How do you pronounce "Wico"? What's the intended pronunciation?

[How do you pronounce "Wico"? What's the intended pronunciation?]

2 hours ago, fimbulvetr said:

Huh. I always pronounced it wike-oh (rhymes with bike-oh)

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

 

 

[How do you pronounce "Wico"? What's the intended pronunciation?]

Double you eye see oh

 

(I've never had occasion to say it aloud!)

[FIFTEEN YEARS]

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?

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

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. 

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

7 minutes ago, Special Teams said:

So Fred sold off something like 30k shares?

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

[Berzerk / Frenzy for the NES...]

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?

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

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

 

 

[Doom 64 Has Motion Controls]

@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. 

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

On 10/10/2017 at 4:43 PM, Flojomojo said:

Dumb cheap gift to (1) make the recipient laugh, (2) the creator rich, and (3) the retailer to stock a fun thing for $4 each.

 

 

Pet Rock cost $4 in 1975, which would be $18.25 today.

 

Atari Speaker Hat® will cost $130 in late 2017, which would be like $28.49 in 1975.

 

Speaker Hat® is not 7x better than Pet Rock.

!! Speaker Hat !!  
 

💩 🧢 

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

2 minutes ago, MrBeefy said:

The pet rock of consoles?

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. 

[Doom 64 Has Motion Controls]

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. 

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

13 minutes ago, ColecoJoe said:

Are you flirting with me?

"You should ask yourself why that is"

[Animal Crossing.... Wuh?]

@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. 

[Animal Crossing.... Wuh?]

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. 

[Found a timex sinclair, anyone recognize this mod]

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

 

[PC Game Deals]

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. 

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

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

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

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.

 

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

18 minutes ago, Chopsus said:

Well it seems ATARI has managed to block me from posting on IndieNoNo 

 

to be expected I guess given they blocked me on their FB site 3 months ago.

 

Curious that you can still post Don Taco?

 

Not being able to post a question in a campaign I have paid quite a bit for seems a denial of natural justice.

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

 

[Is There Anything I Can Do With The Netflix Disc?]

@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. 

[PC Game Deals]

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. 

[Where are the Midway arcade games?]

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. 

[Where are the Midway arcade games?]

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?

[Doom 64 Has Motion Controls]

Gyro for aiming like in Starfox 64 3D or just about any mobile FPS is nice to have, and many younger gamers are probably used to it. 

 

If Fortnite does it, I would expect all Bethesda games to do it as well. Here's an explainer:

 

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/07/guide_fortnite_-_how_to_use_gyro_motion_controls_on_nintendo_switch

["GameStop Enters Sellout Talks"]

Potential silver lining: since they track and photograph everyone who walks in their many stores, they could be a useful cog in the epidemiological tracking of coronavirus. 

 

Their financials are very grim. The one near my house used to be a Mattress Warehouse and I hope something cooler than THAT moves in when GS is gone.