Shamus

With a title like "Smoke and Mirrors", they need to get Derren Brown to promote it.

That El Reg article didn't disappoint, and had a great laugh in it: Not to mention "distancing the hardware from any lingering 'retro-box' impressions" by using the names VCS, 400 and 800. 🤔

Just finished watching "Isle of Dogs" and it occurred to me that maybe Wes Anderson thought to himself, "hey, I'm gonna make Atari cool again!" The beautiful thing about this is that not one red cent went to the shambling skin-suit-wearing corpse of Not-tari for the privilege.

Holy crap, is it October already? It's close to being finished; it's in the last 5% or so phase of polishing. It's also in the hands of beta testers right now, and some have come up with issues, that while not game breaking, take off a little bit of the shine. It was shown at PRGE again this year, but I haven't heard any feedback on how it was received.

Since Taco Bell is only vaguely related to tacos, I'd say you're skating on thin ice there.

The real question is, do you like Wensleydale?

With all due respect to the as-yet-unnamed guy who is a friend of CPUWIZ, the fact that he's there means nothing. Curt Vendel has friends (no doubt, highly competent people too) who are close to this project as well, and he has publicly said that his confidence level in this thing ever coming to fruition is very, very low. The pictures with people in them are obviously staged, and the board they have is pretty much something anyone can get their hands on; there is nothing to show that they are even running anything on the board and there's no way to know from the pictures whether there's a real picture on the monitor (given their propensity for faking those, I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't). All in all, this looks like another cynical play by Not-tari™ to make it appear that they're doing something when they have nothing. Not-tari™ has shown that they have no problems with lying, and they've done nothing to show that they are trustworthy now. Sorry, but I don't buy any of it.

Honestly had no idea that nuatari was a thing. How about Not-tari?

VJ doesn't handle this kind of thing correctly, and it will be fixed before the next release.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, here are some real Atari™ branded game playing thingamabobs that you can go into a store, right now, and buy! And, I might add, for much, much less than Nutari™ is asking for their vague hopes, dreams and promises sometime near the end of next year. Well, that last one was there the last time I was at this particular establishment, which probably means they forgot to restock it (pretty typical for this place). Seems that obviously someone was willing to part with their cash for it. As for the Atacobox™, seems like P.T. Barnum was right: a sucker is born every minute.

Why not both?

We still don't have any shooter game like Operation Wolf.

Given Nutari™'s litigious nature, I would not be surprised if their lawyers found a loophole in Indigogo's TOS big enough to drive a taco truck through.

On the Mac version you definitely want to link everything in statically.

I'm personally a fan of Alton Brown's Taco Potion #19: 2 tbsp. chili powder 1 tbsp. ground cumin 2 tsp. cornstarch 2 tsp. kosher salt 1.5 tsp. hot smoked paprika 1 tsp. ground coriander 0.5 tsp. cayenne pepper That, plus a medium onion (chopped) and two cloves of garlic (minced) is enough to season one pound of ground beef (full recipe here).

The big takeaway from that article is that Mr. Wyatt was a peripheral player in the Xbox who contributed little and ultimately got fired from the project before it launched. This is the fig leaf that Nutari™ is trying to use to cover up the fact that they have fuck-all to offer with their non-existent Nutaribawks™.

That's all well and good, but when there are clear signs that this thing isn't going to go the way that Nutari™ says it will, with the constant lying by Nutari™, with the insiders telling you that this is clearly a scam and not what it seems to be on the surface, then that "positivity" starts looking like naiveté at best and willful ignorance at worst. "Hey man, you might want to get out of the way before the guy swinging that bat at your head connects with your noggin." "I'm not going to listen to your negativity. I'm standing here and being positive in the hope that the guy will stop his swing before it gets to my head. It just feels better that way."

Is it bad that you want to support a non-existent console that, odds are, won't ever be coming out, and, even if it does, won't have a significant installed user base? The only person who can answer that question is you. Either way, I wish you well, and hope you realize that your exclusive-to-an-as-of-yet-piece-of-vaporware will be seen only by a tiny amount of people, if any. If that floats your boat, then rock on.

Today is Tempest 4000 release day—another non-exclusive for the Nutaribawks! https://store.steampowered.com/app/688140/Tempest_4000/

Fake Atari men Wearing Atari skinsuit Take the cash and run

Apparently it's needed 441 pages because people keep coming in here and pushing all the good information down thread with bad/misleading/useless information. How many people are going to see what Curt Vendel posted 20 pages ago (which was really good stuff, BTW)? I would guess, not that many. There's already a cheerleading topic for the Nutari TacoboxVeeSeeEss, maybe you would like it better?

"please see the detailed refund/cancellation policy in the FAQs at the bottom of our Indiegogo campaign page if you have any questions." Translation: Yes, we have your money. No, you can't have it back.

Can you hear that sound? It's the sound of door about to close on your chance to pull your money out of this boondoggle... Less than five hours for Nutari to make their "big announcement". It won't be, "Gotcha, suckas!", but it might as well be.