Raticon

February 12, 2020

Just popped in to state the obvious:

AtariSA mentioned back in December that the release was delayed by "weeks, not months". (Note the plural).

Well since we are in February it means that 2 months (plural) have in fact soon passed and they have yet again lied/screwed up/burnt their tacos.

January 29, 2020

8 hours ago, carlsson said:

I just read that the Wuhan virus might be stoppable by alcohol and heat, so if the Atari people get into the sauna with some beer or perhaps stronger stuff is required, the VCS might still be delivered on time.

Then the virus stands no chance in Finland, the land where chugging extreme amounts of alcohol in a sauna hotter than a blast furnace is a traditional and wholesome pastime.

The 1 confirmed case of the virus in Finland must be the sole person in the country not following these traditions.

January 5, 2020

3 hours ago, OCAT said:

I could really go for a Meaty Update on the Atari VCS right about now,

And I could really go for a meaty Taco, but to each his own I guess.

January 2, 2020

My argument according to the chart:

Sega Doesn't understand Target stores...

...what a lousy argument, because neither does Atari.

November 9, 2019

4 hours ago, Flojomojo said:

There's nothing blockchain can do for games that can't be achieved with a traditional database. "Atari" wanted to appear innovative and on the cutting edge of something, for as long as they could. Their desperation is sad to watch.

Yeah, they were grasping at every little straw they could to be "hip" again, because when you say Atari people instantly think about really old videogames and arcades. When you say Blockchain people instantly think about super-modern advanced stuff.

The suits over at Atari saw a chance to rebrand themselves as cutting edge, cool and modern by starting to fart out buzzwords like "blockchain" and the other suits over at the stock market responded positively for a time.

The whole hype around blockchain is almost surreal. Sure, it can do a lot of cool things, but when my workplace (I drive a big rig) starts getting ads about how blockchain can improve the trucking business I just get tired.

October 12, 2019

The Flashback Legends certainly has some interesting games on it but sure has a... "unique" look to it.

But the Flashback X sure does have a great design with those "real" switches and all, but I might be biased as I believe my Light Sixer is at the pinnacle of console design. Would love to get one when they arrive here in Europe.

September 21, 2019

22 hours ago, dj_convoy said:

I dunno, Rat, this is not his first blindfold falling away moment.

Yeah I know. He has been inconsistent on that part, but I do think that his brand loyalty is gone for real this time around, and the only thing clinging him to Atari SA is his stocks value.

Which in itself tells us all something.

September 20, 2019

Well in my eyes Pdubs has gained at least a fair degree of respect from me. Why? He has at least gotten the Atari SA branded blindfold away from his eyes and admits to a degree that he was wrong about the whole ordeal.

You dont have to look far to find dozens or more who vehemently defend Atari SA and the so far nonexistent VCS with tooth and nail with absurd fanaticism. We should be happy about people starting to look at this company with more critical eyes regardless of past opinions. Quite a bunch have come to this site and regretted their preorders.

Historian was also under severe flak fire from us when he took Ataris and Feargals side last year without any apparent critical thinking, and now he is welcome again.

August 13, 2019

On 8/12/2019 at 5:38 PM, mrentropy said:

Y'all can hate on it if you want, but I like the case design and would like one. Even if it is under powered. If it ever comes out.

It'd be even better if the Haiku OS will work on it.

I'm positive that most of us is or was intrigued by the console design, the joystick and the general prospect of a new Atari console at first.

It is new Atari that pushed us from prospective fans to dedicated hater brigadiers with their nonsense.

Maybe the VCS will be alright in the end. Maybe it will be a piece of shit. Both options will probably result in some other company buying Atari, which is probably what they want. In the first case Chesnais & co will be rich. The other case will see Atari go bankrupt and someone buying the ruins.

August 10, 2019

7 hours ago, Flojomojo said:

Heheh

The latest edition of Monty Gabrys' Copyright Infringement Extravaganza is online now, with lots of Chaplin stills and a few words about Steam. It's easily the worst one yet, but not in a "so bad it's funny" way like the prior issues, so it's not really worth giving him the attention he craves.

I think we could write the employee manual for the new CRM based on what we have seen so far.

1. Someone is complaining about the lack of updates?

Stall em. Tell them we are working hard and will say more this summer. Then distract with a screen shot of an old game, or puff news from the internet.

2. Someone wants to develop games for the system?

Send them to the developer email address. It doesn't matter to the CRM whether or not it works or there's a response. Just keep the pigeons on the hook.

3. Someone has a shopping or billing question?

Send them to Backerkit, it's not the CRM's problem.

4. If someone asks questions about games?

Tell them you can't reveal anything yet because that would spoil the surprise. Also, Atari Vault is coming and they can put Steam in the sandbox.

5. Someone said something mean on Facebook or the IGG campaign page?

Delete and block. There will be a lot of these. It's important that you make it look like people like this product concept.

6. Someone said something mean on the Reddit group?

Ignore it, no one goes there.

7. When do I get paid?

We will update you when we have more information to share. Stay tuned!

Ladies and Tacomen. Se have our official FAQ.

July 23, 2019

Stumbled over this on Facebook and I felt it would be relevant to you guys.

Filed under chapter 9 in the book:

"Things to do while waiting for announcement of announcements"

July 7, 2019

13 hours ago, JBerel said:

Who knew Atari backers has their own action figures?

I saw that the pigeon is named "Yuji Pigeon".

Isn't that a bit too close to "Fuji Pigeon" to be a coincidence?

June 23, 2019

Being able to play Battlezone is the only reason my Flashback 4 is around the house. I got the Flashback 8 Gold for the rest of the gems and I think it's great, but since they figured out that they couldn't keep Battlezone past the 4th iteration...

