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I agree with you on the competitive aspect of the first gen console games. The graphics were primitive so games being competitive drove the narrative. In single player and in multiplayer it was that idea of playing one more game to beat your previous high that drove you to keep playing. I too played in some of the original High Score Club competitions on here and found myself doing exactly what you did, playing for hours to get a better score before the deadline. For me one thing that surprised me is that I ended up playing some games I never would have tried before and ended up liking them all due to that competition.

I really don’t get this mentality of thinking. Yes, to me graphics are important but so is game play, they go hand in hand. Depending on the game those graphics don’t have to be 4K high fidelity. Take Minecraft for example. When I first saw that I was like, no way I’m getting into that. My nephew would come over and would want to play it with me, so we networked up our computers and guess what...I played it and enjoyed it...even after he left! The crafting aspect hooked you to find different materials to create new things, it worked. The graphics were perfect for that game and worked well with the game play. I would say most people on Atari Age (and most gamers in general) are by no means “binary”.

I don’t know, but I’m thinking I’m in the minority here when it comes to graphics. I’ve stated before I’m a PC gamer. I went from my original 2600 heavy sixer to a PC and never looked back to consoles. I do own a PS3 mainly because I wanted a Blu-Ray player for the bedroom and the fact that I could play games on it was a plus (and I got it with American Express points!). I only bought PS originals for it, if it was available on PC I would by it for the PC. To me graphics AND game play make for a great game. The latest PC I built a year and half ago I’ve never spent as much on a graphics card as I did on this build. I was actually shocked at the price of the RTX cards (I’m a NVIDIA guy). I usually go with middle of the road cards because the difference in price for the higher end card just to get a few more FPS doesn’t make that much sense to me. Even at the mid-level a RTX 2070 was still $600. Anyway, to me that was worth it to be able to play games in high graphics fidelity. I won’t be upgrading for at least five years. I want total immersion when I play games and the better the graphics, the better the game to me. Simulators, flight sims in particular are some of my favorite to play, in that category of games the higher fidelity of the graphics the better the immersion. The newest MS Flight Simulator is just mind blowing. I’m waiting to make the jump into VR for the ultimate in immersion. Once 4K and wireless headsets come down in price some I will more than likely make that jump. Now that all being said I have two VIP Amicos on order. We have a Wii which we would have fun playing together as a family which I’m hoping the Amico will bring that back. Playing bowling with my wife (who would kick everyone’s ass!), playing Guitar Hero with the kids each playing an instrument and jamming to songs I grew up with, or watching the kids play Just Dance with their friends during sleep overs was a magical time. The kids are now in their mid twenties (three girls, one still heavy into gaming on the Switch, one casual Switch player, and one pretty much mobile games on her phone) but I’m hoping when they come over they will join in when they see me (and hopefully my wife) playing some games on the Amico.

And do we know if a Linux version exists today? The Wiki for Tempest doesn’t mention a version for Linux.

Has this even been confirmed by Llamasoft??? I guess this can be loaded in sandbox under Windows, but isn’t exactly a launch title since the Windows version has been out since 2018.

Wow, this looks fantastic! It’s been awhile since I’ve gotten into a flight sim, I’m thinking of putting together a home cockpit. I have most of the Logitech instruments, I just need to put them together. Anyway, I loved Red Baron back in the day. I live about 40 mins from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome (in Rhinebeck, NY) and love to go there and watch their WW I Airshow with the restored planes. Your game looks great and I will definitely be checking it out!

Thought I would throw this one into the mix, currently sold out and $2 more than the one CPUWiz posted but....ups the ante with an i5 processor, Win 10 Pro, 128gb ssd, HP brand name, and “800” in the model name. Install Steam for free, buy the Atari Vault and the add on pack for $2.50 and you have your VCS. Here is a comparison of the i5 4590T vs the Ryzen R1606G: https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i5_4590t-378-vs-amd_ryzen_embedded_r1606g-1198

Yup, saw that after I posted. I should have read a little further before posting that question. I love all things space program related, so the fact that you worked on a Mars rover is just fantastic!

I was there for CRS-4 in Sept. 2014. My brother had an experiment that was sent up to the space station. The launch pad wasn’t at the refurbished Shuttle pad used in CRS-11, so we weren’t at the main viewing site you were at. We were in a building the was next to the Vehicle Assembly Building with roof access for viewing the launch, which was still just as close (about 3 miles out from the pad). Space X treated us like VIPs, it was an awesome experience!

That’s what I was thinking, is that him?

This reminds me of this scene from a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off:

I checked out your bar’s Facebook page and it looks awesome! Not sure if I’ll ever make it out to Idaho though. Here’s hoping you can re-open soon.

You would think!!! This is the first time I’ve heard of it and I’ve been to Florence (it was back in 87’ but they’ve been doing this since the 16th century!) That is a good question about the fighting because the link RxScram put up describes it as a combination of soccer, rugby, and wrestling, but it looks more like MMA!

What the actual f***!!! That is the craziest sport I’ve ever seen!!!

Correct, the pre-orders (FE and VIP) are Golden Ticket gift cards to be used in the online store for games or merch.

At this point I feel they are so deep into their stance against the Amico that they can’t change it without losing face to their devotees. That is why they will never accept your offer of an interview (public or private) or come into IE offices to do a hands on no matter how sincere you appeal to them.

Yeah, it could be the angle. The concave part seems to be shallow.

Doesn’t that Classic Controller look a bit odd? All the prototypes shown had the part inside the orange ring to be concave and here it is even with the rest of the controller body. It doesn’t look like the stick has any space to actually move. It looks photoshopped to me. Has there been any footage of anyone even using the Classic Controller?

So, I was an Atari guy (still am) and then went onto PC gaming which is what I play on to this day. I have never played an Intellivision game ( I am a collector and own a bunch of games, just no console!), so my choices are strictly based on the new versions shown in the gameplay trailers: Cloudy Mountain - I love adventure (all the Sierra/Dynamix games were the best!) and D&D/RPG Games. Biplanes - I don’t recall seeing a trailer for this, maybe just one second in the first trailer. I am into planes and I have seen gameplay of the original and it looks fun. Baseball - No footage of either of these, so I would go with Baseball Bowling - Again, I don’t think there has been footage of this one yet, but Wii bowling was a big hit in our house. It got my wife to play video games with me (well, just that one game!). I’m hoping this one will get her to play again and have better motion control than the Wii had. Safe Cracker - Not knowing how the originals played, and only seeing the gameplay for this one is why I selected it. Auto Racing - This one reminds me of the Atari Indy arcade game I used to play a lot of back in the day. Breakout - These are Atari ports so yeah I know them well! Breakout just looks fantastic in it’s Amico reimagined form. This is what I think of a reimagined version to be, familiar but with a new twist.

What a moronic thing to say. I personally know of 5 people who had COVID, various ages and it hit them all with different results. The oldest one died of it.

To all the fathers out there, happy Father’s Day. So, my dad wasn’t a big gamer, but there were a few games he got into. In the mid/late seventies he would love playing Tank and Gun Fight with my brother and me when we would go to the boardwalk arcades in Wildwood, NJ for vacation every summer. At that time Pong was the big home console and of course we wanted one for Christmas. In his infinite wisdom he convinced us to wait until they came out with a console that you could change the games with cartridges. Of course we were like, what is he talking about, how are they going to do that (I was 11 and handheld games, digital watches, and calculators were the extent of my electronic knowledge). I don’t know how he knew that companies were working on cartridge based systems, but he was an electrical engineer at IBM and worked on power systems for their mainframes. Maybe being in that field he was in touch with the electronics field at the time. So, when the Atari VCS came out we got one for Christmas. The fact that it came with Combat was icing on the cake. We later purchased Outlaw and my father would play those two games with us all the time.

Thanks Tommy, I will do that. Kevin assisted me with my order and was extremely helpful. Starpaddler & Swami thanks for your input as well.

I’m a little disappointed about the Golden tickets. I ordered a hoodie back in March, never received the Golden Ticket 🙁. Lost in the Mail? Order missed due to third party handling the merch orders and COVID mayhem? Don’t know, it would have been fun to participate in whatever they will be used for.

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The exact point I was getting at in my reply to @Relicgamer....we can’t call out the “non-believers” for making comparisons about the Amico without having played it and then turn around and do the same exact thing by making comparisons to other systems.