New Atari Console that Ataribox?

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

 

That? It's a Yars' Revenge remake from the Atari Arcade website, and yes it does look and play like a crappy Flash game (but still better than that abonination on the Xbox 360).

 

It requires MS Edge or IE to play w/o any ads and uses Flash on other browsers. So it's surprising that it's running on a Linux system which supports neither...

the actions on the gamepad don't match up with the movement onscreen anyway

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

Was looking for another post and saw this little gem:

 

i remember feeling regret that i was being too negative. then they went with flex funding

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

the process for getting on their storefront or pushing an update when it's on there is send it to them and a guy will put it up sometime? i feel like i have even more questions than i did before

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

i thought they would hit whatever goal they set by whatever means. flex funding makes me think they were less confident than i was?

the developer section and faq gives the impression they haven't thought that far ahead

[Intellivision Entertainment launching a NEW Intellivision console]

to be fair to the taco thread, tacos didn't start appearing til nearly 6 months after the initial announcement and well after the cracks had begun to show. this thing has a way better opening gambit, having some hard dates and a qna coming up makes me feel some cautious optimism

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

if we're taking bets, i'm gonna guess fixed funding with a medium sized goal that's still far too low for making a console (100k-250k), but they'll put their own money in to force it to the goal and artificially inflate the appearance of interest. kind of a soft flex funding.

[Manik: fun VCS Berzerk clone for Android]

how'd that happen? i don't know who owns berzerk now but i don't think it ever touched atari's hands

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

netflix can run inbrowser on linux now, the entirety of talks may have been: make a button to open a chrome window to netflixdotcom.

 

with their overzealous litigation and (alleged) theft of dev royalties i don't think i could buy anything from neoatari in good conscience even if they make the most amazing indiegogo pitch of all time. i feel depressed about that for some reason.

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

the ouya is thus far the only thing i put up crowdfunding dollars for and i still use it as a media/emulator box so i feel no regrets. i never bought anything from their store though, since most everything on there was also available on the play store, usually for less money, with the added benefit of not being locked down to a box with an uncertain future.

 

if the ataricrate can have steam on it, and i don't think they could prevent it if they wanted to, why would any human ever buy anything from the proposed atarimarket over steam? why would any dev with a linux version of their game on steam feel like they need to do anything additional at all?

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i wouldn't say it costs nothing. whatever market integration is required takes some time, and you're now on the hook for maintenance if their market or os updates introduce new problems. there's certainly a point where you can say it's not worth the effort to press that export button.

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

pure speculation here. they may believe that once a software marketplace exists then an infinite flood of games will appear, and they can't answer any questions about it because this marketplace hasn't begun development yet.

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"Enjoy the Linux-powered Atari VCS to play, create or port your own games and multimedia content."

if there's a lack of content it's only because you, the consumer, have yet to develop it

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

announcing announcements is a lot like a rocket launch

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

i've heard 'atari punk console' to refer to something generating noise with a pair of 555 timers as far back as ~2005, doubt anyone would even think for a moment they'd suddenly need to acquire official branding

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

for some reason i assumed 'at e3' meant 'e3 adjacent'

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

if it was massively low spec and just functioned like a physical pico8 they could probably harvest $50 out of me before i thought about it too much

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

ignoring everything else, the amount of money i'm willing to flush down the toilet on some novelty product caps at ~$150

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

i can't wait til they announce the announcement. then the door will be wide open to an infinite number of potential future announcements

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

since they mentioned the words 'proprietary ui' and a digital storefront, i doubt a bulletpoint would be -throw that nonsense in the trash and run windows instead

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

maybe it'll run on c batteries for retro appeal

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

the speakerhat is absurd enough to be endearing, were it not for that ludicrous pricetag i might've even gotten one for fun who knows. my feelings would be different if crowdfunding was involved though.

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

announcing a preorder date before telling you what the thing even is will be stupid in any era

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

What I am surprised by, is how closely this is paralleling the Coleco Chameleon.

 

mk sought game devs well in advance of the rvgs campaign so i'd actually give the chameleon +1 over this

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

seal atari™ back in the tomb and don't wheel out that corpse til you're ready to quit messin around.

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

i got a lil pile of games that use a single button or could easily be reduced one button, and there are probably plenty of nostalgia-addled goofs like me who'd plonk some junk on some box for the standard 70/30. maybe that's their super plan i dunno.

 

is there any legit reason for secrecy at this point? it's been 3000 years just show your hand already