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No Fuji. No woodgrain. No joystick. No Netflix. HARD PASS.

$200?!

I was actually surprised, this morning, to find the conference started yesterday and ends today. According to his Twitter account, Chesnais' Kabuki theater is today.

Partial transcript; emphasis mine: Cheddar: You're headed to a tech conference hosted by the original Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak. So what will we expect from that conference? Chesnais: So, I'm going there first .. *cough* .. I'm not sure people know that, but Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak were employees of Atari at the very, very beginning. And by the way, talking about "retro gaming", if you look at the credits of Breakout--the first breaktrhough game--um, the lead designers are Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak ... Cheddar: Wow. On the original, huh? Chesnais: Yep, the original founders of Apple. So we see, by the way, on the iPhone at the very beginning you had the [Cheddar overtalk]. We kind of felt they had the special connection with that game; which is true. So I'm going there because Steven Wozniak is hosting the big tech conference and I will be showing him the new VCS; the new console. We'll be talking to him about the next step for the console. So, this is why we're flying down there. And it's in Scottsdale, Arizona. So you can expect more from us in the next two days. But it's very funny, you know, how these guys like 45 years ago created basically the industry, and now they're still relevant in their own field. But, yeah, we have more games created by these guys in the catalog and it's pretty pretty cool [?]. Cheddar: Exciting to say the least! It's so interesting to see how things come full circle, especially when it comes to Steve Jobs and also with Steve Wozniak. And with him, you'll be presenting alongside with him. So, what does this experience mean to you? Especially when they were the developers behind Breakout, and now it's like oh, it's all coming back around again? Chesnais: Yeah, I think--to your point-- it's come around full circle. We have the Atari 2600. We're going to show the VCS. We created these games which are still played today. I think it's part of a big move at the industry. This is just, you know, Fortnite today--back to Fortnite--this is just one, you know, milestone because the industry's growing. Cheddar: Right Chesnais: Sports. I think you'll see games that are, you know--records are made to be broken, right? Cheddar: Right. Chesnais: so, you'll see--you'll see. There's going to be a game. It's gonna be bigger than any other game and this is why we love the industry. Because you can create and you can do stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atVB_l5n-yA&feature=youtu.be&t=1040

Listen to the interview and you tell us!

For indie-produced games, please consider contacting the makers (if available) to find out if they have extra boxes for sale. The ebayer, above, is selling some by @Songbird he's not authorized to do so.

I believe Piko Interactive has obtained some as well.

This was an homage, rather than 100% 3D conversion, but World of Warcraft's Joust quest chain was fun:

There wasn't really much to say The medium.com post confirmed what a couple posters here said days before about Atari being 6-12 months away from production, with proper testing. The non-payment news fit in with failing crowdfunded campaigns, but was also not proven. There were suggestions to remember Wyatt has a history of not playing well with others. And we pointed out the curious timing of Wyatt's new Kickstarter. What would you like to discuss? Would sending my out a single AtariVCS in December fulfill their promise to start shipping to backers by then?

Well, phooey. That's not as fun.

2,500 More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Archive

The Verge did a write-up on Wyatt's Gameboard-1. Inside is an interesting reminder box: Lessons learned? Or brief moment of lucidity?

Saw one a few years ago while binging SYFY's Defiance. Came here, and sure-enough another intrepid TI fan spotted first:

Vladr, I hope you have a safe, uneventful trip and prove us wrong.

Holy smokes. Much better to spend that $50 on a camera and/or mic and become a YouTuber.

I think a lot of people liked the original case design. I'm not so sure how they felt about the updated, thicker version. But perhaps by that time the project was too tainted. A modern take on the joystick was interesting. My opinion is they should've only stuck with getting that right, then down the road offer a console.

Biffo award > Biffy award.

Nobody can understand what you mean, @tripletopper. Can you boil it down to something like, "I'd like an Atari CX40 with a button on both sides and works with PCs"? Or something like that? If it's not a simple change of a current design, you may be looking at a lot of money. I'm not an electronics guy, though.

@Welshworrier has a running tally, at least as-of 2016. I recommend the Klax thread to see how helpful the people (like CJ) were, who had a better idea of hardware limitations than him. Vladr is no saint, and instigates a lot himself. Here's WW's list:

We're clearly in a giant virtual world 95% full of NPCs. Convince me that these two posts aren't AI-created and that Atari blog posts aren't made by a corporate-speak word generator. Naturally, we're all humans here.

Exactly why most of my purchases have been digital. I think it was Destiny: The Taken King which had a disc for the main game and a piece of paper with a code for the expansion. That effectively negated any real resale value. They're also more convenient since disks usually have to be in the drive to play.

SSD would be my number one reason to buy a new Xbox. 4k would be my second, though those spots would switch if we bought a 4k TV.

I imagine you'll have your work cut out for you to get over the perception of it being a retro console--having a retro brand name with retro-based controllers, while showcasing updated retro games. And to get people to look past the hardware when "hardware is king" has been promoted for decades. I'm sure the Ooya comparisons will come, as well as critiques of the controllers without trying them (as seen in this thread). Hopefully those perceptions will change in the coming year. 😁

I weep for all the gameplay videos lost in the great blizzard of '19.

They say they have things working, haters.