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  3. Posted

    I've never used twitter. Do you have the ability to re-post other's posts, like Tumblr? I doubt a marketing company would create dozens of fake accounts and post the same thing on each of them; it would be far too obvious. I suppose these are people who are re-posting whatever catches their fancy at the moment, without too much thought.

     

    Or Atari really needs to fire their marketing company.

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  7. Posted

     

    You like old logo, new logo, rainbow, chunky, woodgrain, something else?

     

    https://www.redbubble.com/shop/sticker+atari

    Nice stickers. For under the screen, I was thinking of the classic logo with the Fuji to the left, like this:

    https://www.redbubble.com/people/pitikiyik/works/23239265-atari-lovers?grid_pos=168&p=sticker&rbs=c653c024-b541-40fd-8c10-4a8ee0077ed3&ref=shop_grid

    Color's wrong, is should be black, but you get the idea. (Atari did use this from time to time, right?)

     

    For the back of the monitor, or for on a corner of the system, I'd suggest the plain classic logo:

    https://www.redbubble.com/people/nikhorne/works/15635988-atari?grid_pos=5&p=sticker&rbs=c653c024-b541-40fd-8c10-4a8ee0077ed3&ref=shop_grid

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  8. Posted

     

     

    here's mine, cost 180$ in parts

     

     

    oh noes how is ataribawx going to adapt a standard form factor to a nonstandard case, its impossible I tell yas ... oh wait like 6$ worth of cables from china and about an hour in cad

     

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    and yes the cart works its got a 130 gig SSD in it

    I really hope that's either a reproduction case or the original unit died.

  9. Posted

     

    Since Atari plans on spending nothing but Other People's Money, it's hard to see how the failure will be felt by anyone except for those foolish enough to back this train wreck.

    If it fails it could destroy what little credibility Atari has with the public at large.

  10. Posted

    Yeah, I like a game that is somewhere in the middle. If it gets too difficult I tend to set down for a while and potentially forget about it for years. I was stuck on Neverwinter Nights forever, and I had a hard drive crash since. Since it was before the days of saving games to the cloud (which in my opinion is the best use of such a thing, useless data that can be synced via steam) I believe I lost all my progress. Playing the single player campaign as a pure Wizard is rather hard...

     

    The small niche would be 'semi-decent power in a small compact / console sized box that is an open source platform.' We really don't have one of those. So many say 'raspberry pi' but in theory (we won't know until actual specs are announced, and even then can we trust those until the object is in the hands of people?) this should be PS4 +/- in capability. I say this based on $$ and that AMD had released announcements (yeah I did see it on more than the Forbes site).

     

    People claim they can build something like this with off the shelf parts. Give us a parts list! Please! Every time I have tried to build a small system myself, either it over heats or is loud as hell, and not entirely as small as what they're teasing here. Even the PS4 gets loud as hell, to the point where I've considered getting a Pro or a Slim just so I'm not hearing a terrible howling noise when I play a more intense game.

     

    While yeah, I could build any old box and slap it under my TV, would it look 'cool' there, or be just a PC tower on it's side like the majority of HTPC builds out there. They even got fancy and you can put a touch screen on it... though why on earth you'd do that for something you're more than likely going to be sitting 6 feet away from...

     

    This is basically what the Steam Machine should have been. A standard piece of hardware that developers can create software for using an open platform. The downfall of the Steam Machine was that they were too many variants. Granted Sony and Microsoft are making the same mistake with adding the Pro and the S models. Now you'll have games that have features that only work on the newer models. They even are supporting "HDR TVs!" which... really? that's a thing?

    This? https://www.pcworld.com/article/3120287/computers/how-to-build-a-cheap-but-powerful-gaming-pc-for-500.html

     

    $500 is more than Atari's suggested price. Wondering if someone could get a discount for bulk buying.

  11. Posted

    Honestly, if I owned the Atari name, I'd just pay some company in China to stick my logo on some low to medium range tablets, TV's and PC's. It's worked well enough for RCA, Polaroid, and Emerson. Trying to develop a real product at this point is too risky; if it fails they'll damage the brand, then what will they have?

     

    If the private label electronics sold well enough I might try to invest some of the profits in some games which were already in development, to keep the name out there as a "game" company. They'd have to be games with a nearly guaranteed chance of success tho. That's what MGM's doing to keep their name out there as a "film" company, investing in The Hobbit and the like.

     

    That's a really depressing plan. It's unimaginative. It's boring. It's not what I want Atari to be. But for 20 years Atari's been little more than a name anyways. Hasbro slapped the name on some remakes of classic games because people recognized it as a classic name; Infogrames bought it in some attempt to capitalize on it's built-in recognition. My plan would just be a cheaper, lower risk version of what's already been done.

     

    I'd do the same thing with Coleco too, for the same reasons. :(

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  12. Posted

    Are people honestly questioning if Blue Lightning only sold 6 units? The same amount as Legions of the Undead and Tiny Toons? There are really questions about whether or not this is accurate? I've now seen it all in the Jag forum.

    But it's on the internet! It has to be true! ;)

     

    Only asking because the list seemed so far out there in left field.

  16. Posted

    On a side note, Game Over may have some rather significant errors.

     

     

    Game Over is also riddled with factual errors that show Sheff either wasn't too much concerned with detail, or how much he was at the mercy of his interviewees. He attest's Nintendo's R&D teams the achievement of developing carts with 8 megabytes of memory for the original Famicom (an amount barely reached with the largest SNES cartridges), introduces Enix, a mildly successful publisher of home computer games before their first Famicom game made the market, as "a start-up formed specifically to create Nintendo games," writes about the 1984-released The Black Onyx that its creator "Rogers sold 100,000 copies in 1980."

     

    http://hg101.kontek.net/vgbooks/vgbooks-gameover.htm#gameover

     

    I haven't heard anything bad about Pheonix.

  23. Posted

    I don't think this is an excuse since they were able to get Atari games ports on the Lynx I think that might be the tramiels laziness and lack of effort to put money on anything not PC.

    ST, not PC. They're different.

     

    Atari had PC Clones too, but they didn't sell very well; too expensive.

     

    Atari ST info: http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/16BITS/a1632bit.html

    Atari PC Clones: http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/pccomputers/ataripcs.html

  24. Posted

    I've always thought the XEGS was a dumb concept. Sure it had an existing library, but it was already dated when released, and it only limits the potential success of the 7800.

    Apparently the XEGS was made to please retailers:

     

    "Atari executives asked the heads of several major toy store chains which product they'd rather sell -- the powerful 65XE home computer for about $80, or a fancy new game system for about $150. The answer was, "You can keep the computer, give us that game machine!"

     

    Source: http://www.atarihq.com/atcomp/xegs.html

     

    Just an attempt to cash in on their old stuff once more before it was taken off the market. Commodore and Amstrad tried the same thing. And Atari's was better because it had a keyboard. :)

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