Rick Dangerous

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Retro Video Games, Collecting: Atari, Nintendo, Sega. Reading, Boating(power and sail,) Skiing, Motorcycling, Tennis, Golf, Hiking, Camping, Snowmobiling, Beach lounging (basking.)
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Rick Dangerous

Is Google unaware that Atari is also re-entering the video game console market? Surely they will re-think going head to head with such a Titan of industry...
- March 20, 2019
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2. orange808
  
  With a minimum of five frames of latency in the best real world conditions, Pong would be frustrating and unplayable on Google's doomed Titantic gaming platform.
  
  March 20, 2019
3. Flojomojo
  
  There was a nice pong-like game that worked well with OnLive. It was called "Shatter," and like modern "Atari" it incorporated features that could both suck and blow.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatter_(video_game)
  
  March 20, 2019
4. orange808
  
  I recall. Did you ever get a chance to manipulate a cursor directly using their shortlived cloud computing platform?
  
  That put the latency in sharp relief.
  
  Looks like Google is building custom revisions of software and asking devs to target low latency--using their dev kits to simulate real world latency. Of course, specifics are locked down behind NDA's. We all have signed a few of those.
  
  Regardless of their efforts and after connecting controllers dire...
  
  March 20, 2019
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