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Are you sure this would be different than a promotional record? It's not necessarily illegal to sell those. https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2011/01/07/132744291/for-promotional-use-only-not-for-resale-oh-yes-it-is (Not trying to argue. This just got my mind going. )

I'd actually like an iPhone in translucent blue, or a tan Surface. Not joking.

That makes sense, tho I wonder how far a court would take it if worse came to worse.

You don't need a theme song or opening credits. A simple title card with the series name, episode number, & episode name will do. Theme songs take up time you could spend on games. It might be a good idea to thank anyone who's helped you at the end of the video, in leu of opening credits. It might be nice to compare different versions of the same games across different systems. Don't just say arcade beats 2600 which beats Odyssey^2; try to find the good parts in all versions.

How can it be illegal to have? I can understand that the developer would've violated their contract with Nintendo, but is there something else? :0

This thead is so interesting I've had to turn on jscript and watch the videos.

Ouch. That's really bad. From what I've read 3DO's development system was rather nice. It came with a library of images, videos, and sounds developers could use in their games royalty free. I knew the Jaguar's documentation had some errors, but I never knew that Atari Corp. was so pig headed they rejected fixes. That's both pathetic and sad.

Yes, the V-Smile is hideous. Probably appeals to kids tho.

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.

Bravo! It's great to read a contemporary history of the companies! Good find!

Roller Coaster Tycoon isn't 20 yet. I suppose they technically bought that, but it's still a good game. Then again, it was preceded by Theme Park and Transport Tycoon, so perhaps it doesn't count as original.

Thank you carlsson.

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

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

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

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.

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.

But it's on the internet! It has to be true! Only asking because the list seemed so far out there in left field.

I was going to mention the "Pink Lady" Super Cassette Vision. Thank you, CatPix. That package looks like it has a picture of Princess Peach on it! Oddly, I like the looks of that ViewMaster thing. Sure it's weird, but it's a cool sort of 90's post-modern toy sort of weird.

This list can't be right; according to AtariAge's guide Blue Lightning isn't that rare. http://atariage.com/company_page.php?SystemID=JAGUAR&CompanyID=1

I thought Tiny Toon Adventure was canceled...

On a side note, Game Over may have some rather significant errors. http://hg101.kontek.net/vgbooks/vgbooks-gameover.htm#gameover I haven't heard anything bad about Pheonix.

This is a big bump, but IGN's taken all of ClassicGaming.com's articles offline. Here's the interview mentioned earlier in the thread, from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20070509032259/http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/tramiel/

Has anyone mentioned the Casio Loopy yet? http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg90-loopy.htm#page=reviews I don't think it looks too bad, but I can see how some folks would find it ugly.

No, I cannot. I find the PV-1000 hauntingly beautiful.