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I had the Scholastic storybook, which had the Biggs scene. https://geekdad.com/2017/01/what-are-these-star-wars-scenes/ It also comes up in the Marvel Star Wars comic. I don't think it would have killed the pace to have learned just a little bit more about Luke, but what do I know, I was like seven years old and starved for SW material.

I don't find that very erotic ... I think you might have gotten it confused with some underground comics from the time. It's pure torture and goes on for the whole episode! The prelude with Leia, Lord Tion, and Prestor (reconned as Bail's middle name, I just learned!) where she accidentally lets slip that she knows the secret code name "Death Star"? Retold in a Dark Horse comic some time ago. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tion_(Lord)

What do you mean? Fred's been trotting around the world with that mockup console for the media for months now. He's shown it to Stuart Varney and Steve Wozniak and we've seen the video with our own eyes. That version is rugged, requires no electricity, doesn't get hot, and makes no fan noise. Sounds pretty good to me. NAILED IT

I had "The Story of Star Wars" too -- it's all scratched up and the paper album pieces are taped together, probably still in my now-elderly parents' house. Here's a rip of the audio. This is from way before home video, we were lucky to have it. https://archive.org/details/01TheStoryOfStarWarsPartI

I listen to that about once a year too, it's great. Perfect for raking leaves in the fall. I consider it canon. Bunny Behrens is arguably a better Obi-Wan than Alec Guinness. Brian Daley, who wrote the adaptation, also wrote the Han Solo Adventures. They're not great literature, but I appreciate his take on the universe, set in the Corporate Sector of the galaxy, with no Jedi and not many Imperials around, either. It's a shame he's no longer with us to be a part of the new stories. He died from cancer soon after completing the last part of the trilogy. I have it a bunch of different ways; I bought the Highbridge CDs when they were new, they're on Audible, and they've been offered on Humble Bundle a bunch of times so the files are out there. It's available for download on Archive.org if you want a free direct download of the files. https://archive.org/details/StarWarsRadio NPR featured this recently. https://www.npr.org/2019/12/19/789279631/star-wars-the-trilogy-that-npr-turned-into-radio-drama The Empire adaptation is good but not nearly as rich, and the Jedi adaptation is even thinner. The quality of the performances fall off in Jedi since Mark Hamill couldn't do it for free anymore without breaking union rules, and dramatic audio plays got really scarce after that. There's a full cast performance of the Dark Forces trilogy but it doesn't have any magic in it.

To what end? To get "Atari" banned from getting a booth at a conference they never intended to leverage anyway, because they've got nothing to show? I guess it would be amusing to have Fred on the "no tickets allowed" list, even if Just add "outboarding" to the list of their questionable behavior trademark trolling crowdfunding abuse lying to media social media incompetence not paying their partners financial exploitation via online casinos not knowing pong is not a high score game taking away SDcard from Flashback censorship of criticism abandoning paid apps blockchain shenanigans probably more...

They are so many things, to so many people ... A post office box in Paris A licensing agreement to allow you to make Flashback consoles and collections, or mini-arcade machines A plaintiff that will sue you if you make a t-shirt without cutting them in A sketchy blockchain investment scheme A penny stock whose best days are behind it A mobile game publisher that can't catch a break A guest that will always make time for Stuart Varney on Fox Business when he's in town A means to getting into the African casino scene A line of credit for its CEO and a few board members A creditor to the rights holder for Roller Coaster Tycoon A minor crowdfunding side story/internet gamer joke A spider lying in wait lest you put Foot Pong in a discount store, but Breakout on the web is OK A truly clueless social media presence that wants to know your high score in Pong or what you will play this weekend A fond memory for many Generation X people from Europe and North America Atari, so much more than video games. Atari VCS, game, stream, and connect, like never before. Atari SA, you get used to the smell after a while.

yeah, that was long, wasn't it

Almost certainly not. S.T.U.N. Runner is NOT owned by the company currently known as "Atari." Don't confuse the two just because of the name you remember from the 30-year-old arcade cabinet. In 1984 the failing Atari company was split in two: Atari CORP and Atari GAMES. Atari Corp got the home games, the home computers, and the arcade games prior to 1984. That's why we keep seeing Asteroids and Centipede on Atari Flashback (and Vault) collections. They pretty much stopped innovating for arcade-style at that point, apart from the Lynx, Jaguar, and home computer lines. Atari Games was the name of the new coin-op division. They are the ones that made Marble Madness, Gauntlet, Paperboy, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Hydra, STUN Runner, Hard Drivin', Gauntlet Legends, and San Francisco Rush. They were a lively part of the 1990s arcade, until that scene ended. These games appear on collections like Midway Arcade Treasures and are now owned by Warner. Today, Atari SA (heir to the Atari Corp properties) is in a weak position, and doesn't have much to add. They mostly license their stuff to bigger companies, and sue t-shirt and sticker companies for infringing on their brand. "Atari is Back with the VCS" is mostly a lie. Warner Bros Interactive is a modern games studio with lots to offer. Their LEGO games are probably the best known.

