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Wario Ware has homages to some of the pre-videogame stuff Nintendo was making. Little driving mechanical games, "ultra-hand" grab it toy, the cowboy that falls apart when you shoot him. It's cute how they just threw them in there without making a big deal of it being a little museum exhibit. Some of the toys for those who haven't seen them http://blog.beforemario.com/p/nintendo-before-mario.html

And don't forget the complimentary script-reading asking you if you would like to join the rewards club, pre-order something else, or trade in parts of your collection for pennies on the dollar. Do they still publish Game Informer magazine?

This is how I would say it. Apparently we are wrong, it's like "sicko"

Double you eye see oh (I've never had occasion to say it aloud!)

Remember when that seemed like a really long time? Well, the Xbox 360 came out in 2005, FIFTEEN YEARS AGO And to think that FIFTEEN YEARS BEFORE THAT, the Sega Genesis was just hitting its stride. Have we hit a plateau of gaming, or what?

Thanks @The Historian Sounds like KV did okay then. Market price for that stock is about $0.20 a share lately. I can't shake the feeling that this is a financial shell game, but I don't understand how anyone gets any long term gains from it.

Or the Group did. Presumably Rosen snapped these up at the historically low price last week?

That looks and sounds awesome! I like all the attention to detail, which you showed in the video -- like being able to kill Otto in Frenzy. I've grown accustomed to the little ditties in the ColecoVision version, to the point where I really want a little music with my robot-shooting. Is there space to add those in?

I have a friend who likes spicy foods and says "it burns three times." Atari VCS buyers only got burned once so far. HERE COMES THE SCIENCE

@roots.genoa True. It's not that they're worse, just that they're different from the iconic models. It's worth the small asking price. It looks very out of place next to my new Animal Crossing game.

!! Speaker Hat !! 💩 🧢

I think we made that analogy on this thread, like 900 pages back? Good short-term attention getter, too bad about the price? And wait? But the general uselessness is similar and it made the inventor very rich. That last part isn't happening here. Atari will be posting its financial report in just a few days. They're always quick with the good news but hold the bad news back as long as they can.

The motion controls on this Switch version are actually kinda neat. It's just for left and right movement/aiming and it's a lot faster and more precise than the sticks by themselves. It makes the game control more like keyboard + mouse than keyboard alone. It seems weird to have this on an N64 game, but it's a good enhancement, just as it was on Starfox 64 3D. Now I need to get used to the character graphics again. They almost look like the public domain versions of Doom. Like Daj, I noticed the developer credits and kinda barfed a little too. I've only booted it once and hope they're skippable next time out.

"You should ask yourself why that is"

@racerx I think you need two copies to play at the same time. Just like how you can't use a single cartridge on two places. The family account is for online play and the retro games, not to permit multiple people to play a single purchase. If this has the dollar-per-hour ratio that everyone thinks it will, it should be worth it.

I bought it today, despite not getting hooked by prior installments. I figure it will be a nice chill out activity for me while working at home for the next 6+ weeks. Hopefully all these videoconference meetings I'm doing won't burn me out from any and all screen use forever.

I think you're right that's how they came from the factory. I never had a 2068, but the 1000 I had was inexpensive. Not what we would call elegant by today's standards. Depending where you live, it might have been done for regional/export reasons. These were big in the U.K. but not anywhere else to my knowledge. I thought these two things were interesting. Disassembly video looks like your pictures. Repair manual has enough detail for you to just about engineer your own, but no photos. TS2068TM.PDF

I saw that Square Enix is also giving away one of the newer Tomb Raiders but it's the same one as on Steam, except you have to wait in a line so their site doesn't crash. Watch Dogs is free in the Epic store. That was a huge game when it first came out. Patient PC gamers get everything, eventually.

That's what happens when you price something before doing your engineering, I guess.

Maybe they should give away some of the ugly ducklings with manufacturing defects (as pictured in their last update) to The Register for review purposes? It's what's inside that counts.

You were "Chopsus Maximus," I presume? I remember you, asking some tough questions as if "Atari" would answer. Taking $300 for the promise of delivering something in 6 months but taking more like 3 years? NO PROBLEM Getting a little salty when asking about it in a public place? BURN THE WITCH

@Magmavision2000 you gotta stop living in the past! new VHS tapes and now netflix discs for defunct Wii apps ... Someone out there might find it mildly collectible in that there might be a finite number of them. But it hasn't been relevant or needed in like 12 years. The Wii used a downloaded app for Netflix streaming which made the disc obsolete. And now the Netflix wii "channel" doesn't work at all. It's worth five bucks because that's what someone got out of you. So in that sense, it's contributing to your college fund because you're now just a little bit smarter.

Most of the older Tomb Raider games are on sale for a dollar each so I scooped a bunch of them for collector/completionist reasons.

Summoning the great and powerful @JeffVav to tell us he's ready to roll with a product but needs the go-ahead from WB, who is not feeling it at this time. It seems strange of them to skip a whole console generation. Maybe they don't want to cannibalize 1Up mini arcade cabinet sales.

It's been a long time since Midway Arcade games (including Atari Games, Williams, and others) were redone for consoles. I mean things like Defender, Spy Hunter, Joust, Marble Madness, Paperboy, and so on. The last release was Midway Arcade Treasures which is backwards compatible in 360 mode on the Xbone, but nothing on PS4 or Switch. With all the classics already on Switch, this seems like a deliberate omission. What are they waiting for?