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  1. Posted · Edited by AlecRob

    I guess i have better things to do than passionately hating a small PC with an Atari logo on it.  It runs windows, so yes it is compatible with pc software natively. I don’t see what the big deal is.  
     

    i must be getting too old for this shit

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    I dont think it should be hard at all to get Tempest 4000 running on the VCS.  And if it isnt available on launch, you’ll still be able to play it using sandbox.  Ah, the beauty of the VCS.  Truly elegant and versatile.

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    I still think VCS has the potential to be a nice device/console. Call me stupid for thinking so, but I really like the design of this thing.  I guess I am in the minority, but I don’t really care who atari is or what their plans are. I just want a new VCS to tinker with.       It would be nice if more like-minded people were on this site...  i mean, a lot of people here love the jaguar, which is arguably a bigger load of garbage than the new VCS is. The VCS cant be THAT bad.  I mean come on, it runs PC games and software, so it already has a better library than the jaguar and most atari hardware systems in general.

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    most of the original atari employees are probably either retired or dead.   Like it or not, Atari, SA. owns the intellectual property we all know and love.   We should at least hope the best for it and have an open mind to the VCS actually being a cool product to own and use.   I think it looks like a fun toy.  One developer on facebook who actually has a VCS in his hands said said the hardware is easy to develop for and more powerful than most people think... nintendo has proven many times that you dont need to be the most powerful system to sell a lot of units.   VCS is easier to develop for than any other system, maybe more powerful than a switch, upgradable ram, and atari charges lower fees to developers to release games than the competitors.   Remember, the PS1 sold millions and had almost exclusively third party games. It was the easiest to develop console in its generation.  Technically N64 and even Saturn was more powerful in many ways. 

     

    I think the Atari VCS’s price will come down as it gets mass produced and hopefully its CPU and other components will get cheaper. 
     

    Which name do more people know? SONY or ATARI?  Its debatable.  I want to see developers flock to the VCS and crank out great playing games. You dont need the fancy PS5 bells and whistles to have good gameplay.

     

    also the PS5 and next gen XBOX aren’t looking so hot, with hardware and software issues abound.  This may discourage some buyers from investing in those machines for awhile..   i certainly don’t want either of them.  Also Atari, SA has the appeal of just simply not being either Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo.  A lot of people crave ANYTHING different.   Atari has that retro “OG video game” brand appeal that the others lack. Nintendo has that going for it but they have a totally different vibe compared to Atari.  
     

    i cant wait to get my VCS and mess around with sandbox and try emulators and testing performance on various things.. i will fully upgrade the ram too.  Whatever ends up in the VCS store will be an added bonus.  If by some misfortune the store dies out the console will be still usable in sandbox :)

     

     

     

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  12. Posted

    One must admit that atari being under new ownership and releasing a new system in the year 2020 is rather surreal.  We were all praying for a new SEGA console and this what we get? God needs to get his hearing checked 

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    3 minutes ago, Tidus79001 said:

    This will have been well worth the wait to have this device in my entertainment center serving up not onlny modern retro inspired contend, but also serving as my universal retro console emulation device letting me run any emulated console that I want.  I know a lot of people are critical that that it has taken this long to get to this point we are at now with the devices ready to ship, but I fully agree with Atari's decision to delay and redesign it with the console with the AMD Ryzen R1606G processor instead of going with the older model that was on the original specs sheet.  Yes, it is long shot for this device becoming a success and having a thriving ecosystem, but I hope that it will bring 2-D retro gaming mainstream.  If nothing else I will always have it for the purpose or retro game console emulation and have this device as my one stop for playing all of the old game from the various console on yesteryear on my TV.

    I agree with the delays for upgrades too.  I’m gonna hook up a large external hard drive and use this as a home theater PC, emulation box, windows gaming/phantasy star online 2, internet browsing/email/youtube/streaming etc device.  I think it looks cool.

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  16. Posted · Edited by AlecRob

    10 hours ago, Matt_B said:

    Yeah, they're like one of those Chinese car companies that bought a defunct marque from twenty years ago so they can sell to befuddled old brand loyalists.

    I’m not old or a brand loyalist. I’m just a young dude that thinks atari stuff has a cool aesthetic. 

     

    i was born in 1995.  I have pretty much zero atari nostalgia.
     

    how many times do i have to bring up that the 7800, Lynx, ST, and Jaguar weren’t even designed by the original atari engineers/team in sunnyvale, california.  Oh and the now-obscure Atari IBM PC compatible series of hardware, that the new VCS could be considered a descendent of... also not designed by the OG atari.  You pretty much have to get a heavy sixer, pong machine, atari 400/800 and other really early devices if you want ORIGINAL ORIGINAL atari. 

     I find the “not atari” argument to be really flimsy because of that.  People using that argument must hate the Lynx!! 
     

    “Wah waahhh it’s an EPYX console!! Burn it at the stake!”    
     

    atari ST was designed by an ex commodore employee.  Amiga was designed by an ex atari employee!  FFS

     

     

    if you buy an intellectual property, it belongs to you.  atari, SA bought atari.  For l intents and purposes, they have every right to do business under that name.  They are a real company, they own it fair and square.
     

    Imagine if sega announced a new console and sega fans bitched about it like atari fans today are bitching about the VCS. That would be unthinkable!  Sega fans have been asking for a console for years, and i have no doubt they would snatch up whatever they put out without a second thought...even if it was a console-shaped PC like the VCS.     

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  19. Posted · Edited by AlecRob

    On 8/6/2020 at 1:12 AM, Shawn said:

     

    Oh no it's not. Not even fuckin' close.

    But none of those systems i mentioned were designed by the “original” atari from the 1970s... they were all outsourced.. essentially hardware designed by someone else with an atari logo on them sold by whoever currently owned the company at that time.  Tell me, how is VCS any different?  Somebody rightfully and legally bought the atari brand, and made a piece of hardware.  It doesn’t seem much different to me.

     

    but people here absolutely refuse to accept that atari is under new ownership, many times over in fact..  they’d rather atari not exist than someone else have a go at it.. 

     

    i think yall are in denial.  Just sayin.

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  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, BassGuitari said:

    You had a Europad BITD? Tell us that story, please!

    didn't you see my original post?  i mentioned my age. i'm too young to  have had any 2600 stuff when it was new.  that is my recreation of what a late-era 2600 setup may have looked like, including secret quest cartridge

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    What was it like to be a 2600 owner in the late 80s when NES was all the rage?  Were new games easy to find still or were people mainly buying them at yard sales, flea markets, etc? i got to thinking about this because i recently acquired a 2600 jr, which seems to be an odd beast of a console... clunky 70’s tech in a very sleek compact almost high tech modern 80s package.   I’m a younger atari fan (24 years old) so i’m very interested to hear older folks perspectives on this.  In the mid to late 80s, was the 2600 seen as outdated junk or was it still a respectable console?

     

     Were any of you faithfully sticking with the 2600 even when faced with the likes of the NES, Master System, 7800, or even the PC Engine?  Secret Quest came out in 1989... Genesis and TurboGrafx-16 were coming out in the US that year too!  I find it amazing that the 2600 was supported for so long..

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