June 21, 2019

Tommy sure is everything that NewTari isn't. Open, honest, humble, communicative and enthusiastic.

June 17, 2019

While Atari is surely showing off their bomb-diggety stuff at E3 and making all kind of success I decided to take a look at their stock now that they are registered here in Sweden.

A whopping 3.80 SEK per stock as it stands now, which is about 0.40 USD if my math isn't bonkers, down from about 4.4 SEK when they registered here, which is about 0.46 to 0.47-ish USD.

Extra research effort: As we don't have Taco Bell here as far as I know I decided to take a look at what 3.80 SEK buys me at the closest "Taco Bar", a taco chain we have here. A "Soft Taco Regular" which is 3 tacos and some nachos, salsa and guacamole will set you back 94 SEK. That means that one Atari stock will get you about 1/25th of that serving.

Btw I love the new forum update.

EDIT: Got the numbers wrong. They registered at 4.4 sek, not 3.98. That is just the highest today. Down from 3.98 to 3.8 today.

May 21, 2019

This RPG should be the AtacoBox launch exclusive.

March 9, 2019

Meanwhile over at Reddit, 351 followers sit in the blasted wasteland called the AtariVCS subreddit and wait patiently for... well... something?

EDIT: Here is the obligatory screenshot of the misery, with the latest 4 posts visible. If you close your eyes and touch the picture you can feel the desperation.

February 16, 2019

Just popping in to see if anything has changed. Apparently not.

Oh good old Mike Kennedy. My take is that MK started out with honest, if impossible and delusional, intentions. He then discovered that hardware is hard and expensive and talk was cheap, and that horrible combination made him ultimately transition to pure con artist as he desperately needed $$$ to get him out from the mountains of promises and "simple as that!"'s

Atari SA is different in the way that MK spoke too much and promised everyone the moon. ASA doesn't speak at all, and that makes their intentions more enigmatic, but I am all for the theory that I first read here that they are looking to prop up the brand then sell it all for top dollars and then retire in luxury in Taco-land.

It is so poetic in its misery.

Mike was chasing the pixeldragon to find Retroland, but failed and didn't even get a Taco. Atari SA is pretending to be from Retroland, but will end up in Taco-land.

February 1, 2019

Oh and don't forget all the more or less ridiculous stuff that followed in the wake of CD. Sure, dial up services existed before but now most of the console makers tried some variety of rudimentary internet service. Movies was released for them in absolutely horrible quality. We got digital photo collections in pixelfest quality, and even encyclopedias and the Bible released on CD for some systems.

Yeah I imagine living through it was horrible.

February 1, 2019

That's how I feel about a lot of the early CD era stuff. It was so amazing at the time, but would soon be obsolete and outclassed by the next generation of things. I'm grateful that such "progress" seems to have slowed down; I can't afford to forever be chasing the latest gadget.

This. When floppies proved unfeasible for consoles and the leap from carts to CD had been made things went so goddamn fast it was unbelievable. I took us a decade to go from Pong to NES, and what? 2 years or something to get from the first CD based systems to Sony stepping in and stomping everyoneflat with PlayStation.

I for one feel that the 3DO, CD32, Cd-i, Jag & Sega CD and others of its ilk was made obsolete almost the instant they hit the market, and being among the first of their kind they had to make all the bad experiments and choices that made them age really poorly mainly in the software department. Those super-blocky 3D graphics and the blurry pixelfest that was their "full motion video" isnt something i remember fondly.

January 27, 2019

The early CD-age of consoles is technologically interesting, but a big disappointment in the software department generally.

CDs was so damn dirt cheap to press so any schmuch could make games for it. It's more than 1983 levels of shit software that hit the games back then. New tech + cheap software means a lot of companies that didn't have any business dealing with consoles or software to enter the market and not know what to do.

Ugh... and the droves of "edutainment" games. Seems like every company had some belief that the kids wanted to learn stuff on their systems, not have fun.

January 26, 2019

Neither am I happy that you lost your money, but it is expected to lose money on stocks if one acts in the way you did. Stock markets are hard to predict, especially with companies that flat out refuse to communicate anything and considering you wore the most rose tinted glasses too and refused to see the red flags. It didn't help.

I sure hope they eventually deliver something to the backers, as I don't want people to have thrown out their cash and lost it for nothing. On the other hand it's high time people learn to stop shuffling money to the first best snake-oil salesmen they come across.

As far as the company Atari/Infogrames concern I have no sympathy at all. They can bankrupt for all I care, I hope that their ip transfers to someone who actually cares about it.

June 25, 2018

They have some of the worst people you can have answering peoples questions and concerns on social media and on the campaign itself. I can't believe they have raised 2.912.700 dollars with their attitude.

I sometime think it's our friend M.K all over again with the same pattern doing the answering:

1. Promise people that the system will do (almost) everything they want.

2. Call all sceptics and negative people "trolls" "haters" and "conspiracy theorists", even journalists.

3. Go to complete silence after a week or 2.

Granted, about 20.000 $ or more of pledges have disappeared in a few days time, and I understand why when they treat people like crap.

June 11, 2018

The first generation backwards compatible PS3 is the king of the hill amongst Playstations for me.

You get to play many PS1 and 2 games with the added quality of HDMI, you have a BluRay player and being able to use Youtube and many streaming services over Wifi. Only bummer is the limited HDD size.

June 9, 2018

Playstation Store says release in "2018", but I'm reading all over the place about release this June which would be awesome.

Anyone happen to know when in June it drops as I'll be buying a box of beer and some bags of chips for the occasion.

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