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Does anyone have stats on the commercial life of games? I assume they have their biggest sales when new, quickly tapering off, maybe with a bump when a Greatest Hits version comes out a year later with add-ons at a lower price. Kind of like movies in theaters, then with a home release, or hardcover books and a paperback release. To me, both consoles and PCs are delivering diminishing returns, because 3D hardware is mature and the new games will be a lot like the old game designs, only with somewhat better graphics and AI. They've been "good enough" to deliver fun to me for a long time. Of course I've said that every generation since the PS2 in the year 2000, yet they keep making more. 😂😂😂

This one. December 2018, 150 games. https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/atari-flashback-classics-switch/ To answer the original question, I would rate it as "Good." Here's a review of it that I really like.

And that computer would be able to do a lot more, and software would be cheaper. This debate has been going on for decades, it won't be settled here. Xbox is a nice cheap(ish) single-purpose computer. General purpose PCs are great as well. It's possible to have one of each.

As much as I want to say "the jury is still out on that one," Atari dropped the Foot Pong lawsuit against Target. You can look at the court documents here. The original complaint is kinda funny. I have to wonder if there will be ongoing legal trademark/patent implications for ... the company holding the lost luggage of Atari. They just won a big judgment against a little t-shirt printer, but their lawsuit against Hyperkin over the look and feel of Retron77 is still in process.

@wongojack the 32X is easily emulated and that version of Star Wars Arcade is worth checking out. It has more modes and stages, as a home game should. The 32X hardware is fussy and awkward. There's a recent (not from 2006!) thread on here from someone who really wants to use the old hardware, but it's not going well. Unfortunately I agree with you about the controls and gameplay. It doesn't feel like space flight (as seen in the films and better SW games), you can't go up and down very far, and the timers aren't fun. I think the "Virtua Fighter" style flat polygons are beautiful and spectacular, however. I just wish they were attached to a game that was more fun. I really like the bright, untextured aesthetic. Sky Rogue gets it done. I'd put a Star Wars skin on that if I could.

@Atariboy I don't have it in front of me, but I think you can set the bezel art to black so the screen isn't stretched. I know I haven't had that same problem, because I don't like playing with side art or a stretched screen view either. Worth a mention: this collection includes some real oldies from the 1970s, such as the black and white Football, Basketball, Fire Truck, and Dominos, which I don't think are anywhere else (except Volume 3 on Xbone/PS4 and the Atari Vault, of course).

Two good places for info and discussion of this kind of thing are https://obscurehandhelds.com https://boards.dingoonity.org/index.php These things are getting better all the time, there's always a new variant available to buy, and they're cheap. Build quality is generally good though not quite at Nintendo levels. Tempered glass screens and better materials for cases are becoming standard. Expect to do a little setup tweaking but generally they're ready to roll out of the box. Just add your own ROMs.

There was a fun port of DOOM on there for those of us who felt like burning a 3 megabyte file to DVD. Oh, and Buckaroo Banzai. "Wherever you go, there you are!"

They had a whole *two* Nuon-enhanced DVDs, too. But at least they weren't annoyingly aggressive in the lead-up to launch. Except for the big "project X" logo stomping on a bloodied Mario hat. Maybe there's a curse on companies that make stupid claims about their strengths relative to Nintendo. I've got a Samsung unit, Tempest 3000, Freefall, and a controller that I really need to sell off before it stops working!

Those all launched on time, under budget, with a stable of exclusive games, and were supported by the manufacturer for a while. I can think of bad examples of console launches, but they won't be things that most people have heard of. The 3 you cite are like NES or PlayStation compared to what is (not) happening here. But yeah, it's a story to tell! And a bad example for sure. Something that no one would want to repeat.

It's technically great -- I like the emulator and appreciate Code Mystics' work. The game lineup is a bit stale but they can only release what they have rights to. The Switch version is the best of these recent collections, because everything is in one volume. I'm over "Atari" as a company, they're lawsuit-happy and creatively bankrupt, so this may be the last thing I buy from them with their name on it.

This is from 89 weeks ago (not 20 months ago!). I feel it's important not to get too worked up about "special editions" of things that don't exist yet. Why do people keep falling for the same scams, over and over again? If our brains were computers, there would be a code update to patch this exploitable flaw in our firmware.

It was a conversion kit, with new side art and everything. You'd have to "destroy" a perfectly good Star Wars (the better game IMHO), though some people have made multi-board switching mods so the cabinet could run both games. It looks too complex for my limited skills.

There's a port of Castlevania Symphony of the Night on Android and iOS now. Appears to be straight up emulation. Three bucks.

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OUYA's already gone, @Steven Pendleton.

I'm going to take the safe bet and say it's likely to be one of the little guys using old brand names from the 1970s.

Overlays AND cartridges, oh my! So much to collect.

But the bid was showing $360K for a while, then it went down.

That auction seems like it will never end. 2 days to go, now at $280,000. https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-play-station-super-nes-cd-rom-prototype-sony-and-nintendo-c-1992/a/7224-93060.s