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Great for all those people that don't have a PC, but do have a keyboard laying around. For everyone else is yet another add on cost. As for Missile Command, it's free-to-play on mobile and $2.99 since May on Switch. What a heartfelt thanks to the loyal, long suffering backers.

Flojomojo sees all.

The post-release fallout isn't going to be nearly as fun without Flo. 😔 Re: 4k: yeah...any display around 65" or bigger really benefits.

I suspect it won't turn into a complaint thread until people actually get and start using them.

Everyone needs 40 years to take a shit. They just do it in private. People are only hating on Atari because they took theirs in front of everyone. Duh.

I don't see it. To me it just looks like a wireless router with a woodgrain applique and the antennae shorn off.

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Have this and the dearly departed Taco Thread been ambiguous about that in any way?

For those of us that live there, that's been fairly obvious for quite some time.

I already have it for the PlayStation, don't even own a Nuon, and I'll still probably buy one. 😆

Good news! Everything is "locked in!" Atari can prepare the preparations of prepping the shipments! Stay tuned!

Moon Patrol was licensed from Irem.

And this is a big problem for Atari. Half the games that people remember playing are from Activision, or Imagic, or Parker Bothers. A big chunk of Atari's library was also stuff like Casino, Hangman, Surround, 3-D Tic Tac Toe, and the like. The games were so simple that they didn't even qualify as intellectual property. But to reiterate for the thousandth time, this is what happens when you're an IP holding company and not an actual videogame company. Nintendo succeeds because they've evolved their properties as a videogame company through the years. "Atari" just tries to find ways to resell 40-year-old stuff. I think virtually all of us here are Atari fans because they were innovators in a new form of entertainment. I wouldn't have given a crap about Nolan's Atari either of he'd just tried to sell me the crap my grandfather played with.

I still need that and a Superman.

Poking fun at bad ideas, poor execution, and incompetence is not the same as being upset. Sure, there's a vague annoyance that these clowns are dragging a beloved brand through the mud, but mostly it's just natural to ridicule the ridiculous.

Except Indigogo requires monthly updates to backers, and "Atari" struggled to meet even that basic requirement, with "updates" like "look at these other potential faceplates." Their social media went dark for an eleven month stretch, likely when they were switching from the incompetent RainFactory to the equally incompetent UberStrategist to manage their affairs. No. Information like failing to pay contractors leaking out or setting and repeatedly missing release dates is not the same as "revealing too much."

Definitely looks like a ROM hack.

I certainly won't disagree...

Today's derp from "Atari" is right up there with their infamous "What's your high score in Pong" post.

Half the IGG crowd seems to be bat-guano insane...

Comparing vintage hardware to modern is pretty silly...a Model T typically had 20hp. More to the point, a Delorean had 130hp when a contemporary, common, and similarly priced Corvette had 200. That made it underpowered. Nothing about its performance lived up to its looks, much like the VCS.

You're ignoring that the PS5 and new Xbox have prices that are comparable or less than the VCS, the install base of those will be orders of magnitude larger, and that those "fancy PS5 bells and whistles" are just gravy. You act as though basic games aren't possible on powerful hardware. So no. Some will check it out from sheer curiosity or novelty, but developers are not going to "flock" to the VCS. This is all well-traveled ground though. Like most people here, I'm a fan of a company that no longer exists. Atari SA isn't even related to that company, and I certainly have no interest in if they succeed or not if they aren't creating compelling product. Outside of brand fans, there's not much market for this, and most rational consumers aren't blind brand fans. They buy product on merit.

Also had great sandwiches.

Apparently Nintendo realizes that software sells hardware. Atari SA remains blissfully ignorant of this.

If you're going to continue to fill space with vague I-know-stuff-you-don't-but-can't-tell-and-I'll-get-offended-if-you-guess-wrong pronouncements, I don't either.