPSS statistical software not so long ago.

The "groovy" spinner is $69.95 before shipping and adding fancy color treatment. Nice that it's offered, though.

I'm hoping Genesis, SMS and maybe older games are playable from SD via a jailbreak firmware like their other FPGA systems.

The means of achieving backwards compatibility has changed. With 7800, it contained the same hardware as the old system -- just like Gameboy Advance and Wii U (and Wii before it with GameCube) did, and PlayStation 2 did. That's expensive and impractical now, so they use software emulation, which is all that PS5 seems to be attempting. It remains to be seen if they'll pull it off. It doesn't seem to me they deserve a patent for this idea, but I don't really understand how those things work. I think backwards compatibility is great, but it probably matters most when trying to build a subscription service, where choice and variety and pure quantity matters most. I suspect most people just play one game at a time. I wish I were more like that sometimes.

^^^ yes, I think this is definitely a "if you can't beat them, join them" strategy. Microsoft under Satya Nadella seems far more collaborative and way less about pure, pig-headed "Windows Everywhere" brute force dominance than Steve Ballmer's old Microsoft. I like their work with Office, where stuff works well on iOS, Android, Mac, and web, without holding back too many features that only work on the Windows client. It's as if they realized they don't need to grasp the whole market by the throat to make money in it. I agree that they'll probably cut a deal with Nintendo to get the xcloud client on Switch, which isn't any different than Hulu requiring a subscription. All the controls are there, except perhaps a voice input.

No, it's just another login-tracker-achievements-friends type thing that won't be supported outside a small number of Microsoft-owned games. Minecraft already uses it cross platform. It's only newsworthy because it appears to be a man-bites-dog curiosity, but it's been on mobile for a while now. Just like Google Play Games is ostensibly available on iOS devices, whether or not anyone ever uses it. Or Facebook on PlayStation 4.

Disagree -- IBM isn't focused on "BIG computers, servers & the like" so much as software, services, cloud, and consulting. Like Microsoft, but even less about the hardware these days. Think data management, artificial intelligence and business processes, NOT boxes of any sort, and about as far from game consoles as a company can get. You'd be hard-pressed to find a consumer-facing piece of IBM-branded technology anywhere on their page. They're working in the background. https://www.ibm.com Needless to say, "Atari" isn't getting back into bed with IBM anytime soon.