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Atari had lowered the Jaguar's base price to $150 that March: http://web.archive.org/web/20010418055319fw_/http://icwhen.com/book/the90s/1995.html Note that didn't include a game. And Sony's system had a CD drive built in; if you bought the Atari system you would've had to pay another $150 to get the disk drive, effectively making the Jag the same price as the PS1. I think Atari lowered the base price to $99 before Christmas, but Sony had more money, more ads, better ads, etc.

Did he have a series of transparencies showing us how big the Ataribox's bus was compared to the PS4's, XBox One's, & Switch's, using a crowded highway as a metaphor?

Here's that link: http://web.archive.org/web/20010408163025/http://www.icwhen.com/index1.html "On Thursday, May 11, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) show in Los Angeles, California, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s (SCEA) president, Mr. Steve Race, announced a price drop of the forthcoming PlayStation video game console to $299. Threatened by Atari’s claim that Sony may be dumping product in the United States, SCEA’s decision was to alter the U.S. version so that it did not have an S-Video adaptor built-in. The technical change differentiated the machine from the one selling in Japan for $320."

But it wouldn't be from Atari; it would be from China's dedicated sax factory.

They had prototypes of tablets & cell phones a few years ago. Nothing special; just private-labeled Chinese goods. But it was better than this fiasco.

Sony took out the PS1's S-Video port on units sent to the US, if memory serves. I found that tidbit on that website Atari's old marketing manager ran. I think it's in1995, right between him having to correct a news agency which called Atari a "former video game maker" & Sam Tramiel having a minor heart attack. I'll have to get a link later. I'd probably rather get a PV1000, even tho it's more expensive & arguably less useful. It's just been one of my obsessions for years, & strangely enough it's not entirely out of reach, unlike an Atari Cosmos. Doubt I'll ever get one, but it's fun to dream.

They didn't have the money for a wide release, & Sony changed the PS1's design for its US release, so Atari couldn't sue them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kSSlBgnKhbk Footage of the unreleased Virtual Boy game. Looks dizzying.

I just hope they provide a patch to unlock the system before they shut everything down. Bricking something someone's paid for would be wrong. (3rd place I've said this.)

"Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it." I may not like it but $200 is fair if that's what the market demands. There may be little nostalgia for the Jaguar, in the strictest sense of the word, but a lot of people don't just want to return home again; they want to experience the things they missed out on as kids. The Jaguar might've been a massive failure, but it was the last significant system developed by a well-known company, & it did get a significant amount of coverage in magazines & the like. If someone's already got a Saturn & Panzor Dragoon Saga, what's the next most logical choice? A Jaguar or a 3DO. I'd choose the Jag myself.

Atari is The Ghost Who Walks! ...or in this case stumbles & bangs their shin while dropping hot tacos all over you.

I hope so.

Bottom of the barrel would be those 2" floppies for the Famicom Disk System.

I hope they release a patch, so the systems don't have to look for the store when booting. It would be wrong to brick all those systems.

Most news articles imply they're the same company, & the news is supposed to be a better source than a random person on a social media site. (eg. Me, You, Us.) Till last year I didn't know exactly how much of the original company survived. I knew they merged with JTS, were sold to Hasbro, & were then sold to Infogrames, but I didn't know most of their employees were let go before the JTS merger, & I didn't know their last old employee left right before the brand was sold to Hasbro. Even contemporary news articles don't have those details; you have to read interviews or that Usenet post Atari's old marketing manager made when they shut down. While the information's not exactly hidden; it is something you'd have to look for, & if you don't know where to start that would take a long time.

Info on Mario's Early Year! Preschool Fun: https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario%27s_Early_Years!_Preschool_FunIt sounds more like a digital activity set than a game. There were two others in the series; Fun With Numbers & Fun with Letters.

I think some of the most recent 2600 games, like Draconian & Galaga, have an extra processor in the cart to help handle game logic. I suppose someone could do something similar with the INTV, but I'm not a developer, so I'm not sure what would be involved. As for your second question...there are bad homebrews today, & sometimes a developer's too close to their game to know it has problems.

Obviously they're a reverse lycanthrope & they need to wait till the full moon when they have fingers for typing.

I assumed questionable posts were deleted, not hidden. Guess I made a donkey of myself then...

And backpedaling isn't bad; if someone is wrong they should backpedal.

Haven't watched all this yet, but it may explain the game.

Different companies; hence NuAtari.