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I sure wish I understood the reasoning behind rushing to pre-order something that hasn't even been shown publicly. If it's any good, it should be widely available, and the first round of any consumer electronic item is seldom the best deal or highest quality device.

Sure, but let's not pretend that everyone "cornering the market on retro games" or otherwise exploiting nostalgia is doing it from the goodness of their hearts. It's not biting the hand that feeds to be a skeptical consumer. Electronic gaming is not religion, it can be questioned, it need not be blindly followed. Besides, people like a little salty sarcasm. The length and popularity of this $h!tp0st thread is proof of that.

Heheh. It does kinda beg the question who is "reporting" the offending posts, and why. I know I've been a hell of a lot meaner to Atari in this thread than I ever was to Tommy, where I got my only thread-ban after thousands of posts and almost 18 years of visits.

I was tempted by the 12-in-1, but the controls weren't so hot and the games were decent elsewhere. This one is something I've been chasing for years ... and it's the first and last arcade-shaped thing going into my house. Everything else is playable with gamepads on computer monitors and televisions, but Star Wars needs the yoke. I worry that having this in my house may take away some of the mystique. Amazing that it's stayed in my imagination for almost 40 years. If you're hesitating now, that's probably a good sign to slow your roll and not get it. Or wait til it's even cheaper! 👾

Same. The pinball games on TG-16 are listed because they're really unique and well done, even if Dragon's Fury on the Genesis is pretty much Devil's Crush. The platform games like Bonk don't fun me at all, because the world has moved on. I could understand having nostalgia for it if that were someone's favorite system, like how we all grew up with Atari. Demon's Tilt is a nice modern answer to Devil's Crush. It's on Xbox Game Pass so you can play on Windows or Xbone, or just buy it for $20. https://www.demonstilt.com

"Hardware emulator" is just a little computer running Stella, but I think you're really just testing the poll mechanics. I chose "computer emulator" because I haven't hooked up a real 2600 in a looooong time, despite owning a bunch of them.

We usually buy tons of them at different stages, putting the soft ones in the fridge to slow them down. I remember when I was a kid, back in Atari days, when they were exotic and expensive. Glad we're living in the future now. This suggests that cooking them a little will soften them up, but will not ripen them, only time (faster in a paper bag) will do that. https://www.californiaavocado.com/blog/how-to-ripen-an-avocado I didn't know they took months and months to ripen.

I would think that most people who wanted to play them would have bought them by now. They go on sale a lot if you don't want to pay full price.

What should Mom choose?

That's exactly what they're doing. The entire city of Wuhan (11 million people!) is under lockdown. That photo I posted (with fake Atari logo, obviously) is of the train station, where no one is allowed to enter. It's a sad and scary situation.

@MrBeefy Their response shows that they're not willing to set a trap for themselves by promising a date they'll almost certainly miss. They've burned themselves in that way a few times already.

No news is good news!

I flipped through that at the airport over the holidays. It must be difficult to come up with previously unseen behind the scenes photos for a 42-year-old movie. I'm not buying paper magazines anymore and haven't for years, but I was tempted by the Mad Magazine Star Wars Special at the grocery store a few days ago, until I saw the $12.95 price tag.

I know what it is!

They've set the bar so low, AtariBox pigeons are like

Google is an enormous juggernaut ... but it's not as though they put the full weight of the company behind Stadia. Do we know how much of a priority it really is, what their internal budget was, and if they'll stick with it over the long term? The Google Graveyard has more good stuff in failure than podunk "Atari" can hope to achieve even with wild success. Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo have made it look easy, plowing enormous resources into success, and in Microsoft's case, taking losses for many years before turning a profit. We've seen that sort of dedication from Google (and Amazon, and Apple), but never for games. To say that "Atari" is half-assing this would be rounding up generously. I'd estimate their effort at 1/1000000th of an ass.

It jumped the Arzt long ago.

Arzt says "in theory" more than once. It would be fun to see him in front of a less softball interviewer (OK not really, we would hear the same weak hedging). I wish they'd finish up already.

VCS has nothing. Where are those Stadia numbers from, is that just from a single source, like Google Play on Android? That seems very low for such a high-profile service, especially if you can try it for free and use multiple kinds of software clients. The real metric is subscribers, especially those that stick with it. If they were impressive, surely they'd be bragging about it. I want to hear more from "Atari" how cloud gaming being hardware agnostic somehow "validates their approach." 😂😂😂🌮

"Last" in the sense of boots up and doesn't catch on fire? or "last" in the sense of gets lots of software support and stays in the marketplace for a long time (to say nothing of "last" as in last place in sales for Atari history, or "last" as in the final hardware thing they will ever attempt)

I think it will eventually come out in some form. My guess is early 2021, and it will be hopelessly outclassed by everything, even if it technically works and does what it long ago claimed it could do. If they just cancelled it, that would be embarrassing, but not technically illegal. Atari GameBox LLC is a legally separate entity from Atari SA, and crowdfunding pre-sale language is thick with "you are contributing to a project, not ordering a product." Everyone who put in money has agreed to individual arbitration, with a $200 fee to start the process, and no option for class action. They've already had their money locked out from being refunded as of around fall 2018. To bring a lawsuit against "Atari" would cost more than any individual has already thrown in. It would literally be throwing good money after bad. Anyone who put money into a Walmart or GameStop preorder should be able to get it back without hassles. I can't imagine there are many people in that situation, though. All of this was clearly understood even before they began the campaign, with multiple contract-style things to read before any money changed hands.