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Sure, in a "war is peace" kind of way! Does that mean criticism is compliments? Le nope. You literally brought up controllers-as-a-limitation a whopping two hours ago in response to my first post to Intellimision. I can't imagine Tommy liking all this talk of limitations.

You just told us how exciting it was that Amico would not have games like this! Oh, my head ... The original post had nothing about controls. Or controllers, for that matter.

If the controllers are limitations then they should re-think the controllers. But I'm pretty sure Tommy doesn't see them as limitations. Yes, I acknowledge constraints can inspire creativity. You both have written "can" and not "will" because, I'd suggest, even subconsciously you know freedom inspires more creativity. As I wrote above, limitations can cause creativity but to say that it's exciting and will lead to new genres seems a bit of a stretch. That's not to say your couch co-op ideas combined with whatever innovations your controllers may bring won't bring on new games. But I believe if you thought the controllers were a limitations, they wouldn't be there. I suspect they are enhancements to your console. Do the commandments count as limitations? I guess, but they don't seem all that limiting considering the hardware and target audience. I just don't see what's exciting about limitations. Perhaps parents would be excited for 100% family-friendly content, sure. But, the post came off a little overenthusiastic and perhaps desperate-sounding. Like a car salesman saying, "This Yugo is under-powered and doesn't have a radio, power steering or comfortable suspension, but it's exciting you'll get creative with music and build up your forearms!" In fact, I'm a bit surprised you even want to talk about limitations at all when the console is sounds very capable of doing the types of games you've envisioned on the system. I don't see that as a bug, but a feature.

Look, Tommy's right that system specs don't really matter if the games are good but please don't spit in my face and tell me it's raining.

Feel free to add, change, delete as you see fit. December begins in two months and we have seen: ❌ Game demos beyond Atari Vault. ❌ News of Tempest 4000 for Linux. ❌ Production-ready prototype. ❌ Any evidence of testing, much less "final testing". ❌ Showing anything at all beyond a developer board and/or black box ❌ A firm release date. ✔️ Announcements that announcements are coming. ✔️ Deleting all non-pandering questions and criticisms. ❌ Mission accomplished (if making actual product). ✔️ Mission accomplished (if wanting free beer and world travel).

Make your own countdown timer, dangit! This one's mine! 😁

I made a handy-dandy countdown clock for backers (Dec. 31st): https://www.livecountdown.com/atarivcs-backers-release/ Get pscyhed like never before!

"proven wrong on everything so far" Pretty sure that the AVCS hasn't yet been released--and that anyone in this thread who predicted the project would miss their Indiegogo production date should pick up their prize at the front desk.

Can you blame these people for folding their arms?

Saved for posterity's sake:

I actually read that as "Hi Robert! We have something spewing as we speak!"

Heh. And to think I just passed-over the Gameboard headlines I saw. Nice catch. She worked with him on the Xbox and wrote about him in an ebook. More interestingly, Atari wasn't the latest thing he worked on:

Blasphemer!

@PowerDubs You were honest because you were caught. To your credit you didn't hide from what was found. Otherwise, @x=usr(1536) has it right so I won't belabor the point. I think most of us actually wanted something cool from Atari. But then we started seeing red flags pop up that we'd seen from other similar campaigns.

Atari sounds like the stereotypical adulterer who keeps promising his mistress he's going to leave his wife ... soon.

@BiffsGamingVideosis a user who got himself banned from this thread (and possibly the board?). He's done some YouTube video walk-throughs of conventions, highlighting different vendors or displays. He would then award his favorites "Biffy Awards". In a couple of videos, he highlighted then awarded indie gamemaker Slifker Games a Biffy Award for the game Jungles of Maxtheria. A multi-platform game which unofficially advertises AtariVCS-compatibility. BiffsGamingVideos and Slifker Games are the same person. He awarded himself a trophy while acting unbiased. He also likes to sockpuppet and has gotten several alts banned. I don't have the link, but he started a thread with one alt and praised it with another. He was also caught doxxing Al, so you won't find any sympathy here. I don't know if Werner is a sockpuppet, but I was just having some fun playing off what CPUWIZ wrote.

Maybe Stefan Werner is aiming for a Bilffy Award?

Conarium; https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/conarium/home Dirt Rally: https://store.steampowered.com/app/310560/DiRT_Rally/

Technically, cannibals eat their own species. But it seems they do know how to serve Man.

There's an a work-in-progress VCS case for Rpi4 on Thingiverse. But you may be thinking of @CommanderGrimm's: