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I haven't found much "in the wild" for many, many years ...though with the fed putting interest rates at zero I guess one could take out a fat loan and acquire some mass loot now.

a Mac Classic remake would be fun. But like all the others, emulation is fine.

When you're publicly funded, every day the market is open is like a crowdfunding campaign! BUY BUY BUY

10 or 20% discount seems like a reasonable ask. It all depends on what the seller is looking for, of course. I've never been in a selling situation where someone made a best offer on something I've put up for sale. Either it gets grabbed instantly at the Buy It Now price, or the auction runs its course and sells for a lot more than I would have gotten as a BIN. What I generally get are people trying to make a side deal on the first day of an auction, "I'll buy this right now for $lowball" to which I always tell them, "Happy Bidding! Let's see how the auction plays out! I hope you win!" It's doubly fun to put these on the auction page so everyone can see them.

Seriously -- why the artificial restrictions? Play a console port, or play the emulated arcade machine already. There are some AtGames dedicated units with the MK games if you want no-fuss setup.

These guys know https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/02/hotshot_racing_brings_silky_smooth_60fps_arcade_racing_to_switch_this_spring

And apparently "Atari" isn't happy with your IGG posts. What was that about?

If someone just wants to play the game, there's enough material online to have fun. http://www.scatologic.com/faq.html#GENERALQUESTIONS I think it's obnoxious that this is scarce and hoarded, so long after its very limited commercial release, but that's what the creators have chosen to do. Since it's a holy relic or something, one mustn't ask for scans which will just be duplicated. It's a fun game, but if you've played TIE Fighter 1994, that's the better game.

@maxdrive I like this a lot. Many choices nowadays. https://obscurehandhelds.com/

Heheh, yes it does. I was thinking along the lines of simulation-style detail on going around plain loops, like Gran Turismo, but this is infinitely more entertaining.

Heheheh Surely anyone with resources to spend/waste on Atari stock has better things to do than read the taco thread. Furthermore, surely anyone reading this thread has long ago figured out that Atari stock is not a great investment.

I agree with you that their suit is BS on its face. The Retron77 barely evokes anything proprietary, it just looks 1970s-ish, and "Atari" never owned black plastic or fake wood grain. It would make just as much sense for the ghost of Radio Shack to rise up and demand a piece of the action. Reminder for those of us playing at home: we can follow the case by downloading most of the documents for free from here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14524473/atari-interactive-inc-v-hyperkin-inc/ They just got a time extension, so the upcoming stockholder report will probably not make any mention of this complaint. Watch for profits from their new ventures like casino games (recently kicked out of Kenya), blockchain (no longer hot), hotels (seriously WTF), game shows or movies. Their retro licensing seems to be sustaining them, with a lot of help from trademark lawsuits. There's a mobile neon Missile Command coming out for its 40th anniversary, at least. And someday, the bomb-diggity Atari VCS with unprecedented freedom to act like an underpowered, oddly limited PC. Fun fact: Austin Powers, an old joke itself, is from 1997. The period it spoofs is 1967, thirty years prior. Atari is from 1977 and trying to make itself a "lifestyle brand," trying to defy gravity and time itself.

Their fiscal year ends in about 3 weeks, and their financial statements are public. They recently won a default judgment worth over $4M -- the defendant didn't show up, and won't be able to pay -- but it will be interesting to see how they present themselves in their shareholder report. Isn't it possible that there's a greedy trademark troll out there that likes this kind of thing? @roots.genoa the Atari VCS was organized as a separate entity called Atari GameBox, LLC, as we saw in the Feargal lawsuit. I wonder if the crowdfunding scheme is actually considered $3M in "debt," or just "contributions" that have few strings on them?

It would be interesting to see a simple (by necessity, because 8-bit) driving game that incorporated physics of gravity and suspensions. I don't think modern games did this until Gran Turismo on the PlayStation. It really changes the whole feel of simulated driving.

Wasn't using the Phoenix on HDMI the main purpose of the thing?

I'd like their entire brand and trademark portfolio, including rights to publish all of the old games. I would stop suing people, discontinue dopey ventures like hotels, casino machines, and "VCS." I would release everything into the public domain where it belongs. It could be adopted and remixed by developers, artists, and homebrewers. Alternatively, it could simply be forgotten, except by those who remember it fondly. Even resting in peace would be a better fate than the joke that it is today. Make it a cool old idea, not a monetized "lifecycle brand" run by trademark trolls.

I'm not sure, but I think "volume" here refers to the number of trades, not the number of shares. If you want to buy out Atari SA, you'd probably need to start with the Market Cap to get Fred's attention. It's still $61M but it was over $70M just a few months ago.

The Atari Vs. Hyperkin case is the nut of the debate over whether Atari can prevent someone else from making a console or joystick controller with a similar look and feel as the 1977 oldies. Atari sends cease and desist letters and brings lawsuits against others for making t-shirts and stickers with pictures of joysticks and consoles, but to my knowledge, Atari doesn't make much official gear of their own with these images. I suppose there's that $30 box of junky trinkets sold at Target during the holidays. Far more often, they use their holdings offensively, acting as trademark trolls to collect damages from accused infringers. Their stockholder information lists losing trademarks as risks. It seems likely that they know they're on shaky legal ground. Hyperkin, like Target, doesn't seem to be taking this lying down. Like the rest of the market, Atari stock isn't doing much lately. They're posting near-record lows again.

Since this has been bumped, it would be nice to see these in one place Tempest 2000 Tempest 3000 Tempest 4000 and maybe something other Jeff Minter stuff while we're at it, regardless of the Atari-ness if it of possible. I was recently thinking about a quote of JV with regards to "why are activision games on plug and plays but not software collections," and up it pops from a year ago. My comment about I, Robot stands. I would happily buy a conversion and an update with 100 new puzzle style levels. But alas, it will never be made.

Meh, it's already missed the TG-16's 30th birthday, so what's a few more weeks or months? It emulates well on the Raspberry Pi in the meantime.

I would say the ceiling of PC pricing is like car pricing. A person can pay $100K or more on a supercar. The floor of PC pricing is different from car pricing. A new car with modern safety features is going to run between $20K and $30K for a midrange, non-luxury brand. I guess an old used car would be like a $35 Pi, but there's no new car that's so affordable. Those would be bikes and scooters, I guess. I don't feel that cars got into the super-affordable range like PCs are now, especially laptops, which just a few years ago were super pricey. Now they're as cheap as a month of riding the train. I want to believe that cloud gaming plus better internet speed and distribution will eventually deliver fancy games on cheapo hardware. It's possible today, but far from mainstream.

If you "heart" it in the eShop, they'll send you an email when it goes on sale. The PS4/Xbone versions went on sale a lot, I don't see how this should be different. The physical version might no longer be in print, I see that scalpers are raising the price. This works just fine as a digital release in my opinion. Not sure where I saw it, I think it might have been @JeffVav (the developer of this collection who hangs out here) but someone said that Activision/Imagic are more likely to put their stuff in plug-n-play units like the Atari Flashback dedicated unit so they can hold their titles like Pitfall and Enduro back for themselves. It's been a while since Activision has put out a software collection on existing platforms.