Well, he's right there on Twitter. I wouldn't expect much, since it said "please do not touch" and he photographed the same stuff that Atari PR did. https://twitter.com/LegitReviews/status/1215365047330971648

It doesn't have original joysticks. It has modern joysticks with retro styling. We don't have any independent reporting on - how they feel (the sharp edges on the base seem like a mistake), - how they work (they look to be self-centering analog sticks) - how special features are implemented (they've promised rotating paddle functionality, but have also made clear they don't know what they're doing) - when they will be available As for "bashing of this console," - it's more about the process, the communication, the incompetence - what console? Which is half the storage that was previously announced, and the lowest announced memory spec. "Atari" supposedly outfitted the "Crystal Ghost" as a "hot rod" with 32GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Either Kingston or "Atari" mislabeled their demo unit, or this is the first sign that they're walking back yet another aspect of the original plan. Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to cut some parts to keep the cost down, since this isn't remotely competitive with anything.

Yes, the real game is the friends we made along the way. I'll be right over to pick you up. The way I drive, it won't take long.

Ah. Hm. Maybe it's drawing power from HDMI like the Coleco FPGA console? 🤠 Doesn't really matter, no more than wondering if Fred is wearing the same khakis in both of those pictures 20 months apart. Atari Vault is cute but not a system seller. I'd be more interested in picking at the hardware if there were some software they were proud enough to show. Recent internal (though publicly accessible) communications suggested they would "begin renegotiation" for content providers after the hardware launches. Won't somebody buy out these jokers already and put an end to this mishegoss?

I don't see anything particularly interesting there, other than to note that of the 4 wood textures (cabinet, cabinet back panel, wooden box, Atari VCS), the game console looks worst. Also, what's in the wooden box?

Note that this image is from May 2018, and the original is here: Atari relaunches Indiegogo campaign for Atari VCS game console, 20 months ago. More recently, Fred has been photographed with big black joysticks and I have nothing to say about that.

Those RedEye reports are somewhat amusing. I've attached the most recent one here; the other two can be found elsewhere in this thread, with markups by yours truly. update_20200114_42561.pdf I've got the expert market analysis you can trust and all that noise. This one is more of the same, but they've downgraded the financials from a 4 to a 3, and they point a very rosy picture of "Atari" breaking through with new IP as if they know how to replicate the success of RollerCoaster Tycoon, which they don't even own. Fred gets extra points for his "passion" and "skin in the game" and they still have a line in there about the attractiveness of "Atari" as an acquisition target. I'm not going to mark this one up because it's boring and repetitive, but here are some quotes that are directly relevant to our favorite holistic ecosystem: ("still in their start-up phase," same as last report) (again, same projections as last time) (again, literally the same text as last report) Sorry it's not more interesting, but it's "Atari," where no news is good news. At least they seem to have downplayed their "Atari, so much more than video games" slogan -- which makes sense, since video games (not necessarily theirs) are hot, and that's the main thing they've got.

I think we're already there in the United States ... if you look to the start of this thread, there's a lot of groaning over their choice of IndieGogo because it has a far worse reputation for failed delivery than Kickstarter. That one has a fair share of problems too. If you look up "crowdfunding fatigue," you'll find a bunch of articles from 2014 and 2015 as this is not a new phenomenon. Specific to the UK, the Spectrum remake console seems to have soured a lot of retro computer people in particular on every aspect of the concept. I would think that leadership in regulation and reform would come from UK or EU, which could have a worldwide impact.

Worst sauce I've ever tasted.

Or as the 2020 guy says, a solution in search of a problem.

Was it similar to this? Edit: I see from the source that it was. Note that my pasted video (which is the same clip as the CES 2020) was originally posted in 2011.

Just tells. No shows. It seems that would be a difficult thing to get right. Remember the Xbox 360 "Arcade" stick that had the stiff little spinner in an odd place? I suppose it was durable but it didn't work very well. It was called "MadCatz Xbox 360 Arcade Gamestick" and it was not great. Like "Atari VCS," it sounded OK, on paper, for a certain purpose. I didn't hang on to mine for very long.